if they have a job. so i don t think that it s just the jobless rate that people look at, because only jobless rate that counts is the one in your household. a lot of people may have a job, but it s not enough of a job, or it doesn t pay enough, or it s only part-time, whatever it is, and that s why you see the differential between, hey, look, the jobless rate is going down, and people going, i think we re on the wrong track. candy crowley, the brilliant candy crowley, thank you for joining me. tune in for stre state of the u at 9:00 in the morning. here s breaking news we have to get to now. as we reported a couple minutes ago, as many as six people taken to a hospital in mexico for radiation poisoning. think of the timing here because this happening days after that truck was stolen carrying that radioactive material. we re hearing about this after a lead from twitter. so rafael romo joining me here. people were wondering, we can t
truck did not. they tried to recreate the trash and determine the cause. neither driver has been sited. thieves accused of stealing a truck calling highly active material in mexico are in grave danger. the men who have yet to be idea kwied has been identified as co bullet 60. it is used to treat cancer patients. when police found the stolen truck they found the container carrying the cobalt 60 was open. the men only have days to live. smith taught chemistry at the international benghazi school for over a year. smith was days away from returning to the u.s. to be with his wife and child at christmas break. he was shot while jogging by someone in a black suv near the u.s. consulate where the u.s. ambassador and three other americans were killed by islamic militants in september of 2012.
near mexico city where it was stolen when the driver stopped to get some rest at a gas station there. immediately, the iaea and mexican authorities issued an alert saying we have some missing cobalt, which as you know, it is very toxic. it is very dangerous. it s used for radio therapy. it s also used for sterilizing food because it contains a high level of gamma rays, which have the property of cleaning the food but not damaging it. and so there was an alert, an international alert, because the u.s. homeland the u.s. department of homeland security also issued an alert, alerting all the checkpoint stations at the border, just in case anybody tried to smuggle that subresponse into the united states. a truck with radioactive material stolen. there you go. six people now in the hospital. we ll stay on it, get an update on the people. thank you very much. coming up next, today,
say conclusively these are the badifies in the hospital, but timing is maybe not a coincidence. major development. what the state run news agency in mexico is saying that out of the six people, two are in custody of the federal police. they are. which might indicate we have no confirmation yet, but it might indicate that those two are the suspects described by the driver of that vehicle that on monday morning was stolen from this location near mexico city, about 44 kilometers north. now, in total, six people, all six showing symptoms of radiation. all being treated at the same hospital. but again, the question is, are those two in the custody of the mexican federal police the two people who stole the truck on monday and are they going to eventually face charges for this? let s go back for a second, remind people. you touched on it, but here you have this truck carried, what was it, cobalt 60? it originated in tijuana. it traveled all the way to central mexico and got stopped
inside of it, but it s not clear if they have been able to recover all of the cobalt 60. that container was found open and cobalt was found inside, but it is not clear if all of it has been recovered. we believe they are still working on the information. still working the area where radiation has been detected. they are sent in to examine the area. do you know why this happened? it was randomly stolen and not targete targeted. it was not clear if they knew that cobalt 60 was inside it. the reason it was intercepted is because it was transported from a hospital to this nuclear agency.