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im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room". -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we begin with breaking news on wall street. a dramatic rescue and equally dramatic reaction on wall street. the stock market skyrocketing today on new that is the federal reserve and other central banks are taking direct action to prevent a financial meltdown in the euro zone using the their resources to keep money and credit flowing amid the staggering debt crisis. its the largest coordinated move ...

heres what were watching for you. first the dow goes up, way up today. the syracuse basketball program under the microscope. and who is getting the wintry mix today. alison kosik, lets begin with you on the floor. there she is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. huge gains. huge gains for wall street after the feds massive intervention in europe. >> and not just the fed. were talking about five other central banks. everybody pretty much getting together, brooke, and agreeing...

Now by coincidence leaving at the same time, you had a blurring of the message of responsibleties and gibbs, you know, the communications director used to be positions, seated separately from the press office because they have a different time frame, a different focus. and now, what youve had is this blurring of the lines between different functions and different places. its a much more streamlined approach. they still have to decide what story theyre trying to tell, but plouffe is more discipli...

Doing the briefing and merging the two meant that there was a more tactical focus than i think has been usual where the communications staff may be a ones thinking long-term. what we dont know, is dealing with day-to-day pressures, the hour to hour pressures, with the podium job, how will he deal with that stress? does the affability hold up under that? >> but you brought up the whole messaging thing and in fact, it seems to be, this is a true full fledged reorganization and decoupling. so carne...