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>> bret: sales of new homes dropped by 12.4% in july to the slowest pace since records began in 1963. orders for big ticket manufacturered goods were up .3 of a percentage point. but take away the 76% jump in demand for commercial aircraft and orders fell 4%, the steepest decline since january. stocks registered slight gains today. the dow was up 19.5. the s&p 500 was up 3.5. the nasdaq gained almost 18. another democrat has come out against the plan for mosque near ground zero. florida democrat debbie wasserman schultz said tuesday on cnn, "i think what it boils down to it is a case just beca...

>> bret: sales of new homes dropped by 12.4% in july to the slowest pace since records began in 1963. orders for big ticket manufacturered goods were up .3 of a percentage point. but take away the 76% jump in demand for commercial aircraft and orders fell 4%, the steepest decline since january. stocks registered slight gains today. the dow was up 19.5. the s&p 500 was up 3.5. the nasdaq gained almost 18. another democrat has come out against the plan for mosque near ground zero. florida democrat debbie wasserman schultz said tuesday on cnn, "i think what it boils down to it is a case just beca...

Six-figure gains for this recovery to actually be sustainable. so what it's just basically is what we've been saying all along, the recovery is very, very sluggish. >> okay, so the real jobless rate, though, holding steady at -- >> 19.5% for the second month in a row, the unemployment rate. growth is slowing down. it slowed the last couple of quarters. you really need to see growth at two to three times the level we're currently seeing in order to bring the unemployment rate down. >> okay. good to know. and we're going to check in now with a woman making big headlines this morning, kr christ...

Those benefits. >> you get 99 weeks. >> june 7, 2012. >> a little over two years. >> a little over 2 years. >> cost us $36 billion. >> i asked the people to put up the chart. i hope you have the chart, guys. for 60 years the duration, the average duration of staying on the unemployment line was anywhere between, say, 10 weeks from top end 20 weeks. mr. obama took office in january, 2008. it was 19.5 weeks at that time. now, 35.2 weeks. it's almost doubled in a year and a half. >> we have so many people who are out of work and we saw the new first-time claims. >> that's not a good number. >> a ...

>> greta: tonight special treat for all of us. sing erakat rib mcphee an "american idol" first runner-up with two -- she went on record earlier. nice to see you. glad to have you back. >> thank you. >> greta: i love your music i admire you for your work with feed the children. >> we are trying to bridge the gaps basically for the summertime children get out of school 19.5 children are fed -- 19.5 million children are fed during the school year and when they are out only 2.2 are being fed during the summer. there's 17 million children going hungry during the summer