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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 ...

Floods. this is really crazy. >> if we could just spread this out. this is mayhill, new mexico, the first picture we have had. this may drop out on us, we dont know, but kwre, our affiliate, this was a home. mayhill was evacuated last night to save lives. but the winds picked up. the winds in new mexico were near 60 miles per hour yesterday. and when you get a wild fire here, that begins to blow. this was right along u.s. 82 near mayhill, new mexico. structure after structure. thats a very long ...

Bailout. is this the straw that will break the camels back, or is the eurozone now in good shape to deal with -- >> its completely predictable, everybody expected it, so the three most vulnerable countries are gone. the hope, and there is so much evidence to support it, is that this is the fire break. they will take these countries out of the market, they will be financed by the euro countries as a whole. theyre very small so its easy to do so. they wont do anything about resolving the debt, res...

Do is care about the republican challenge hes going to face in the primaries and the people who put him there. the problem is theres going to be a deal. at this point he doesnt have to deal but there will be a deal. whether its three weeks from now or now. >> wheres the conception that there will be a deal? because strikes always end? >> yes, they do. and governments reopen after a shutdown. there will be a deal and that deal is not going to be $100 billion. >> do you agree theres going to be a ...

He is actually -- all he has to do is care about the republican challenge hes going to face in the primaries and the people who put him there. the problem is theres going to be a deal. at this point he doesnt have to deal but there will be a deal. >> there will be a deal? >> of course theres going to be a deal. >> dont strikes always end? >> yes, they do. and governments reopen after a shutdown. there will be a deal and that deal is not going to be $100 billion. >> do you agree theres going to b...

>> the boehner is -- >> youve got to be careful there. >> boehner is. the speaker. he is actually -- all he has to do is care about the republican challenge hes going to face in the primaries and the people who put him there. the problem is theres going to be a deal. at this point he doesnt have to deal but there will be a deal. whether its three weeks from now or now. >> wheres the conception that there will be a deal? because strikes always end? >> yes, they do. and governments reopen after a ...

Yesterday in many, many spots. here are some pictures of what it looked like. we had a couple of affiliates up over these fires and they were literally jumping from one side of the street to the other. even though you think sometimes a street can be a good fire break, not with winds gusting to 40. picking up ash and those ashes and sparks would jump right over. there was no chance these firefighters could get ahold of them. people were literally taking buckets, bucket from their pool and carryin...

Now, do you want to see the results? as a result, camden laid off 46% of their police force. thats 167 cops. they also laid off 60 firefighters at the end of last month. the result? the "cherry hill currier post" reports the number of shootings has doubled over the last year. doubled. and other violent crimes have also gone up. one local camden woman said, quote, people are already getting jumped left and right because criminals know they can get away with it. >> now across the river in philadel...

Fire trucks continuing to do what they call structure protection, just stand by the homes and keeping an eye out on hot spots to make sure that when in fact the winds start to pick up later on this afternoon, it doesnt stir up the hot spots and low embers over containment lines. that did happen yesterday when flames jumped the california aqueduct. the concrete channel was acting as a natural fire break and again, the winds picked up and they jumped over it for a time and able to knock it down qu...

Around, thats a recipe for disaster. have they said what the cause is of this? >> well, i can barely hear what you are saying. i think you were asking me about the battle plan. and these hot winds are the big concern out here. really what crews are doing is they are trying to complete their containment lines and make sure that hot embers dont blow over. that happened yesterday when the fire jumped the california aqueduct, a concrete channel, acting as a natural fire break. but when the gusts rea...