economy is still not doing well. bill: to that point you wonder how the middle class is doing as a big part of this whole equation. >> they're down. bill: stuart, see you at 9:20. fbn. stuart varney. martha: we're we're just getting started on a busy tuesday morning. obama administration appears to walk back claims that syria used chemical weapons on its own people. why would that be? we're about maybe find out. the president will speak 40 minutes from now. bill: a race to find a young mother who vanished from work. why police believe she may have known her abductor. martha: new clues from the bombs used to kill and injure so many people during the boston marathon. is it yet another sign that the suspects may have had outside help? >> i think given the level of sophistication of this device, the fact that the pressure cooker is a signature device goes back to pakistan, afghanistan, leads me to believe, and the way they handled these devices and the tradecraft