dark studio. but we re going to improve, i promise. the big stories are the u.s. markets. the markets tanked again yesterday. the dow, the nasdaq and s&p were down 4% but good news for stocks futures. premarket trading is all up across the board this morning but remember, futures doesn t mean much until 6:00 a.m. eastern time. let s see how the world s money is doing this morning. andrew stevens is joining us live from hong kong, so tell us something good. i with us going to tell you something good yesterday butcy think i failed you yesterday, carol. there is something good at the moment because wall street may have tanked but europe particularly is up and up pretty healthily at this your hour, between 2% and 3% between europe, germany, and france. that s prosecutor surprising after what we ve seen. as you pointed out, u.s. futures are higher so we do seem to be taking a lead on what the u.s. investors in the market are doing. here the markets finished between flat and 1% d
london as police struggle to take back control of their streets. now americans are being urged to use caution when traveling around the city. good morning again. i m carol costello. three members of the congressional super committee have been chosen. nine more to go. there are 12. they will have 90 days to come up with $1.5 trillion in spending cuts. the selections and reaction to them on this american morning. all right. good morning, it is wednesday august 10th. ali is off today after working i think 15 or 16 straight days covering the markets and all that. more on the markets and the economy in just a moment. you seem a little short today. i know. i have a high chair. i think so. i like that. you re taller than i am, carol. good morning. i m carol costello. actually we have to talk about this first, london is burning a fourth night of looting and violence in the streets, parts of london resemble a war zone with burned out buildings and destruction. 16,000
joining us on the phone heather cobbler with the colorado police. if you can, tell us exactly how they were spotted and how they were taken into custody. well, good morning, first of all. these three suspects were taken into custody after what was about a 20-mile high-speed pursuit. initially this morning a witness said they spotted somebody that matched the description of who we were looking for, and troopers in the area tried to initiate contact on i-25 south of pueblo. it was then they fled and crashed. the three of them were considered armed and dangerous. any word on injuries or a shoot-out? during the pursuit, there were shots fired at law enforcement from the suspects. no law enforcement was injured. were any of the suspects injured? i don t know, we are checking on that. right now we have medical personnel on scene, and at least one party is being transported to a medical facility. heather, do you know if any weapons were recovered in their vehicle, and
one assistant chief con stanl calls it unjustified acts of wanton krlt. nearly 800 people arrested for violence, disorder and looting. more than 100 officers have been hurt. the streets have been calmer, probably because there are twice as many police on the streets as there was a night before. amazon uk reports sales of lull num baseball bats are up 8,000% since the violence broke out. prime minister, david cameron meets with his crisis response committee, and he s called lawmakers from the summer holiday to address the problem. parliament meets tomorrow. these are sickening scenes, scenes of people looting, vandalizing, thieving, robbing, scenes of people attacking police officers and even attacking fire crews as they re trying to put out fires. this is criminality, clear and simple. it has to be confronted and defeated. if you re getting on a plane to the uk, the state department says stay away from the volatile area and don t get into arguments that might turn violent
republicans already sniping about a democratic choice for the congressional super committee. democrats have named senators patty murray, max baucus, and john kerry to the debt panel. and republicans are complaining that murray shouldn t get a seat because she s too political. she s in charge of fund raising for democratic senate candidates. and 12 lawmakers are supposed to be named to the committee by tuesday. they re there to pinpoint $1.5 trillion in spending cuts by late november. 10,000 extra police officers kept a lid on the violence in london last night. but rioting and looting spread to birmingham, manchester, and liverpool. police will have all tools available to stop what he says are the thugs as he put it. a cnn ireporter describes the scene. you can hear at least ten of them. sounds like i m in beirut or some i don t know, some middle eastern conflict. and i have never witnessed this in the uk. i could have never imagined this. this looks like the gaza stri