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At. homes sold in august was smaller, a low price variety. thats where were seeing some of the pickup. in some ways thats good because youve got to clear out that inventory in order for housing to bounce back. but were really a long way from a housing recovery at these points. and theres not a lot of positive signals out there for the average person. you know, if youre seeing your salary shrink or job go away, youre also watching your home value decline. and if you happen to have been lucky enou...

That happens there could be a domino effect. >> people think these are isolated problems theyre so not. literally the world economy at stake pretty much. >> all linked these days. all connected. >> for better and worse. >> for sure. shifting gears. former hotel served as the cia station in the afghan capital of kabul has come under attack. gunfire and possibly an explosion went off last evening. near the building located in one of the most protected parts of the capital. in fact just block as wa...

of our viewers. they were able to do this after all of this discussion and all of this fight over specifically inclusion of fema funding. additional fema funding of in the short-term resolution. what is happening right now, john, is there is going to be a series of two votes, actually. and its a clean or simple and this basically is the measure that everyone basically agreed to. funding fema as well as not shutting down the government and it strips away all of the obstacles that had re...

What followed was most incredible experience of our lives. we were held in captivity almost complete isolation for almost two years. for the past few precious days, weve been experiencing free life anew with our families. in all the time we spent in detention we had total of 15 minutes of telephone calls with our family and one short advice it from our mother. -- visit from our mother. >> we had to go on hunger strikes repeatedly just to receive letters from our loved ones. many times, too many ...

Where something totally unexpected happened. on any other day we would have been blindfolded and led down the hallway back to our 8-foot x 13-foot cell. on that day the guards took us down stairs, fingerprinted us and gave us street clothes. they didnt tell us where we were going. instead they took us to another part of the prison where we saw the envoy of his majesty, the sultan of man. the first thing he said when we got to him, he looked at us and said, lets go home. what followed was the mos...

able to vote, but to also be able to nominate themselves as candidates in the future round of elections, even though the date for the elections hasnt been set yet, they say theyre over the moon about this, this is a big step forward toward the empowerment of women in saudi arabia. they say thats something much needed in this country, a country where there is a male guardianship system, women cant drive, cant open bank accounts, cant have education unless the male guardian signs off on ...

here. >> im a low achiever in the facebook and twitter thing. >> no. >> i proudly boast. ill get there. >> you have a good show. >> thanks, t.j., so much. you wont have to walk out doing this with your hands over your head, because that defunct satellite has made its way down to earth. weve been talking about it all week long. it crashed in tiny pieces somewhere over the pacific around midnight. the space agency hasnt pinpointed the exact location. there have been lots of reports from ...

Nearly two decades of captivity. scientists think today is the day a bus sized satellite will plunge back to earth. most of the satellite expected to burn up in the atmosphere but pieces totalling about 1/2 ton are expected to crash to earth somewhere. nasa says the debris will miss north america and the odds of anyone being hurt by falling debris are very slim. we hope theyre right. all right. well take a break right now but when we come back, the very latest market numbers from around the glob...

what ben bernanke said yesterday was exactly what the market expected him to say, we know things are weak, we know europe is a severe issue. him saying it even though they knew he was going to say it makes people more worried looking for something to hold on to and a little bit of hope. most people say this is a dramatic sell-off and you might see stabilization. that isnt the same thing as saying we arent in a real economic problem, we know we are. >> it seems the markets are underwhel...

for the "wall street journal" and david gergen. what was behind the selloff, er? >> i was talking to a few investors today what ben bernanke said yesterday, anderson what is the market expected him to same we know things are weak we know europe is a very severe issue but him saying it, even though they knew he was going to say it makes people more worried, people are kind of looking for nothing hold on to, maybe for a little bit of hope, why you see this people are saying this is a rat...