we ve got more to do. we need to put more good teachers in our classrooms. we need to get colleges and universities to bring down the cost of tuition to make it more affordable for more young people. we need to invest in new research and innovation, especially new sources of energy and high tech manufacturing. we need to put people back to work, rebuilding our roads and our highways and our runways, construction jobs can have a huge ripple effect in communities all across the country and nobody knows it better than state and local officials. you know the difference it makes. and with the housing bubble bursting, we ve got tens of thousands of construction workers just ready and eager to get to work. we need to get families in hard hit housing markets like florida
of mexican origin. 14% puerto rico and 5% cuban. in florida, cubans are 32%. puerto ricans 28% and mexicans 9%. president obama speaks to latino officials here this hour. president has a wide lead over mitt romney among latino voters. what s he plan to do? shore up the support, bring in juan carlos lopez to talk a little bit about that and jessica yellin, inside where president obama will be speaking shortly. jessica, i want to start off with you. yesterday we heard from mitt romney. he highlighted the poor economic conditions among hispanics. 11% unemployment. 2 million hispanics living in poverty. how will the president address the concerns of latino community when it comes to the economy? i expect he will draw on the same message we heard recently from the president about the two different visions for the future economy of the nation talking about how he believes he will build on the middle class and fare fair shake, fair future, building on the middle class and mitt r
captions by vitac www.vitac.com it s been an amazing few days in the race for the presidency. newt gingrich is go to get out and mitt romney wing five more states last night, and all, but clenching the nomination and the general election campaign under way. our chief political analyst gloria borger is here in the situation room. gingrich effectively, we knew which was going to happen for sure, suspending his campaign and santorum getting ready to endorse mitt romney. what s going on over here? this general election campaign clearly under way. we re going see six months of this now. we are. the first thing we re looking at is republicans and will they fall in line behind mitt romney. as you know, they re skeptical, conservatives about him. they re in the process of warming up to mitt romney. i ve got some tape for you, wolf, from a focus wolf that was done by the annenberg center by pollster peter hart. these are republican voters in the state of florida talking abou
issue many people thought would settle. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the the situation room. president obama is going around congress for his latest plan. he is out west focusing in on the ongoing housing crisis that continues to drag down the u.s. economy. he wants it make it easier for a homeowners who are under water to refinance and he is unveiling his plan in one of hardest hit housing markets in the country. we are talking about las vegas nevada. jessica is joining us now with details. jessica, what is the president doing? he is rolling out a new plan to help homeowners drowning in massive mortgage payments who can t take advantage of the historically low interest rates because the value of their home has plummeted. that s the policy but there s politics here too. nevada, a must-win for the president in 2012. statewide home values have fallen 53% since the height of the crisis, 59% in las vegas. so that s where the president is unveiling his latest housing plan. so
gerri: people don t think about this but the key is having people get jobs and if you look at the unemployment rate among 25 to 34 year olds, their unemployment rate went from 9.8 percent in october to 9.2 percent in november, and that is an improvement and maybe they don t day home with mom and dad. and we see improved numbers in the hardyist hit hardest hit housing markets. it would be fantastic to have an impact on housing. shepard: that would be great. enjoy the week. gerri is part of the best team in business. you can catch the willis report weekdays at 5:00 on weekdays on the fox business network. country singer mcready is in deep trouble with the law taking her son out of florida and now she is not allowed to do that because her mother has custody of that child. police there are calling it a parental abduction and it is very serious.