becky, how is it looking in europe? >> let's take a quick. the ftse cnbc global 300 index has been looking fairly weak this morning and continues to hover around the levels we've seen since we came on air. the european bourses have looked weaker this morning. the swiss markets have been weaker. let's take a check on the individuals. the smi is down by over 1.5%. over 1% lower for the cac while the declines on the ftse and the dax are just off over 0.5%. dollar rates, we just spoke to our guests a few moments ago, but just to recap, dollar/yen, 89.34. euro/dollar, 1.4553 and sterling/dollar, 1. 35904. chloe, how is it going in asia? >> very difficult session out here in asia. the nikkei falling to a fresh two-month low, down 2.5% in hong kong today. ipo concerns, a glorious property, a mid sized chinese company not having a glorious debut at all end of the of the trading session. china, south korea and india closed for their respective holidays. a lot of unease about what that jobs number will indicate. in the u.s., take

so in 2006 i started becky's fund. our mission is to realize that 1 in 3 women are affected and also creating conventional based outreach to all communities and to all ages, and from military to the workplace and to even in schools. to try to get the voice out there to help people realize that this is an issue that concerns all of us. and a lot of times people blame the victim saying why don't they leave and the question should be why does the abuser continue to get away with abuse. >> it's all about creating awareness for the issue of domestic violence. tomorrow night at the liason hotel. go to myfoxdc.com and we'll link you to the website and the ticket cost is tax deductible. >> i ask everyone to visit www.beckiesfund.org. and we only have 50 tickets left. so after the great win yesterday, we ask everyone to come attend the event. >> and speaking of the win yesterday. you had 25 carries for 98 yards, beat up going into the game. how do you feel now? >> i feel great. it's a monday morning. so you have to go work the

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on thursday federal reserve chairman dan becky his to capitol hill for her testimony on how of federal government's plan to overhaul the u.s. financial system and he's also expected to talk about giving the federal reserve more power as well. it could be under the gun because the reserve has been really at the center of the staff put critics also supporters say the federal reserve is the pull understanding if will be working of the rules of finance. a new report says the global financial system... is on the mend... but the road to recovery will be shaky and one paved with risks... the imf's latest estimate points to 3.4 trillion dollars in writedowns from bad assets... that's better than the 4 trillion previously expected. the report states that banks still face potentially huge losses the imf estimates that global commercial banks have already recognized 1.3 trillion in writedowns through the first half of 2009 - and they face an additional 1.5 trillion more in writedowns ahead. the report also predicts banks will need to raise even more capital... because they currently face insuffic

becky is out but will be back monday.pany's whistleblower says they continue to increase rates on capitol hill. >>> jobs number 90 minutes away. forecasters believe economy shed 175,000, unemployment going to 9.#, average hourly earnings expected to rise .1%. >>> cit hope to trim $1.5 billion from the balance sheet. asking bond holders to preapprove a reorganization plan in case it is forced to file for chapter 11. the company is holding discussions on partnerships or an ipo for its nbc universal unit. speaking at a conference, responding to a question whether ge was talking to comcast about buying a stake in nbc. >>> all right. we begin with a look at futures. who is going to do anything before 8:30. you have to be crazy. are seen down 19 points as far as some downward pressure. and every day is interesting, but we are at a little bit of an inflection point here. what do you think, 4% somewhere from the highs. everyone looking for 5 to 10% correction. some of the economic numbers that have been coming in have given the b

joe and becky are off today.harlie gasparino first broke yesterday the 62-year-old lewis tells employees he's retiring voluntarily. lewis has been under fire for a series with the government investigations into the company's acquisitions of merrill lynch last year. no replacement has been named. six internal candidate res seeing as vying for the job. stocks are called higher this morning when you look at the bid ft in the act. >> it's going to be big news all day today. joining us for some analysis, dick bove, jonathan finger of b of a shareholder and a managing partner. guys, i appreciate you getting up early to walk us through this. dick, the journal's piece, and a lot of coverage talks about how he's going out like a goat. is that fair? >> no. it's totally unfair. if you think about the fact that 25 years ago, the laws were changed in the united states to allow banks to become -- to go across state lines and about 50 banks charged out to become the first national bank in the united states and won the game and

we've got becky in oklahoma tonight. becky, are you as tired as i am right now? >> caller: actually, yes. >> this was an amazingly dramatic day. your thoughts? >> caller: been watching this since the beginning. i'm so relieved that the little boy is home safe with his parents. yes, i think he needs some repercussions. but i know he was so scared, i have two sons i've raised, in their 20s now, that have done similar things. so terrifying that you can't believe. but no, i don't think that dhs needs to be called in. i have a nephew dead because dhs was called several times and didn't respond. and so there's no point in bringing that into this. the family seems to be a very nice, well-managed family. the boys are learning from their father's experiences. dhs is not going to do anything but rip this family apart. the little boy should make letters of apology to the law enforcements. and let that be his punishment. that's going to be hard enough for a 6-year-old to do anyway. >> absolutely. becky, thanks so much for the call. we appreciate it. let's bring in the captai

