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Snowball effect. basically, you had one of many that were rapidly closing their doors. >> out of the hundreds of tech company ipos that existed by 1999, only one in six would still be in existence two years later. whoever wins the presidential election is destined to inherit the fallout of the dot-com bubble. but a clear winner has yet to emerge. >> it's already clear here at 7:30 eastern time in new york that the road to 270 electoral votes for either george w. bush or al gore will be long and torturous before this evening is out. connecticut no surprise, al gore. kansas, the projected winn...

>> there was this enormous snowball effect. basically, you had one of many that were rapidly closing their doors. >> out of the hundreds of tech company ipos that existed by 1999, only one in six would still be in existence two years later. whoever wins the presidential election is destined to inherit the fallout of the dot-com bubble. but a clear winner has yet to emerge. >> it's already clear here at 7:30 eastern time in new york that the road to 270 electoral votes for either george w. bush or al gore will be long and torturous before this evening is out. connecticut no surprise, al gore....

>> easy, fergie. >> what i mean by this, is i'm optimistic about the -- this current problem smells to me like 2000 where there's an underlying overheated part of the economy, now it's oil and gas and natural resource, with following commodity prices at the heart of what's going on. there will be a that is where the jobs are going away. if that intensifies, we, you'll see more and more people firing in all those areas, but mostly in canada, emerging markets. it could spiral and take the whole economy down like that dot-com bubble. everyone doesn't have a piece of this like real estate, but def...

The hbo program the jinx. we've been telling you about it this morning. the program caught him on tape in a bathroom when he apparently didn't realize he was wearing a microphone that was broadcasting outside of the bathroom. he said something like what did i do? killed them all. that is apparently not the reason for the arrest that is taking him to los angeles but robert durst has waived extradition. another murder trial getting underway in the case of a prominent upstate new york doctor accused of killing his wife. dr. robert neulander told police that his wife died after suffering a fall ...

The nasdaq closed above five,000 for the first time since march of 2000 right before the dot com bubble blew much. the nasdaq was riding high. give us the story on this 15-year claim back to 5,000. >> reporter: it's taken the nasdaq 15 years but it's finally above the 5,000 level. it's important for retail investors who think i can buy that and the institutional investor may be seeing it as a sell signal. it was driven in part by google and apple. since the 2000 lows up by a whopping 350%. >> is this just another bubble? should investors be worried? >> reporter: everyone is saying it's differe...