christine has our numbers for us. christi christine? >> we have unemployment number that dropped down to 7.8%. that's down 1.8% from last month. that's one survey. another business survey shows net jobs created, 114,000 net jobs created. it's below the average for yeert, but just a few thousand more than economists had been expecting. let's show you the long term, ali. 40% of people out of work in this country have been out of work for six months or longer. there's the unemployment number. 14.7% of the labor market are either underemployed or they're working part-time, they would like to be working full-time, they're not really being used to their full potential. those are the headline numbers, ali, from that jobs report. >> christine, stay with us. the jobs report numbers were quickly, quickly positiliticize more politicized than normal. it's been a while and i didn't think we would be talking for this reason, but some conservative voices challenged the legitimacy of the labor department numbers when they came up on friday. they said,

christine romans joins me now.s than a month to go until the election, there are unanswered questions, clarity lacking about romney's medicare plan. tell me about it. >> it is unclear on three issues critical to the almost 50 million people on medicare, ali and the ref of us who may rely on it when we get older. the cost to seniors, this only applies to future retirees. paul ryan said during the debate, that's age 54 and under. his plan offers two options. one, a premium support system or a voucher for each senior to buy private insurance from competing providers. the other option say in traditional medicare, what we don't know is whether the voucher will be enough to cover the cost of the traditional medicare option for people who want to stay in it. the romney came pain has not clarified that yet. second, the prescription drug plan. obama fair or the affordable care act saved seen mores more than $600 on average last year. the president says those savings will disappear under romney's plan because he's vowed to g

i'm christine for you're watching our team. once again with the latest ruling on the national defense authorization act or n.d.a. a federal appeals court ruled yesterday that the u.s. government can for now indefinitely detain anyone as most of you know this is a case that we've been following very closely since it was signed on new year's eve after president obama said he wouldn't sign it yesterday's ruling effectively overturns the ruling by u.s. district court judge katherine forest to permanently block the controversial provisions in m.d.a. on the grounds that they violated both protections by the first amendment and fifth due process a few months ago i sat down with one of the plaintiffs in the case hedges a hedge is the obama here's chris hedges himself breaking down the two sections of the n.d.a. that the lawsuit focuses on sections of ten twenty one and ten twenty two which in essence allows the executive branch to strip an american citizen of their constitutional rights to due process and to hold them in military facil

i'm christine for example and you're watching our t.v. . we want to get this hour with a closer look at the aftermath of the u.s. led war in iraq there is new information out that over the last few years there has been a significant rise in miscarriages and also in birth defects and babies in that country according to the environmental contamination and toxicology bulletin in the past seven years the number of babies born with major birth to facts increased by more than sixty percent and forty five percent of pregnancies in cities studied and in miscarriage this is one of several studies that finds direct connections with military assault in certain regions of iraq and major health problems particularly with babies r g correspondent liz wahl takes a deeper look. a new study takes a look at birth defects in two of the hardest hit cities during the iraq war including fallujah and central iraq and bars around the southeastern region of the country the study from the bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology takes a close look at b

christine mcconville is a reporter.talking about governor romney's health care law signed in 2006 when he was in office. shelly joins us from new york, new york, and our democrats lined. caller: what i do not understand about this health care is i understand the insurance companies and the policy makers are working together. these people go into the hospital, and they get five stitches and it is a $500 bill. if we can have health care all over the world, why can we not have it here in the united states? it seems like it is more money, more money, more money. doctors are supposed to take care of people, but everything has become a money issue now, and the insurance companies are driving it up. obama-care -- i think it would be great if we say we could pay this insurance company, but they would say the government is paying this, let's raise the premiums higher to make a person keep going into their pocket and paying and paying. host: let's talk about the cost of health care in massachusetts, and "the boston globe did -- g