the woman, becky seeman, managed to survive, even as her home was destroyed around her. >> i just heardis big whoosh and i feel my house shake. i heard this great big boom. and then everything just came crashing down. i couldn't get out the front door. >> narrator: jeremiah and doug help her and her dog to safety. >> i am so happy to be alive. >> narrator: the ferocious storm cell leaves the quiet community looking like a war zone. the nance siblings are just lucky their close-up encounter... >> let's go! >> narrator: ...didn't add them to the suburban waste heap. >> oh, my god! oh, my god. >> narrator: for youth living in the burbs... the quest for excitement is a challenging pursuit. but it doesn't take much to turn backyard fun into dangerous stunts. in rural georgia, two gals decide to film a playful video they can use to entertain male friends. wearing skimpy bikinis, their footage is sure to be a big hit... just not in the way they planned. >> ohh! >> [ laughs ] >> narrator: when the bouncing bettys wander too close to the edge, they snap a spring and hit rock bottom. >> ohh! >> n

we start off with becky in london. >> managing to hang on to some gains at the moment. we've been higher, we have been lower at various points throughout the morning. but we managed to hang on to 13 points at this stage. as well on the up side, the basic resource stocks helping us. the gain of 3.8% higher. antofagasta helping us out there. rbs also putting in a strong performance today. it is certainly helping us to push ahead. downside, though, stocks are tempering those gains do include some of the real estate stocks in the uk. the likes of land securities, british lands, also segro, hammerson pulling us off the highs we've seen. they'll complete the ipo of their dutch unit in november. the proceeds of that action will help them to restructure the balance sheet and pursue growth. sylvia, how does it look in germany? >> similar story after the consolidation last week, today we try to push the market up a bit, but there wasn't an awful lot of dynamics in there and still isn't. for its early days yet, if our friends in the usa don't help us in the afternoon, we probably

the woman, becky seeman, managed to survive, even as her home was destroyed around her. >> i just heards big whoosh and i feel my house shake. i heard this great big boom. and then everything just came crashing down. i couldn't get out the front door. >> narrator: jeremiah and doug help her and her dog to safety. >> i am so happy to be alive. >> narrator: the ferocious storm cell leaves the quiet community looking like a war zone. the nance siblings are just lucky their close-up encounter... >> let's go! >> narrator: ...didn't add them to the suburban waste heap. >> oh, my god! oh, my god. >> narrator: for youth living in the burbs... the quest for excitement is a challenging pursuit. but it doesn't take much to turn backyard fun into dangerous stunts. in rural georgia, two gals decide to film a playful video they can use to entertain male friends. wearing skimpy bikinis, their footage is sure to be a big hit... just not in the way they planned. >> ohh! >> [ laughs ] >> narrator: when the bouncing bettys wander too close to the edge, they snap a spring and hit rock bottom. >> ohh! >> na

helen wright and becky tpwhraou survived where others perished. to you count yourself lucky to be alive? >> oh, my god, yeah. >> so lucky. >> oh... it was seconds between life and death. absolutely. >> there were people who were in the same place and they didn't make it. >> they were staying here until two days ago, a popular beach resort. the same terrifying waves that destroyed it also claim it had two-year-old son of a british couple, pulld from his father's arms by the churning water. >> the noise you could hear the wave coming and the noise was just absolutely deafenning and you could hear the buildings crashing. stpwhr-f i remember hearing it behind me. i remember feeling so scared and just running and running and climbing and climbing and climbs and there was all these palm trees under me that just kept slipping and then i got up kind of as high as i could and the water was by my ankles. and then somebody star screaming "there's another wave coming" and so i climbed up higher. and, again, thank god i did because when the second wave came it

so in 2006 i started becky's fund. >> by the way, there are still tickets available to tomorrow's walkhis way event at the liaison hotel in northwest. if you'd like more information, go to myfoxdc.com. >>> gary, it was a perfect weekend, and a great start to the work week. >> it was in the bank. >> yeah. >> put that in the bank, a little savings account going over there. >> it's beautiful outside today. >> it's good. you know, tomorrow not as good, but pretty darned good. how about that? >> good. >> and then we get a little bit of a bump in the middle of the week, then we have to deal with the weekend forecast. it's only monday, though. it's gorgeous out there this evening, and it will be. now, listen, once the sun sets later on this evening, that's when the temperature is going to drop, the winds are about five to 10 miles per hour. so if you're going to be out after sunset, it will be a little chilly out there. temperatures already in the mid- to upper 50s by 11:00. fair skies overnight. it's going to be pretty much perfect for getting cold overnight tonight. now, tomorrow morning at

