best news on the jobs front in years. today is an encouraging day. we learned the economy actually produced a substantial mum of jobs instead of losing a substantial number of jobs. we are beginning to turn the corner. reporter: 162 thousand how new u.s. jobs in march, highest jobs creation rate in three years. after the loss of more than 8 million jobs since 07. i think that this will mark the end of the job losses. reporter: the president took credit visiting a high-tech battery parks plan that hired more workers using funds from the stimulus plan. tough measures we took, measures that were necessary even though sometimes they were unpopular, have broken the slide. reporter: more americans went out looking for jobs so that the rate of unemployment remains 9. 7%. this was a jobs fair in savannah. millions of americans are still looking and republicans charge democrats set back the recovery with their win on health care. and pushed for financial reform. first a
government is worried, too. after seeing attacks most recently in moscow and plans for an attack in new york, the push is for increased security, better communication and maintenance. new york city has 4,000 cameras. but it was recently discovered almost half didn t work. few we talked to today seemed fazed. if they want to come up here, we re all in trouble. but i put my life in god s hands. i think we re taking it a little too far. air force one thing. since 9/11 there have been 125 deaths from aviation-related attacks. in the samente, terrorists have killed 2,500 people in several hundred attacks on surface transportation. one possible improvement? do random searches of people and only one city, new york city, does random searches of people entering the subway. riders argue that comes at a cost. when getting on a train feels more like a plane, they ll stop punching their tickets. if you beef up security, aren t you going to pay more? and the fares go up and the
lynnette charles is in for howard bernstein. get out there and enjoy it today. if you don t, you can enjoy it as you go into tomorrow as well. the temperatures this morning not too bad and we ll be lovely into this afternoon. we have temperatures coming in right around 50 into gaithersburg. good morning, rockville. you are coming in at 53 degrees. sterling 50s, reston coming in at 47. springfield around 51 degrees. if you are over into manassas, it s around 45 degrees. as we slide into the east, we re coming in at 42 in columbia. we are at 49 degrees into andrews. time now for a check of the traffic. good morning, angie. it s friday. reporter: i know, and it feels good! you know what? my traffic report right now is almost as beautiful as that forecast. overall, things are liking nice out there. 95 headed southbound problem free all the way up to the mixing bowl. and the inner loop and outer loop between the wilson bridge towards the american legions bridge is moving at
sadness and disbelief turn to anger and frustration two nights after the worst shooting in washington history. questions being raised about the failure in the system. i m doreen gentzler. i m jim vance. new details leading up to the mass shooting in washington, d.c. they tried to get two brothers off the street before the two deadly crimes which they are now charged. darcy spencer has our report. reporter: in the case of one of those brothers, there was a disagreement between police and prosecutors over the strength of their evidence. tonight some are criticizing the u.s. attorney s office. orlando carter is charged with murder in the drive-by shooting that left four people dead and several more injured in southeast tuesday night. carter would not have been on the streets if police had gotten a warrant they wanted to arrest him for another murder a week before. police say the u.s. attorney s office refused to issue the warrant for carter s arrest in the murder of jordan h
before he finally revealed would he really is. i actually had them believing me for a little while. they were into the workout. then i ripped off my warm-up and they saw you was a globetrotter p i gave them i gave them all free tickets. effect in the class was invited to the globetrotters game on april 10th. the team will play at the patriots center the same day. rocket rivers also got our own tony perkins in an april fool s traffic here yesterday on prank here yesterday on fox 5 morning news. good morning. it is friday, april 2nd, 2010. nice shot outside this morning. still early. thank you for being up early with us. i m gurvir dhindsa. i m steve chenevey. welcome to fox 5 morning news. tony perkins with us. you might have wanted the bucket of water instead of the confetti to cool down. it will be a warm afternoon, i think, similar to yesterday. another very, very nice day on tap. not bad at all. let s jump right in. we have mostly clear skies this morning and