Join us to explain a little bit later. Thats some real money. Yeah. Lets start with the jobs report and the latest out of washington. Another busy day there. Steve lease man is there at cnbc headquarters and eamon javers is at the white house. The president s team taking strong for the 235,000 jobs added in february even though it came just a month into the trump presidency. Reporter i think it was a perfect number. Right exactly where it needed to be. Our jobs plan and our Jobs Creation and bringing jobs back to america is going exactly the way wed like it to go. When i was on a month ago we talked about bringing jobs back. I think this number reaffirms everything that were trying to do. No matter who was responsible, it was a very positive report. Unemployment falling to 4. 7 and it was helped by some temporary factors, for example, warmer weather but showing good underlying strength and payrolls. Heres where the jobs were, construction up 58,000 along with leisure and hospitality. T
Future. Now becky quick. We begin with distracted driving. The number of deaths from Car Accidents in the United States has hit its highest level since 2007, and the reasons range from higher speed limits to drunk driving. But there may be one other big factor. Phil lebow has more. Driving in america has become deadlier. The National Safety council estimates more than 40,000 people died in car a accidents last year, the most since 2007. It caps the steepest twoyear rise in auto fatalities since 1964. Some is because drivers are going faster as states raise speed limits, while distracted driving remains a huge problem. Ironically, highway deaths are rising even as new technologies like lane Departure Warning systems are becoming more common. But the National Safety council says some of the new systems are being ignored by drivers. There are happen tick warning, oral warning, visual warning. Some of these warning are confusing to drivers and some of them are the functionality is really n
Since after election day. Our road map begins with the big jobs number. The monthly job report come in under expectations. What now . And the u. S. Launches an air strike on syria. Trump and chinese president xi continue to meet at maralago. Well take you live there for the latest. Weighing in on the payroll number, retailers were a big part of this slashing 30,000 jobs last month in addition to the month before. Construction adding the fewest jobs in seven months. We did see an increase in average hourly earnings, jim, but its the worst two months for retail since december of 09. We can figure out why. Yeah. This is what you call a secular trend. This is not something thats going to come back. I think that what you had was that you had a weak you had a weak Holiday Season for bricks and mortar. It got weaker. Jpmorgan they do incredible analysis of the mall and its down double digit traffic. You cant sustain your stores in bad malls anymore. And all of the retailers in the malls are k
If you agree, 2027488000. If you disagree, 2027488001. Join the conversation on twitter and facebook. Phone lines are open. Lets listen to what the president had to say yesterday when he visited the Treasury Department. He talked to the cameras and this is what he had to say about the debate over using the term radical islam. [video clip] president friends on the other e of the aisle have made to criticize this administration and me for not using the phrase radical islam. That is the key, they tell us. Unless webeat isil call them radical islamists. What exactly would using this label accomplish . What exactly would it change . Would it make isil less committed to try to kill americans . Would it bring in more allies . Is there a military strategy served by this . The answer is, none of the above. Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away. Distraction. Itical ive been clear about how extremist groups have perverted islam. I have called on our muslim friends and alli
Great example of that is western brands traffic lets give you a live look now on six sixty four when around portsmouth boulevard fury or southbound lanes making their way in the direction of our military highway maybe eventually opted hours hill and northbound traffic there had maybe eventually to the monitor merrimack moving very well this morning with no big issues are major delays to report i do now though when i head over to our second camera and take a look at the berkeley break so we just had a lift a few minutes ago that happened in cleared the traffic is moving but then the camera kind of zoomed in all this activity right here. Not sure just yet this is a breakdown or accident. A simple pullover design of the road do not know just yet. They do a chat with police and find out right now something to watch out for the jubilee does the eastbound side of the Brooklyn Bridge headed toward city hall and tidewater drive saw give you an update here in just a little bit. Were also checki