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ABC was the only network to assign a reporter to the action on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 416 points to close at 12156. Betsy Stark gave credit to the Federal Reserve Board, which offered to take mortgage loans off banks' books in return for a $200bn injection of credit into the economy…NBC, the network whose sports division has the rights to televise the Beijing Olympics, had Mark Mullen follow up on the decision by Haile Gebrselassie, the asthmatic world recordholder in the marathon, not to compete for fear of his health in the city's polluted air. Mullen reported that Beijing has spent more than $15bn to fight smog, planning to shut down half of the city's traffic when the Games begin and closing 60 factories…the peace in Northern Ireland has found former militants "at a loose end," police in the English countryside told ABC's Nick Watt. Some are turning to crime and farm tractors are "easy to steal because, believe it or not, one key fits all." To prove it Watt climbed aboard a John Deere and revved it up: "I know I am doing. I worked on a cauliflower farm during college."
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