nonthreatening their eyes nonjudgmental. it was a remarkable week last week. willy you were out there too on the upper west side. it was striking. it really was. the contrast between the cops in uniforms, protesters, all of them peaceful. all of them in an odd way inviting. you saw them and you wanted to participate. the cops were just the same. there was actually some humor going on between the protesters and cops. it was a nice moment and valuable moment for people to observe. this was not, you know, people looting, shouting. i said the morning after it was like a master class on both sides. if you want to stage peaceful protests anywhere in the world come watch the new york city protesters and if you want to understand how the police cannot get in the way of a protest but can keep a massive urban center functioning that was the night of the rockefeller center tree lighting and i was actually down at macy s with my 3-year-old i was happy that i compromise
good news today after their fighter jet went down overnight, the f-18 hornet similar to the one you re looking at right here was flying with another jet when the pilots lost radio contact. it went down 60 miles southwest of san diego. two coast guard cutters and a navy ship rushed to the scene and found the marines who were yelling and blowing life jacket whistles. they have been taken to a hospital to get checked out. another fox news alert, you re looking live now at a meeting of britain s parliament, we were just talking about this where british prime minister david cameron said he ll be looking to the united states for advice on how to handle the violent riots happening in his country. cameron says he s looking at cities like boston for inspiration on how to tackle gangs. and he said he will not accept a culture of fear in the united kingdom. keeping people safe is the first duty of government. the whole country has been shocked by the most appalling scenes of people looting, vio
good morning to you. it is thursday, august 11 now. this is american morning. lot going on today. let s get right to it, folks. good morning, good morning. so much for comeback. haven t seen these kind of wild swings on wall street since the darkest days of the financial meltdown. the dow diving 520 points yesterday. this time fueled by fears or at least triggered by fears. that france is on a verge of a credit downgrade. every day it seems to be something new trying terg sell-off or the buying. that s because this is a global economy. your investments feel it here. wild swings. take a look at the week. monday the dow dropped 635 points. tuesday, it rebounded. picking up 430 points. yesterday the dow took it all back and then some with a drop of 520 points. drop of the s&p 500 has a percentage was greater. well, far from over, too. because this morning u.s. futures are weighing up and that had asian losses at a minimum. nikkei and shanghai closed down. markets in german
justify the people in the streets who were protesting. you cannot ro mant size the violence when you have the shopkeeper go to the shopkeeper and tell them it s about the underprivileged. he will laugh in your face. he knows people looting. they hang out there. the bottom line, this is political correctness, curse of political correctness. fear of demanding good behavior allowed bad behavior to take hold no one wants to say you are a thug go to jail. they could have stopped this but they re not out of fear of appearing racist. is the killing of the drug dealer a pretext for that class warfare? never should have been shot by the cops number one. agreed fully. it s easy to say about the shopkeeper or the rest of this. i said from the beginning this is wrong. but the fact is the cut of the government of england gone more deeply. they re not.
program which provides the majority of the aide to somalia and kenya, they say they only have three weeks left or less. three weeks of food supplies, much more on that tonight. we re going to talk to a lot of folks about the situation on the ground here in somalia. reporters who have been covering it for us for weeks. we begin with breaking news out of washington. harry reid becoming the first member named to the super committee, they are patty murray of washington state, max baucus montana and john kerry massachusetts. this comes at the end of the day that saw wall street climbing out of the smoking hole. part of the reason squabbling over the debt. the question tonight, will this super committee end the squabbling or will they create a whole new problem. john king is sticking around for us tonight. also with us, jon gergen. john what are you hearing about the names given to the super committee. we won t know the full composition, therefore the chemistry of this committee