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stephen moore, a good friend of the show, editorial writer with the "wall street journal." this week, as expected, president obamas jobs plan failed to pass the senate with an election in november 2012, just over a year away, are we looking at another major overhaul in congress and perhaps the white house? are we looking at a situation where voters might say throw all the bums out? >> yeah, we are. ive been looking at these numbers. you have, too. ive never seen incumbents in washingto...

and government officials call rebel claims lies. well have a live report just ahead. take a look at this. were tracking tropical storm irene. theres a chance the storm could affect the u.s. well tell you where its headed. a soccer team scattered for safety after gun shots ring out in mexico, sending crowds ducking for cover. well show you what happened and what sparked it. we begin in libya, and our correspondents this morning say gun battle in tripoli. this video is from another...

You had satellite technology, you have the radar. you have doppler, and the computer programs that we have, and still it proves that tornadoes when you look at joplin, clearly are the most dangerous weather phenomenon we have in the united states. martha: they are such an unpredictable nature and force. we hope we dont see a repeat of it. but thats what they are looking for and expecting to some extent in oklahoma today. trace, thank you so much. lets move on to this for a moment now. the palest...

>> exactly. part of this technological change is also happening at warp speed. maybe thats part of it. the other part of it it, theres a pencil movement. you have the technological change but you also have global markets and global labor so there are cheaper workers doing the same kinds of jobs overseas. and the two things together, technology, plus globalization, mean the average american workers feeling pressure like i dont think hes ever felt before. >> it used to be our sense was manufacturi...

joint chiefs chairmen mike mullen and defense secretary bob gates expressed strong concern for safety of the s.e.a.l.s. each of them gave a stark warning. >> from my perspective, it is time to stop talking. and we have talked far too much about this. we need to move on. its a story that if we dont stop talking, it will never end. and it needs to. >> im very concerned about this. because we -- we wont to retain the capability to carry out these kinds of operations in the future. and whe...

Traders and investment banks are using twit tore predict the mood of the markets, using computer programs to analyze millions of tweets, if the general mood is positive and number of tweets is high, they expect the dow to go up. >> i hope they dont monitor my account. people following me, there will be people jumping out of the windows everyday. that is one of the stupidest ideas ive ever heard. i cant even look at my twitter account without jumping out the window. >> i hope they made up that st...

You know, its like because its coming out with such force, its just not gobbling up to the top and sitting there, as you would expect. if you took olive oil and poured it in your sink, it would sit on top. you take that olive oil and pressurize it to 4,000 psi and blast it into the water, it atomizes and turns into a mickey mess. and thats what is down below. so this could go in many places. so the noaa has come up with this new map and says if this mess continues to move around, there is potent...

Make money. >> there are other fraud is similarly bad, i think. females coming in with prostate operations or male pregnancies. a no brainer but yet the government pays those bills repeat repeatedly. or dead patients receiving care. bad enough that we have dead doctors billing but what about dead patients billed for. >> 2010, literally someone is going to say, oh, yeah, john doe, pregnancy, well take care of that. >> that happens. that happens. theres other ones, psychiatrists that will bill 42 ...

Time, so really, the rules can be changed at any moment. that adds some unease to the marketplace, so that started off with the financials. then of course you have the debt issues in europe that have been lingering over the markets, and of course the big selloff that we saw last thursday. that selloff, we still dont really know what caused it. we know that the floor of the stock exchange, humans make trades but computers are also involved and because of the confluences of events and news and the...

Would have a huge effect. >> can i ask you one question? i know theyre wrapping me. i still dont understand this huge thousand-point drop. was it a fat finger mistake? >> it was a combination of things but it was a bit of a fat finger. you have all these computers with these programs and the minute a stock hits a certain level or drops a certain percentage point they say okay. weve got to sell everything then. and so its a computer program that probably had a big effect on it. it was someone who...