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all morning we put education in focus. why in the world is our system ranked lower than ireland, saudi arabia, and uzbekistan. did you see this? the happiest olympic worker has an interesting approach to rousing the crowd. we decided to see if the same trick in london would work in new york. happy saturday, everyone. i m randi kaye and it s 7:00 on the east coast and 4:00 out west. extreme weather and wildfires and at least four major fires burning. we talked to the official at the department of emergency management and said the drought played a big part in all of this and said hundreds of homes are being threatened by these fires. they are preparing to send more resources to fight the fires today. other extreme weather, tropical storm ernesto is moving west right now. the storm hit the windward islands with heavy rain and 60 mile per hour winds. right now it s around 300 miles south of puerto rico. ernesto is expected to strengthen into a hurricane sometime tomorrow, b ....
the situation room . we begin with the state of unemployment in america, just three months before election day. both democrats and republicans have something to seize on in the newest jobs report. employers say they added 163,000 jobs to the u.s. economy in july. that s better than economists expected, and something for the obama camp to hang its hat on. but the romney camp is pointing to this figure, the overall unemployment rate unexpectedly rose to 8.3%, because american households report losing 195,000 jobs. we want to bring in our white house correspondent, dan lothian. so sounds like kind of a wash, politically, dan. it does. and what the president is trying to do is highlight the positive, as you pointed out. yes, the unemployment rate did tick up to 8.3%, but what they re focused on is the fact that jobs were created, more jobs than expected. the experts out there, economists had expected that some 95,000 jobs would have been created last month, but as you ....
taxes and deficits when she should be focused on how to create the best environment for job creation, job creation is the single most important matter facing america right now. not taxes, not deficits, not debt, and not health care. in july the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.3%. don t worry too much about. that look at the right side of your screen. 163,000 jobs were added to the economy. but 12.8 million americans are still without a job and looking for work and close to a third of those who are employed hold lower paying jobs with little hope of wage increases any time soon. now in a real storm the worst thing that can happen is you lose your home. in an economic storm, the worst thing that can happen is you lose your job. lose your job and you lose the tool that helps you prosper. if others lose their job, that keeps your wages low. without real job creation, america cannot prosper. here s why jobs are more important than debt and deficit and tax reform. when you h ....
thanks to dry brush and strong win winds. so far, dozens of structures have been burned, but there are hundreds more homes that are threatened this morning. one of the worst of the fires burning right now is in luther, oklahoma. investigators there are looking into the possibility that the fire was deliberately set by a man allegedly throwing burning wads of paper into a pasture. more extreme weather now and tropical storm ernesto is moving west toward jamaica. people in southern jamaica are being warned that the storm is coming. it already swept past the windward islands with heavy rain and 60-mile-per-hour winds. ernesto is expected to strengthen into a hurricane some time tomorrow, but the latest tracks don t have it reaching the u.s. and right behind ernesto is a brand-new named storm, tropical storm florence with winds at 40 miles per hour. relatives of former penn state coach joe paterno are fighting for the school and his legacy. paterno s family says they pl ....
air bags and cushion them with air bags and land it on the surface. that was the tried and trued method. but this rover is the size of a car, 2,000 pounds. it s too big to do it any other way than what they re going to attempt in 36 hours. never before happen. and what they will do is hit the atmosphere at 13,200 miles an hour. they ll begin to slowdown. they ll be maneuvering through the atmosphere and then at some point will deploy a parra chute which will further slow the vehicle but not enough to get it on the ground safely. at that point they will fire some rockets on the spacecraft and it will begin to line itself up with the martian surface then they ll use a sky crane where the rover will actually dissend from the bottom of the landing vehicle and the two will dissend on the surface together. then they will fire off the other part of the vehicle that they no longer need. so that will all take place in a matter of seven minutes, from the time they hit the top of ....