trip to asia and keeping his eye on the weak job market at home. the president arriving in mumbai, india, stressing that boosting the u.s. economy is very high on his agenda. mr. obama promoting $10 billion in trade deals that the white house hopes will create 54,000 jobs and maybe just maybe put a dent in the unemployment rate. not everybody rolling out the welcome mat for him. protesters taking to the streets, chanting slogans and showing their anger at the u.s. white house correspondent wentle goler is traveling with the president and joining us live from mumbai. good to see you. what are the complaints about the president's visit? >> not everyone here is a fan of america's war on terrorism, but a lot of the complaints involve inconveniences, a lot of the personal information required of people attending events with the president, the huge traffic tie-ups caused by his motorcade, and a ban on fireworks around his hotel, a kind of five-day holiday that they celebrate with fireworks. the city sounds like a war zone, but the hotel where the president stayed was the scene of a terrorist attack in 2008 that left more than 160 people dead and the president said he very much chose it to show solidarity. >> we visit here to send a very clear message, that in our determination to give our people a future of security and prosperity, the united states and india stand united. >> it's an expensive message for security reasons. secret service required the white house delegation to rent the entire hotel. >> juliet: also major export deals were announced today. is that correct? >> the white house took the raps off more than 20 export deals with india worth $10 billion. the president says they'll support about 50,000 jobs. they include everything from boeing civilian and military aircraft to general electric diesel locomotives. the president also lifted some export restrictions determined to open up this 1.2 billion person market. >> for america, this is a job strategy. as we recover from this recession, we are determined to rebuild our economy on a new stronger foundation for growth. >> indian economy is growing at 8% a year. right now the u.s. actually does more business with the netherlands. >> juliet: wendell, thanks for that report. we appreciate it. >> rick: house speaker nancy pelosi making her next move despite colossal democratic losses in this past week's mid terms. she's now making a run to be her party's next minority leader, a decision that some democrats are questioning. but some republicans having a hard time hiding their excitement about the process. molly henneberg is following this live from washington for us. hi. >> hi. democratic aides say speaker pelosi would not throw her hat in the ring for house minority leader if she didn't have the votes to win. she sent a letter to the house democratic caucus explaining that she intends to run for the leader of their party, saying, quote, as a result of tuesday's election, the role of democrats in the 112th congress will change, but our commitment to serving the american people will not. we have no intention of allowing our great achievements to be rolled back. although democrats lost more than 60 seats in tuesday's mid terms in the house, liberal democrats are cheering her decision. california congresswoman lee says pelosi is the best person to lead democrats, quote, through this very challenging period. and congresswoman from california says democrats need pelosi, quote, now more than ever. but with the number of blue dog democrats cut in half after the election, some centrists want to change at the top. congressman donnelly says he's, quote, disappointed that pelosi will run again. congressman kissel is hoping the speaker will change her mind and not run. boren and mike ross have said they oppose her continuing to lead the party. meanwhile, republicans say they welcome pelosi as house minority leader. a spokesman for the national republican congressional committee says, quote, if house democrats are willing to sacrifice more of their members in 2012 for the glory of nancy pelosi, we are happy to oblige them. and the republican national committee has hung a sign from one of its windows saying, quote, hire pelosi. rick. >> rick: molly henneberg in washington. thanks so much. >> juliet: i feel like i want to talk about this a little bit more. >> rick: all right. >> juliet: i think i will. i'll bring in angela joining us, a political analyst with fox news and we have fox news contributor doug showdown, co-author of "mad as hell, how the tea party movement is fundamentally remaking our two party system." great to see you guys. doug, considering the beating she took during these last few months, and you know what i'm talking about, are you surprised she intends to keep her leadership role intact? >> i am surprised. i'm a moderate democrat. i worked for bill clinton, i'm disappointed like all democrats with the size and scope of the defeat. but that being said, when you lose like nancy pelosi lost and you lose because of the programmatic repudiation of your agenda, you have to consider a change. i think this is going to hurt the democrats and i think they would have been better served with either keith schueler from north carolina or hoyer replacing nancy pelosi. that's straight shooting from a democrat. >> juliet: angela, i hear you doing uh-huh in the background. but you're clapping about this move. you think this is a great thing for the republicans, don't you? >> well, i'm very excited because doug, as