here in the cnn newsroom i m fredricka whitfield in new york , and today s jobs report revealed a slight cool down in the labor market. employers added 236,000 jobs last month, the figure that missed economists expectations and sit significantly below the number we saw the last two months. the unemployment rate, meantime, dropped to 3.5% a new cnn poll found half of americans say their personal financial situation is worse than it was a year ago. and the president of the nation s largest bank exclusively, telling cnn that the threat of a recession still looms following the recent banking crisis. has this banking crisis even though you think it s almost over which i m really glad to hear, though. increased chances of a recession here. yes. but i look at like it s not definitive. it s just like another weight on the scale . people say it s like raising rates, another 50 basis points or something like that. we are seeing people reduce lending a little bit. cut back a little bit.
rick reichmuth on if the weather will be holding up. americans get to take to the road and the skies, but not without some trouble along the way. to los angeles, we ll find christina coleman at l.a.x. christina? hi, neil. fortunately there s been no reports of any massive flight cancellations on delays today. good news, because it was a much different story during the winter break. air travel days ahead leading in to easter weekend matched prepandemic levels with many people taking to the skies or hitting the roads during spring break. the f.a.a. forecast more than 51,000 flights for today. those numbers are expected to drop slightly tomorrow. then increase by a little more than 6,000 between saturday and tuesday. many passengers told me that they felt confident that they would get to their destinations on time. were you worried about delays? no. i had no problems whatsoever. i was worried about it but didn t happen. we had built in time to prepare for that. just ca
Reporter you were talking about tests up at the top. I can tell you theres one other test right now for the courts, that is to find a fair and impartial jury. 65 Perspective Jurors were ushered into the court on the ninth floor of the courthouse in virginia. The judge first describing the charges against Paul Manafort to them, including bank fraud, conspiracy and failure to report offshore bank accounts. Of course, thats where theyre going to fight this case out over the next two or three weeks. After doing that, he began what is traditional for any judge, and that is to question the jurors about whether they know any of the attorneys in the case, introducing all the attorneys and the defendant Paul Manafort to them. Then essentially trying to get at a question of whether any associations these jurors might have would affect their ability
to reach a fair and impartial verdict in this case. Of course, no one responded affirmatively. They have moved on to private and personal questioning
attack or a random attack at a community meeting last night, they tried to dispel some of those fears that community members or having take a listen. our homicide investigators are working tirelessly on this case and unfortunately, there s a lot going on. there is evidence that we found that i can t. talk about because we don t want to. jeopardize this case. and i know that s really hard for people because they want to know this is a very high profile incident. i m confident that we re going to have a good resolution to this case and city leaders and police certainly recognize san francisco has its fair share of problems between homelessness, property crime, according to fbi data from 2020. the property crime rate here is three times that of new york city, but they point to data around the murder rate. they say that it is far lower than some other large cities. they also say that
extended his trip to visit with friends. his murder has brought attention to the crime in the city. at a community meeting last night focusing on public safety, bill scott hinted that an arrest could come soon. he said the department is getting good developments in this case as the mayor and da promised to hold those responsible accountable. neil? neil: thanks, claudia. meantime, if you re noticing a pattern of crimes being committed in areas where we didn t see them that often in the past, you re not imagining it. just consider this. this is not the first attack in an affluent area. remember eleanor bowles. she was stabbed to death in december in a well they atlanta suburb that didn t seem much crime after the assailant tried to steal her car.