rate has fallen to 8.6%. that s the lowest rate in nearly three years. christine romans back with us in new york now. so, christine, what a marked improvement. 120,000 jobs added in november, where are we seeing the most growth here? we had the last two months here res have hire, as well. many more jobs created in september and october than we thought. the growth we re seeing is in the retail industry, no surprise there. 50,000 jobs created in the retail industry and half of those were in clothing stores and also in apparel, you know, accessory stores. you also saw leisure and hospitality. that means hotels, restaurants, too, food and drinking places. anything that has to do with people starting to get out and spend money there. you saw them adding workers in those places. also, professional and business services. 27,000 jobs created there and in health care and education, we saw about 20,000 jobs created. so, retail, food and drink, professional, medical system, medical pl
five weeks? six weeks. until the voters actually start voting and people go to caucuses without making a big gaffe and doing something that people are expecting from newt gingrich to harm his candidacy. bret: meantime, herman cain is saying he is innocent. and that this is an effort to take him out of the race. associated press moved a story about ginger white. that is the atlanta businesswoman who charged she had a 14-year sexual affair with herman cain. they say she has had repeated financial troubles and lost a lawsuit once accusing her of spreading damaging lies of exbusiness partner. moving that story right now. what about this and cain s response? he did a long interview with neil cavuto today. he said he is reassessing and re-evaluating his campaig campaign.
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
i m bret baier in washington. the big story here today a huge market reaction to a plan to help global banks. tonight on special report we ll analyze the reason behind the biggest day for the dow jones/industrials average in two yaf years. also bring up critics concerns about the fed move. dow finished ahead 490 points. the biggest since march. s&p 500 up 52. nasdaq fbied up 105. president obama was in pennsylvania today pushing his plan to make millionaires pay for a payroll tax cut exley tension and expansion. herman cain is on the campaign trail two days after allegation he had a long-term sexual affair with a georgia woman. we hear what he says about reassessing the campaign. we tell you about today s reaction to yesterday s violence in tehran against the british embassy. the grapevine, presidential
five weeks? six weeks. until the voters actually start voting and people go to caucuses without making a big gaffe and doing something that people are expecting from newt gingrich to harm his candidacy. bret: meantime, herman cain is saying he is innocent. and that this is an effort to take him out of the race. associated press moved a story about ginger white. that is the atlanta businesswoman who charged she had a 14-year sexual affair with herman cain. they say she has had repeated financial troubles and lost a lawsuit once accusing her of spreading damaging lies of exbusiness partner. moving that story right now. what about this and cain s response? he did a long interview with neil cavuto today. he said he is reassessing and re-evaluating his campaig campaign.