In the past two months, it was revised upward. So it takes the last year average of jobs created at 180,000 a month, a much better number. And it comes in contrast to that contraction we saw in gdp in the fourth quarter. So calms people down a little bit about where this economy is headed. If we look over the trends that are going, and we look back over the Unemployment Rate, and we have from august to january, we can see where we have been going, and, you know, flirting, going down and in the right direction. But why are people looking at this and being optimistic about Something Big thats on the hill thats coming ahead of us . During periods of economic expansion, typically these numbers get revised upward as we go true a recovery. And thats whats been happening. Each month is being revised upward as december and november were. So now were seeing a likelihood this 157 can be revised upward as well. Were going in the right direction. The Unemployment Rate is always a bit of statistica
Zifs one of some republican senators who did not want that to go forward. I voted against it in subcommittee, and the reason i did was because the Bush Administration did not want that bill to go forward. The reason that they didnt is because they were involved in negotiations with the russians and the u. N. And Security Council members to put multilateral sae multilateral sanctions on them. Did you block a unanimous consent . Yes, thats right. Though the republican inquisition to little to reveal anything substantive about chuck hagel, defense secretary, the pink panther style sleuthing did reveal much about their feelings regarding barack obama, president. Of the many, many actually relevant items left largely off the table . Not one question about drones, despite the fact the u. S. Has carried out 362 drone strikes since 2004. Troop suicides, of which there were as many as 349 last year alone were mentioned twice. Rapes inside the military estimated at 19,000 per year got five passi
Interview. Also new information in the Jonbenet Ramsey case. Reports that a grand jury actually indicted john and patsy ramsey in connection with the death. Why did the prosecutor decline to try that case . We begin with that tragic nightclub fire in brazil. Mike taibbi has the latest. Mike, good morning. Good morning, savannah. It has been a dead lly combinatn in the past, a nightclub filled with revelers and pyrotechnics and few too ways to escape led to panic. In santa maria, it was packed with its usual saturday nightclub when, at 2 00 in the morning, disaster. A swiftmoving fire filled the Groundfloor Club with thick smoke. Witnesses said Club Security initially blocked several emergency exits, thinking p patrons were leaving without paying and that left only a few ways out. In the ensuing panic, some victims were trampled. Most died of smoke inhalation. Many witnesses told police this fire was triggered by the use of some incindiery device on stage. The band used fireworks and as
About details for the first time of her daughters death and the questions she still wrestles with every day. A candid conversation with Cissy Houston today, monday, january 28th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning, everyone. Im Savannah Guthrie. Just a terrible story out of brazil. That country is declaring three days of National Mourning now for the victims of that deadly nightclub fire as the investigation gets under way. Its a huge tragedy. Consider the loss of life. It was apparently started, that fire, by some kind of an onstage stunt. Some kind of pyrotechnic device, many victims under the age of 206789 this morning we have new details on that tragedy, including reports that the bar was well above its legal capacity at the time of the fire. Well get a live report on that, straight ahead. Also ahead, a cia off
Clinton. Its issues about email, about trustworthiness, about her time at state, the benghazi investigation. The only game in side on the democratic side. She needs competition. 50 reporters trailing her a day. She very well may be the next president of the United States but anyone that thinks this is a coronation and a runaway is terribly mistaken. As Hillary Clinton hits the road with a fundraising focus, the numbers in a new poll show some stubborn bumps in her road to the white house. Clinton is down in texas today, part of an epic fundraising schedule with at least 26 upcoming donor events in 13 states and the district of columbia. While clinton works the Campaign Cash register, it is clear that the increased scrutiny of running for office is taking its toll. In a new cnn orc poll just 42 say clinton is honest and trustworthy. 57 say that description does not apply. Jumping into the president ial pool has had a Chilling Effect on clintons favorability. After hitting a high of 69 a