From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

The hard fall of an industrial titan.

General Motors goes bankrupt.

I'm Sarah Terry sitting in for Warren Only, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

It's the fourth largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. The downfall of General Motors is staggering.

After pouring billions of dollars into the failed company, how will the U.S. government restructure GM as it becomes

the major stakeholder? Will the United Auto Workers Union survive or be forced to merge with another

union? What kind of cars will roll off the assembly line of a new streamlined GM? On reporter's

notebook later on, a Kansas doctor who provided abortions murdered at a Sunday

church service. First, here's the news. Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica

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I'm Sarah Terry, sitting in for Warren Only. We're back with To the Point from PRI. President

Obama said today that he

expects a new General Motors to emerge from the ashes of its historic filing for bankruptcy.

He also warned that there are more hard times ahead. What will a restructured GM look like? How

hands-off will the government be as the company's major stakeholder? What does a GM

bankruptcy mean for auto workers, parts suppliers, and dealers? On reporter's notebook, anti-abortionists

called him Tiller the killer. And now Dr. George Tiller, who performed late-term abortions, has been

killed in Wichita, Kansas.

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