let's bring in christine romans. the host of your bottom line to answer that very question. >> i cannot confirm or deny you're full of hot air but i can tell you tax hikes will affect us all if nothing is done avert this fiscal cliff. here's what we're looking at. tax policy center forecasts erican households will pay on average $3,500 more in tax physician congress let the bush era tax cuts expire for everyone. what effect could that and across the board spending cuts have on the wider economy? a new report from the center for regional analysis at george mason university predicts that some 277,000 federal employees will lose their jobs in the next 12 months. that's 14% of the federal workforce. and 14 of the 17 economists surveyed by cnn money predict fiscal cliff will cause a new recession. interestingly all 17 believe the economy won't plunge off the cliff because they think congress will finally get its act together and do something in the lame duck session following the elections or when the new congress convene

christine, you know the rules. if mitt romney wins in november, he's still got two very major problems. one of them is the gridlock in washington which has probably as much to do in congress, if not the president, more to do with congress. that economic storm blowing in from europe, kevin has said we have to be in good shape. i'm saying that may prevent us from being in as good a shape as we'd like to be. you argue that under mitt romney we'll start looking at government very differently, less paternalistic. >> time spas iis passing, and t from that great recession is passing, and the expansion of government spending to make a great recession not become a great depression. in four more years, no question exit strategies are going tok under way to rein in some of those things. mitt romney has said that, look, he believes in the safety net and he will repair it as necessary but the safety net is probably way too big. so under a president romney, no question you would see a different way of looking at government and p

thanks, christine. >>> 19 minutes after the hour right now.ime for your early reads, the local news making national headlines. from the "philadelphia inquirer," a high school wore a romney/ryan campaign shirt to class on friday. the teacher demanded she take the shirt off implying she was uninformed and likening it to the ku klux klan. >> wow. >> first she told me to get out of the class. then i said no. she goes in the hallway and said this girl is wearing a romney/ryan shirt. >> the geometry teacher has been temporarily re-assigned. students started bullying her on facebook since this happened. that seems to go against free speech. >> that's awful. >>> in "the wall street journal," customers are going out of their gourds at the news of a pumpkin spice shortage at some starbucks locations. can you believe this? they're steamed and venting on twitter. one guy started his tweet with, quote, my world ended this morning. things have gotten so dire, prices on instant packs are apparently spiking on ebay. some people say they're rationing what they

christine romans is in new york.hristine, there are also a lot of conservative groups centered around e-mails like this one, americans for limited government. this is a conservative group who say these numbers are just plain wrong and maybe have even been tampered with. i'll read you a quote from the e-mail i just got. it says it appears that obama has hired baghdad bob to calculate the unemployment rate. anyone who take this is unemployment report serious is either naive or a paid obama campaign adviser. and, of course, they're looking at the 7.8% unemployment figure and saying that can't possibly be right. >> oh, let me explain how this works. we explain this every month, actually. there are two surveys. a survey of households and a survey of companies and sometimes they show slightly different results, right? they are surveying two completely different groups, one of people who are getting a job and one people who are giving a job and not necessarily the same people in those same surveys all the time. here is some

still to come, strong words from the imf christine lagarde on austerity and growth. we'll be in tokyo for who are. . >>> italian auction have sold the targeted amount on the three year. >>> italian auction have sold the targeted amount on the three year. the yield is higher as we thought it would be, 2.86%. it was 2.75% on september the 13th. bid to cover 1.67. better demand albeit slightly higher yield. maybe those two go together. yields just nudging up. we saw it yesterday, as well, with the t-bill auction. that's the first time for about three months that we haven't seen yields in italian auctions of any sort come down. >>> s&p has downgraded spain blaming a backtracking. >>> and christine lagarde calls for developed nations to do more. >> and biden and ryan will go head to head as the race not white house is tightening. this news also just hitting the wire. italy's defense minister has said the collapse of the planned merger opens options. so perhaps the collapse of one deal opening the way for another. i feel like we're talking about the eurozone crisis instead

