year at west points, he was a year ilin yearling, what they call sophomores at the academy and we went to harvard business school together and spent a year in vietnam, at the same base together and two years in the pentagon, when i came back from vietnam he was in the pentagon at the same time and then, we worked very closely and intensely 3-4 years on the vietnam memorial effort. he was a man who loved his country, he loved his family, and, he loved his friends. a thoroughly decent human being. martha: now you hear these stories and we have this video and we ll show a piece of that video of him wandering, he looks disoriented and the people at the parking garage and this is where he left his car all the time, when he went from his home in newcastle, delaware to washington, d.c. and is a frequent place to go and they say he seemed, disheveled, out of sorts and the police ruled his death as a homicide. when you put it together in your head, the man you now, what is your theory on what m
zone. i put the danger zone at 450 every week, you are around to 400,000 tpalg. that s a sign the trend is in place. tomorrow you ve got the big picture labor market report coming out. this looks like it s going to be another positive report on that the economy, jobs and hiring. bill: but as far as today goes, it is better news but not it s great it s not great news. it s not a blowout number like yesterday was private sector employment was but remember that long term downtrend in new claims is in place, long term trend, in place, down. bill: let s talk about economic policy out of washington. what is the news about a departure from the economic team of president? as of today one of the big 3-rbg paul volcker, is leaving, that means the original economic team assembled by president obama two years ago, they ve all now gone, cristina romer, larry summers and now paul
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that is jobs in america. moments ago a new report showing a slight jump in the number of people apply fog unemployment unemployment benefits, the first five weeks, the jobless claims rose to 409. that s where we start today. how you doing, i m bill hemmer. martha: thank you very much, good morning, everybody. it s interesting because today s numbers we re getting in, those come on the heels of the private sector jobs number we saw yesterday and what was fantastic, it blew away expectations, it was triple, 300,000 jobs added in the private sector, three times larger than economists predicted. bill: let s put it with stuart varney, varney & company. good morning, stuart, what does it mean? you ve got to remember the long term downtrend in the jobless claims is very much in place and the number of those new claims is still now way below the danger