going to look like. the biden theme, the way they are playing the economy and despite how grim americans view things, they say the trend is their friend. they are looking at the steady jobs improvement, the improvement on inflation numbers, still up. and they are clinging to that and say time is on their sides to resonate. what do you think of that? we saw that happen in the last cycle. we are talking about unemployment. with inflation, they will say, it is better than it was last year.
accident. police finding key evidence in the instructor s stomach? and also caught on tape. a scary armed robbery at a dunkin donuts, a customer trying to be a hero but ends up unconscious. how this all went down, all in matter of seconds. up first this morning, big new developments with the chinese activist smack-dab in the middle of a political firestorm. hillary clinton is scheduled to speak about chen guangcheng in about an hour. we learned that chen can apply to study abroad according to a chinese state-run news agency. u.s. officials also say they just spoke by phone today with chen and met with his wife in person. they re expected to meet with chen in a hospital sometime this morning. the blind activist says he doesn t feel safe in china and wants to come to the u.s. he even interrupted a capitol hill hearing yesterday to request a meeting with the secretary of state. translator: i want to meet with the secretary clinton. i hope i can get more help from her. the
31-year-old faisal shahzad is sentenced to life in prison for the thwarted attack. he pleaded guilty to all ten counts against him told the courtroom, brace yourself, the war with muslims has just begin. the white house issued a statement saying it s pleased with the sentence. s shahzad is accused of trying to set off a car bomb in times square but it failed to detonate. lasting far beyond 2014 when the white house is expecting jobs improvement. analysts by a left-leaning think tank agreed that lawmakers failed to adequately stimulate the economy and they say more needs to be done. panelists compared the u.s. recovery to the long recession that plagued japan in the 1990s. shoppers here in washington appear to be getting along fine without their paper or plastic bags. the city says it s collected millions less in revenue from the five-cent tax on disposable