>> let me give issue perspective. put aside the unemployment rate for a a while because there are lots of reasons why that's not the most effective way to look at this. the most effective way is job growth, the number of jobs lost or added in a given month. let's go back to january of 2011. you can see all through 2011, we gain jobs. off to a strong start and then we started talking about a double dip recession, issues in europe became more serious. our debt crisis became an issue, the debt ceiling debook kell that we had, the downgrade, all that happened in the late summer and companies were hesitant about hiring more people. but starting late summer and into the fall, we've had strong growth. from october through january, it's been a steady trend upward culminating in january where we added 243,000 job, the vast

majority private sector jobs. how does it affect the political landscape? republicans have been using president obama's job creation record against him. and jobs are the intractable problem of our time. that's the most important thing that we have as to look at. so if you just take the number of jobs that were lost since president obama took office, you come out with 4.6 million jobs last in america since president obama took office. whether or not you want to hold him responsibility for that. how many jobs have been recovered since then? 3 1/2 million job, all ki accumulation of all of those months of job growth. 1.2 million jobs have not been recovered. if you dwhid by the number of months between now and election day, what you find is that you have to come up with 130,000 jobs a month for president obama to make the claim by election

day that all the jobs lost on his watch have been recovered. we look at the strength of the job creation that we saw today, it makes it it entirely likely that you could see an average of 130,000 jobs or better created every month. so that is a political reality that republicans have to tackle over the next few months. there's no guarantee. it's entirely likely that europe could offset us or that's what could happen. but that's the reality as of today. >> chad myers is here and he'll tell us about the big winter storm. >> i was thinking how many jobs i'll be making for all those people shoveling snow in colorado. here's denver. about ten inches on the ground in denver proper.

more up in evergreen, 36 inch snowfall totals. that's a lot of shoveling even though the snow is right something else that will happen, it's warm. as soon as the sun sets tonight, all those roads will refreeze again. so it will get slick. >> stay off the roads. is that what you're saying? >> stay at home. start cooking for the super bowl party. >> you'll be busy. i would say have a great weekend, but you'll be busy. thank you very much. next on reporter roulette, ben wedeman is in cairo. a deadly day of protests sparked by angry soccer fans. walk us through what's happened there today, please. >> we've seen continuation of -- ♪ [ male announcer ] linens and duvet washed fresh for every guest. real value. from your friends at hampton.

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so a little technical difficulties there. that happens. and now we're back and we're talking to ben wedeman in egy egypt's capital. he was telling us about the deadly violence that is sparking angry protests. please continue, ben. all right. so we don't have ben wedeman. we'll fix this and make sure that this signal is tight and everything is okay. let's move on. sorry about that, but as we say, it happens.

it is live television here l. us is an g. company men for the cure will restore funding for planned parenthood. they wanted to dump it because congress is investigating whether the group used tax dollars for abortions. but the immediate outcry only got louder for the past three days. this will isn't the first type the komen foundation rubbed some the wrong way. many were angry to learn that the group spent company donor money to sue other charities also using the phrase for the cure. some are worried about where their money is actually going. but charity navigator gives komen high marks for its financial score and its accountability to donors. >> 2010, komen brought in 311 million dollars. it put more than 08% of that in to program expenses which is considered very good for a nonprofit. just yesterday 25 democrats and one independent in the senate september a letter urging the

komen foundation urging to reverse itself. frank lautenburg applauded today's decision. >> the interest of women's health plea veile prevailed. the komen foundation did the right thing, they reversed the decision that cut planned 35r 9 parenthood funding. >> let's talk about the specific political to restore the funding. >> he was one of 26 senators that pen this had very strongly worded letter to the komen foundation criticizing its decision and asking them to reverse it. so it seems clear that the pressure in part from the senators as well as others in the public seemed to have somewhat of an impact as they

