Labor department shows that the number of americans filing applications for Unemployment Benefits unexpectedly declined last week to levels not seen since november of 1973. So thats a more than 42year low. Add to that a jobless rate at an eightyear low. More people looking for work, a healthy outlook from economists, and most say the labor market is in good shape. But despite the solid numbers, theres still a lot of angst among american workers. This campaign is sending a message to Corporate America you cannot have it all reporter you hear it almost every day on the campaign trail. Is anybody working up here . We got to change this. Its terrible. Reporter you can see it and hear it if the streets. What do we want . Reporter protests, calls to raise the minimum wage, improve health benefits, or today in washington, d. C. , it was about protecting pension benefits for retirees. All that frustration, though, would seem to belie our economic data. Last weeks initial claims for state Unemp
For ourselves wont solve the problems. Sitting around with ghetto pity parties, rather than organizing and strategizing and putting our differences aside. Yes, we got young and old. Yes, we got things we dont like about each other but bigger than our egos, bigger than who shot john. We need everybody because i going to tell you i dont care how much money you got, i dont care what position you hold. I dont care how much education you got. If we cant protect a child, walking down the street in ferguson, and protect him and bring justice, all you got, dont matter to nobody but you. We are required to leave here today and change things. Michael brown must be remembered for more than disturbances. He must be remembered for this is when they started changing what was going on. Oh yeah, there have been other times in history that became seminal moments. And this is one of those moments. That this young man for some reason has appealed to all of us that weve got to solve this and not continue
President ial light. Ill bring you my report as i host meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press. Good morning, im chris jansing. The pressure is mounting to authorize more military action including air strikes in syria to defeat isis. Top u. S. Officials are escalating the rhetoric about the threat posed by the group. Issuing a bulletin warning of attacks by isis sympathizers. And Intelligence Services on both sides of the atlantic are getting closer to identifying the jihadist with a british accent who executed the american journalist james foley. Keir simmons joins us from london where hes been hearing firsthand. Good morning. Good morning. The intelligence agencies view this as not just a hunt for the killer of james foley, but as a race to save the life of a second american hostage threatened with death by isis. Its made more difficult because that gruesome video has been edited. There appear to be two knives. And the tape may have been dubbed. They are c
Good evening. It came in the wee hours of this morning, a damaging earthquake stronger than anything felt in the San Francisco bay area in almost 25 years. The 6. 0 quake was centered near napa in the heart of californias wine country. It was felt for hundreds of miles. Buckling roads, knocking out power, igniting fires, damaging homes and businesses and sending scores of people to hospitals. California governor jerry brown declared state of emergency for the region and president obama received an Early Morning briefing on the quake. We begin our coverage in heaard hit napa. Joe fryar is there. Joe . Reporter good evening, lester. In all, 16 buildings are damaged so severely no one is allowed inside of them. Some of worst destruction you can see is right here in Historic Downtown napa. Today, there have been after as shaking and very, very, very loud. And it seemed like it went on and on and on and on. Like it wasnt real. Because it was just so incredibly violent. The 6. 0 magnitude ea
President ial light. Ill bring you my report as i host meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press. Good morning, im chris jansing. The pressure is mounting to authorize more military action including air strikes in syria to defeat isis. Top u. S. Officials are escalating the rhetoric about the threat posed by the group. Issuing a bulletin warning of attacks by isis sympathizers. And Intelligence Services on both sides of the atlantic are getting closer to identifying the jihadist with a british accent who executed the american journalist james foley. Keir simmons joins us from london where hes been hearing firsthand. Good morning. Good morning. The intelligence agencies view this as not just a hunt for the killer of james foley, but as a race to save the life of a second american hostage threatened with death by isis. Its made more difficult because that gruesome video has been edited. There appear to be two knives. And the tape may have been dubbed. They are c