a good situation for israel to become increasingly isolated and that s what s happening. panetta will be meeting with israeli and palestinian leaders to try to restart peace talks. he s also expected to urge the israelis to improve relations with egypt and turkey. severe turbulence on two separate flights force emergency landings at boston s logan airport. at least nine people were hurt on a jet blue flight from puerto rico to boston. the other plane was a luftansa found originated in charlotte bound for germany. 11 people hurt on that flight. more explosive testimony expected at the manslaughter trial of michael jackson s doctor. on the stand first, an emergency room doctor who gave paramedics permission to pronounce jackson dead in his home. several of conrad murray s girlfriends are expected to testify they were on the phone with him shortly before the pop star stopped breathing. several girlfriends? those are your headlines. i hope that wasn t a misprint.
benefits. it s been really at 400 or higher since april. that s really not conducive to cutting the unemployment rate but a good number this week. it fell to 391,000 and that s better than we had expected. another important report, the final read on how fast the economy grew in the second quarter. this is the gdp report. gross domestic product. the sum of everything that this economy puts out and it grew at 1.3%. so, for all those people who are talking about a double-dip recession, this number shows it isn t technically a double dip recession right now. in the second quarter you had economic growth and economists are telling me that for the third quarter there was growth there, as well. so, you have an economy that is growing and you have fewer people than expected who filed for jobless benefits. it sounds like a couple of nonnegatives, which is, but taken together, that s positive for the market, at least this morning, kyra. we ll watch all the numbers and we ll know in 2