have a reverse of decision. i've been told by a source close to the discussions that the komen board really started talking about an exit change or way to change court last night. and the senator spoke with the founder this morning and the conversation is described as really passionate. so you see that things have changed course, but all in all, not surprisingly democrats are putting up statements applauding this reversal and applauding the change in their decision. i have not getting a lot of reaction from republicans, but i have received criticism that the komen foundation is backing down. one statement i received from a freshman republican, she called the reversal hollow and weak and that she was disappointed that the komen foundation isn't

cutting the funding. >> some republicans have said denied it, but was there really political pressure behind this decision? that's the million dollar question. >> i think those questions remain and they will continue to be asked for days afternoon weeks to come. but from the perspective of capitol hill, republicans say that they had absolutely nothing to do with the decision. but aside from that, we know a couple things. working up here on capitol hill, we know republicans in the past have long tried to cut fund pog planned participants hood, federal funding for planned parenthood. this is aside from the komen foundation because many republicans don't want to see federal dollars going any organization that provides abortion services even though by law any federal money cannot be spent on abortion services. and we also know that still

ongoing, there is a house committee investigation into planned parenthood led by a chairman of a house subcommittee, republican congressman cliff sterns, he's looking into how planned parenthood has used this money. he says reiterating the question that you had, he says i was not involved in either decision by the komen foundation but says he'll continue his investigation in to planned parenthood's use of taxpayer funds. so while maybe this komen issue may be going away, the question of planned parenthood still remains in the spotlight. >> and that was at least one catalyst behind this. if something is illegal going on, maybe we should stop our funding of this. so we have to move on now. thank you very much, kate.

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as we've been reporting here on cnn, we got new job numbers today and there was improvement. there was improvement. 243,000 new jobs were created last month. unemployment shrank a bit down to 8.3%.

but for post-9/11 veteran, 9 unemployment rate is nearly three percentage points higher than the overall rate. more than 11%. today president obama unveiled a $5 billion plan to get vets back to work. >> our veterans are some of the most highly trained, highly educated, highly skilled workers that we've got. these are americans that every business should be competing to at trakts. so we'll do everything we can to make sure when our troops come home they come home to new jobs and new ways to serve their country. >> and now barbara starr shows us what vets face when looking for work. >> reporter: military veterans crowd this washington d.c. job pair hoping to find work. among them young veterans age 20-24. a staggering 30% of them unemployed. the job picture is not getting better. >> we're scheduling interview

views -- >> reporter: ken crabtree, a financial specialist, is leaving the marines later this year and already he's looking for work. >> i definitely don't want to leave the chance that i'll just fall into a job. >> reporter: understandable anxiety for all veterans. in december, the unemployment rate for male veterans who served in the current wars was nearly 12%. much worse for female veterans. 21%. the national unemployment average now, 8.3%. so crabtree's first stop like most learn to go write a resume that highlights military skills that will interest a potential new employer. former marine kevin runs kret rans job fairs for the chamber of commerce. he says vets must be savvy. >> they naed to think about where are the job, not just thinking about where are the

hometowns, but where are the states where there's low unemployment. >> reporter: 9 white house has called on the private sector to hire or train more than 100,000 veterans or spouses by 2013. >> this effort is one tool in the tool kit. >> reporter: the veterans affairs department sponsored this job fair. it required each employer here to be ready to offer at least 25 jobs to veterans, a total of 6500 jobs are available. interviews are on t interview are on the spot. this marine may have just gotten the break he badly needs. he left the marine corps in 2007. the only job he's been able to get since, part-time security guard. >> you go up to a booth, tell me about that. >> i asked if they were hiring police officers and they said that they were. and they handed me the paper and said if you fill this out, we can get you in for the his and

the written test on february 4th. >> reporter: he's been checking out what's available here with local law enforcement agencies. this veteran is about to get called in for his own interview. >> i have high hopes. if you already have the interview, that means they like you. all you have to do is go in there and show why at the like you on paper. >> reporter: there was good news at the end of the day. that young man you met at the end of the piece, he walked out of the job fair with a job over from a federal law enforcement agency. barbara sar, cnn, the pentagon. 308 ticks how. mitt romney walking back some remarks that got him in hot water. romney said he isn't concerned about the very poor in america. he said they're covered by a so-called safety net. that was just part of his