the favorite joy, sun down with 23-year-old son, time with mom ethel and sweetwater wife of 25 years becky. congratulations, bo ryles. >>> lady justice finally catches up with a hollywood superstar who 30 years ago pled guilty to raping a 13-year-old child. now hollywood's whining he should be released. we are taking your calls. sheba illinois, hi. >> caller: hi, darling. this is disgusting. >> i agree. >> caller: he raped her and then sodomized her. her life is ruined up to this point. she's got to have all kinds of problems up to this point. he should be sent over here and have to do his sentence and i hope that the judge that sentenced him is still alive. >> sheeba in illinois, i agree with you and only hope that the judge is listening. elie, what more can you tell me? >> a lot of the support is based on the documentary of last year. a prosecutor -- >> all the support? you mean wood i can allen, the guy who married his underage daughter? okay. >> that's the guy, yeah. >> go ahead. >> yeah. so in the documentary a prosecutor now retired claims that he had a conversation with the judge on

becky is in lopped. what are you focusing on? >> it's the beginning of a new quarter everywhere. having finished the third quarter on a -- well, rounding out the quarter, very, very much stronger for the ftse 100. in fact, the biggest percentage gain on record. over 20% higher today. we're starting a fresh quarter with more gains, just about 14 points or so, about 0.3%. on the upside, about 7% higher. in fact, there's been a bit of speculation swirling around out there. both companies declining to comment on that kind of thing, but there is obviously speculation leading to that gain on the left. that came on the back of an analyst upgrade. the analyst put morgan stanley increasing the rate in overweight. patricia, how is it going in germany? >> we're up about 0.5% at the moment. it is immune issue re, allianz and deutsche bank trading up quite nicely. deutsche bank did have a bit of a turn around. but deutsche post is quite an upgrade in its price target from one of the brokers is down about 1% as well as metro. metro suffering from the bad retail sales data we got on a macroecon

. >> i'm becky oakley. my husband is sergeant major glenden oakley. want to say, i love you, dear. i miss you. it's really been hard here trying to keep it all together. i'm holding it together. i just miss you being here to take some of the weight off my shoulders. but i'm doing it. we miss you so much. hurry home, dear. love you. >> you sound like a strong lady. thank you for the message. if you have somebody in the service, go to cnn.com/robin. we'd be honored to salute them. >>> a man accused of extorting david letterman is free on bond after pleading not guilty friday. prosecutors say joe halderman tried to shakedown letterman for $2 million to keep quiet about letterman's affairs with fellow staffers. richard lui joins us. they work at the same network. how so? >> there's more. halderman's live-in girlfriend is halderman's personal assistant. halderman has also worked for 27 years for cbs. same network that letterman does. most recently as producer for "48 hours." halderman was also suspended from his job on friday. >> halderman's pleaded not gu

the favorite joy, sun down with 23-year-old son, time with mom ethel and sweetwater wife of 25 years becky. congratulations, bo ryles. >>> lady justice finally catches >>> lady justice finally catches up with a hollywood superstar who 30 years ago pled guilty to raping a 13-year-old child. now hollywood's whining he should be released. we are taking your calls. sheba illinois, hi. >> caller: hi, darling. this is disgusting. >> i agree. >> caller: he raped her and then sodomized her. her life is ruined up to this point. she's got to have all kinds of problems up to this point. he should be sent over here and have to do his sentence and i hope that the judge that sentenced him is still alive. >> sheeba in illinois, i agree with you and only hope that the judge is listening. elie, what more can you tell me? >> a lot of the support is based on the documentary of last year. a prosecutor -- >> all the support? you mean wood i can allen, the guy who married his underage daughter? okay. >> that's the guy, yeah. >> go ahead. >> yeah. so in the documentary a prosecutor now retired claims that he had

. >> becky, could not agree with you more. thank you for your call. she is really standing up for jessica here and so many women out there. rachel, do you think that people will ever stop taking the cheap shots at jessica or other stars? when it comes to their weight. >> i wish they would stop. the press is crazy about this. she is not fat. the average woman in america is about a size 12, 14. let's get real. she didn't dignify it at all. she said everyone should own their beauty. i applaud her for that comment. >> do you think people will ever stop in the double standard and it will go away? >> never. especially for stars like jessica whose look is her career. people will scrutinize her until the day she dies. >> today a judge warned lindsay lohan that she is going to go to jail if she doesn't go to her alcohol counseling program. lindsay was in court and got another year to complete the program which was part of the probation for a drunk driving conviction. lindsay a lawyers said she made it to half the segs and her career made her miss the rest. the

host: becky, a democrat, please go ahead. caller: i live in michigan.ployment rate -- this month, i do not know. the month before, it was 19.5%. i see front-page articles in the paper about, the unemployment rate is up to 10%. we are at 19.5%. nobody cares. we are a rural community. my husband lost his job five months ago. he has worked every day of his working life. he is just depressed. he is going nuts. we have credit card people calling every 20 minutes. the phone is ringing. i explained to them what we have coming in, what we have going out. i said, where do you want me to find money to pay you? we have to pay the insurance. they just have no mercy. i do not want to go bankrupt. i look at the future and i see nothing because my husband has gone to every place that there is. michigan works is to pose to find jobs. no one has ever called back since. he goes out and applies for jobs. this guy can do anything. he worked in a foundry for 29 years. he knows every job and he knows how to fix every machine. he cannot get a job? is there anyone i can call?