obama said, nancy pelosi has been one of the greatest speakers and she did push her achievements through. but there is no question that election night, with the republicans' win, was a referendum on all of nancy pelosi's liberal agendas. but juliet, i was agreeing with the fact that steny hour would have been better to cut deals with the tea party candidates and the republican majority, to help create a better america. with nancy pelosi being in the minority leader, we're going to have gridlock in congress, but that's better for republicans, i believe, in 2012. >> juliet: doug, there is support for her, but you heard in molly henneberg's report, she named some who aren't supporting her. does this signal that the beating the democrats took isn't in their eyes, her fault overall? >> it's hard to say. i think for the blue dog democrats, they understand that the agenda of nancy pelosi and the obama administration particularly feels like health care and some aspect of the stimulus were, in fact, responsible and she should, in fact, be held accountable. other democrats believe it was a communications problem, that the white house and -- said he didn't have time to sell the agenda. and on that basis, they've apparently given her the green light to go forward. >> doug, they sold the agenda. they sold it very well and they didn't listen to the american people and it seems to me that nancy pelosi and barbara lee, god bless her being over the congressional black caucus and ashu, it seems like they're out of touch with the american people. they don't want obama's's agenda. that's why i believe highway would be better -- hoyer would be better to work in and i believe the republicans will take over in 2012. >> juliet: what do you think about steny hoyer, if you compare him to nancy pelosi, as far as maybe trying to get some deals made and sort of crossing party lines and trying to make some moves, he would be the better choice. >> i agree with that. i think steny hoyer in this environment where people want cooperation is better to cooperate and move the party back towards the center, try tophic the health care bill in ways that would be more palatable to the american people and try to stimulate private sector job creation in a way that would reflect the values of the american people and come up with a compromise on taxes. that needs to be done and i think hoyer would do it better than nancy pelosi. >> juliet: last word, angela. >> i believe nancy pelosi is going to be the minority leader. i think that democrats will step in line. she is going to have maybe one or two challenges, but i believe that she will be victorious and what's so bad now, the country is still going to be in gridlock and we're not going to get great policies through. >> juliet: on that happy note, we'll wrap it up. great seeing you. >> thanks. >> rick: conservative groups are starting to put pressure on the presumetive speaker of the house, john boehner. they're calling on the ohio congressman to slash the salaries of house lawmakers. organizations like the national taxpayers union say the move would be a powerful symbol of a new tone in washington. boehner himself is set to receive a salary of over $200,000 if he assumes the speaker's job next year. >> juliet: now to the head rot senate race in alaska. senator lisa murkowski leading republican joe miller by 7%. that translates into a lead of about 13,000 votes over miller, but miller may not be ready to give up that fight. both candidates are expected to tussle over the legitimacy of murkowski's write in ballots. miller may have to find a way to invalidate a big portion of the write in ballots to have any chance of winning. >> rick: switching gears for a minute, a sigh of relief in haiti. the country still recovering from the massive earthquake earlier this year. escaping a fresh disaster, threatened by tomas, the hurricane now downgraded to a tropical storm. not before flooding coastal towns and some tent camps for those still homeless after the earthquake. tomas killed six people, but the storm mostly spared the camps from a heavier blow. where is this form headed now? -- storm headed now? maria molina here now. >> the storm did pass right through the west of haiti, through the winward passage, produced flooding. specifically around one area where most of the town is currently underwater. so very unfortunate situation. currently the center of the storm has tracked northward and already north of the bahamas, still producing some moisture and some thunderstorms across eastern portions of the dominican republic, also puerto rico and even as we head eastward, through the virgin islands and this is entire area will continue to see several inches of rainfall as we head through monday as that storm will slow down. even though it's exited the region, we still have this band of very heavy rainfall generally three to six inches of rain in these islands and also locally, some spots could be looking at up to a foot of rain. still a threat for flash flooding out there as we head eastward. the worst out of haiti. in the next couple of days, we'll continue to see the storm weakening as it moves eastward. >> maria molina, thank you. >> juliet: a connecticut jury now considering life in prison or the death penalty for a convicted murderer, steven hayes. he was found guilty of raping, murdering jennifer pettitte, killing her two daughter, setting their house on fire. laura ingle is live on this terrible story. she's been watching this trial