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So ambitious to work and to succeed. >> even in a school with 100% graduation rate and college admission is virtually guaranteed, students are painfully and personally aware of the challenges. >> the economic times have completely changed my mind-set about college. >> ashley is a senior who plans on being the first in her family to go to college. years ago, her parents enrolled her in florida's pre-paid college tuition program, which has eased the strain on their family. william fields has it tougher. his mother was recently laid off. he's grappling with a new reality. >> i'll have to cut back...

>> there's no question in the united states that at 17.2% real unemployment, markets go down because they're seeing a lot of jobs being crow ated are government jobs and people don't believe that's going to be long-term sustainable. when i talk to american ceos, they're starting to invest again. they are. but they're not putting people on their rolls, not in the united states, europe or certainly not japan. where you see the big increase in employment are not in the developed states. they're not in the place that is have driven the world economy for the last 40 years. >> there is a big histori...

Tonight, former president bill clinton is speaking out about president obama's health care victory, a victory just out of his own reach. clinton spoke with cnn in haiti where he's helping to lead the earthquake relief effort. here's part of that exclusive interview. >> i'm very happy. you know, i worked hard. the president and rahm emanuel gave me people to call. hillary called. we all did our part. i'm, frankly, i was surprised and somewhat disappointed it took as long as it did. i think it is worth making. quite apart from the need to insure more people, we were on the verge of bankrupting o...

Betty? >> it is a good time down there in times square. crowded indeed, but a good time nonetheless. thank you so much. tens of thousands of homes and businesses, they are without power this morning in maine following the area's strongest nor'easter storm in nearly two years. the storm brought heavy snow and powerful winds to northern new england. burying some towns under two feet of snow. joining me to talk about this, msnbc meteorologist bonnie schneider. how is it looking out there this morning? >> not surprising that we saw all the power outages in maine when i was tallying up the totals f...

Disaster before and it hurt the country so much, it is all i can do to bail out of this. this is going to be a tough sell for him and a complicated pitch because people are frustrated. if he can couple that with his vicious attack on mitt romney's character, saying that he is a bad person and a vampire, in fact, for what he did in the private sector, maybe he can pull off a narrow victory. shannon: chris stirewalt, thank you so much. construction industry can be an indicator of where the economy is going forward. the unemployment rate is not 8.2%, it is far higher. mike emanuel is on that stor...