cnbc's steve sedgwick live for us there. what happened yesterday, my friend? >> it was quite incredible. as sue was talking there, the magnitude of these moves was stunning. the s&p, which is a broad brush index of the united states, reversed directions six times. the dow was down within half an hour after the fed announcement. and then, rallied 600 points off its low. the s&p at one stage, was in bare market territory, having growing 400%, in its april high. you are in bear market territory. as far as the markets are concerned today, they're quite calm. they opened up and stayed up. we haven't seen the huge reversals of fortune. the nikkei, that was up 1% today. i'm looking at the big european markets. london is steady, up at 1.5%. the german market, up 2.5%. and the 600-point range we saw yesterday, they're down just 19 points. all very calm. albeit for the moment. back to you. >> we'll take calm for now. steve sedgwick, live for us in london. >>> senate majority leader, harry reid, revealing his choices for the debt supercommittee, the group charged with cu

. >> steve sedgwick, we appreciate it. >>> afghanistan, nato says one of its helicopters made what it calls a hard landing in the southeastern part of the country today. officials say the chopper suffered a mechanical failure and crash landed. it says there are no casualties. this comes as new details emerges over this weekend's deadly chopper crash. in afghanistan it killed 30 american service members including 22 navy s.e.a.l.s. 8 afghans also killed. military officials say the troops died while on a mission to assist an army ranger unit under fire from insurgents. commandos wering itting a taliban leader directly responsible for the attacks. nato confirms it's begun an operation to recover the remains from the helicopter as part of an ongoing investigation. the crash is the single deadliest attack on u.s. forces since the war began almost a decade ago. >>> last night president obama called top american commanders to express his condolences for those who died and spoke with afghan president hamid karzai. for the latest we turn to nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel. he j