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market, a little about news good news, a little bad news. on the good side we saw fewer americans file for unemployment by about 31,000. the bad news is the amount of americans who actually started to collect claims is still very high. ashley west is joining us from the fox business network. still bad news. tough news. we re not breaking out the champagne or confetti any time soon but we re down to 473,000. when you think about it, that s an extremely high number. the problem is, this economy, just can t get going. consider this, the unemployment rate, still at 9 1/2%, a 26-year high, despite the stimulus that s been spent to try to get the economy. companies are still cutting workers or hanging on to what they have. that s a worrying sign. get this number, 10.2 million people are collecting some type of unemployment benefits right now. it s a very tough picture. jenna: and we re getting closer and closer to the holidays. that picture gets tougher, especially when it come ....
reporter: august 15th, 3:30 in the morning, a car go out of control. two teenagers killed. the drivers step. the front seat passenger, 15-year-old derrek. police say alcohol was a factor. my son is gone. and now i m going to tell the rest of the world what to look for and i m going to tell the children what to look for. how they can go from these beautiful children to death. and it is final. and he is in the ground because he was so accepting of the dark side. yolanda said she now plans to take her message out into the community to schools, to parent, to students. she said there is no reason why another teenager should end up like her son. i m pat collins, news4, prince william county. another local life has been lost in afghanistan. he lived in falls church on. monday he was killed by a roadside bomb while on foot patrol there. he had been deployed twice to iraq and was currently just three week into his third tour. the sergeant joined the marine corps in 2002 sh ....