is it possible to have a 40-year career in hollywood makeover, 60 movies, and still have a reputation as mr. nice guy? everybody tells me in the business and out, you re the nicest guy in show business. how do you plead? i m going for guilty. have you always been easy to work with? the running theme is that you re just the nicest guy to work with. yeah, i think i have, you know. i take my lead from my old man, lloyd. lloyd bridges, you know. my dad. yeah. great man. who loved showbiz so much and, you know, i got to work with him as a kid. whenever there was a role for a little kid, he would say, come on, get out of school, play with dad. you know, that kind of thing. but as an adult, i got to work with him twice on tucker and a movie called blown away and it was a little different experience, you know, as an adult i saw when he came on the set how much fun he was having and how that fun was kind of contagious, you know, and when you re having fun you kind of rel
longer the elephant in the room, governor rick perry announces he s joining the republican party for president. he may be the republican front-runner but he was not feeling the love at the iowa state fair. he got heckled and laughed at over three words he said, words he may come to regret on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com ing. oh, thank got it s friday. wait a minute. i ve got to move my stuff. good morning. happy friday to you. it s august 12th. welcome to american morning. up first, texas governor rick perry, the elephant in the room, is about to go on for 2012. perry says he s ready to toss his 10 gallon hat into the ring. we re going to have an announcement at 1:00 eastern time over in south carolina and then hop in an aircraft, come straight to new hampshire, and i hope you ll be watching your television set and listen to however you re picking it up on the internet or whatever. we ll have our announcement to give our intention
400-plus-point gain was a blip or perhaps a building block. well, sadly, we got a decisive answer today, the dow industrial average plunged 520 points, 4.6% amid jitters about europe s debt crisis and growing resignation that the long-term prospects for growth here in the united states are bleak. alison kosik watched the massive selloff up close. john, we had yet another brutal session here on wall street today. you know, there s a lot of uncertainty about the economic outlook here in the u.s. and in europe as well. you know, there s worries about france being downgraded like the u.s. debt was downgraded. they really accelerated the losses in the final minutes of the trading day, and then, of course, there s a fear factor that s around here, you know, investors feel like they re flying blind. no one has any idea of what s coming next or where the economy is headed, and it s that certainty that s feeding this downward spiral, but i also want you to keep in mind, what s also
up right now, and that s a good sign considering we re more than halfway through the trading day. you are seeing stocks rally on good economic news of the jobless claims numbers fell last week and we got strong corporate earnings from a bellwether company, cisco system, and you are seeing wall street focus on the positive today and we are seeing the bargain hunting going on as well, and you are seeing the bargain hunters getting in there and buying stocks up, randi. and the trader mthere with you, allen valdez. what about the first time they dropped below 4,000 for the first time in four weeks, and how much do you think that contributed to the rally we are seeing today? well, under 400,000 you know, that jobs number is probably the most important number for traders. it really is. we watch that number on a weekly basis. and this economy is powered by consumer spending, so if the consumer is not working he is not spending. anything under 400,000, they re not spending. l
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