bret: james rosen live on the hill tonight. thank you. general motors raised more than $23 billion today in its initial public offering. the stock closed up $1.19 ending at $34.19 a share. president obama made a rare appearance in the white house briefing room to react to that. we are finally beginning to see some of these tough decisions that we made in the midst of crisis pay off and i m absolutely confident that we re going to keep on making progress. i believe we re going to get through this tougher and stronger than we were before. bret: federal government is hoping the ipo is the first step toward breaking even on its $50 billion bailout. more on this with the panel tonight. applications for first time unemployment benefits rose by 2,000 last week but remain near their lowest levels in two years. the number of homeowners at risk of foreclosure dropped by .8 of a percentage point in the third quarter and stands at 9.1%.
bret: james rosen live on the hill tonight. thank you. general motors raised more than $23 billion today in its initial public offering. the stock closed up $1.19 ending at $34.19 a share. president obama made a rare appearance in the white house briefing room to react to that. we are finally beginning to see some of these tough decisions that we made in the midst of crisis pay off and i m absolutely confident that we re going to keep on making progress. i believe we re going to get through this tougher and stronger than we were before. bret: federal government is hoping the ipo is the first step toward breaking even on its $50 billion bailout. more on this with the panel tonight. applications for first time unemployment benefits rose by 2,000 last week but remain near their lowest levels in two years. the number of homeowners at risk of foreclosure dropped by .8 of a percentage point in the third quarter and stands at 9.1%.
yr more from our pockets when you ve already taken more than you ever should have had. they should be in jumpsuits with l.a. county jail on the back of it. that s the best thing that can ever happen to me, that s on my bucket list. you guys do not deserve to be running the city and we want you to resign now! patti ann: so far, several council members have cut their salaries by 90 percent but for example, a bell city administrative officer made almost $800,000 a year. that s almost twice the salary of president obama. cristina garcia is founder of the bell association to stop abuse, also running for city council in bell gardens. thank you very much for joining us. thank you for having me. patti ann: beverly hills, where the average income is four times as high as bell residents has a property tax rate of 1.19 percent, bell residents say 1.55 percent of their home s value in taxes. what is going on? back in 2005, there was a
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