david jones said even with his college degree he struggled to find steady work. >> after i lost my job i was like really? this is how bad the economy is. >> reporter: today a state jobs report held a glimmer of hope. unemployment dropped. other areas doing better. san francisco is at 8.3% and marin has the lowest rate, 7.4%. >> the east bay market is normally construction and they are hit hard. >> reporter: in the past month they have seen an increase in job openings. >> we are starting to see more clients calling looking for top talent. >> reporter: professional and business services have had the most growth adding 78,000 jobs statewide. as for david jones things are looking up. >> the interview today got an interview tomorrow and hopefully that goes well. >> reporter: with businesses starting to hire for the holidays it could help some get by until their are more permanent positions. ktvu channel 2news. >> more details now, lake tahoe ski resorts looking to hire thousands. they have them planned tomorrow. >> a company has issued a second recall this week because of possible salmonell

david jones said even with his college degree he struggled to find steady work. >> after i lost my job i was like really? this is how bad the economy is. >> reporter: today a state jobs report held a glimmer of hope. unemployment dropped. other areas doing better. san francisco is at 8.3% and marin has the lowest rate, 7.4%. >> the east bay market is normally construction and they are hit hard. >> reporter: in the past month they have seen an increase in job openings. >> we are starting to see more clients calling looking for top talent. >> reporter: professional and business services have had the most growth adding 78,000 jobs statewide. as for david jones things are looking up. >> the interview today got an interview tomorrow and hopefully that goes well. >> reporter: with businesses starting to hire for the holidays it could help some get by until their are more permanent positions. ktvu channel 2news. >> more details now, lake tahoe ski resorts looking to hire thousands. they have them planned tomorrow. >> a company has issued a second recall this week because of possible salmonell

david jones scored the game-winner. colorado a perfect 5-0 on the road after a 3-2 win. that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> what susan sarandon says that has national organizations calling her dumb and arrogant. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, all right, we haven't even carved the thanksgiving turkey yet, so it's way too early for tinsle and mistletoe, right? we'll tell you why one oklahoma family gets a pass. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back to "early today" on this tuesday. morning. medford looks grade, northern california mid 80s. a little cooler in san franci o francisco. everyone looks ideal today. as we go through tomorrow, one spot we introduce more rain chances in seseattle. if you are watching us in los angeles, california, the united states pariots and founders in ventura, california. that's your pacific event of the day. >>> now here's an early look at your entertainment headlines. susan sarandon has never been shy about her opinions, but she's taking extreme heat over

david jones corralled the rebound and scored the game-winner.orado a perfect 5-0 on the road after a 3-2 win. >>> that's your "first look" at sports, i'm fred roggin. >>> now for another look at the weather, here is nbc meteorologist bill karins. >>> one more beautiful day for many of us in new england and the mid-atlantic, before the rain moves in on wednesday. it's going to be a mild day, too. starting to look at the calendar, you realize that you won't have many more of these thailand mornings out there. temperatures in the 50s in most locations. no frost or freeze. this afternoon will be gorgeous. partly cloudy skies. temperatures near 70s in the big cities. average high this time of year, mostly in the 60s. as far as the cloud cover goes, a bit early this morning, rolling through pennsylvania, should be filtered sunshine, mix of sun and clouds during the day. high of 65 in boston. 68 to 70 in new york. 72 in d.c. cooler in buffalo with a high of 58. rain is coming for your wednesday. all of these areas will see rain, in some cases heavy rai

david john jones scored the game-winner.a perfect 5-0 on the road after a 3-2 win. >>> that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> what susan sarandon says that has national organizations calling her dumb and arrogant. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> we haven't even carved the thanksgiving turkey yet so it's way too early for tinsle? we'll till why one oklahoma family gets a pass. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. welcome back on this tuesday. we are looking at a lot of heavy rain today in the southeast. right now, a lot it-s down in south florida but will spread northward during the day. a cold front going through areas of arkansas, northern louisiana with rain and eventually that will work into tennessee areas like memphis and all of alabama and mississippi. and then as we go towards tomorrow, those two storms merge. heavy rain likely around d.c., baltimore, philly, new york and eventually boston. >>> well f you're watching us on wvir nbc 29, cha

