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gingrich is down. let's go outfront. good evening, i'm ali velshi sitting in for erin burnett "outfront" tonight. newt sinking and santorum rising. newt gingrich plunging from his top spot down to fourth place. former governor rick santorum doing just the open sits. he surged from single digits into third place. mitt romney now leads the pack with 25% and there's another new poll out of new hampshire where the nation's second contest in the race for the gop nominee will be held one week later on january the 10th. mitt romney dominating his opposition there. he's at 44%. rivals ron pa...

>> all right. first, though, big news today. the trial of the accused underwear bomber begins this morning with earnest with opens statements at the federal courthouse in droit. umar farouk abdulmutallab is charged with trying to blow up a flight on christmas day 2009 with a bomb hidden in his underwear. >> the defendant is acting as his own attorney. cnn's deb feyerick in live in detroit, where you were the night this all developed and christmas day 2009. deb, what is the situation? >> reporter: well, ali, christine and carol, we can tell you that he is facing eight charges today. i...

Economy, this would be it. >> at least we can talk about it and the try to do something about it. somebody who it's too late for talking is the ceo of hewlett-packard. this place has had three ceos. one was wiretapping. now this guy busted. mark hurd, who was a darling on wall street, who took over when the previous ceo for being accused of illegal wiretapping in the boardroom. this guy here stands accused of sexual harassment. the sexual harassment charges were set to the side. here's how it was described to the employees as to why the ceo was being dismissed. i'll quote from the company e-ma...

Especially if it's just two months to have them pay it back. >> i agree. it sounds very nice and she sounds like there's somebody that i would be in with, need to help my employee. you can't do that. i like what lani said, make it easy for them in case they have spent the money. >> my first feeling was, well, if this person doesn't make that much money -- in this case i know they don't -- they're living hand to mouth, they're not going of the money stored up. i like your idea of installments. this is a question from a woman who makes pottery. >> how to keep your employees on track with like st...

States hitting highs in four of those states including florida, nevada, georgia, north carolina. so it's still a very challenging market out there. layoffs have been, obviously osimmering down. claims have been going down but big picture is very difficult to get work and people who are getting work are getting part-time freelance contract work, that's now 26% of the workforce. >> the other thing we have to remember is when we look at unemployment rates it's not only those unemployment, contract work, make you're working part-time and you really want to work full-time but after your unemploymen...