jobs in and live in day in and day out. paul pelosi, he is the husband of speaker pelosi, was violently assaulted during an early morning break-in by an assailant who was reportedly searching for nancy pelosi. a source telling nbc news that mr. pelosi was home alone when the attacker broke in. the attacker was armed with a hammer. paul pelosi reportedly suffered multiple blows to the head and is currently in surgery. the speaker was in washington, d.c. at the time of the attack. as for the assailant, he is in the custody of the san francisco police department. officials say he will face a number of charges including attempted homicide. the motivation for the attack is still under investigation at this hour, but a look at his digital footprint reveals he posted a whole host of conspiracy theories including anti-establishment ideas as well as anti-semitism and vaccine conspiracies. this attack is raising questions about the security of our lawmakers and their families in this i
parts of the state getting hit with wind gusts up to 126 miles per hour. this report coming out of redfish pass, a sform surge up to 18 feet is threatening important charlotte and the fort myers area. we have fox team coverage with steve harrigan where ian is making the direct hit. robert ray is in fort myers on how folks are dealing with this and rick reichmuth is in the fox weather center on how long the heat could last. given the slow movement, quit awhile. welcome. i m neil cavuto. a busy day right now and a monster of a hurricane that is big and also slow. that is the problem. it hangs around awhile. steve harrigan with more. steve? neil, we had the illusion for the last 15 or 20 minutes that things might be dying down. that was the eye of the storm. part of that eye passed over us. the skies got lighter, the heavy rain which has lashed for hours stopped completely. the winds died down. now the tail end of that storm is beginning to hit us, the back side of it. we ll s
and this is what politicians fight about. this is the recovery here. you had a weak spot last summer, a weak spot this summer and now a job market that s doing just a little bit better. so what are the politicians saying about it? here s the spin. the white house focuses on this. 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. the economy has now added private sector jobs for 29 straight months for a total of 4 miion jobs during that period. and what about governor romney? they tend to focus on this. we ve now gone 42 months with the unemployment rate above 8%. both of them are right, by the way. i m joined by professor of economics and the director of the new documentary preliminary. if the economy can do this three more times, president obama will have gained back all the jobs lost at the beginning of his presidency. does that get him re-elected? well, historically or since world war ii, a president hasn t been re-elected with the unemployment rate over 7.4% but as you p
[ chirp ] [ male announcer ] upgrade to the new done. with access to the fastest push-to-talk and three times the coverage. now when you buy one kyocera duracore rugged phone, for $49.99, you ll get four free. visit a sprint store, or call 855-878-4biz. [ chirp ] that economic storm is cloetser to the shores every day. you can call me nuts. you can call me chicken little but the political battle over extending the bush tax cuts is blowing the storm bands over our head. you don t need me to tell you that our economy is on the brink of weakening again. you feel it every day. the latest cnn orc poll shows just 27% of you say the economy is in good shape. 73% feel that the conditions are pretty poor. while rays of hope peek through the clouds from time to time, the u.s. economy is fragile right now. families are facing long-term unemployment. there are foreclosures, higher student loan payments, higher medical costs, so the notion that you may have to pay higher taxes by next
alison, everyone is noting that this is just a part of the trend. right. well, first of all, don, it is an encouraging report, especially when you look at the trend here. when you look at the trend, 1.6 million jobs have been added in the last year. the unemployment rate is at 8.5%. so, yes, things are getting better. the dow is down and nasdaq is mixed. not so overly impressed. as things improve, the expectation is rising and the fact is these numbers just didn t blow away expectations. the economy at this point is kind of like an economy that s had its training wheels taken off but we still haven t moved into the fast lane and wall street wants to see if the economy is picking up steam. and when you break up these numbers, it s not equal among everyone. it s not. the unemployment rate didn t budge for african-americans. in fact, the black unemployment rate in december was 15.8%. compare that to the rate for whites at 7.5%. you know what, economists say, it s nothing k