good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, we told you so. the economy is doing a lot better. today, the third month in a row of frankly really good job numbers. today s jobs report shows the u.s. added 227,000 jobs last month, and more people felt optimistic enough to actually get back into the labor force. that s why the unemployment rate held firm. now, everyone is increasingly optimistic about the jobs picture in america, something we at outfront have been saying for month. our strike team said there wouldn t be a double-dip recession last month, and after the december jobs report, we were all excited when we said this could be president obama s morning in america moment. that was ronald reagan s theme for his victorious 1984 re-election campaign, and last month after the strong january jobs report, we said it again. and we re glad all of the talk about the double-dip is gone, but we re realists and the problem is there are real problems out there. wage
ago, when he actually led in florida. and a week ago we thought newt was going to be the guy. not looking good. the ups and downs. but the vetting is good, i guess. also this morning, embarrassment for a pilot at denver s international airport. so how did a southwest airlines jet clip a light pole just outside the terminal? it led to a hassle for passengers and a big investigation for the cockpit crew. so many investigations of incidents at airports for the last year or so, which is kind of scary what goes on there. also later this half hour, a medical technician in dallas wanted to test an mri machine. so he asked his best friend to get scanned to see if everything was working okay. what they discovered purely by accident led to a medical miracle. a wonderful, wonderful story this morning. a very lucky best friend. mm-hmm. but first, after a hard-charging day on the campaign trail, mitt romney seemed to ease up last night, even breaking into america the beautiful befor
this morning on world news now, get some sleep. that s the federal government s order now to airline pilots. the new rules follow a deadly commuter jet crash blamed on the cockpit crew s fatigue. it s thursday, december 22nd. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning. i m rob nelson. and i m sunny hostin. before we get to the news, we have news of our own this morning. we had a little holiday staff party in the office tonight. we wanted to wear some swag tonight. which is very cool. finally, i ve been asking for this for my 18 monds on the
some pretty deep ties with the white house? and why is it that the company with deep ties to the white house, the company that just got a big contract for a drug that s not been proven yet, why is it going to make an 85% profit on its government contract? coming up we re going to talk with a member of the company s board of directors, a familiar face here at cnn. we first got wind of this story in the los angeles times but since then have learned a lot more. investigator drew griffin is keeping them honest. reporter: it s just another good business deal for billionaire investor and big-time democratic political supporter, ron perlman. this major political contributor to both parties but particular friend of the obama white house owns the controlling shares in a company called siga technologies, and siga this year won a sweet $432 million no-bid contract from the u.s. department of health and human services that even a democrat says is a little bit too sweet to ignore. h
that s the perfect song for this. great song pick. we now turn to the latest on alec baldwin s airplane rant that upset american airlines and many of the passengers, as well. the 30 rock star has now apologized to those who were on the plane with him. he still has no love for any airline. here is abc s dan harris. reporter: the ongoing war between alec baldwin and american airlines started when baldwin, still on board, tweeted that he had been reamed by a flight attendant for playing the scrabble-style video game with a friend, even though the plane was still parked. american said baldwin not only refused to shut down his phone, stormed into the bathroom, slamming the door so hard the cockpit crew heard it and was