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Well. what can we expect at this hour? pointing upward. dow up 50 points in futures. 1/2% and the s&p up 6 points and the nasdaq up this hour up about 1/2%. meanwhile, whats been going on around the world? in europe, its been somewhat of a ho-hum session that we will take after the huge drop yesterday. today, stablizing just essentially flat. up 1/4%. the dax essentially flat. just up about a 10th of a percent. in asia, plenty of selling seen there as well. certainly in seoul, south korea, down ...

And got to the life boats first. >> they are holding the bag for $535 million guarantee and still cant get answers. >> nbc capitol hill correspondent kelly odonnell joins us. >> there was a lot of frustration and finger pointing and an investigation that is ongoing. it wont be the last of what we hear from the executives except they are invoking their fifth amendment rights. some of the democrats said they understood that was the right, but you got the sense that nobody thought that was a good w...

>> definitely some good theater. unfortunately, some are pointing out that rush limbaugh said that first. meanwhile, what about michele bachmann and all the rest? snow white, as jay leno calls her. our friday megapanel is in instantaneous. ari melber from "the nation." krystal ball, and reuters editor at large krista -- >> are you coming over for sunday? >> i was. i was trying to provoke the credentials to access food. your thoughts on what youre witnessing in the political primary process? >> i...

all this playing out on the streets as well. young palestinians who want statehood threw rocks and bottles at israeli border guards. that happened today. the israelis responded with rubber bullets and stun grenades. president abbas has called for protesters to keep things peaceful. israel has put additional forces along the border in case things get out of hand. and pakistan absolutely furious over accusations by the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mike mullen. for the fi...

scientists come forward to challenge her claims about the controversial hpv vaccine. jim acosta is covering the race to unseat perry. shall we say it is a race indeed. >> it absolutely is, wolf, and the only thing missing from the campaign trail this week, michael buffer. the professional wrestler master of ceremonies, whos known for his battle cry, lets get ready to rumble. its the main event for the gop comes down to rick perry versus mitt romney, stand back. >> just yesterday, that ...

Discuss radical left wing ideas like building roads and fixing schools and bridges. it must be socialism. its really amazing, isnt it? >> the president keeps talking about how, you know, this used to be the kind of idea that wasnt that controversial. this used to be the kind of idea the democrats and republicans could come together on. is he right in pointing that out as a means of making the case that it could be that way again? >> as a historical matter, he certainly is right. i mean, who did ...

this poor kid is adopted from russia. it makes us look real bad over here. her lawyers did a great job for her. really. >> you can catch our legal guys every saturday at noon eastern right here in the cnn newsroom. i had, everybody, top of the hour, 5:00 p.m. on the east coast, im alina cho. thanks for joining us. three developing stories were watching this hour, the ongoing onslaught from tropical storm lee. parts of the gulf coast waist high in water. well take you there live. an...

fred whitfield has the weekend off. our top story this hour, a week after hurricane irene battered the east coast, tropical storm lee is targeting the gulf coast. heavy rain falling now in mississippi and louisiana, both states under a state of emergency. mandatory evacuations are under way in parts of jefferson parish in the new orleans area and some parts could get up to 20 inches of rain. vermont is one of the states still cleaning up from irene. remember that storm? six days after ...

fine. >> then after north carolina, irene could hit new york and new england late this weekend. keep watching for latest turns in the hurricanes track. right now, a firefight is under way outside a cluster of buildings in tripoli. libyan rebels believe they have moammar gadhafi pinned down. they believe he is hiding in apartments in his compound. rebels have put $1.5 million bounty on gadhafi. he is wanted by the international criminal court for alleged war crimes. moammar gadhafis s...

steven moore and robert reich, labor secretary during the clinton administration. currently hes a professor of public policy at the university of california at berkeley and author of "aftershock, the next economy in americas future" now out in paper back. ali, what happened today? >> reporter: we had a situation where its not just fear we were talking about. this was actual fact. we started this morning with slow bad markets out of europe. then before the markets opened we got this rep...