bin laden. the president s main stated reason for his secret trip to afghanistan was the signing of a new ten-career deal between the u.s. and afghanistan. it was the request of afghan president hamid karzai that that be signed there in afghanistan. but the timing is all barack obama s. this is happening over there in the wee hours of the morning, 2:00, 3:00 in the morning. so in an hour and a half or so when he addresses the american people from there, it ll be at 7:30 eastern time. president obama flew to afghanistan overnight in secret to enhance security. to be with u.s. forces in this still war torn nation. once the base of osama bin laden on this first anniversary of the raid that killed the terror mastermind. signing a new ten-year agreement with afghan president karzai, mr. obama noted it lets the u.s. continue the war against bin laden s organization. the united states can achieve our goal of destroying al qaeda and denying it a safe haven, but at the same time, we
lots going on today. we get to tell you about markets around the globe actually doing okay this morning. rallies as treasury secretary timothy good nightneithner pres european leaders trying to settle differences before think credit crisis spreads beyond their shores. nina dos santos joins us from london. what are we likely to expect out of this meeting? the main topic there or at least the most pressing issue there is greece. reporter: yeah. that s right, ali. what i should also mention, though is that the markets have certainly learned over the last two years this euro in crisis has gone from bad to worse. what they wish for and, then, again, what politicians deliver. what they would ultimately like to see, these leaders agreen on a bold action on a statement promising bold action like raising the euro s bailout fund to cope with countries like greece that they re still having trouble paying bills and might also like a discussion about moo mooch mutualizing. germany, of
will take place in san francisco, san diego, seattle, chicago, austin, ann arbor, new york, washington, and right here in atlanta. my colleague david mattingly will be at that one, so david, the question is really who is behind all of these rallies and this whole day of trying to help troy davis and what do they actually expect to accomplish? the main group is amnesty international, naacp, aclu. these are all organizations opposed to the death penalty. but what this case different from others in the past as we approach the 11th hour there are hundreds of thousands of people. you saw their signatures on those petitions that were delivered. these are people, a lot of these people may not typically be against the death penalty. these are people who are looking at the case thinking that there are doubts here and that an execution needs to be stopped. there s a lot of people pushing to have his sentence commuted and not have him set free. you don t see a lot of people coming r