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this is cnn saturday morning. i'm gary tuchman. we sit down and chart this morning with politics. the new hampshire primary is three days away. as we saw in iowa, every single vote literally counts. mitt romney, ron paul and jon huntsman have been out to meet voters this morning. here is jon huntsman talking about his hopes for new hampshire. >> all the others have gone up and down. you know, i'm getting a stiff neck just watching all of my friends just go up and down. perry, cain, back mapp, thhmaba come in, go up to 22 and down to 2. i don't want that to happen to me. i want a grad...

Earlier, you could not' see it. and the photo journalist will turn around and show you a view. the federal government shut down for a third day in a row. and what snels airports, reagan and dulles, shut down. they are hoping, planning to open back up at 7:00 in the morning. a lot has to do if they can get the snow off the ground. i'm i'm not that tall. we have on top of a huge snow mount. here a parking meetser. you can see how high the snow drift is. already this is the snowiest winter on record for washington, d.c. as well as the suburbs. dull les, 62 inches. and here in washington, d.c., 59...

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It's something called the employment rate. it's the share of the working age population with a job. now, right now that number is very low. it's about 58.7%. and the problem with that, of course, is that when the recession started, that was up to be about 63%. when the recession ended, that had fallen all the way from 63 to 59.4%. but, since then, in this four years of recovery, that number has only gone down. it's actually declined over time. so, for any sort of progress in recovery, that's the number that has to go up. you have to have a bigger share of your population with work and that's j...

Employment rate. it's the share of the working age population with a job. now, right now that number is very low. it's about 58.7%. and the problem with that, of course, is that when the recession started, that was up to be about 63%. when the recession ended, that had fallen all the way from 63 to 59.4%. but, since then, in this four years of recovery, that number has only gone down. it's actually declined over time. so, for any sort of progress in recovery, that's the number that has to go up. you have to have a bigger share of your population with work and that's just not happening. >> gove...