lizzy o'leary joining me from washington. good morning to you. who exactly are the long-term unemployed? >> reporter: a term important for people to understand and what it means. overall, about 12.7 million americans are people who count at unemployed, they don't have work but are looking for work. when you go inside that number, 5.4 million americans have been unemployed for six months or longer. that's 42% of the unemployed. we've never seen a number like that, not in any previous recession. this is a big intractable blob when you look at all the graphs, it's stiff that 5.4 million and when you look at it over the months. right? this is the past five months. the beginning of the year. 5.5. it dipped down a little bit, but you still have more or less a straight line if you continue with the trend and that shows you that despite some gains that we make in hiring, you see some people get hired, it's generally around the edges. people unemployed while find it easier to get a job, still have contacts. folks out six months or longer, it's much harder

cnn aviation regulation correspondent lizzie o'leary takes a look at the fallout from the long wait. we're starting here at the capital where congress couldn't pass a long-term transportation plan. and you don't have to go far to see the roads that americans drive on aren't in great shape. just nine miles away, this bridge is missing big chunks of concrete. it's 45 years old, the average age of most bridges in the u.s. >> you can see the staining of the piers. you can see where some of the concrete has popped away and it's exposed the reinforcing steel. >> reporter: nick roper is in charge of maintaining bridges in northern virginia. this bridge, like one in eight across the country, is structurally deficienc structurally deficient. that means it can still safely carry passengers, but meeds a major overhaul. >> the longer you way, the more costly it becomes and the more extensive the repairs come. hopefully we won't be waiting 25 years for this bridge. >> waiting is probably the one thing every commuter is familiar with. americans spend 4.2 billion hours a year stuck in traffic. this

lizzie o'leary has been following the case and joining us live from capitol hill. ys of drunk driving legislati legislation. could this have nationwide impact? >> reporter: it has the potential to set a lot of precedent. one of the things going on here, when you use the drunk driving met fa for, think back to the early days of anti-drunk driving campaigns, drunk driving education, and that is sort of the model that a lot of educators and also people in the transportation department are trying to use here. it's no secret this has been a real sort of focus of ray lahood, the secretary of transportation. he's trying to draw attention to distracted driving, one in ten fatalities is caused by someone who is distracted. you have about 600,000 people on the road with a hand held device at some point. so this is sort of part of their education campaign, but it's also the reason we use the drunk driving anal si, they're trying to cast this as a public health issue, not so much an issue of government regulation but an issue of public health and safety. >> you wanted to find o

lizzie o'leary joins us from washington.erienced first hand the dangers of distracted driving. give us a reality check. yeah. i went out into the national advanced driving simulator out in iowa. one of the things they do is test how long it takes for a driver to be distracted by a text or something even simple as a bee in the car. it took about two seconds for me to more or less rear end the car, the fictitious car in front of me. a typical text is four seconds. that shows how small the margin of error is here. the massachusetts case is landmark because it brings up this question of what can be legislated against, what can be ruled as criminal behavior. what is, frankly, maybe stupid, dangerous but not the government's role? it's been this battle about regulating that. 38 states have laws that ban texting while driving. a smaller number, about 31, restrict cell phone use for new drivers so there's a real tension here between safety and also the reach of government. >> the interesting thing about this massachusetts case, ther

it just has to. >> reporter: lizzie o'leary, savannah park, maryland. >>> well, by day, she is passingls and by night, she is changing diapers and chasing after two kids. kathy mcmorris-rogers is the only member of congress to give birth twice while in office. we will tell you why in mitt romney's campaign is keeping a close eye on her when we come back. sorry. sore knee. blast of cold feels nice. why don't you use bengay zero degrees? it's the one you store in the freezer. same medicated pain reliever used by physical therapists. that's chilly. [ male announcer ] new bengay zero degrees. freeze and move on. >> well, you might not have heard of her yet, but congresswoman kathy mcmorris is also on the short list of vp contenders and also a mom as our lisa sylvester reports. >> reporter: there are 435 members of the house of represe representatives. >> we have work to do. >> reporter: 76 of them are women. but only one woman in the house republican leadership. >> messaging themes. >> reporter: congresswoman kathy mcmorris rogers, who represents eastern washington state. >> so it has been

