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benefits. its been really at 400 or higher since april. thats really not conducive to cutting the unemployment rate but a good number this week. it fell to 391,000 and thats better than we had expected. another important report, the final read on how fast the economy grew in the second quarter. this is the gdp report. gross domestic product. the sum of everything that this economy puts out and it grew at 1.3%. so, for all those people who are talking about a double-dip recession, this ...

going to make this a make or break. we saw it on the faa when they shut down the federal aviation administration, were seeing it now on this debate about fema, we should be able to have a legitimate debate about emergency aid. why link that into a government shutdown or not. >> ill give the senate democratic leader most of the credit. he manufactured a crisis all week. about disaster when theres no crisis. everybody knows were going to pay for every single penny of disaster aid that th...

catastrophic failure of the justice system. georgia delayed the execution for four hours while the u.s. supreme court considered the case. davis declared his innocence until l the end. he lifted his head from the gournny and told the victims family they had the wrong man. >> and he said to the prison staff, the ones he said who were going to take my life, he said to them, may god have mercy on your souls and his last words were to them, may god bless your souls. then he put his head ba...

Better do it before they start charging for it. it could be 5 bucks. this would automatically update you of any status updates. >> thats not stalking just curiosity of past loves. thats not bad.

Searches for how to type a heart on a keyboard jumped this week. and for the gamer in your life, were also seeing a surge in queries for angry birds and farmville valentines. what does it say when your boyfriend gives you credits for farmville instead of, say, flowers or candy? finally for those of you who have held back from saying what you really think about your boss and your status updates, you are free to let it rip, or it seems that is the impact of a settlement between the feds and a co...

Were following a number of stories. joe johns joins us with the 360 bulletin. joe? >> a texas teacher accused of beating a student. the teacher has been fired and could face criminal charges. the boys family filed a lawsuit against the teacher and the school. a school spokesman said the teachers actions violate the schools principles and quote, we would never tolerate anything like that on the part of a teacher. a fugitive captured in cancun, mexico thanks to help from his facebook page. pled ...

Could face criminal charges. the boys family filed a lawsuit against the teacher and the school. a school spokesman said the teachers actions violate the schools principles and quote, we would never tolerate anything like that on the part of a teacher. a fugitive captured in cancun, mexico thanks to help from his facebook page. pled guilty to fraud charges in seattle. he fled last year, investigators could not find him until he started posting status updates on facebook, saying how much fun he...

Sixth birthday which it celebrated last week, google introduced its own social networking feature called google buzz. the difference, gmail users, those people who use googles e-mail system, will be able to see status updates and share media, pictures, links, websites with friends right from their mailbox. my question is, did we really need another social networking site? impea a big fan, im an early adopter, rachel. you know i like it, you use it more than i do. was there a need for this? is th...

Google buzz. gmail users will be able to see status updates and share media, pictures, links, websites with friends right from their mail box. did we really need another social networking site? im a big fan. you know i like it. you use it more than i do. was there a need for this or is this part of googles efforts to take over the world? >> i think its a little bit of both. its early to know whether this is just another thing we dont need or the thing we didnt know we needed. at first i found it...

>> whether its friending someone or kind of that voyeuristic checking out peoples status updates, profiles, reconnecting with old friends. josh levs is on the lookout. saying millions cannot last a single day without logging on. >> its amazing how fast the world of technology moves and how quickly it changes peoples lives in this era. and this is a good example of it. facebook has now turned 6 years old. and im going to show you some numbers from it i find pretty astounding. this one might not s...