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Asked you to remember two numbers, 58 and 4. let's do the 4 first. here's a map of the united states. see the states highlighted in the orange. they happen to be the top ten in terms of unemployment. michigan, 13%. does 4 matter? let's make these go away. i want to bring this out and show you. for four years, four years until today, michigan had the ranking as number one in the country in terms of unemployment. the state with the highest unemployment rate. we go all the way back to 2006. around 6%. got slightly under 6%. we're in 2008. we're still hovering around 6% and watch it climb. 2006 th...

Better than two hours into the trading day. what am i doing here? the dow is up 18 points, which is all caught up in world cup fever. the government is out with latest state by state unemployment rates. and alison kosik is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. with that, alson, good to see you. the game is tied, and we're anxious to see what happens here. >> you should hear what's happening here on the floor of the stock exchanges. they're going crazy. >> so folks are following the game, as well, right? >> yes, they are. >> allison, give us the bad news first here. >> actually, the so...

The dow down with it. >> suddenly the dow was down 990 points in just a blink of an eye. i've been saying it's like the barry bonds home run record. yeah he was a really good baseball player but there might be an asterisk there. we don't know what kind of technical factor might have been helping this market decline so much. there's 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 billion. there is something technical about this. before we got there, before something made the m...

But it's budget deficit is 13.6 of the size of its economy, that is too big to be sustainable. that's why all of these people are being asked to take huge cuts in benefits and public of thes as part of a $146 billion bailout to try to sustain this country so it doesn't literally go bankrupt. among the things that we're talking about here are cuts to pepgs, as you pointed out. we're talking about major tax hikes. we're talking about aggressive tax collection among other things. among other things, this austerity plan incredibly popular, three people killed in a bank yesterday in athens. this is...

Hitting another car. if you own one of those hummers involved you'll be getting a letter in the mail. >> the last three people who own hummers. protesting greece over severe cuts. three people died when demonstrators set fire to a bank in athens. the new government cutback slashed salaries and pensions for civil servants while raising taxes at the same time. they're being proposed agency conditions for an international bailout that greece needs to stay afloat. christine romans is "minding your business" with more of what's going on in greece. this is beginning to send shock waves through eur...