torch gate coming. good morning, everyone. i'm carol costello. we have breaking news on the economy to start off and it's not so great news because the number of americans filing for unemployment benefits surged this week, alison kosik live from the new york stock exchange to tell us why. good morning. >> garood morning. this is catching our eye, the first hard numbers we're getting of what kind of effect that the shutdown is having on americans. now, this is a huge increase in the first time claims for unemployment benefits. they jumped 66,000 last week, a bit of perspective here, this is the biggest jump that we've seen since superstorm sandy hit a year ago, it brought the number of claims to a total of 374,000. now, of that 66,000 that put in these new claims 15,000 people, 15,000 of those claims are people directly impacted by this government shutdown. these are people who work in the private sector, government