had an active week. wouldn t you say? wall street reform, check. extending unemployment benefits, check. but the biggest headline grabber, phone tag with shirley sherrod. the ousted usda official whose remarks taken out of context actually sparked a national firestorm. chief white house correspondent ed henry joining us live. the president, ed, and the sherrod debacle stole the spotlight. wun think the president would be excited about talking about the oil disaster. reporter: you are right. you know, the last couple of days i noticed robert gibbs in the briefing getting pounded with some of the questions about shirley sherrod. he s actually looks like he has been happy when the conversation turns to the oil spill. that s a turning point perhaps in that story as it gets a little better. at least it is still not over with. it gives you a sense of how some of the outside forces, if you will, have really upended some bits of the president s agenda, you know, he had big victories this w
toyota hearings on capitol hill are into the second day. yesterday we heard from the u.s. president of toyota, later on today, we will hear from the worldwide president, but what we have been hearing is the transportation secretary ray lahood. brianna keilar is watching all of this closely for ounce capitol hill, and she is with one of the people who is doing most of the questions. brianna, bring us up to speed. well, ali, right now, we are awaiting akia toyoda and it is a few minutes before he appears. that is the headline grabber, the head of toyota global, but they are focusing this committee on ray lahood and talking about the federal regulators and did they miss the ball on this. i am here with carl issa who is the top republican on the committee. one thing that is striking is that we heard from ray lahood and we have not heard from the
they re all alone on concrete floors in cages. it is the democrats fault, but it wouldn t be their fault for long if they sat down with us. we could make a deal so quickly. we will have a vote, i believe tonight night, on the house floor with immigration. we worked over the weekend. bigger deal, one word, pass or fail? i would think fail right now. remember when president trump was talking about expansion for harley-davidson? the motorcycle giant is now the latest to send the message that the president s trade war is hurting business. in fact, this morning, the company announced mounting tariffs from the eu, it ll move some of its production overseas. i believe it s a great headline grabber for politicians, right, to say, oh, yeah, we care and this and that, but when push comes to shove, it is not affecting them. all right. chaos and confusion. two words defining the reversal of president trump s
but not in seattle. oops. forecast there, kids will be disappointed. yesterday, they were thinking maybe 8 to 12 inches, that forecast has been lowered probably down to maybe 2 to 4 inches for downtown seattle. so i know the schools are already closed, the flights are already canceled. it is too late now. heavy snow stayed to your south. from tacoma southward to olympia and portland, snow with sleet mixed in over the last couple of hours. those are the areas that will get the highest totals. the mountains and ski resorts end up with feet of snow out of this, the headline grabber was downtown seattle getting the epic storm. now it doesn t look for them, it is more of a typical winter event. in the mountains, it is a very impressive snow event. you see the snow total cut down from bellingham all the way down to seattle. we re still going to get a huge snow event as we go throughout the next two days moving through the inner mountain west. boise to the mountains outside of boise getting
some snowplows. officials are dispatching scout teams to get video of the clean-up back to city hall. first, the december jobs report. the unemployment rate took quite a tumble. the u.s. labor department counted 103,000 new jobs for december. for 2010, the economy gained 1.1 million jobs. alison kosik is in new york to help us sort through the numbers. the drop in the unemployment rate seems usually large. what happened? and you re priright because was usually large. and that s likely to really be the headline grabber of this jobs report. but you know, here s the reality check for you. this number does not include the more than 1.5 million people who weren t counted in this number. i m talking about those discouraged workers who weren t