where you can explore super destinations and do everything under the sun. 12 brands. more hotels than anyone else in the world. save up to 25% and earn bonus points when you book at wyndhamrewards.com. we are following developing news, the dow jones rose after employers added 288,000 jobs in june. and the unemployment rate is the lowest since 2008. the markets close at 1:00 p.m. ahead of the july fourth holiday.
how strong it was. but her neighbors knew it changed i would see her walking with her head down. she would wear shorts when they moved in and then she started wearing those six months after they moved here. reporter: connelly is facing charges of providing material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization. eric? a very disturbing case. thank you. patty ann? a fox news alert. brand new monthly job numbers to tell you about on a thursday due to tomorrow s hollywood holiday. the u.s. economy added 288,000 jobs and that is the fifth straight month of gains over 200,000 and the unemployment rate falling to 6.1 percent. the real unemployment rate is at 12.1% with many out of the
that was just before the big crisis. yes, that s absolutely right. you ve been slowly coming down. one thing you ll hear economists see, people have been dropping out of the labor market for months. you have a labor force participation, that s a technical economic term but basically people believing the labor market. not even looking for jobs. they haven t been able to find their place. you want to see that start to improve. certainly numbers like this help that trend overall. this is what happened in the really worst part of the recession of the financial crisis, 10% unemployment and now you ve got things slowly moving lower here. what we need to see is the quality of jobs added, with he added a lot over the past year the couple years the trend has been low-wage jobs, not mid and higher wage jobs. over the past couple of months i ve seen some of the higher wage jobs coming back. 288,000 jobs added, hopefully we can get back to that number, that is highest, too. 288 will take
broke in two places. so that s really fresh in a lot of people s minds. that s why that mandatory evacuation is in place today. three to five inches and the system expected to make its biggest impact during high tide. you to add all of those factors together currently already seeing 25 foot waves right around arthur, all of that only makes its way closer. right now the waves are picking up a little, but these aren t huge waves by any means. this is going to change overnight tonight. we re expecting about 15 if not 20 foot waves by this evening. that temptation is while it s still nice people want to head out but all of the authorities locally there are saying folks make other plans, stay away from the water, as beautiful as it is and tempting as it is to kite surfers not safe. just not safe. don t do it. the storm more powerful than we thought it was going to be. indra peterson, thanks for being with us. we know you will be watching this all day and all night. another big story to
the jobs report out today says the economy added 288,000 jobs in the month of june, good number. today, in fact, marks 52 straight months of private sector job growth. it s the longest job growth streak on record. oh, and there s more good news, 9.7 million jobs have been added since 2010 and 1.4 million of those jobs were added in the first half of this year and it s the most since the first half of any year since 1999. it s all positive. the unemployment rate now has dropped to 6.1%. it s the lowest rate since september of 2008. more positive news? oh, yeah. not bad for the obama economy. earlier today president obama said the economy is doing good, but it could be better if republicans would reach across the aisle and just do their jobs. we just got the jobs report