A Call For Global Action
VELSHI: OK. More live pictures here in this breaking news we're following. This is from our affiliates KOTV in Oklahoma. Remarkable flash flooding in Oklahoma brought on by storms that have dumped about 10 inches of rain in the last several hours, just one storm after another after another. Bonnie Schneider tells us there is another on the way. Now moments ago, we were watching some dramatic footage of a girl -- we think, a girl, a woman, who was in the water, and she was trying to find her way -- she was swimming against the water, kept grabbing on trees and things like that. You can see her, there is her leg there, grabbing on trees. Suddenly, she was able to pull herself up on to a branch that she could stand on. She stood up on this branch. She acknowledged to this helicopter that has been tracking her, the KWTV chopper. She waved at them; waved at them a second time and a third time. That's her. This is while she is still struggling. See she's being pushed back, grabbing on to leaves. Once in a while she grabs on to a branch, which breaks, but ultimately, of a great amount of struggle -- she seems very strong, because after a great amount of struggle, she was able to pull herself out of the water and person perch herself on a tree in what looks like a relatively rested, comfortable position. Now, we also heard from the helicopter that there were rescuers a little while away in a boat but they said the rescuers weren't able to make it because there was dry land between them and her. Seems that the rescuers have gotten stuck. So four rescuers are now stuck. There are another couple guys who we just couple of guys who we just saw, firefighters -- you just saw those pictures -- who are somewhere nearby and they're trying to evaluate how to get to her. It does seem that she's out of harm's way at the moment because she pulled herself out of the water. These are remarkable, remarkable pictures. She pulled herself out and as of now -- see, you can see her grabbing on and the branches breaking. What has happened here is she has pulled herself to safety. You can see she was struggling there. So here's the information we have. We believe she is still waiting comfortably in that tree for rescuers to get to her. They know exactly where she is, they're just struggling getting to her right now. We'll stay on that story. These are taped pictures. We have live pictures which we will bring you as soon as we get them back and I'll tell you what's going on. OK, let's take a break for a second and talk about our "Big 'I'" today. A global call for action to prevent -- by the way, we're not leaving those picture. There's somebody watching it all the time. The minute something develops, I will go right back to it. A global call to action to prevent the next global economic crisis. Who's in? I'll sign up for that. The man behind it, a guy named Richard Attias. He was the driving force behind the World Economic Forum and the Clinton Global Initiative and many other similar events. This guy knows how to bring people together, how to stage a big event. And he is about to stage a new one, it's called the New York Forum and he joins us from New York. Richard Attias, thank you for being with us.</s>RICHARD ATTIAS, FOUNDER, THE NEW YORK FORUM: Thank you.</s>VELSHI: You want to bring about 500 of the top businesspeople around. You want to bring in CEOs and hedge fund dollar managers and money managers and private equity leaders and industry experts -- all the people that, by the way, some of my viewers think might have been responsible for this economic crisis -- and you are trying to pull them together so it doesn't happen again. Tell me about this.</s>ATTIAS: First of all, allow me to wish the best of luck and courage to the people of Oklahoma City. I think it's important and these pictures are quite impressive. But back to your question, yes, definitely we want to have all these people around the sable table. In fact, the forum is a call for action. In the past two years, my feeling is that we didn't really hear a lot -- the voice of the business community. And I think it's time now to -- for two days, to put people around the table and to come with solutions which at least address the major issues that the global economy is facing and to come with an action plan, a white paper which will be presented to the G-20 three days after our forum, the G-20 who is meeting in Canada, as you know. So I think it's time for action now, and the voice of the business community is important to be heard.</s>VELSHI: You had experience at this with the World Economic Forum, with the global initiative -- Clinton Global Initiative. So you've got to find a way to have people not point fingers at others and not sort of cocoon into themselves and say, I know how to run my business, I don't know what you guys all did. You need to find those solutions. What will happen that will get those solutions out there? What is the catalyst to getting business leaders around the world to say, this is how we never get into this again?</s>ATTIAS: I think people learned a lot from the experience and the past experience. And life is a lesson of humility, so when you create a platform, task forces with great partner partners including the</s>VELSHI: Well, Richard Attias, if anybody knows how to do it, you do because you've had a lot of experience in bringing people together and creating an environment in which they can have productive conversations. So we'll watch very carefully. Tell you what, I'm going to be in Toronto covering the G-20 for CNN, but when you guys have results from your forum, come and talk to me about them, we'll discuss them on air, we'll see if we can come up with solutions. Thank you for joining me.</s>ATTIAS: Will do. Thank you very much for the invitation, thank you.</s>VELSHI: All right, there's a big fun event going on by the way while we're covering all of these tragic things going on. There's the World Cup. America is asking two questions: Will goalkeeper Tim Howard be ready for the next match and can anyone do anything about that crazy buzzing sound at the World Cup? We're going to find out when we come back.