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Well, I'm glad that we have Poppy Harlow back today after a brief hiatus, because boy is there, a lot to talk about. Record-breaking month, November was, and not in a good way. Let's go to Poppy Harlow from cnnmoney.com in New York. Hi, Poppy.

Hey, there, Reggie. Yeah, record breaking in terms of the unemployment rate, the jobless claims that came in. Some bright news to share with you! Let's pull the Big Board up if we can and show you what stocks are doing right now. The Dow was up, there you go 147 points nearly, the NASDAQ and the S&P in the green now the reverse coming really in the last half an hour. The market was down about 200 points around earlier in the day because of the bad news that I told you about. We are talking about more than half a million Americans filing unemployment claims last month alone.

Take a look here, it's our headline, 1.9 million jobs. That's the number of jobs that have been lost in this country so far this year. It's really a staggering number. It doesn't even include the job loses we've heard about this week, when we saw 33,000 job cuts. So let's go through what these numbers mean. Well, 1.9 million that is more jobs loss, just in the first eleven months of this year than we are lost in the entire recession back in 2001 and 2002. It has brought our unemployment rate up to 6.7% up from 6.5%. Some economists say that could hit 8% by the end of the year, Reggie. So dismal news! If you do have a job, you are probably wondering how can I hold on to this job.

We have a piece on our site that can help you with that. It's called Five Tips for Keeping Your Job. The first one is "Be visible" let your boss know, "Hey, I'm there." The second one is “Don't be a maverick”, it is not a time to push the...

I'm writing this down by the way. I'm writing this down.

Okay, good Reggie, me too. It's not the time to push the envelope. The rest of those are on our site. But as you can see, I mean we know where the job cuts are coming. And I wanna talk with you automakers here because of course the CEOs of Detroit's big three wrapped up their hearings on Capitol Hill today. And this is a map right here that shows you all the auto-related jobs in this country. We pull up Michigan here and that shows you 250,000 jobs in Michigan alone, nearly that number are auto-related jobs. This map is on cnnmoney.com. You can click on your state, see just how a failure of one or all of the big three automakers would affect people in your state, Reggie. So those are the big headlines today. What would the fate of the automakers be? And also, Reggie, of course, what will happen to the markets? I don't know we're up almost 200 points right now? Maybe we will end in the green.

And it's, it's very strange. And I'm glad that you brought up that map, because that actually goes to  one of the members of Congress on the committee today was asking she's trying to nail down, okay, what does this mean to the average person (Right.) across the US? And they are having a hard time answering the question. And she is getting frustrated. So perhaps that will help her and others too. Can you tell us a little bit about what we heard today, (sure,) if this, if they're making any headway on Congress with this, potential bailout?

You know, it's hard to tell, because there are so much back and forth as lawmakers are pushing them hard, saying, "Hey, if we're gonna give you billions of dollars in a bridge loan or a bailout loan, whatever you wanna call, we wanna see why you need it, and just how much you need and what jobs depend on this? General Motors today adding on to that ,Reggie, saying they are gonna cut another 2,000 jobs, they are gonna cut some shifts at three of their plants. I want to bring in some sound here, let you listen to some of the lawmakers. You'll see just how contentious it is. Take a listen.

This idea that (it) is, it's late, guys, you gotta pass it, you gotta do it or nothing.  I'm afraid a lot of people are overestimating the willingness of a good lean number of members of Congress to play chicken. And I think it would be a terrible game to experience that game of chicken, and see the other motor industry go down because of it.

We need to encourage Americans to start buying cars again and that is not in these plans. We should give Americans tax incentives, tax credits to encourage them to buy cars. None of your plans has any statement, aside from one sentence on Page 26 of GM's about how we get the sales moving again.

As you can see, as you can see Reggie, it's a very contentious issue. It seems like every lawmaker wants something different. But the hearings are now over, and we will see next weekend, possibly over this weekend if there is a bill of bailout bill that will be, considered by members of Congress and again, the big question, if there is that bridge loan to the automakers, will it come from the money set aside by TARP by that 700 billion dollar bailout, or will it be new legislation and a separate amount of money? But we know the automakers are asking for 34 billion dollars, Reggie.

Yeah, I'm really interested to see where this goes cos our audience has, I've been looking at the e-mails pretty carefully today they are really split on this issue.

Yeah, yeah, I think of a most recent cnn Opinion researcher Corp Poll, (it) said, "are more Americans don't favor a bailout (right) than do?” but again...

Right, six out of ten don't want it.

Right, (Yeah.) there you go. So we'll see, but these lawmakers are answering to their constituents, but at the same time, they don't wanna see millions of people lose their job.

Alright, Poppy Harlow, I will be watching carefully and checking in with you next week. Have a good weekend!

You too!

Big Board  (US)informal name for the New York Stock Exchange (美)“大行情板”（纽约证券交易所的别称）

push (the edge of) envelope  to move beyond the limit of what has usually been done or was the accepted standard.

bridge loan  过渡性融资

tax credit  n. a sum that can be offset against a tax liability 课税扣除

play chicken  〈美俚〉(为吓倒对方)进行挑战和威胁

Chicken game: The game of Chicken, also known as the Hawk-Dove or Snowdrift game, is an influential model of conflict for two players in game theory. The principle of the game is that while each player prefers not to yield to the other, the outcome where neither player yields is the worst possible one for both players. The name "Chicken" has its origins in a game in which two drivers drive towards each other on a collision course: one must swerve, or both may die in the crash, but if one driver swerves and the other does not, the one who swerved will be called a "chicken," meaning a coward.

 TARP: Troubled Assets Relief Program