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good morning to you. it is thursday, august 11 now. this is "american morning." lot going on today. let's get right to it, folks. >> good morning, good morning. so much for comeback. haven't seen these kind of wild swings on wall street since the darkest days of the financial meltdown. the dow diving 520 points yesterday. this time fueled by fears or at least triggered by fears. that france is on a verge of a credit downgrade. every day it seems to be something new trying terg sell-off or the buying. that's because this is a global economy. your investments feel it here. wild swings....

Happening in our city, i couldn't do that. there was no service. and the cell service routinely fails. it turns out that a growing number of americans rely on this for communication. >> they don't have land lines, right. >> but the phone industry, the mobile phone industry has pushed very hard to make sure they're regulated as an entertainment industry, not as a lifeline industry that provides public services. so they routinely fail. look, we are now in a situation where people in cities throughout this country expect that the power will go out and the communications grid will go out, and even...