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at least for the moment. stocks bounced back in early trading today, after monday's 634-point plunge. right now, dow blue chips are up by 201 points. investors are psyched over today's fed meeting, and there's speculation it might announce a new stimulus. to boost the economy. president obama sits down with treasury secretary timothy geithner. that's happening this afternoon. they're going to size out the new market turmoil that is fearing -- that is fully feeding fear of double-dip recession. the president is promising to help a special congressional commission find a long-term fi...

points. that continues to fluctuate. coming up in a couple of minutes. i'll speak live with the man who ran the government's bank bailout a couple of years ago. by the way, he agrees with the downgrading of the u.s. credit rating. don't miss that conversation with him here. i do want to begin with this. the commander in chief of the u.s. armed forces is at dover air force base in delaware right now. president obama is attending the dignified transfer, right there, that's what the military calls the movement of war fatalities from the place they died back to american soil. those who...

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 quest, just outside the new york stock exchange, and christine romans in our new york studios. i would l...

this "american morning.". busy weekend. good morning, august 1st. a lot going on today. >> it was an agonizing weekend and we were all up late last night. e-mails flying at midnight. >> it was busy. >> but things are a little brighter today than they were last night and saturday night and a little brighter. >> tiny bit. we start with that possible break-through in the debt ceiling crisis. in a few hours the house and senate are expected to vote on a plan by president obama and congressional leaders to raise america's borrowing limit in exchange for massive spending cuts. >> i want ...

Reacting very much as expected. they are reacting badly. the benchmark nikkei dropped 6%, a 634-point plunge effectively wiping out all gains made since the start of the year. the bleak news raises obvious concerns about how this will affect trading on the u.s. front and questions about how soon japan can recover from this huge loss. cnbc's steve leaseman joins me now. steve, what we're seeing here was pretty much expected, but explain to all of us, japan's economy has been in flux for some time now. >> yeah, it has been. i'll tell you there's a lot of comparison to the kobe earthquake and wha...