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will on the streets. journalists get a look at the violence syria doesn't want you to see. it is amazing to me how this guy has been shot this many times. i mean, he's superman. i have been shot three times. my fingers have bullet holes. >> did you hear had a? part man, part terminator. shot three times in a robbery. a marine pulls out the bullets with his own hands. and now he's talking about it from his hospital bed on this "american morning." good morning, everyone. it is thursday, december 29. this is "american morning." a lot going on today. let's get right to it. >> that's ...

shot rick santorum leap frogs into fourth. his support has tripled since the beginning of the month and closing in on mitt romney and ron paul who are locked in the statistical ties within the margin of error. joe johns is in des moines to break it down. of course, the question is, did the gingrich camp see this coming? >> yeah, i think to some degree they saw this coming. hammering ron paul, for example. also, mitt romney. it's pretty clear that gingrich saw he had some problems because he was just getting hammered on tv ads day after day from these guys. a lot of people attacking h...

Earth. >> harris: the markets here in the u.s. apparently not so confident. the dow plunging nearly 200 points falling below the 12,000 mark. the nasdaq down more than 50. the s&p down 27. there is this. new signs of hope for the job market. unemployment claims hitting a nine month low. falling to 381,000 last week according to the labor department. that's the lowest level since february. and it's close to the 375,000 mark which economists say would signal a steady drop in unemployment. the u.s. air force now confirming the remains of hundreds of dead service members have ended up in a landfil...

Budgets are all in alignment. >> can we pull up the markets now. i want to show ron what's going on. if this deal does work out, ron, as we see green arrows across the board right now. the dow jones up 160 points. we're above the boon mark of 12,000 psychologically. what is it going to mean for the u.s. economy? >> well, you know, what's eironc in a certain sense with the u.s. economy looks just fine. jobless claims fell yesterday to 381,000. consumer confidence is up to a higher reading than expected. and a variety of different numbers have been quite strong irrespective of what's happening o...

I >> gretchen: fox business alert for you. the labor department just releasing the latest weekly jobless numbers. 381,000 first time unemployment claims were filed last week. they were estimating 395,000 claims. so it is lower than expected. eric bolling is here and i have learned from eric bolling that the magic number is 350,000. >> right. that's the number that once you get below that, first.