to keep more cash reserves as a cushion against losses. so why should americans care? well i mentioned stocks but that is just the start. my colleague alison kosik has a whole lot more from the new york stock exchange. first, catch us up on the markets, both here and abroad. okay. randi, first stocks are at some of their best levels of the session, the dow up 293 points. if you look at this month as a whole, it is shaping up to be among the best ever. the dow is up more than 1,200 points so far for the year and the strongest gains today actually came from overseas, from europe. in paris we saw the paris index rise 6%. in frankfurt we saw a rise of 5%. france and germany have been financing much of the bailouts in europe and you re seeing this rally because this deal winds up sharing the burden, kind of sharing the pain. they re not going to be the only ones contributing to greece s rescue. here in the u.s. we re seeing banking sector which has really been hammered over th
they also agreed to boost the eu bailout fund to a trillion euros, details still pretty vague. they re requiring european banks to keep more cash reserves as a cushion against losses. so why should americans care? well i mentioned stocks but that is just the start. my colleague alison kosik has a whole lot more from the new york stock exchange. first, catch us up on the markets, both here and abroad. okay. randi, first stocks are at some of their best levels of the session, the dow up 293 points. if you look at this month as a whole, it is shaping up to be among the best ever. the dow is up more than 1,200 points so far for the year and the strongest gains today actually came from overseas, from europe. in paris we saw the paris index rise 6%. in frankfurt we saw a rise of 5%. france and germany have been financing much of the bailouts in europe and you re seeing this rally because this deal winds up sharing the burden, kind of sharing the pain. they re not going to be th
ago while in the custody of antigadhafi brigades. human rights watch is calling on the libyan national council to investigate this. conditions in syria are getting too dangerous for the u.s. ambassador. the state department has pulled ambassador robert ford out of syria citing what it calls credible threats against his personal safety. u.s. officials say an armed pro-government mob attack ford an some colleagues in an embassy convoy last month. ford has been an outspoken critic of the syrian government s violent crack dourn on protesters. u.s. officials say they don t know when it will be safe for ford to return to syria. a growing danger in the skies with more people on the ground shining hand-held lasers into airline cockpits. it usually happens while planes are taking off or landing. the most dangerous times for pilots to be distracted or even temporarily blinded. the faa reports more than 2,700 laser incidents so far this year. nearly ten times the number reported in
antigadhafi brigades. human rights watch is calling on the libyan national council to investigate this. conditions in syria are getting too dangerous for the u.s. ambassador. the state department has pulled ambassador robert ford out of syria citing what it calls credible threats against his personal safety. u.s. officials say an armed pro-government mob attack ford an some colleagues in an embassy convoy last month. ford has been an outspoken critic of the syrian government s violent crack dourn on protesters. u.s. officials say they don t know when it will be safe for ford to return to syria. a growing danger in the skies with more people on the ground shining hand-held lasers into airline cockpits. it usually happens while planes are taking off or landing. the most dangerous times for pilots to be distracted or even temporarily blinded. the faa reports more than 2,700 laser incidents so far this year. nearly ten times the number reported in 2005. there are new stiff pe
families all over the country. the president announced this week that all u.s. combat troops will leave iraq by the end of the year. welcome news at places like ft. bliss in texas where our marty savidge is will speaking with families reaction to the president s decision. it has to be bittersweet. reporter: there s always that. that is a concern for any military town. those that are coming home and those that continue to serve. we re at ft. bliss army base outside of el paso, texas. there s an air show going on, if you hear noise going on around me, don t be alarmed. bliss is exactly what they re feeling today. 3,500 families, to be exact, here in this country. they re the ones that have been told that their loved ones serving in iraq will now be coming home, according to the president, by the end of the year. many of them only deployed in july and august. and the families anticipated that they wouldn t see them all return until at least the same time next year. that has a