throughout. laura? >> hi. there is no verdict today, only more questions from jurors that revolve around the mental capacity of steven hayes at the time of the home invasion back in 2007. jurors and family members will be returning to the courtroom tomorrow for a rare weekend deliberation session which has left the lone survivor of the attack, dr. william pettitte and his family without a resolution in this phase. i talked with mr. pettitte after court today. >> we're going to wait until the verdict is in. the church is in cheshire to ring the bell at 7:00 p.m. tonight? >> why tonight? >> tonight is the lights of hope. there is 55,000 human natures that will be lighted. >> he's referring to the cheshire lights of hope, a fund-raiser that asks residents to light lights for local charities. one of which is for the pettitte family foundation. family members are planning to attend tonight. jennifer hawk's sister talked to us after court and says she hopes tonight they will be surrounded by positive and hope and they'll return here tomorrow. juliet. >> juliet: laura, what a horrible story. thanks for that report. >> rick: new twists on an old crime. coming on the heels of a surge in foreclosures. some crooks making a profession out of squatting. now even prospective home buyers need to be aware of dirty tricks. peter doocy is here. >> in the third quarter of 2010, one in every 139 housing units in the u.s. received a foreclosure notice and since almost all those homes have people in them, there is a lot of very tough stories coming out right now and not just about the people losing their residentses. chris and thelma bought this house in swanky connecticut at a foreclosure auction and they thought it was a good deal until they showed up ready to start moving their things in because when they did, they realized there was still a family living inside. we spoke to the frustrated couple while they were still locked out. >> essentially we're paying taxes, insurance and our first month's mortgage payment for someone else to live there. >> they eventually got in with the help of a state marshall who showed up with a court order and when he did, the outgoing family was less than accommodating. >> we encountered the man of the house, if you would, and they had a vicious german shepherd which managed to corral, lock up in a bathroom, and he was highly intoxicated at 9:00 o'clock. oh, yeah and he had a gun. >> yikes. thelma and chris showed me the house the day after they finally had the keys and it was full of garbage and dog hair and furniture and even sentimental stuff like photos and yearbooks. they bought their last two homes at foreclosure auctions and they say not only do they not want to ever do that again, but they also don't even really want to live in this house anymore. thelma said she thinks the home had bad karma because of all the turmoil, but there are some groups like the national coalition for the homeless who urge americans to go easy on squatters because they say they're not all dead beats and, in fact, many of them are in need. rick. >> rick: peter doocy, tough story. thanks so much. >> juliet: a closer look where your tax money is going. a new report showing the money going out and the money coming in. it's all enough to keep the debt clock spinning and spinning and spinning. >> juliet: welcome back. let's look at today's headlines. potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak forcing nasa to scrap the launch of the space shuttle discovery. it's scheduled to take off for its final mission at the end of the month. damaged coral reef several miles from bp's blown out well suggests the oil spill inflicted damage on the gulf of mexico than previously thought. scientists say they need to do more testing on the coral reefs. last august, the government said the damage was limited. pope benedict criticizing an aggressive antichurch sentiment in spain, about 100 people demonstrating against the pope's visit. >> rick: pretty surprising numbers on the u.s. economy. this year alone, the government will spend $1.6 trillion more than it takes in in tax revenue. if these trends continue within the next ten years, it's going to get a lot worse. sam barr is joining us, the editor of the harvard political review, payton miller is here. couple of harvard men in our studios. i'll try to behave myself. payton, first of all, what is the annual report of the united states of america? >> the annual report is an analysis of the federal budget from -- much like a corporation would report to its shareholders. we look at the amount of money coming in, the amount of money coming out, where the tax dollars go and how those trends will continue the next few years. >> rick: so we mentioned the number at the top here, $1.6 trillion. we're spending that more than we're bringing in. that is like 40% more, isn't it? >> right. 