wafts one up. reaches back over the defender. hits him in the chest. a couple tips before he reels this one in. stayed with it all the way. great catch by nixon right there. eli took it 200 yards, a couple touchdowns. the giants, it was ugly but they won, 28-16. he was okay, underthrew a lot of balls last night. they didn t play it very well. they got lucky. not getting better. but i love eli. i love the school he went to. i love his family. but unlike peyton eli is not improving every year. he won t be the dominic quarterback peyton manning was. he s good and won a super bowl. let s talk baseball. i know you re trying to filibuster your way out of this. the thing is no. here s the thing about the manning. i remember seeing r.t. manning. tj, what are you doing here buddy? okay. let s go to game two.
in the first quarter, the giants jumped out to an early lead after muffing a punt. rams really did not do themselves any favors last night. turning the ball over twice, including a lateral pass bouncing out of the hands of cadillac williams. he gave up on it, thought it was incomplete. see what he did there at the end? come on. throws the ball right in the face of the poor guy doing his job. few minutes later, time running down in the half. eli manning, look at that catch by dominic hixon. that s an unbelievable one-handed grab. could have givenup on it right there. reaches back. tip, tip, reeled in. great catch. eli threw for 200 yards and a couple touchdowns. giants beat the rams. wasn t pretty, but they got the win. giants have to put it together a little bit better now because they re going to play the eagles in philadelphia this week. to baseball, the red sox trying
newsroom starts with the handsome t.j. holmes. i hope erin burnett knows she is getting a great bartender there. kelly takes this seriously and made great drinks for you when i was up there with you guys a couple of weeks. you all do your 9:00 thing. i know exactly where y all are going there in the time warner center. good to see you all! thanks so much, guys. all right. top of the hour here now. i am t.j. holmes today in for kyra phillips. this hour, unfortunately, we have to begin with the latest bad sign that this economy in this country is stalled. you ve been hearing about it for some time now and we have more information that confirms it. just minutes ago we learned that there were no jobs created last month. the new jobs report came out so this means that the unemployment rate holding steady at 9.1%. this is another sobering development that underscores the deepening concerns about this economy and concerns you re hearing a lot about a double dip recession. let
official that he will be unveiling his job plan when congress returns in september. they return early september after labor day. a senior administration official billing this as a major speech and telling us that this is likely to be a mix of tax cuts, of infrastructure spending, and something to address those that are the long-term unemployed. the thing to consider, kyra, all of those things laid out there are items republicans are flatly opposed to or opposed to the way in which the white house and democrats so far have said they want to execute those issues. in the meantime, we are three hours away from the president coming here to this hybrid corn seed warehouse in atkinson, illinois, where he is going to be draefg a croaddressing a cro already lining up to get inside to ask him questions in this town hall meeting. this will be his first it would have today in what we are expecting to be probably a largely friendly crowd here today. kyra? well, our wolf blitzer also had
congresswoman gabrielle giffords internal throwing out the pitch. the parents of the little girl murdered that day were there. they presented the lineup card to the umpires. there is something to play for now. how did jeter do? you ll hear in a second. bottom of the second, toronto os jose batista. i m sure the gm didn t like seeing that. sliding. great catch by batista. scoreless in the first inning. doing it for the fans. adrian gonzalez for the red sox. a.l. goes up, 1-0. batista trying to score from second. guns him down at the plate.