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Have some idea what they've come across and the danger it poses. we have a chance of catching whoever is involved. >> reporter: nobody knows exactly if the bomb went off in new york how much damage it would have caused. if it is anything close to what we saw here, it would have been of devastating. >> when you think that is 300 pounds of fertilizer, if somebody got a hold of a really sophisticated explosive, packed it full of that, the extent of devastation could be. >> makes you think. four days after the dow mysteriously dropped 1,000 points in half an hour. they still don't know the exact c...

Whole mojo and i thought we would get answers on the stock market crash because as a business girks some of the people who were testifying and they say that there is no single explanation for the events of thursday afternoon, which is now coming up to 24 hours of me getting unsatisfying things. can you do something for me? >> exactly. >> we will talk about the testimony of new ingredients of the pizza but what happened with the flash crash when the dow just collapsed last thursday 998 points. right now on 3:00 this afternoon on the hill, there's going to be a hearing into what exactly happened...

The closing bell. the report turned out better than expected, but shares are moving lower in after-hours trading. and head of the s.e.c. telling a congressional panel today that investigators are sifting through more than 60 million trades to try to pinpoint the cause of last week's, what they're calling the flash crash. that's it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. now back to "hardball." you see, folks, information is king. and obama can't be king if we have information. that's what bugs hill. what bugs him is that there is dissent. >> he's amazing, we're back, that's of course rush li...

Convey to people how toxic on many college campuses the military standard of don't ask, don't tell is. once we get rid of that, then the military's going to be welcomed, i think, on these campuses. until then, this issue is, is much more of a stumbling block on inviting in military recruiters. she stood up for principle but had to compromise in some ways to prevent the university from losing tons of money. that's when larry sommers was president. >> thanks very much to you both. on wall street, traders put last week's flash crash behind them. stock prices soaring at the closing bell. we're t...

The dow sank nearly 1,000 point in less than half an hour. losing nearly 10% of its value. it later recovered to close down 348 points but that was still the biggest single day loss since february of last year. to one still this morning sure exactly what happened. one possibility being investigated is that a single trader accidentally placed an order to sell 16 billion stocks instead of 16 million shares. that was enough to spark sell orders across the market creating a so-called flash crash. last night on "nbc nightly news" mar maria bartiromo helped us sort through the mess. >> it all starte...