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Authority to compel wikileaks to do that he basically said we are asking them to do the right thing. they need to pull all the controversial documents that may have exposed people to very sensitive information about our military efforts, take it down and get it off of those web sites. we'll see what the response is from wikileaks on that. we also have new weekly jobless claims numbers out to chew over and they were not good news. 479,000 americans claimed first time unemployment insurance. that is the highest level that we have seen, the highest weekly number since april. the labor department ...

Unemployment benefits, rising to the highest level since april, 479,000 americans hit the unemployment lines for the very first time, and this is the second week in a row that claims have headed higher. it's another sign that hiring remains weak and companies are still cutting workers. jon: right now, president obama is wrapping up his tour of the nation's big three automakers. his stop today? a ford plant in chicago. we expect the president will speak at any moment now. he's planning to explain how his decision to bail out the auto industry helped save jobs. we're going to bring you any big d...

Balance -- on the ballot in november and supporters in arizona, -- next hour, missouri's lieutenant governor joins us on the state's challenge to that health care law. there is disappointing news on the jobs front coming into the newsroom, weekly claims for unemployment benefits rising to their highest level since april, spiking to 479,000. analysts expected a small drop, and they say it's a sign that hiring remains weak. this, as the city of los angeles faces some very tough numbers on its financial future. city pensions there, expected to consume one third of l.a.'s general fund by 2015. s...

I'm hampton pearson. stocks have been in negative to flat territory most of the day. here's our stocks looking right now. dow down 17 points. the s&p down 2. and the nasdaq down just under 10 points. a new sign that the job market remains fragile. jobless claims jumped last week to the highest level in four months. new claims for unemployment benefits were up by 19,000 to 479,000 claims. and mortgage rates have fallen again to a new all-time record low. it's the sixth drop in seven weeks. freddie mac says average for 30-year fixed loan is now 4.49% this week. that's it from cnbc first in busin...

Trend in the number of people filing for first time jobless claims and we are seeing an up trend. the average new faces arriving each week on the unemployment line in america this year is 463,000, that is the average week to week. that number should be a hundred thousand lower and it should be going down. instead it's 463,000 and it's going up. very bad news for the president, very bad news for treasury secretary geithner who says the economy is in pretty good shape. martha: the number needs to be a drop of more than a hundred thousand every time this number comes out to move us in the right d...