got to do more. this is a sad time in america when people who want work can t find jobs. this is a time when america wants to have someone who knows what it takes to create jobs and get people working again. joining me now, cnbc s chief washington correspondent. i ll start with you here, john. we saw it with mitt romney and with the headlines i read. i went through dozens of them and depending on maybe your point of view, you saw these numbers as good and some as hopeful and some plain out bad. i think the white house regards them as disappointing. they would like more robust job growth than that. there is some question as to whether some of the job growth that might have occurred in march and april had been shifted by the warm weather in january and february, but be that as it may, to bring this unemployment rate down more rapidly, the administration needs a more robust level of job growth. i talked the other day to the former chairman of the president s economic advis
it might be a break through for the man who was so vocal for stopping forced sterilization in china. now the government says he can apply to study abroad like any other citizen. a new report shows the unemployment rate fell last month, but we re not celebrating so fast. the number of jobs created was less than expected. the jobless rate fell because workers dropped out of the labor force. the rate dipped to 8.1%. employers added 115,000 jobs. you re going to go live to the new york stock exchange to see how wall street is reacting. and gilbert, arizona, this is near phoenix. this house, a horrible, horrible crime scene. police believe the man shot and killed four people there, including his girlfriend and their 15-month-old granddaughter. they say the man, j.t. ready, then killed himself. he s an admitted white supremacist who organized a private citizen militia to patrol the mexican border. he allegedly kept ties to neo-nazi groups. shagging a fly ball. mare ya na had
point of view, you saw these numbers as good and some as hopeful and some plain out bad. i think the white house regards them as disappointing. they would like more robust job growth than that. there is some question as to whether some of the job growth that might have occurred in march and april had been shifted by the warm weather in january and february, but be that as it may, to bring this unemployment rate down more rapidly, the administration needs a more robust level of job growth. i talked the other day to the former chairman of the president s economic advisers. i think there is a significant chance that we re going to have another spring time disappointment as we had in 2010 and 2011. the dow is down 157 points. we say wall street is reacting to this, as you clarified, the white house calling it disappointing but the president saying a long road to go but pointing to some of the optimism in the numbers that he sees. well, look. the stock market has been follow
of the secret service prostitution scandal goes public with lurid new details. sh he says the scandal has ruined her life too. we begin with today s much anticipated update on the economic recovery. the numbers say the recovery is still alive but barely. the unemployment rate ticked down to 8.1%. mostly because thousands of people left the labor force. employers added 115,000 new jobs in april. tens of thousands fewer than most experts predicted. any way you or the presidential candidates look at it, the numbers could be better. there are still a lot of folks out of work, which means that we have to do more. if we are going to recover all the jobs lost during the recession and if we are going to build a secure economy that strengthens the middle class, we are going to have to do more. anything over 8%, near 8%, anything over 4% is not cause for celebration. this is a sad time in america when people who want work can t find jobs. all right. our chief business correspon
that appearing in virginia. temperatures are mild. we are in the 60s, shenandoah valley across virginia, southern maryland to near the bay. farther north across the rest of maryland, in the low 60s to dipped into the 50s in a few places out into west virginia. most of the area, mild. we have patchy ground fog that should be dissipating over the next hour or so. by 9:00, temperatures with a mostly sunny sky should be into the mid 70s. a delightful morning. and then by noontime for your degrees. and we ll have just a few clouds popping up. then after that, that s when we could have some strong thunderstorms developing by late afternoon. in fact, some of those storms could be severe with damaging winds and hail. we ll drop from the mid 80s to near 80 by sunset which today is at 8:04. a look at the friday evening planner in ten minutes. danella? good morning, good news if you re taking metro. delays on the orange lion look to be gone. to the roadway orange line look to be