Updated 5:30pm EST

The show has taken a bit of turn as The Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 550 points in five minutes and a total of nearly 1,000 in total. Then as quickly as it fell, it came back up. The Wall Street roller coaster ride today also pushed the euro to its lowest level in over a year. Meanwhile in Greece, the Parliament passed a package of austerity measures in hopes of preventing an economic collapse. Thousands in Greece are protesting the government and the rioting turned violent on Wednesday when protesters set fire to a bank, killing three workers. What would make you take to the streets here in the US in protest of the government? Call our comment line at 877-8-MYTAKE or leave us a message here on our website.

To help explain how Greece’s economy may have impacted the markets today, we’ll talk with Charlie Herman, The Takeaway and WNYC economics editor. And later in the morning, new unemployment numbers come out. We’ll be watching that closely to bring you the latest.

Anna Sale here on the day shift.

The report out today from the President's Cancer Panel got us talking this morning. It warns that widespread exposure to toxic chemicals is causing "grevious harm" to our bodies and needs to be better regulated. This is not the first time these red flags have been raised, but this is from a panel that New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof calls "the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream." Among other things, the report recommends avoiding certain foods, toys and garden products, as well as microwaving your food in plastic containers. We'll talk about it tomorrow, but we're starting the conversation online now: Do reports like this make you change your behavior? Are you willing to give up plastic bottles, eat more organic food and filter your water to reduce your cancer risk?

We are also continuing to cover developments in the investigation of the Times Square bomb attempt. We're closely watching the reporting about the nature of the suspect, Faisal Shahzad's, ties to the Pakistani Taliban. We're in touch with reporters in Pakistan as well as terrorism and security experts here.

We will end our week of coverage of the oil slick in the Gulf Coast by looking at how this is changing the energy policy debate in the United States. We know the political ground has shifted around off-shore drilling, but we're asking energy experts how other cost/benefit analyses are being recalcuated.

Finally, in recognition of Mother's Day this weekend (don't forget!), we've got two segments in the works about motherhood. Molly Ringwald, who made her name in teen movies with notably few parents present, talks to us growing up in front of cameras, becoming a mother herself, and her new book "Getting the Pretty Back." And we'll look at mothers in movies over the years with Newsday film critic Rafer Guzman.

And we're launching a new photo project! Everybody seems to be talking about the new movie, "Babies" that's coming out this weekend. To go with all the baby-talk, we're asking people to send us photos of themselves as a baby, as well as a photo of them now. Add yours to our Facebook page.