christine ayers shows us a video of a man being arrested to day. take a look, what do you think of it? >> it was a lot of yelling, a lot of commotion. >> one video of a violent arrest, two different stories. >> made a good judgment call. >> went over there and started beating him up. >> this man who calls himself ron didn't want to show his face. he shot a video of the arrest in east oakland. authorities say a pregnant woman got into an altercation with a staff member. >> her boyfriend stepped in to defend her. as he talks to deputies, watch what happens. another deputy runs the video. appears to hold the baton against the man's neck. >> and as the man goes down, deputies appear to knee him repeatedly. >> kept hitting him and hitting him. he got put in handcuffs. he works the handcuffs on the floor. it's a lot of witnesses who has handcuffs. he began punching him in his head. >> a snapshot of the whole thing. >> alameda sheriff spokes person, the mans was resisting arrest, even threatening deputies at one point. all deputies could do is respond wit

how is it enforced, christine mcconville? >> guest: well, it depends.utshell, if you don't have insurance, the state department of revenue figures that out when you file your massachusetts taxes, and they fine you. the state, when they said everybody has to have insurance, created a new quasi public agency called the massachusetts health connector authority, and that agency acts as a one stop shop for people. you can go on and compare plans so in terms of the enforcement on the penalty end, it's the department of revenue. in terms of offering insurance plans to people who don't have it either through a government program or through their private employer, the connector authority would be the praise to go, and you could say these are my, you know, this is what i can afford. this is what i'm looking for. this is the deductible i'm comfortable paying, and they'll say, well, you have seven different programs. we recommend this one. what do you think about that one? there's people on a hot line as well. >> host: david in wisconsin, independents' line. hi, da

christine lagarde has been warning about it. she talked about it again. we'll have that interview coming up when i saw her this weekend in japan. how can both sides come together on this issue? you know, if we constantly see fighting on both sides of the aisle, nothing gets done. >> you're absolutely right. we should not be going through this. we first have a crisis of leadership. and i think what governor romney said, look f he's elected president, he'll work with the congress to get a tax plan and a budget plan that meets the objectives. whether president obama wins or governor romney wins, the two sides have to come together and get this done. we've had a failed leadership. >> what emplabout your own plan lot of talk you've been named among the front-runners to take over for federal reserve chairman ben bernanke or even treasury secretary if governor romney wins the white house. if offered those, would you take the jobs? >> i think the new york times story had the psychedelic 1960s look a look. i'm very happy in the job i have. >> you've been advising

i'm christine for his hour and you're watching our t.v. let's start off by talking about last night's debate well sort of if you've been listening to the spin. and you're probably hearing a lot about romney's rage obama's obvious cations and about the latest trends on twitter like binders full of women but what almost no one is talking about is the fact that a presidential candidate and her vice presidential running mate were actually arrested outside of the debate jill stein and sherry honk a lot of the green party spoke about what they see as a corporate excuse me a corrupt political system and later were taken into custody for blocking traffic take a look at me take that democracy start. going out with debates for every single political party in the united states of america to be a part of the banks just them not just corporate america sponsored debate blocking traffic on tuesday it's our personal rights i think you are going to mark. the moment you. watch them play the. people that are doing something that. well we do want to talk more

i'm christine for you're watching our team. let's begin this hour with some interesting developments in syria where what we do know is of course murky and often comes in video snippets and unconfirmed reports but of the biggest questions one of them is about the strength and supplies of those battling the assad regime well now there may be some answers the arms trade in syria is now being documented in an unlikely place on pinterest for those of you unfamiliar with pinterest it's essential to an online pinboard most people go on to pin recipes of dishes they hope to make wedding dresses and center pieces they like and ideas to give rooms in their home a make over and now a group of reporters including some affiliated with publications like the new york times are sharing information pictures and data from syria take a look these are images of weapons in possession of anti-government fighters in syria you can see some of them are actually marked with the impression made in iraq but these extra starts with clinic pretty clear thou

