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Top to bottom. that wasnt the engineers problem. he ran it. he cemented and they -- >> larry: pushed the wrong button? >> no, i think that he was in a hurry. and halliburton recommended they run 22 centralizers, and they ran four. and that caused him a problem because the tapered string of casing is seven inch, the bottom part of it was probably against the wall of the hole, and when they cemented, they didnt get a cement job all the way around the casing. he didnt know that. i dont understand w...

Through the mississippi valley, missouri valley back through the rio grande valley as well on this thursday morning and a little bit of action moving through the mid atlantic. its nice and dry and shes right, its dry across all of florida and dixieland as well. somebody in the other studio, push that button and well take a look at the next map. see if they figure out which -- wrong button. anyway, look at that very nicely done. right now in denver, it is freezing. its actually about 13 degrees w...

The dow down with it. >> suddenly the dow was down 990 points in just a blink of an eye. ive been saying its like the barry bonds home run record. yeah he was a really good baseball player but there might be an asterisk there. we dont know what kind of technical factor might have been helping this market decline so much. theres a lot of rumors about the so-called fat finger, somebody who pressed the wrong button. >> the rumor was that instead of selling a million stocks somebody put a "b" for bi...

The source of that cash. officials say he traveled often to pakistan and spent five months there before returning to the u.s. in february. so where did he get the cash if he didnt have a job? big question. >> big question indeed. julie, thanks. >> federal investigators investigating the cause of the stock market plunge on thursday. the sudden drop leaving wall street stunned. one possibility being looked into was that a trader accidentally hit a wrong button triggering a massive selloff. thats p...

Action on wall street. and the market showed a lot of volatility today because of uncertainty both here at home and overseas. in fact, even after we got our best unemployment report in four years, the dow plummeted down 140 points at the close. down almost 6% for the week. and now in the red for the entire year. it all comes just one day after the dow disaster that sent the index plunging nearly a thousand points before closing down more than 300. and now were learning more about what may have c...

When enough much debt and one buyer, the chinese they could balk and force us to pay much more, much more in debt service and now. >> lets talk about the balance sheet of consumers. they are going to be footing this bill through more taxes they cant afford it either. >> sean: what do we expect tomorrow? a lot of people are looking at what happened today. i think your spin is right. some guy with fat fingers hit the wrong button. sorry, accident. ignoring the connection between global economy. th...

Police there and theyre going after these protesters. >> thats right. a few sticks of dynamite at the police and it was a very tense situation where just waiting, waiting for something to happen and then im not sure what exactly it was that kicked it off. the police pushed forward with tear gas and demonstrated -- being pushed down into the side streets. thousands of people. >> they have hiked taxes there. they have cut pay there. they have upped the retirement age there. so people are really fe...

Now the united states is moving in that direction. would would we think anything other than the predictable result you have what we see happening there. how bad can it get? >> the lesson is dont go there. >> sean: that ship has passed. barack obama has spent the money. >> u.s. is not greece but but we are slowly becoming a nanny state which all these other countries are. we are coming their model. you are going to hear a lot of bulls tomorrow saying this was a glitch some guy with fat fingers pr...

>> mika, we have an awful lot to talk about. obviously the elections in great britain yesterday, conservatives had their best day in, gosh, since 1931. the tories, the liberals, labor, had one of their worst days since 1931. and yet its a hung parliament there. also, of course, the reverberations from greece being felt on wall street yesterday. plus, somebody with a very fat finger pushed the wrong button and caused panic on wall street. so a lot to talk about. a lot of guests on set and also we...

Is down 22 or 33%. 22 bucks or 33%, that drives the dow down 150 points. that in turn triggers what you said, bob, programmed trading for sell orders. >> yes. >> suddenly p & g on the next handful of trades comes back, helping the dow up 130, 140 points and triggers the opposite, more buying. >> which shows you the emotion. jerry was talking about the emotion out there and thats evident in what is going on today. the lessons we learned in march of last year and in 2008 was that these guys, they ...