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And sent to colombia. the accused hollywood arsonist harry burkhart being held on bail for the ars aen spree over the holiday weekend. the labor department just announced that 372,000 jobless claims were filed for the first time last week. that s good news. below that 400,000 level that shows some growing strength in what is overall a weak labor market. adp, a company that processes paychecks in its own survey it says that it thinks that 325,000 jobs were added to the economy in december. tomorrow we ll find out for sure when the government releases its labor statistics for the month. more economists are expecting something like 150,000. right now u.s. stock futers for the dow, nasdaq, s&p 500 pointing to a plat open and up a bit from earlier from those jobs, that jobs data. soledad, back to you. christine, thanks. republican field is spinning ....
good morning. welcome. i m soledad o brien. welcome to starting point. we are coming to you from manchester, new hampshire. we are coming to you live from the airport diner. five day ways from primary day here. our starting point this morning is something that you are bogey to hear on the combine trail today which is the future of the american military. just about four hours president obama will reveal his plan for a slimmed-down force that will no longer be fighting two full-blown ground wars. digging into the details and talking a lot about it this morning. also, mitt romney, does he have a tea party problem? they didn t go away in iowa but could new hampshire be different? we are going to ask the tea party favorite and romney supporter christine o donnell this morning. and despite the sparring back in 2008 in this very state, senator john mccain is now backing mitt romney. he is going to join thus morning to tell us why. then oops, we deported your teenage daughter ....