1.67 for every dollar we take in. so as a college student, i'm thinking, what would happen if i spent 1.67 for every dollar that my parents gave me? i'm just thinking, well, probably that would not be very good. that would not go over very well. >> rick: so your report sort of lays it out and tells us where the money is going. for each tax dollar that we give to the federal government, we can see in this report, and i would recommend people check it out, exactly how it's spent. let me ask you about this, payton, because the soon to be speaker of the house, john boehner has said one of his first priorities once he becomes speaker is to do away with earmark, these hidden spending bills that make their way into a lot of these bigger pieces of legislation. doing away with that is not going to solve the problem. >> it's not really a long-term budget strategy. we looked at earmarks and foreign aid, which are kind of get the most controversy from politicians and the media. what we found was that if you actually add those two together, it's only 2% of the total budget. it's not changing that much from year to year. the long-term big -- biggest long-term cost drivers are social security and medicare. we think that and military spending need to be the focal point of long-term budgets. >> rick: let me ask you, sam, because another thing we're hearing a lot of talk about these days are taxes. the bush era tax cuts are set to expire and there is some talk of perhaps a compromise between the president and the new house republicans congress run by the republicans when it comes to cutting taxes. what does cutting taxes and keeping those bush tax cuts in place across the board what, would that do for us? >> in all honesty, that would not be so great for the long-term debt situation. in fact, according to one estimate, it would add $4 trillion to the debt over the next ten years, which is four times what health care and the stimulus combined added to the debt. but at the same time, raising taxes at this point in time would have a counter stimula tri effect on the economy, so there is that to consider. i expect what we might see is some sort of compromise between long-term debt relief and short-term stimulus. >> rick: how old are you guys? >> 21. >> rick: you can tell. they go to harvard. they don't talk like most people i hang out with. guys, let me ask you this, because you mentioned the big entitlement programs. this is really -- this gets to the heart of the matter. social security and medicare. we're all paying into it. you guys probably are not just yet. but you will be. trust me. and you're going to want to have it when you get to be of that age. but the way things are going, we're going to have real problems and you focus in your report on this, payton. what is the answer? because i don't really hear too many politicians who are brave enough to talk about this and make it as a serious problem as it is. >> on health care, the main thing that we need to do is first of all, if we're going to have, assuming the health care reform law that passed remains permanent, what we need to -- congress needs to make sure it has the discipline to keep the medicare cuts and taxes in place to pay for that, assuming they keep all the benefits. the other thing is they need to make sure they take steps necessary to bring down what's called bending the health care cost curve, bringing down long-term cost. the success of that depends on a lot of the pilot programs in the law itself, things like preventive care, investment information technology, malpractice reform, and congress needs to find, first of all, it depends on whether or not those things work and depends on congress recognizing which ones work and implementing them in full force. >> rick: you're a group that people that worked on this report, you've got some people who are republicans, you've got young people who are democrats and you've all come together. this isn't along party lines here? >> payton himself is a republican. i'm a democrat. another editor was a democrat and a budge of our writers, all from different backgrounds. i think what's important is that at the very least, we can all agree on the diagnosis of the problem, for instance, that foreign aid and earmarks are not really the big issues that people often perceive them to be, but as we said, social security, medicare, and defense are really the big three. we can at least agree on that. whether we can agree on the solutions, specific weight of tax relief to spending cuts, i'm not sure we can. but i think it's a start. >> rick: john boehner, nancy pelosi, listen to these guys. listen to what they're saying. >> juliet: hire these guys. >> rick: exactly. while they're still in school. >> juliet: you're a senior, aren't you? >> yeah. >> rick: sam will be available to work within a couple of months. sam and payton and its annual report usa.com. check it out. you god to read the findings of these hard working young men and women from harvard. nice job. >> thank you. >> juliet: what were you doing when you were 21? >> rick: not that. >> juliet: yikes. thanks. he is on the c.i.a.'s capture or kill list. why yemen is now sending troops to hunt the man who is believed to be behind a series of failed terrorist attacks in america and does this mean we're any closer to capturing him? >> juliet: welcome back. time for the top of the news. police say a teenage homicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded bazaar in western afghanistan. the blast killed at least nine people, wounded 30 others. >> rick: tropical storm tomas losing steam over the atlantic. but not before hitting parts of haiti, killing at least four people and flooding camps full of earthquake survivors. >> juliet: president obama announcing $10 billion in trade deals with india. the white house says they will create 54,000 jobs in the u.s., but unclear how many will be new jobs. >> rick: wanted dead or alive, a judge in yemen ordering the arrest of al-awlaki, the u.s. born cleric linked to al-qaeda. it comes as the u.s. puts pressure on yemen to crack down on al-qaeda. as al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula claims responsibility