. >> we had people stateside participating in it as well. so if we did it just locally only a few people could participate from around here. but since we do it online people back stateside that want to participate can do as well. >> reporter: in late april simon's group organized this event to introduce american culture to the children in the devastated area. they ate cakes made by people at the air base. about 50 japanese showed up to find out about american culture. >> delicious. >> translator: i am grateful they prepared this for us. >> because i speak japanese and know the people who are helping and need help i can share the need with aricans who still want to help. >> reporter: simon is getting more americans to pitch in. without a doubt american and japanese are forging closer ties. >>> torrential rains from a typhoon and season monsoons have left at least 53 people dead, in the central philippines. typhoon saola brought incessant downpours, widespread flooding and landslides a week ago. heavy monsoon rains continue to pound the capita

. >> we had people stateside participating in it as well. so if we did it just locally only a few people could participate from around here. but since we do it online people back stateside that want to participate can do as well. >> reporter: in late april simon's group organized this event to introducemerican culture to the children in the devastated area. they ate cakes made by people at the air base. about 50 japanese showed up to find out about american culture. >> delicious. >> translator: i am grateful they prepared this for us. >> because i speak japanese and know the people who are helping and need help i can share the need with aricans who still want to help. >> reporter: simon is getting more americans to pitch in. without a doubt american and japanese are forging closer ties. >>> torrential rains from a typhoon and season monsoons have left at least 53 people dead, in the central philippines. typhoon saola brought incessant downpours, widespread flooding and lanlides a wk ago. heavy monsoon rains continue to pound the capital, man

>> by putting money in the stateside election, we are helping the democratic ticket. the dnc didn't ask for any money from my union or i don't know about the others but i kind of doubt it and we haven't received any requests for funds from the presidential campaign committees. but we have been helping the state and the senate and the house campaigns the best we can with our resources and the encouragement of our members to get out and vote. it's their future that is at stake and it all about, as i said earlier, jobs and who is going to do the best -- make the best effort to provide the opportunity for job creation in our country. >> tom, one group you know well and one group being watched by both sides at the moment are those white blue collar workers. he's getting 28% versus 65%. the white blue collar worker with paul ryan now being chosen? >> i think president obama's going to make a lot of inroads in bringing the white male voters back, especially union members, back into the democratic side of the equation because, as i said earlier twice now, jobs are the issue.

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this is near stateside drive, just inside the beltway. day,more throughout the including when abc 7 news starts at 5:00. good afternoon. i am steve chenevey. in cynne simpson. following breaking news from georgia. we will have the first female member at the football club. they invited connolly's a rice to become the first women of the club's 80-year history. women accepted the invitation. pressure for under s to admit women. murder conviction was set aside. let's check again where he joins us with more on today's's ruling. exonerate,eing a outcomeabout as good an be expected. he is now a free man. the charges against him have been legally dropped. after a six-month review, they t have another evidence or evidence, he says, bring an indictment, despite that the interview about 40 witnesses. they continue to review the case. from this arean was freed from prison after years of a life sentence. a judge overturned the conviction and said there was from one of the co-defendants. right now, it looks like michael hashes and the clear. to said pr

. -- pickups of 2012 stateside. great individual rivalries, like phelps. >> head to head is on thursday, with the olympic legend hoping for -- to overcome defeat. and >> amazing the influence they have had around the world. you can get updates on our olympics stories on our website. you can find us on twitter. thanks for watching, tune in for tomorrow. >> makes sense of international news that bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, union bank, and shell. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to understand the industry you operate in, working to nurture new ventures and helping provide capital for key strategic decisions. we offer expertise and tailored solutions in a wide range of industries. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles.

