breitbart leaves behind a wife and four children. wall street bonuses are headed for a three year low. mandy, double digit drop i don t think anybody is going to be crying for them. wall street cash bonuses for 2011 are broadcast to have fallen 14% to the lowest in three years, not to mention thousands of jobs being lost as tougher regulations are taking a toll on profit. 4,300 jobs were cut. by the end of this year about 10,000 industry jobs are set to disappear. about 14% of new york state tax revenues come from wall street in 2010. that was down from 20% before the crisis where new york city s tax take fell from 13 to less than 7%. i guess at the end of the day
dagan is a fan. reporter: if you fill the stands behind me, they are empty right now you could have 175,000 people crammed around this two and a half mile track. by the way that s the sprint cup practices going on right now. it just started a few minutes ago. one thing that day tkoepb a did, i just talked to the president of the track, they relaxed the cooler restrictions to let the fans bring more beverages, beer if that s your beverage of choice into the race, and they are really working hard to try and make this a fun experience. give them a wide range of ticket prices. this is not only the daytona 500. this is across the whole sport. a double digit drop in ratings, attendance is down. sponsors have been leaving. they ve made tweaks to the sport, changed the way the points are calculated, how you rank the drivers and they are hoping that helps somewhat.
from i-phones to e-books digital devices are changing our way of life. the latest evidence of that may be borders group filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. the nation s number two book chore chain says it plans to close about 200 stores. it s seen a double digit drop in sales in the past three years. meanwhile, e-book sales have doubled. forester research estimates that americans spent $1 billion on e-book downloads in 2010. so are books on the way out? joining me for the discussion shelly palmer, rick willard and pete dominic. gentlemen, does this feel like many years after the conversation we had about whether dvds cds are on their way out because of digital downloads? is this just history repeating itself, rick? yes, it absolutely is. e-books are not going away. they are here to stay. the big chains came out and moved the mom and pop stores out of the neighborhoods and now
character attacks and as you fail to own up to mistakes you made that hurt our nation. jump-starting the economy and immigration were among the most heated topics discussed. we have want to play the rebuttal of senator mccain calling j.k. hayworth a pig but we ll have it in next hour of america s news headquarters. by the way, mccain has a comfortable lead in the polls, jamie. jamie: all right, thank you so much for the report. we ll stay tuned for that as well. thanks. president obama s checking off several items on his to-do list. reforming healthcare was a big one. financial systems, too. this isn t impressing the american public. check it out. it shows a double digit drop in voters approved the job that mr. obama is doing right now. his approval rating at 43%.
reporter: now, jake, if the government does shut down on friday it will come one day before the one-year anniversary of trump s presidency. and the question remains if he ll still travel to his mar-a-lago club in west palm beach, florida, if the government does shut down. the president told reuters if the government shuts down, it is the democrats fault. will they blame the democrats? i think the white house will blame the democrats up until we get a shutdown. the white house is going to be every man for themselves in this fight. but i think, look. we have to be very cognizant as republicans of shutdowns. we are the party of limited government. when you are, you tend to get the blame when government shuts down. we are also i think one of the things is that the media talks about shutdowns through lens of the last shutdown. if you remember last time the republicans saw a double digit