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Interstate 5 where it started from, well, what some believe is, actually, humans started this fire a couple days ago. containment is at 20% as of last night, so we'll pay attention to that. jon: we are talking a lot about those unemployment numbers today, but another key sector of the economy is housing, and some new numbers show the housing market just might have bottomed out. william la jeunesse live in our l.a. bureau with details. could the worst really be over, william? >> reporter: it's been a long time. like other indicators, housing is a yo-yo. before it goes up, it's got to hit bottom...

Been bigger and continued. but the -- >> spend more money. we are broke. we are broke. hold hon julie. we spent nearly one trillion dollars and jon points out in that initial stimulus they sold it as kind of a economic stimulus and infrastructure all the things america needs. the bulk of that money, nearly a trillion dollars went to transfer payments to states and local governments to keep government payrolls going. we've had over the last 3 1/2 years unprecedented fiscal an monetary stimulus and this is the kind of recovery we get? pathetic. >> under george bush the complete reverse happened....

A plan to raise taxes on small business, taking the tax rate from 35% to 40%. the nfib, the national foundation of independent businesses, has said that will cost the president's -- jon: mitt romney in north las vegas, nevada, speaking about his plans for the economy. let's take you to the other side of the country now. president obama is speaking at the eisenhower executive office building next door to the white house with. let's hear what the president has to say. >> but let's acknowledge we've with still got too many folks out there who are looking for work. we've got more work to do on the...

So quickly. >> reporter: well to the credit of the director of national intelligence which is the nation's top intelligence official, james clapper, he testified to the senate armed services committee in february there were already signs that al qaeda in iraq has crossed the border into syria and was infiltrating. at the time he said they did not believe the opposition was aware of al qaeda's presence. there is a key marker we've not yet seen in syria when it comes to al qaeda. what we've not seen is the traveling of foreign jihadists to that region. it is almost entirely from iraq. that's a c...

>> -- saying they were going to use the powers of government to crack down on this company because they don't like the views of its leadership. jon: right. let's bring into the discussion judith miller, pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter and author. judy, what about that? rahm emanuel, the former white house, you know, obama chief of staff is now mayor of chicago, he said chick-fil-a doesn't represent chicago, and he tried to lobby against expansion there. same with the mayor of boston. should government be telling these businesses you can't come into our towns just because we don't...