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even get back to it. it's moving probably 8, 10 miles an hour across the ground. so, you know, god help us. that's all. that's all we can do right now. [ sirens ] a whole different story in the east. remnants of tropical storm lee sweeping through the area. the storm left one person dead in mississippi, knocking out power to thousands all across the south. stocks deep in the red. the dow fell more than 250 points just after the opening bell. right now still hanging down. new concerns about europe's debt cries and the global economy weighing on investors. u.s. stocks plunged friday ...

Good morning to you. let's got an update. how bad is the flooding in the memphis area? >> we are expecting the memphis mississippi river at memphis to crest next wednesday at 48 feet, which is a record level. and what we're trying to tell people is that if local officials come by your home and ask you to move because of an imminent threat of flooding, please leave because nothing is worse your life. >> absolutely. are you finding people that are being resistant to that? >> well, we haven't had reports of resistance, but we have -- we do have local officials up and down the western part of tenn...

Unemployment benefit and food stamps. according to the commerce department, government payments including federal, state and local amounted to 18% of personal income in 2010. a record level. that is four percentage point higher in 2006 before the recent recession began. as the social payments increased, pages well to a 51.4% of all personal income. the lowest level since the government began gathering the data in 1929. that is down from nearly 54% before the recession. in dollars and cents, the data show americans receiving average of $7400 in government payments per person in 2010. compared t...

Corrupt deals in the medical industry where people have gouged us there. all kinds of things. we had a good life here and inflation hasn't really been a factor at all in those 10 years. i will give you the last word. >> i have the same concerns that you have about how life in america has not shown the kind of prosperity that people have had in the past. >> bill: no. despite the spending. >> you have to remember that clinton did take some direction. that helped us reduce. >> bill: yeah, welfare reform, huge, huge. >> and the bush approach was to increase the deficit through tax cuts and through...

Million to hourly workers. there are 45,000 of these workers represented by the uaw union. they will get at least $4,000 each. that's a record level. they will get that money march 25th. also seems news leaking out of apple that they may be fed up with the rivals, cheaper rivals to their iphone. they are potentially coming out with a new phone which will be around 200 bucks, compared to the iphone 4, which is 600 bucks. this is to go up against the threat of google which is putting android in a whole host of cheaper phones. back to you. >> thank you very much. still ahead on "way too early,"...