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the investigation's ongoing. and i spoke again this morning with the attorney general eric holder, the secretary of homeland security janet napolitano and my counterterrorism and homeland security adviser john brennan. i asked them to keep -- continue to monitoring the situation, to keep the american people and members of congress informed. here's what we know so far. on christmas day, northwest airlines flight 253 was en route from amsterdam, netherlands, doe troit. as the plane made its final approach to detroit metropolitan. airport a passenger allegedly tried to ignite an explosi...

paid those dividends. consumer names continue to be strong, and industrials. take a look at energy, energy today has been the drag. exxon has been lower on that news. exxon says the xto deal is not going to boost earnings, at least not near term into certainly transformative for them and it's been transformed today for the gas suppliers, apache and others are trading higher on the speculation that we may see more consolidation. meantime, some deals are not coming through, terra industrials, a fertilizer company. $29 and change is simply too low. both of them are trading to the downsi...

obligations, mortgage-backed securities, credit default swaps could perform in the next two months, november and december. the forecast said it would have zero effect on merrill lynch's bottom line. bank of america saw the document but did not show us they did any analysis to make up for merrill commissions. on the contrary, the evidence we have suggests that bank of america pulled a number out of thin air. far from being consistent with the actual experience of october or what they knew about the third quarter, the guess, wistfully assumed that the markets for collateralized debt ob...

but i see jamie throwing huge sums of money. i admire goldman sachs. >> that does it for today. now it's time for 'squawk on the street." live from the financial capital of the universe, this is it, "squawk on the street" beginning right now. good morning, everybody. i'm mark haines in new york. >> and i'm erin burnett live in washington. a major refoorm this earning season and so is executive pay as wall street firms, several this morning, report big earnings and plan s to pay out big bonuses. richard shelby, he has a lot to say about that as you know, mark. >> yes, indeed. can't ...

thank you very much, damon, for being with us. and thank you for watching "street signs." i think erin is back tomorrow. i'm not sure. i won't find out until 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. "closing bell" now. macau's government will review the size of the gaming industry there. casino companies like las vegas and wynn resort. lawrence summers says high unemployment and heavy debt loads will hurt household spend are for some time to come. black & decker shares are up. that's cbs.com news for now. a weaker dollar helping to push the dow to new interday highs for the year today. we have turn...