watch what you do and israel could be ready to strike iran s nuclear program by as early as this spring. mitt romney holding the trump card and the very poor, he s more than back-pedaling saying he misspoke. this one blew up. the feud between the cancer charity and planned parenthood. a top charity, susan g. komen charity, has executives starting to resign in protest because they pulled their funding from planned parenthood. women who are in need, the critics say, are being caught in the middle of this. you know the names, manning, madonna, who is she? who s feeling the pressure to perform big at the super bowl? i m kind of worried about madonna because she s nursing an injury. countdown to the big game is on, folks. what kind of danger does she have? we ll see. pulled hamstring injury. if you re wondering why we re wearing red it s important to know it is not a mistake, go red for women today. a lot of women are wearing red to remind women this is a very importan
let me give issue perspective. put aside the unemployment rate for a a while because there are lots of reasons why that s not the most effective way to look at this. the most effective way is job growth, the number of jobs lost or added in a given month. let s go back to january of 2011. you can see all through 2011, we gain jobs. off to a strong start and then we started talking about a double dip recession, issues in europe became more serious. our debt crisis became an issue, the debt ceiling debook kell that we had, the downgrade, all that happened in the late summer and companies were hesitant about hiring more people. but starting late summer and into the fall, we ve had strong growth. from october through january, it s been a steady trend upward culminating in january where we added 243,000 job, the vast majority private sector jobs. how does it affect the political landscape? republicans have been using president obama s job creation record against him. and jobs are
and boston. phil bratton on u.s. home security. plus political words of wisdom from an unlikely source. the man who brought you this? tv guide gave us a word four years ago. could do 50 shows in the history of television. but we re the worth show, it s an absurd show. he s also a fairly good junky and a former mayor. his 2 and 20-year good evening, tonight the holy trinity of modern america, god, politics and daytime television. first the heart of the matter, president obama talking faith and politics. many my moments of prayer, i m reminded that faith and values play an enormous role in motivating us to solve some of our most urgent problems and keeping us going when we suffer setbacks and opening our minds and our hearts to the needs of others. we can t leave our values at the door. if we leave our values at the door, we abandon much of the moral glue that has held our nation together for centuries. unusual religious candor there from the president. i want to ask
i m fredricka whitfield in for kyra phillips. we have a number of stories developing on this busy morning but we begin with your pocketbook. just minutes ago we learned the jobless rate has fallen to 8.3%. that s a pretty billing surprise seeing some economists expected it to tick up. let s get perspective from christine romans. what have you learned about how this number has gone down slightly? you know, the economy grew in january, and it grew jobs. it grew more jobs than anyone really thought. 243,000 jobs were created in january. the jobs growth, fredricka, was pretty widespread. in professional and business services, 70,000 jobs created. leisure, hospitality, health care again. but even manufacturing and health care jobs, those have been two bright spots the past couple of months. health care for maybe the past year or something. one thing that s interesting about these numbers is 243,000 jobs. we ve had a hard time having jobs growth like this and sustaining it. the
leon panetta has come to just that conclusion, there s a likelihood of an israeli strike. this surfaced in a column by the washington column. the news is breaking on a day that israel s defense minister warned that iran is building weapons under ground. in other words, a window of opportunity may be closing, and israeli forces could take action before it does. also today, senior israeli officials tell the new york times that the iranian guard are working on missiles that could reach the continental u.s. from iran. and also testimony that iran could answer growing pressure on it by attacks on american soil. this is playing out between u.s. war ships and gun boats in the strait of hormuz. it s also playing out on the diplomatic front with sanctions. the question, will israel give sanctions tyke to bite, and what will we do if they decide to act. there have also been a number of iranian nuclear scientists who have been assassinated in tay hahn by unknown assailants. first, the