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happy monday. september 12th. this is your wake-up call. thank you for joining us this morning. breaking news on the world markets to tell you about this morning. they're taking quite a hit. investors are worried that greece could default on loan repayments. the nikkei closed at a 2 1/2-year low. the hang seng down over 4%. european markets opened over two hours ago. they're all down. about four hours until the markets open here. but dow futures are down 180 points. the nasdaq and s&p are down, as well. sorry. i had to tell you. congress supposed to get its hands on president obama...

this country and its people forever. it's changed our security and our priorities. and most of all, it has changed the day-to-day of everyday life in the united states. what has changed since 9/11? maybe the question is, what hasn't? a 6-year-old girl searched before boarding a plane. a wheelchair becomes a red flag on airplanes, trains and subways, intense scrutiny. backpacks are searched and sniffed. even a trip to the ball game is an exercise in homeland security. homeland security, an entire government bureaucracy that didn't exist a decade ago. an agency that gave us the terror ...

Details actually matter. bill: it is all fascinating stuff. what does it tell you the terror alert level has not been raised or there has been no solid warning, you know, the train alert at the end of the week last week but people thought it was squishy. what does it mean to you? >> that is a great point, bill, the fact dhs did not even go to one of the two levels, the first and lower level, called elevated and the second is imminent where we have specific actionable intelligence, the alert that was given on transportation or rail did not even reach that elevated level. so, you are exactly rig...

Although apparently they were discussing this among themselves saying maybe it would work, maybe it wouldn't. more modern trains have brakes. it indicates it was something they were discussing. the fact it was found in bin laden's house, the department of homeland security decided to take no chances and notified the rail industry and local governments about this and urged more vigilance along railroad tracks looking for anollys, packages left along the railroad tracks, spikes that are loosened, pay more attention to that even though they stress there was no actual plan and for that reason stil...

Before that, america's terror alert level is no longer orange, for a very specific reason. thank you for calling esurance.