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First, lets get you caught up to speed on the markets this morning. If you thought the wild ride was over, think again. Futures are selling off sharply this morning. Right now, dow futures close to 200 points below fair value. The s p 500 futures down by another 30 points. This is not something thats been constant through the morning. At one point this morning, futures were in positive territory. You can get we will continue to see wild swings up and down. A lot of volatility. In fact, if you add up all of yesterdays swings, the dow moved by about 1300 points during the session. It was down 460 points at the low. The blue chip index eventually closing off by about 1 . The this was the heaviest volume weve seen in nearly three years. If you were watching the yield on the ten year, it dropped below the 2 before coming back. This morning, it is below 2 again, 1. 995 . Asia following wall streets leadover night. You can see the nikkei closed down by close to 2. 25 . The shanghai down by 0. ....
[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] host: good morning. defense secretary for african youths has announced the increase in the size of the army by 20 two thousand forces defense secretary robert gates has announcing increase in the size of the army. he says the increase will raise the army s size to 569,000 troops and cost an additional $1 billion per year. july marks a key month for president obama s efforts to shift from iraq to afghanistan. the president has warned that casualty s are likely to increase in the months ahead. other articles covering the same topic from the new york times gates says army s size will grow by 20 two thousand. he did not say what it would cost over all but indicated he would ask congress for money to pay for it in 2011 and 2012. host: take a look at, and secretary gates made yesterday . we believe we did not have enough forces to properly support the opera ....