for mail bombs found on cargo planes headed for the u.s. caroline shively following the latest developments from washington. >> al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula says their members are the ones behind the failed mail bomb plot, plus a crash thought to be an accident and they say they're not done yet. two printer bombs were found on cargo planes bound for chicago on october 239, but found before they could explode. here is the web site quote from al-qaeda taking credit. we say to obama, we pointed three attacks to your planes within one year and we will continue allah willing, to direct our planes on the american interest and the interests of america's allies. we knew the saudis tipped off the u.s. at the time of the printer plots, but there are reports that a warning put u.s. officials on alert earlier. it didn't mention cargo planes, but once they put it out there there were threats, the u.s. needed to be on the lookout. al-qaeda is claiming credit for a plane crash in dubai. the pilots on board were killed. so far that is thought to be an accident. officials in the united arab emirates say they believe a terrorist attack is an unlikely cause, but they're looking into it. in the web posting, al-qaeda says they waited a month to take credit for that so they could set up the printer bombs unnoticed. officials are trying to find out if al-awlaki has any connection to the attempted bombings or just gave his blessing. he's thought to be hiding in yemen. he has been link to do last year's underwear bomb plot. a yemeni judge ordered police to bring him in dead or alive. u.s. authorized the c.i.a. to capture or kill him. rick. >> rick: caroline shively in washington, thanks. >> juliet: could a potential mutiny be brewing in the russian military. new operations cost tens of thousands of officers their jobs. veterans are preparing to hold a protest rally against it in moscow on sunday. it's unclear if any serving officers are going to be taking part in this, the rally has raised fears of an uprising in one of the world's largest armies. a protest of a different kind, raging in oakland. police arresting more than 100 protesters after they stormed through the city streets venting their anger over a two-year sentence given to a former bay area rapid transit officer who was caught on cell phone video killing a young unarmed rider. >> they are intent on murdering black and proud youth. >> michael vick got four years for killing dogs. and this man got two years for killing a man in the back in full view. >> juliet: several in the crowd said they were heading for the location where grant was shot and killed. police stopped them a mile from the station. a fire engulf ago bus carrying a miner league hockey team in oklahoma. here is what's left of the bus on the side of a highway right near tulsa. the passengers reportedly smelling smoke and getting off the bus before it completely burst into flames. nobodies with hurt. the driver removed a trailer carrying all the team's equipment before the fire consumed the vehicle, pretty smart guy. >> juliet: the white house talking up the jobs market after yesterday's employment report showed signs of life. labor department reporting that 151,000 jobs were added to the economy. with so many people out of work still, it may be too soon to break out the champagne. joining me is patricia powell, founder of powell financial group. more jobs, but the jobless rate, 9.6. are these numbers good news or not? break out the champagne, not? >> a little early for the champagne. you know, it's 150,000 new jobs after four months in a row of declining numbers. we've had negative numbers, so any positive number is a good number. and all of these job, by the way, were in the private sector. in fact, there is a little contraction in the public sector. but the jobs numbers are not alone. there are some other positive signs coming out there. it's being reported that college recruitment is up. so all those college grads for this coming year, they're starting to see businesses show up on campus. monster.com says their ads are growing, another good sign. productivity numbers, labor productivity numbers are up 1.9%. those are good numbers. what you're showing right now, that unemployment rate, boy, is that stubbornly high. we can't seem to get a real movement on that. it's only down a half a point in the whole last year after spending trillions and trillions of dollars. so the last time we had unemployment rate over 10%, we broke 10, we dropped quickly within a year to 7.2. so this is a particularly sticky one. over 14 million people unemployed and if you throw in the underemployed, those are the people working part-time, or want full time work but can't get it, you're really talking about 25 million people. so it's a really big job recession that we still have going on. >> juliet: you gave us some notes and you sliced and diced it. you said the employment numbers, you mentioned it a little bit a moment ago, but who is fairing well, who is not fairing well? between the gender, men versus women and the winner is? >> women. women are doing much better than men in this jobs recession. >> juliet: why? >> you know, that's a great question. it may have to do more with the traditional job of where we've lost jobs, we've lost them in construction, not a big place that hires women. but women have been fairing much better than men. teen-agers have been doing disasterously poor. unemployment rate is over 27% with teen-agers. when