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In fears of hitting the debt ceiling next week, october 17th to be precise. i want to get to allison kosik of the new york stock exchange. i hesitate to ask. how low did it go today? >> it went low again today, the dow falling 159 points on top of falling 136 points yesterday. you know what this is? this is wall street yet again firing another warning shot to washington saying you know what, you will get more of this if you dont get your act together, if you dont come up with a solution, not jus...

About a minute ago, i thought of the movie "crimson tide." when denzel washington and jeanne hackman were on a united states submarine and denzel washington said," god help us if it were wrong". he said, actually, "god help us all if were wrong." i kind of feel that way right now. if these people were to ever get power, god help us all. stick around. "rapid response panel" is next. im kayla tausche with your cnbc market wrap. the dow falling 70 points, the s&p dropping 6 and the nasdaq losing ...

The dow falling by more than 2%. whats behind the tumble? should investors be concerned about whats ahead? joining uggjoining us now, fox r business correspondent brenda butner, anchor of bulls and bears. brenda, youre accommodating by background us on this topic. i thought a lot of people would be worried. i am. are you? >> reporter: yeah. well, absolutely. the dow is down some 4% from when it hit its record close on august 2nd. its been very -- the market has been very volatile this month, so ...

Dow falling 12 points. s&p finishing down 4. nasdaq 3. hewlett-packard shares soaring 17%. meantime, jobless claims plunge by 23,000 last week. that was more than economists expected. and an upbeat report on the housing market. sales of new homes rose 2.3% last month. that, too, was better than expected. thats it from cnbc. were first in business worldwide. now back to "hardball." were back. after mitt romneys loss last november, republicans regrouped, of course. they reassessed and rene...

Supposed to be penalized by their children not eating because you -- >> theyre not. >> -- and individuals like you are withdrawing money from those families. thats all im asking you. >> no, they are not. martin, this has nothing to do with food. this has nothing to do with that. its about parental involvement, getting parents involved. if youre a parent involved in your childs education, the child will succeed. >> as you know full well, there are democrats in your own house who say this is bigot...

Im hampton pearson with your cnbc market wrap. as fiscal cliff markets continue to stall, so do the markets. the dow falling 99 points. and the nasdaq and s&p shedding ten points. general motors to buy back shares of the u.s. treasury. and a very merry christmas in offices everywhere. 72% of executives plan to hand out holiday gifts. thats it from cnbc first in business worldwide. now back to "hardball." a damning new report from an independent investigation on the

we will bring him the speech live, and plus should the rich shoulder the tax burden or should it be spread evenly among all americans? well, that is the battle today as president obama calls out romney on the tax plan. i want to get right to it. three commercial airlines nearly collided in midair over reagan international airport when air traffic controllers were making adjustments in stormy weather and caused what officials call a miscommunication. the faa is looking into exactly wh...

whether or not police questions peoples immigration status based on reasonable suspicion. joining us to talk about immigration ruling and what it means is our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and white house correspondent jessica yellin. jeffrey, please start off by saying what the court accepted and rejected. >> well, the heart of the case is about state power versus federal power. immigration is an area that is traditionally one where the federal government exercises most of the p...

united nations human rights officials are in an emergency meeting today. they are talking about last weeks horrific massacre in syria. top u.n. human rights officials are urging the world community to throw more weight behind efforts to investigate what actually happened. 108 people died when witnesses say an armed man went door to door killing entire families, including children. ugly day on wall street today. one big reason, disappointing jobs report for may. the labor department s...

out of the deep hole that was caused by the severe recession. end quote. christine romans has been crunching the numbers in new york. its a hard report to spin, christine. >> it really is. you cant spin it. 69,000 jobs created in the biggest economy in the world. that is really disappointing, half what they thought. 8.2% is the unemployment rate. it went up a little bit, because, keira, more people were getting into the labor market. theyve been discouraged in months past, trying to ge...