and jared!brate subway continuing their famous five-dollar footlong, i thought it'd be nice if we all sang the five-dollar footlong song. - ( plays note ) - ( singing in perfect pitch ) ♪ five ♪ five dollar five dollar footlong ♪ - ♪ lo-o-o-ong - ♪ this could keep going strong ♪ ♪ going strong ( extends note ) sounds great, huh? subway $5 footlongs-- a yummi-licious deal of bodacious flavor. just $5. all day, every day. jared: subway! both: eat fresh! just $5. all day, every day. free, free, free, here, free, free, free, free. we love taking care of bags. all: bye, bags. we'll see you when you get home. ( ding ) captioning funded by cbs and ford-- built for the road ahead. >> bradley: you want to go to college? >> much as it kills me, yes. >> cooper: when ed bradley met richar anozier four years ago, it was for a story about the harlem children's zone, an inner city education program run by a remarkable man named jeffrey canada... >> good morning, boys and girls. >> cooper: ...and considered one

guest: jared bernstein -- host: jared bernstein, on the timing., of which green jobs is a component, was signed less than four weeks after we got here. we were very keyed into the urgency i hear and kathy's question. i have been working extremely hard -- vice-president and team recovery has been doing exemplary and very transparent job in terms of implementation. thus far, according to the congressional budget office, and by the way, they are in the same ballpark as other outside estimators, the recovery act has a book created well over a million jobs. g-8 saved or created well over a million jobs. i don't want to say for a second we are anywhere near out of the woods or for that matter 1 million, 2 million, 3 million jobs saved or created it is nearly enough to offset the jobs deficit we face. i don't think there is any plausible government program that could fully offset the recession of the magnitude we have seen. but i think what we have got here we hit the ground running and we will continue to do more to me the kind of urgency. you heard the

look at the great penetration move by jared mann. that's freedom. you can make things happen and be the facilitator on the offense. jared mann has continued to struggle. didn't want to miss it, butd you have to. two big free throws against kentucky. they're up two. they upset number 5 wildcats. >> barry: and here's landry fields once again. anderson comes out to defend green. doesn't give him much room. >> marques: obi muonelo, very aggressive player against landry fields. able to respond against muonelo. >> barry: drew with the look and loose ball controlled by mean low. >> marques: he's back underneath the basket. >> barry: lifts the three. andzson turns around. that match-up tweens anderson and landry fields as advertised so far. >> marques: dave anderson is a big boy, a good, strong aggressive player himself. 6'2" and 210 pounds. >> barry: we have his dad in the house tonight. his father is a guard at san quentin prison. made the drive down here to watch his son, and got to like what he's seeing so far. >> marques: had a chance to talk to robert

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according to jared bernstein, chief economist in the office of the vice president, quote, all signs of the private estimates to this fragmentary data point to the conclusion that the recovery act did indeed create or save about a million jobs in its first seven months, a much-needed lift to a very difficult period in our economy which is something i think we must pay attention to and cannot ignore. i just want to talk a little bit more about the success of the recovery act, not that it's completely succeeded. we'd like to see unemployment headed down, not just this rate of unemployment slowdown, but to make sure that we understand that providing economic fiscal stimulus does help our economy. it's important to review the facts. the recovery accountability and transparency board, as you know, we didn't just send money out we got a transparency board to look at it all, released its first report on the recovery act spending that shows that recipients so far, it shows the act is helping to get americans back to work. as i said, mark zandy, of moody's economics, said less than 2% of -- we'd