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Southwest airlines flight for poking a snoring passenger who was seated next to her. she have wasn't using her finger. she was using a pen. look at that. that's a picture of the passenger's shirt with a pen marks on where she was using the pen to poke. the pen obviously didn't have a cover. the plane returned to the gate. new video from inside the aircraft show flight crew and police officers speaking to the woman who was eventually escorted off. southwest airlines says she was accommodated on a later flight. so when maybe some of us are like sorry, kind of nudged you, she did the pen without ...

Rating agency tonight has downgraded america's aaa credit rating for the first time in u.s. history. >> downgraded, the u.s. loses its perfect credit rating for the first time in history. >> s&p said last night the political brinksmanship highlights what we see as america's governance and policy making becoming less stable, less effective and less predictable. >> here's the damage from today. the dow down over 634 points. that's the sixth largest point drop in its history, the worst since '08. nasdaq lost just about 7% of its total value. s&p 500 lost 6.6% of its value in one day. it's a bigge...

You have to know what you're looking for. >> so what's going on with the markets today? >> we are seeing the dow down over 100 points. it is low volume, not a lot of trading going on. it's kind of a slow summer day. and we're seeing the dow hit 30, record high so far this year. it's not such a huge surprise to see investors start to take some profits off the table. one stock that is catching our eye, shares of ibm are falling. its stock was downgraded. the analysts say there are challenges ahead for ibm. and ibm is a big player in the market. that is pulling down the dow as well. >> alison kos...

>> hey, fredericka. the losses are holding steady. the dow down about 436 points. they're off their lows of this session where we saw the dow down as much as 500 points. this is coming after morgan stanley kind of set off an alarm bell saying that the u.s. and europe are looking like they're getting close to going into a recession. morgan stanley also downgrading its growth forecast globally for this year and next. also not helping we got a bunch of economic reports here in the u.s. one on jobless claims showing a rise in jobless claims, the jobs area something that this economy real...

Government. we haves certainlily, it's weird to say socialism for capitalist. we have a state sponsored financial sector that's doing very well but we've lost subsidies and kind of an anemic rest of the economy. >> we have the dow down over 12,000 for the first time since 2008. i remember it being at 6,500. people who have retired on a fixed income it's been a nightmare, all of their wealth is just gone or a good portion of it. and yet, you still have high unemployment. over on wall street, you're talking about things going well. hearing about individual investment bankers who are bringing hom...