rosy thompkins takes us to samsonite, the company putting them to the test. reporter: shake, rattle and roll. this is the suitcase torture chamber. proving it can handle life on the road. we have a real life of a suitcase. 50 cycles here, 10,000 drops there. no mess in this test lab. they test samples straight from the floor. assemble a complete suitcase. on average they assemble 85 a day. that s around 5 minutes a case. each individual assembly operator has a number and that number goes inside the case. this is the key to samsonite s policy control. they can trace it all the way back to the person who made it. after more than a century in the business, samsonite is several
people point out and suggest bill clinton is not president obama s greatest fan. and there was a new anecdote put out yesterday with an interview with john mccain who in an off the hand comment, not even the major point of the column mentioned in 2008 when he was running for president he talked to bill clinton during the campaign for policy advise. that seemed strange. why would bill clinton who endorsed obama and was supporting obama call john mccain to give him policy advice during the campaign. it was not like, for instance, you might say, well, he was acting like a statesman if he did the same thing in 2004 with george bush or john kerry but george bush would have been president and had policy control. why give advice to john mccain who has no possession over the power and is merely trying to run a political campaign against the guy he endorsed. eric: why did he pick bill
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room . captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin with breaking news on wall street. a dramatic rescue and equally dramatic reaction on wall street. the stock market skyrocketing today on new that is the federal reserve and other central banks are taking direct action to prevent a financial meltdown in the euro zone using the their resources to keep money and credit flowing amid the staggering debt crisis. it s the largest coordinated move of its kind since 2008 when similar action brought u.s. credit markets back from the brink. let s go straight to alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. a banner day on wall street today. just a stunning rally. we re ending the day, the dow up 482 points. this is the best point gain for the dow we ve seen in two and a half years, this all coming after the central banks stepping in and meeting this relief rally. investors seeing it finally these monetary policymakers get it. what central