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Australias east coast when the shark came right up on him. hes now recovering from deep cuts and puncture wounds to his left foot and ankle. comes about a month after another surfer had a close encounter with a shark. just a week before a third surfer lost both his hands and a forearm. the search will resume this morning for a missing fireworks factory worker in england. authorities want to make sure the fire is completely out. roads were closed and neighbors told to stay indoors after the fir...

Of this year. cnn business correspondent alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange to tell us more. >> microsoft is trying to be a leaner tech giant. the ceo announces the cuts this morning and says the first step to building the right organization for our ambitions is to realign our workforce, the overall results of these changes will be more productive and impactful teams across microsoft. the company has 127,000 employees, amounting to 14% of its workforce. it got about 25,000 of the emp...

Overseas and until recently were also being purchased by our armed forces. claudia cowan has more on the fight under way for american-made stars and stripes. >> its always a star-spangled day here at north bay industries in northern california, just outside san francisco, a non-profit factory workers stitch together 350 american flags every day for the department of veterans affairs. by law, the v.a. can only buy american-made american flags but other government agencies buy flags made overseas....

Argument? >> right. its this uncomfortable fact. i think this is part of the same conversation. and this is not about blaming groups that are disadvantaged. the reason they are disadvantaged is slavery and discrimination. but there are still some people rising from very low -- you know, modest backgrounds to positions of affluence. >> and misery. >> and some groups more than others. there is a striking study in los angeles that, you know, children of vietnamese, chinese and korean parents, you t...

Make sure we can make sure job training programs better match up with the needs of businesses around america. elizabeth plank is the executive social editor and rich benjamin a senior fellow at the think tank, welcome to both of you. you sat with me during the presidents speech there. let me start with you, this is part of an effort thats become somewhat customariry for presidents as of late. they hit the road and take their message to the people of america, thats what were seeing president obam...

In less than four hours, well know for sure. economists surveyed expect this number, 193,000 jobs added in december. thats 2.3 million new jobs, the strongest in eight years. unemployment expected to hold at 7%, but one big problem area here is still the long-term unemployment. how long is a person out of work? 17 weeks, thats just over 4 months. the longer youre out of work, the harder it is to find a job. the odds are 31% if you have been out of work for five weeks. 9% after one year. the numb...

Saying. >> the team has what they need to charge her with prostitution. they hope by booking her, interviewing her away from the mamasan they may learn valuable information about the criminal network behind massage parlors and hope her to get out of the life. >> there were three girls working and only wint to jail. the other girls identify just arrived or said they had only been here a few day thes. >> while much of the funding goes to fighting traffickers. there is more insidious slavery. the e...

That child sold her on purpose or gave her up on purpose because either she didnt want the child or couldnt afford it or, you know, any number of reasons. but if the mother purposefully gave it up and is not going to come forward even if she knows thats her child, then theres going to be very little the authorities can do. as i said, there are many organized crime groups throughout the world, particularly in europe and eastern europe, that specialize abducting people of all ages and theres a mar...

So, what are you waiting for? go call now! well finish up here. today factory workers in more than 50 cities are walking off the -- fast food workers in more than 50 cities are walking off the job. [ chanting ] >> todays strikes could be the biggest yet. all year the protests have been gaining steam. workers want the federal wage to be raised to $15 to put them on

>> $500, $600. >> officers find $907. >> maam, youre under arrest for prostitution. do you understand what im saying? >> the team has what they need to charge her with prostitution. they hope that by booking her and interviewing her away from the mamasan, they may be able to learn valuable information about the criminal network behind massage parlors. and hopefully help her get out of the life. >> only one get to jail, the other girls we identified, they just arrived or said they have been here ...