special teams of firefighters across the state today trying to stop that next big wildfire before it starts. if you have any comments or questions and things we re talking about today, i d love to hear from you. you can find me on twitter at jdbalart. i ll be tweeting throughout the show and answering your tweets as well. a quick break, coming up, drugs aren t the only big business for mexicanç cartels. another crime is paying off pretty well. some are saying it s like having terrorists in your own backyard. plus, we re going to have other issues to talk about including how does a mother go so upset and crazy over the fact that her son is not going to be playing the game? we ll have a story on that. let s take a look at how wall street and the numbers are. dow jones up 102.93. s&p up 15.97. nasdaq at 48.33. we ll be right back.
an unusual closing bell at the new york stock exchange. but look at that. up 186 points. what were they shaking? those little things you turn around and whistle. cow bells. they always have a lot of cow bells on the florida s stock exchange. there it is again. the dow up, nasdaq up, s&p up. we had a rough week when the s&p downgraded or said they might downgrade u.s. debt. the market sold off on that. it seems to all be back. that s good news, certainly. meantime, this is probably not such good news if you like your privacy. iphone tracking your every move. apple s iphone and ipad consistently record your whereabouts. that information is transferred and saved to your computer every time you sync the device. there s no indication that the data is being sent to apple or other companies. they re testing android phones
over here on this edge and dropping fire suppressant to slow this fire down. we ve seen flames shooting out of this tree line. some 80 to 100 feet high. so it is quite ferocious and one firefighter said it s probably 3,000 degrees in there right now. that is mighty hot. ed, thank you so much from texas. finally, with reporter roulette, one day after the markets plunged a. grim outlook on the nation s debt situation. let s take a look at the numbers. at least we re seeing the big board. the dow finished up 65 points, nasdaq up as well. s&p up as well. let s go to felicia taylor. we know something big happened in the markets. i saw the price of gold set a record. it s exactly because of the concerns that we heard about with regard to the future outlook for the u.s. economy. gold hit a record. it was up at $1500 an ounce for the very first time and, again, it s about the outlook on u.s.
goo g-20. there s no grown-up in the world. dow 12,388. nasdaq up 2,826. and the s&p up. you ve got the fed chairman, the fed secretary testifying, data on inflation today. so a lot of things out there. just like nouriel rue beanie said, yes, stocks can go higher but there are risks in the economy. and when do we usually well, nobody likes to give a number. we heard someone, i think, a few years ago, talking about $5 a gallon gasoline. there are people, the president of shell, who says if we keep going on the path, you re going to see $4, $5 a gallon gas. right now, we have kind of weak demand in the u.s. as the recovery continues, a lot
that ball. it had to be really going. he hurt himself there. guy got kicked in the jaw and he suffered a broken jaw. from the kick? yeah. from getting kicked in the jaw. so he is scored goal and broke someone s jaw? no, different player. oh, okay. i was going to say, that s a bad thing. that s right. 2-0. netherlands took control. you saw the header. cusp up 3-1. dutch up 3-1. uruguay is eliminated and going crazy in the netherlands. play the winner of today s match between spain and germany. here is a scary moment in texas rangers game. take a listen to this. nelson cruz who had a three-run homer called back yesterday. whoa! what happened there, they didn t have it on film. a guy hits a foul ball and a fan