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Hello to you I'm Stacey Elgin at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.

A radical¹ move to try to thaw² out the frozen credit market. The government says it will buy huge amounts of short-term business debt. The practice has come to a standstill since the current financial meltdown. The Fed hopes the move will kick-start short-term loans and help to unfreeze longer-term credit.

Taking a look once again at the live pictures from Congress  grilling³ AIG executives about why the company went south. The government is propping⁴ up the massive insurance company with an 85-billion-dollar loan. Documents obtained by a Democratic-led House Committee show AIG executives hid their increasingly risky⁵ investments from company auditors⁶. Not at the hearing today was AIG's biggest single shareholder⁷, former CEO Maurice Greenberg says he is sick.

Police say financial problems led a California man to kill his family then himself. His body was found yesterday in his L.A. home along with his wife, 3 kids and mother-in-law. They say the man was an unemployed⁸ financial manager. The killer⁹ wrote in a suicide note that killing¹⁰ himself and murdering his family was more honorable than just taking his own life.

A federal judge in Washington is ordering a small group of Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo to be released immediately. The judge says the prisoners are no longer considered enemy combatants. They've been held now for nearly 7 years.

Well it's exactly four weeks until Election Day but only hours until tonight's presidential debate in Nashville , Tennessee. John McCain and Barack Obama have been preparing ahead of the big night. This afternoon Obama holds a campaign rally in Nashville. There are no events scheduled for McCain although his running-mate Sarah Palin had an event earlier today in Florida. Don't forget you can catch the debate and post-debate reaction right here on CNN.com live.

And that's a look at the latest headlines for you this hour, do be sure to stay with CNN for more on these stories and of course other news of the day.