eligible for the trade adjustment assistance. that s taxpayer-backed benefit designs to help those who lost their jobs because production was shifted overseas. bill: on our election board, the key is the economy, woe know we knee, for the next 11 months. to show you the map in behind us, as we key in on jobs and the america, specifically the economy in the state of florida, on the map, the deeper the red, the more trouble you re in, the lighter the red or even green, the better off you are. florida has been hit so hard, going back over the past three years, jobs in florida, a loss of 170,000, unemployment rate in florida, 10.3%, that s a full point higher than the national average. steve harrigan is checking in from winterhaven, florida where jobs are issue number one. hey steve, good morning. reporter: bill, jobs are the issue for the key voters along this i4 corridor, some of the new employees at the legoland park behind me have been
force. we ll continue to monitor the investigation and the protest around the country. patti ann, thank you. reporter: thank you. jon: one highway in florida is shaping up to be the most contested political road in america. we re talking about i4. it stretches from tampa to daytona beach. it is one of the biggest political battle grounds. the prize is a treasure of swing voters who could be the key to winning the sunshine state, want that the election. steve harrigan live from i4 in orlando, florida. steve. reporter: 43% of all florida voters live along the i4 corridor. now northern florida has traditionally leaned republican, southern florida democratic. it s right here in the middle that is the real battleground. it may be the most important road in american politics.
the i4 highway across central florida from tampa to daytona beach, 132 miles of old, young, rural, urban, but above all independent voters who swing. history shows they swing with the winner. it s the swing area of the swing state. florida is the largest swing state in presidential elections, and the i4 corridor helps determine which way florida votes. reporter: president obama got strong working class white voters in 2008. gun smith steve allen says the bloom is off the rose. what appealed to me about him is during his campaign he seemed really in touch with people, and i fault myself for falling into that, because he s so far away from his voters now it s ridiculous. reporter: 30 workers here took a risk three years ago to build diamondback firearms. so far they are making a go of it, turning out 600 pistols a
were barefoot and they had their faces towards downtown atlantic city. yesterday investigators say they see no possible connection between the long island slayings and what we are seeing in atlantic city. now down to daytona beach, florida. this is december of 2005 and february of 2006. three women found shot in the head execution style within the city limits. another one found later in a wooded area on the outskirts of the city killed in have much the same fashion. police don t know if this was the work of a single serial killer or was tied to a series of murders across the i4 corridor. 19 unsolved murders there. we talked about these things being solved, going unsolved for a long period of time. let s go back to the early 1970s. in rochester, new york, the killings of three catholic school girls. this became known as the double initial killings. all of the girls involved had
killings of 17 women, in an exclusive interview told news day i had nothing to do with this that, is not the area where i was dumping bodies. it s interesting as well, bill, because four of rifkin s victims were never found. it s difficult to say what exactly is a serial killing and what s not because the fbi strictly defines it as two or more murders at different periods of time, but we do have and the map behind me some suspected serial killings that police and the fbi are looking into. first of all atlantic city, this was in 2006, the bodies of four women were found in a ditch, they were all bare foot, they had been killed at different times, all had their heads oriented towards the casinos, in daytona, 2005-february 2006, 4 women turned up killed execution style in daytona beach, as well, along the i4 corridor, all the way west to tampa, police are looking into 19 unsolved murders there. to rochester, new york, where in the early 1970s, three catholic school girls were killed, this