points. that continues to fluctuate. coming up in a couple of minutes. i ll speak live with the man who ran the government s bank bailout a couple of years ago. by the way, he agrees with the downgrading of the u.s. credit rating. don t miss that conversation with him here. i do want to begin with this. the commander in chief of the u.s. armed forces is at dover air force base in delaware right now. president obama is attending the dignified transfer, right there, that s what the military calls the movement of war fatalities from the place they died back to american soil. those who arrive today are the 30 u.s. and eight afghan troops who died early saturday in the worst single-day loss for american forces in ten years of fighting in afghanistan. i want to talk about what is happening there today at dover air force base. what we re seeing and also what we re not seeing. barbara starr is live at the pentagon for us. barbara, i know it is a very solemn day for the president, f