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t. rowe price. invest with confidence.onsider carefully before investing. >> osgood: now for a look at the decades just past. by numbers. americans by and large are saying good riddance. according to a pew research center poll, 50% of us have a negative view of the naughts, just 27% positive. the rest of us are neutral. the economic statistics seem to bear the nay sayers out. on wall street, the dow jones industrial average closed out the year at 10,428. below its close ten years before. the s&p and the nasdaq finished lower as well. not a good decade for american workers. according to the bureau of labor statistics over the past ten years the number of american jobs increased by exactly 0%. on a brighter note, the decade had a hollywood ending for hollywood. for the first time movie theaters sold more than 10 billion dollars worth of tickets this past year. >> i'm not a monster. i'm just ahead of the curve. >> osgood: topping the bill was the dark knight with the late heath ledger which boasts more than $533 million. lead

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t. rowe price. invest with confidence.st a prospectus with investment objectives, risks, fees, expenses, and more information to read and consider carefully before investing. >>> is is the scene in much of the country this morning a the new year starts off with a new blast of wintry weather. >> look at that. >> it's freezing in many parts of the country. only the southwest is warm this morning. we hope you're inside, if you're not in the southwest on this first monday of 2010. good morning, america, i'm george stephanopoulos. we've got to get this debate down. >> do you say 2010 or 2010? go to our website. >>> and fixes ing your finance. mellody hobson has five tips, including the one change that could help you be rich. and we start the new year, our new anchor, george stephanopoulos. yes, your wife ali is back by popular demand. that's coming up next. >> do we have those pictures? >> yes, this is your life, george stephanopoulos. >> now that we've seen that, going to miss the first half hour. >>> but serious news, the sea

the dow was up 20% in 2009, t the -- home prices rose for the fifth month in a row in october. but the recovery continues to be uneven. just 11 of the 20 metro regions tracked by the case-shiller home price index showing an increase. >>> hollywood's last weekend of the year was a blockbuster. the best ever as james cameron's 3d movie "avatar." back to maria. >>> at the start of the new year and decade what's in store for the economy and your money in 2010 and beyond. joining us to talk about that, andy serwer and david wessel. thanks for joining us. andy, your new book called "starting over." will the next decade be better? >> first of all, there's one school of thought that this past decade was so terrible the next one can't help but be better. i'm not buying that, necessarily. we're going to see some changes in some trends. we talk about that, that are going to make things better. it is not inevitable that things will improve. in terms of seeing so much neglect, deferral of responsibility, i think those things are going to turn around a little. >> david, looking ahead, is the

t. j. tiska, and vicky, both students in the front row.long with them is lynn gingle, and lynn's daughter's brittany are among those missing. paul, what were you doing in haiti? >> we were on a mission trip with a group of students and two professors with an organization called food for the poor. we went there monday and were supposed to be there until friday. we went there to help paint houses and work at orphanages. >> larry: where were you, vicky, when the earthquake hit? >> all of us were outside on the hotel on the third floor patios. >> larry: all of you got outside except for four girls, right? >> four girls and two professors, yeah. >> larry: they are still missing, right? >> yes. >> larry: lynn, when did you last talk to your daughter, brittany? >> my wife spoke to her at 4:00, an hour before the earthquake hit. that was five days ago, larry. larry, i am pleading to you as a father to help us. we have four young ladies who are 20 years old, if that. brittany was going to be 20 on thursday. and we need your help. we need snake came

t will be cold. five mornings in a row on wednesday, down somewhere near 30 degrees. i'll end with the snow. this is not a blockbuster snow event, chris. northern new england. they get snowstorms. this will be a minor snowstorm. but the timing with everyone trying to get back to school on monday will make things difficult, especially for our friends in maine. >> thanks very much, bill. >>> and just how long this current blast of arctic air could last and for all weather details wherever you are, just go to weather.com. >>> new economic numbers this week show signs of a recovery in 2010. jobless claims are down to their lowest levels in 18 months. wall street starts the year up more than 19%. i'm joined now by msnbc financial analyst sarah gibbons. >> hi, chris. >> that's about as good as i can make the news here. >> right. >> we're up 19% but how far were you down the year before? what's ahead for stocks in 2010? >> nevertheless, it was nice to see stocks rebound from the depths of way down to the bottom. >> was the alternative. >> best performance you have seen in six years. positive for 20

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t. allen throws the pass to ad kins, out front. throws it down. the hokies win it 103-94 in overtime. their ninth win in a row. that's your morning sports. i'm hakem dermish, have a great day. >>> and that does it for us for "news4 today." very cold out there. >> unbelievably cold outside. bundle up. put your favorite t-shirt, sweater, jacket hat and gloves and ear mufs on. >> join us at 9:00 for a full hour of your news, weather and sports. have a great morning. >> see you soon.

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