Nasdaq announcing they will be open tomorrow for regular Trading Operations. More on that coming up. Melissa one week until election day how will the northeast impact boating . Neil cavuto will join us later in the hour. Breaking news. Hurricane sandy. You want to tell us where we are going . Lets go to robert gray who is standing by in new york with more on this. Robert thanks very much. Fluid situation out here, but we grab colonel paul owen with the u. S. Army corps of engineers. Thanks for joining us on fox business. Talked to was a little bit about the situation. You are surveying Lower Manhattan and had a look around more of the city before we grab you here. How is the situation after the storm last night . Doing remarkably well dues to the city prepared this and the state preparedness. They have done a great job building the infrastructure in order to withstand that tremendous storm we had last night. A historical storm. Robert you have been around a lot of these storms. How doe
Nasdaq announcing they will be open tomorrow for regular Trading Operations. More on that coming up. Melissa one week until election day how will the northeast impact boating . Neil cavuto will join us later in the hour. Breaking news. Hurricane sandy. You want to tell us where we are going . Lets go to robert gray who is standing by in new york with more on this. Robert thanks very much. Fluid situation out here, but we grab colonel paul owen with the u. S. Army corps of engineers. Thanks for joining us on fox business. Talked to was a little bit about the situation. You are surveying Lower Manhattan and had a look around more of the city before we grab you here. How is the situation after the storm last night . Doing remarkably well dues to the city prepared this and the state preparedness. They have done a great job building the infrastructure in order to withstand that tremendous storm we had last night. A historical storm. Robert you have been around a lot of these storms. How doe
The new book the operators the wild and terrifying inside story of americas war in afghanistan. Cspan michael, why did you call the book the operators the wild and terrifying inside story of americas war in afghanistan . Other than the operators the wild and terrifying inside story of americas war in afghanistan is what special forces call themselves. They call themselves special forces operators. It refers to special operators. I thought everyone involved in the conflict from diplomatics to journalists to Public Relations people, to aid workers had a bit of an operator in there to people in the white house to people in the embassy in afghanistan. Cspan you total all the time you spent in iraq and afghanistan and the number of trip you made, what are the numbers . Guest a lot of time in disr a lot more time in iraq an afghanistan. For the book i did four trips to afghanistan. A good chunk of i think i spent four of my last five christmases or four of the last six christmases in either
Coming in on Unemployment Insurance claims and car sales suggest that the recovery is gaining traction. Weve had three years where weve added 6. 4 million private sector jobs over the last five months, four of the last five months over 200,000 jobs have been added, important the construction sector has been adding jobs, but theres much more work that needs to be done. Too many people are unemployed, middle class families are under stress even before the recession hit so the president remains focused on strengthening the recovery and making sure that we build on the progress that weve seen so far. Granting that there is still a relatively higher than normal unemployment especially among minorities and especially among the youth, do these numbers suggest, however, that the economy is better able today to stand on its own two feet without the help of monetary or fiscal stimulus, and is it better able today to withstand the federal budget cuts or spending cuts that are in the pipeline . We
Cutting across all sectors of the economy, and that burst in hiring inspired investors. Stocks were up again today making this a week of records for the Dow Jones Industrial average. The dow rose 6 points closing at 14,397, another record high. The nasdaq added 12, the s p edged up 7 points and this is the tenth straight friday of the year that the major market averages were up. So where are the new jobs . What sectors are still seeing weakness and what is the role of the Federal Reserve in the labor market . Steve liesman has our report. Reporter a solid jobs report renewing hopes that the u. S. Economy could be chugging along just fast enough to put americans back to work. Economists are encouraged by this report but theyre concerned that the strength may not last. Thats why Goldman Sachs Economist Says the Federal Reserve is unlikely to change its easing Monetary Policy from this report alone. The question i think is more how many times months do you have to see to be convinced that