a sudden turn around from months of grim unemployment news, the jobless rate in november dropped to its lowest level in almost three years. 8.6%. u.s. businesses added 140,000 jobs. government jobs were lost. it s a net gain bigger than a lot of experts were predicting and welcome news for a president trying to get re-elected. is doing everything i can every single day to get this economy growing faster and create more jobs. this morning, we learned that our economy added another 140,000 private sector jobs in november. the unemployment rate went down. and despite some strong head winds this year, the american economy has now created in the private sector, jobs for the past 21 months in a row. that s nearly 3 million new jobs in all. and more than half a million over the last four months. celebrations may be a premature. what do we see? first, the positive news. the unemployment, down from 9% to 8.6%. that s very good news. the numbers by the payrolls. these are the num
right now it is down by 34 points. go live to the new york stock exchange in just a few minutes. 30 years, 30 million funerals. now there is new hope. it is world aids day. everyone from u.s. presidents to rock super stars, they are talking about the ongoing fight to end this epidemic. make no mistake, we are going to win this fight. the fight s not over, not by a long shot. the rate of new infections may be going down elsewhere, but it s not going down here in america. the infection rate here has been holding steady for over a decade. so what is next for the battle against aids? we ll take a look at the latest medical advancements. i m going to talk to bono about the possibility of a generation without aids within three years. that interview s coming up in the next hour of newsroom. the lawyer for jerry sandusky, the former penn state defensive coach says the time may come when his client has to think about a plea deal. that s right, the lawyer says that a plea could
with president obama and the first family, but he s with me this hour to explain more. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. he s come on through the rise and fall of michele bachmann, but this time, it might be different for mitt romney. newt gingrich is now posing a threat to romney s persistent high polling, opening up a new battle line in the republican race for the white house. joe johns the working the story for us. what s the latest between romney and gingrich? well, mitt romney has spent most of this campaign in a fairly comfortable position, but his organization is feeling the heat and the question now is how they re planning to row respond. newt gingrich at the head of the pack a month out from the iowa caucuses. a thing nobody planned for except newt gingrich. a new poll in the early primary state of florida showing 50% of likely republican voters saying gingrich is their pick for president. only 19% picked romney, who spent much of the campaign beh
john walsh of america s most wanted on the biggest crime headlines and the scandals in college sport. also one of the hottest young comics in the business. why dane cook is getting serious. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. herman cain s run for the white house is on life support tonight. never a good sign when a candidate says he s reassessing his campaign. but he s still out there tonight making a foreign policy speech in michigan. apathy, not being involved, not being informed, not staying inspired is a threat to the future of this great nation. but it s up to us and especially the younger generation to do something about it. despite his confident performance tonight, it seems unlikely that candidate cain can stay in the race much longer after one claim of a longtime affair and allegations of sexual harassment hanging over him. here to answer that question is the senior adviser for the cain campaign. now, let me start with you. when a candidate starts t
here s what we re watching for you. first the dow goes up, way up today. the syracuse basketball program under the microscope. and who is getting the wintry mix today. alison kosik, let s begin with you on the floor. there she is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. huge gains. huge gains for wall street after the fed s massive intervention in europe. and not just the fed. we re talking about five other central banks. everybody pretty much getting together, brooke, and agreeing to be kind of a safety net to keep the problems that are happening in europe from getting worse. so what these essential banks said were that, you know, they are going to make it cheaper and easier for banks to loan money and to borrow money with the idea that the banks would go out and extend credit lines to businesses and to consumers. it s essentially the goal of trying to get more money to start circulating in these world economies. as you can see, clearly with the dow up, the market lo