most wanted of all the ambassador posts. next, 100. that s how many smith and nephew employees are out of a job thanks to obamacare. the global medical technology company says the cuts are due to the medical device tax, which is in obamacare. two-thirds, americans between 45 and 60 are putting off retirement due to financial losses during this recession. gretchen: a fox news alert. tense negotiations underway in alabama between police and a gunman still holding that five-year-old boy hostage. he s hiding out in an underground bunker, going on day three now and the details just get more bizarre. steve: craig boswell is watching in midland city, alabama. craig? good morning to you. certainly an air of anxiousness beginning to creep in as the town tries to stay focused and not get frustrated knowing very little about the ongoing
herself. rough weather damaged her boat and today the japanese coast guard picked her up. she s save but disappointed. she s trying to bike and paddle around the world solo. she s already gone 11,000 miles since last april. i m fredricka whitfield in for suzanne malveaux. president obama today firing back at accusation that is his administration deliberately leaked classified information about a cyber attack on iran. the notion that my white house would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. it s wrong, and people i think need to have a better sense of how i approach this office and how the people around me here approach this office. the president also hammered away at congress urging lawmakers to pass a jobs plan to boost the economy. republicans were quick to respond to the president aassessment of the u.s. job market. we just listened to the president say that the private sector was doing fine. my question would be to the preside
a cyber attack on the pay pal website. the group anonymous claimed responsibility calling it retaliation for the site s suspension of wikileaks accounts. a mother and her three young daughters died when their vehicle drove into a washed out section of a wyoming highway and was swept away by a raging creek. only the father managed to escape. in california, witnesses say a hiker was swept over a water fall at yoe accept itity national park. a search and rescue operation will resume in the morning. this morning in shanghai, yao ming announced his retirement due to injuries. david stern called the chinese star, quote, a testament to the globalization of our game. and for the second time in a week, sisly s mount etna has
yao ming announced his retirement due to injuries. david stern called the chinese star, quote, a testament to the globalization of our game. and for the second time in a week, sisly s mount etna has spewed lava closing down the main airport. now here s a look at wall street. the dow opens at 12,587 after jumping 202 points yesterday. the s&p spiked 21, the nasdaq went up 61. taking a look at overseas trading, in tokyo, the nikkei climbed 116 points. points, while in hong kong the hang seng added 101. tuesday strong earnings and hope for a deficit deal in washington boosted stocks to their best day since march. the dow had its biggest one-day jump this year. tuesday s gains turned all three majors positive for the month. the nasdaq gained more than
that could lead to new jobs. the british government says people should prepare to spend more than a third of their lives in retirement due to a staggering rise in life expectan expectancy. many of you could live past 100 years old. can you afford it? christine romans joins us from new york. the answer today would be no for a lot of folks. i can t afford it. every time i try to do a retirement calculator i can t get to 75 yet alone get to 100. none of the calculators on the website are geared to us living to be 100. these are the pension folks within the government in london. they re saying a really big chunk on people are going to live to be 100 years old. if you look at this chart we have for you, it s astonishing when you see how the demographic shift will go. look at that. that s the projected number of centenarians in the uk. they expect more than a sixth of the british population that s alive today can expect to live to their 100th birthday.