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[inaudible conversations] good morning. The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome you all to our second bubble confirmation hearing of this anon girls feet. I would like to start by thanking senator korn and for being here to speak on behalf of our nominee is. Always good to have you. Our fellow committee member, senator mention from West Virginia is prepared to also offer introductory remarks for a nominee. Governor perry, i would like to extend a warm welcome to you and to your family. Know that i appreciate your desire to serve, your willingness to become our next secretary of energy. Ive enjoyed the meeting that we had together, learning more about your leadership as governor of the state of texas, including your accomplishments in the area of energy and environment. Im going to withhold this morning and a reference to text size versus alaska size. Weve had that discussion. But in all seriousness, we know that you ar ....
tonight. robert, what was wall street s reaction to this? well, harris, good evening. first of all, of course, we just saw the retail numbers and the jobs numbers much better earlier in the spring, late winter, february/march time frame. some economists say the milder winter had us borrowing spending and more hiring. think of construction jobs from the later spring early summertime. we will will have to wait to see if we are on better footing. expectations for 90,000 jobs added the month of june. those numbers out 8:30 a.m. eastern time. it is a step in the right direction. we were closer to 350,000 jobless claims back in the february/march time frame. still trying to work our way back down that way. harris: looking ahead to what s coming down the pike, you say actually may be bad news on jobs could be good news for some traders in our 401(k) s. why? that s right. one reason you saw stocks mixed today and so. weakness in the stock market is that better economic da ....
hill. and a global online computer threat. malicious software threatening to kick hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting people off the internet within days. tonight, what you need to know to protect yourself. also, a city s entire fireworks display goes off in just 15 seconds. tonight, the fourth of july fiasco. i m harris faulkner in tonight for shepard smith. we begin this thursday with a silver lining. in an otherwise stormy day for our economy, americans are getting back to work at a pace that analysts say could eventually lower the unemployment rate if it keeps up. those job figures coming from payroll provider adp it reports businesses added some 176,000 jobs in june. that s up 40,000 from the month before. this coming as the labor department reports fewer people are applying for unemployment. for the first time. dropping 14,000 last week to the fewest we have seen since the middle of may. but that s where the good news ends. analysts caution our economy is still ....