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inside a hospital in somalia to remind us that they aren't statistics, they are people in pain. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room". after weeks of blatant political flirting, the texas governor rick perry is now ready to commit. cnn has learned he will major a formal campaign announce mementd our new poll, jim, shows he will be very competitive. >> that's right. he comes in the top tier, wolf, you're right, rick perry, according to a source close to the governor has told cnn that the texas governor will be announcing he's running for president on saturday. he will be do...

far. if we stay true to form, that means we will see a huge rally today. cross your fingers and hold on, folks. also this morning, five nato troops killed in a bomb attack in southern afghanistan. coalition troops have killed nearly 200 militants in recent weeks. keeping an eye on afghanistan, of course. keeping an eye on great britain. britain's prime minister says london police waited too long to arrest rioters this past weekend. he said that when he was speaking to parliament in a special session on the rioting. we will have more on this in a moment. ♪ all right, folks, ...

up right now, and that's a good sign considering we're more than halfway through the trading day. you are seeing stocks rally on good economic news of the jobless claims numbers fell last week and we got strong corporate earnings from a bellwether company, cisco system, and you are seeing wall street focus on the positive today and we are seeing the bargain hunting going on as well, and you are seeing the bargain hunters getting in there and buying stocks up, randi. >> and the trader mthere with you, allen valdez. what about the first time they dropped below 4,000 for the first time ...

fewer americans filed first-time jobless claims last week. the labor department says that it got 395,000 initial claims. that's a drop of 7,000. it is the first time the number dipped below 400,000 since early april. united nations says that the drought ravaging the horn of africa has not peaked. that means a long-term threat of famine. the u.n. says 12 million people, if you can believe that, are at risk. desperately needs more than a billion dollars to feed them. musician and activist bono talked to anderson cooper who is reporting from somalia this week. >> people watch the values...

so many of these kids are dying. it shouldn't happen on any day but it does, it happens every single day. we saw it for ourselves and you're going to see it tonight. according to the united nations, 600,000 children on the brink of starvation, 600,000. the world food program now has less than three weeks of food aid left. we're going to talk to u-2's singer bono. how you can help, how you can make a difference. 600,000, we're telling their stories tonight. breaking news back home. jeopardizing a lot of futures back home, not mention the global economy. asian markets opening lower a...