meeting was coming to an end since the vice president is standing. >> bringing back bad memories? >> no, it's just we've got to end it. whatever it is, everybody knows what the ante is, now let's just end it. >> and the opening bell will soon be ringing on wall street, which means it's time for a market preview with cnbc's michelle caruso-cabrera. thanks so much, michelle. >> hi good, to see you. >> good to see you. >> weekly jobless claims. nancy pelosi says she is now focused on job creation. we learned this morning the number of people filing for unemployment last week was 400,000. that is now 17 weeks in a row that we see 400,000 or more people filing for unemployment. and that is generally too high for economists. they say that means that we're not going to move the unemployment numbers any time soon if we keep seeing those weekly numbers. right now it looks like the markets are going to open lower, sharply lower. that's because we had all this distraction in washington about what was going on related to the