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im erin burnett. outfront tonight, ratings agency fitch affirms of the united states aaa credit rating but says guess what, were going to downgrade your outlook to negative from stable. this happened after the markets closed. obviously, something negative and all relate the to the lack of action and the failure of the supercommittee, still stocks is soared on wall street. because the markets closed before that action happened. the dow up by nearly 300 points. the reason was a wow weeke...

As the acquisition of lou buy kits. our developing markets business was up 12% in the first half of this year. they continue to be robust markets. thats where we see the future growth coming from. >> neil: you werent signaling that you see a recession in this country or a down draft worse than a few years ago, or were you? >> no. we believe the economy has bottomed out at this point, but we dont see a decided recovery anytime soon. >> neil: so nothing on the horizon in washington convinces you t...

Lightning strikes on planes. >> would you believe that on average, every plane in the air gets hit by lightning at least once a year? >> i can believe that. >> it happens. ive seen it. i have looked out the wing, and i have seen it hit the little winglette on my plane that i was sitting in -- i dont know, 12 or 13, so i could see straight out. but the problem was, not so much that it got hit by lightning, because it happens all the time. where it happened. it happened when they were on approach....

There are incumbent democrats runs. that is an open field for republicans. what are the chances of picking up the six is seats they need to get control? >> i think their chances are very good. because this is the most republican senate class in terms of which states are up. and its also, its a class in which a lot of democrats won about six years ago. so, i think the crucial figure here, is of the 12 democratic states that are competitive, seven of them were carried by mitt romney in 2012. all t...