reduce run off in the chesapeake bay . so the rain tax as they are calling it, would charge folks for any surface that stops rainn from seeping in the ground. and roofs like and driveways? doug, what is this . ? marry landders who live in one of the state s largest counties who have a roof, driveway and a patio and any kind of surface that doesn t absorb rainfall. they will have to pay the rain tax. these feas are common. cities in florida, tex dex and illinois started levying them because the environmental protectionages imposed limits on storm run off. ? some say the epa doesn t have the authority to do that. the new rain tax will cost an
continual support of insurgents in their own country. jaime jail and they would probably consider dr. afridi an insurgent. in fact they charged him much more information today o treason. what does that say, treason, defined there as aiding the enemy, or levying war on pakistan? really, general? no. i mean jamie: are they going to get away with that? unfortunately they are going to get away with it. they may find some way to shorten his sentence but i don t think so. the irony that i don t understand is the pakistani government is exhibiting this bipolar behavior where support of the haqqani network, taliban and god fer bide al-qaeda is actually harming their own military, it s cynical and makes no strategic sense for nato, united states or for that matter, pakistan. jamie: they ve not nukes, general. they ve got nuke. sue: and that s the point. a rogue state a. bipolar
problem. i think that when you even if you are an american citizen if you are levying war against the united states a lot of the protections of american citizenship go by the wayside. i think that s both logical and i think there is a lot of judicial precedence for that as well. this is not a case where, you know, this is not someone you can easily go and arrest. i don t see the argument that you the united states can t do anything besides actually go in with some sort of s.w.a.t. team and arrest him. just because he s an american citizen. i think both on the merits, legally speaking, again, i think this is someone who is a key leader in an organization that is levying war against the united states. i think legally by that measure it s permissible. and again, i think logically and practically, i think you have to have you have to explain what the other course of action would be. if this if he was actually still in new mexico, and he was
anderson. he was giggle. that s the first time i have ever seen him completely lose it. it was funny. a lot to talk about this morning. we have breaking news. a suicide truck bomber targeting the u.s. military base in afghanistan. it happened in the city of gardez a few hours ago. officials say the truck ripped through the main security gate. killed two afghan guards. nine others were hurt. and the taliban is taking credit for the attack. less than two weeks after downgrading america s aaa credit rating standard and poor s is the target of a justice department investigation. that s according to the new york times. the feds want to know how the credit rating agency somehow missed the mortgage crisis. you will remember s&p along with the other major credit agencies gave those mortgage backed securities very high ratings. even though would now know they weren t worth the paper they were printed on. the times is reporting the justice department is looking into claims
hey, fredericka. the losses are holding steady. the dow down about 436 points. they re off their lows of this session where we saw the dow down as much as 500 points. this is coming after morgan stanley kind of set off an alarm bell saying that the u.s. and europe are looking like they re getting close to going into a recession. morgan stanley also downgrading its growth forecast globally for this year and next. also not helping we got a bunch of economic reports here in the u.s. one on jobless claims showing a rise in jobless claims, the jobs area something that this economy really wants and needs at this point and not seeing. we also got a very weak regional manufacturing report showing contraction and a weak housing report showing sales declined about 3.5%. see what you do when you olympic all that together you get a big sell-off and that is what we re seeing right now. frederic fredericka? that as it looks for the dow. let s check out what the nasdaq issing looking ou