Fast Forward

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Some of the stories that will be making news later today:

Residents in Fargo, North Dakota are in a race to save their city again. This morning they'll resume filling sandbags to reinforce the make-shift levees. Next week the Red River is expected to rise just a few inches shy of last month's record 40 foot crest.

At 9:30am ET former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will be the featured speaker at a health care conference in Chicago. Greenspan is expected to discuss the current state of the economy and its impact on the nation's health care system.

A New York bankruptcy court could rule today on a request to auction off one of Bernard Madoff's seized assets – two New York Mets season tickets. Officials liquidating the convicted investment schemer's assets are hoping to sell the tickets to the highest bidder in an online auction this month. Court documents list the value of the season ticket package at $60,750.

At 10am ET Vice President Joe Biden and his wife welcome home U.S. troops returning to Fort Bragg in North Carolina from a second tour of duty in Iraq. The more than 200 soldiers have spent the past 15 months in Iraq.

At 9:30am ET Wall Street kicks off the trading day hoping to reverse two straight days of losses. Right now overseas markets are trading down. Hong Kong tumbled more than 3 percent. Japan's Nikkei closed down more than two and a half percent.

And around the world this morning at dawn some devout Jews will bless the sun. It's a ritual that comes around once every 28 years. According to Jewish tradition the sunrise will be in the same position as it was when God created the universe.