. >>> and now the moment i'm most looking forward to, the throw to andersson cooper.ave a friend of yours here with me tonight that's causing absolute merry held. >> you lost me at ephiphilia eye surgery. >> anderson, get me awe of here. thankfully this show is taped and will never air. >> tell me more about your eye surgery. i love that you made a deal with your doctor for plastic surgery. >> yeah, it's called comps. try it. >> yeah, isle have the bargain pack. >> what can i get? who has extra botox laying around with the cheerios. >> did you have to mention the doctor's name in interviews? >> yeah, of course. piers isn't wearing pants just to you know. >> she's straddling the desk and come at me. she's straddled the desk twice so far. i don't know how you do that january 1 thing. >> piers thinks he's famous. it's super awkward. >> i know. it's funny, isn't it? >> he says jack nicholson is begging to be on the show. >> by the way, andersson, involving our twitter feud where you seem to think you're going to beat me, i'm catching you fast. i'm coming at you. >> bring

one group founded by a 2010 cnn hero and andersson cooper has more on this. >> what the u.n.alling the worst humanitarian disaster in the world, mary' meals is in the middle of the crisis. >> we've been walking in northe working in northern kenya for about four years now. one third of the children are malnourished. so we have a real situation of life and death. we're trying desperately to expand our program to reach more children at risk. . >> since 2006, mary's meals have been feeding thousands of young children in schools across the region. >> this is about linking food to education. that education

andersson cooper joining us from the frontline of the famine in and around somalia, exposing the horrors and how the world can help. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." a disastrous day on wall street. many investors' worst fears realized in the first trading session since the downgrade of america's credit rating. the dow jones industrials closed down 634 points. falling below 11,000 in one of the biggest losses on any day of all time. the dow's losing streak is s getti getting worse. it's lost almost 15% of its value. all three major indices today, way, way down. take a look at the s&p 500, a strong indicator of what's happening to your retirement savings. it lost 6.35% today of its value and is down almost 18% from its high point in april, all told, the impact on all of our investments is enormous. in the range of more than $2 trillion lost in equity since late july, $1 trillion in equity lost today. your portfolios, your 401(k)s, kbrour your iras, $1 trillion less than at the start of the day. richard, is there a simple answer to what has happened, why this market sim