gap in the information flow is where a lot of people are putting their fear and it's breeding a lot of mistrust. nina? >> stan grant, thanks very much for that update there from our tokyo bureau. japan is getting some help on another front. for the first time in more than a decade, the group of seven nations has agreed to intervene to help japan slow down the rise of the yen. take a look at what's been happening to the dollar/yen movements so far today. on this graph, the higher the line, the weaker the yen. and the yen is, in fact, weakening. in fact, start here at 5:00 a.m. this morning when the yen was trading at about $78.87 and then three hours later, look at this, the time of the g-7 announcement, the yen weakened sharply. so when it goes up, that actually means the yen has weakened. right now, it's trading at about