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24 years. welcome. >> thank you. good morning. >> good morning. i cant help but notice your t-shirt. what does it say? >> it says we cant survive on $7.35. that seems to be the mantra right now. >> are you going to hit the picket lines yourself later today? >> i was already at mcdonalds, hardys, a bread company, and a jimmy johns this morning. its already underway. those were all downtown st. louis. >> we interviewed you once before, the last time fast food workers, you know, walked off the job....

No sanctioned work action under way. >> my advice is until things get straightened out with the operation, if you have a choice, you ought to book another airline. >> reporter: the question for american is even if it survives bankruptcy, can it survive fighting crews and the damaged customer confidence left behind. jim avila, abc news, washington. >> this is a nightmare for american. if youre going to book a flight right now, are you going to pick american if all things are equal and flights are...

where are those jobs? let me show you how it breaks down. of the 243,000 jobs that were created, 257,000 jobs were created in the private sector. thats where everybody wants them created. you subtract the jobs that were lost by the government, 14,000, and you end up with that number, 243,000. lets talk about this with diane swonk, a chief economist, and with will cain and my good friend richard quest. what a treat to have all three of you with me in the studio. diane, these numbers are...

it is the number one hurdle in this economic recovery and everyone knows it. this country has got to get people back to work. welcome to "your money." im ali velshi. the latest jobs report is excellent, period. heres the breakdown. in the month of january, we created 243,000 jobs. take a look at this. from january of last year all the way, we had great job creation for the first few months of last year. then it cratered in the summer. still not a lot of jobs but it cratered and weve be...

This publicly in hearings, et cetera, that they are in partnership with the airlines and the airlines should be allowed to self-report. if they find a problem and they report it, they receive amnesty. so, the faa has taken a bit of hands-off approach, and in deference to the faa, they only have 3,600 inspectors to cover the world. for example, in china alone there are over 100 repair stations. and so they have to cover the world with a very small workforce, so they allow the carriers to self-rep...