today in. good morning. doing fine. we ll be hook at sunshine later on today. temperatures not too bad. let s get start wade look at our hd radar. we do have a few showers out to the west. not going to amount to much. you might see a sprinkle in western portions of virginia. the rest of us, kind of a mix of clouds appear sun as the sun gets up this morning. i think the cloud deck will have a tendency to burn off and we ll be in for partly sunny conditions this afternoon and seasonal temperatures back into the 80s. right now at reagan national, 74 degrees. that is the warm spot still holding on to the heat. the forecast for today calling for afternoon sunshine, high temperatures in the mid- to upper 80s. a few spots will touch 90. 88 here in washington. not a bad day. thank you very much. let s check in with julie wright and say good morning to her. i know that tucker barnes is not sitting there commenting on somebody else s dance moves. i will say that to both days
we need to create a self-sustaining cycle where people are spending and companies are hiring and our economy is growing. shannon: stu varney joining us from the fox business network. stu, i mean, the numbers could have been worse. should we be celebrating? reporter: now, that is a very good question. the question that everybody s asking is, are we on the brink of another recession? what is the real health and the state of america s economy? this jobs report was supposed to give us some indication. and when it came out at 8:30 eastern time this morning, there was some relief. yes, the unemployment rate went down to 9.1% and, yes, we created 117,000 new jobs in that month. but then you start the dig a little deeper into the numbers, and it emerges: 193,000 people just dropped out of the work force, no longer counted. weren t even looking for a job. that s why the unemployment rate came down. now dig even deeper, and you find that if you add all of these discouraged workers al
self-sustaining cycle where people are spending and companies are hiring and our economy is growing. shannon: stu varney joining us from the fox business network. stu, i mean, the numbers could have been worse. should we be celebrating? reporter: now, that is a very good question. the question that everybody s asking is, are we on the brink of another recession? what is the real health and the state of america s economy? this jobs report was supposed to give us some indication. and when it came out at 8:30 eastern time this morning, there was some relief. yes, the unemployment rate went down to 9.1% and, yes, we created 117,000 new jobs in that month. but then you start the dig a little deeper into the numbers, and it emerges: 193,000 people just dropped out of the work force, no longer counted. weren t even looking for a job. that s why the unemployment rate came down. now dig even deeper, and you find that if you add all of these discouraged workers along with part-time w
as expected. might have a few more sprinkles during the early morning hours. the rain has pushed off to east and as we pull out we ll see i don t want to say clearing skies because there is cloud cover out there but we ll begin the dry-out as the rain is pushed off to the east and northeast. right now reagan national reporting a temperature of 42 degrees. relative humidity is 96%. fairly misty and moist out there. winds out of the north at 5 miles per hour. your forecast for today, a lot of cloud cover. i do think there will be some rays of sun later this afternoon but our highs today above normal and that will begin to trend for the next several days. 57 for the high in frederick. 60 in washington. 62 in fredericksberg. that s a look at what is happening with the weather. now for an update on traffic with julie wright. still talking about the stalled tractor-trailer on the inner loop from maryland into virginia by way of the wilson bridge. this is where you ll find the s
is deep in many ways. reporter: on the ground, the search for survivors continues. the chief of the fairfax county search-and-rescue team called in to fox 5 morning news today from japan. how many people have you been able to come across and rescue? do you have any idea or count h we started the rescue operation yesterday and have not come across any live victims so far. we are still hopeful. reporter: and for many, hope is all that is left. the multilayer disaster, which might be uncomparable to any other in human history. and the latest on the nuclear plant itself, we re told about 70 workers are now struggling with this situation it s become a rapid cascade of problems. the workers, we were told, are around the clock in protective suits and are being rotated in and out to reduce the radiation exposure. and we know that japan is halfway around the world. is there any chance the radioactive particles can still contamination the contaminate the united states? it