being buried near their camps. it happened today and happens every day here. it shouldn t happen any day but it does. according to the u.s., 600,000 children are on the brink of starvation. think about that. 600,000. the world food program now has less than three weeks of food aid left. less than three weeks. tonight we ll talk to singer bono about that and rapper. a problem the developing world would be lucky to have but jeopardizing the global economy. asian markets right now reacting after another massive drop on wall street. another 500 plus point drop for the dow. the market plunging and then climbing midday and losing all steam all afternoon. investors today worried about french banks becoming insolvent. they are worried about american banks too and their exposure to europe s troubles. bank of america and citigroup each down 10% today. some of the calls were some kind of action in washington and for president obama to do something. the question is what? anything can h
will win it. why is congress still on vacation? and a guy who has a lot to say about this economy and this country, trace atkins, tv personality and all-american guy. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. it s been another bad night on wall street. the dow closing 520 points totally erasing all of yesterday s gains. asian markets reacting as i speak to the plunge. europe will follow in a few hours. is market turmoil the new normal and what can you do to keep your money safe? joining us is leigh gallagher, ali velshi and kai ryssdal, and carmen wong ulrich. let me start with you. another crazy day on wall street. we ve seen record fall, record rises and record falls again. yet again i ask you, what the hell is going on? every day i get up very early. every day i think maybe piers can just run my answer from the night before. unfortunately every day it s a different reason. last week it was italy. on monday it was the s&p downgrade. then tuesday the market was up so
single day. we saw it for ourselves and you re going to see it tonight. according to the united nations, 600,000 children are now on the brink of starvation, 600,000. as we learned last night, the world food program now has less than three weeks of food aid left. we re going to talk to u-2 s singer bono. we will show you also, how you can help hour, you can make a difference. 600,000 kids, we re going to be telling their stories tonight. breaking news back home. a problem the developing world would be lucky to have but is jeopardizing a lot of future s back home, not mention the global economy. asian markets opening lower after another massive drop on wall street. another 500-plus point drop for the dow. the market plunging, climb ing midday, losing all steam all afternoon. investors are worried about french banks becoming insolvent, and american banks, too and exposure to europe s troubles. bank of america, citi group each down 10%. some calls for some kind of action in wa
started to hear the white house in the kennedy years. dan rather. ever seen washington or wall street like this? and anarchy in the uk, what s behind the days and nights of rage in london and other uk cities. where will it end? this is piers morgan tonight. good evening on a busy news day around the world, thousands of police on the streets of london and other uk cities are getting the upper hand on the fourth night of the scene. wild gyrations ending with the dow up, that s right. up nearly 4%. what it means for your money is legal ger, personal finance expert juan ulreich. a crazy day in the market. heading for another day of the dow falling. the rally in the end end up 400 points plus up. what do you make of it all? the fans shl markets were trying to figure out what the fed said. to distill it down, the financial markets figured out that ben bernanke with a bit of resistance was going to stand by the statement that the g-7 said and that was to do anything it could to
say the supplies are running out, so is the money. three weeks left or less. we re going to talk to folks on the ground. reporters that have been covering it for weeks. we begin, though, with the breaking news out of washington that may affect a lot of lives at home. senate majority leader harry reid to be one of the first to name members to the debt reduction super committee. patty murray of washington state, max baucus of montana and perry of massachusetts. wall street began to climb out of the smoking hole it dropped into after standard&poor s lowers the credit rating on friday. part of the reason, squabbling over the debt. tonight lrks the supercommittee end the squabbling or create a whole new opportunity for it. john king is sticking around for us working his sources. gloria borger has been working her sources. john, what are you hearing from folks in washington about the names that have been given to the democrats by the supercomittee. the first three of the committe