and week after week, they would try to repeal the regulations. there s a variety of things the president is doing right now to hurt the economy that we can turn around and put the wind at the back of the economy and see dynamic and sustainable growth. most of the economists will tell you the growth under this president while it has been good certainly the last three months from the standpoint of employment, that the underlying growth numbers are not going to support dramatic job growth until we get that underlying growth number turned around. you can t tell americans who are feeling more optimistic, i should say, about the prospect that their eyes are deceiving them, and when it comes to gas prices, sure that hurts everybody but americans know it s republicans just like democrats that have failed to get any kind of leadership plan passed, and that s been going on for decades. well, somebody who is trying to open up exploration, and it s
that cost over $1 million. and week after week, they would try to repeal the regulations. there s a variety of things the president is doing right now to hurt the economy that we can turn around and put the wind at the back of the economy and see dynamic and sustainable growth. most of the economists will tell you the growth under this president while it has been good certainly the last three months from the standpoint of employment, that the underlying growth numbers are not going to support dramatic job growth until we get that underlying growth number turned around. you can t tell americans who are feeling more optimistic, i should say, about the prospect that their eyes are deceiving them, and when it comes to gas prices, sure that hurts everybody but americans know it s republicans just like democrats that have failed to get any kind of leadership plan passed, and that s been going on for decades. well, somebody who is trying
taken from her home, found in a field, on life support. the family has made the decision to take her off life support. she is the 39th casualty now of friday s storms. president obama preparing for a face-to-face showdown this morning with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. on the table, how to handle iran and its nuclear program. and rush limbaugh stepping in it big time and the advertisers are dropping like flies, folks, bailing, because it just ain t right to call a law student a slut. why doesn t he get it? can the champion of the right overcome this or would this possibly become his imus moment. is it ever okay to call someone a slut? having been called a slut by one of my colleagues on the air, i would say it s not. so shut your cake hole, limbaugh. i came back to this nasty talk. and this little girl we ve been following. awful story. it s one of many we followed along the way following tornadoes. some of the pictures tend to look a lot the same.
cities of dara and homs. opposition groups say there have been executions and that the bodies of dozens of civilians have been found in a district near homs. president obama will be meeting with benjamin netanyahu on sunday. he told the biggest pro-israel lobby group that he is prepared to use force. he said america s diplomat pressure on iran will continue. those are the headlines from cnn, the world s news leader, i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london, i m charles hodson. and a very good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens. welcome to world business today. the top stories this monday, march 5th. chinese lawmakers are setting the political and economic agenda for the year ahead. their annual meeting is now under way in beijing. it was jaem s worst crisis since the second world war. one year after the devastating earthquake and tsunami, we look at how the world s third biggest economy is still rebuildin
away. it s time for the market rundown with becky. how are the stocks doing? the supercommittee made the markets tumble a bit yesterday. we were looking at a bounceback this morning. looked like it was going to open up 50 or 60 points. it was good news until we got the gdp numbers. it came out at 8:30. it was a bit of a surprise. before they told us it was 2.5% growth for the third quarter. it was really only 2%. there were gasps around the table where we were sitting and at the stock change. we knew it might be a little lower. a growth number of 2% came as a big sur prize to the market. we saw futures go down. we saw it trade down as much as 50 points. what is going on with the united states economy?