- a segment interviewing a college student about how the recession is affecting high school and college students in their job searches (summary: restaurant and retail sectors have been hardest hit, so jobs there aren’t as available, and young people are having to compete with older laid-off people also looking for any job they can get)
- a Mercedes Benz commercial, which proclaimed that “this is the time to get that Mercedes that’s been on your wish list!”
- a Salvation Army commercial involving homeless people and an infant in arms being rescued off a rooftop during a flood
Seriously, these segued right into each other. Whoever was in charge of arranging ad times at CNN really screwed up.