Data security is a hot button issue in washington. Millions of americans having their information stolen over the holidays. Today congress set to hear from the secret service and other Consumer Protection agencies on recent Security Breaches at target, Neiman Marcus john terrett is on hand. They are also charged with going after financial crime, and that dovetails very nicely with the secret service. William noonan has done a lot of work on cybercrime in the past and hes going to testify that a lot of these recent brake ins that you were talking about del are really just a piece of decade long piece of cybercriminals breaking into retail. Shes going to make the point in her testimony to the Senate Banking committee that what you really need, shes going to reiterate the point that what you really need is congressional support for legislation that will strengthen cybe cybersecu. This whole event is expected to last a couple of hours, gets underway at about 3 00 in the afternoon. What are
Unemployment figures. They show a fix year low in the number of people applying for one employment blown fits. Benefits. The Labor Department is reporting an average of 200,000 new jobs from august to october. The Employment Firm says employers announced fewer layoffs last month. But that leaves an important decision ahead for congress if law macerlawmakers dont act son 1. 3 Million People could lose their Unemployment Insurance in 23 days. Libby casey joinin joins us livm capital. Capitol hill. What is on the table. Leader pelosi i is holding a hearing today to raise concern. The democrats are raising the charge to get longterm Unemployment Benefits extended. They run out december 28 them. They werthe benefits were instia year and a half ago. They are trying to drum up interest and support for this. Wthey talked about it on the house floor. Up to 1. 6 million americans are out of work or will be out of work because of these mindless cuts. And we are pu further cutting or safety net. H
We begin with another disappointing report concerns jobs. Economieding just 113,000 jobs last month, but that number was well sort short of what economists had forecast. The unemployment falling a bit to 4. 6 , and the number of americans actively looking for work in whats called the Labor Participation rate rose slightly, but these are numbers that we havent seen since the carter administration, and it comes on the heels of that bitter december report. This is a weak jobs report. And this is two months in a row when weve had really tepid jobs growth in the united states, and its an indication that for working families, the economy is not recovering fast enough, and sadly, it may be even slowing down. But wall street doesnt seem to be too disappointed. The dow up 48 points, and so is there a Silver Lining . Kevin kerr joins us from chicago. And kevin, the numbers were worse than expected but wall street doesnt seem phased. Why . Initially, del, we saw the bears come out of hibernation.
Killing four people and injuring dozens more. Crews cleared the tracks so service could resume on one of the busiest train lines. Jonathan, good afternoon. How are the cleanup efforts going right now . Well, stephanie, i would say crews are on the final stretches of work, at least here on the scene they brought on a out a cadaver dog. They uprighted most of the cars at this point. This is the final car. If you can see through the bushes here youll see that final car there. They were just able to upright with these large cranes that theyve been using and theyve been hauling the other cars away. In fact the one youve been looking at, the earlier video, this is the car that was just inches from the water, where near where the hudson and harl rivers meet. That fourth person found inside the car. They were able to upright the cars. There were seven of them total and 150 people aboard as weve been reporting when this train was en route to Grand Central station. Crews have finished their work
82 Miles Per Hour. Thats how fast federal investigators say a commuter train was going when it derailed on sunday. Four people died when the metronorth train jumped the tracks on, on a curve, dozens more were hurt. Investigators now know how fast the train was going. They still dont know for sure why it derailed. Lets take you to jonathan martin. He is at the crash site in the bronx. Jonathan . Reporter hey, tony. You know, investigators have said from the start that this is a very preliminary information, but as you mentioned, these two black box data recorders have revealed key information. One frust from the front and one from the back, showing this train was going too fast echoing what a lot of these passengers and witnesses have been saying from the start. Reporter investigators with the National Transportation safety board say they now know the commuter train that derailed was going too fast as it approached a curve. The preliminary information and let me emphasize this is prelim