david korn is the washington bureau chief for mother jones.iece today asked just this question, can newt be the first openly mean president, as in openly guy. anyway. and alex wagner is also with us, an msnbc political analyst. you chuckle about it as well as i do, alex. and i'm chuckling, because that's always been my observation about newt. he's an opportunistic to exploit any opportunity to hate the other side. >> if you go over his history, he has decades of angry rhetoric, not just excessive political rhetoric. you might recall the days when he said of tip o'neill, your old boss, he doesn't know the difference between freedom and slavery. he used to counsel other republicans to call democrats traitors. i mean, again and again, we know what he's done with barack obama, and if you go back and you think about our presidents, some of the mean, behind the scenes, certainly richard nixon, but in their sort of public personas, whether it's reagan or bill clinton or barack obama, they're not mean personally. they don't go for the angry, excessive

awaiting to learn the identity after body found in a jeep belonging to a missing washington state man, david jones pedder send. he is missing last month. at the same time his wife was found dead in their home. police arresting his own son, david joseph pedder send. and his girlfriend, holly grigsby. neither has been charged at this time. >>> three sign tights -- scientists behind the anthrax investigations. they say clues were ignored. chemical sig nurse in the anthrax were never looked at and that the fbi may have pursued the wrong suspect. we'll continue to follow that story. gregg: dramatic rescue and amazing story of survival as seven people including a 4-year-old child tread water unbelievably, 20 hours off the florida keys after their boat capsized and they were left without any life vests. rick leventhal live in our new york city newsroom with nor. rick? >> gregg, we've gotten more details on the survivors who spent a full day and night in rough waters off the florida keys. all of them suffered jellyfish burns. most had hype theerm yaw. the 4-year-old girl had it the worst. according to the

david corn is the washington bureau chief for mother jones.ce today asked just this question, can newt become the first openly mean president, as in openly gay, anyway. and alex wagner is also with us, an msnbc political analyst. you chuckle about it as well as i do, alex. and i'm chuckling, because that's always been my observation about newt. he's an opportunistic to exploit any opportunity to hate the other side. >> if you go over his history, he has decades of angry rhetoric, not just excessive political rhetoric. you might recall the days when he said of tip o'neill, your old boss, he doesn't know the difference between freedom and slavery. he used to counsel other republicans to call democrats traitors. i mean, again and again, we know what he's done with barack obama, and if you go back and you think about our presidents, some of the mean, behind the scenes, certainly richard nixon, but in their sort of public personas, whether it's reagan or bill clinton or barack obama, they're not mean personally. they don't go for the angry, excessi

that's the clever question posed by our own david corn from mother jones. very quietly, again, the figure a mother who drown her children has been slithering his way up the polls. if herman cain collapses as so many expect him to do, could newt become the next anti-romney? the republicans certainly need one. >>> also, marco rubio's problems may extend well beyond the self-inflicted damage of his embellished biography. he may just be on the wrong side of the immigration issue for too many latino voters. >>> and a tea party group says michele bachmann is all about one thing -- michele bachmann, and it's time for her to g-o. >>> let me finish tonight with jack kennedy and how he could never figure out texas, even at the end. >>> we start with the latest flip-flop from mitt romney. susan page is the washington bureau chief for "usa today," and steve kornacki, welcome back, steve kornacki! i haven't seen you in a while. he's with salon.com, seriously, i mean it. here's the latest flip-flop from romney. he was asked this summer what his position was on manmade gl

headline a banner day for the one percent as bank stocks soar this is a commentary from david callaway on dow jones market watch and he says in one of the more bizarre twists of fate that only markets can bestow the occupy movements burst to fame around the world this month has been accompanied by the biggest october for the dow jones industrial average in its one hundred fifteen year history more than eleven percent as of this writing so notice those words he uses their bizarre twist of fate that only markets can bestow when in fact it was heads of central banks around the world heads of government around the world heads of finance departments around the world who are in fact responsible for the booming stock market has nothing to do with the one percent creating wealth that's why the occupy wall street movement the only way to be taken seriously is to attack stock price if the other side is going to point to a rising stock price and say see we're right you're wrong then the only answer to that is to take down a stock price like coca-cola for example take it down to zero not that one hundred sixty

sarah jones and matt snyder and david lindsey. we're here for a brief update on the ppa process. we said after six months we would review how things are going and let you know how this was. a little bit of background, the preliminary project assessments was one component, may be the newest component of a larger, revise development review process, where we try to make this process more efficient in general. the specifics are that they are essentially an opportunity for the department and the project's sponsors to coordinate on medium projects early in the process. and projects cannot even file the applications until this is issued. we can tackle a lot of issues overall. and there are also additional less tangible benefits to the department and the staff in terms of coordination and efficiency, and for the community in general because hopefully this will result in better projects overall. we want to turn around the letters within 60 days, designed to be theme-neutral, because this is credited to the environmental review for the associated project. if there is an attempt to make thi

