casey wian, cnn, texarkana, texas. all right, casey. mixed messages from the housing market and more people are quitting their jobs. that last one is actually a good thing. patricia woo explains in this week s getting down to business. it s a mixed bag for the housing sector in this still-unstable economy. bank repossessions hit a record monthly high in may with lenders taking back more than 93,000 properties. but a third fewer people received foreclosure notices compared to a month earlier, according to realtytrac. we ll get the latest housing figures on wednesday. plus, one unusual sign of economic recovery. there are more people quitting their jobs. according to a government report, more americans opted to leave their jobs in the past three months than were laid off. that s welcome news after 15 straight months of layoffs topping voluntary departures.
because of the middle eastern ed you happened to be in all these places? i happened to be you have a security guard? you start feeling guilty as a middle eastern man. i was watching cnn, i m like, am i part of this plot? let s pull it back and talk about iran. what have you learned through the comedy there, and going out from city to city and club to club, are you educating people about what s going on through comedy? i hope so. one of the things i aim to do through my stand-up is show americans and westerners that not all iranians are bad, like you would see in the news not in the news, sorry, you guys do a good job, because you have reza, and now you have me, back-to-back iranians doing positive things. but our image isn t that good, from the hostage situation, to the movie not without my daughter, ahmadinejad, all the time, he s offended everybody. i m waiting for him to come out and be like, you know, unicorns are gay, just to see if he can offend some unicorn lo
reporter: the sullivans had planned to take kiley to church sunday. now they are preparing for a funeral tuesday. casey wian, cnn, textexarkana, texas. mixed messages from the housing market and more people are quitting their jobs. that last one is actually a good thing. patricia woo explains in this week s getting down to business. it s a mixed bag for the housing sector in this still-unstable economy. bank repossessions hit a record monthly high in may with lenders taking back more than 93,000 properties. but a third fewer people received foreclosure notices compared to a month earlier, according to realtytrac. we ll get the latest housing figures on wednesday. plus, one unusual sign of economic recovery. there are more people quitting their jobs. according to a government report, more americans opted to leave their jobs in the past three months than were laid off.
now the president has asked for 15 minutes from the networks so that he can address the nation live. reporter: that s right. i asked the senior administration official about that, because all indications were sort of in the middle of last week that there were no immediate plans to for the president to come out and make that address. but i was told by this official that the president really wanted to, after getting a chance to see what was going on in these three states, to return and tell americans about what progress is being made and what are some of the challenges that still lie ahead. that s what the president hopes to do. and he will do that less than 24 hours before then. he will sit down and meet for the first time with bp executives, the chairman of the board, perhaps even the ceo of bp. he will have some tough talks for these bp executives wi s ex particular, pushing them to set up a fund so claims for individuals and businesses will be able to paid out. that s one big con
look, if you look at the latest gallup poll, 46% of americans think that he is handling the gulf crisis poorly. only 40% think that he s handling it in a good way. he s going to go down there, spend a couple of days, as dan said, from down there in alabama. the fact is, mr. obama needs to spend at least a night down there to really try to feel their pain, as we talk about it in politics. bill clinton was very good at that. the fact is, he will come back, he will give that speech from the oval office. again, another sign from this administration that they re trying to put out to this nation, as well as the world, don, that they re taking this very seriously. and mark preston, he will speak to the nation tuesday night at 8:00 p.m. on cnn. you can see it here. thank you, mark preston. we appreciate it. thanks, don. the death toll rises again from flash flooding at an arkansas campground and relatives are trying to come to grips with the loss of their loved ones. we heard them say