who knows what's else. >> yes, christin ayers on a mission tonight. thank you, christin. >> game one on wednesday in san francisco. game one and two, that's right. we'll check back in with dennis a little later in this newscast. >> we also had a little debate this evening. campaign 2012 tonight with president obama and governor romney's third and final debate. already according to the polls, there is a clear winner. cbs 5 reporter grace lee heads up our coverage tonight. grace? >> reporter: dana, we view been tracking the perceived win -- we have been tracking the perceived winner. the second victory was given to the president, but this time around, the president dominated again,53% said they thought president obama won, 23% believe mitt romney was the winner, and 24% say it was a tie. and while it was suppose to be all about foreign affairs, both brought up domestic policies repeatedly. >> reporter: it was the final debate. >> and now, we cannot kill our way out of this mess. >> governor romney, i'm glad that you recognize that al qaeda is a threat b

my conversation with one of the most important women in finance and the warning christine lagarde has for the united states. >>> brewing up profits the ceo who can fix what ails startup companies and a program to raise a glad glass and lend a hand. >>> didn't get enough matt damon last week? neither did we. the "wall street journal report" begins right now. >> this is america's number one financial news program, "wall street journal report." now maria bartiromo. >>> here's a look at what is making news as we head to a new week on wall street. a big blunder many the release of google's earnings on thursday. the earnings came out midday, hours before they were scheduled to be released. the company says it was due to a mistake by the financial printer r.r. donnelly, which in turn blamed human error. the earnings weren't good. google missed on revenue and profit and the stock plummeted. >>> and citigroup announced the departure of vikram pandit after a clash with the board of directors he was to be replaced by michael corbat who with was a citigroup insider. i spoke to him soon after his

. >>> but first, christine romans has "your bottom line," right now. >>> all right. thank you, randi. see you at the top of the hour. good morning, everyone, i'm christine romans and we are seeing real signs of a recovery and slow signs of a recovery, but is it enough? slow growth, a fiscal cliff and economic uncertainty -- could america today be rome before the fall? historians tell us that the romans like civilians before and after collapsed under the weight of debt and partisan bickering and the overextended military and plain ole fiscal irresponsibility and sound familiar? today the u.s. has record debt, $16 trillion and fuelled in part by stimulus spending and tax breaks for everyone and expensive wars abroad and whose fault is that? >> the president's policies have not gotten america working again. >> our goal was to turn it around. >> and the president has to stand up to take responsibility for it. >> we inherited the worst economic and financial crisis since the great depression. >> reporter: but what matters more is how we fix it. it is time to rebuild rome

ice christine romans. ten days until the election and polls show a dead heat. still undecided voters out there. president obama and governor romney spending millions to get their vote. especially in battleground states. check out this cnn electoral map. the states in yellow are up for grabs. blue are safe for obama. light blue, leaning obama. red, those are safe for romney. light red leaning romney. but what will it take to win over the undecided voters, what do they want to know. "saturday night live" had this take. >> before you get our vote, you're going to have to answer some questions. questions like -- >> when is the election? >> what are the names of the two people running? and be specific. >> who's the president right now? is he or she running? >> in real life, undecided voters sound like this. >> i want there to be continued job growth. >> don't say republican, don't say democrat, just get it done. >> i have not heard anything other than this tough guy rhetoric, and numbers that don't add up. >> it's critical right now, to make the best decision. >> a

i'm christine watching are today. well there's a new method being used to try to learn more about what's happening inside the borders of syria a group of reporters with publications including the new york times has taken to using the online pinboard pinterest to try to post pictures and analysis of weapons in rebel possession hoping to learn more about exactly where these weapons are coming from take a lot of what they found now in some cases they're finding weapons in the possession of these anti-government fighters in syria that are marked with the impression made in iraq there are many other types and origins for these weapons and it's interesting that pinterest has now become a place for people to pool information to talk more about this i am joined by freelance journalist emmanuel stokes emanuel are quite a bit of confusion here about what's actually happening in syria of course but let's talk about this pooling of information when it comes to where these weapons are coming from why is this an important project.

