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Her body to the human limit. ♪ at sunset august 7th, diana makes her way to the water. ♪ and then its showtime. [ cheers and applause ] >> 7:46 p.m. she entered the water. >> diana starts swimming, leaving cuba behind. she expects to have 60 grueling hours of swimming ahead. sunrise august 8th. diana nyad has been swimming for nearly 12 hours. >> were holding our own now so were happy. >> david marchand is charting the best course he can but conditions are not what hed hoped. >> well, its fl...

at least for the moment. stocks bounced back in early trading today, after mondays 634-point plunge. right now, dow blue chips are up by 201 points. investors are psyched over todays fed meeting, and theres speculation it might announce a new stimulus. to boost the economy. president obama sits down with treasury secretary timothy geithner. thats happening this afternoon. theyre going to size out the new market turmoil that is fearing -- that is fully feeding fear of double-dip reces...

a meaningful handle on the deficits and the debt. now comes of course the federal reserve. we have ben bernanke here, which has used every tool in its box to keep credit flowing and interest rates low in the wake of the great recession. at 2:15 eastern, a little over an hour from now, the fed will tell us what if anything it plans to do in the wake of the downgrade, the debt snafu, the european debt snafu and the global stock freak-outs. in the meantime, i want to bring in richard ques...

Cooling ponds? not enough water? >> yeah, its either not enough water or theres a problem with the pumps. what happened when we first started this however many days ago, they werent able to pump reactor number one because the electrical generation went down. in this case it may be the pumps themselves are suffering mechanical difficulties, and therefore are not generating enough water. or pumping enough water. or it may be a water supply problem. one is transparency. we dont know why theyre happ...