NPR 2011-11-19

  From NPR News in Washington, I’m Lakshmi Singh.

        A majority of lawmakers in the GOP-led house supports of balanced budget amendment 2 to the Constitution but not by enough to pass the proposal. The measure aimed at forcing Congress to balance its budget every year did not get the require two-thirds of majority today needed to amend 1 the Constitution. Opponents say the amendment’s the only way for the government to get control of its spending. But critics said an amendment would force deep cuts that would threaten big social progress. 
        The Los Angeles County Sheriff officers said even though it has reopened the case into actress Natalie Wood’s mysterious death 30 years ago. It said her husband the time Robert Wagner is not a suspect. The attorney John Corina says what’s the death still considered an accidental drowning but he says the latest inquiry 3 was prompted by unspecified new information about the case. 
        “There was already turned up as being vessel 4 did drowning but the information we’ve been received made us want to take another look at the case.”
        Wood’s an Oscar nominated actress died in the waters off South California. It had spending several hours drinking on Catalina Island and on the yacht was Splendour. Actor Christopher Walken and the ship’s captain Dennis Davern. Davern told NBC’s Today Show that he made mistakes by not telling the truth about the events around with Thanksgiving weekend death. 
        Oklahoma State University is mourning loss of 2 basketball coaches in a plane crash last night. Ben Allen from member station KOSU reports its single-engine plane went down Thursday in a remote area. 
        The plan went down yesterday afternoon, taking the lives of OS women’s basketball head coach Kurt Budke and assistant Miranda Serna. Oklahoma State University President Burns Hargis says they were role models for their players.
        “They were just both beautiful people and I’d love to be the man that Kurt Budke is and the person that Miranda was.”
        Former state senator Olin Branstetter said the pilot of the single-engine plane and his wife also died in a crash 45 miles west of the Little Rock. This is the second airplane crashed in the last 10 years in an Oklahoma State basketball. A 2001 crash in Colorado killed 10 including players and staff. For NPR News, I’m Ben Allen in Stillwater.
        Former Libyan rebels who helped overthrow 5 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi are now demanding a voice in forming Libya’s new government. Militiamen have held a march in capital Tripoli. Next week, the country’s ruling National Transitional Council is expected to announce a new government that will hold new elections. 
        At last check on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 47 points at 11,817; NASDAQ is down 14 points or more than 0.5% at 2,574; S&P 500 also down slightly at 1,216. You’re listening to NPR News.
        The UN’s nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency is backing a resolution on Iran expressing deepening increasing concern over its nuclear program. As Kerry Skyring reports from Vienna Iran remains 6 to fight in the face of allegations that it’s trying to require nuclear weapons.        
        The resolution was backed by a clear majority of IAEA member states. It increases the diplomatic pressure on Iran that fall short of tracking consequences. Moves for new rabid sanctions of the UN Security Council which would if given the documents some teeth were rejected by Russia and China. The Untied 7 States ambassador to IAEA, Glyn Davies told delegates, at the very least Iran wants to position itself for nuclear weapons capability 8. And in response, Iran launched an attack on IAEA chief Yukiya Amano saying his recent report is unprofessional, unfair, illegal and politicized. Tehran is also triggering illegal action against the agency where continuing to assist its nuclear program is entirely 9 for peaceful purposes. For NPR News, I’m Kerry Skyring in Vienna. 
        Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti’s new government has the confidence of Parliament after winning today’s vote in the lower chamber 10 deputies. Monti’s government won the Senate’s support 2 days ago. Monti, an economist 11 will oversee 12 Italy’s sweeping 13 reforms just to save the country from financial ruin in and by sanction protect the euro currency. 
        Here’s the latest from the Wall Street. Dow up 28 points at 11,799 in trading of about 2 billion in shares; NASDAQ down 13 points, more than 0.5% at 2,575.
        I’m Lakshmi Singh, NPR News in Washington.