. >> back stateside, the handsome connected young man bucks the odds, feigning admission to harvard, renicing on principle to go to school with taxpayer money instead with his own hard earned stock given to him by a local businessman. her name was ann davis and the moment mitt saw her he knew he was totally going to build that. she was the ideal gender, for a wife. they wed according to human custom and then meshing their private sectors produced five male offspring, tag, craig, blig, marble and flapjack. >> armed only with ivy league business and law degrees, and the mitt romney trailed blazes his way to a pioneering new boston firm, where he learned how to secrete money. from there, it was a series of personal triumphs, from single-handedly saving 2002 salt lake olympics to electing himself governor of massachusetts. but there is still one thing left for mitt romney to build, a presidency. as the elite east coast harvard educated creator of romney care started to run, in the most conservative republican field in history, romney realized that terrible truth. >> i am someone who is a

if anybody in the abc standards and practices department asks, that was a near cynthia, see you back stateside next week. >> good to you. we're already planning your welcome home party. thank you for watching abc news, "good morning america" will be waiting right here for you in the morning. have a great weekend. "jimmy kimmel" is right here next.

if anybody in the abc standards and practices department asks, that was a near cynthia, see you back stateside next week. >> good to you. we're already planning your welcome home party. thank you for watching abc news, "good morning america" will be waiting right here for you in the morning.

if you just joined us stateside, futures are indicating slightly negative start. dow trading below fair value, three points below fair value for nasdaq and s&p 500 is below fair value as well. ftse down six points. european stocks have been down around 30% during the first two hours of trading. the ftse yesterday, flat on day back from monday holiday. xetra, cac and ibex down today. >>> spanish yields are higher, over 6%. catalonia, spanish regional government asking for assistance from madrid government. they want it without conditionality as we continue to see deposit outflow. we're just a bit of robach on ecb plans about whether they want to cap bond yields, now seems to be moving away. yields in u.s. as we look ahead toward mr. bernanke in jacksonville are lower at 1.2% on the ten-year as are ten-year bund yields, trading at 1.3%. currency markets, euro dollar is at 12557. aussie/dollar back down toward the one-month low on tuesday. sterling/dollar, steady. >>> what about the asian session? we have more out of singapore. >> thanks, ross. more oinvestors awaiti

we'll take a look at the weather back here stateside. the insta-weather plus forecast is next. >>> good evening, aim sarah in for deborah weiner. we are following a developing story at this hour. police! crews are on the scene in baltimore county. officials say it happened around 400 in the 400 mike of main treat. crews found heavy smoke and fire come interesting the back of the building after containing the fire, that is where they found a woman who was pronounced dead at the scene. the fire is still under investigation. ♪ >> and in our london 2012 olympic coverage tonight, the end for michael phelps. we are about to show you the results of the final olympic race of his career. if you would like to wait in primetime tonight, look away the screen. we won't read them outside. here are the results. phelp's olympic career is officially over at least according to him. once gain, you can see this race in primetime tonight here on wbal-tv 11. and the results are gone now. and just like that. michael fellps' olympic career is over at least ac

. -- pickups of 2012 stateside. great individual rivalries, like phelps. >> head to head is on thursday, with the olympic legend hoping for -- to overcome defeat. and >> amazing the influence they have had around the world. you can get updates on our olympics stories on our website. you can find us on twitter. thanks for watching, tune in for tomorrow. >> makes sense of international news that bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, union bank, and shell. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to understand the industry you operate in, working to nurture new ventures and helping provide capital for key strategic decisions. we offer expertise and tailored solutions in a wide range of industries. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. me--coach hooper-- and i've got my special whistle, which means it's time to get up and exercise! [bugle] wow! it's also time to get a

cynthia, see you back stateside next week. >> good to know, bill. we're already planning your welcome home party. "good morning america" will have the latest on mitt romney's vp pick. thanks for watching abc

drops off stateside. wednesday marks fabio capello's first test those russian national football team manager the italian aiming to find a way past the ivory coast and make the country warm to the side again following their euro two thousand and twelve group stage exit michael chang go. a new manager a new era that's mainly how fabulous appointment has gone down in russia and he's wasted no time in ringing the changes axing several senior players like readings pavel pogrebnyak and sporting lisbon is my love in the process. i've chosen players based on their current form but also with an eye on the future taking into account their age because for those who are not picked i will continue to keep tabs on them and although i admire them i have to make a final decision. on that one of the main complaints by fans and critics alike was how quickly the level of commitment faded during the euros but capello has already drafted in some new young players in order to begin rebuilding the passion he so demands from his

