topped out at over 10%. 10.2%. and there were people saying that we're not going to get below double figures for a lot of years. in february of 2009 there just wasn't a whole heck of a lot of good news going on in america. >> the deficit number's going to be very high, 1.3 trillion. >> these banks are in trouble and the reason is the real estate market continues to deteriorate. >> when will it end with all the bad economic news? and there's more today. >> the unemployment rate is at 8.1%. president obama is telling americans not to panic. >> the government is out this morning with some stunning numbers on unemployment. in february, unemployment jumped to 8.1%. that's an increase of half a percent and the highest jobless rate since 1983. for the month, the economy lost 651,000 jobs. >> wow. since 1983? meanwhile, february 2009 is when the government took major action to do something, to fix this issue. on february 13th, 2009, the