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not just today and simon hobbs with a look at the big jobs generator. >> reporter: whether it's that take out franchise, the luxury hotel, drinking establish the or the fitness staff at your gym, months after months leisure and hospitality consistently generated more jobs than other parts of the economy. in fact, of the almost 7 million jobs generated over the last four years, 18% have come from leisure and hospitality, according to the burro of labor statistics. partly because the industry is coming from a base slammed in the wake of the financial crisis. now business travelers are traveling again and tourist from home and abroad, you can see it in the results of big hotel brands like marriott. >> what we've seen is built back to essentially peak levels. so we're full midweek, and we've seen that we've been able to both raise like for like pricing but also shift towards higher rated business. >> reporter: returning for the airline and as with the hotels, capacity on supply remains restricted, so prices are rising, profits are rising and operators have the cash to add back jobs and c

. >> gloria hobbs says without her social security checks, she would be homeless for sure. hobbs still struggles. >> sometimes what i do is fill half of the prescription and take a half a pill, which is not good. >> the crisis has prompted a group of lawmakers to push an idea that to the deficit -- sounds like heresy. what if instead of cutting social security, we expand it? >> right now more people than ever are on the edge of financial disaster once they retire. >> senator elizabeth warren is among the growing chorus on capitol hill calling for increased benefits for seniors. one proposal would increase benefits by an average of $70 a month. that money is likely to go right back into the economy where it is so desperately needed. social security is so popular, that the -- keep seniors from falling into poverty. now remarkably, they're facing a similar challenge once again. >> a member of the senate and a member of the u.s. house, both of them want to expand social security, we're going to talk to them about why we need to do it and how we can get it done. stick around. >>

julie anne hobbs show off or concealed center cost of the pricey. the thesis projects exams coming soon ah well. it was going to say you were trying to do here history is at work toward creating a sort of bothers you. he feels that he is of course. and here mandating use a tissue a connection and a nice visit an exhibition which will run from that and the contested every second of the job and it comes in packets. it leads to mental cold chills sumthing tat since date we have a few tricks up our sleeve for a second test day . ap described as a one nine sec to sunday and a man with a thousand faces into the cacti jointly on second to fifteen minutes to explain how he was single handedly provides lots of pretense. was it you can make it disappear and even read your mind to death defying canadian and insisted on ci is also the us will not concede but. the but today it's the bits that view is what exactly is a quick change of mind of the community. it is not ancient italian art. it's not the most for centuries ago is the art of changing costumes and wigs

. >> it is in the style of bill wat waterson to and calvin and hobbes. >> it gives him freedom to go outside the square. >> he's a guy who thinks outside the box. >> we have the man behind my arm the comic joining us. what sup, patrick? tell us about the tattoo coupon? >> it was $50. usually tattoo parlors don't do stuff like this. when i asked him, he didn't get it. he was like, do you want us to do garfield or something? i was like, no. he stared at me for a little while. and then he's like, that's brilliant. i've been wanting one since i was 16. every tme i triedo pick out ai'a piece of artwork that i hated 20 years late person the comic book thing seems good. >> it's popular, does it surprise you? >> yeah, i started doing it over the summer. i didn't get much reaction. i moved on to other projects. all of a sudden, a blog out from the united kingdom put it out. it went viral. >> what does yor arm look like now. >> it's blank. >> i think you should do one. >> include a llama. >> all right, there we have it. ♪ >> that's it for us here at "right this minute." thanks for joining us.

lynn hobbs, she is also with us this evening. michael holds an undergraduate degree from harvard and a law degree from yale. after his remarks he has agreed to participate in a question and response session with the audience and with that, please join me in a warm and i t welcome for michael barone. [applause] >> thank you very much, caroline, a fellow graduate as you noted, as is mitt romney. i am honored to have my classmate lynn hobbes in the audience, the only one in our last two years who got higher grades than i did. a distinguished academic record of publications. you did notice i started writing, co-author in the almanac of american politics and the first edition appeared in 1972. i like to point out that it is highly unusual for the first edition of a book of this nature to have been written by someone at the age of 4. at the beginning, i will talk about my book shaping the nation, how surges of migration transformed america and its politics, i will conclude by talking to little bit about our current political alignment

concerns and scully as a part the overlaps with korea's own air defense identification zone or that hobbes. the new zone conference the korean i'll end of the local submerged rock and ice between china and korea as claimed by korea even though it is not included in the country's air defense only. in an expression of concern of bombay james weekend announcement seoul's defence ministry summons chinese defence after stacy team aimed to korea on monday the ministry said its deeply regrettable that china as identification zones overlap with korean airspace over the tape to n e of the high lands. stalin also said that china's recent announcement will not affect korea's jurisdiction over the waters surrounding field goal it's our military jurisdiction our military action permission zone and since the area stretches out two koreas jurisdiction over it though. our government won't give notice when flying our aircraft in the area maintains declaration is yet another step the search type in chinese control over the disputed islands known as the are you anti not insane couple in japan. china's govern

