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Optimism around the recovering economy. more people feel the difficulty at the pump and feel that the gas prices are out of control, even if they understand that president obama is not making that happen, it plays into republican arguments and hurts the president. >> sure. the disapproval of the president's overall handling of the economy, that's also taking a hit. a record number of americans holding strongly negative reviews and just last week we talked about how good the president's approval rating was. so what happened in that short period of time? >> well, you can't discount the possibili...

an alienated presence. >> for more on the fallout of the horrifying event, we kickoff coverage in kabul. atia has coverage from there and we'll speak to jim from the pentagon in a second. atia, this is not coming at a worse time given the controversy of the koran burnings last month. we have rumbles of escalating violence. what are you hearing today? >> reporter: hi, thomas. if things couldn't get worse, they just did, actually. and right now we are waiting to see the fallout of what's going to happen. news disseminates really slowly in afghanistan through the rural districts and vil...