spirit airlines is finally making things right for a dying veteran. is it too little too late in the damage has already been done for spirit airlines. we report, you decide. fox & friends begins right now. good morning, everybody. it s very festive day here. it s cinco de mayo and derby day wrapped into one which, to me, leaves the viewer with a big question today. do you go margarita, can you pair the two? if you do i promise you may 6th will be a miserable day. [ laughter ] you got to choose one or the other, brother. i love the margarita. not so much. i like the festive drink nature. you wouldn t choose that as a beverage? not if i m just going out. however on derby day. sugar? what s not to love. i can be persuaded pretty easily. i do love mint julip. at the end of this show one of us is going in a margarita dunk tank. it s whoever loses the. this dress cannot handle being soaked in margarita. that s why they want it. coming up later out on t
good evening. this is the day we take the pulse of jobs and employment in america and the pulse was weaker than predicted. employers added 115,000 jobs last month. the unemployment rate did drop a notch to 8.1%. but as we said, those numbers were a disappointment. and so far, less than half of the jobs lost in the recession have come back. we wanted to know why. and tonight, abc s dan harris takes a look at the big picture on the american economy. reporter: behind the numbers today, real people like leslie and john, both looking for work. our partners at yahoo have been following their stories. how can i not find a job? i m obviously failing at finding a job. and that makes me angry, because i m not a failure. i sold all these houses. reporter: leslie lost her job as a real estate agent in 2008. she s been living off of her retirement savings. i think i could survive, you know, six months, maybe, without a job. then i sell everything i own. and yeah, it s scary. r
reporter: according to court records bunny melon funneled more than $700,000 to edwards aide. the prosecution asked huffman whether his friend melon was aware of the $2,300 individual campaign contribution limit peri hrebgs cycle to which huffman replied, quote, she thought it was a little low. jon. jon: thanks jonathan. harris: fox news alert the u.s. state department con teurpling it has just received a new application from transcanada regarding that keystone pipeline. that is the cross border pipeline that would stretch from canada to our gulf coast. this new application pertains to a proposed pipeline from canada to nebraska, it includes the idea of new routes through that state designed to avoid environmentally sensitive areas. the same environmental concerns helped sink an earlier key poepb xl pipeline application. we ll update you as the news
any call for to help me get someone to make shoes, because my doctors have written many letters stating that it would be a lot cheaper to make choose that would fit his body than to keep having surgeries. bill: what kind of a challenge has that guy gone through throughout his life? he s 29, suffers from a pa pew tear reissue. moved to minnesota when he was seven to undergo treatment. let s hope reebok makes a match for that guy. 22. martha: let s go to the edwards case now folks where the interior designer is now the center of this trial in john edwards corruption case. his name is brian huffman, he s back on the stand. he s explaining his role in funneling nearly $800,000 to john edwards campaign. he worked for the reclusive millionaire bunny melon.
campaign finance laws? because that s the legality that they re fighting. let s bring in, now, former federal prosecutor fred tecce and criminal defense attorney jennifer. i want to start with you, fred. i ve read she s 101 years old, she s got a lot of information. do you put her on the stand? you know, it s interesting. not only does she have a lot of information, you know, she was taking steps to cover this up. i mean, quite frankly, technically, she probably should have been sitting next to john at the defense table. she knew very well this wasn t in fact, she wanted huffman to send cash in to further hide it. so as a prosecutor, she was a big edwards supporter, i m not sure i d put her on the witness stand. harris: it just sort of smacks of did she get taken advantage of, and that s an image you probably don t want for the defense, jennifer. i think the issue is bunny