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Than an hour until the closing bell. record-setting day on wall street, folks. the dow jones industrial average topping 15,000. that is a new high. it is just below at the moment. getting a live look here, up 136 points, just below, again, that 15,000 mark. whats happening today, you ask? well, big boost comes after the monthly jobs report. it came out this morning for the month of april showing that the economy added 165,000 jobs. the unemployment rate fell to 7.5%. that is the lowest we have s...

i want to bring in mark preston to talk about with what all of this means. i guess in a way mark, we knew that things were partisan. thats not surprising. but if you look at how pew researchers measure this, 48 different ways of measuring how we feel about politics over the years, and they find that were more divided than ever. almost double over the past 25 years. why? >> you know suzanne, talk about a comprehensive study that pew has done now, you know, theres a lot of reasons. and w...

News/marist poll showing mitt romney appearing to be losing ground with conservatives instead of winning them over. the poll shows that while romney trailed newt gingrich by 5% on monday, by tuesday after that 16%. romneys trouble with conservatives is the subject of the cover story in the new "national journal," entitled "romney the follower." ron fournier, editor in chief, joins me now. ron, in fact, as i was say earlier to david gregory and matt bai, my information today is that from inside t...

tie. doesnt change the delegate count. mitt romney saying in his statement this, the results from the iowa caucus revealed a virtual tie. i would like to thank the iowa republican party for their careful attention to the caucus process. people might want to talk about that a little bit and recognize rick santorum for his strong performance in the state. great start to defeating president obama in iowa and else where in the general election. he leaves out a big thing which is, really, i...

by our election team and around the country and the world. stand by to learn more about edith and carolyn, who solved the case of the missing votes. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." so long, iowa, hello, new hampshire. the republican presidential candidates are zeroing in on the next battlefield and a big primary coming up on tuesday. the front-runner, mitt romney, is following up his squeaker win in iowa with a new endorsement from senator john mccain who beat him in ...

>> clayton: what about herman cains comment hes going to endorse someone. there will ab endorsement. a lot of republicans say i dont want at that endorsement, id like your supporter, but i dont know. how would you advise a campaign that receives that endorsement, walk away from it. >> i think at that newt wants it badly. the fact that health care still has 14 to 17%,s not a pariah. theres a number of conservatives who are very enthusiastic about him and i think quite frankly its likely he will e...

spread to half of the country. its been linked to ground turkey. what you need to know about this recallo keep your family safe. im ashe velshi. burning up another day of searing heat. its already proving deadly on this "american morning." good morning to you. are you awake yet? >> you will be. >> happy thursday. its august 4th. this is "american morning." theres a lot going on today. >> we should get right to it. >> i want to talk first about the heat. heat is on congress to finis...

Allison kos siison kosik has mo new york stock exchange. >> if youre a recent college grad who is lucky enough to have a job right now, youre making an average of $1,300 less this year than the class of 09. who got hit the hardest? actually psychology majors. their average salary for psyche majors is down more than 5%. business administration majors are also taking a hit, too. the national association of colleges and employers says thats because they are taking different kinds of jobs like sales...

Than football, you know. as we all know, new orleans has had such a hard time, and it really needs a boost, and the saints have always been that boost from the first season they played after katrina until now. and for them to even get to the super bowl was so uplifting for the city, not only economically, but i think emotionally it really was a big, big boost. and then for them to win the super bowl, im still reeling. i still feel like im dreaming the whole thing. it feels like the most exciting...

Big snow totals. not as big for d.c. this time. five to ten inches for d.c. but more up in baltimore. the first shot you saw, thats the interstate around baltimore. new york city, the same, but some spots west of the city, west of ridgewood and wayne and wyckoff and out there in those higher elevations, 18 inches of snow. boston not started till morning, but 16 on the ground in some spots there. like you said, this will put a real big damper on any travel across the eastern united states. now, j...