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the reasons why the list grew to a degree. walk us through these numbers. we re hearing two conflicting things. okay. appreciate it. will do. first of all, if you think that the va is fudging the numbers, which we ve seen on healthcare for veterans and wait times, which i consider friendly fire, why would you not think they re not fudging the numbers on claims as to actual claims numbers. shinseki we established the benchmark in january of 2009 was 150,000 backlog. you can look it up. it s online at the va. that number is now officially around 280,000 level, 290,000 level and that backlog is going down because they created a new class of provisional claims. a provisional claim is not one that s been finished or processed. they have a year to finish the claim. they manipulated the system to bring down the claims but with that it s close to double and
actually coming from people who are sort of backlogged from these processing problems that were happening in california. then you look at the numbers again and you see a big chunk of those claims numbers. 15,000 of them are because of layoffs of nonfederal workers. i m talking about contractors, people who work at companies like lockheed martin. these companies have had workers who were furlowed. you re seeing just how these 15,000 people in one week, who have only filed for jobless claims numbers, how they re being affected. next week we ll see the numbers on government employees who were furloughed. they re counted differently. carol? alison kosik, thank you. torch gate, the olympic torch not so fiery in russia. the flame has gone out four times since sunday. at one point a security guard had to use a cigarette lighter to reignite it. russians are calling for a criminal investigation because, you know, this thing isn t supposed to go out.
right now. the dow up 211 points after investors have been beaten down lately. they lost more than 300 points since the shutdown started. some are skeptical until a deal actually comes in. for now you re seeing a sigh of relief. this is the best bet so far, at least as wall street sees it. we are seeing investors buy in. the question, though, is if this rally will continue through the closing bell. got a long day ahead of us, carol. yes. i don t think the president meets with republicans until much later this afternoon. maybe it will continue. but then we have tomorrow to think about. talk about this jump in jobless claims. okay. so, this is interesting. we got the jobless claims numbers today. and this is really the first indicati indication, the first hard numbers that are showing, you know, what the government shutdown what kind of impact it has on americans. what we did find in these numbers is a huge jump in these new claims numbers, 66,000. that s a big jump. that s the b
showing a major spike in the number of foreclosures from july to august. ththe 7% increase is a nine month high for the number of homeowners unable to foot the bill and they are starting the frost ses of foreclosure. the president of the world bank is pointing fingers at the u.s. and other countries saying the world is now in a new economic danger zone. joining me to talk about this is steve morris, economic journalist with the wall street journal. do you agree with that. there is no doubt about it. i don t think that is a very shocking head hraoeup. we ve seen this coming for a longtime. the data that came out today, i hate to say it, jenna, it s so grim. we ve seen an increase in the foreclosures that you just mentioned. the new unemployment insurance claims numbers came out today. they are supposed to be falling, they rose again, which suggest we may see another pick up in the unemployment rate in a couple of weeks. it s hard to see any silver lining. i guess the silver lining i