connections to the civil rights icon. he was an anti-apartheid activist and every week for almost 30 years he went behind the prison walls to visit the man who would become south africa s first black president. cedric, thanks for joining us. share with our viewers some of the memories that you have, memories of your cousin, the support you gave him during the decades that he spent behind bars. well, thank you, wolf. i followed madiba, nelson mandela s life from the early 60s when i was a student at the university. and actually, i want to turn first to another relative, my uncle, harold hanson was a prominent trial lawyer in south africa and part of mandela s team at the trial of the the trials. and he actually gave the plea
0 tac www.vitac.com good morning to you. i m carol costello. thank you for joining me for this special edition of cnn newsroom as we remember the life and legacy of nelson mandela. first breaking news in the last hour, brand new jobs report is out with the lowest unemployment rate in five years. we ll tell you how the markets and the white house are responding this morning. also an arctic blast, this is dallas, where the mercury has dropped 50 degrees in just the last 24 hours. colossal ice storm putting on the freeze from texas to tennessee. and in johannesburg, remembering the man who went from prisoner to president, we ll have the latest on funeral plans for the anti-apartheid icon, nelson mandela. first to that breaking news on the economy, americans are getting back to work, 203,000 jobs were added to payrolls in november, and the unemployment rate ticked two notches lower to 7%. that s the lowest unemployment rate in five years. our chief business correspondent christin