of course, cnn is your source for money news. we want to get you to the best website on the planet for money news. cnn money.com. there it is in the lead story. ford sales soaring. by 25%. gm, not bad. but boy, ford really selling vehicles right now. better than three hours to the end of the trading day. let s get you to the new york stock exchange to look at the big board. we are in positive territory. triple-digit territory now. 139 points now. of course, we re following these numbers for you throughout the day. boy, it s a big runup on stocks. throughout the day here in the cnn newsroom. united airlines and continental airlines announced plans today to merge. that is the big business story of the day. we asked christine romans if she would sort all of this out for
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the posters will be so cool. sooner or later, you ll know our name. sun life financial. all right. let s get you caught up on top stories. new york police want to talk to this man seen in times square surveillance tape. investigators say he acted suspiciously near an suv with explosive materials. police say the car bomb could have killed pedestrians if it had gone off. cnn will follow every development until the suspect is captured. south carolina s attorney general will announce whether he ll file criminal charges against marc sanford who reimbursed the state for travel costs to argentina where he carried on an extramarital affair. and an airline merger. united and continental tie a $3 billion knot. the deal would result in the
on that hot debate. it is a hot debate. look at what allan was saying. dozens of cameras in one area, hundreds all over that area of new york let alone tens of thousands all over the country. this allowed authorities to get images like this and we, using google street view were able to figure out where that came from in the first place. where this key image is coming from. you can travel along streets in the area, see what it s like. we ll tell you more about it this hour. right now we want to pose a question to you. what do you think is too many and when do things go from being great and helping authorities to big brother? we have a question posted on the most important website in america, cnn.com/tony. tell us what you think about security cameras, where you want them and where you don t. also on facebook and twitter. i ll be back with maps where you can see where some of these are and some reaction as well. thank you, josh. we re going to dig deeper into the investigation of the
salaries and bonuses of wall street executives. now, the house passed a bill to this effect in december. the senate is still struggling through. there s a partisan logjam there. it appears to be giving way. i ll be talking a lot more about all of this in the next two hours with cnn s christine romans, with forbes robert linder. if you have a house or a job or have lost one or both in the economic melt down or 401(k) or an ira, you have a place in this discussion. it s important to you. another thing that s important to you. they re searching for survivors and answers in the gulf of mexico today. no word on what caused an oil rig to blow up on tuesday night. there are some ideas. i ll introduce you to one of those on the show. seems on to be the idea that is growing in support. no word either, and this is the sad part, on the fate of 11 missing workers. we ll bring you up to date that w. that.