. >> david corn is an msnbc political analyst and washington editor of "mother jones" magazine. david, is this good news at the white house, as they are watching the footage that we've just shown? how is it being received? >> my guess is that it's not a big enough matter yet. >> getting there. >> for the white house to worry about. i mean, we're all sort of watching this fledgling movement and trying to discern if it's going to, you know, continue and get bigger. the unions this week, as you know, in new york city and elsewhere, have been endorsing and more importantly been contributing bodies and money to try to expand this movement and, you know, maybe give it a little more political ideological coherence. we'll see if that takes down the road or not, so bad weather is coming in new york city in a couple of weeks. will people be able to maintain the presence in the park in sufficient numbers that the media doesn't just blow this away as a flash in the pan? >> i'm wondering how it plays in middle america. i'm wondering how it plays in the minds of independents who are going to p

news&world report," david corn writes for mother jones and alex wagner is an msnbc political analyst. i want to start with susan. who's won this thing so far, this lick back and forth about making fun of somebody's physical appearance, saying it's a joke? she sort of -- didn't exactly start it. that republican youngster started taunting her, go ahead. >> yeah, i think if anybody withins, it's probably elizabeth warren. i mean, first of all, i think we all know that a woman would never be able to run for office like this if she'd posed nude for a magazine. it didn't seem to trouble people about scott brown. but i think what his problem is, his campaign is now saying that this is an example of how elitist elizabeth warren is, because she didn't have to do something like that. and i kind of want their theme song to be that -- >> they're trying to bring it back to what happened 30 years ago. >> right, exactly. >> i want to know, just your bottom line, who won the back and forth when she took opportunity to mention that he'd posed naked for -- nude for "cosmopolitan" years ago when he was

david corn's an msnbc political analyst and "mother jones" magazine's washington bureau chief, and jonathantin is senior political reporter for politico. gentleman, i want to know how this ends for this fellow, herman cain, who's come out of nowhere. you're chuckling, but let me raise a couple of questions here. i'm going to give you a number of questions, the scenario. this guy keeps going up. he's ahead now in south carolina. he's ahead now in florida. he's ahead of the field against a guy who can't do anything but flatline. mitt romney won't get above 23. he stays right there, like a dead guy, politically. whereas cain keeps going up. my question to you, if cain can even hold second place to romney, who gets ahead of him? who beats him? >> i tell you where it ends up. it ends up with herman cain on fox news and a lot of book sales. this guy will not be the nominee, chris. maybe rick perry comes back, you know, it's true that mitt romney's in a weak position, can't get above, but herman cain, once mitt romney, or anybody else, starts spending millions of dollars to tell the american publi

news & world report", david corn writes for mother jones, and alex wagner is an msnbc analyst.usan, who's won this thing, so forth, this little back and forth about making fun of somebody's physical appearance, saying it's a joke. she didn't exactly start it, because that republican youngster started taunting her, go ahead. >> yeah, i think if anybody withins, it's probably elizabeth warren. i mean, first of all, i think we all know that a woman would never be able to run for office like this if she'd posed nude for a magazine. it didn't seem to trouble people about scott brown. but i think what his problem is, his campaign is now saying that this is an example of how elitist elizabeth warren is, because she didn't have to do something like that. and i kind of want their theme song to be that -- >> they're trying to bring it back 30 -- >> right, exactly. >> i want to know, just your bottom line, who won the back and forth when she took opportunity to mention that he'd posed naked for -- nude for "cosmopolitan" years ago when he was in law school. and then he made the personal s

