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more from the sweeney family, the sister spoke and said they re optimistic about one thing, the fact that they re not being detained at a prison in egypt. they re actually being held in a courthouse, so they look at that as one positive sign. we re also hearing from another mother who says that her son would never be violent and be hurling fire bombs off the rooftop of american university in cairo as they are being accused of. she calls him an islist person and not violet at all. these three gentlemen were studying abroad and found themselves in the middle of it it all. the u.s. embassy in cairo is working to secure their release, heather. heather: and what is happening right now in cairo? reporter: we re getting word, actually, that the army, the military has sent in a larger presence, more soldiers to a side street off of tahrir square where there have been a lot of clashes there. it s interesting, it s been relatively quiet when you compare it to the other five days, so we ll have
open here. investors reacting to the jobless numbers that came out today, still right around 400,000, a slight uptick in unemployment claims from the week before which tells you we re still not making any real gains or any real ground on the jobs picture in america which means the unemployment rate stays right around 9% which is, frankly, not good enough. yesterday the dow was hammered, off 248 at the close. heather: but expect it to be light today. bill: the volume will be light, yeah, but we ll see. it s been a tough week so far. heather: yeah. going into the holidays. bill: better days ahead. heather: yeah, look ahead. bill: mitt romney s headed to a critical battle ground state, and guess who s going there too? president obama s going to be there. why pennsylvania is critical in this next lefntle. heather: and she is trailing in the polls, so will last night s performance help michele bachmann close the gap? we ll ask the minnesota congresswoman when she joins us live in the next h
heather: i ll be working tomorrow, i m very thankful we ve got jobs! heather: thank you so much, and we appreciate it. happiness that giving, by the way. happy thanksgiving. heather: see you later. bill: new video of a terrifying helicopter crash, rather. have you seen this? yeah, that rotor blade clipping a cable, sending that chopper into a spin. the pilot nearly thrown from the cockpit. workers below running for safety. they re okay. this is out of audiocassetteland, new zealand. the pilot was installing a christmas tree. pilot s doing okay, but he sure made a headline there. check on the markets, we were told we are headed lower today and, indeed, that is where we are going. a whole lot of people have already broken for the weekend, but we re off 80 points at the
going to get attacked, sadly. it s an illusion that we are somehow safer because of these laws. we are not. we really come proceed moist o compromise our cals. heathervalues. heather: we have to wrap it up. happy thanksgiving. bill: what has people talking about michelle bachmann this morning? we will talk to her about that live in a few minutes. day tuned. heather: it is supposed to be the biggest, the badest the most high to ebg spacecraf high-tech spacecraft ever. but it doesn t come cheap. where is it headed? stay tuned. welcome idaho, where they grow america s favorite potoes.