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continuing with brooke baldwin. >> don't go far. i want to talk to you about that piece in mississippi. hello to you. good afternoon. i'm brooke baldwin. let's begin where drew sort of left off there. you know what, you need a scorecard today. or maybe a traffic cop to keep up with the presidential hopefuls. i'm giving you a map. des moines, iowa, ground zero ahead of the iowa straw poll. des moines, iowa, flooded with republican candidates. plus, yep, sarah palin. she turned up, arrived there just a short time ago. she is not, i repeat not in the race, at least not officially. why e...

Basically factor this into the shares and the nuclear opening just minutes ago at the top of the hour there. it's down 2.1% now, as more of the shares are traded. there was a flood of sell orders and big names talking sony, talking about nissan, honda, toyota that it was not fully impacted and now seeing the nikkei down about 4% and losses in new zealand and australia the first two markets to open on monday. they were down, but now the nikkei down 4% here and we're also seeing the dollar taking a hit. a lot of the japanese companies and export focused economy and many are based here and going ...

Keep it -- >> there's a problem. >> did it happen? >> yes, that happened. >> and that's why 15 minutes didn't become 26 minutes? >> here's what happened and why we'll bring the electronic on the floor of the exchange. the machines that were operating. what was lost in the 16 minutes what was lost is investor confidence. i'm an investor, i lost $2 million across on the last mess we had, you think i'm crazy? you think i'm going to step in again. here's what happened. when the markets started down, a lot of orders, sell orders, at different prices were triggered. sell stock at $40, somebody said ...

Performance since a year. i want to talk quickly about what the nasdaq says about why the violent move in five or six minutes at 2:45, they say there were no compute issues on their ends. but they are voluntarily canceling trades between 2:40 and 3:00 p.m. if you think you really made a fortune, you probably didn't. they will be going through with a fine tooth comb to find where on the trade bladder something went wrong and what trades will not be counted. >> all right. as you talk about the computer trading, everybody has these automatic sell orders, right? >> sure. >> i know that we talked a...

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...