AP - Stocks plunged for a second straight day Thursday falling to a ranges not seen in six years as financial and energy stocks tumbled and as demand for the safety of government debt spiked to historic levels.

AP - Democratic leaders in Congress sidetracked legislation to bail out the auto industry Thursday and demanded the Big Three develop a plan assuring the money would make them economically viable. "Until they show us the plan we cannot show them the money" Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-Calif. said at a hastily called news conference in the Capitol.