versus looking at what you could earn on that money. you learn something there with clyde this morning. yes. it s not all the same for everybody. maybe you should pay off and be safe. whatever you feel comfortable with. fredricka, it s all yours. keep that credit score up, too. yes. good to see you. you as well. we ll see you in new york tomorrow for the 9/11 marking of ten years. yes. security is stepped up across america this weekend after what officials call a credible but unconfirmed report that terrorists may be planning an attack on u.s. soil. tomorrow will mark the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. afghanistan s taliban movement issued a statement accusing the west of using 9/11 as a pretext for a war on muslims. it threatened to send america to, quote, the dust bin of history, unquote. according to a senior u.s. official, intercepted communications suggest the possibility of a terrorist attack on new york or washington. allen chernoff and athe
shopping sprees, but are still out there spending and that s good. the dow fell to the lowest level in 30 years, but we are not seeing the wild swings we saw all week. the dow closed down 600 on monday and up 400 on tuesday and down 500 points on wednesday and up 400 yesterday, and it was the first time in the dow s history we have seen closing numbers like this. drew? you could probably measure the heartbeat of traders the same way, up and down. tell us what happened in europe? they are trying to prevent the wild up and down swings. what they are doing is they are putting a temporary ban on short selling. what short selling is is when investors bet that a stock will go down in its price, and europe s version of our securities and exchange commission, it put a temporary ban for 15 days on several european countries, including france, italy, spain, and belgium to put a ban on this practice to stabilize the markets after we have seen the extreme moves over the past week, an
word. the truth is that the president wanted a blank check six months ago and he wants a blank check today. this is just not going to happen. as makeshift memorials spring up across norway, police and the public are searching for answers to friday s deadly attacks. the lawyer and suspect, anders breivik, the lawyer said his client is in insane. the suspect s father, who doesn t want to be identified, agrees. translator: no, i ll never have more contact with him in my darkest moments i think rather than killing all those people, he should have taken his own life. those are strong words from a father. translator: they are, punish thinking abo but thinking about what has happened, i still don t understand. no normal human being would do something like that. money from a u.s. defense contract is now in the hands of the taliban. the a u.s. military task force now believes that part of a $2 billion contract for troops transportation was diverted through a network of afr
down. reporter: at least on the positive side, you are here. you are going to see the statue. glad you are getting it in today. it didn t even cross our minds that it could be closed down tomorrow. reporter: it would be. thank you very much. lots of tourists want to get the lady liberty visit in today. they have to do it just in case they can t work out a deal down in washington. carol? as you know, it is work the visit. it is awesome. allen chernoff, many thanks. nato says it will not apologize for a mistaken missile strike that may have hit rebel forces in libya earlier this week. four people died. after an inspection they found no new damage in japan. mohammed jam june says more than 1,000 anti-government protesters took to the streets
would require an evacuation of new york city. that s been at least identified up this point. reporter: the county s chief executive said they re well prefaired for a ten-mile evacuation but if a 50-mile evacuation were ordered it s a complete game changer. we would have to go back to the drawing board tomorrow and work day and night with multiple agencies and jurisdictions. allen chernoff joins us now. i m not feeling any better. well, that s understandable. of course, a lot of counties are asking the nrc questions now after the nrc said in japan it should be a 50-mile radius from which people should be evacuating. the plans here just call for 10-mile radius. county officials all over the country are highly concerned about this. hopefully this is the wake-up call they need and i know it s complicated but has to be a way to fix the problems, to solve