them to tuesday in some areas a separate press plays a leading the province had been coached and hobbes tucking into national airport has ecu david gill and that's a fact that he's been busy making choking been oh five and sydney test and heavy snow is also covering missed him teething problems losing several express pace and apartments now and that has been easier to mid east and she didn't expect is to see continuous snow fall as the next twenty four hours pass with him down this may lead to the is predicted to last until tuesday. police in north china's shanxi province say an explosion in terms that he has injected seven people and that now in stable condition. that act as hotel or in the anime morning at the hotel windows and destroyed cars parked nearby and initial investigation points to a sleek if any investigation is now underway fan. after three decades are bred to grow. john sees his new economic and social challenges. the green party is thinking and planning you were for us. and there is a lot of ground to come. new land policy. stubborn problem financial reforms. wind to mak

been produced of that is a cutie little bit disappointed that needs to be snubbed it is peaceful and hobbes up just as viciously because all that means we disagreed that it even that has to this this title has to happen more and more often. it's about so that it was the maud adams and then disagree that the go to the aggie know she's gotta be completed. how does that leave them in opposition and an end of the end of a calm though the babe of classes are on this connected to the art pieces. this course and of distinction is as needed and then triple digit i'm so so itself to the resort. well what the lord there. that is. that is not and probably pushes the dems are going to be taken into. and they have in all fairness i'm on a sudden the amigos out of the team and getting didn't go to huge losses and then putting them that some kind of hope. i know but so are all on something or the other. but this is lincoln or like me is that they didn't use of the night. but the look is not designed to look is really different in mind that these peaceful dividends and i can get the dough isn't just happen

a famous philosophy thomas hobbs once said life is nasty, broodish and short in an uncivilized societyhe received, i was astounded. i couldn't imagine actually typing the words i'm going to kill your whole family until i realized he sent a meme, a photograph. take a look at it again. this is a photograph of a smiling woman with her dog and the embedded joke which is text that's on the photograph itself is i will murder your whole family. does that make any difference? again, when it comes down to whether there's a harassment case or something actionable, does that make any difference? >> it makes a huge difference. paul, did nobody grow up in a neighborhood? was nobody on a sports team ever? clearly we need to go back to joke writing 101. the reason the meme is because the woman and the dog are on it. it's ridiculous. even if martin wanted to bring a lawsuit, he would have to prove outrageous behavior, extreme behavior to prove emotional distress. look, this appears to have been between consenting adults. the supreme court said consenting adults can be sodomize each other. it stands to

does you no julius hobbs and ended you think a picture book might be acceptable? >> he was a wonderful, wonderful man with a vision, with great ideas, a track of it. i think it will be fitted inappropriate for them to be a picture book on hand. there's great stories that need to be told and shared, not with just the washington community, that the american community. >> host: did you see the the assembled in that? >> guest: i don't get it because i don't think many people knew his views when it came to the faith community. >> host: in "march, book 1" come the road the first time you ever saw your name in print with the montgomery advertiser news paper, front page and the headline boy preacher. >> guest: i do remember that. i remember that very well. this picture of me holding the bible in the montgomery advertising. the paperback had what we call the colored section. they had a white person as the editor of the colors section of the paper. >> host: and why were you in that? >> guest: i was a local committee there, young people, the boy people from troy, alabama rec

. >> reporter: dawn clemons is principal of the capitol hill cluster which includes stewart hobbs middle school. >> we're using four different reads to get the et cetera sense of this complex techs -- essence of this complex text which is oftentimes two or three grade levels upon where the kids are reading. >> reporter: this type of strategy it's said is helping d.c. public schools improve faster than the rest of the nation. >> only one out of 51 can show the greatest improvement and that was d.c. >> reporter: the district is now closing the gap in math and reading scores since 2007. 4th grade reading in d.c. gained eight points above the national average, in math a 13 point gain over the rest of the country. d.c. 8th grade reading improved two points over the country's average and the same group in math a whopping 14 point gain over the national average. the district although not a state is compared to its neighbors and test scores still fall below maryland and virginia roughly 15 points or higher in reading and math. kaya henderson, the school chancellor, says they are a work in progre

