Through sag after. Hello, everyone, i am Chris Jansing in for stephanie ruhle. Its friday, february 5th. What a week its been. Breaking news, the first jobs report of the Biden Administration is in, it shows modest job gains, 49,000, slightly fewer new jobs than expected. The Unemployment Rate came down to 6. 3 from last months 6. 7 . But, and this is important, both november and decembers jobs numbers were revised, painting a picture even worse than previously thought. Bottom line, the recovery may be stalling, and theres still a ton of economic pain thats devastating large parts of the country, nearly a year after the pandemic began. But help may be on the way after working through the night and into the Early Morning the Senate Just Passed a budget resolution, a critical step in getting a new relief bill through. The vote was 5150. All democrats on one side. All republicans on the other. Vice president harris casting the tie breaking vote for the very first time. Were going to hear
America. The impact far from over, the first Tropical Storm to hit california since 1939, when joe biden started his senate career, forecasters warned there could be catastrophic and lifethreatening flooding. We have people that are not experienced with this sport of weather phenomenon, i cant emphasize enough, we have portions of Southern California under a highrisk, a highrisk of flooding. These situations account for the huge, huge amount of the drownings and deaths that we see associated with Tropical Storms. Not a day at the beach, stay out of the water, a 5. 1 magnitude Earthquake Hit Southern California about 90 minutes ago. And there are reports of shaking and quaking in los angeles, Jonathan Hunt is live in santa monica. Reporter Kennedy We Felt that earthquake here pch in santa monica it happened the epicenter about 60 miles north of us, we could feel it here. Icing on the cake, as Tropical Storm hilary comes through. Were in about 10th hour of rain. Looking down the coast to
Administration is wavinging them in. Here is whats happening on a daily basis at key crossing points. Federal government releasing bus load after bus load of migrants to private organizations where they are being assisted with travel to cities and states across the country. Little fear of deportation when they cross that border, dana. Dana we want to take you to one of the flash points along the border. Bill melugin is in mission, texas. Good morning, bill. Good morning to you. The day before title 42 ended back in may dhs Secretary Mayokas held a Press Conference at the white house where he promised tougher consequences for any migrants caught crossing illegally after title 42 ended. Listen. I want to be very clear. Our borders are not open. People who cross our border unlawfully and without a legal basis to remain will be promptly processed and removed. Will be promptly processed and removed, he said. Thats not the reality of what were seeing on the ground here in the Rio Grande Vall
An economic obstruction. So youre not seeing such impact as were here for them any impact for us in more broadly in the region . Very broadly economic impact. We continue to believe that the growth of the apac region excluding china and japan will be 4. 3 up from 4. 0 , so an acceleration of growth in 202a. If you read the report of our Economics Team there is virtually no mention of the red sea as having an economic impact. Certainly it has a Supply Chain Impact in the sense that orders have to be placed earlier and transit times are longer. Its harder to forecast if the time between when you order and when you sell your goods is longer by two to four weeks. In general were not seeing a huge economic disruption in this region. How have they managed to accommodate this or navigate whats been happening over there and being able to mitigate it for the end consumer . The simple answer is capacity. During the pandemic, the ocean carriers ordered a lot of ships. They had a lot of cash on ha
Rahm emanuel about whats the u. S. Trying to accomplish. We begin this morning with the Devastating Hawaiin Wildfire S that ravaged maui. Police have identified three more victims. Nbcs tom llamas spoke with the family a 79yearold who was identified yesterday. Reporter remembering the man who for decades was the rhythm of lahaina. Music was the love of his life. Buddy jantoc spent life as a musician, touring country before settling down in his forever home of lahaina. Theyre sharing memories like this of uncle buddy playing weekend gigs at lahainas cannery mall. He was always smiling, always laughing. This as nbc news has reviewed a lawsuit accusing Hawaiian Electric of years of inaction and negligence, arguing it should have been planning to shut down Power Systems before the damaging winds hit. The Hawaiian Electric company declined to comment on the pending lawsuit. Nbcs Steve Patterson joins us this morning from maui. What more do we know about that suit and the investigation into