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right, christine?ally said about gas prices, gas prices. and the president, and this is what she got in return. >> in the last four years you cut permits and licenses on federal land and federal waters in half. >> not true, governor romney. >> so how much did you cut it? >> not true. >> how much did you cut it then? >> governor we have actually produced more oil. >> how much did you cut licenses and permits on federal land and federal waters? >> governor romney, here's what we did. there were a whole bunch of oil companies. -- >> i had a question. >> you want me to answer. i'm happy to answer the question. >> she got a fist fight about drilling and drilling permits, of course, and each candidate there, different numbers about drilling. but the question was, should the government be trying to manage gas prices? here's the facts. when you look back at what gas prices have done over this presidency you can see that they were much, much lower when the president took office. why? because we were in the midd

there's a rebound that christine has been talking about in the housing market.idence was up in september. so all of this, ken, does that point to sort of an optimism that is sort of based on something tangible? >> the housing is definitely a big thing. because everybody is so sensitive to that. they've been in a state of shock about what's happening to the price of their homes, the major asset for most consumers. on the other hand, a lot of the other data is pretty mixed. i think it's still a very, very weak economy coming back from this deep financial crisis. it takes a long time. it always takes a long time. i don't think things feel great. but definitely the housing number is better and unemployment is better. >> ken, can you give us some texture on the folks that have dropped out of the workforce? is it seniors who are retiring? is it people who have just gotten sick of -- or can't find work so they've removed themselves from consideration? >> you know, some of it has nothing to do with cyclical things, exactly what you're saying. people are retiring. we hav

here is christine romans with our top stories. >> just 12 days until americans votes. ohio today. he'll make stops in cincinnati, worthington and definiance with new poll showing he trails the president by five points in the buckeye state. mr. obama campaigns today in tampa, florida and richmond, virginia before heading to chicago. he'll be the first u.s. president to vote early when he goes home to chicago. >>> a sad sty for you this morning. world war ii vet frank tehanbai. the terminally ill hawaiian man cast an absentee ballot. this photo of him on his death bed went viral. he never missed an election including this one. he was 93. >> vote everyone. >> it's just beautiful story. >> what a great legacy he leaves. >>> a string of black bear sightings has people in and near providence, rhode island on edge. a black bear has been spotted in yards and driveways. this video shows this black bear is on the move in cranston. a wildlife biologist there is urging people not to approach or feed it. >> very good advice. >> do not feed the wild, scary-looking bear everyone. >>

my name is christine freeze out there watching are today. last night r.t. aired the presidential debate for third party candidates live out of chicago the debate was moderated by larry king sponsored by the free and equal lections foundation and well neither mitt romney nor president obama showed up it was attended by former new mexico governor gary johnson of the libertarian party the green party's dr jill stein former virginia congressman virgil goode with the constitution party and former salt lake city mayor rocky anderson with the justice party began it spoke about several topics including something that we speak about quite a bit here at r t a national defense authorization act signed into law by president obama you know a year ago. we would have never signed the national defense authorization act allowing for you when i was you was that is to be arrested and detained without being charged that's the reason we call or is this. it's an outrage ten twenty one and it would. start with. it's kind of the trail of our civil liberties that the president has

together big businesses and government officials to discuss the cyber threats arctic correspondent christine was there today to bring us the developments. the central message here that main street in america has moved it's now online it is after all where people gather to town with their friends do their shopping and yes where they're also vulnerable to criminal activity analysts and speakers here say they are protests not nearly been aggressive enough in dealing with what they call an imminent cyber threat the bad guys are winning they are really sophisticated in their attacks and genius and most of all though they are very closely analyzing the laws around the world we have to be cognizant again of these teenager style gangs that are out there who are now see the internet as a whole nother playground where they can go have their fun all the way up to the nation states who are very determined to go after our nation's secrets your secrets your intellectual property what they should be doing is sharing information with the private sector they're not reading your e-mail they don't care they do

