we actually have darren long via skype right this minimum to it tell us exactly what's going on and how he is doing now. welcome back to the show, darren. >> how you doing? >> we're doing great. we want to know how you are doing. >> lose a job, go to jail, very interesting week. >> walk us through exactly what happened. >> there is a video that i posted on -- >> dude, get out of my door. next time you step in my doorway i put you in handcuffs. >> in the video you hear them saying the next time you come into the wall i will put handcuffs on you and that was william wright and he didn't see and i didn't say, hey, i just grabbed and a scuffle ensued and i ended up on the ground on my back and the police like said i should have said something to him before i grabbed him. all of that came together and i got a battery charge and while i was in jail, the guy that i tasers on the ground flopping around was able to get his warrant and i was sitting in jail for that as well. >> how are people reactoring to you being arrested. >> depends on which side of the fence are you on. the detractors are li

. >>> mall security guard darren long has been arrested and booked for battery in atlanta. >> back it up. you better. >> we were one of the first to show you this video of long using a taser gun on a woman at the metro mall in atlanta last year. the video went viral and long became something of an internet hero. >> walking up. >> you better back up. >> two days ago we showed you yet another taser incident at the mall, this one from february. we skyped with long and he told us mall management was letting him go as of march 31st. according to reports he tackled someone at the mall thursday night and that's when he was arrested. this is long's mug shot taken when he was booked at the fulton county jail and bond was set at $2,000. >>> we have another really cool video from justin wren, the ufc fighter and he is back in africa. last time we had him on the show we got to see kids that for the first time saw a white man and they were going crazy. >> they loved the arm hair. >> yes. this time it is the first time some of the kids in the village he is in see themselves. he takes the iphone and

. >> you guys might remember darren long, the now famous mall cop from atlanta, georgia, who has a no nonsense approach to keeping crime out of a downtown atlanta mall. >> back it up. you better. >> remember this lapel cam video he tased the woman outside of the mall? i have another one of those videos that was just uploaded. >> time for you to leave. >> ain't going nowhere. >> you ain't going nowhere, get out my building. >> you can tell he is trying to get the guys to get out of the mall. >> get out. get out of my building. >> he has chosen to pull out his taser gun. >> back it up. >> keep watching the video. things get really heated. >> oh! >> oh, boy. >> as you can see, darren used his taser. >> he has one shot with that taser and there is four or five guys he is facing. >> we have him via skype "right this minute." welcome back to the show, darren. >> how you doing? >> we're doing really well. i understand you just got bad news. >> oh, yeah, i won't be working here. my last day of work is march 31st. >> is that a result of this video? >> i think it was a result of a lot of things

long. if there's no deal by march 27 and the government shuts down, the stock market will undoubtedly show it. suzanne pratt, "n.b.r.,' new york. >> susie: as darren mentioned, those automatic spending cuts could hit nearly 1.5 million jobs. while that could push the unemployment rate higher, many u.s. states were actually adding jobs in 2012. ruben ramirez breaks down the numbers. >> reporter: there were fewer people standing in unemployment lines in 2012 as the vast majority of states saw their jobless rates drop. in new data out today, the average unemployment rate dropped in 46 states and the district of columbia last year. it stayed the same in new hampshire and pennsylvania and was up in just two states, new york and new jersey. north dakota continues benefiting from the shale energy boom with the lowest state unemployment rate in the nation for the fourth year in a row. also making the list, nebraska and south dakota. and the states with the highest unemployment include two where the housing collapse hit full force. nevada and california. rhode island had the third highest. regionally, the west was the only area to have an unemployment rate

long. but if the sequester does last, it would likely shave about half a percentage point from the economy's growth rate and cost 750,000 jobs. darren gersh, "n.b.r.," washington. >> tom: darren has more on the sequester on his blog, just head to: www.nbr.com and look for the blogs tab. clearly the sequester is a major concern for the u.s. economy. but today, at least, there was some good news: the economy actually grew in the final quarter of last year, instead of shrinking, as was first estimated. the revised gross domestic product grew 0.10% in the fourth quarter. a month ago, the government thought the economy shrank that much. but a drop in government spending remains a big overhang for the economy this year. erika miller reports. >> reporter: a tenth of a percent gain in economic growth is not much to brag about, but at least the economy is moving in the right direction. >> the report was encouraging despite the very weak headline number. the reason is that the parts of the report that we think indicate the underlying trend-- things like business spending and housing investment, all of those were pretty positive in the g.d.p.