first reports that a man from a middle eastern country tried to set f a shoe bomb from a flight last night from washington to denver. first reports are often wrong and so was this one, but it triggered a massive scare that spread through the flying skies across the country. fighter jets were scrambled, passengers were frozen in place. in the end, there was no bomb, just a combination of wrongdoing on the part of the passenger and misunderstanding in the post 9/11 era of zero tolerance in our skies. our report on what did happen from our justice correspondent pete williams. he s where the flight originated at national airport in washington. pete, good evening. reporter: brian, it happened on a united airlines flight that took here from reagan national airport. the trouble began when a passenger tried to sneak a smoke onboard and made a flippant, and very unfortunate remark. it was a harrowing night for 157 passengers aboard a united airlines flight, though it ended safely.
we re out of time. thanks for watching squawk on the street. i m mark haynes. we ll see you tomorrow. what color would the haynes bottom be? would you get off my bikini. stocks open low or gains in the dollar and how do we follow that? i don t know. some negative news also pressuring stocks. mcdonald s reporting a second consecutive months of falling sales and issuing full-year guidance. i don t think we re on the right script here. that was our market reduction. you know what? this is the call on cnbc. there you go. all right. we already told you what s going on in the markets. why don t we go right to the boards. take a look at how the dow is trading at this hour. it s down 106 points. greece and dubai contributing to this as well. you saw the big dip at the open. we re off the lows of the session, but still down 102 points. a full percentage point, 10,287 is the last trade there. the s&p, the prompter is still way off where we are in the show. the s&p 5