so, we had newt gingrich and mitt romney. both on the offensive over the last 24 hours. they know that six days is a short time and that s when the caucuses are. what have we been hearing from both of the candidates, mark? well, hala, you re absolutely right. so much on the line, so much at stake here. six days until january 3rd when iowa republicans will caucus and will really kick off what has been already a very long presidential season. well, newt gingrich had pledged not to go negative in this campaign. he had said that he would only go positive and talk about his plan to try to turn the american economy around. well, the gloves have come off and, in fact, he is going negative. yesterday on the situation room with wolf blitzer, he went right after mitt romney. in fact, let s listen to what newt gingrich had to say. all i say mitt is, if you want to run a negative campaign and you want to attack people, at least be man enough to own it. that s your staff and that s
that it is on the right track. merkel reaffirmed her confidence. we expect to hear from president obama about the drop in the jobless rate just minutes from now. the president is also going to be outlining a plan to upgrade buildings, make them more energy efficient. the administration says it will create tens of thousands of construction jobs. the president speaking about 11:10 eastern. we ll take you there live. senators trying to figure out a compromise today to extend the payroll tax cut in 2012. here s what happened. a senate blocked both democratic and republican plans last night. what s the big hang up? how to pay for an extension. without one the white house says the typical middle class family will pay 1500 more next year. herman cain will sit down with his wife. another woman, ginger white, claims she had a 13-year affair with cain something he adamantly denies. he now admits that he gave money to white but he never told his wife. my wife did not know about it
rate has fallen to 8.6%. that s the lowest rate in nearly three years. christine romans back with us in new york now. so, christine, what a marked improvement. 120,000 jobs added in november, where are we seeing the most growth here? we had the last two months here res have hire, as well. many more jobs created in september and october than we thought. the growth we re seeing is in the retail industry, no surprise there. 50,000 jobs created in the retail industry and half of those were in clothing stores and also in apparel, you know, accessory stores. you also saw leisure and hospitality. that means hotels, restaurants, too, food and drinking places. anything that has to do with people starting to get out and spend money there. you saw them adding workers in those places. also, professional and business services. 27,000 jobs created there and in health care and education, we saw about 20,000 jobs created. so, retail, food and drink, professional, medical system, medical pl