our aviation correspondent, lizzie o'leary, is working this story for us. > for about two years private pilots have been flying with a next generation radar picture that sends a picture around them into their cockpit. officials are cautioning those could be dangerously delayed. >> get into the yellow, oranges and red magentas, that's heavy precipitation. >> it's a state of the art weather display in a cockpit. like gps, it shows where the plane is, where airports are and where bad weather is. but there's a dangerous catch. the weather picture's called nexrad aren't in realtime. what do you tell your students about nexrad? >> you don't want to use it to actively navigate around weather. you have to be very aware that that is old information. >> we got up in the air with one of his pilots to see how it works. and what federal safety investigators worry about. so you can see right here there's a little bit of weather. and that's us. and this picture was sent up about one minute ago. the worry that the ntsb has is that pilots will think that the data is one minu

joining me now is lizzie o'leary.ge problem, assuming all goes well and they vote this bill and send it to the president and he signs it, is it enough? >> as you said, this is a handshake deal. they've gone a thousand days without having a big fix here. and this is hardly the five-year overhaul that was john boehner's number one priority going into this congressional session. it's a two-year deal. it's not likely to make a huge dent in the problems in roads and bridges that everybody drives on. and we took a little trip around town to show you. we're starting here at the capitol where congress couldn't pass a long-term transportation plan. and you don't have to go far to see the roads that americans drive on aren't in great shape. just nine miles away, this bridge is missing big chunks of concrete. it's 45 years old. the average age of most bridges in the u.s. >> you can see the staining of the piers. you can see where some of the concrete has popped away. >> i see rebar under there, yeah. >> reporter: nic roper is in

lizzy o'leary, thanks so much in washington. five states so far.this entrepreneur program. so exactly how does the program work and what are the requirements? how do youinvolved? here to help us understand it all. who is eligible? find out if you're one of those five states and then if you're eligible? >> actually i went on the department of labor website i found five bund researched and found more than those five states. first, ask at the unemployment office does my state participate? if testimony does, you don't have to do anything. the state i spent the most time looking at their program, washington state. you actually automatically sgee a profiling system. it's interesting. this pro filing system knows thousand figure out who is likely to exhaust benefits without finding a job. >> really? >> yes. they do it by looking at your age, your education. the industry, and the demographic fact herbs where you live. they can accurately who is likely to find work and who isn't. if your profile is not likely to find work you're going to get a member saying

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lizzy o'leary is tracking its trip, smashed shuttle wing tip and all, right, lizzy? >> reporter: yeah. it had a little run in or one of the wings did, just the foam on the edge with what would be kind of a wooden support on a bridge. so it got a little bit dinged up on this trip, maybe fitting because this, as you said, this shuttle has never made it into space. you look at some of its sister ships -- there's the picture of the little consistent that happened there. its sister ship, "discovery," when you look at it, has got the kind of singes and kind of i guess road scars of a craft that has been up in space, and the two of them were actually nose to nose for a while in d.c. after "discovery" made its last flight, looped over the city and came to the air and space museum's satellite museum just outside of d.c. so they're swapping places. "enterprise" now getting this very lovely long, slow barge trip up the hudson. and if i were on one of those boats i would be taking a lot of pictures of this craft. it's been around since 1977, and this is as you said sort of the g

regulation correspondent lizzy o'leary is outside of the hearing room on capitol hill.st saw jamie dimon walk in. reporters were already asking him questions. >> yeah. i was one of them, carol. look, i've known jamie dimon for a long time. he's not someone likely to shy away from an opportunity to talk to someone with a microphone or a notebook in their hand. but he wasn't doing that today. he knows his audience is congress. and also people who are trying to figure out three main things here. number one, what happened, how did they lose so much money, and who was minding the store. should he and the other leadership folks have been in control there? number two, what's jamie dimon's future? remember, this is the guy who has been sort of the ambassador for wall street. he was at one point very close to president obama. much less so now. and number three, what's the future of financial regulation? dimon was supportive of that in the beginning. when that dodd frank law was written. he's been much less so as this has moved along. a lot of attempts even by lobbyists from his

lizzie o'leary's been watching all the fun and activity on capitol hill, what are you seeing?m the last time when he was in front of senate, this they wanted to know when did you find out about these problems? he said we disclosed what we knew as soon as we knew it and had a little more of a combative tone in front of the house today. >> you said you have a fortress balance sheet. that assumes something special about the way you are that we won't worry, but we can't assume that is the case for every institution? >> we also said we were profitable -- >> please don't fill bust. >> they're known for being rowdier than the senate and that was true to form with jpmorgan ceo jamie dimon. the financial reform law that bears barney frank's name is slow to be implemented and many rules still unwritten. >> did you support dodd-frank? >> that's a hard one to say. >> one key rule would forbid banks that take customer deposits for making risky trades for themselves. banks have lobbied hard against it. but dimon says the controversial trade that's lost billions would probably still be allow