seniors. rick: a college student facing murder and hate crime charges, this morning, for allegedly slashing this new york city cab driver s throat. coming up, you will not believe what sparked or perhaps sparked the vicious attack. martha: and a restaurant worker turned multi-millionaire, new questions about the developer, everybody wants to know, about this person, behind the mosque near ground zero, coming up we ll find out why he s reluctant to talk about the new job and where the money came from. sharif al-jamal, why will you not talk to us, why are you running, why will you not answer any of our questions. martha: details, coming up next.
years ago and worked as a yellow cab driver for 15 years, has four children, all born here in the u.s. and tuesday came close to losing his life on the job. he has murders, a six inch gash to his neck and cuts on his arms and face and is recovering, very weak but he will be the guest today of mayor bloomberg, at city hall. the mayor of new york city inviting him to express outrage over the vicious attack, and, to tell everyone that new york will not tolerate religious hatred. the hate-filled attack happened on tuesday, sharif was driving his taxi and picked up a mass jer, michael enright, who made a brief conversation with him and exchanged the muslim greeting and then asked him if he was muslim and the cab driver answered that he was, in fact, a muslim and, then, says that this passenger went berserk, saying,
manhattan restaurants. martha: we are joined live by eric sean, the development, who is part of the story is involved with another mosque, this one is uptown, i believe, right. eric: that s right, there is now another mosque, sharif al-jamal is involved in and, the developer behind the potential islamic center and mosque near ground zero and, he s also raising fund for the second mosque which is far from the site of our country s terrorist attacks. and that mosque in harm lem, the his pork part of our nation s african-american community, immigrants from senegal want to build the harlem islamic cultural center, a much smaller project than he wants to build near ground zero and the web site directs donations, to the company, soho properties, and the same company that owns the building near ground zero, and, the mosque sponsors need a half million dollars to start construction of the mosque, and
a double dip recession. martha: the president is taking time out of his vacation and held a high level conference call with the economic advisors and stuart varney is here, the anchor of varney & company at the fox business network, and first of all, the jobs numbers. a modest sigh of relief, at least it s not a half million new faces on the unemployment line, it is 473,000, still a bad number but not as bad as last week, modest sigh of relief. truth is, the economy is still struggling, weakening as we speak and clearly lost its momentum and what is the plan? as you alluded to there, the president held a conference call yesterday, from his vacation in martha s vineyard, convened all of his top economic advisors and the only thing they put on the table was a $30 billion plan to funnel money to small business through community banks. that is all there is on the table, to deal with what is an economic mess and some are calling an economic crisis and indeed there is a sense of