. >> historian and author richard hobbs writes about the tacoma narrows bridge in his book, "catastropheo triumph." >> people would come out on a windy day when there was extra bounce in the bridge and walk across. the motion could be fairly dramatic. >> but some find that wave like motion harrowing. >> as you drove across the bridge you could look ahead and the car in front of you maybe 100 yards would absolutely disappear as you went down the bottom. it was unnerving to a lot of drivers. many who crossed the bridge swore it would be the last time. >>> and on that windy autumn day in 1940, it is the last time anyone crosses that bridge. >> about 10:00 the bridge began to move in ways it had not moved before. the undulations became higher and the ripples across the bridge were verging on dangerous. >> at 10:15 a.m. one of the bands holding the suspension cable breaks, causing the bridge to move not only up and down, but back and forth. >> once that started the bridge increasingly began to twist. there was a car that had been trapped out on the bridge. a car driven by leonard postworth, a

studying economics, reading him, reading hobbes, reading the guy who has a favorite game of all of the characters from the revolutionary era, malick a possible way of all people. he has an name. at any rate, hamilton read those and in the course of reading those, he came to the version that the english had the right idea. the english economic system was the perfect system. it was a system that featured a strong government, strong enough to tack, strong enough to regulate commerce. it had a national government. it had a fund that. it was in fact what many historians now call a fiscal military state. it was a state in which kidman the economic measures that had begun to come into play around the 1690s in england, the nation had plenty of money to expand. as it expanded, it acquired more wealth, which flowed back into england and enabled it to expand even more so that england, which in the mid-17th century had been a rather backwater country in the affairs of europe, had a hamilton and jefferson's time be calm the largest empire in the western world since the roman empire. the most powerf

his name was hobbs carrie. his share of the loot was $1,200 out of the 15,000 haul.ing his money, and after a very short time he was down to all about $20, he lost it in the gambling halls in joplin and elsewhere, and the st. louis police were on to him and they captured him and interrogated him, and he confessed everything. not only did he confess his role in the robbery but he named all the other gang members part of the gang. he also told about where they liked to hide out. he learned quite a bit in his short time with the gang. so made it fairly hot in missouri for the jamess ands could the youngers because the detectives were on their trail. so when it was hot, they went someplace where they were least expected. minnesota was that kind of place. no one in minnesota would expect this gang to go there some they were not being hunted there. but there is also another reason to go to shouldn't that is revenge. -- to go minnesota and that is revenge. jesse james if anything is all about respring started with the civil war and always retaliation, getting back at the fe

in may it's south down to the mediterranean for fun, sun and hobb-knobbing with celebrities, brad ando for the cannes film festival. lots of yachts there. ron perlman, i'm told, hosts the best yacht party. in september it's back to the u.s., back to business in new york with the clinton global initiative, philanthropy conference where they gather, figure out how to save the world. as one billionaire told me, it's like a community. you see the same people. it's just the back drop that changes throughout the world. >> pretty nice backdrop, indeed. come sit down, robert frank, because we -- >> that robert story made me feel so fly like a g-6. that's all i got to say. >> you've already upgraded from the g-5. >> apparently i can't find a g-6 if i wanted one, right? >> that's why they flip them, isn't it? >> exactly. it's interesting. it shows how it's this more self-enclosed culture, the circuit of the same people, the same parties but the back drop changes. these events are very lavish so you get all the escolades, yachts, a moveable feast. >> do they have an ecosystem that follows them?

. >>> simon hobbs joins us from the new york stock exchange with a look at the action there. simon? >> scott, i really can't emphasize enough to you the importance of what is going on in europe at the moment after we got the poor inflation figure yesterday of 0.7%. as one bear put particular the euro zone recovery story is in tatters. you will see the markets are decisively lower on a day wall street is higher. so potentially decoupling, a look at the euro, fifth straight session. what is the ecb going to do on thursday? are they going to cut rates? are they going to guidedecisive market? if we are headed to deflation, the danger is that economies are crawling along, people within them, will delay their purchases, and that will be potentially a horrendous thing for the ecb to have to grapple with, arguably with its hands tied behind its back. the irony is that you have had a phenomenal performance over the last month for greece, italian and spanish stocks, as a lot of hedge fund managers here go into europe, because that's where they perceive the value lying ahead. question, is this

