Welcome to today, on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill. Happy groundhog day. Does it feel like weve been here before, once or twice . A live picture from punxsutawney, pennsylvania, where, of course, the most famous resident is Punxsutawney Phil. Later we will find out whether he is predicting six more weeks of winter or perhaps an early spring. There are people in both camps. Keep your fingers crossed for whichever one youre hoping for. I wouldnt pack away the longjohns yet. Not a weather guy, but thats my thought. And regardless of the season, theres always a party in new orleans. Super bowl weekend is no exception. Jenna wolf is down there. Whats going on in the big easy . Reporter guys, theres so much going on down here. This city knows how to do it right. This will be the 10th time theyve hosted. The First Time Since katrina. Theyve done a terrific job for getting ready for the tens of thousands that are converging on new orleans for the food and music which, ive f
Bowl on sunday. Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. Late today the stock market crossed over something of a mythic mark of the modern era and the Dow Jones Industrials closed above 14,000 for the First Time Since 2007. And we all remember what happened back then. The stock market has been on a tear of late, gaining almost 7 so far this year. S p and nasdaq also up. We started the day by learning the Unemployment Rate had inched up to 7. 9 again, while the economy actually added 157,000 jobs, not as many as hoped for or expected. Nbcs tom costello starts us off in our washington newsroom tonight with what all of this mighmean. Tom, good evening. Hi, brian. The good news, anyone with retirement money invested in stocks has made back much of what they lost during the Great Recession and the wall street selloff, about 8 trillion. A big rally on wall street today, with the dow back over 14,000. A
Today, suddaturday, february 2, in the middle of it all. Today, suddaturday, february 2, 2013. Captions paid for by Nbcuniversal Television welcome to today, on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill. Happy groundhog day. Does it feel like weve been here before, once or twice . A live picture from punxsutawney, pennsylvania, where, of course, the most famous resident is Punxsutawney Phil. Later we will find out whether he is predicting six more weeks of winter or perhaps an early spring. There are people in both camps. Keep your fingers crossed for whichever one youre hoping for. I wouldnt pack away the longjohns yet. Not a weather guy, but thats my thought. And regardless of the season, theres always a party in new orleans. Super bowl weekend is no exception. Jenna wolf is down there. Whats going on in the big easy . Reporter guys, theres so much going on down here. This city knows how to do it right. This will be the 10th time theyve hosted. The First Time Since katrina. T
160 new jobs at two new hardware stores. 80 of the people we saw were had been out of work for three months to up to two years. Reporter julie ober has been out of work for 16 months. My last job was front desk at a Pain Management company. And just i actually got sick. And couldnt be there any longer. Reporter nationwide, some 12 million americans are still out of work. 7. 9 unemployment simply not good enough. With that, wages dont rise. Older folks dont see enough stock market gains to retire. And theres not enough new jobs for young people leaving school. Reporter while the jobs picture has been slowly improving, its been a different story on wall street. After bottoming out four years ago, the dow has since climbed 111 . Cnbcs bob pisani has seen a mood shift on wall street. The economy is slowly improving. Its not fast enough for a lot of people, unemployment is too high. But some of the key Economic Indicators are definitely getting better. Reporter whats going right for the eco