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wall street is celebrating. ali velshi will join me in a few minutes. president obama is speaking at a fire engine in virginia and is calling for a payroll tax cut due to expire at the end of this month. he also wants to boost federal grants to local governments to hire veterans at first responders. >> over the past three years, my administration's made it possible to keep responders on the job and now communities that make a prir tea to recruit veterans will be among the first in line when it comes to getting help from the federal government. >> the jobless rate for recent vets st...

it's a heartbreak to know that he's gone at 75. >> talk to me a little bit about, you know, the barriers he broke, the doors he opened. do you think had it not been for "soul train," had it not been for don cornelius, stevie wonder, do you think you would be where you are today? >> well, obviously, he was a major contribute toor to allowi that to happen. i think definitely the visual presence of a lot of the different artists he made happen because the doors to get in like that were kind of crazy. but it opened up such a whole other kind of era of music and dance. he found the latest...

about to get paid. [ speaking foreign language ] >> more than $14,000 to each survivor. it is a deal reached between the costa cruise line and consumer groups. everyone will get their money back for the cruise tickets and other expenses and the captain who steered the ship into some rocks is still under house arrest. i am going to burn it. >> protesters set an australian flag on fire outside of parliament today. it is the second straight day that people who are angry about australia's policy towards abridgeabri aborigines made news. the prime minister was forced to make a hasty get...

speech and is speaking at a plant in iowa that makes conveyor belts and then he will go to a facility in vegas, the university of michigan ann arbor. four of those states are must wins. arizona is on the president's wish list. only one state matters for the gop primary race. rick santorum with a state rally. newt gingrich spoke at a forum called univision. likely florida voters monday and tuesday and after the republican debate, romney is on top by seven points but 6% say that they are unsure. santorum and ron paul are far behind fighting it out to third. egyptians are marking the fi...

ill, that she had some sort of problem that could have become serious and they decided to go in. >> and we now know this is what president obama was talking about in the washington state of the union coverage, and you hear him say good job tonight. >> to panetta. >> to panetta, right. >> they were working for a danish company called danish refugee council, and they were helping people in somalia deal with land mines. in essence, they were teaching. they were telling them how to defuse mines and make harmless these mines. it's not an easy job, as you can imagine, and in that area, i'v...