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The waves and help take some more pressure off the wall. it is two miles long. this is just part of 350 miles surrounding new orleans levees. it is not the end-all. this will not secure the city totally. but this will be the first line of defense for a great number of people who live in new orleans and worry about the levees. just having this will strengthen the entire system substantially. >>shepard: looks like an afternoon storm on the way. they started this 15 months ago? >>reporter: yes, planned it for three years and started building it 15 months ago and this is amazing. the engineers cal...

Into context. >>reporter: i asked experts, what is a good number? what would show us that the jobs are coming back? i talked to an economists and here is the explanation. >>guest: normally, in order to trade enough jobs to keep the unemployment rate steady, we would like to see the economy growing at 2.5 percent to 3 percent but to bring it down we would like the economy growing north of 3 percent. so, against that criteria, 1.6 percent is very poor. >>reporter: you heard him "north of 3 percent," to get the rate down but the numbers show we are just at half that. >>shepard: thank you from was...

Contained in a couple mile ring but we do not take that for granted. federal and state and local officers are working the perimeter and outside the perimeter in case he gets out of perimeter. he is well-known in the area and knows the area very well. it will make the difficult. >>shepard: he had a weapon. does he have more ammunition? i guess you are concerned about, my goodness ... guess when the shooting occurred between the deputy and the suspect, during the evening when they tracked him, he was still taking shots throughout the night at law enforcement officers and it was quite a distance ...

Miles of areas and galleries outside of the rescue shelter they have to walk around in and they have first aid station where a miner had training and has been giving shots and blood samples and they have an area where they play cards and dominos, and this is important because they need to stay focused and feel they are part of the rescue. >>shepard: what about the company for which they work? the company has not been able to pay them while they are trapped? >>reporter: the company that operates and runs the gold mine is on the verge of bankruptcy according to the government sources in chile. t...

Mission status and the requirement to carry papers. we expect the court of appeals to take up the case the first week of november and the governor has asked for an expedited schedule on this. >>shepard: thank you from los angeles. ment people bomb blasts rocking the offices of a mexican television station. the two explosions hit the station where investigators are working to identify 72 migrants massacred near the u.s. border. the television network described the blasts as "car bombs," but mexico has yet to confirm. if confirmed this is the third car bomb in mexico this year. the network repor...