statement. candy crowley joins us now. let's listen to what romney told an interviewer about his controversial comments. >> i misspoke. i've said snag is similar to that but quite accept fobl a long time and that when you do how many thousands of interview, now and then you may get a wrong. what i said is my primary focus is on helping people get into the middle class and growth middle class. we have a safety net that cares for the poor. i want to keep that safety net strong and able. wealthy are doing just fine. but we need to focus on the middle income people in this country. and if people are going to go after me when i make a mistake, even though i say i got it wrong, sorry, that's not what i meant, that's part of the political process. i understand it and i accept the consequences. >> candy, can i ask you something? do you remember the president's

lazy comment and the people said that was taken out of context, the other side. is this the case now with mitt romney? many people are say i understand what the president met by lazy, but not what romney meant by this. is this the same sort of thing that we're dealing with, is he right that everyone is looking for a gotcha moment? >> here i think is the problem with this particular gaffe or whatever you want to call it. it is out of context. he was trying to say what he just said. and it also relates to the president talking about lazy. and that is that it plays in on the caricature that people set up. so if you don't like president oba obama, you think that he is arrogant or that he doesn't care about blue collar workers or whatever it is, so when he talks

about lazy americans, that plays into your preconceived notion of this president. when mitt romney says something that sounds complete thely distonic to caring about poor people, it feeds into that impression of him by critics that he in fact is too rich and too detached from real life to be able to be president. so it isn't so much that you make the gaffe. it's the gaffe that you make. >> very, very good. good analysis. it's a political year and you have to choose your words carefully i guess. >> you do. and mitt romney sort of said as much.

but something else will happen. it will definitely come up again in the fall. >> let's talk about what we'll be covering this weekend, the nevada caucuses tomorrow. what should we expect there? >> if all the polling is correct, we should expect that mitt romney will win handedly. why? because he has kept up his ties there since the last time he ran in the nevada caucuses. he did very well the last time around and he's got momentum coming out of florida, although momentum hasn't meant a lot so far. but nonetheless, i think nevada we would all be thunder struck if mitt romney doesn't win them in some fairly handy fashion. >> i could talk with you all day. can we do that?

>> go on. >> i will be watching you throughout the evening and all this weekend. don't forget to catch candy's state of the union 9:00 a.m. eastern sunday. and up next, israel could attack iran in the coming months. that strong comment from america's top defense chief and now iran's supreme leader has a stern warning for the u.s. rst it in your breakfast cereal, what is? now, in every box of general mills big g cereal, there's more whole grain than any other ingredient. that's why it's listed first. get more whole grain than any other ingredient... just look for the white check.

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a story coming out of the middle east. lots of chatter on this one today. we reported yesterday that leon panetta thinks israel might attack iran's nuclear program maybe this string. and then iran's supreme leader said any attack on iran would be detrimental to america. then this from israel's defense minister. >> dealing with a nuclear ran would be far more expensive in blood and money than stopping it it today. in other words, hose who say in english later may find later is too late. >> let's bring in david mckenzie. question is, all this heated chat their we've been hearing, what is the mood in israel tonight? >> the mood it tense, but will isn't the first time we're

hearing leaders make he's direct statements. ultimate it's arrest beha war of words. all the leaders saying we must not take a military response off the table. and you saw there's this immunity stage they feel that iran might have with a developed nuclear weapons to a certain point that israel cannot have an effect of strike against him. but the worry that analysts have is that all this talk by israel, which might just be a diplomatic talk to try to push sanctions against iran will actually ratchet it up to such a level that something might happen. so very dangerous times. >> so rhetoric or is there a sense action is going to have to be taken or will be taken? >> i don't think we're at that stage yet. the point is that this is rhetoric. we don't know very many facts

