competitive edge? now ranking fourth among 139 countries. the world economic forum citing a trillion dollars decifit, public distrust of government, and rising debt as the reasons for that slide. $13 trillion, that s a lot of numbers. good morning, everybody, i m bill hemmer. welcome to america s newsroom . martha: good morning, thank you for starting our morning that way! you don t even get a medal a medal in fourth place! you know who has replaced us? switzerland. i kid you not. bill: not even a bronze. we ve got brand new jobless numbers in, the labor department reporting $451,000 people filed for first-time unemployment claims in the past week. stu varney, fox business network, first the jobs number tells you what? that s a positive number. first time in a long time but it s positive, because it s down 27,000 from the previous week. that was not expected. this could be the start of a new down trend to the number of people going for jobless benefits, down 27,000, stoc
federal agents, unless that individual is already a convicted felon. critics, not surprisingly, are already blasting the proposal. trace gallagher has the details live from our west coast newsroom. trace, here we go again. reporter: hey, megyn, the reason the critics are blasting this proposal is because if it is in fact adopted it would amount to a catch and release program. just so we all know what we are talking about here i want to put this draft proposal up on the screen so we can read along . this is the proposal and i m quoting here, it says as a general matter immigration officers should not issue detainers against an alien charged only with a traffic-related misdemeanor unless or until that alien is convicted. if you re a cop and you pull somebody over and you find out they are in fact in this country illegally you just let them go. you can t even call the feds about them. now critics say this means that illegals would soon know that they can drive the streets with
are off now, burlingame told us and i m quoting, imam feisal, having fled the country, while he leaves it in chaos now comes as comes back as if this debate hasn t occurred, he proceeds seeds to plant his flag in the ground, despite the fact that 72 percent of americans view it as an act of provocation and insensitivity, make no mistake, this is an arrogant and aggressive attempt to exploit 9/11 and this is a grab for history. she concludes, we will fight this. very quickly, megyn, i should add that she says the new york times has never published anything she has written and her remarks this time around, she s not going to even submit to the newspaper. megyn: david lee, what did the imam say that has inspired such a reaction? reporter: let s go to his statements that were published in the new york times this morning. one of the things he said, and i m quoting him, imam rauf, we are proceeding with the community center, cordoba house. i am convinced this is the right t
the agency, which is not being named used a standard flash drive. that drive had a virus which allowed information from classified computers to be down loaded. the defense department spokesperson is not commenting on what info, if any was leaked. speaking of leaks, the c.i.a. document released by the whistle blowing web site wikileaks is not the bombshell that the intelligence community had feared. the document is a c.i.a. memo that analyzes what would happen if the u.s. was perceived as an exporter of terrorism. the paper was drafted because of the rise in home grown terror cases. wikileaks sparked outrage after publishing 76,000 pentagon documents about the war in afghanistan. alaska s republican senate primary is still too close to call this morning. and it all comes down to absentee ballots. right now, tea party favorite joe miller is holding a tight lead over incumbent senator lisa murkowski. miller has 51% of the vote to the senator s 49%. but she says she s not giving
tonight, the special on the funding behind the mosque proposed for ground zero. the families of 911 victims weighing into the ground zero mosque. today, coming up, my powerful conversation with deborah burlingame, why the white house should be paying more attention to prosecuting the man responsible for the killing of her brother. and responsible for the killings of thousands of people. plus, how did more than 120 people walk away from this crazy wreckage? remember the pictures yesterday? the answer from one of the passengers who survived what is being called a miracle plane crash. and in three minutes, republicans unleash a hard hitting political ad, a lot of satire there, attempting to show how the party in charge really feels about its president. leslie marshall weighs in.