Lets kick it up with what everyone is talking about and what else could be on the first friday of the month . Big upside surprise, 200 88,000 jobs traded last month and the Unemployment Rate drops to 6. 3 , the lowest since september of 2008. Impressive, those are good numbers. The most new jobs added to payrolls since january of 2012. Is that good news . The headline number is good but the details are not quite as good. Thats why we see the markets back off a little bit from their initial excitement. It is a tale of two surveys. The Establishment Survey is very good, to went 80,000 jobs this is the weather, its over and we are coming back on that but then you look at the household survey, it measures how many people were employed. We lost jobs, 73,000 jobs in the household survey. Which one is correct . Or more leave the labor force which drives the on employment rate down. If things were getting that much better, why arent people coming into the labor force . The discouraged workers
This morning, Raffaele Sollecito, who was convicted alongside knox, joins us for a live interview only on today. And nbc news exclusive. Michelle knight, one of the brave cleveland survivors on moving forward one year after her daring escape and the big decision shes made about the future. I felt like every brandnew start needs new beginnings. Today friday, may 2nd, 2014. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Happy, happy, happy friday. Im savannah guthrie. And im willie geist in this morning in for matt along with Natalie Morales and carson daly. Al is at Churchill Downs in louisville getting ready for tomorrows Kentucky Derby. We will hear from al in a minute. You can probably hear the shrieks all the way down there, because in memphis, tennessee, the royals are there. Princes william and harry, theyre in town in memphis for the wedding of a good buddy of theirs. They were out last nig
The administrations nsa spying policy. Germany and the United States not able to reach an agreement on that issue. Our top story today, the white house perhaps would like to go away, benghazi. Especially after yesterday. For americans who heroically served the nation lost their lives and now were learning House Republicans will announce the formation of a select committee to investigate the attack that the explosion bombshell email that i was talking about this began last week showing a coordinated effort by senior white house aides to place blame for the attack on an internet video. All this leading to a Testy Exchange between our own bret baier and one of the aides who had a hand in the infamous talking points and had one outrageous answer. Watch. Did you also change the tax . May be, i dont remember. This was like two years ago. The thing everybody is talking about. Were talking about editing talking points. Your producers edit scripts multiple times. Dude. You know what, this was a