you can t work on proliferation anymore. it is the one thing you have not only discredited yourself but by your actions you basically discredited our entire country. you can work on anything you want. you can become a color by numbers genius. you can invent a new form of recycling container, write amazing sci-fi novels, be a stay at home dad but can t work on the weapons of mass destruction thing anymore. if you re the uranium from africa guy. that s the one thing you can not do. mitt romney named the uranium from africa guy co-chair of his counterproliferation working group. the uranium from africa guy is going to be mitt romney s uranium from africa guy. this would be like hiring somebody from black water saying forward looking foreign policy. oh, wait, cofer black who left in the middle of the bush presidency to become an executive at black water has been named a mitt romney foreign policy adviser. mitt romney picked up dan senor
rental home in two years. a spiral from the working-class neighborhood they once called home. at that time, rhonda estimates she was earning $60,000 a year. her partner, kevin wallace, was a stay at home dad, taking care of their son, now 9, who has mental disabilities, and their daughters, age 3s and 4. but everything changed when rhonda lost her job in april of 2008. how long did you think you d be out of work? two weeks. rhonda worked in information technology. before that, she was a teacher. her search for work is made tougher in rhode island, which has an 11.4% unemployment rate, the fifth high nest the nation. i will look anywhere. administrative. you will click on every single one that you possibly know that will be a link. reporter: recently, she found holiday work for kevin on a delivery truck, but they re four months behind in their rent and face eviction. i ll scrub toilets. isle work in a hospital scrubbing toilets.
really a disappointing jobs report. now something else on a lot of people s mind during all this tough economic news is what s happening with these unemployment benefits and if they aren t extended. if not hundreds of thousands of people will start losing benefits and join the ranks of a so-called 99ers. they exhausted the 99 weekly mitt on those benefits. rhonda taylor is one of those. watch out for the heater because that s my heating source. reporter: 42-year-old rhonda taylor shows us what she calls a tough downgrade. her family s third rental home in two years. a spiral from the working class neighborhood they once called home. at that time, rhonda estimates she was earning $60,000 a year. her partner kevin wallace was a stay at home dad taking care of their son now 9 who has mental disabilities and their daughters ages 3 and 4. everything changed when rhonda lost her job in april of 2008.
injuries have robbed the 1-8 panthers of their first two qb choices. st. pierre has only been with carolina for a week. before that, he was a stay-at-home dad. interesting career. that will affect a lot of fantasy football. it will be pleasant across the south with warming temperatures and low humidity. heavy rain by this afternoon in san francisco and los angeles by tonight. more snow in the cascades. the northeast cools down to more seasonable temperatures with boston and new york in the mid 40s. bundle up in billings where it s about 15 degrees colder than usual. miami and honolulu enjoy the 80s. well, a california couple is celebrating a lofty achievement this morning. they ve been named the world s tallest couple by guinness world records. meet the halquists. she is 6 5 , he is 6 11 . the combined total here, 13 4 . i m flabbergasted by the height. they say the best part of their
challenger from minnesota s eighth congressional district and he joins me now. good morning to you. good morning, gretchen, from minnesota. well, hello to you and my home state. well, let me ask you this, chip, why the heck do you want to get into politics? you are a you were a northwest pilot. you tonight have adon t have an politically. why? to be honest with you, the last couple of years, i ve been a stay-at-home dad, where i saw the debt increasingly dramatically on my children, i had to step up and do something. i got involved. really, it was the health care bill that got you interested, right? why? that s right. well, i was listening to the radio. actually had the kids in the back seat and i said the following day, go to your congressional offices and request a town hall meeting for the first health care bill. and i said that s a great idea. so what i did is i put together a two page document requesting a town hall meeting from our congressman, congressman oberstar. i