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The top issue, everyone says, is the economy. People worried about their jobs, fearful about their investments. Fears echoed from here to Wall Street today. The Dow Industrials plunged 800 points, before pulling back late in the day. Still the Dow lost 370 closing below the 10,000 mark for the first time in four years. So Besty Stark is with us again tonight. Besty.

Good Evening, Charlie.

What you know is a sign of a time that the Dow Finish is down more than 350 points and the headline is "It Could've Been A Lot Worse".

Many Americans will be wondering tonight, why after Congress pass a $700 billion rescue plan on Friday which they were told it'll prevent economic calamity, they could wake up Monday morning to a global market meltdown.

It was from the opening bell, a terrifying day on Wall Street.

"No one is quite sure how long it will take out this mess."

The Dow falling more than 800 points before a late-day buying spree a raise half the losses.

There is just an enormous panic, not only at home, but abroad. What we've seen is over the last several weeks, almost a bank a day was going under.

The panic selling began overseas with sharp drops in Asian markets followed by record plunges in Europe. Paris down 9%. Germany down 7%. London, almost 6%.

"It's kind of a vicious circle. We selloff, they worry. They selloff. That extends into our selloff again."

Over the weekend, European governments bailed out 2 huge banking giants. In a scean,yearly reminiscent of what happened in the United States.

"We've never seen a 2-week period. We are so much as gone so wrong altogether."

When the US catches a cold in this global economy, the rest of the world gets pneumonia, and the contagion was evident today.

"If there is a massive slowdown in the US, it will have knock, on effect, on its largest trading partner. And once these two regions go, the rest of the world could plunge into the recession."

In Ohio today, President Bush tried again to reassure Americans the $700 billion rescue plan would stablize the economy.

"In the long run, this economy is going to be just fine."

But many analysts say precious time was lost in negotiating that bill, as Congress debated a credit crisis became a full-blown credit freeze.

"It's almost as the Secretary of the Treasury Paulson yelled "iceburg ahead" two weeks ago, and congress argued about which way to steer the ship."

Today more evidence of the credit freeze, the Wyndham hotel chain announced it's cutting jobs to save cash.

And 92-year-old Joe Cipher closed his Chrysler Dealership in New York, New Jersey after 66 years in business.

"Money is just not availble. It's just not availble from any source whatsoever."

It may amaze you to hear that it was just a year ago, almost to the day, that Dow hit its all time high, closing above 14,000. Now, 4200 points, almost 30% of its value has disappeared along with the investment savings of so many Americans.

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