whether it worked is also the subject of debate. it hasn t turned around more, i think is a testimony to just how deep a hole we have dug for ourselves. a bit of a mess. i mean, they wanted to get it through quickly and sort of handed the reins to congress and said you ve got everybody and every district wanting some of it and so i think it could have been handled better. both parties, political parties, have to use numbers from the stimulus package for they own political end, so objective analysis is hard to come by, bill. bill: is anybody objective in that town, by the way? i mean, there is an independent body that has been able to analyze the numbers and, to do it fairly? the nonpartisan congressional budget office found the stimulus helped the economy, marginally and found the second quarter of 2010, it raised the gross domestic product by between 1.7 and 4.5% and lowered the unemployment rate, by between .7
bill: if we do have taliban back on its heels maybe this is the right call. you have 290,000 afghan security forces that are now equipped and trained to an afghan level that could perhaps take on the taliban and keep them from taking power again. or also take on died before they inflict further damage. the growth and development of the afghan security forces has been a good thing. we are turning over to them in the south as we speak. what remains is that campaign in the north against the haqqani network. most of us look at the numbers coming out as quickly as they are that puts that effort at risk. bill: it s like fighting the mob.
aniston. but these guys have a ways to go. you can see from that live shot just how far down it is to biscayne boulevard before they are out of trouble. we were watching the guy. he was waving his legs and didn t seem to have much of a care in the world. heather: this image is ironic. stuck on the top of a bidding, not too smart. but it does look like he will be okay. bill: we are trying to listen to what the chopper is reporting to the station there in miami. he has been giving us a little bit of information about the company working there. heather: there is some scaffolding. they just lowered him to that. bill: i think it s a fire truck.
stuffed inside his modest apartment in santa monica, california. over $800,000 in cash, 30 firearms to include pistols within rifles and shotguns. several types of knife and several pieces of false identification. bill: apparently they were living on the beach in santa monica. bulger s girlfriend shown here in a photo. the fbi says it was a tv ad campaign targeting her love for cosmetic and dental treatments that led to her arrest. heather: it turns out this happens a lot. this is according to a nupt report. 494 fugitives have been placed on the top-10 list. of those 465 have been caught or located. that s a 94% success rate.
going after google, reports says the ftc will issue subpoenas to google imminently, to open a formal investigation into the internet search giant. the concern is whether google is abusing its dominance on the web. with you and me. but, individuals could only smuggle small amounts of cocaine. next came speedboats. but, these have recently fallen prey to chopper mounted 50 caliber marks men who take out engine blocks. today, semi submersibles emphasize stealth over speed. bill: they are going under water with the submarines and away look at how the drug cartels in south america are using custom-made submarines to transport 8 tons of cocaine, worth $250 million. on the streets. and, now from the columbian jungle to tell us what they found, steven hougaard, the