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Intel, merck, all up over 20%. really interesting. these are consumery stocks so you ask are people feeling better, shopping? they're working. 288,000 jobs created in retail, business services, accountants are working. manufacturing saw a four-month high in job hiring. participation rate the same,. 62.8%. it was good. if the economists were to poke a hole would be part-time jobs. not so great for the economy. average hourly earnings, barely budged, and the average work week, totally the same. here's a big number for the feds. 6.1%. the unemployment raid.

According to the latest job numbers, 288,000 new jobs were added in june. that's five consecutive months of job growth. over 200,000 per month. last time that happened was in 1999 or 2000. meanwhile, the unemployment rate which peaked in october of 2009 at 10% is down to #.1 this june. the stock market, as i said, has tripled in the last five years. march 9, 2009 it was at 6500. today, over 17,000. there is also the auto industry, of course. which the president saved. a december study by the center of auto ma tif research, the president sponsored the bailout and saved 1.5 million real, high-pa...

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>> reporter: residents on hatteras island who choose to ignore the mandatory evacuations need to be prepared to be completely self-sufficient for at least 72 hours. that may be how long it takes rescuers to get in if the hurricane ends up washing out roads and bridges, sealing off some of those areas from the rest of the outer banks. and the mainland. doug, back to you. >> jonathan, on the coast of north carolina, thank you, jonathan. a week after learning the economy actually contracted in the first quarter, the national unemployment rate has sunk to its lowest level in almost six years. th...

The country added 288,000 jon jobses last month. the unemployment rate dropped to 6.1%. >> given where we started in 2008 we have made enormous strides thanks to the hard work of the american people, american businesses out there come peegt. getting smarter, more effective. it's making a difference across the country. >> president obama putting today's number in context. in 2008, this economy was on the edge of collapse. with a disaster on main street spreading to main street. >> the clash of the titans. wall street in panic mode. a sign of the times on wall street as thousands of lehman broth...