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The ship has been locked in thick ice with 74 people on board including scientists, crew members and dozens of tourists who paid to go on the trip. they have plenty of supplies. in spite of the predickment, they are all in good spirits. i talked with the expedition leader a short time ago. >> the moral is quite good. the team is fabulous and pull together. people are dealing with it in their own unique ways, of course. we are being supportive and giving regular briefings twice a day to the team ...

An officer retiring at 42 years old is going to lose on average $124,000. when you sit back and think about the sacrifice we made for paul ryan to say we are working adults? lets think of this. we get off of active duty we are broke without a job. we have difficulties in our first ten years getting off of active duty to even be equal to our civilian counterparts. this is an outrageous attitude that they have towards us. >> the attitude well you have skill sets. so do a lot of people who are unem...

Paying tourists. they are all on board this russian flag ship, not far from antarctica and they are stuck. they are stuck in thick ice. chris is the expedition leader. he joins me live from the stranded ship. its great to see you. fist things first, how is everyone doing on board? >> really quite good, actually. surprisingly so. the team is fabulous and pulled together. people are dealing with it in their own unique ways. we are being supportive and giving regular briefings twice a day to the te...

As skill sets go. >> okay. but you could literally replace each others names with in terms of sort of damage done either to a party or a country. >> but, if you are sam stein, why dont you jump in here because i just dont want to get in trouble. ill ask you the question, would you bet that ted cruz is going to be able to recover from his first year in the united states senate in a way better than sarah palin was able to recover from her vice presidential run? >> yeah. because he is going to stic...

We want to make sure that it is. the fact is that people want to work. they want to work below their skill sets, their education and the rest. in the meantime, they need this unemployment check to keep things going. we are not giving up on this fight. >> that was nancy pelosi today during a press conference call on extending unemployment insurance. in five days, 1.3 million americans will lose their unemployment insurance payments after congress failed to extend that benefit into the new year. a...

Starts in education. >> all right, so you want more opportunity for whom? for whom? >> for everyone, but particularly -- >> everyone? >> ill speak about people that are disproportionately affected by a depressed job market, bill. im talking about young, urban men, im talking about still women, absolutely. >> all right, lets talk about young, urban men. >> absolutely. >> all right? so, they dont have as much opportunity as whooite people w are educated, obviously. >> obviously. >> because they ca...

On different things, its a critical thing. thats where the jobs will be. some of these other jobs that will be replaced, i dont know. if your skill sets arent there, i dont know where youre going to land in this economy. in the next five to ten years people better make a point of making sure their kids are prepared or they themselves are prepared. >> ive got to end it there. breaking news with jay carney. to the business panel men, thank you so much. "fast & furious." you knew him from the fil...

I might die in prison. >> reporter: what was everyone talking about? >> motorola just came out with the flip phone. >> reporter: he landed a job at rocket space. >> just this past friday, i was blessed to turn 45 years old. i had good friends asking when what will i do for my birthday. i had to work overtime. to say im going to work felt so good. >> reporter: we sat down with him and two former inmates. all of them have coveted jobs in technology. can prisoners make good entrepreneurs? >> absolu...

Getting people to be interested in health care, wanting to sign up, that stuff was done. the easy part, arguably, the website, getting that up and running, rhetorically giving yourself enough room so you dont have to administer administrative patches, president obama has not done well. >> the caveat is its not often two former presidents are pals. eisenhower famously couldnt stand nixon. reagan never had george h.w. bush up to the private residence. its difficult to do that job when youre one of...

Graduation. dan springer in seattle with details. >> special forces sergeant bernard bergen served in the philippines in afghanistan during his five-year military career. now hes getting ready to leave the army. unlike his fellow soldiers, on the day he gets out, hell have a good tech job at microsoft waiting for him. still hes nervous. >> the big transition into the civilian sector is that you have to retrain all your skill sets. and again, that doesnt always translate well for most people. >> ...