Our first and foremost responsibility is to keep israelis safe. After the slaughter and the horror that we saw this weekend, were going everything within our power to be vigilant. The optimistic scenario here is that shes held hostage in gaza and not dead on the street. Were people with families. We want to be back with our families again. Neil the war still on. Help on the way. President biden announcing more support for israel as now the search for american hostages continues. The son of one of those hostages is appealing to the administration for help. He is here. The latest on potential threating in in this country. Why americans are being urged to remain vigilant. What do they know that we do not . Welcome. Im neil cavuto. Glad to have you. Lets get to it with trey yingst in israel. Trey . Neil, good afternoon. As we speak, the israelis continue to hit targets along the northern and eastern part of the gaza strip. Theres tanks staging. They have their lights on and engines running
sales of existing homes dropped. and manufacturers had been expecting a modest increase. and inflation on consumer goods was up. add in collapsing consumer confidence and you get sober advice like this 2012 could be a very difficult year. i m on the camp that we have more chance of being in recession than avoiding it. so, they should be conservative right now. their confidence should be down because there s every reason out there that they shouldn t feel confident. getting us started tonight our chief business correspondent ali velshi takes us behind the numbers. john, when you have days like this, it s hard to get a sense to pull back and take a further view, so i wanted to do that and pull back and take a look at the dow which is, you know, what a lot of people s 401(k)s look like, wanted to take it from the beginning of the year. 11,500 on the dow, went up to 12,500,000 and back down in june and july went back up. middle of july you would have thought everything wa