Elst month, the fifth straight monthly gain of more than 200,000 sending cents an hour. With the p. M. July 4th holiday,clos a new rec 17,068. The nasdaq closing at a 14year new alltime high for the index. We have two reports tonight. Bob tells us about the dow reaching the 17,000 mark, and what it means for investors and the begin withr look at the june jobs report. Reporter junes robust employment gains are the latest evidence of a j market gaining stveraged 272,000 three months andained 2. Llun w spread with profe retail trade, h rs and h care with manufacturing all tndce day, presidenobam point. We just got a jobs report today showing tha seen the job growth in the United States in the first half of the year since 1999. [ applause ] so this is also the first time weve seen five consecutive months of job growth over 200,000 since 1999. [ applause ] and weve seen the quickest drop in unemployment in 30 years. The Unemployment Rate now at 6. 1 is the lowest since the 2008 financial cr
New congress, best access. A look of some the top economic stories of 2015. From washington journal, this is 40 minutes. Washington journal continues. Host roben farzad is a talkshow host. Where can people hear you on the radio . Guest on some cloud, on twitter radio, and wrir. Host we want to talk about gas prices now down. The stock market continues to reach more highs. What can we expect in 2015 . Guest who wouldve thought when we are so low in 2008 2009, people said oil will never fall below 100 per barrel. People thought the United States would never look comparatively well vis a vis other markets. Here we are, the most desired stock market. Host what does this mean long term . Especially as far as gas prices, many expected to stay low. Guest no one really expected this gusher of shell oil to come out of the midwest. North dakota is bigger than the smallest member of opec ecuador. Who would have thought. Host what does this mean for the keystone debate . Guest if youre flooding th
Was the Unemployment Rate for African Americans when Obama Took Office . What is it now . What has the Democratic Party done to help since then . Also, you are telling me that the Unemployed People that we have in this country are too damn dumb to do the jobs that are being required. We need an educated foreigners coming into this country to do the jobs that dumb Unemployed People are too stupid to do today. I do not understand your theory of thought. Guest i cannot quote the exact Unemployment Rate. I think it was about 16 and maybe at 9 now. This goes back to my bigger point how things are phrased. If you look at a lot of the work that undocumented immigrants are doing. When it comes to dishwashers in restaurants, migrant farmworkers literally these are jobs that people in this country do not want to do. It is not a question of smartness, dominance, anything like that it is just too is willing to do the jobs. People are not coming here just to hang out. Theyre coming to work so that
Delaware and south jersey. Were seeing those showers finally taper off. Just a few rain drops now in southern central delaware connot county heading towards Cape May County but most of the rain is done and the temperatures are falling. 30s right now in pottstown, allentown and trenton, while its in the low 40s in northeast philadelphia Philadelphia International and wilmington. Theyll stay there for the next several hours as the clouds thin out during the morning hours. That will leave us with partly sunny skies this afternoon with temperatures warming up a bit. By noontime, 43 degrees. It will be dry. But Colder Weather is on the way. Ive got your hourbyhour forecast in ten minutes. Right now, lets check in with jillian mele, nbc 10 first alert traffic reporter. Jillian . Good morning to you, bill. To you at home as well. 76 off to a good start this morning. We had longterm construction westbound side, Spring Garden street offramp is closed but its not slowing anything down. This is 7
Miles per hour. Its going to feel like 20 degrees. And for the rest of today the temperatures will warm into the low 30s for 9 00 a. M. By noon 33 degrees. By 4 00 38 and cold out there. The sevenday forecast coming up. Skyforce 10 continues to follow breaking news in Burlington County. Weve been on the scene for more than an hour now. This is a fouralarm fire burning strong at a commercial building in mt. Holly. Firefighters have gotten control over this in the past few minutes. Weve been watching the flames grow smaller and the smoke grow more intense. Weve been following the story. The fire has been burning for three hours as crews try to get an upper hand there. Nbc10s katy zachry is gathering information for us. Katy, what can you tell us about the fire . Reporter hi chris. Im going to step out of the way and tell you what building this is. I talked to fire officials they tell me this large commercial building burning on the 200 block of mt. Holman street its a company that makes