>> kelly: julie bandaras reporting for us, thank you. >> reporter: sure. >> patti ann: the most recentnemployment numbers are being touted by the obama administration as encouraging economic news. unemployment now down to 8.5%. but, this official rate of job growth is misleading because it doesn't take into account so-called discouraged workers. jobless americans who have not been looking for work in the past four years, as jim engel reports those numbers draw a different picture. >> it is clear no issue is more important this election year than jobs. >> president barack obama: bring jobs home and invest in america. >> worrying about your job, not saving my own. >> this is about jobs, even those with jobs, even those who seem to be doing okay. there is a subtle discontent in this country. >> reporter: though the official unemployment rate has fallen in recent months, those in both parties say the jobs situation is much worse than it looks. >> we saw the unemployment rate decline and 50,000 people left the labor force that can't be a good news story. >> as bad as the unemployment rate h

julie bandaras has more. >> reporter: u.s. federal judge in washington, d.c. has essentially handed the obama administration a victory in its effort to curb violence along the border with mexico, despite heavy opposition from gun rights groups. the u.s. bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives or atf, ordered more than 8,000 gun dealers in texas, arizona, new mexico and california to report the sale of two or more semi-automatic rifles to the same person with in five business days, the decision came as the atf has been under scrutiny in recent months, after a botched gun walking operation called fast and furious meant to track guns smuggled into mexico, instead resulted in them falling into the hands of drug cartels. two guns as you said were found at the murder scene of u.s. border patrol agent brian terry, killed 13 months ago during a shootout in arizona. mexican officials have complained bitterly, about guns illegally coming from the united states. tens of thousands of mexicans have died in the drug wars since 2006. when the government decided t

julie bandaras is here with more. hi, julie. >> a u.s. a victory, throwing out a lawsuit against new federal rules requiring gun dealers in four states, bordering mexico, to report the sale of multi-semi-automatic rifles. in an effort to curb border violence the u.s. bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms an explosives ordered 8,000 gun dealers in texas, arizona, new mexico and california to report the sale of two or more semi-automatic rifles to the same person within five business days. the decision came that's atf has been under scrutiny in recent months after fast and furious meant to track guns being smuggled into mexico, instead resulted in thousands of weapons falling into the hands of drug cartels. two of those guns, as you said, were found at the murder scene of u.s. border patrol agent brian terry, killed 13 months ago, during a shootout in arizona, near the border. mexican officials, meanwhile, have complained bitterly about guns, illegally coming from the united states. and, repeatedly asked the u.s. government to stem the flow

julie bandaras is live in our new york city newsroom with more on that.er: that's right many laws reflect the nation's concerns over immigration, as worker verification, in fact, alabama, was the country's toughest immigration law, will require all employers who do business with any government entity, to use the federal system, known as e-verify to ensure all are in the country legally and, california is also addressinging illegal immigration and the california dream act expands eligibility for private scholarships for students brought to the country illegally when they were infants and also in california, gays, lesbians and people with disabilities are added to the list of social an ethnic groups whose contributions must be taught in history lessons in public schools and more accountability for young people, a new hampshire law is reinstated to require girls seeking abortions to tell their parents or a judge first and, georg georgia and if you live in a city that allows you to drive your golf cart onto roads, safety requirements go to infect which includ