david arquette channeled indiana jones. hope solo went to infinity and beyond. j.r.an played clark kent and the man of steal. the original superman dance was this one right here. >> i won't do it justice. >> reporter: there were also stumbles. chynna phillips lost her way during her "mission impossible" tango. >> you looked divine. >> reporter: and this nancy grace flip turned into spin. >> i got down and got up. how can that be as meup? that's a touchdown, in my world. i did a flip, man. >> reporter: ricki lake and derek hough took the top spot. ♪ earning the first 10s of the season for their "psycho" tango. >> brilliance in the ballroom. >> reporter: carson and anna were "pirates of the caribbean." they thrilled the audience. but not the judges. >> terrible when you're half-in. and a joy when it's over. >> reporter: are you nervous? >> we're at the bottom of the barrel. yeah. we're nervous. >> reporter: tonight, we'll see who captured enough movie magic to earn a ticket to week five. for "good morning america," cameron mathison, abc news, los angeles. >>> joaning u

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. >> i'm joined now by robert train, washington bureau chief, and david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jonessnbc political analyst. gentlemen, good morning. >> robert, give us the lay of the land. how important is the abortion issue to 2012, and for whom? >> i'm not sure it's important for 2012 in general but very important to the republican primary, probably one and the same. the reason why is because, look, at the end of the day what you're talking to are very conservative primary voters in three battleground states from a primary perspective. south carolina, new hampshire and iowa. and so when you're speaking to that specific constituency, you have to speak to certain things that are important to them. abortion is the number one issue. very strong. number two is the gay marriage issue. so, you know, it's speaking that language and talking to people that they want to hear about. >> well, i'm wondering, david, as he said, it's not just abortion. it's gay marriage. and i'm wondering, do you think republicans risk -- run the risk of sort of muddling the waters when they're focusing a lot of a

david corn's an msnbc political analyst and mother jones washington bureau chief. and we're also joined by wayne slater. thank you, gentlemen, for joining us. here's a portion of that parade interview, "parade" magazine interview that ran this sunday, it's catching a lot of attention. in a q&a in the article, lynn sheer asks the governor some questions. governor, do you believe that president barack obama was born in the united states? perry responded, i have no reason to think otherwise. that's not a definitive, yes, i believe he -- rick perry, well, i don't have a definitive answer, because he's never seen my birth certificate. question, but you've seen his. perry, i don't know, have i? question, you don't believe what's been released? perry, i don't know. i had dinner with donald trump the other night. question, and? perry, that came up. question, and he said? perry, he doesn't think it's real. and you said? perry, i don't have any idea. it doesn't matter. he's the president of the united states and he's elected. it's a distractive issue. well, there we go. rick

david corn's an msnbc political analyst and "mother jones" magazine's washington bureau chief, and jonathantin is senior political reporter for politico. gentleman, i want to know how this ends for this fellow, herman cain, who's come out of nowhere. you're chuckling, but lead me raise a couple of questions here. i'm going to give you a number of questions, the scenario. this guy keeps going up. he's ahead now in south carolina. he's ahead now in florida. he's ahead of the field against a guy who can't do anything but flatline. mitt romney won't get above 23. he stays right there, like a dead guy, politically. whereas cain keeps going up. my question to you, if cain can even hold second place to romney, who gets ahead of him? who beats him? >> it ends up with herman cain on fox news and a lot of book sales. this guy will not be the nominee, chris. maybe rick perry comes back, you know, it's true that mitt romney's in a weak position, can't get above, but herman cain, once mitt romney, or anybody else, starts spending millions of dollars to tell the american public that his 9-9-9 plan means

. >> well, msnbc analyst david corn is washington bureau chief for mother jones and matt lewis is senior contributor for the daily collar. hello to both of you. thanks for joining me. >> sure thing, alex. >> so, guys, we have christie out, romney on top at the moment, but is there anyone else waiting in the wings, david? >> oh, i guess there's sarah palin, if you want to really, you know, create another prairie fire. i mean, we're getting very close. as you know, a lot of states are trying to move up their primaries earlier, which is cutting down on the time that candidates need to prepare, and is actually presenting some real deadlines. if you want to run in these prima primaries, you have to file mooa month or two or three ahead of time. so pretty soon, this is going to be a done deal, and this will probably be the republican field that republicans are stuck with. >> not surprisingly, we were just looking at mitt romney, rick perry, herman cain, and let's look at how the poll numbers have changed in the last two weeks relative to these guys. we ary is raising big bucks, cain is doublin