brockovich gathers soil samples from the neighborhood. eight months after a monster tonight ripped through a missouri town destroyed homes, lives and even a hospital, today, renewal, hope and healing. all right now in the cnn newsroom. big developments in a medical mystery in upstate new york. environmental activist erin brockovich is joining others trying to figure out what s going on in the town of leroy. more than a dozen students from the same schools are suffering from uncontrollable verbal outbursts and twitching. brockovich discussed a possible cause, but dr. drew pinski friday night on our sister network hln. there was a very serious train derailment that caused one ton of cyanide to spill and 45,000 gallons of tce. the actual location of the site of the derailment is four miles from this school. four miles from the school, a massive train derailment with spectacular exposure of known carcinogen s and toxins. there is a map. how did that then become an issue f
complicated partisan bickering. the senate went o recess without giving the agency a short-term funding extension. president obama believes the issue will be resolved by the end of the week. the transportation secretary says you have nothing to worry about when you fly. i ll be speaking to him later on american morning. president obama turns 50 today. he qualifies for a free scoop at baskin-robbins. and he got a surprise in chicago happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday jennifer hudson much better singer than rahm emanuel. 26 seconds of the president s comedic stylings. it s true, that i turn 50 tomorrow. which means by the time i wake up i ll have an e-mail from aarp. asking me to call president obama and tell him to protect medicare. funny, yet topical. some suppoers paid nearly $36,00for dinner. hoe they got a lot of free refills. if you re planning a trip to the caribbean, there s trouble in paradise, named tropical storm emily. i
9%. you see the oil concerns are focused on shanghai. the nikkei up 0.9 of 1% today. the hong kong s hang seng coming upping from a loss, up.33%. and the kospi in seoul up by 2.2%. due to strong demands from the key engs port markets and that s the seoul market today, charles. now, the u.s. stock markets rebound from the selloff on tuesday, the private sector jobs help lift investor sentiment. the firm says when if does, how many private sector positions were added in the previous months, 217,000 in february bodes well for the jobs report on friday. the nonfund payrolls in february, and the rising oil
wall street rang in the new year with a celebration. stocks rallying yesterday, the first trading day of the year. the dow even hit a new two-year high. alison kosik following today s numbers from new york stock exchange. it is what you predicted, it was some good news. yeah. and i think, you know what, kyra? seeing an encore performance of yesterday s rally beginning with a bang thanks to couple of economic reports. one on manufacturing, another on construction spending. analysts say they expect the positive news to keep on coming this week. now, the focus today is going to be on a few other economic reports, one on factory orders, and throughout the day we are going to get major automakers with the sales reports for december and the full year of 2010. we re also going to get the latest minutes from the fed, they had a meeting back in december. late they are week, we get the grand daddy of all economic reports, that s the jobs report on friday. now, analysts say the first couple of
also adam and charlie. charles payne, bad time. bad timing. by the way, most of those weren t walmart workers. you want to talk about a sign of desperation. by the way, there was a big protest in new york city. there is no walmart. that s my point. so many listen. when a walmart opens up, usually for every job available, there s about 20 to 50 people in line for a job. same thing at mcdonald s. a couple years ago for every job mcdonald s was offering, 100 people would show up. then, jobs report on friday. it s absolutely nuts. this is their goal. i think they re getting more and more desperate but more and more transparent. ben stein? well, it s interesting. i m probably the only one here this shops at walmart. i shop there every day during the summer. oh, please. don t assume we don t know. don t assume we don t know what walmarts are like. you don t know. yes, i do.