about what israel is thinking about their nuclear program. we're saying they're willing to strike harks their time line is shorter than the united states. but when you at that time rhetoric of israel and in fact the supreme leader of iran, here's something he said today at a rally. >> translator: this is really the cancerous tumor and it needs to be removed and it will be removed. >> there he said basically that he wants to get rid of israel. a lot of analysts are saying that what israel is doing is trying to push its allies toward pushing sanctions against iran p. the most important sanctions is of course the u.s. and israel is very much paying attention what the secretary of defense said about when they might strike and there is this game going on, but it's a dangerous game.

>> thank you very much. now to a murder mystery that has gotten very bizarre. a mother is found dead in an alley. and her husband is a person of interest. right some but the case now involves an alleged sex ddungeo and a possible paid hit. s sunny hostin on the case. [ male announcer ] we asked real people if they'd help us with an experiment for febreze fabric refresher. they agreed. [ experimenter 1 ] relax, take some nice deep breaths. [ experimenter 2 ] what do you smell?

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this one reads like a detective novel. as a matter of fact, it has more twists than a cd seedy detectiv knowledge. we told you about jane bashar, found strangled in an alley. now her husband, bob, is labeled a person of interest. a man claims a murder was a paid

hit. and allegations have surface that had bob lead as double life. complete with a miss investigation and a sex dungeon in the basement below a bar. got out that? and there are reports of bags of sex toys. not kidding. sunny hostin, on the case. sunny, this has to be a shocker to bob's rotary club, this was a successful couple, two kids. what in the world is going on? >> news has been breaking on this case hour to hour. what we now know is that bob is a person of interest, not a suspect, just a person of interest. but now we hear that joe gentz, who apparently was a handyman for some of his numerous properties, commercial and

residential, he has come forward and he has claim that had bob has paid him $2,000 to kill his wife. he claims that he killed jane in their home and then apparently drove her in her car and dumped her car where it was found in detroit. however, police are saying he has given some conflicting stories and of course bob maintains his innocence. he has denied the murder for hire plot. but bob's attorney has admitted that indeed he is the owner and operator of an s and m club that is in the basement of a bar that he owns. and that he frequently had parties there. >> before we get to that, which is very interesting, every time i read about it, i go what? it's like a tv -- what do you call it, made for tv movie or

whatev whatever. movie of the week. so let's get back to this man who claims he paid $2,000 kill his wife. why would someone voluntarily implicate himself? a murder? does it make himself more credible or less so? >> at this point, we don't know enough about his story, we don't know enough about his confession, we don't know enough about the man, but what we are hearing is that his rumor convinced him to come forward with this confession. we're also hearing that the roommate then brought certain items to the police department, including a cell phone and a pair of boots to corroborate the story. so we're still learning more and more information about this man and his alleged confession. so at this point, we don't know if it's credible, but we do know that he is -- has been meeting with police and is cooperating with them. >> and we want to make it clear as understand, east bob as not been charged but only a person of interest.

named by police. the question dundeon and you hear about the toys and the hefty bags full of alleged sex toys.eon and you hear about the toys and the hefty bags full of alleged sex toys.geon and you hear about the toys and the hefty bags full of alleged sex toys. these reports of his secret life, reports as they only are now, would that taint a jury? >> if it even gets in front of a jury because some of these things are just so highly prejudicial. a judge may keep them out and exclude them from a jury. but let's say in the court of public opinion, i think people are really, really shocked because all we heard about was how this will couple had been married for 26 years and had these two lovely children. now we're hearing a lot more that could go to motive, that could explain the circumstances surrounding her murder. so it's just so shocking for those of us watching this story. >> certainly is. okay. that will be covered over and

