great depression. so far the current record is 16 months. but as you mentioned before the dow getting across 11,000 today. it s still there now. 11,021. so a little bit higher now. we ll see if we can end the day there. nasdaq higher as well. that would be nice. tea party express rolls toward washington. what is the message the protesters want america to hear? they take cnn inside the bus and the movement. hey! increase in 6 months. pete, back it up! ( marker squeaking ) when business travel leaves you drained, re-charge with comfort suites. spacious rooms, free hi-speed internet, and free hot breakfast. comfort suites. power up. now stay two separate times with comfort suites.
brown, the republican, you know about the election he won in massachusetts. he said he actually helped along with the tea party activists helped with scott brown and said if he doesn t behave he could fall political prey also. it gives you a sense of how active and passionate the tea party activists are. you wrote an article for cnn.com, what happens at the tea party rallies. give us a sense of the behind the scenes. it s changed a lot since the party s inception. what do you think some of the misconceptions are? reporter: i can tell you one of the biggest misconceptions. it s the stereotype that most of them are racist, that there is an element of anti-obama simply because he s black. a lot of activists say that s the biggest misconception about them. in traveling the past few weeks and seeing the rallies you see
that s april 15th, tax day. we ll have special coverage. along the way we have been taking you inside the grassroots movement. cnn s political producer shannon travis has been blogging about the crowd, message, messengers. he joins us now. is there a new energy now that michigan congressman bart stupak is resigning? reporter: kyra, the energy isn t even the word. the crowd is pumped up in buffalo, new york. along the route we have been following the tea party, primarily because of congressman bart stupak s decision not to seek re-election. that s reinvigorated the movement. many of them say they pushed him out. the congressman says he s resigning to spend more time with family, that his health care vote was a crowning achievement for him and it s time to go.
no. not at all. reporter: no chance? no. he s our son. reporter: gary tuchman, cnn, eureka, montana. we were talking about the adoption gone wrong, the one that happened in russia. we want to know what you think. go to cnn.com/kyra. what would you do in a situation like this? would you keep the child, send the child back to another foreign country, to a special ranch like the family you just met? it s an interesting conversation. give us your input. i would like to read the responses later in the hour. tonight at 10:00 eastern, what happens when adoptive parents change their minds and want to give a child back? a program could keep them together. anderson cooper has a special report. we are awaiting president obama s arrival. he s headed to the opening of the nuclear summit in washington bringing together world leaders to talk about the threat of nukes.
mistake, better here in training than on the front lines of the war. barbara starr, cnn, camp pendleton, california. political dignitaries from more than 40 nations descending upon washington for a two-day security summit hosts by president obama, reportedly the biggest assembly of world leaders hosted by an american president since 1945. lye pictures now and in 15 minutes we ll hear what the summit means for us. a week after the deadly blast that killed 29 coal miners and tore apart a tight knit west virginia community, another grim task remains retrieving the bodies inside the upper big branch mine. we re told a couple of rescue teams went in at midnight and a third will reenter the mine this morning. in afghanistan s kandahar province at least four people are dead and 18 injured after a