captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. i m amy robach. that photo has a lot of people talking this morning. the mom is lashing out at other parents in a blog. that blog has now gone viral. we ll talk to her coming up. some think other kids would have teased him. it s other mothers questions her. it opens up a big discussion. that new jobs report is a reality check for washington and all of us. the numbers showed thousands of new jobs were added to the payroll in october, another report on unemployment is sure to add more concern about our struggling economy. we ll take a closer look at the important figures coming up in just a moment. also this morning, it has happened again. a mysterious gunman is targeting military facilities in the d.c. area. authorities are now trying to track down the unknown suspect before another attack. this morning, we re going to talk to another fbi p
captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. the first friday of the month means the monthly jobs report, which is watched anxiously by so many americans these days struggling in what s become the most challenging labor market in decades. today s numbers came in better than the experts were expecting. employers added 151,000 jobs to their payrolls in october. but the unemployment rate remains there steady at 9.6%. it s not a gangbusters number to report, but it brought some sense of relief, at least to the president and his team any way at the end of a brutal political week in this country. our chief white house correspondent chuck todd starts us off from washington tonight. good evening. reporter: just three days after the president and the democrats faced a drumming at the polls, where 6 in 10 voters said the economy was the number one issue, the government reported the best jobs growth numbers in six months. minutes before leaving the country for a ten-d
story about the peace corps and what happened next. nightly news begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. the first friday of the month means the monthly jobs report, which is watched anxiously by so many americans these days struggling in what s become the most challenging labor market in decades. today s numbers came in better than expected. employers added 151,000 jobs to their payrolls in october. but the unemployment rate remains there steady at 9.6%. it s not a gang busters number to report, but it brought some sense of relief, at least to the president and his team any way at the end of a brute call political week in this country. chuck todd starts us off from washington tonight. good evening. reporter: just three days after the president and the democrats faced a drumming at the polls, where 6 in 10 voters said the economy was the number one issue, the government reported the best jobs growth numbers in six moments. minutes before
good evening. the first friday of the mont means the monthly jobs report, which is watched anxiously by so many americans these days struggling in what s become the most challenging labor markein decades. today s numbers came in better than the eerts were expecting. employers add 151,0 jobs to their payrolls in october. but the unemployment rate remains there steady at 9.6%. it s not a gangbusters number to report, but it brought some sense of relief, at least to the president and his team any way at the end of a brutal political week in this country, our chief white house correspondent chuck todd starts us off from washington tonight. good evening. reporter: just three days after the president and the democrats faced a drumming at the polls, where 6 in 10 voters said the economy was the number onissue, the government reported the bt jobs growth numbers in six months. minutes before leaving the country for a ten-day trip to asia, the president called the new jobs report in