atlanta. you can see a lot of folks lining up there. expectation is herman cain will be emerging at some point as t.j. is trying to leave the room, but we re having a conversation here, aren t we? i m sorry. we re still talking. he may make an announcement. we know an announcement will be made. we re not clear what announcement is. we ll continue in for this race to the white house, whether i m dropping out, suspending. no way. fredricka, there is no way have you a grand opening and grand closing on the same day. i think that s a great point you re making. you can t gather donors, supporters, people together and say thanks for being here, i m done. curious to see what he will say. he will not say that. he s a tenacious individual. he might say i m in it to win it. i ll be watching. we ve got team coverage like you ve had all morning long shannon travis, everyone is position right there to help us understand and sort out all that we re about to hear, what we wi
the next steps are. before cain s major announcement tomorrow it s date night, perhaps the most uncomfortable date night in political history. herman cain taking the midnight train back to georgia to finally face his wife after ginger white came forward with allegations of a 13-year extramarital affair. the campaign also announced the creation of women for cain. a group the website says is headed by gloria cain. let s get right back to our panel msnbc contributor karen and dana from the political post. how does a presidential candidate face a date like this, a private affair? is he safe doing it in public? what does he do? wow, herman cain should probably oh, my god, there s not enough flowers or chocolate in the world to make up for this. he definitely has to do it privately.
but if i judge that it was in her best interests for me to quit, then i would do that. and this of course followed by the union leader today saying that we hope the allegations against herman cain prove up true. whatever the outcome, we suspect his wife will have him back from the campaign trail sooner rather than later. and they also went on to say that he s not ready and they said we re happy that he did embrace some ideas that were outside the mainstream, but most of the press he s getting right now is not very good, but herman cain does enjoy the limelight and the attention. he s doing no short of media interviews right now. and only today they announced that gloria cain is the national chairperson for women for cain. which is a little bit surprise to go make that announcement today. david, thank you very much for our briefing today. thank you. and today s jobs report may be good news for president obama, but what about the 13 million americans who are still
millionaires to pay for it. republicans say they could live with extending the current rate, but only if spending cuts offset it. last night in the senate both parties plans were voted down so there is work to be done before the end of the year. in california, powerful winds are still in the forecast for parts of southern california. nothing like the winds that did this though. did you see this damage? gusts topping 140 miles an hour were measure in the mountains outside los angeles at 140 miles an hour. that equals a category 4 hurricane. also you can imagine power lines were just no match for some of this. a lot of people, tens of thousands of them, are without power still today. also honda has expanded a previously announced recall to nearly 900,000 vehicles. the problem is potentially dangerous air bags. the global recall affects several cars in the line-up the accord, civic, odyssey, crv, pilot as well, models 2001 to 2003. most of the cars tartgeted are n the new
a sudden turn around from months of grim unemployment news, the jobless rate in november dropped to its lowest level in almost three years. 8.6%. u.s. businesses added 140,000 jobs. government jobs were lost. it s a net gain bigger than a lot of experts were predicting and welcome news for a president trying to get re-elected. is doing everything i can every single day to get this economy growing faster and create more jobs. this morning, we learned that our economy added another 140,000 private sector jobs in november. the unemployment rate went down. and despite some strong head winds this year, the american economy has now created in the private sector, jobs for the past 21 months in a row. that s nearly 3 million new jobs in all. and more than half a million over the last four months. celebrations may be a premature. what do we see? first, the positive news. the unemployment, down from 9% to 8.6%. that s very good news. the numbers by the payrolls. these are the num