who is scheduled to hold that press conference in less than 30 minutes. now to one of the reasons we re here in arizona. the migrant humanitarian crisis at the southern border. roughly 160 miles from where we are this morning. u.s. and customs and border patrol says it arrested 231,000 migrants at the border last month. for the first time ever, the number of arrests of undocumented immigrants exceeded 2 million in one year. in an increasing number of migrants are coming from venezuela, cuba, nicaragua and haiti. places with authoritarian regimes with major human rights issues. doug ducey has joined his republican counterparts from texas and florida in sending migrants to other parts of the country. arizona has reportedly sent nearly 2,000 migrants to washington, d.c., since april. some of the migrants flown from texas to martha s vineyard, massachusetts, by florida governor ron desantis are now suing him, claiming they were victims of fraud. desantis responded in a statement
smith. we will get to the escalating foreign threat. first to the tense battle playing out here at home with control of congress at stake. john: president biden on his way to upstate new york at this hour to push manufacturing jobs. with 12 days to go before the midterms, it s all about the economy. here is the president before takeoff. great economic report today, the gdp report. things are looking good. sandra: clearly not all americans agree with that statement, with inflation leading voters top concerns, now democrats are sending out their top guns in hopes for a midterm miracle. president biden s former boss, barack obama, kicking off his campaign travels, stumping for democrats in key battleground states. he starts his midterm swing in georgia tomorrow before heading to pennsylvania to campaign for candidate john fetterman. john: and that s not all. the vice president making an appearance in pennsylvania on friday. kellyanne conway is standing by to react to th
we want to get to the september jobs report. the unemployment rate dropped to 3.5%. what does this mean for future interest rate hikes? meanwhile, the markets are reacting, the dow down around 400 points and it comes as americans face a convergence of economic pressures from rising prices at the gas pump, rent and mortgage rates up, and inflation burning a hole in our wallets. we could hear from president biden as he heads to maryland. we ll watch to see if he stops to comment on this report. with me now brian cheung, josh letterman, also joins us, host of public radio s full disclosure and politico chief chief correspondent. the biggest jobs gains were in leisure, hospitality, health care. i think the big takeway is that the labor market still appears to be chugging along. americans have options out there. with the unemployment rate a 3.5%, by the way, multidecade lows on that front, you re not seeing the traditional recessionary dynamics in this labor market where you
a potential nuclear armageddon with russia. what his staff is saying this afternoon, as we take you live to the white house and to moss couple of i m hallie jackson in washington and with me now is nbc news correspondent josh lederman traveling with the president in hagerstown, maryland. tom costello and global markets reporter with us, too. we saw the big board red, not green like we ve seen earlier this week. talk about why investors are so spooked here. hallie, a number of top advisers telling me interest rates are heading even higher and wall street wanted to seat job wanting to see the job market start to cool and average hourly earnings increasing, and the chair fed has reiterated in the past in order to get inflation down, the job market needs to cool and until it does, interest rates will head even higher a rising rate environment has been challenging for the stock market. that is why the dow is down over 600 points right now. and for companies that increase their
keep coming. willie? yeah. start in florida, though, this hour, mika. millions of residents are bracing for hurricane ian as that powerful storm barrels towards the state getting stronger by the hour. just this morning it became a category 4 hurricane expected to make landfall in the southwest coast of florida as early as this afternoon. the center of the storm forecast to move over the central past of the state with winds reaching more than 130 miles per hour. the national hurricane center also warning of dangerous storm surge and flooding with up to 18 inches of rain expected in some areas. more than 2.5 million people under evacuation orders along parts of coastal florida. the powerful storm passed the florida keys last night causing a couple of tornadoes and some damage there. officials say there also is significant flooding across that area. yesterday the hurricane battered western cuba knocking outing the island s electrical grid, causing a nation-wide blackout. offic