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Unemployment rate continue to add jobs between now and the election. >> among those hardest hit by this nonrecovery recovery, iraq war veterans. the bls report shows that veterans from all wars endure a jobless rate of 6.9% right now, but for the period since the toppling of saddam hussein that rate rises to 8.9%. jon and jenna, not a lot of good news in there. james rosen. >> reporter: afraid not. thanks. jenna: this next story certainly caught our attention on "happening now." a nonprofit organization is offering free plastic surgery for kids who are the victims of bullying. one teen took th...

Tractor. roger pion held now in the state police barracks not far away from this town. no word on what his new charges will be after this incident, jon? jon: and i guess they couldn't chase him on the tractor because they didn't have any patrol cars in the lot. >> reporter: no. they had to call the other half of the fleet that was out, and they all had to come back from, you know, crime solving, what they were doing, to go after the tractor. jon: leaves you scratching your head, doesn't it? >> reporter: i've been to vermont, but only for berry picking. i didn't know this sort of thing happened...

Have it operate there and do all the science that it is expected to do. it is a very, very caveable rover. jon: i love this animation. it looks like exciting stuff. i hope it works just for, just for the folks at nasa and for a little good ol' usa pride what we can accomplish. i hope this thing goes off. sunday night we'll be watching. scott, thanks. >> i'll be watching too, thanks. jon: scott horowitz. appreciate it. jenna: well, in syria a mortar attack hitting a refugee camp in damascus. more than a dozen people killed there. we'll have a live report from the middle east next. the big quest...

That al qaeda is finding it easiers to recruit and raise money after morale was wipe out by u.s. forces in iraq. car bombs recently in syria, they are improvised explosive devices are carbon copies of ieds used by al qaeda in iraq at the height of the insurgency. fox news was told that jihadist from iraq are flown into syria. they share a common border. the head of the house intelligence committee broke down the numbers. >> 275 plus different groups identified themselves in opposition of the assad regime. we think as many as 25% have some degree of extremism, some hezbollah but some al qaeda. ...

Consecutive job growth. >> right. jon: is that a bragging point? can he say. >> jon, if you have lemons you have to make lemonade. he will try to put the best possible spin he can on it. we're not in recession. the question voters will have to make, the question they will have to answer to themselves, is this good enough, is this kind of job growth good enough? what we're seen employers are basically saying we're going to do status quo. we're not going to move. we'll only hire the number of people we absolutely need to until we see what the outcome is of this election and what policies will be...