california. good thursday morning. i m sunny hostin. i m john muller. rob and paula are on assignment. we begin this thursday with encouraging news about the economy. that s right. the housing market is starting to turn around. the employment picture is getter. the changes could have a major impact on the presidential race. here s abc s tahman bradley. reporter: this morning, signs the economy is turning around. new economic data suggests the troubled housing market has bottomed out and is now recovering. posting a two-year high. existing home sales shot up nearly 8% in august. builders broke ground on a lot more homes last month. up more than 2%. all that sent home builder confidence to its highest level in six years. and there s promising news about jobs. target says it plans to hire 80,000 to 90,000 holiday workers. kohl s, more than 52,000 temporary workers. the improving economic news could impact the presidential race during the final sprint. mitt romney is tryi
destroyed. all but one attackers were killed. it happened at the base where prince harry is deployed. pakistani police used water canons to push back protesters today at the u.s. consulate in caracchi, hundreds gathered in protest of an antihis you islamic film made in the u.s. and demonstrators threw rocks as officers fired shots in the air. so proes ters were injured, but the building not damaged. iran had special forces acts as advisors in war-torn syria. iran has been giving advice to assad s government for some time. but has no force there now. explosions shook suburbs of damascus today. opposition forces report 155 killed across the country. pope benedict xvi led an open air mass that drew thousands in be rut leb ton and called for an end to war in irsyria. he made no reference to a film defaming the prophet muhammad which triggered unrest rest across the muslim world. new developments on the chicago teacher s strike to tell you about. straight to the teacher
all but one attackers were killed. it happened at the base where prince harry is deployed. pakistani police used water canons to push back protesters today at the u.s. consulate in caracchi, hundreds gathered in protest of an antihis you islamic film made in the u.s. and demonstrators threw rocks as officers fired shots in the air. so proes ters were injured, but the building not damaged. iran had special forces acts as advisors in war-torn syria. iran has been giving advice to assad s government for some time. but has no force there now. explosions shook suburbs of damascus today. opposition forces report 155 killed across the country. pope benedict xvi led an open air mass that drew thousands in be rut leb ton and called for an end to war in irsyria. he made no reference to a film defaming the prophet muhammad which triggered unrest rest across the muslim world. new developments on the chicago teacher s strike to tell you about. straight to the teacher s union mee
states. this is cairo tonight. you re looking at pictures here as you can see flames, molotov cocktails, hundreds of angry protesters amassed outside of the american embassy. security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to hold them back. even canada out of caution closed their embassy in cairo. a photo cairo, it s a chalk drawing on the ground of a jewish star of david with the words, i ll translate, remember your black day september 11th within in arabic. and it is beyond cairo tonight. anti-u.s. demonstrators clashed in front of u.s. embassies, in israel, sudan, iraq, iran and among muslims in kashmir. there s a call in iran for nationwide rallies tomorrow. it appears to be a backlash at least in part from a low budget anti-islamic film which was made in the united states, first posted on youtube in july and recently publicized in the middle east. here s what we re also learning tonight. federal officials say the filmmaker s name is nakoula basseley nakoula. the fbi s
cocktails, hundreds of angry protesters amassed outside of the american embassy. security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to hold them back. even canada out of caution closed their embassy in cairo. a photo cairo, it s a chalk drawing on the ground of a jewish star of david with the words, i ll translate, remember your black day september 11th within in arabic. and it is beyond cairo tonight. anti-u.s. demonstrators clashed in front of u.s. embassies, in israel, sudan, iraq, iran and among muslims in kashmir. there s a call in iran for nationwide rallies tomorrow. it appears to be a backlash at least in part from a low budget anti-islamic film which was made in the united states, first posted on youtube in july and recently publicized in the middle east. here s what we re also learning tonight. federal officials say the filmmaker s name is nakoula basseley nakoula. the fbi says the agent has spoken with him in the last 24 hours. that name is very important. much more