. >> and for sports stateside, here's espn. >> i'm hakem dermish, with your "sportscenter" update. rays taking on the rangers in tampa, facing darvish for the first time. getting carlos pena swinging. then, in the third, b.j. upton, looking. nasty. top five, desmond jennings swinging. darvish, seven inning, no earned runs, ten strikeouts. the rangers win and the rays lose their fourth 1-0 game of the season. >>> 15-game winner, the white sox, taking on the orioles. bases loaded. facing nick mark kiss. 25th home run of the season. the orioles shut out chicago, 6-0. their fourth win in a row. seven innings of shutout baseball. >>> stephen strasburg and the nats taking on the marlins. he had a rough night, though. bottom one, carlos dent to right. carlos lee coming in. beats the throw. 2-0, marlins. 6-0 marlins. hard single. strasburg, five innings, marlins win 9-0. and the nationals have lost nine in a row. >>> anybody who plays madden football video games knows their attention to detail. but one player is pointing out one thing the game got wrong. >> reporter: there's marcus thomas,

the pool where it was team usa who were the dominant force but can russia learn anything from their stateside opposition has written about important. america's dominance in the swimming pool has been clear for all to see sixteen golds and a total of thirty medals overall rusher in comparison were only able to come home with a couple of silvers and bronzes rushes on to see as we were quick to second place finish in the women's two hundred metres backstroke believes america's approach gives them a key advantage. when you get out and destroy american swim is amazing they're just so confident they're always laughing and joking amongst themselves and not for one minute which you think that they have an important final in just a few minutes this approach is just fantastic as they're always so relaxed going into a big race i wish i was as relaxed sidney said out of court on mia and joy of his comments seem to be backed up by legendary swimmer michael phelps has won an incredible eight seen him pick gold medals and a twenty seven year old stated that there's a constant desire within the american camp

wraps up stateside. wednesday marks fabio capello's first test as russian national football team manager the italian aiming to find a way past the ivory coast and make the country warm to the side again following their euro two thousand and twelve group stage exit michael moore. a new manager a new era that's mainly how fabulous appointment has gone down in russia and he's wasted no time in ringing the changes axing several senior players like readings pavel pogrebnyak and sporting lisbon is the my look in the process. i've chosen players based on their current form but also with an eye on the future taking into account their age as for those who are not picked i will continue to keep tabs on them and although i admire them i have to make a final decision. going to one of the main complaints by fans and critics alike was how quickly the level of commitment faded during the euros but capello has already drafted in some new young players in order to begin rebuilding the passion he so demands from his playe

drops off stateside. wednesday marks fabio capello's first test as russian national football team monitor the italian aiming to find a way past the ivory coast and make the country warm to the side again following their euro two thousand and twelve group stage exit michael kravchenko has more. a new manager a new era that's mainly how fabulous appointment has gone down in russia and he's wasted no time in ringing the changes axing several senior players like readings pavel pogrebnyak and sporting lisbon as matter is the my look in the process. to get it thinking i've chosen players based on their current form but also with an eye on the future taking into account their age because for those who are not picked i will continue to keep tabs on them and although i admire them i have to make a final decision. one of the main complaints by fans and critics alike was how quickly the level of commitment faded during the euros but capello has already drafted in some new young players in order to begin rebuilding t

now stateside the start of the new national hockey league season is in doubt owners and players are locked in negotiations over a new agreement with the current one expiring on september the fifteenth if no compromise is reached it could result in the second lockout since two thousand and four the league now upgrading its latest offer to the players' union in hope of resolving the crisis in order to move the process along and hopefully we can gauge the union in a way that would bring a bit in the goshi ation that had traction we tried to address or what we thought the fundamental issues were that they were raising in a way that was structured to hopefully address in the way they were looking at the world of trying to get us on to the same page. elsewhere golfing pros from all over the world will be convening just outside of moscow in a week's time where they'll be taking part in the annual russian the challenge cup the event has been held annually since one thousand nine hundred six and was officially included on the european challenge two or six years ago the russian gulf association is s

