Now on wall street, more pain for investors this morning. Stocks plunging in the first halfhour of trading despite an Interest Rate cut initiated by the fed. The three governors of new york, new jersey and connecticut will be making a joint announcement. Were going to bring you that news as soon as we get it. Our nbc news team is live and ready to go this hour. Our reporters are spread across the entire country, have every angle of this story covered for you, joe fryer, kathy park, Gabe Gutierrez but it is another day of turmoil for the markets and that is where we begin. David gura joins us live from the new york Stock Exchange. The bells ringing, you were starting your live shot and the ticker did not move. It was immediately halted. Where do you see things going now . Reporter this was a precipitous drop right out of the gate. Ive been here for the last week or so and weve had that Circuit Breaker activated twice. It hit that 7 threshold. Trading has resumed on wall street. The s p
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