what were they to you? they were your family. they were my life for 30 years. that was the reason i went to work to serve them and be with them, interact with them. they were family. tell me about the block party. the block party was amazing. it was epic. sarah burlington, i love you. bec becky, i know others were involved but it was amazing. more tears, i could imagine. man, i walked through and they immediately started applauding and scream ing and whistling. i practically lost it. hugging people to say good-bye, it was not easy. it is remarkable how above and beyond this story has gone, beyond the parameter of these people that you serve. there were somebody on twitter,
and you can see the folks poured out there. bec becky, give us a preview of what is happening with the countdown being on at least for the u.s. and other parts of the world to get a chance to see the opening ceremonies. that is right. we are what for hours away and counting now. you can really feel the buzz in london. i m at hyde park, and one of the big zones and one of the four acts that will connect into the opening ceremony which is at the olympic park of course in the east side of london. we have duran duran, and stereophonics and aptly named scot paola paccini who will be playing at the olympic stadium, and quite remarkable to think of what has gone on into the planning for this. they have been practicing months and months and danny boyle, the drek tor of slumdog millionaire has been organizing events and we won t tell you too much about that, because a lot of it is under wraps and when you get piers down, there he will give us more of a sense of what is going on, b
let s move on to business now. we re less than 30 minutes from the opening bell, and for a preview of where the markets are headed, we are joined by cnbc s becky quick. bec becky, what are we expecting today? the first amendment, oh, yeah, never mind. we know that the futures are a little higher right now. this comes after a big sell-off yesterday for the markets when the dow was down by 165 points. once again today, we are focusing pretty strongly on the earnings and they are coming in better than expected. that s helping things out this morning. we ve already heard from wells fargo and black rock that both beat expectations, so that s giving a boost to some of the financial stocks. today we heard from boeing, and this is pretty important because whenever you hear from an industrial, it tells you where the economy is heading. the good news is the economy saw increased demand for aircraft. they say that s been happening over the last several quarters. the bad news, they still call it
government going forward and that could be a minority government or a hung parliament, for example, and they will swoop and sell british assets like they are going out of fashion, so this is an extremely important election not just for britain but for the international community as well, don? yeah, we are watching the dow here with just a couple minutes closes, actually about an hour that it closes. it s going down. it all comes down to money, down here in the united states. 742 points actually. we re looking at what is happening in greece and it is, you know, believed because of what is happening there that this is happening. becky, i m going to let you go. you said three weeks that was a long election for you guys? ha! that s nothing for us. listen, i got to get back to the dow. politics for three weeks. we ll be monitoring your elections. let s talk about the dow as i turn to the big wall, it was 406 points it was down as we
ready to close there and they re picking a new parliament in one of the closest races in recent memory. it could shift the power in the uk and the attitudes as well towards the u.s. i want to go to becky anderson. bec becky, what is going on? when will the polls close? when will we know the results? we re 2 1/2 hours away from what you suggested is one of the closely contested elections in a generation. polls close here at 10:00. it s been a busy day for the leaders of the three main parties. they ve been out and about, but only in their own constituencies and only to vote. it s been a long campaign. it s three weeks. not long i guess in terms of u.s. campaigns, but three weeks here. it s been a grueling one for the prime minister, gordon brown. he leads the labour party, of course. the opposition leader, david cameron, of the conservatives, and what has been a bit of a wild card in this election from the third party, the lib dems, they ve done pretty well as this