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In the u.s. economy is when a drop of 520 points on the dow makes you say oh, is that todays news or am i looking at an old headline? the dow dropped 520 points, ninth worst point drop in the history of the dow. any minor joy experienced when the market went up 430 points yesterday was wiped away and then some today. todays stock market plunge as opposed to the stock market plunge two days ago or the one six days ago, todays was results of fears about europe and france. except theirs wouldnt be ...

that they will find medical supplies there and relief there, but all too often they find doctors who are simply overwhelmed, doctor whose dont have the equipment, who dont have resources to adequately care for the children. so many of these kids are dying. it shouldnt happen on any day but it does, it happens every single day. we saw it for ourselves and youre going to see it tonight. aa. cording to the united nations, 600,000 children on the brink of starvation, 600,000. the world foo...

inside a hospital in somalia to remind us that they arent statistics, they are people in pain. im wolf blitzer, youre in "the situation room". after weeks of blatant political flirting, the texas governor rick perry is now ready to commit. cnn has learned he will major a formal campaign announce mementd our new poll, jim, shows he will be very competitive. >> thats right. he comes in the top tier, wolf, youre right, rick perry, according to a source close to the governor has told cnn t...

good morning to you. it is thursday, august 11 now. this is "american morning." lot going on today. lets get right to it, folks. >> good morning, good morning. so much for comeback. havent seen these kind of wild swings on wall street since the darkest days of the financial meltdown. the dow diving 520 points yesterday. this time fueled by fears or at least triggered by fears. that france is on a verge of a credit downgrade. every day it seems to be something new trying terg sell-off o...

so many of these kids are dying. it shouldnt happen on any day but it does, it happens every single day. we saw it for ourselves and youre going to see it tonight. according to the united nations, 600,000 children on the brink of starvation, 600,000. the world food program now has less than three weeks of food aid left. were going to talk to u-2s singer bono. how you can help, how you can make a difference. 600,000, were telling their stories tonight. breaking news back home. jeopard...

single day. we saw it for ourselves and youre going to see it tonight. according to the united nations, 600,000 children are now on the brink of starvation, 600,000. as we learned last night, the world food program now has less than three weeks of food aid left. were going to talk to u-2s singer bono. we will show you also, how you can help hour, you can make a difference. 600,000 kids, were going to be telling their stories tonight. breaking news back home. a problem the developing ...

watermelon haul, which you can picture. >> oh, boy, yes, i can. hey, go big or go home. thats what i say. thanks, jeff. >> okay. >> all right. at 10:00 a.m. on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. out west, im kyra phillips. thanks for joining us. wall street just minutes after opening, only hours removed from the gut-wrenching plunge, u.s. investors seem to be shrugging off some of the concerns, at least for now. riots erupt across great britain. dozens of police officers hurt. hundreds of p...

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...

Court to pass that likely with democratic votes and very few republicans. >> >> laura: bret, didnt the president tee this up today when he comes out in the morning and he said, look, the senate, you know, the bills arent too far apart and there is room to work together here. so he emerged as the guy who is kind of the force for reconciliation, for people to come together. then he tees this up and over the weekend is anyone going to doubt that this debt ceiling is going to get raised given what t...