in america, and we are witnessing it now in politics. all right, i want to focus a little bit, i want to get marc morial in on this, but i want to refocus to this primary question, too, because the debt fight is part of the backdrop to this still chronic problem of unemployment. let me just show the figures, marc, if i can. this is unemployment around the states, the unemployment figures where it is highest. nevada over 12%, california almost 12%, rhode island, florida, michigan over 10%. where are the jobs? is government sufficiently focused on this? we have a jobs crisis in america and i think that the debt ceiling discussion should be decoupled from the deficit discussion, and the nation needs a jobs plan. we have 14 million people out of work. the black unemployment rate is at stifling levels. it s, in fact, increased since the recovery has begun. and so, we need a jobs plan and we need to be very cautious and careful that a deficit-cutting
and hopefully, we ll get to the bottom of it and it will change journalism. you know, i want to go back to something david said about the inability to solve problems. i think the business community has been absent. they play politics themselves. instead of going to politicians and saying you fix this thing, they say give money to both sides, and they have been unwilling to stand up in too many cases and say enough is enough. look, i don t think we just have a crisis in washington of leadership, i think it s across all the sectors. i think we see it in sports, where we let sometimes these thugs go out on the field and play on sunday because they can score a touchdown. we see it in our pop culture. there is a crisis of leadership in america, and we are witnessing it now in politics. all right, i want to focus a little bit, i want to get marc morial in on this, but i want to refocus to this primary question, too, because the debt fight is part of the backdrop to this still chronic probl
morial in on this, but i want to refocus to this primary question, too, because the debt fight is part of the backdrop to this still chronic problem of unemployment. let me just show the figures, marc, if i can. this is unemployment around the states, the unemployment figures where it is highest. nevada over 12%, california almost 12%, rhode island, florida, michigan over 10%. where are the jobs? is government sufficiently focused on this? we have a jobs crisis in america and i think that the debt ceiling discussion should be decoupled from the deficit discussion, and the nation needs a jobs plan. we have 14 million people out of work. the black unemployment rate is at stifling levels. it s, in fact, increased since the recovery has begun. and so, we need a jobs plan and we need to be very cautious and careful that a deficit-cutting plan that unfairly targets
most important reason or qualification for general petraeus is that he also knows how to walk the political line fields here on capitol hill, at the white house and even here at the pentagon. so by all accounts, he was a great choice for this job. but i think what we re going to hear tomorrow in these hearings is not so much about general petraeus qualifications, but about the strategy itself. it will become a forum to raise questions about, look, are we fighting the right war in the right way and should we be there in the first place. one of the questions that s been raised is there an analogy between what he did did in iraq and whether or not it would work in afghanistan. what s your primary question, what do you think needs to be clarified about the war in afghanistan? i think there will be a lot of questions about the strategy. and in particular how you deal with the relationship between
raising the death toll to five. he had literally cut a hole in his floor and literally just put her body in the floor and covered it up. reporter: and first thing tuesday morning, neal began his 25-minute rampage. first, killing two neighbors. he then drove through the rural community before crashing into the school. afterwards, the shooter continued on until he was finally killed by police in a shootout. and for the first time, we hear from the shooter s family. he clearly had no business with firearms. he had full-on paranoia and delusions. matt gutman with us live again tonight from california, and matt, we know the shooter was facing numerous charges before this shooting took place. a lot of people in that community, we just heard from her there, asking, how did he get the guns used in this rampage? reporter: that s a primary question here, david. now, among those charges was assault with a deadly weapon. under the provisions of those charges, he should have been prohibit