over again. we're just getting word that a second teacher has been arrested at the los angeles school where 23 children were lured into posing for picture abouts while blind folded and gagged. we talked about this yesterday. holding spoons containing a bodily fluid. have any new details been released on this second arrest? >> it's remarkable. we have learned from cnn's tom larsen who interviewed captain mike parker with the los angeles sheriff's department that a second arrest has been made with respect to a second teacher at the elementary school. the teacher has been removed from the classroom. we do not know if this is related to the first case. we will learn more information. apparently the sheriff's department will release additional information at 1:00 p.m. today pacific tile. >> and what i find interesting, turns out the los angeles teacher who is charged with

taking those lewd photos of students was investigated way back in 1993 and a gerl beingir mark brent of trying to fondle her but prosecutors dropped the case. why did they do that? >> you wonder if he had been perhaps arrested and taken out of classroom at that time that we wouldn't still be hearing about this alleged abuse. a district attorney spokeswoman said in a statement that the case was rejected because there was insufficient evidence to prove a crime had occurred. question know a 10-year-old girl reported that he tried to upon kell her, her mother reported it to the school who then in turn turned it over tos police department, but they did not find enough evidence shuft to go forward on any charges. >> sunny hostin is on the case. have a great weekend. thank you. >> thanks. up next, a teenager survived

a tragic car wreck, but lost her entire family. now the loved ones she left are speaking exclusively with cnn about how the girl reacted when she found out. but first this. there is a supersized rematch in indianapolis today. the new york giants battle the new england patriots in super bowl xlvi. but for one player, the struggle on the field may pail in compare ton to the battle he fought with cancer. sanjay gupta has more. >> reporter: he's come a long way in a very short time. >> we need to win and that's what we're excited about. we're excited to be here. playing in the super bowl is unbelievable. >> the rookie linebacker for the new york giants is focused on beating the new england patriot, but his story has been a focus of the media leading up to the nfl championship. that's because some say his being here is somewhat of a mere

being a kelg. as a junior at boston college, he was named his conferences 2008 against sdefensive player year. but all that came to it a crashing halt in may of 2009 when he washad a rare form of bone cancer. >> it wasn't just my super bowl dreams were dead. it was all my dreams were dead. >> reporter: after two months of chemotherapy, doctors wanted to remove part of his thigh bone. then he found a doctor who was willing to try a rare treatment for this type of cancer. radiation therapy. >> my dream was to play football again. i knew that radiation and keeping my leg was going to be the only chance i would have at playing. >> reporter: the reereatment wo. he was declared cancer pre-. >> football drove me every second of every day.

>> reporter: herzlich returned to boston college the next year and even though he wasn't drafted, he was still picked up by the new york giants. and now he'll be playing in the biggest game of all. >> i think the biggest thing coming back from cancer and coming back to play football, all that kind of sits in the rear view mirror now as we're getting ready for the super bowl. there are such things as miracles and i believe will is one of them. dad, why are you getting that? is there a prize in there? oh, there's a prize, all right. [ male announcer ] inside every box of cheerios are those great-tasting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholesterol. is it a superhero? kinda. ♪

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illegal i will illegal immigrant from brazil. >> on monday when she is awake, she asked where's mom, where am i, where is daddy, what are we doing here. where is the others. and t i'm the only one in this hospital? where is everybody? >> so sad. still not clear if florida will pay for her medical bills. the family says the governor made that promise to them, but his office has not confirmed that to cnn. five people have been i indicted in california in an alleged human smuggling operation. federal agents estimate 1,000 people were brought across the border d border in the past two years. they paid $2,000 to $4,000 each and were locked in trunks or hidden compartment under the hoods of cars that were driven across the border. a mitch teenager has decided

