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kind of a day will it be? another wild ride? well, some won't mind if it's wild in the right direction. though, we have seen a historic week of volatility. also huge changes at the u.s. postal service. administrators there are asking congressional approval to lay off 120,000 people. you heard me right. also across in great britain and all across great britain now the riots die down a little bit now and maybe life getting back to normal in london. nearly 2,000 people have been arrested in in connection with the violence and looting there we have seen over the past week. maybe yo...

far. if we stay true to form, that means we will see a huge rally today. cross your fingers and hold on, folks. also this morning, five nato troops killed in a bomb attack in southern afghanistan. coalition troops have killed nearly 200 militants in recent weeks. keeping an eye on afghanistan, of course. keeping an eye on great britain. britain's prime minister says london police waited too long to arrest rioters this past weekend. he said that when he was speaking to parliament in a special session on the rioting. we will have more on this in a moment. ♪ all right, folks, ...

these folks weren't rioting like we have seen the past several days. they were there to clean up. now the problem is that the violence, looting and arson has spread to sever other british cities besides london. also a nationwide manhunt for two brothers and their older sister accused much opening fire on a florida police officer, then robbing a georgia bank. you're seeing the three siblings there and authorities do consider them armed and extremely dangerous. all right. wall street did a bit of a u-turn yesterday and thank goodness it did. we don't know exactly what it's going to...

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...

streak, tiger woods returns to the pga tour. in less than five hours he tees off in the bridgestone invitational. congress celebrated its long overdue deal on the debt crisis by racing out of town for summer recess. lost in that cloud of dust, funding for the faa and thousands of workers who now can't be paid. >> personally, this is devastating. i've spent -- i spend most of my day trying to figure out what -- what can i not ay, what can i pay, where can i get extra cash. we're pretty much going to burn through all of our savings within a monday. athena jones is on capitol hill. ...