. >> but as for sports stateside, highlights, now, from espn. >> good morning. i'm hakem dermish, with your "sportscenter" update. rays taking on the rangers in tampa, facing yu darvish for the first time. it was evident. top two. darvish gets carlos pena swinging. then, in the third, b.j. upton, looking. nasty. top five, desmond jennings swinging. darvish, seven inning, no earned runs, ten strikeouts. the rangers win 1-0. and the rays lose their fourth 1-0 game of the season. >>> 15-game winner, chris sale, the white sox, taking on the orioles. bases loaded. facing nick markakis. bottom seven, adam jones at the plate. 25th home run of the season. the orioles shut out chicago, 6-0. their fourth win in a row. seven innings of shutout baseball. >>> stephen strasburg and the first place nationals, hosting the marlins. he had a rough night, though. bottom one, giancarlo stanton to right. carlos lee coming in. beats the throw. 2-0, marlins. bottom five, 6-0 marlins. strasburg still in the game. rbi single. strasburg, five innings, nine hits. marlins win 9-0. and the

noticeably in the pool whereas team usa who were the dominant force but can russia learn anything from their stateside opposition has which of important. america's dominance in a swimming pool has been clear for all to see sixteen golds and a total of thirty medals overall rusher in comparison were only able to come home with a couple of silvers and bronzes rushes on to see is all we ever claimed a second place finish in the women's two hundred metres backstroke believes america's approach gives them a key advantage. when you got out and grabbed history american swimmers are amazing they're just so confident they're always laughing and joking amongst themselves and not for one minute to just think that they have an important final in just a few minutes this approach is just fantastic as they're always so relaxed going into a big race i wish i was as relaxed sitting on you sit out on me and andrew of his comments seem to be backed up by legendary swimmer michael phelps there's one an incredible eighteen olympic gold medals and a twenty seven year old stated that is a constant desire within the american

and loaded ready to fire with a push of a button by an operator sitting in front of a computer screen stateside far far away from where the missiles are actually falling while we hear about the high profile drone strikes we rarely hear about the more routine ones the hundreds of strikes that are carried out every year in foreign countries that have been that we haven't declared war on drones have become the primary weapon in our nation's more than decade long so-called war on terror and are responsible for the death of thousands and not all those thousands were terrorists. all these weapons are hyped up is far more efficient indiscriminate there's no question that hundreds of civilians or more including women and children have also died in these drone attacks but this collateral damage as well as all the legal questions about targeting individuals in foreign nations for instance that doesn't seem to faze our military leaders or our political leaders and obviously not the drone industry leaders themselves in fact just last week the drone industry convened its annual convention to talk about just

great to have you stateside. so good to see you. >>> and now, we turn to the political debate in this country, it's your voice, your vote and it's been a week since governor romney brought new energy to the presidential ration by naming congressman paul ryan as his running mate. but as abc's jake tapper tells us tonight, some top republicans are watching and worrying. >> reporter: this was generally not seen by republican officials as a sign of a campaign on message. >> i want to bring as much clarity as possible. >> reporter: mitt romney with a white board, struggling to help people understand his position. >> so this is the president's plan. >> reporter: and more important, the subject matter. the romney campaign now finds itself consumed by one topic. >> plans by paul ryan. >> medicare as an option? >> mitt romney has his own plan. >> reporter: specifically, the plan proposed by romney's new running mate, paul ryan, to turn medicare into a voucher-like system for future retirees. republican sources say the rom

economies as also data coming out later on today that's expected to show that retail sells have improved stateside was certainly say that rings true lace up let's see some exchange or is that what we see as well that chatting about incivility and that's helping keep the common currency afloat just now one twenty three forty seven for this hour for the ruble boy it's going to be moving is shaken in the next hour but for yesterday it managed to finish up lower against a basket of cars as the cereal prices us all supplies they are expected to drop to the lowest level in four months that's because of a tropical storm in the gulf of mexico is expected to reduce imports on the refinery use lies a she writes held in a five month high that's all poured into a building over days to get over to the edge of office in russia and see that they finished up on a positive nights we move initiative as well for a short levy energy mage's they will need in the gains we had a company. a gas producer no attack driving the market higher now russians are getting deeper and deeper into debt and that is the crisis looms a

and loaded ready to fire with a push of a button by an operator sitting in front of a computer screen stateside far far away from where the missiles are actually falling while we hear about the high profile drone strikes we rarely hear about the more routine ones the hundreds of strikes that are carried out every year in foreign countries that have been that we haven't declared war on drones have become the primary weapon in our nation's more than decade long so-called war on terror and are responsible for the death. of thousands and not all those thousands were terrorists all these weapons are hyped up is far more efficient indiscriminate there's no question that hundreds of civilians or more including women and children have also died in these drone attacks but this collateral damage as well as all the legal questions about targeting individuals in foreign nations for instance that doesn't seem to faze our military leaders or our political leaders and obviously not the drone industry leaders themselves in fact just last week the drone industry convened its annual convention to talk about just

