blues. depression set in early today, and it set in hard. there were only 80,000 jobs added in this country in june, and the 8.2% unemployment rate didn t budge. yep. the stock market plunged, politicians and analysts alike sounded like they were on the edge of a cliff. there s a lot of misery in america today. and these numbers understate what people are feeling, and the amount of pain which is occurring in middle class america. peter buickvar equity strategist tells outfront the jobs numbers are quote, pathetic. chief u.s. economist says another month, another sub par employment report. mitt romney had it right. there is a lot of pain in a lot places, but does all the doom and glood at up? yes, the jobs numbers weren t great, but this is a glass we re choosing to see a little bit more half full. and most americans agree with us. a new cnn poll shows 60% of people are optimistic and think economic conditions next year will be good. one reason for this is housing. it
it was called the friends of angelo program now, the report today names a string of lawmakers and regulators from both parties, democrats and republicans, who benefited from this vip treatment. senate budget committee chairman, for instance, democrat kent conrad. former democratic senator chris dodd. republican house armed services committee chairman buck mckeon. all three deny any wrongdoing. the former ceo of fannie mae, officials at freddie mac and a secretary of housing and urban development were also in this friends of angelo program. so were congressional staffers from both parties that played a role in legislation that affected countrywide. these vips got favorable mortgage rates and points. one was a chairman of the house oversight committee, the very same committee investigating countrywide. he also denies any wrongdoing. according to the house report, documents and testimony obtained by the committee show the vip loan program was a tool used by country wide to build
don t screw with this, okay? this is piers morgan tonight. cona o brien is very tall, he s very talented, he s very irish and perhaps the funniest man with red hair on the entire planet. he s also an ordained minister. he hosts his own late-night show on tv. you are a man of many talents, aren t you? yes, i am. thank you for noticing that. you didn t even scratch the surface. i have a high falsetto. i m hairless, completely hairless, my body. i m aerodynamic. there s nothing i can t do. what is the genuinely weirdest thing about you that nobody knows? wow, that s a good one. the weirdest thing about me that nobody knows. i can be amusing at times. it seems to have escaped people s notice. you don t do many interviews. i don t do a lot. i ve been trying to lure you for like 18 months. i don t do a lot because think about it, i m on television constantly. since 1993, i m on tv for a chunk of time every day. i m not looking for more ways to be on television.
tonight, the woman who showed everyone what happens when harry met solly. i ll have what she s having. two of the people who knew her best tell her tstories. remembering nora effron. plus, sex, cash and politics. she was at the center of the scandal that ended a political career and destroyed a marnl. marriage. do you really think men cheat for bad sex? do they? . rielle hunter answers the most important question of all. is she sorry? and the mayor of new york. this is piers morgan tonight. tonight, rielle hunter tells all. but we begin with the big story. nora effron classic movies, audiences still laugh and also cry along with them. she was a playwrig right and be selling author and blogger. her best legacy may be her family and long-time friends who are all paying tribute to her today. welcome to you both. i ve been struck, i have to say, about the incredible outpouring of the emotions, tributes, of grief from so many people, from such a broad spectrum. no
reporter: hi, soledad. yeah, this fire has really amped up in the last just couple of hours. a fire official told me less than an hour ago if he told me an acreage amount, it would be wrong in ten minutes. it s advancing 10,000 feet every hour. the last four days this has been burning, they counted on the wind to at least burn it in towards the interior of the forest and away from populated areas. just within the last half hour, that has completely changed. the smoke is now coming towards us, towards the city of colorado springs. now, it doesn t seem at this moment there s any real danger to the city itself. but so far as of a couple hours ago, they miraculously i think not lost a single structure. i was in the interior of this fire and they had fire lines around individual houses and every single one them had held. this is going to make it a lot more difficult with this change in the wind direction. that s what prompted that additional evacuation of 7,000 people, soledad.