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Right now? >> well, one reason why it's volatile is it's also the end of the year. you're seeing this year-end positioning happening. so investment houses kind of square their books. you look at how it's been over the past three months for the dow. the dow has lost 5,000 points. so with yesterday's massive gain of over 1,000 points for the dow, what you're seeing are investors and traders findi ing opportunities to take some profits off the table, profits they didn't have, especially over the last month. meaning december. because it's been the worst month since 1931, since the great depression...

Tiny amount. so we're told to scrub them down with soap and water. for those living here, this is the new reality. at least for the moment, everything has changed. lee cowan, nbc news, tokyo. >> as if there wasn't enough to deal with in japan, search teams and survivors are now facing a blast of frigid weather. heavy snow and freezing temperatures are blanketing the disaster zone. officials say it's just the latest obstacle to findi ing people alive. nick walker's at the weather channel right now. nick, tell me what you're seeing in terms of a weather forecast and how it might influence any ki...

>> you search for various historical models, and one that came to mind while i was writing my column the other day, liberal minded, progressive, quickly being supplanted, you might have the same thing with an elbaradei figure who's respected abroad, but doesn't really have a constituency at home, findi ing himself supplanted. >> but i really find there are so many sources of anti-extremism within egypt, that although that's the big bogeyman and the great worry that it would turn radical, i would be quite surprised at the end of the day. >> look at the iranian revolution. when the shah fell, it...