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Unemployment rate continue to add jobs between now and the election. >> among those hardest hit by this nonrecovery recovery, iraq war veterans. the bls report shows that veterans from all wars endure a jobless rate of 6.9% right now, but for the period since the toppling of saddam hussein that rate rises to 8.9%. jon and jenna, not a lot of good news in there. james rosen. >> reporter: afraid not. thanks. jenna: this next story certainly caught our attention on "happening now." a nonprofit orga...

Tractor. roger pion held now in the state police barracks not far away from this town. no word on what his new charges will be after this incident, jon? jon: and i guess they couldnt chase him on the tractor because they didnt have any patrol cars in the lot. >> reporter: no. they had to call the other half of the fleet that was out, and they all had to come back from, you know, crime solving, what they were doing, to go after the tractor. jon: leaves you scratching your head, doesnt it? >> repo...

Have it operate there and do all the science that it is expected to do. it is a very, very caveable rover. jon: i love this animation. it looks like exciting stuff. i hope it works just for, just for the folks at nasa and for a little good ol usa pride what we can accomplish. i hope this thing goes off. sunday night well be watching. scott, thanks. >> ill be watching too, thanks. jon: scott horowitz. appreciate it. jenna: well, in syria a mortar attack hitting a refugee camp in damascus. more th...

That al qaeda is finding it easiers to recruit and raise money after morale was wipe out by u.s. forces in iraq. car bombs recently in syria, they are improvised explosive devices are carbon copies of ieds used by al qaeda in iraq at the height of the insurgency. fox news was told that jihadist from iraq are flown into syria. they share a common border. the head of the house intelligence committee broke down the numbers. >> 275 plus different groups identified themselves in opposition of the ass...

Consecutive job growth. >> right. jon: is that a bragging point? can he say. >> jon, if you have lemons you have to make lemonade. he will try to put the best possible spin he can on it. were not in recession. the question voters will have to make, the question they will have to answer to themselves, is this good enough, is this kind of job growth good enough? what were seen employers are basically saying were going to do status quo. were not going to move. well only hire the number of people we...

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48th in job creation under governor romney. i lived back in massachusetts under 90s. >> that is not right. lowered taxes and -- >> no, no. people moved out. he raised fees on everybody from businesses to unemployment to everybody else. having lived in massachusetts i can vouch for that first-hand. governor romney was disaster in massachusetts and would be disaster. jon: flip side of that most effective employment tools the obama administration has seen is adults leaving the workforce because tha...

[laughter] >> exactly. jon: at least rahm emanuel managed to keep his news conference free of four-letter epithets. at any rate, thank you both, judy miller, rich lowry. thanks. >> thanks, jon. jon: and we will have more tomorrow, 2:30 eastern time. our panelists assemble to cover the coverage of the big stories of of the week. jenna: new reaction from baseball hall of famer cal ripken on his mothers abduction. vi ri ripken was taken from her home, later found unharmed nearby. how shes doing now...

There you see in the lower part of your screen the intrepid, where theyre making ready to bring aboard shuttle enterprise. laura engle is live at the scene and watch and hopefully take us all along as the enterprise gets hoisted onto the deck. laura? >> reporter: absolutely jon. it has been a spectacular sight all day longwith a lot of anticipation as we watch the space shuttle enterprise floating along the hudson river. we will give you a love look. my cameraman will show it there with the whit...

Analyst juan williams. juan, is it all about the economy, is that what is leading the presidents number to pick upwards? >> absolutely jon. you know, you can look inside the poll and you see that independent voters in particular have shifted. about a month ago in the same poll, cbs-"new york times" poll, you had independent voters favoring romney and romney equal or even with president obama. now, those independent voters have swayed towards the president and thats the basis for the presidents s...