there in florida? yep. i m here in florida, yep. this is your beat for many, many years as you watch this, as you re kind of going over in your head how many times you have you have interviewed the crews, when s going through your mind? what are you thinking about as we start to watch the craft land? you know, i think like so many people here think and of course, you know, my opinion is certainly somewhat skewed that, you know, it had a lot of flights left in them. all of the vehicles could have flown more except for planning that didn t go perhaps the way it should have. you know, nasa deciding to go away from the space shuttles and go to the constellation program and then killed by the curre administration and now a gap and shuttle could be flying if it wasn t for some political decisions made that a lot of people probably wish and i know they wish could be taken back today. that s the sad point. a lot of people out of work and a lot of people are even at this very ha
hey, fredericka. the losses are holding steady. the dow down about 436 points. they re off their lows of this session where we saw the dow down as much as 500 points. this is coming after morgan stanley kind of set off an alarm bell saying that the u.s. and europe are looking like they re getting close to going into a recession. morgan stanley also downgrading its growth forecast globally for this year and next. also not helping we got a bunch of economic reports here in the u.s. one on jobless claims showing a rise in jobless claims, the jobs area something that this economy really wants and needs at this point and not seeing. we also got a very weak regional manufacturing report showing contraction and a weak housing report showing sales declined about 3.5%. see what you do when you olympic all that together you get a big sell-off and that is what we re seeing right now. frederic fredericka? that as it looks for the dow. let s check out what the nasdaq issing looking ou