sure they extend the middle class tax cut for all of this year, to make sure we keep this recovery going. it s the right thing to do. there should not be delay. there should not be a lot of drama. we should get it done. that was president obama speak at the consumer financial protection bureau earlier this hour. he talked about the monthly jobs report. we didn t go live to it because the pool feed was down, but that s more detailed than anybody needs to know. let s talk about the job numbers. a rosier picture for the white house. though there is still a bit of time between now and november. it ll be interesting to see how the white house plays this as we get the economic picture further develops. ats the top of the program, the administration is wise to be very cautious about these numbers. great numbers, they have been coming down month after month for the last, i guess, three or so reporting periods.
and good morning to you. it is tuesday, december 13th. i feel like it s a homecoming. a long time since the three of us have been together. good to see you. as usual a busy, busy news morning. breaking news now. four soldiers are dead after two army choppers went down during a training exercise. it happened a joint base lewis-mcchord in washington state. crash investigators are trying to find out what went wrong right now. pliv on the pholive on the phon crash site. what do we know? i m watching the lights of the recovery teams that have been looking throughout the night to go in the grim task of recovering those bodies of the four aviators that lost their lives. still don t know what went wrong. at about 11:00 p.m. eastern last nim, sometime after 11:00 p.m. two helicopters crashed killing everybody aboard both helicopters. these are small observation helicopters, ali. the eyes and ears of what s on the ground. flying maneuvers over a training area when this crash to
by the way, this is a pool feed and yes, everybody is working to try to fix this shot because the back of this man s head is obviously not peter king. he is covering up peter king, as we speak. they re still waiting. this hearing getting a lot more media attention perhaps than they planned for when they opened up this hearing room. as congressman king it was for whatever he is waiting for, we note the obama administration spoke on this over the weekend. the committee is meeting today to hear testimony on the extent of radicalization in the american muslim community and to investigate that committee s response. the chair wishes to remind our guests today demonstrations from the audience, including the using of signs and placards as well as verbal outbursts are a violation of the rules of the house and the chair wishes to thank our guests for cooperation
military and that could play into how they react. shepard: thank you, jonathan. and he is chatting about this story and the big story, the rescue at the mine and family members are coming up to the site right now as we watch on the remote from the switch pool feed from chilean television. jonathan will talk about this as foxnews.com/shep. we are watching the rescue operations closely in chile. so far, 20 miners are up. right now the cage is already on the way up to the surface with the 21st miner, johnny barrios. next we will talk to the nasa doctor who worked with mine officials to keep the men alive. and we will watch the reunion on the surface with the man and his mistress. and his wife says she will not be watching.
medic down. it is about a 20 minute trip up and down. make no mistake it is not like an elevator shaft. i think we have a graphic in which you can see the path. it starts on the surface. then it grows it doesn t go straight down. that is not how it works. the truth is, that shaft has two bends in it, as it goes down. there you can see. the cable has to rest against the side of the shaft. you can see how that would create trick . they shored it up in the middle. the hope is the cable is not going to cause any problems. we were reading quotes from the local disaster officials a moment ago. who say we ve been lucky and we have to continue to be lucky or this won t go well. all pictures fed to us by chilean television. if you saw the opening of the shaft a moment ago before the pool feed switched away. you can see see the steam coming out. it is much warmer in the mine than on the surface.