London Violence and Looting Spreads; Teen Curfew Ordered in Philly; Violence Flares in British Streets; Questions About Afghan Chopper Attack
PHILLIPS: Checking the markets for you. We're still in positive territory. That's good news. Dow Industrials up 162 points. Now, 66, 166 points. Our money team is on it. We'll keep talking about how the downgrade is impacted our 401(k), and how the markets are going to turn out this afternoon. We'll keep watching them. All right, another major story that we keep watching, as well. Three nights of rioting in London and violence spreading to other British cities, as well. Now Prime Minister David Cameron vowing to get tough with a huge call-up of police. CNN's Atika Shubert following that story for us out of London. She's joining us once again live. Atika, what do you know?</s>ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, basically what we know is that Prime Minister Cameron has said he's going to put out more police on the streets and looters will feel the full force of the law. Sixteen thousand cops will be out on the street tonight, compare that to just 6,000 that were out last night. But is that going to be enough? Here in west London in Ealing, it's a relatively affluent community, without any of the history of violence they've seen in some of the other areas. But look at what happened. I mean, the windows have been smashed in and the grocery store on the corner here just was lit on fire. And firefighters have now cleared the area so the cleanup has just started around here. But residents here say it was an absolutely harrowing, that they narrowly escaped, as kids basically set upon the area, set cars on fire, and then completely ransacked and looted shops. So people here are encouraged to hear that there will be more cops on the street. But they're also wondering if more forceful measures are going to be taken. Whether water canons, tear gas, maybe even a curfew should be imposed.</s>PHILLIPS: We'll follow it. Atika Shubert live out of London. Thanks. Well, it's going to be a very emotional day for the families of more than 30 U.S. troops killed in a chopper crash in Afghanistan over the weekend. The bodies of those killed are being taken to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware today. Meantime, there are some new questions, new reports surfacing about that attack, and why it happened. Retired General Russel Honore is joining me now live. So General, first of all, the reports that are out there about this U.S. helicopter possibly caught up in a Taliban trap. What are your sources within the military telling you? Do you think there's truth to this? LT. GENERAL RUSSELL HONORE, U.S. ARMY</s>PHILLIPS: And yet you put --</s>HONORE: -- Special Forces.</s>PHILLIPS: You make a good point with regard to the Special Forces, and you know, we're talking about Air Force, and we're talking about Navy. We're also talking about Army and we're talking about the best of the best here. And these reports are saying that allegedly a Taliban commander put out some sort of notice about this meeting that was going to happen with all these Taliban leaders. And that this news lured the Special Forces to head this way and to head down this route, and the report's coming forward saying it was a trap that our warriors, our most elite warriors, got caught in this trap. Is that possible? And if so, what does that tell us about being in this war, 10 years later and falling victim to something like this?</s>HONORE: Well, I think the Taliban has the luxury to make that story paint to their tactical brilliance. But the report coming from the department right now, and the officials chains, said a ranger unit was in there conducting an operation, to go after a Taliban leader, and in the process of doing that. They became so decisively engaged, they asked for immediate help, and the SEAL team, in that CH-47 helicopter, which is one of the few helicopters we have that can operate at high altitude, went in, in daylight, to try and rescue those rangers. And no other armed forces we have, none of our conventional forces, are trained to operate at that altitude in any, what we call, a contested LZ, to be able to do that. In this case, the Taliban got the best of them with the</s>RPG. PHILLIPS: Wow. And you mentioned it must have been desperate to go in to a hot LZ, a hot landing zone loaded with the most elite warriors in our forces. We'll continue to follow the investigation. General, thanks. For more on the helicopter crash and its victims just go to CNN's national security blogs, security clearance at cnn.com/security. All right we are watching the markets for you right now. Dow Industrials still in positive territory, 194. We're keeping a close eye on the numbers for you. We'll be right back. Also coming up, Republican Hopeful Michele Bachmann on "Newsweek's" new cover and has blogs and conservative voices talking. We'll explain in political buzz coming up.