jon: right now wall street is feeling pretty god. dow jones up about 89 points at the moment after news of a potential diplomatic breakthrough that could avoid a strike on syria. but there s also news of a shakeup in the stock market. some big companies booted in the drou jones in a historic three for three swat. al c alcoa, h.p. out. goldman sachs, visa and nike are in. last time this happened was in 2004. jenna: new names there. all you new moms and dads out there, your diaper bags may be getting a little lighter and here is why. starting soon, those of you using pampers or luvs will notice you re running out of diapers faster than normal and that s because they re going to be downsizing their diapers so there will be fewer diapers in a bag but still cost the same amount.
it started at midnight. mississippi governor, he pardoned four convicted killers on his way out from office. they were all serving life sentences in murder cases. all of them had also worked in a special program at the governor s mansion. and i m not sure if you saw these pictures, but awesome. check this out. this is a tanker with ice cutters trying to plow through the alaskan ice because it s got a critical shipment of fuel. and it s headed towards an alaskan city that really, really needs that fuel and could run out if they can t cut the ice in time. things we take for granted. i know. and a bama blowout, crimson tide wins the national title. tweet revenge against lsu. i have no idea what she is talking about. i don t know anything about football. i follow this one. did you? yeah. well, i m lying. spl say it was boring. was it boring? it wasn t boring. i guess it depends on where you re from and what you think. first up, the new hampshire primary is fin
than 1,000 palestinians in israeli prisons. the exchange is expected to happen within the next few days. the worst floods in decades are wreaking havoc on the livelihood of thailand s people and economy. they re bracing for the next round which could reach them in days. flooding has killed at least 269 people and affected 8 million across the country. in southwestern mexico, soldiers have been deployed, tourists have been told to leave, and emergency shelters are open as a hurricane comes ashore. the category 2 storm has weakened but is still bringing rain and strong winds. weather authorities are warning boaters of possible life-threatening rip currents. those are the headlines from cnn, the world s news leader. i m monday nemonita rajpal. world business today starts now. good morning from cnn london, i m nina del santos. from hong kong, i m andrew stevens. you re watching world business today. the top stories this thursday wednesday, october the 12th, i should
talking about cuts and specifically what s handed to em because of the debt ceiling deal reached earlier this week. initially they know they have to cut 350 million which more or less they are okay with and won t necessarily sacrifice our national security, but where the big question mark comes is if that committee can not decide on how they will make those additional cuts to equal around or about $1.2 trillion, they will have to cut hundreds of billions, 500 billion, 600 billion, 700 billion just to defense, and to quote, i want to get this precise for you, the defense secretary said those cuts will be completely unacceptable. we re all over this story with our pentagon correspondent barbara starr and let s begin this hour staying with the money theme, i suppose. we re watching this very closely. has not been a day for investors with weak stomachs. stock markets all over the world have been racking up some huge, huge losses, and u.s. markets have lost their gains for the yea