speeches are not inspiring. a 59-point plan he hasn t boiled down to effective pitch. the obama campaign effort to paint romney as a rich guy only trying to get other people richer, is here. you think it s having an effect. it is in the swing states where the adds are running. seeing david axelrod and thought to define romney in the mind of voters who are unfamiliar with romney. and it has had a tremendous impact. not always the case to quantify that difference. where the voters are asked what do you think of romney in terms of his experience with bain capital, they come back with language in the add saying stuff like he was about maximizing the profit. he was not about reducing job jobs. the absence of the specific
construction sector is the hardest hit with unemployment peaking at 27.1% since february 2010. and was still well above the national average at 12.8% last month. the numbers are improving but simonson says the reality is some 750,000 experienced workers have left the field in the last two years. they re finding job jobs in other industry, not in construction. maybe truck driving, manufacturing services or they re going back to school. retiring. reality because employment in the field has essentially been stagnant for much of the past two years. experts say construction demends on overall demand. the rest of the economy must be expanding at a stronger rate beforepiss move forward building offices. on the stump, the president suggested more public sector spending with money used for war in recent years. take the other end and do nation building at home. let s put some folks back to work in ohio. rebuilding our roads.
windows and it was sergeant weichel s demeanor and the way he handled children. he would ensure that ever child received something, with whether it s the smallest thing as a pencil or a booklet to write in. reporter: during those days back home, everyone could see his own children meant everything to him. just excited. these are the most important things to me. my kids. so i m glad to see them on the holidays. reporter: he was pro moted posthumously to sergeant and he is survivored business hi fiance and three children. barbara starr, cnn. top of the hour, i m suzanne malveaux. we re able to hear from president obama and the leersd of canada and mexico. they re meeting at the white house. he s with the canadian prime minister and the mexican if the. the t meeting critical as they discuss the economy. jobs, trades, energy as well as our security. we re expecting to hear there them in less than 15 minutes. we ll bring to it you live. and a passenger plane crashed in a
lean on me, when you re not strong, and i ll be your friend. see you around. yeah. i ll help you carry on. live from america s news headquarters newt gingrich is savouring victory as the winner of the south carolina g.o.p. primary promising to make jobs a top priority if elected president. i worked with ronald reagan to create jobs and 16 million job jobs were created in 1980. i worked with bill clinton in the four years i was speaker. i would like to be the best paycheck president in american history. former massachusetts
police firing tear gas to try to discourage occupy oakland. the police say they cracked down after the protesters threw paint and rocks at them. at the same time this was going on, atlanta police moved in on the wall street protesters camped in a downtown park. there were more than 100 arrests last night combined in both oakland and atlanta. and rescuers pulled two more people out of collapsed buildings in eastern turkey today. the number of people killed in sunday s powerful earthquake has climbed now to 461. turkey is asking for tents and prefabricated homes of prefab homes, the ones essentially built elsewhere and bring them in and construct them on site. police say that people are homeless and spending the nights outdoors and freezing temperatures there now. and people are jamming the square in the heart of damascus today to show support for syrian president bashar al assad, and the rally comes as the arab league ministers visit damascus. they want to mediate talks be