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next step, the next go around, there's not really a long-term solution and so if it prevents people orbitzs from going ahead investing in the future or making jobs higher. do the short-term fixes work? >> i think this is a big deal, susie, for this reason. we don't have to mess with this for another year and a half. this takes us until october for 2015. for taxpayers, businesses, wall street, there is a sense of predictability, not the ridiculous dysfunction we saw for the last two or three years. >> the markets seem to like the ridiculous dysfunction, greg. it had a great month in october. >> it did because the markets correctly ascertained we would not have a default crisis, and i think now we can see in retrospect, we know the economy began to turn around, and i think the improvement in the economy is a big story, may not be a good story if you follow the fed and worry about tapering, but i think the economy is coming back. >> so the subject now for wall street has gone from no more worries about the budget thing and worries about the fed taper. what is the word in the beltway about whic

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the investment paid off >> reporter: bigger than a football pitch, the international space station orbitzove earth. science and space comes at a price, in this case a hefty $150 billion in and another $2 billion a year to keep it running. >> chemical and biological reactions that take place without gravity. and the spinoffs are completely unpredictable. >> reporter: the station has been visited by astronauts from 15 different countries. but how does its cost compare to other big projects. this project in france cost $10 billion to build. compare that to $9 billion a year spent on research and cancer, and then nasa's mars rover. it is still exploring the martian surface, but the mission cost $2.5 billion. research has included looking at the prolonged effect of space on humans. >> you haven't seen a sort of nobel prize winning discovery at least not yet. but what you have seen is the construction of a permanent lab in orbit. and that's valuable to a whole range of science. >> vegetables are important for your health, so today i have chosen dried spinach. >> reporter: canadian astronaut int

groupon's down almost 5%, zillow 5.5% and 3% for orbitz worldwide. they cut back to neutral, they continue to believe the opportunity is in local there, so that is good news there, but again, valuation calls. groupon's up 77% this year. how about orbitz worldwide, 150%, zillow up 168%. i mean, come on. those are great, great performances and basically now goldman's saying, look, the valuation is run up, and that's enough with the premium val weighs, take some money off the table. cheryl: nicole, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thanks. dennis: starbucks is brewing up a new strategy if europe. the premium coffee giant has had a tough time over there, so it's been expanding loyalty programs, opening stores in blue collar areas, and now "the wall street journal" reporting that starbucks is turning to franchising. it's long avoided letting independent owners saying it wants full control over its brand, but it's starting to see the strategy as a way of getting into some overseas markets. of 200 stores it has plans to open in europe, the middle east an

there are several websites - including fare-compare and orbitz - that provide a list of low fares, plusat go straight to your e-mail >> i'm zain asher in new york. >> >> unemployment benefits for one-point-three million americans are set to expire saturday. that's because congress did not include funding for them in the new budget deal. at this point, analysts don't expect the money to be restored. erin mcpike reports from washington. >> by most measures -- the economy is stronger than it's been in a very long time. >> but there is a glaring soft spot: long-term unemployment. almost eleven million americans cash unemployment checks, but the money is about to run out for 1.3 million on saturday. and one study says another one-point-nine million americans will lose their benefits by mid-2014. president george w. bush started the federal unemployment program in 2008 to help ease the pain during the height of the recession. when states stopped providing assistance to the unemployed after several months, federal benefits then kick in - giving some americans nearly two years of benefits. but

so other good ones out there, orbitz as well, travelocity, kayak.'s important to get on the watch lists, the price compare lists if you want to find out the next time the glitches arise. >> i see. take advantage of the glitches next time around. okay, now i understand. >> absolutely. >> zain, thanks so much. >> of course. >>> well, the same day police saw a man hop a fence and run across the runway at new jersey's newark international airport, security cameras caught another man doing the same thing at phoenix's sky harbor airport. here's the video. airport authorities say early christmas eveening, 49-year-old robert balk climbed over an 8-foot fence and ran onto the tarmac. workers spot him and he ran up to a southwest jet that had just landed. police say that he actually struck the plane's engines with his hands before they caught him working to the terminal. yes, that is his mugshot. the engines had already been turned off and authorities say he appears to be drunk and he really didn't have a motive. can we look at the mugshot just one more time?