you look at the ethnicity, asians are doing the best with a 7.2% unemployment rate. but african-americans are struggling with over 15% unemployment. >> juliet: you say look, hold on. teen-agers, it may not be going so well for you, but education matters. >> education matters, when you look at these numbers, it really matters. those without a high school diploma, their unemployment rate is over 15%. as you finish school and get a high school diploma, it drops to over 10%. as you get some college, it drops again. and the real winners are, college graduates, unemployment rate among college graduates, 4.7% in this economy. >> juliet: did you happen to see rick's interview with those two harvard guy as soon as. >> i have a 20-year-old daughter. i would like to take them both home. >> rick: they're still in the green room. >> juliet: thanks very much for that. very interesting. >> thank you. >> rick: we can track them down. i don't think they've left the building. >> i might do that. >> juliet: there are quite a few moms in this building who want to grab them. >> rick: quite a few moms? moving on. going green in atlanta. several hotels and restaurants -- sorry -- are recycling more. one company making the most of food that gets left on plates. elizabeth prann has more. >> that's right. out of 32 million-tons of food scraps that go straight to landfills every year, only about 3% of that is composted. we're seeing a surge, especially in the hospitality industry, to reuse and recycle your leftovers. as a result, people are getting hired. take a look. greenco is changing what goes into a landfill and creating jobs one truck load at a time. they shouldn't really go to a landfill. there are vital ingredients in making a high quality compost. food scraps from luxury hotels and old buffet meals are revolutionizing the way gardening is done. when tim lost his job, he founded greenco with his wife. the company produces compost by mixing the food scraps with woodchips. what used to be in dumpsters and landfills is now being used in nutrient rich mulch. today's food waste is tomorrow's fertilizer. the process is just mother nature doing her job. there is all these microbes that are down inside here. they heat up and start to break down all of the food. >> landfills can't officially break down the 32 million-tons of compostable garbage. one of the biggest offenders is the hospitality industry. conferences and events produce millions of pounds of wasted food annually. much of it unsafe to donate. >> when you think about tonnage and you think about all that waste, it's waste of space, waste of water. >> now, atlanta's intercontinental hotel is only one of the hotels that's now supplying its leftover foods. the company has tripled in only two years. they went from five clients to 30. at the end of this year, they're going to process about 15,000-tons of food scraps. >> rick: all right. interesting story. elizabeth prann in atlanta. thanks. >> juliet: the hoover dam, incredible feat of american engineering, as you know, rivals only now by a downstream neighbor. next, the view from the top of a multi-million-dollar concrete marvel attracting visitors from all over the world. >> juliet: welcome back. demonstrators stage ago protest against what they're calling the most radioactive train in history. germans blocked a shipment of nuclear waste from plants in france. it's part of an agreement between the two countries to store hazardous by-products but comes over the future of nuclear power. wind and solar power are safer alternatives, they say. >> rick: an engineering marvel open for business. right near the hoover dam. a massive bridge that cuts travel time between nevada and arizona while providing a spectacular view of the dam. casey stegall is live from the hoover dam in nevada. nice gig, casey. >> yeah, not bad at all. the beauty is right back here behind me. the bridge, as you were saying, connects the states of nevada and arizona. now making u.s. 93 a safer and more direct route for people in this region. when it's all said and done, it's estimated that more than 20,000 vehicles will travel on it every single day. it has been under construction now for five years. a massive undertaking building a bridge some 900 feet above the colorado river. >> the bridge is 1900 feet long. the arch is 1060 feet long. that makes it the longest concrete arch in the western hemisphere. >> 3 1/2 cubic yards of rock had to be cut out to make room for the steel used to build it. >> in 1999, when i signed on to the job, there was nothing here. we had to hike over the hill. >> the thing is a true engineering marvel. already attracting tourists from around the world. it even has a pedestrian foot path so folks can walk across and get breath taking views of another engineering marvel, its neighbor, the hoover dam. in 2004, congress passed a law naming the structure after michael callahan and pat tillman. callahan was once a popular governor in the state of nevada. tillman, the former nfl player who joined the military after 9-11 and killed by friendly fire in afghanistan. >> governor mike and pat were as strong in their personal lives as they were powerful in their professional lives. they were loyal to their state, their country, their families, their teammates. >> this is the second tallest bridge in all of america. the total price tag, about $240 million. 