. >>> hoare stateside the o's last might in new york for game 2 of a critical series with the yankees and they have a lot of fight in them. baltimore answered a disasterous 5-run yankee first inning with 7 of their own in the second thanks in part to that. chris davis a grand slam in the second. that's the 18th home run of the season. final score, o's win 11-5 and they now move 5 1/2 back of the yankees for the lead in the al east. >>> all right. let's talk about the weather this morning. because we are getting some wet weather on maryland's most powerful radar as of now. again, mainly to the south. but it's starting to move over towards talbot coopty. st. michaels getting moderate rain you can see in the yellow and oranges. sliding over towards easton where they are getting a round of light rain to oxford and trap. this is good news. we need the rainfall. we look at more heavy rain around lexington park and all this is sliding off towards the east. so princess anne getting in on heavier rain and you can see the big red band of showers. and also lightning with this. this big red band

great to have you stateside. so good to see you. >>> and now, we turn to the political debate in this country, it's your voice, your vote, and it's been a week since governor romney brought new energy to the presidential race by naming congressman paul ryan as his running mate. but as abc's jake tapper tells us tonight, some top republicans are watching and worrying. >> reporter: this was generally not seen by republican officials as a sign of a campaign on message. >> i want to bring as much clarity as possible. >> reporter: mitt romney with a white board, struggling to help people understand his position. >> so this is the president's plan. >> reporter: and more important, the subject matter. the romney campaign now finds itself consumed by one topic. >> medicare. >> medicare into a piggy bank. >> plans by paul ryan. >> medicare as an option? >> mitt romney has his own plan. >> reporter: specifically, the plan proposed by romney's new running mate, paul ryan, to turn medicare into a voucher-like system for futu

were having this and they'll stand alternate while president obama desperately tries to raise money stateside mitt romney is collecting big bucks from anonymous donors like bank stars and involved in libel or in london but thomas a theory about who some of those anonymous donors might be take a look. we're just now finding out that at the end of last year an anonymous donor gave karl rove's crossroads super pac a ten million dollars donation to run ads against president obama and thanks to the supreme court's citizens united decision the wild west nature of political spending now that that ten million dollars dollar will likely remain completely anonymous we probably won't know ever who it is ever during the two thousand and ten midterm elections there was another anonymous donor who also gave ten million dollars to rove so it might have been the same person for all we know one person dishing out twenty million bucks to karl rove to help elect mitt romney and other republicans. that donor could be a person like charles koch it could be a corporation like goldman sachs it could be a special in

yemi that's going to have to wall street then and see that they are now entering the third hour she stateside and as we can see they all will be strengthening they gained some reading speculation that the euro leaders will make progress this we in resolving the region's debt crisis is keeping the stalls. above the waterline as you can see is around a third of a percent of the bourses has given to europe because they're about to pack up and go home and as we conceive a two hour strengthening their games as they enter the last hour of the trading day as we can see that we've got games for the footy on the dance for the thirty seven turns a reserve for the down side tens of a percent already a lot of that is because a well received spanish auction took place today with foreign costs going down as relieving some pressure let's get on to the exchange rates that we have got the common car is indeed gaining in the session the russian car is a do indeed finish high as you can see against both occurrences against the us dollar the you're experiencing the biggest days in a fortnight this is the price o

if you just joined us on cnbc stateside very good morning to you. futures here indicating pretty tepid start to trading in terms of no firm direction. s&p 500 is marginally lower. nasdaq is literally two points above fair value and the dow is around about nine, nine and a half points above fair value. follows european markets that are tepid as well. ftse global 300 down 13 points. as far as european stocks the ftse has been trading hugging the flat line down .10%. ibex down .4%. yields in spain slightly lower. stock market is a little bit weaker. throughout the course of the trading day in asia, plenty of comment on what investors are to do in this environment. here's a recap of some of the thoughts so far today. >>> we have a short term forecast for euro/dollar. right now i think there's a general sense of wealth for the euro right now and want to see how these summits play out and also the fact that investors realize they are not sure. >> we're more friendly to soybeans over corn and we like the soy/corn ratio at this level. whereas corn has done