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it's time for our political pop and believe it or not. roseanne barr is running for president. the comedian oig made her announcement on twitter saying official paperwork to run for the green party nomination. a green party officials tells cnn she understands the values and positions of the party well enough to promote the platform, but we have to ask, with mitt romney and the president showing out of their vocal talents, you know where we're going. can she sing? ♪ is that fair? you know, she did apologize for that, and i think i saw a report a couple months ago that if she

had a do-over, she would do it over, but anyway she's running. "the situation room," wolf blitzer coming up at the top of the hour. he has a preview. you have newt gingrich on the show today, wolf? >> right. he's joining us. we have a wide range of subjects covering with the former speaker, the republican presidential candidate. we'll get his reaction about what leon panetta is saying, about a possible strike against iran's nuclear facilities, and his reaction to the susan g. komen to the cure position to once again start funding planned parenthood. how much credit, don, does the president of the united states deserve for the positive jobs numbers that were announced earlier today, the unemployment rate going down. so we're talking about all that. a lot of politics as well. the interview will air in "the situation room" in the next hour. i know you're looking forward to it. >> of course i am.

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king in this ceremony you're looking at. the video is unusual, but you'll see my interview tomorrow why many say it's also offensive. i speak with rabbi hillel norry during the 11:00 eastern hour. a lot of people are talking about that. people who work on wall street are not that popular. poppy harlow found a whole lot of these young hopeful cramming into a college call on, above all things, risk and how to manage it. >> reporter: a jam-packed house for a grad course at columbia, in of all things financial engineering. >> if you know you're not going to take this clays, please make up your mind shortly. >> reporter: some of these kids hope to be the future titans of wall street. >> you can easily imagine some sort of unethical trader who

knows his bonus is going to be huge if he can make a lot of money and -- >> reporter: what could be the golden ticket, studying quantitative risk management in the school's engineering program. >> what's the demand like for this class? >> huge. the first two weeks the semesters, loads of students sitting in the aisles, standing up. we can't take all the students. >> reporter: their textbooks might as well be news clippings and balance sheets from the financial crisis. >> if somebody gave us the books of lehman brothers or bear stearns, know what we know now we could have realized something was wrong. >> aig had a load of swaps. they were leverages a lot, too. >> to get that first job more than perhaps ever before they need this class. >> it definitely would make me more marketable. isms it's definitely a growth area. >> even through the crisis when head count has been decreasing

risk management head count is increasing. the numbers shock me, and i've been in this business for a couple decades. >> reporter: they aren't all ought to prevent the next crisis. don't a lot of them want to make money? >> isn't that why everyone is in new york? i think most of them are 22, 23, they're thinking about getting a job, paying back student loans. >> reporter: with starting salaries around 150 grand for some, that shouldn't be a problem. >> if those assets decrease by just 25% and remain on our books, that loss would greater than the current market capitalization of this entire company. >> the movie "margin call" highlights the importance. the popularity of risk management represents an ironic shift for financial engineers or quonts. five years ago this was a group of students that frequently went on to make the complex financial instruments that arguably contributed to the crisis.

>> do you think you would be on the other side if 2008 hadn't happened making, creating these financial instruments? >> without 2008, i probably would have focused all my time and energy into those areas. >> reporter: if you could have anyone in this room taking this class, who would it be? >> i would say the ceos of the top banks. all right. there's poppy harlow. poppy, it's a hot class, and students are plopping down their tuition dollars, could this be a case of so 15 minutes ago by the time they graduate? >> reporter: a great question. is it just a fad? the answer is maybe. we'll see. right now this is hot a wall street. will it be in a year? probably, five years? who knows. if one thing we've learned, how soon we do forget how bad it was and we need these risk managers. these tools, these financial engineering tools are useful across the board, whether you're going to goldman sachs or

google, what we have learned is companies want engineers and they want these, if here not going to mitt -- they'll probably get hired somewhere else. >> quickly before we let you go, let's look at the big board. how did today's job numbers play out in the markets? >> dow industrial is up 150, nasdaq, all higher, great jobs report, almost solely across the board great jobs report. we saw the unemployment rate come down. green across the board since the market opened. the one standard i would say, don, is folks that have been unemployed for more than six months are still suffering. we still have 5.5 million people out of work. also, i think it's important to point out minorities, the african-american unemployed rate