100 million came from federal funds and then the states of arizona and nevada split the rest of the cost. already people are flocking to come see it. rick. >> rick: i got to ask you 'cause wear loo -- the bridge seems to go right into the mountain side there, those rocks. i'm sure that they've taken care to make sure that those rocks are sturdy on the sides? >> yeah, they're pretty sturdy to haul all of the traffic of the it's literally built into the side of the canyon there. i mean, you just look at this thing and clearly people who are way smarter than folks like myself, engineer this. but when you look at it, you wonder how it even exists and can withstand all of the weight. >> rick: pretty cool. it looks like a dream come true for bungee jumpers out there. they'll be lining up. very nice, thank you very much. casey stegall in nevada. >> you got it. >> juliet: are the rocks sturdy? really? >> rick: yeah. not a good question? >> juliet: no, it was a good question. only teasing you. don't buy a new car or trade in your old one. you are already done with your car shopping. >> rick: we're done. >> julie but i'm not. watch this next story. "consumer reports" releasing its story of the most reliable vehicles on the market. these are the cars least likely to break down, the ones that won't cost more in the repair shop. you will be surprised at who kind of ranked low on this one. >> rick: really? >> juliet: yes. >> rick: welcome back. fox news' sean hannity catching up with george w. bush at his ranch in crawford, texas. mr. bush weigh not guilty on -- weighing in on politics today and in taking on the tea party. >> is the emergence of the tea party in america today and you see rallies all around the country. you see people holding signs. you see people thinking america is going down a socialist path. >> here is what i say. i see democracy working. people are expressing a level of frustration or concern and they're getting involved in the process and the truth of the matter is, democracy works in america. when senator brown wins, the reaction is to change. people showed up and voted. and people are concerned enough to take to the streets. >> rick: the president with a new memoir coming out. you can watch the president's full interview with sean during a special edition of hannity tuesday night, 9:00 o'clock eastern on fox. >> juliet: it's that time of year again. "consumer reports" releasing its annual report of the most reliable cars on the market and the ones not so reliable. this year an american car maker taking some by surprise. >> rick: this latest edition, rating the vehicles, getting the least complaints and needing the least repairs. good to see you. thank you for coming in, jeff. you want to buy a car and you want to know that it's not going to break down, you're not going to have to go to the dealer to get it fixed every so often. who comes out on top here? >> this year in our annual reliability survey, we saw a bit of movement. one notable story was really general motors performance. this year, 69% of the models are above average compared to 43% last year. there are a couple stories behind that really. part of it is some of the new models actually have done quite well. >> juliet: the chevrolet camaro is back. equinox, buick lacrosse, cadillac srx, proving reliable? yes. the other part of the story is, with the auto crisis and general motors restructuring, it shed some of the brands and some of the least reliable models from last year. so that helped raise its ranking. >> rick: do we know why these cars are suddenly more reliable, why there is an uptick? >> what we're seeing in general is a lot of new cars are very reliable out of the gate. it used to be years ago that there were first year blues, so to speak. it might take a year or two to work things out. but we're seeing a lot of good models in their first year. >> juliet: but typically the cars that are really out in front are the asian auto makers in terms of reliability, honda and toyota, still out in front? >> that's right. we're seeing the asian manufacturers continue to dominate the rankings. the stories are mixed throughout, but again, we're seeing honda with its acura division, lexus, they're all near the top. >> do american car makers are they starting to pay more attention to the way the japanese build cars? is that why we're seeing companies like general motors starting to do a little better with this? >> the domestic manufacturers and really all auto makers have followed closely what japan has done the last 20, 30 years. we're seeing an increase emphasis on reliability. it's a great concern to consumers. we're seeing not only general motors do well, but ford has done very well with 90% of the ford and lincoln models being above average. the other side of the story is we're not seeing significant improvements with chrysler. >> juliet: chrysler also, porsche models rated average. mercedes are among the worst overall in terms of reliability. and you can read all about that in "consumer reports." >> rick: jeff from "consumer reports" magazine, thanks so much. nice job. >> juliet: that was interesting information. hard to believe. audi, bmw, mere say disease benefits, one of the worst in terms of reliability. maybe we'll talk about that. >> rick: part 2 next saturday that. does it for us for this hour. thank you for joining us. daylight savings time, it's important. we change the clocks tonight and use this as an opportunity to change the batteries in your smoke detectors and your carbon monoxide detectors as well. >> juliet: very good idea. julie banderas is in next. check your smoke detector every daylight savings.