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. >>> and as they close, let's bring back simon hobbs. simon, what have we got?igures, it's relatively flat going into the close in europe. we were down more, but we've cut the losses, partly because of the rally here. the markets are moving much more on the fed, at the moment, than what's happening in europe. today, the president of the european bank, draghi, played down that negative interest rates were on the way. saying there was no news. and they clearly put it on the table. the data continues to deteriorate in europe at the moment. i want to show you the composite pmi readings. the figures are above 50, however, moving back down towards 50, from 51.9 last month. so the pace of the acceleration is slowing down. and you will see that france is below 50. france is contracting. is france going back into recession? in france itself today, the french farmers were out protesting in time-honored style by blocking the roads into paris. they are protesting about tax riders, the latest in the protests. the tax taken in france, incidentally, according to s&p, 53% of th

simon hobbs is back here. >> thank you very much. we're green across europe. off our highs.you see that, up 2%, in the bottom right-hand corner? we'll come back to italy in a moment. on a day in which europe is generally rallying picking up on coattails of china and what wall street did at the end of last week. germany fresh all-time record today partly because of the big energy giants coming back from the big losses. aeon, all about thousands of job cuts and profit warnings. today they're high somewhere helped the dax hit the record. talk about italy and the reason you have that 2% gain. led very much by the banks, as you can see. the big industrials are also higher today. one of the major reasons that they have gained is they're sit on a lot of italian debt and italian sovereign debt continues to rally. remember yields go in the opposite direction. where you've seen a sell-off in treasuries here in italy the yields go down, continue to rally on the price and two major reasons for that. one because the economic situation is so dire there, but also because over the weekend,

i'm david faber along with simon hobbs and jon forte.illa got an early start on the holiday. we prepared for this wednesday of trading. the implied open would seem to be to the positive for all the major averages. as for the 10-year

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and as they close, let's bring in simon hobbs. >> we're in negative territory for europe overall, for the midst of this, we are off the lows. that's partly because you've had a report that's come out suggesting that a mid-monthly meeting, some at ecb are talking about negative rates, but good luck getting that past the whole committee with the germans in the present state. you will notice people are booking profits on those stock markets that have done really well since the july lows. and in the main, of course, that's the like of spain and italy, which you can see are up 24%, 22%, almost double what you've had here on the gains in the s&p. since that 24th of july marker. it's really interesting, everybody seems to be talking about central banks, whether it's the fed this afternoon or the ecb. we had minutes from the bank of england today. and what's really interesting there is they, too, are trying to play with the thresholds that they've set for when they will raise interest rates, it would appear, reading between the lines. no longer would a 7% unemployment rate in the united kingd

i'm david faber along with simon hobbs and jon forte. jim cramer and carl quintanilla got an early start on the holiday. we prepared for this wednesday of trading. the implied open would seem to be to the positive for all the major averages. as for the 10-year yield, i would guess around 2.71, has been more or less stable, at least let's call it for the last few days. as for europe, going over there for the continent, across the atlantic? >> it's positive. >> thank you, simon. except for where's that red there? i don't know even know where that is. >> germany. >> it much smaller than you might this. >> we have a new coalition government in germany. they may be about to expel silvio berlusconi. >> we have a live and exclusive interview with hewlett packard ceo meg whitman is coming up. >> the nasdaq coming off its first close above 4,000 in more than 14 years. >> triple a is projecting more than 43 million americans will journey 50 miles or more away from home between now and sunday but stormy weather on the east coast is wreaking havoc o

. >>> welcome back, and simon hobbs joins us with a look at europe. it's a red. >> it is. on ecb funding will be penalized in the future, and still a concern about earnings, that the markets are trading 13, 14 times earnings, and half of companies have disappointed this earnings season. so there's a lot of questions, carl icahn, the comments we got from him yesterday, also not insignificant for what you see there. i just want to show you in the meantime, and even the eocd says the recovery is lagging and uneven. i want to show you two things working in europe, the first in the airline sector, which as airlines move into the middle ground, they're finding that profitable. this is one of the biggest low-cost carriers, easyjet, increasingly attracting flexible tickets, and the stock has doubled. they reported today, and they're up there. and the same way you've seen british airways' parent aig, its stock, too, has doubled over the course of the year. but the big new, the real one i want to bring home to you today, is cash for clunkers. remember cash for clunkers here? they're

simon hobbs and kelly evans joins us on the set.en a whirl wind. >> we thought it was worth $12 billion, $15 billion. be careful. >> the process becomes more and more elongated from goldman as stock from the institutions. are they willing to sell. it's a very complicated process behind the scenes. >> apropos of facebook, people who paid up, live to regret it. >> with 700 million diluted shares, we're talking about a valuation approaching 30 billion, let's call it 28 billion at this level or more. that's a bit, as we reported at the top of the hour, the deal is 30 times oversubscribed. ten accounts. the hope is they'll be holders not flips are. a lot had very small al occasions. not going to make a difference whether they flip it or not, frankly. we'll see what this thing really is. >> remember facebook not only increased the price before they listed but they increased the size. twitter has not done that. that may help a little. >> it's important because it's a sliver deal, meaning you only have a certain small percentage. keep this