the state of the ation's economy is t biggest underlying drag on the prsident's domestic ageda. today we herd new home construction is up and fourig banks announced big tuaround profits and yt there is wory. why, jeane? >> well, ere are a little bright spo but there's a whollot of darkness out thre still in the onomy. ifyou look at unemployment, we're still shedding hlf a million jobs wek. and there something wrong th the jobless umbers. something that even economists can't que figure out. the unemployment rate is not behaving in a way hat they expect. even t federal reserve has been a littlpuzzled byit. and then you look t foreclosures. gwen: i heard tod the unemploymentate was up to 15% in mchigan. >> and double diits in a numr of states. and nationally, it's gng to go at leas to 10%. and som are nowsaying mybe even higr than that. despe the fact tha the white house hahoped to -- the stimulus would hold it t8%. so that number is becoming a very tough numbernd it scares people. becae it's a number the understand. then you look at forecloures. another thing consume get. 300,000