thank you for your time. the obama administration is putting the $7 billion cross-country oil pipeline on the back burner until after the 2012 election to study alternate routes. the state department announced the pipeline project would go 1,700 miles from top of the map you see there from canada cutting through the midwest on down to u.s. oil refineries in the gulf. environmentalists are praising that decision. critics claim the delay will cost the u.s. 20,000 new jobs. time for your business entrepreneur of the week. high tech marketing to engage customers at the new york based garnet liquors. they use their smartphones and customers learn about wines and get discounts. and nina is not alone. codes are now everywhere. for more watch your business sunday mornings at 7:30 on msnbc.
good. the unemployment rate is still stuck at 9.1%. dan lothian is adding up the numbers. what do they mean for the president and for the american pe people? the economy is having a difficult time finding traction even as the 2012 campaign ramps up. republicans are blaming this on the president s quote failed policies, but this is all showing a sense of urgency for the president and members of congress that they need to do something now. on a beautiful fall day in the nation s capitol, nothing but blue skies and sunshine. but a dark cloud continues to linger over the nation s economy. the reason we re not seeing the hiring we want is because we re not seeing the economic growth we need. the latest numbers bare that out. unemployment remains at 9.1%, what a white house called unacceptably high. while employers added 103,000 jobs, the report was relative weak. it is far from good enough. white house aides say this underscores the need for quick action on the president
pipeline project. on one side you have the canadian company trying to get oil down to refineries in texas. on the other side, you have environmentalists who say, hey, this project just threatens a massive underground water source for people in eight states. caught in the middle of all this could actually be the white house. this is a big story coming to us from nebraska, and that s where we find steve brown. hi, steve. reporter: hey there, jenna. yeah, the obama administration s under a lot of pressure out here because of this particular issue. here s why. the canadian company transcanada wants to build an oil pipeline all the way from southern alberta all the way down through the u.s. down to the texas gulf coast where all those oil refineries are. the problem is that environmentalists and some nebraska farmers and ranchers say that the proposed route for the pipeline passes over the ogallala aquifer, the water source for eight states. should the pipeline ever leak, the environmenta
moving forward on paste. and america says she s open to all those ideas of the she wants to give us a peace process to continue as well and she said yesterday the important thing is to avoid a humanitarian crisis in live in northern syria but i think anything that could shorten the war there that would appeal to angela merkel and to other european leaders so there seems to have been progress on ukraine and the two leaders do have some common interests regarding energy what was that that they talked about yesterday we have as this know would stream to pipeline project would bring even more russian gas through the baltic sea to germany a very important project for russia putin said you know this would make russia an even more reliable energy partner for europe don t trump by the way says it would make germany totally dependent on russia so he s critical of it but merkel says that what she wants is russia to agree that even with nord stream two russian gas
there he was in ukraine before then he came to moscow they went back to ukraine to really reassure the ukrainian side that they would if russia agrees remain a transit country for gas even if this pipeline project continues and today it did seem that there was some progress on not. that ukraine would remain a transit country for gas but he did also leave kind of a back door open and said that they would remain a transit country as long as it was economically viable so there was some progress there but we ll have to see what happens with with that deal and with with the pipeline project as well how about emily on another sticking point because. they very much disagree for example with regard to syria and in particular you know with regard to land ownership there do you see any progress on that front.