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A bailout by me and others and a bailout is what it is. i think ultimately the democrats and congress will pay a price for that. i don't think america wants its tax money diverted to a bankrupt city that shows no hope of recovery anytime soon. patti ann: weekly jobless numbers out this morning. 304,000 people filing unemployment claims this week. the's up 2,000 from the week before. but hiring has picked up after a slowdown caused about it severe winter weather. bill: this video that surfaced of a terrorist meeting. dozens of them meeting. one of the top republicans on the homeland security co...

Claims for unemployment benefits at 304,000. now, everyone was expecting 315,000. so this 304,000 is considered pretty good. the four-week moving average fell to 312,000. the figure you want to pay attention to as well is the continuing claims. those are people who have filed for claims for more than a week. that's down to 2.74 million. that's the lowest it's been since december of 2007. so all in all, this is being considered a good report for the week. initial jobless claims coming in lower than have been expected. back to you. >> all right. thank you very much. after some rough days on wall...

Victims today. many much you learned of the tragedy on twitter or follow the manhunt and for the perpetrators on social media. the boston police department also used tweets to communicate vital information to citizens. in fact, the boston police chief twitter account swelled from 54,000 followers to 304,000 during the investigation, as many of you sought to assist in the problem. a brand new report by harvard's din school of government praised the use of twitter by boston police saying it "demonstrated the level of trust and interaction that a department and a community can attain on-line." on...

They spoke to us a couple of hours ago from the australian maritime and safety authority that they asked a commercial vessel in that vicinity to go ahead and take a look. the australian government saying that one of its navy ships, is on route to that specific search area. it is still days away. hopefully we'll get a little more information as the hours tick by because ir crafts are verging on that search area which is some 1500 miles or two and a half thousand kilometers off the australian west coast in a very remote part of the indian ocean. take four hours flying time for the aircraft that ...

wolf blitzer, let me start with you. this is something that a lot of critics have said is a subject changer because we had real bad jobs news on friday and that just -- it riveted people throughout the weekend. is this an effort to change the narrative? >> it may be, in part, because the white house clearly believes this is a winning political issue for the president. he is going to make the point that for 98% of the american people, there will be no increase in their taxes. individuals making $200,000 or less a year. families making $250,000 or less, they will see no increase whatso...