This is Aljazeera America. Good morning live from new york city im randall pinkston. At least 12 are missing this morning as flooding pounds the South Central u. S. Five have been killed. The governor of texas declared a 37 county disaster area. Flash floods and tornado watches are in effect in texas arkansas oklahoma, louisiana and missouri. In austin, texas rescue teams evacuated people overnight because of rapidly rising water. 12 people are missing from two families between austin and san antonio, vacationing when their house was swept away. Houston was under a flood emergency for the first time. The city got an unprecedented downpour of six to 10 inches of rain. People waking up for work and school in the houston area have been advised not to leave their homes. Officials want people off the roads, because many are impassable and dangerous. Harris county Officials Say conditions are even potentially life threatening. More than 80,000 people are without power. Many across the accide
This is real money. You are the most important part of the show, so tell me whats on your mind by tweeting me at ali velshi or hit me up on facebook. This is all about location. I usually bring you new national job numbers that the government puts out every month, but the Labor Department also compiles figures at the state and local level. Today we got new job figures for 372 metropolitan areas all across mark for april. Now while we reported earlier this month that the National Unemployment ratedont look at this. The National Unemployment rate fell to 6. 3 . But we learned that it was lower than that at 5th 9 . Thats versus the National Rate of 6. 3 . Which ever you use, the story is the same. Jobs are coming back and unemployment levels are going down. But where youre looking for a job matters. Look at these areas in red. These are locations with a local jobless rates are higher than the average for all metropolitan areas in the United States. As you can see in big urban centers in t
This is real money. You are the most important part of the show, so tell me whats on your mind by tweeting me at ali velshi or hit me up on facebook. This is all about location. I usually bring you new national job numbers that the government puts out every month, but the Labor Department also compiles figures at the state and local level. Today we got new job figures for 372 metropolitan areas all across mark for april. Now while we reported earlier this month that the National Unemployment ratedont look at this. The National Unemployment rate fell to 6. 3 . But we learned that it was lower than that at 5th 9 . Thats versus the National Rate of 6. 3 . Which ever you use, the story is the same. Jobs are coming back and unemployment levels are going down. But where youre looking for a job matters. Look at these areas in red. These are locations with a local jobless rates are higher than the average for all metropolitan areas in the United States. As you can see in big urban centers in t
This is real money. You are the most important part of the show, so tell me whats on your mind by tweeting me at ali velshi or hit me up on facebook. This is all about location. I usually bring you new national job numbers that the government puts out every month, but the Labor Department also compiles figures at the state and local level. Today we got new job figures for 372 metropolitan areas all across mark for april. Now while we reported earlier this month that the National Unemployment ratedont look at this. The National Unemployment rate fell to 6. 3 . But we learned that it was lower than that at 5th 9 . Thats versus the National Rate of 6. 3 . Which ever you use, the story is the same. Jobs are coming back and unemployment levels are going down. But where youre looking for a job matters. Look at these areas in red. These are locations with a local jobless rates are higher than the average for all metropolitan areas in the United States. As you can see in big urban centers in t
This is real money. Hit me up on facebook. Com ali velshi. Its all about location. We usually bring you new national job numbers, that the government puts out every month. But the Labor Department also compiles figures at the state and local levels and this week we got new job figures for 372 metropolitan areas, all across america, for april. While we reported earlier this month that the National Unemployment rate, were going to make that real small because we think this is not as revolt t relevantto the conversation, fell, which ever number you use, 5. 9 or 6. 3, jobs are coming back, unemployments going down but where youre looking for a job matters. Take a look at these metro areas marked in red. These are locations where local jobless rates were larger. Big urban centers in the northeast. Chicago, new york it will places like that. The great lakes and southern california, had local rates that came in higher than the others. Los angeles metro had a local jobless rate of 7 compared t