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And from our parade of papers, arlen specter, the longest serving u.s. senator in pennsylvania history, died yesterday at his philadelphia home from complications of cancer. it was just two years ago that his long career in washington came to an end. and president obama released a statement yesterday honoring the late senator for, quote, never putting party or ideology ahead of the people he was chosen to serve. willie, let's -- oh, we have one more paper, i'm sorry. >> there's one more. this is an incredible story. "the cedar rapids gazette," and every paper in the world frankly talking about...

>> i wish you can see what i can see. sometimes you have to be up really high to see how small you are. i'm going home now. >> wow. that is the view from outer space. my goodness, before a human being took a plunge from 24 miles up. supersonic freefall. an austrian daredevil jumping from space becoming the first person to break the sound barrier using only his body. felix baumgartner made the jump from 128,000 feet, 120,000 of which were in a free fall that lasted four minutes and 20 seconds. he reached the speed of 833.9 miles per hour or mach 1.24.

That meant nothing to me, so we crunched some numbers. 833.9 miles per hour. that makes him the first human being to travel faster than the speed of sound without being inside some type of craft. he did it from 128,000 feet above sea level. someone chatted with him right after. this is what he managed to get out. quote, it's hard to describe because i didn't feel it. it was like being in a cast. that was apparently his post-fall interview. we'll update you on felix tomorrow here on msnbc. here's the brain trust. thanks so much. igor, give us that headline, give us that prediction for the day a...

Prevention and, it reiterates what researchers of course have been telling us for quite a while now, both bullies an victims of bullying are far more likely to have been exposed to violence at home. look, the survey shows, the schoolchildren involved with bullying, tend to show various risk factors such as drug and alcohol abuse and, suffer from poor grades, and the report is an anonymous survey of nearly 6,000 public high school and middle school students, from massachusetts and published in the cdc's morbidity and more data week lie report. 33.9% of middle school students were affected by bu...

That figure rose 3/10 of a percentage point. lastly, the average work week shrank in america from 33.9 hours to 33.8 hours. those last two data points tend to show more people are giving up looking for work, more people are having trouble expanding from part-time to full-time work and more people are in fact having their work weeks trimmed. if the average work week had cent up instead of down, even when the overall jobless rate held even it might have portended employers have inching towards hiring again but that's what we see. megyn: what about the politics surrounding the figures, how is the...