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Behind the wheel of a car. the victims of tuesday night's shooting were attending the funeral of a man shot and killed nearby, five people were also wounded in what gun yowrntion police say retaliation may be a possible motive for when. -- for it. martha: despite the drop in unemployment benefits claims last week, it's still pretty tough out there as most of you well know, and tomorrow, president obama is going to visit one of our struggling cities in this nation, charlotte, north carolina. charlotte has an unemployment number of 12.8%, that's about 1 percent higher than the state's total. tha...

In help people fend off foreclosures. nine states have even higher numbers than north carolina. >> reporter: you know when you talk about statistics, the unemployment rate for the charlotte area is 12.8%. it's now at a 20-year high. but these are just numbers. take a look around this room all see the faces behind those numbers. many of the people in this room are students, some of them even rolled in a fast track program to try and learn new skills. they were laid off in the last year. now they would like to learn new skills in a community that has been extremely hard hit in this economy. kevi...

Since the downturn, 62,000 jobs went away. the region 12.8 january unemployment rate is at a 20-year high. the local economist says the $653 million in federal stimulus money distributed locally helped prevent a bad situation from getting worse but cautions money from washington is not the cure. >> critics argue stimulus funding is economic band aid for a badly hurting community. the company is now planning a $100 million expansion. and the addition of nearly 300 new jobs. in charlotte, north carolina, david lee miller, fox news. >> chris: one industry that is doing fine these days is the lobb...

Unemployment rate in the country. that's why we sent david lee miller there to get the story. folks who need work are searching for signs of hope. >> reporter: the unemployment rate for the area around charlotte is 12.8%, even higher than the state average. more than 60,000 people have lost their jobs in this community. some of them are in this room right now. this is a refrigeration repair class at the community college. many of these people taking courses hoping they will learn the skills that will allow them to get a job in the future. i would like you to meet someone i talked to earlier. d...

And rockefeller came out and he was at least up-front with liberals. he said, i don't think we get it done and i'm not going to try. i think there are a lot of offices out there doing something a bit cowardly and saying, yeah, sure, it's easier for us to say we'll sign the letter than it is for us to say we won't but we're not going to do it and we're just going to give you another crushing disappointment. so frankly i prefer senator rockefeller's up-front approach to the in-name-only support you're getting from some offices right now. >> and cowardliness takes us to ben nelson, who criticized...