the legislation which does away with many environmental regulations passed the house correspondent christine freeze out has more. it was one of the final votes taken by members of the one hundred twelfth congress before they returned to their districts to convince voters why they should be reelected h r thirty four zero nine as legislation that both the democratic led senate and president obama said would be dead on arrival but which two hundred thirty three members of the house and also republicans say will save jobs and stop what they call the war on coal. there are major coal mines in more than a dozen states in this country. and in some states like west virginia coal is king. if you want to live here you either team or ted trees or you mancow everything i have a moment neighbors say it is because. everything bob told mind cole most of his life and says his son now does the same it's people like them the republican congressman say they're fighting for with a bill they've named the stop the war on coal act of two thousand and twelve those who believe that there is no war on coal or in dang

. >> christine what works as a nurse. she got fired, applied for unemployment benefits, and one. there is another issue that prevents her from collecting. >> you have astronomical medical bills, co-payments, medications. >> now she is fighting for her health and her home. it has made the battle against breast cancer even more difficult. thousands of families are in similar situations. coming up tonight 11:00, what christine white, another cancer patient, cannot collect unemployment or even disability. it has left her facing financial devastation, and how she is devastation, and how she is teaming up with as a pastor, my support for question 6 is rooted in my belief that the government should treat everyone equally. i would not want someone denying my rights based upon their religious views, therefore i should not deny others based upon mine. it's about fairness. this law does not force any church to perform a same sex marriage if it's against their beliefs. and that's what this is about. protecting religious freedom and protecting all marylanders equally under the law. join me in

jersey >> .new christine and david have three other children. epidural for an except for this one, her first natural birth. a beautiful little boy. coming up -- >> we will talk about early coming up -- >>[ mitt romney ] there are two very different paths the country can take. one is a path represented by the president, which, at the end of four years, t'd mean we'd have $20 trillion in debt. i'll get people back to work with 12 million new jobs. i'm gonna make sure that we get people off of food stamps not by cutting the program but by getting them good jobs. i'll work with you. i'll lead you in an open and honest way and to make sure that we all together maintain america as the hope of the earth. i'm mitt romney, and i approve this message.

christine was reporting this for us yesterday.ek before had been the lowers number in four years. >> right. >> 18 days till the election. so obviously everyone hops on this and analyzes this. what, what do you see in these trends? >> well, this is a great conversation because we're two weeks away from the last jobs report. and we're two weeks away from the one right before the election. christine and i wanted to break down the way we look at unemployment. it's not just the inemployment rate. it's the number you just stated which is the initial jobless claims. every week we get a number on thursdays about the number of people who got into the unemployment line on line -- >> and that chart is a trend going back to 2007. to the trend is the most important thing to look at. the trend has been going down. >> what we saw yesterday was 46,000 more people filed for unemployment claims last week than the week before. but, so we're at about 388,000. you always want that below 400,000. that's one way of looking at it. and it's a weekly numbe

here's christine romans. >> good morning.n trail and busy gearing up for tomorrow night's second presidential debate. it takes place at hofstra university on long island. romney is getting ready in bedford, massachusetts. the president is preparing in williamsburg, virginia. this is a live picture from inside the debate hall. our own candy crowley moderates. our live coverage begins tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. eastern. >>> when it comes to the presidential race, comedian stephen colbert says there is a difference between president obama and mitt romney. but he says he doesn't know what that difference is. colbert clarified what he expects to see from both obama and romney on nbc's "meet the press." >> i think there's a possibility that obama would be, say, more aggressive -- a more aggressive performer in the second act of his presidency. and i don't really know how -- i also don't know how mitt romney will govern. he might govern as a technocrat. that sort of seems to have been his career. unlike the guy from pepsi who comes