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12.6%. remember those pictures? molly line is in warrick, rhode island for us. i know youve been talking to a lot of people there, theyre just beginning to measure the impact of all that water. what are they telling you? >> reporter: a significant impact here. this is a state that was already in a deep recession that started in the middle of 2007, theyve really been struggling with the job market, with unemployment, about the third highest in the nation at that 12.6%, which is actually a little ...

Former colleagues, but he ordered them to turn in their passports and refrain from carrying guns. jackson left blackwater, now known as z, in a company shake-up last year. a long serving president of the international olympic committee has died. juan antonio samaranch led the ioc from 1980 to 2001 through a period of unprecedented growth and ethics scandals. they died today at a hospital in barcelona, spain, after being admitted for heart trouble. he was 89. visitors who venture up las vegas...

To protect and serve respect not only our constitution but everyones rights in that we would use not only due regard in enforcement of the laws, crime is out of control. we have 17% of illegals coming into america that have already a criminal record in our state. this is a problem. >> what about concerns that if all of you are focused on illegal imgran, youve got other violence happening, other issues in the state of concern that are going to be neglected. >> its all connected, in fact, where a ...

Negotiating that deal could take two months. the firestorm over adoptions sparked by the story of this seven-year-old russian boy who was adopted by an american mother who later rejected him, months into the adoption, sending the boy home on a 1--- one-way flight back to moscow by himself, with a note that said the boy was violent and hard to control. that note also accusing the russian orphanage of misleading her about the boys condition. thousands of americans are in the process right now of a...

Alabamas jeff sessions is the committees lead republican. >> the president, 0 out of all of the fine lawyers and professors in the country and in the ninth circuit, has chosen professor liu and it says something about his approach to the law, his fill lophilosophy law and well be looking into that today. >> what did we learn about the bigger fight to reshape the nations courts including its highest? for the question time, she vets people for judgeships and recommends possible nominees to the whi...

Martha: we have break, news on the state of jobs. in the country. the number of new jobless claims, unexpectedly spiking last week to 484,000. that is a big number, the second highest we have seen for -- in the two straight weeks, i should say, it suggests, obviously, jobs are still tough to come by and more coming up in a live report, from washington. and you might say uncle sams backyard on tax day, is the last stop for this tea party express movement that we have been watching, and obviously ...

People here, tax darks thats where they think about whether is this money going, disappearing off into neverland and im never going to see it again. we will break down this and how much we get taxed compared to other countries. look attackses as a percentage of gross domestic product for the united states, taxes, federal, state, local, all of them, they claimed about 27% of usgdp. that pus a kind of in the middle there. definitely not at the highest because you can see the highest would be denma...

The textile industry employed hundreds of thousands of workers over the last century. today, most of those textile jobs are gone. this is all thats left of that dying industry, empty, decaying factories, jobs gone overseas, where they could be done cheaper, even jobs that stayed were fewer than before. automation meant companies could do more with less labor. the recession caroli carolinas unemployment rate double in two years, to 12.6%, the highest in two decades. now, south carolina is fightin...

Those things that getting better but it doesnt mean that its a perfect picture just yet. >> i guess the big question for dummies like me is, the dow 11,000 still means i dont have as much money as i did back in the day, right? so were still trying to get to that upward climb. and whats going to happen to say, hey, were going up or theres going to be a second pullback. is it earnings from these companies? >> right. weve got a multitude of things that we have to look at. youre right, the highest w...

And instead of giving it to hospitals. >> bill: have you spread it around. >> were going to use it to help people buy insurance. it was not a new burden on the federal government. it was a redirection of what they have been doing before. >> bill: now the president says obama care is going to bring health care costs down. the opposite has happened in massachusetts the health care costs have gone up 13,000 plus per cap attachment im saying if health care costs went up and universal health care in ...