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Benefits would end? or would it just be open ended? >> i believe what we're doing in my bill, hr 589, we've added 14 weeks to the unemployment compensation benefits package. it's important that we add those 14 weeks because we're working hard at least democrats are, to create jobs and turn the economy around. the president is working very hard -- people deserve that safety net. we're saying that while we're five people looking for one job, this is not only the economic benefit -- who have hit the wall and do the right thing. when people have unemployment and money in that pocket. >> congresswo...

The economy out of a deep recession. >> frustrated that people don't get it, polls show they don't understand there were tax cuts. what did they do wrong? they are playing defense on what was one of their major accomplishments. >> here was the promise that barack obama made. he said if we gave him the close to 800 billion dollars, stimulus, the biggest spending program in the history of the republic, he would hold unemployment under 8%, where george bush had it. if you are going to be an objective reporter, you have to obligation to point out, that we are now in month 21 of unemployment being ...

The economy out of a deep recession. >> frustrated that people don't get it, polls show they don't understand there were tax cuts. what did they do wrong? they are playing defense on what was one of their major accomplishments. >> here was the promise that barack obama made. he said if we gave him the close to 800 billion dollars, stimulus, the biggest spending program in the history of the republic, he would hold unemployment under 8%, where george bush had it. if you are going to be an objective reporter, you have to obligation to point out, that we are now in month 21 of unemployment being ...

>> reporter: i'm getting word from government officials at least 56 students have died here when their schools collapsed. you may recall during the 2008 szechuan earthquake, more than 5,000 students died because their schools were poorly constructed. there will be questions asked why these schools collapsed as well. we have seen a number of dead bodies pulled from the rubble so far. despite that the official death toll remains at 589, around 10,000 people being injured. the government continues to send relief workers and rescuers and emergency supplies to this quake area. we're told three comm...

Slavery in haiti. talking to demi moore trying to help kids lives and free them from servitude. tonight, new information and the news is devastating. according to state run media, at least 589 people were killed, more than 10,000 injured in a series of strong earthquakes er that hit qinghai province early wednesday. a remote poor region, and many children reportedly buried under debris, rescuers trying frantically to get them out. spending 14 hours traveling from beijing to this remote region of china, joins us in front of a hotel where 1,000 people have been evacuated. what are you seeing? ...