you re looking at live picture from the united nations. where all eyes right now are on this year s general assembly. president obama and the first lady, michele bachmann, expected to arrive in new york only minutes from now. at issue for the united states and much of the world this week, a showdown over the middle east. the palestinian authority president vowing to submit a formal application for statehood to the united nation s security council. it could have serious implications for the u.s. relationships with iz real and the arab world. much more on this part of the story coming up. let s get to the president s plan it slash trillions of dollars through the national debt. a plan he says will do the right thing. either we ask the wealthiest americanes it pay their fair share of taxes or asking seniors to pay more thor medicare. we can t afford do both. either we gut education and medical research or we ve got to reform the tax code so that most profitable corporations
the scene in kabul ended almost a full day after it began. six militants were killed after attackers shot at u.s. embassy, nato headquarters and afghan intelligence offices in kabul tuesday. the hours-long fighting that followed killed three afghan police officers and one civilian. the taliban claimed responsibility. the families of two american hikers held in iran for more than two years say they are overjoyed at reports the pair may be freed soon. josh fattal and shane bauer hiked along an unmarked border between iraq and iran. rescuers in southern india have managed to get all the survivors out of two trains that collided southwest of chinai. more than 60 were injured when the two trains collided. authorities say one of the trains smashed into the back of the other. the cause of the accident is under investigation. the latest u.s. census shows that more than 46 million americans were living below the poverty line last year. the nation s poverty rate has risen to 15%, t
a job. above, they all acted and tried wall street is bracing for what could be another ugly day, to stop the damage, and they right, christine romans? absolutely right. live with regrets of how they did that, but they did do reporter: futures are down, something that day. kyra 200 points and 30 minutes that was my next question, regrets. to go until the opening bell ten years later, how are they rings. a couple of things. a hangover from friday. doing? some not so good. three day weekend. ed balancinger, the united people still trying to assess just how dangerous the job airlines dispatcher literally situation is in this country and whether there are really plans has been sailing on a sailboat on both sides of the aisle to trying to sail away from his fix it. you also got european markets emotional problems. he still regrets not sending a that had a tough night overnight. they were boun a little bit and stronger message to his pilots in the air, one of them on 175, n
taxes, regulation and obama-care. those are three large issues looming right now that you do not know how much that many going to cost a year or two years from now. i ll sit on that cash and wait for demand to increase. megyn: do you think if president obama said we ll keep the bush tax cuts in place permanently because i belief in that, that businesses would start hiring again? no. the reason is we misdiagnosed the problem. we don t have a jobs recession. we have a skills recession. if you look at the real numbers. what you find is people without a high school diploma have an unemployment rate of 14.3%. megyn: is that different than 10 years ago? it s always higher. megyn: then it doesn t explain it. look at if you have a college degree in this economy, your
numbers as we did for august. this is what you find. if you have less than a high school degree, the unemployment rate is 14.3%. high school, 9.6%. bachelors or higher, 4.3%, half of the national average. we always pay lip service education is the top issue. it s not in the voting booth, however. absolutely not. to tell you the truth, the plight of education in this country is shameful. just a few days ago, i learned that more cities, more states are reducing the number of education days down to four instead of five. i could not help but stop and think, is this america? is this the country that said and continues to say that education is top priority? why are we not investing more in