but as we'll show you later tonight in a special "dateline" hour, it also tested millen's resolve to fight back. >> we've worked hard. i kind of felt like we deserved everything that we had. >> reporter: before the economic crisis, crystal chance's life had everything. a great family. a popular restaurant. and a beautiful home. >> you build your dream home. that's part of the american dream. you know, you work hard to do right. you save your money. you have good credit. you build your house. that's what you're supposed to do. >> reporter: then the great recession hit her hometown of millen, georgia, like a ferocious southern tornado. in the span of two years, all the factories that had kept millen running closed shop or moved overseas. 1,300 people lost their jobs. including crystal's husband. with no money to spend, crystal's loyal customers stopped coming to eat. and she had to close her restaurant. >> that was probably one of the worst times in my life. i would come out to the back steps and just sit and think. what is the next thing that we need to do? and we really didn't know.

as bad as things got, you quickly learn millen refuses to die.rogram, tough times lead to tough choices and what they do will teach us a lot about our delicate economy and the value of perseverance. veronica, i think for a lot of folks around the country this will be like looking in the mirror and watching the story and if you don't understand like me economics, watch this and see how things unravel and how quickly they do, you understand how delicate and fragile our economy really is. >> you know, without giving away too much, delicate and fragile our economy is. >> absolutely. without giving away too much, what was the one thing that kept these three women going? >> it's the sense of this is my home. it's a town that refused to die. these folks grew up there. it was their home. the only place they ever lived. and they wanted to make it there. they're talking five, ten, 30, 40 more job interviews in some cases and opportunities. as we go along, there are opportunities. there are chances to turn things around. and folks hang their hat on that. so

for the place millen is taking the case to court win or lose now that we know it will and has been paying less rent than most of the new yorkers maybe time for a new platform how about with the pains of the gas pump maybe gas us today at high party or with global warming clobbered a sabata the temperature is too damn high party has a nice ring to it dontcha think. still to come where watching and waiting for wisconsin election results were voters may very well unseat six republican state senators that is they will have voters can see past the roughly forty million dollars in tea advertising the koch brothers karl rove and other huge interests at ford into the state to prop up the republican politicians they all. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who made decisions. made who can you trust no one who is in view with the global machinery see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called satchels when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more. welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour it was crowded so the stakes are high fo

thank you so much for watch iin matt millen is in for dylan. >> i'm a linking love myself. you're calling us to our better angel, so we have a statesman-like hour ahead. we'll have new insight on what's next in libya. we're going to have some incredible look at the three things that you could do now to boost jobs immediately, plus the only small business strategist in america with her own look alike fashion doll. the show starts right now. >>> the big story today, wanted dead or alive. they have, and amnesty for -- good afternoon. i'm matt miller in. these new pictures are from inside the compound. earlier today gadhafi claimed to have gone out of triply undetected and vowed to fight under. and breaking out in the capital city, between loyalists and rebels. joining us now from london, fawaz gerges, and james troub. gentlemen, welcome. james, let me start with you. what could we make of the situation in tripoli at this hour. does that mean there's still another chapter or two yet to be wring here? >> i think you have to expect things would be chaotic and weird in ways that n

i have thought there is tension between millen mills in young voters with their own play lists and facebook pages, designing their own future. the one size fits all welfare state of the obama democrats. i think that is a tension there that the republicans have done a little bit but not enough to exploit. we should not regard this current numbers. it is not definitive of where they will be. i do not think that this leak is not overtake her ball. presidential elections have a certain concentration. they say the republicans are just a southern party. there was some validity to that. they carried a majority in the south. you see what looks like a republican country from the george washington bridge. leaving the cannibal standing at both ends. if you look at house seats, barack obamacare g-20 districts. john mccain carried is zero. and so did george w. bush in 2004. republican votes are more spread around. they tend to be concentrated in a relatively few of boats. it gives democrats a disadvantage. >> now we will give this a right. we will turn to questions from the audience. i would like to beg