through bankruptcy they shut down for a period of several weeks. and thousands of companies across the midwest had to shut down and lay off people, and lay off half the workforces. now the car companies are coming back, partly because of the restruct urg, partly because of the economy, they re hiring again. i was in the chicago area talking to manufacturers who sell to the heavy equipment and automobile industries, they re hiring. the other thing going on as i was mentioning, the rest of the world is healthy and buying stuff from the united states, often heavy machinery, oil and gas drilling equipment, food and natural resource that is we still have a lot of. that s been helping. host: the current cover is the islam arab revolution. swells stories about the economy. tell us about other things you re covering. guest: we re covering the unrest in the middle east. we re cover continuing to cover what s been going on in japan. there s been severe disruptions to supply chains ar