the history of the united states. cnn s jessica dean joins me now from pittsburgh where officials are about to brief reporters. jessica, this massacre happened about 24 hours ago. what are we expecting to hear at the news conference any minute now? yeah. any minute now, jake. in fact, they re announcing who is going to be speaking at this news conference. we re expecting to hear the identities of the 11 victims. we know from the criminal complaint that eight were male, three of them female. so we re expecting to learn more about that and supporting affidavits. we re going to get details about what happened yesterday. we do know that criminal charges have been filed against the alleged shooter and the 29 counts. these are hate crimes that he has been charged with. we re expecting to hear more about all of that again. again, we re going to hear from the u.s. attorney and hear from the special agent in charge of this fbi investigation and we re hoping to hear from them very soon. in the
will be around. just getting the unpopular parts would be popular, but on the other hand, it wouldn t fundamentally fix the problem, which is that health care costs out of control, they re going nuts, and nobody has a good idea of how to rein them in, make it affordable, and cover a lot of people. i think that s where the debate is right now. republicans have yet to put forth a solution to his problems. jon: there are three senators, republican senators, all of them female who have expressed their opposition to this skinny repeal idea, right? speak out they ve expressed their opposition to the repeal and delay provision. right now, we are still waiting to hear from a lot of senators in terms of what they feel about this skinny provision. it was really just something that we sorted to hear more about this week. at the beginning of this process, a lot of journalists joked that this is where we had
how about you? oh, i m a bears fan. she s a chicago boy. i ll give you the highlights. there you go. okay, drew. thanks a lot. drew griffin here in studio 7 for suzanne malveaux, who s over in afghanistan. let s get you up to speed. new numbers out today provide more evidence of a very weak job market. the number of americans filing first-time claims rose. it was up to 414,000 last week. why is that important? economists say the number needs to fall below 400,000 to reduce the unemployment rate, which is stuck at 9.1%. president obama lays out his jobs plan tonight. our special coverage, obvious, beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern. republican front runner rick perry made his debate debut last night. quickly, it became clear that he and former massachusetts governor mitt romney were willing to slug it out. we created more jobs in the last three months in texas than he created in four yeast in massachusetts. it s is a great state. texas has zero income texas. governor