2013 in very fine fashion. the s&p 500 along with the dow, both reaching record highs, while the nasdaq continues to rise. and for the first quarter of 2013, the dow is up 11.25%. the s&p up over 10%. and the nasdaq, up well over 8%. the financial crisis in cyprus is seemingly calm on the second day that banks are open after a two-week shut down. google has been forced to backtrack on its google glass program. they ve had to uninvite some of those 8,000 selected for the pilot program because they shouldn t have been chosen and didn t mean to apply in the first place. well, pedro quezada, the new jersey man who won the $338 million jackpot, turns out he owes $29,000 in back child support. alex rodriguez will make more this year than all of the houston astros team combined. a-rod won t even play until midseason, but his salary beats the entire astros payroll of about $25 million.
good morning. it is thursday, september 15th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol costello. get ready for the president response to president obama s jobs bill. he and the rest of congress have had a few days to leaf through the jobs plan, the obama jobs plan. so now we ll just have to wait and see whether boehner picks a fight over the plan or offers an olive branch. president obama is already taking indirect swipes at congressional republican. listen to what he told the congressional hispanic caucus last night. if we re being honest, we know the real problem isn t the members of congress in this room. it s the members of congress that put party before country because they believe the only way to resolve our differences is to wait 14 months until the next election. i have news for them. the american people don t have the luxury of waiting 14 months. 14 months from now as in november 2012. probably a topic that dominated dinner conversation between two republican