make facebook worth 100 billion. from a birthday to a blunder. jpmorgan chase taking a bet and losing big time. heads rolling this morning. the ceo saying his bank was sloppy and stupid. manhunt. fbi agents stephen missing in the mountain. bloodhounds sent for the search. newsweek calling president obama the first gay president complete with a rainbow colored halo. so we are asking this morning while social issues are in the headlines, why isn t anyone talking about the number one issue? the economy! newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. i m carol costello. he is young, rich, and powerful and this morning some startling reminders of just how high mark zuckerberg towers over mere mortals like you and me. later being week you might be able to buy stock in facebook his college dorm room project that might be worth $100 million. a higher market value than disney or ford. zuckerberg will be meeting with shareholders in chicago in denver starting today. all this
a judge speaks out abtd four people trying to get on the virginia ballot. what s next for them. a mother fed up with her son s run-ins with the law forces him to wear this sign. did she go too far? we give you a chance to weigh in this morning. we start with former mississippi governor, barbour, defending his decision to pardon 200 people. among the myrrherered set to release from prison. a judge put a halt on prison releases. the legislature is considering changing the constitution to take pardon powers away from the governor. what is barbour saying now? in his first public comments since issuing the pardons. listen. the power of gubernatorial to pardon felons is rooted in the christian idea of giving second chances. i m not saying i ll be perfect that nobody who received clemency will ever do nothing wrong. i m not in fallible and nobody else is. i am very comfortable and totally at peace with these pardons, including those at the mansion. you heard him mention the
they were hanging in them and children were crying and people screaming and jumping. we heard crew members jumped at the end into the water. my goodness. frightening moments. a journalist is where survivors are being taken and joins us by phone. barbie, what is the latest on the rescue mission, the search for the missing people and if they know what the ship ran into. reporter: well, right now the rescue operations are sort of winding town. darkness has fallen here and it s starting to get a little bit cold. the divers worked all afternoon searching the underwater components of that ship on its side in search of bodies. they have not ruled out that there will be more fatalities from this accident. several people, though, that did get off the boat at the port prior to this one have come forward to say they got off. so we ve taken the number of missing from 70 to i think the last count was 51. but that s still a considerable number. they don t know, you know, if these peopl
bipartisan support and house republicans rejected earlier this week. that opened up a divide between house hard-liners and the gop establishment. leading republican voices were openly calling on john baner to back down to agree to a two-month extension or risk ruining the bran. tonight, looking pretty grim. doing the right thing for the right reasons is always the right thing to do. and while everyone asks for a full-year extension of these programs, a lot of people wrn willing to put the effort in as the holidays were aetch proing to get it done.ç our members were. so i m proud of the efforts they put into this. dane a bash will join us shortly to explain the specifics. president obama was quick to praise the outcome, the staple reading this, this is real money that will make a real difference in people s lives. i want to thank everyone american who raised their voice to remind folks in this town what this debate was all about. to give you an idea of the intense pressu
divide between house hard liners and the gop establishment and by yesterday leading republican voices were openly calling on house speaker john boehner to back down, to agree to a two-month extension or risk ruining the brand. and tonight looking grim, he did just that. there s always a right thing to do and while everyone asked for a full year extension of these programs, a lot of people weren t willing to put the effort in as the holidays were approaching to get it done. our members were. so i m proud of the efforts that they put into this. dana bash is going to join us shortly to explain the mechanics of the deal, the specifics. president obama was quick to praise the outcome. this is the real money that will make a real difference this people s lives and i want to thank every american to remind folk in this town what this debate was all about. and to give an idea of the intense pressure that lawmakers were feeling, take a look at these two entries from rick crawford s