if you paid any attention to the u.s. jobs report at any point over the last three years, there s a good chance you ve heard the phrase, better than expected. you ve probably heard it again over the last few days following the latest job in december. 216,000 new jobs were created. much better than expected for cnbc. back in the old days, weeks 150,000 or more jobs created in one month was good. there are now 100 one point 42 open positions for every job seeker in america. well every available job is not matched every available job seeker, mathematically, america has more jobs than it has available workers. that s just the fact. december s 2100is not anomaly either. that s largely been the trend of the biden presidency since the office in 2021. you can find similar headlines about better than expected numbers for june 2021, january 2022, june 2022, september 2023, for example. this has been one of the top achievements of the biden presidency. it shows that he s been able to
appreciate your company. coming up on i do cnn newsroom, close put no white smoke. that s how one republican describes negotiations on the u.s. debt ceiling. ukraine assessing the damage after one of russia s deadliest attacks in recent days targets a hospital. people flocking to a u.s. monastery where a nun s body appears to show no signs of decay nearly four years after she died . a flurry of activity on capitol hill as the white house and republicans race to finalize a deal to raise the u.s. borrowing limit, called the debt ceiling, and avert financial catastrophe. a person familiar with the negotiations tells cnn they re hoping to announce an agreement perhaps as soon as saturday. jeremy diamond is at the white house with more on where things stand. reporter: as the white house and republican lawmakers continue negotiating on friday over a potential deal to raise the debt ceiling and cap spending, president biden on friday sounding downright optimistic about th
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the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with the deadly outbreak of tornadoes that ripped across much of the south and midwest beginning yesterday afternoon. just over the last few hours, the death toll has more than doubled. 21 people are now confirmed killed by the storms and all more than 50. tornadoes have been reported in seven states, at least 12 of those tornadoes. were reported in arkansas state of emergency is in place in the hardest hit areas, including when the devastated arkansas town that you re seeing right there. cnn s derek van dam is with the latest from arkansas. jim. i was just talking to my crew a moment ago , and the scene behind us reminds us of being on the set of a major blockbuster movie. i mean, just look at what we have with this destruction coming out of wynne, arkansas, that is a church steeple that was blown off by this tornado. look at the incredible damage in front of that building just in front of us here. we have el
good afternoon. i heard that karine jean-pierre, the spokes woman at the white house says she doesn t know what title 42 will look like when it lifts may 11th. let me help and give you an idea. we re here at ground zero at camp monument in brownsville. there s over 2,000 migrants a day coming to this location. nearly 15,000 in the week i ve been here. they re getting better at screening, processing and transporting these migrants out. that is the problem that we re dealing with now. this is the calm before the storm. it s already overwhelming agents on the ground. let me show you also some of the humanitarian crisis. we can show you video. the migrants are in the water on flotation devices. many struggling with trying to deal with the river. some of them can t swim. that s why you have border patrol agents along with texas dps and texas national guard down on the river literally saving lives around the clock as well. we talk though to some brownsville residents, neil. the