blues. depression set in early today, and it set in hard. there were only 80,000 jobs added in this country in june, and the 8.2% unemployment rate didn t budge. yep. the stock market plunged, politicians and analysts alike sounded like they were on the edge of a cliff. there s a lot of misery in america today. and these numbers understate what people are feeling, and the amount of pain which is occurring in middle class america. peter buickvar equity strategist tells outfront the jobs numbers are quote, pathetic. chief u.s. economist says another month, another sub par employment report. mitt romney had it right. there is a lot of pain in a lot places, but does all the doom and glood at up? yes, the jobs numbers weren t great, but this is a glass we re choosing to see a little bit more half full. and most americans agree with us. a new cnn poll shows 60% of people are optimistic and think economic conditions next year will be good. one reason for this is housing. it
just into the situation room, brand-new poll numbers confirming a new lineup in the fight for the gop presidential nomination. the cnn/orc survey has just been released and shows a two-man contest at this point. the poll shows 34% of republicans asked say santorum is their choice. 32% say romney. with a sampling error, that means it s a statistic cal tie. ron paul and newt gingrich are far behind at 16 and 15%. first big picture, ron, what do you make of santorum s rise? i think this continues the extraordinary, even unprecedented volatility of this republican race. jessica, if you look back to your cnn/orc polls, rick santorum is the sixth different candidate to be ahead in the national polling, the seventh different candidate. he is up 19 points sin january alone in the survey and it underscores probably the most unformed in deep in the contest since 1940. you re always good with the historical data, ron. this one that takes you to my next question. this number jumped
yeah. i don t know why we can t. if you look at the emails you can see they are very closely connected and with the obama administration. i think you can clearly see from this freedom of information act that we have gotten this information in, and i think it s just starting to come right now. i think it s unacceptable. if the president don t respond to this be he s clearly involved if the president doesn t respond to this, he s clearly involved with it himself. megyn: the family of murdered border patrol agent brian terry is planning to take legal action after finding that a weapon from operation fast & furious haas found at the scene. a cheating scandal involving s.a.t. exams. now we are learning the problem was much worse than we first
some of these hardest hit areas with a camera, we ll bring you some of these pictures, but what we re seeing so far from early pictures, it s not good. back to you. jim cantore in tuck louiscal we bring in fema director down there surveying the damage, able to survey it from headquarters at fema. director fugate, let s start with the basics. any watching in alabama are looking for help. what do they do? right now the governor s team s focus, jim cantore said, still doing search and rescue. biggest thing, shelters open, assistance from red cross and other organizations quartan-a c. president obama last night declared an emergency to free up federal resources and we ll do the assessments this morning to support the governor s request for assistance and get that information in, but right now, focus on live safety and media
if it was 300 miles into the earth, that s 300 miles of padding. we re almost 300 miles away. if it s only 6, 10, 12 miles deep, there s a lot of shaking going on. that s a violent rattling of that city. i m just we re getting more information in, chad. kelly, go ahead with that. there are no tsunami alerts issued as a result of this, but two reactors are in the area of nagano and they continue to operate. everything is okay at this point with the two reactors in the nagano area. no tsunami alerts, although tsunamis are not just triggered by earthquakes. we re going to take a quick break. i have a tsunami expert that s going to tell us how the tsunamis are triggered because it affects the rest of the world as well. we ll continue to keep our eye on nagano, whether or not there was any damage and if anyone was hurt. th this stuff? th this stuff? i do. ooh! now who wants some free stuff? [ all ] me! snapple.