situation of the conflict between christians, i'll say michele bachmann, and our middle east situation here stateside, he won't be able to do anything if he's the head of our foreign policy government. he has to speak to it because people are being vilified not about returning their taxes or having disclosure their financial records. we're talking about people threatened, targeted, and are being profiled in america. we're so ignorant sometimes in america people going after people. i take that to heart. >> you get this crazy stuff year in and year out. every administration. whether it was obama's birth certificate. i wouldn't respond to that. with bush it was leaving the national guard going awol with clinton it was who killed vince foster. if you're the candidate, you've got to stay away from that nonsense. >> but you have to say this is not what represents us at our best. it's not about michele bachmann. it's also about what the republican party's values are, isn't it? >> i think absolutely what their values are. you call terrorism about people who are coming from the middle east when you don't thin

situation of the conflict between christians, i'll say michele bachmann, and our middle east situation here stateside, he won't be able to do anything if he's the head of our foreign policy government. he has to speak to it because people are being vilified not about returning their taxes or having disclosure their financial records. we're talking about people threatened, targeted, and are being profiled in america. we're so ignorant sometimes in america people going after people. i take that to heart. >> you get this crazy stuff year in and year out. whether it was obama's birth certificate. i wouldn't respond to that. with bush it was leaving the national guard going awol with clinton it was who killed vince foster. if you're the candidate, you've got to stay away from that nonsense. >> but you have to say this is not what represents us at our best. it's also about what the republican party's values are, isn't it? >> i think absolutely what their values are. you call terrorism about people who are coming from the middle east when you don't think about everyday life for individuals who won't get hea

situation of the conflict between christians, i'll say michele bachmann, and our middle east situation here stateside, he won't be able to do anything if he's the head of our foreign policy government. he has to speak to it because people are being vilified not for not paying their taxes or whatever their financial records, we're talk about people who are threatened, targeted and being profiled in america. we saw them going out there because we're so ignorant sometimes internationally, people going after chic, indian, because people go after people. i take that to heart. >> you get this crazy stuff year in and year out. whether it was obama's birth certificate. i wouldn't even respond to that. with bush it was leaving the national guard going awol with clinton it was who killed vince foster. if you're the candidate, you've got to stay away from that nonsense. >> but you also have to say that this is not what represents us at our best. because it's not simply about michele bachmann, is it? it's also about what the republican party's values are. isn't it, marcia? >> i think absolutely what their values

meanwhile, stateside a lot of storms on the radar. that includes indianapolis with some heavy storms rolling through. big severe threat, especially new york state, pennsylvania, and then stretching all the way back toward arkansas, western tennessee, mississippi, and alabama. a lot of straightline wind gusts today and some hail. even a slight chance of a tornado. if you have outdoor plans keep that in mind. the weather could turn in a hurry. the other big story, the big heat across the central southern plains. triple digits for kansas, oklahoma, texas and arkansas. that should last through tuesday. and we have the tropics, ernesto at 150 miles per hour this morning. a little disorganized. rain showers have moved into jamaica. right now looks like the most likely path will take us into belize or the yucatan pen isla around cozumel or cancun by early this week. if you have any interest there we'll be keeping our eyes on it. >> lots of places to watch. thanks eric fisher. >>> ahead here on msnbc, the bronze medal match in men's tennis. t

gold reserves in the treasury so the after fan king who had been very impressed with what the united statesid during the great depression with the tennessee valley authority says said i am going to hire american engineers to try to modernize my country and so he hired the american company that had built the hoover damn and san francisco bay bridge to come to southern afghanistan with the aim of turning the barohn desert among the river in the south to aver didn't agricultural oasis and a bread basket for his country so these engineers came and dug canals many of these same canals far reenls are fighting and dying in today and part of a grand development scheme, we americans think our involvement there began in 9/11 organ with the soviet invasion, as i detail in this book it actually began in the 40s and fifties, and these americans set up for themselves, it wasn't just going to be an agricultural project, they set up for themselves this little town in the middle of the afghan desert, eight square blocks, it had the state your namsuburban style trh manicured green front alleges none of those u

