university but wanted immediate marketable skills. >> i'm good with books. i can do the books. i can read the books. that's a really simple part. but i also have to learn hands on. >> that hands-on training and growing demand for technicians, especially to refurbish an aging air fleet has more than two dozen companies calling every week looking for new talent. it sounds like you guys are always hiring. >> we are. we have anywhere between 10, 20, sometimes up to 30 people on a weekly basis. >> reporter: many of the skills these people are working will transfer over to the green technologies that the president believes are so important in getting the economy back on track. >> tom, thank you. jack cafferty is asking how are rising gas prices affecting your way of life? and libyan revels retreat in a critical oil city after being bombarded by gadhafi's bombs. we're going to the battlefield.