the dow down with it. suddenly the dow was down 990 points in just a blink of an eye. i ve been saying it s like the barry bonds home run record. yeah he was a really good baseball player but there might be an asterisk there. we don t know what kind of technical factor might have been helping this market decline so much. there s a lot of rumors about the so-called fat finger, somebody who pressed the wrong button. the rumor was that instead of selling a million stocks somebody put a b for billion. there is something technical about this. before we got there, before something made the market go down late afternoon and something probably technical that we will see reversed there was an underlying fear on this market. it was a horrible day to begin with. suddenly the market was down 400 some points over this crisis in greece. we were showing pictures, the world was watching pictures of people in greece fighting back against police, against austerity measures as the count
land a summer job. even as the nation s unemployment situation starts to get a little bit better, jobs for teens continue to be extremely hard to find. i want to show you a chart that shows how hard it is for your teenager to find a job. no surprise here. it shows a tremendous drop in 18 to 23-year-old workers with a summer job. youth summer employment has fallen from nearly 60% to less than 50%. there are still opportunities out there. we want to let you know about what they are. torre johnson, author of the book from fired to hired. this was obvious as kids. what is the best way for a student looking for a summer job is? it still pounding the pavement or the internet or social media? i think it s a combination of both. i think there is a danger with the internet that you rely exclusively on the internet and think it s a false sense of accomplishment. i ll go online and do my thing
selling a million stocks, somebody but a b for a billion. these are rumors. something technical about this. but before we got there, before something made the market go down late afternoon, and something probably technical that we will see reversed, there was an underlying fear on this market. it was a horrible day to begin on the stock market and suddenly you had the market down 400-some points, the world was watching pictures in greece fighting back against police and the austerity measures as the country tries to pull itself out of the budget crisis. its budgets is 13% of gdp. it s trying to figure how to nail down a $146 billion bailout and the austerity plan incredibly unpopular as people are facing dramatic tax cuts tax hikes, benefits cuts and the world worried that europe s problems are our problems. and that s where it becomes an issue for us. by the way, we ll spend some time breaking down exactly what s happening in greece and why it should concern us. but
good morning, maryland. now, don scott, marty bass, breaking news with mary bubala, your first-warning weather, and traffic control with sharon gibala. it s wjz, maryland s news station. and good morning, we have a beautiful view of mount vernon this morning in baltimore city. it s warm and sticky out there. i m mary bubala in for don scott today. let s start with marty. let s look at how the day will square away, it s in the low 70s right now. going for a temperature of 82. look at this evening, the second day of fall, we re going to be two shy of 80 at dinner time. warm and sticky, partly cloudy through the day. now to sharon gibala in traffic control. reporter: good morning. the good thing is we haven t pick up any new problems. we have the same ones including a downed pole blocking fox hole farm. the fire activity at 83. police activity at liberty heights and the baltimore book festival downtown, watch for lane closures on charles and madison. a water main break a