if you just joined us stateside, a very good morning to you, our markets look like they might get a bump up this morning. s&p 500 around five points. the nasdaq around eight points fair value. and around what, 40 points, fair value, for the dow. follows data out of chien that which we'll get into, the pmi a little weaker. gold down 300. pmis in you're continue to suggestion we're going to get a quarterly contraction in europe for the next quarter. around minus .4%, minus .5%. exports in germany below 40 for the first time since 2009. how does that translate into european markets? well, they've been told in a number of ways, the fed which is posted the china pmis down as well. right now, the ftse down 0.4%. and the dax down, and we have seen yields on the spanish continuing to rise as well. what about that china pmi data? down to nine-month lows. what does that mean. jens, good to see you. i suppose that signals we're going to get more stimulus. but what kind of stimulus, we know, authorities even though they have inflation, what were 53 seen of it? >> what we've seen, more of that is pot

if you just joined us stateside good morning. welcome to the start of your trading day. no kelly today. she got a well earned break. some of the stories we're following global stocks have been up overnight after comments from angela merkel suggesting germany was committed to doing whatever it can to save the euro. speaking at a press conference with the canadian prime minister she voiced support for the ecb president mario draghi to stop the debt crisis. >> what the president of the european central bank mario draghi said is something that was repeated time and again since the beginning of the greek difficulties more than two years ago. we feel committed to do everything we can to maintain the common currency. the european central bank, although independent, is completely in line what we said all along. >>> so we had to see where the futures are right now. slightly positive opening. the dow currently trading two points above value. the s&p is actually just trading below fair value at the moment. as far as the ftse global 300 is concerned you can see we're pretty flat rea

. >>> just remind you what's on the agenda today stateside, july cpi out at 8:30 eastern. consumer prices are to remain unchanged when you exclude food and energy. 9:15 a.m. we'll get july industrial protection. 10:00 the august is survey from the national association of home builders. on earnings calendar look out for results from deer, target, abercrombie, stams before the bell. after the bell we'll hear from cisco, applied materials, limited brands, agilent, hot topic, netapp and petsmart. >>> walmart, target and 7-eleven are expected to reveal their plans for a mobile payment system letting consumers pay for goods on their phone, according to "the wall street journal." follows starbucks announcing a partnership with square. what do you think about mobile payments and the idea of a cashless society? importantly, are mobile payment companies overvalued? if you want to join the conversation on "worldwide exchange," e-mail us at worldwide @cnbc.com. or tweet us. do you agree with paulson and sorros that gold is a buy? you can reach us directly. rogs? >> would you want to d

if you're just joining us this morning stateside. standard chartered stock down 15% just under in hong kong but currently trading down over 23% in london. under pressure after new york's financial watchdog alleges the bank concealed over $250 billion worth of transactions with iran. the city's department of financial services warns it could revoke the bank's banking license. tough language. branded it a rogue institution. standard chartered electronically rejects the portrayal of those facts made by the new york state department of financial service. it says it has already disclosed many transactions related to iran to authorities and assured almost all of those complied with the current regulations, the total value of transactions it says which may need further investigation is just under $14 million. a huge difference between the two. deloitte claims it had no knowledge of any misconduct. >> sean corrigan spoke to cnbc earlier and voiced some cynicism over the investigation. >> why is it always the british bank or chinese bank or g

. >>> if you just tuned in this morning stateside european markets this morning a little bit softer, the uk market had a day off yesterday down a tenth of a percent. this is how that translated to u.s. futures. call slightly higher. dow by 10 points. nasdaq trading about six points and s&p 500 around 2.5 points over fair value. this is the republican national convention gets under way for real today after being delayed by tropical storm isaac. republican party chairman reince preibus open the committee on monday only to call a recess. mitt romney will accept the nomination on thursday arrives in tampa today. his wife ann will give a speech in primetime tonight and keynote address will be given by new jersey governor chris christie. on the agenda in the united states, case-shiller price indebt. at 10:00 we'll get august consumer confidence. expected to cut slightly from july. at 10:00 the fdic releases its quarterly report on u.s. bank earnings. plenty of attention will be on ben bernanke at the end of the week with some expecting the fed chairman to announce a third round of quantita