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Work the rate of attrition has been extraordinary. consider in 2006, at the height of the housing bubble, more than 350,000 americans worked as real estate brokers and analysts, high for the decade. by the end of 2010, it dwindled to below 200,000, lowest in a decade. five years ago, 145,000 americans were employed as mortgage and non-mortgage loan brokers. now only 60,000 people are employed, workforce decimated by more than half. hard hit is the moving industry. >> things dropped off dramatica...

In john gills own line of work the rate of attrition has been extraordinary. consider in 2006, at the height of the housing bubble, more than 350,000 americans worked as real estate brokers and analysts, high for the decade. by the end of 2010, it dwindled to below 200,000, lowest in a decade. five years ago, 145,000 americans were employed as mortgage and non-mortgage loan brokers. now only 60,000 people are employed, workforce decimated by more than half. hard hit is the moving industry. >> th...

We have given him support for 30 years. for now us having made clear that he needs to make available parliamentary elections and changes that he refused to listen to us. were not abandoning an ally. he did this to himself because he didnt listen to the things we said to him privately. there will be a new leadership in egypt. we dont know what it will be. but we shouldnt jump to believe that the muslim brotherhood is going to capture the country of egypt. there are hundreds of thousands of secula...

The grio an nbc website devoted to african-american stories and perspecti perspective, out with the second annual list of movers and shakers. among them, lisa price, wife and mom who turned her passion for natural beauty products in a multimillion dollar company. ♪ >> reporter: the one who helped turn grammy-winning artist mary j. bliges first perfume into a record-breaking success is not a familiar face, but this wife and mother of three and her company, carols daughter, has transformed the b...

So its consistent, consistent with global warming which means more swings in the weather which means more hurricanes, more droughts as well as more monster storms, and were going to have to get used to it. >> the boston area is dealing with about a foot of new snow. reynolds wolf checking out conditions for us this morning. hey, reynolds. >> reporter: hey, ill tell you what, we certainly did have quite a bit of snow here yesterday. 11.5 inches in boston. certainly not the biggest snowfall theyve...

Switzerland, this is "world business today." davos is where john is catching up with the movers and shakers. john, hows day one going? >> not bad. it is just warming up to be candid, pauline. not very important policy speeches in particular this morning about the security situation in the middle east and then the financial system and this rising unemployment you still see in the g-7 countries, as well. there is a question that people ask every year including somebody like me poking around the ha...

>> i would say overall, she is doing great. since she has been here, she has shown improvements every day. we are very, very pleased with her progress. >> reporter: the last we heard, the congresswoman was not able to speak or stand on her own. we hope to learn more as a press conference this afternoon. carol? >> it all sounds so encouraging, though. elizabeth cohen, many thanks, live in houston today. at the top of the hour, president obama was on his way to wisconsin. we understand he has now ...

Materials. but your reason number 3 is cost of material has come down. >> just because of the economic slow down and the housing slow down. demand for building supplies has just plummeted. whenever demand drops, then prices will drop as well. drywall, framing lumber, both are down 20% since their peak. not all supplies have come down that low, but in general, its a very good time to be purchasing building supplies today. >> gregg: excess inventory sitting on store shelves. they got to unload it,...

Closing part of highway 20. downed trees, tons of mud blocked the roadways throughout the northwest. parts of oregon. earth movers worked into the night trying to get the roads moving. jacqui jeras. did i say that right? is it randel? >> yes. it is a rough weekend. with all the rivers out of their banks. we have been stuck in this wet pattern across the pacific northwest for three weeks so the soil is really, really moist and hanging at the threshold where things are going be sliding. we are sti...

Touching scene to be out here. >> this reminds us this is good in the world. >> live pictures. you are looking at it outside the university medical center in tucson. look at the memorial. people had been gathering. since this began last weekend. lets move on. hollywood honors the best in movie skpes television. live on the red carpet with movers and shakers and entertainment. keep your eyes peeled for stars as they swing by. there they are on the red carpet. the new chair of the rnc. what is the...