A pretty eerie sight for some of those orioles fans and the city as a whole. we can see already some people trying to go to the box office to buy tickets, being turned away, and this decision coming under a certain level of criticism because of the visuals that it s going to create. i asked the orioles executive vice president about it earlier today. we want to be sensitive to the needs of the community, we didn t want to divert a lot of the resources for public safety to an event, but under the schedule demands of the american league, this is the only time the white sox are in here, and we already missed a couple of games, and there really is not an opportunity for them to play here. reporter: so there you have it their defense is this decision to play. i will also tell you, craig, we briefly ran into cal ripkin jr., who is of course a sports legend here in baltimore. he didn t want to talk about the riots, but he did say he was
I also spoke briefly to cal ripkin jr., who, of course is a legend in this city and somebody who has deep roots in baltimore and in maryland. he didn t want to talk about what the city what this meant to the city or what was going on, but he did say that he might attend the game and that he s never played a ball game in front of an empty stadium, so quite a statement from somebody who s, of course started in more games than any other player in baseball history. you know it s odd, kasie, because the games weren t they may have been temporarily suspended, but they played after 9/11, there are a lot of times when security issues were important, and yet this is the first time they are doing it here in baltimore. do they say why? was it that they felt real fear that something bad was going to happen? reporter: well, the team told me jose really this is about what s going to make the fans and the city law enforcement, police, first responders most
cal ripkin jr. is here live on the plaza. you influenced my daughter, about ten years ago you came on this show and you were talking about playing catch with kids. and sally had never caught the ball in the glove. good job, sally. oh! they re really fast, too. i have made myself at home here. is it okay i m in your castle right now? we cover a lot of territory today. where did the three hours go? we get to do it again tomorrow. and today is tomorrow. today is tomorrow. that s how it goes, right? tomorrow is tomorrow. how about that video of sally? hats off to the tape library for finding that. that was a sweet moment on fox & friends history.
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the dow is up 217 points, the reason, the jobs numbers for july was better than anyone was looking for. the total number, 163,000 jobs created last month. as you can see, the prediction was 100,000. we need about 125,000 jobs created per month, just to keep up with population growth. so this report does that. but look at the rest of the year. i mean, we haven t been able to clear that hurdle since march. it s been a really grim stretch. so there was a little bit of relief today. the bottom line is this. the american economy only has to add another 316,000 jobs to get back to where it was in january 2009 when barack obama took office. now, that would mean that he breaks even. but remember, in january of 2009, the economy was in a really bad place, and what he needs to do to make people feel really good, like the economy is recovering, is not only to break even for himself, but get back to where we were before the financial crisis. and to get there, he needs another 4,700,000 j