unemployed group. unfortunately or fortunately, i ve become a poster child for my own organization and almost finding myself becoming something of a jobs advocate, because we really need both sides working together. john, appreciate the time, employment advocacy group neighbors helping neighbors, thanks for coming on today. appreciate it. 15 minutes, president obama will give remarks on the long-term unemployment crisis. msnbc, we will have live coverage. still to come, though, we ll hear from the reverend al sharpton. we re also following, excuse me, i was saying good-bye to john there. we learned world champion lindsey vonn will not compete in the sochi olympic games. vonn will have surgery on her right knee, which she injured december the 21st. she will not recover in time to compete, so the games loses one of its biggest stars.