there are the two towns where these bans went to the court of appeals ithaca, and cooperstown.aca is a university town where there's a lot of wealth and people have a great life there -- >> there's a -- [overlapping speakers] >> let's let linda jump in. linda please go ahead. >> okay. [ overlapping speakers ] >> hard to call cornell faculty wealthy. certainly there's low unemployment, it's a great community, but it's not about wealth, it's about education and having the scientific knowledge to have come to the forefront of understanding what this really was when no one knew and realizing what the true impact was going to be. this took extensive analysis that the industry had no desire to do before jumping into it and ruining things, and one ore quick, quick point -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> what the industry did to all of these other towns was to threaten them and say as with drieden, will be sue you. we have infinite resources. we will sue your town and your taxpayers will have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend yourself, and then you will lose, so don't you

he joins me now from ithaca, new york.elcome back to "bottom line or cap let me ask you what you think about this u.s. economic recovery. a lot of people would say the job numbers we have been seeing don't tell the full story. on the other hand, we've added monthhan 200,000 jobs per for five or six months in a row. >> it's taken us a long time to get to where we are right now but right now, the u.s. economy is on the cusp of a much more durable recovery. when the crisis hit the u.s. economy, the u.s. put in a very aggressive set of policies to fix the financial system, move forward monitoring fiscal policies and we are beginning to see the payoff. the labor market took a long time to catch up. see general signs of strength. rise inr concern is the consumer demand in particular was being born along by financial optimism getting ahead of the real economy. but now the real economy is catching up and we have better days to come. >> how much better? we hear warnings from christine lagarde from the imf telling washington how to

from detroit down to nashville, back to norfolk, philadelphia, ithaca, new york, looking at more severeeather. there could be tornadoes with this. behind this we're looking at unbelievy chilly air coming in again into a good part of next week. >> thank you. >>> meantime, the wreckage of the passenger jet that vanished over africa has been found. a military unit from france is heading to the site to secure it. janet, good morning. >> hi. the french president finished a briefing and confirmed the worse, wreckage has been found and no one survived the crash. it appears to be weather-related but no one is ruling out terrorism. french president hollande confirmed there are no survivors in the crash. the investigation is ongoing to determine the cause of this tragedy. france's interior minister said terrorism cannot be excluded as a cause for the tragedy, though it's likely due to bad weather. wreckage of the plane carrying 118 people was found in northern mali. investigators retrieved one of the plane's black boxes. it was traveling from burkina faso to algiers when it took off. 50 minutes i