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Wall street, despite the smiles and applause, stocks tanked today. the dow jones industrial average fell 225 points, thats its biggest drop in three months. the closing number, 10,926. they blame the slide on investors fears that europes bailout plan for greece wont work. a major victory for medical marijuana proponents, the washington city allowed legislation to allow chronically ill patients to have two ounces every month to aleve their illnesses. the d.c. voted to legalize marijuana 11 year...

>> reporter: wolf, the entire day weve been anticipating that faisal shahzad would be shown here for a presentation before the judge. its not going to happen today and were told it will not happen tomorrow. now, why is that? the guidance im being given is that the bottom line is hes singing. why stop the tune if that strong isnt over? authorities have said that he is cooperating. hes providing some valuable information. once hes presented before the judge, he there be assigned a defense lawyer. ...

Care that allows them to be productive much longer. raise the benefit age to 72, it will go a long way towards solving the problem. mike in pennsylvania says, go to your local social security office. it will be crowded with people well below retirement age who are there to sign up for social security disability benefits. they claim to have bad backs or are simply depressed. i work for a social service agency. the caseworkers send these people there and tell them how to qualify for benefits like ...

Time to check back with jack kafrt for the cafferty file. >> the question this hour is what ever happened to john mccain? d. in arizona writes the old naval aviator is trying to fly through heavy flak from the left and the right while trying to make one last carrier landing. too many issues are clouding his vision. the landing could be rough. he needs to recall what got him down safely so many times before. david in virginia rights, all i can think to say is that it saddens me to see whats becom...