captioning sponsored by wpbt susie: good evening, everyone. tom, american businesses are hiring again. they added 243,000 jobs in january, way above expectations. the unemployment rate fell to 8.3% the lowest in three years. that s a big drop from 8.5% percent in december. tom: decent numbers. susie, this is good news for out-of-work americans, for the economy and for investors. stocks rallied strongly on that jobs report. the dow surged 156 points, closing at its best level since may of 2008. the nasdaq jumped almost 46 points, and the s&p added almost 20 points. susie: today s employment report is the strongest signal that the u.s. economy is improving. now everyone from wall street to main street is hoping it s for real. darren gersh reports. reporter: the best news in the december employment report is the trend. from a low of 112,000 in october, job growth has been steadily moving higher. the average of the last three months comes in at a healthy 200,000 jobs a m
nightly business report is made possible by: captioning sponsored by wpbt susie: good evening, everyone. tom, american businesses are hiring again. they added 243,000 jobs in january, way above expectations. the unemployment rate fell to 8.3% the lowest in three years. that s a big drop from 8.5% percent in december. tom: decent numbers. susie, this is good news for out-of-work americans, for the economy and for investors. stocks rallied strongly on that jobs report. the dow surged 156 points, closing at its best level since may of 2008. the nasdaq jumped almost 46 points, and the s&p added almost 20 points. susie: today s employment report is the strongest signal that the u.s. economy is improving. now everyone from wall street to main street is hoping it s for real. darren gersh reports. reporter: the best news in the december employment report is the trend. from a low of 112,000 in october, job growth has been steadily moving higher. the average of the last thre
background. john? i feel like mathew broderick when he comes out and says, it s over. what are you still doing here? go home! really, go home. it s over. you know? i haven t seen anything this slim in all of my time covering these caucuses. 8 votes separating the two of them. i am a little confused that matt strawn said with 270 precincts there was one in clinton county that didn t come in. did he misspeak? 30,015 for mitt romney and 30,007 for rick santorum. it doesn t get much closer than that. and you could say there are bragging rights out of the iowa, saying i won. but there is real significance, mitt romney has such a lead in new hampshire, if he goes on to win the new hampshire primary on tuesday, he would be the first
background. john? i feel like mathew broderick when he comes out and says, it s over. what are you still doing here? go home! really, go home. it s over. you know? i haven t seen anything this slim in all of my time covering these caucuses. 8 votes separating the two of them. i am a little confused that matt strawn said with 270 precincts there was one in clinton county that didn t come in. did he misspeak? 30,015 for mitt romney and 30,007 for rick santorum. it doesn t get much closer than that. and you could say there are bragging rights out of the iowa, saying i won. but there is real significance, mitt romney has such a lead in new hampshire, if he goes on to win the new hampshire primary on tuesday, he would be the first
there are people in the background. john? i feel like mathew broderick when he comes out and says, it s over. what are you still doing here? go home! really, go home. it s over. you know? i haven t seen anything this slim in all of my time covering these caucuses. 8 votes separating the two of them. i am a little confused that matt strawn said with 270 precincts there was one in clinton county that didn t come in. did he misspeak? 30,015 for mitt romney and 30,007 for rick santorum. it doesn t get much closer than that. and you could say there are bragging rights out of the iowa, saying i won. but there is real significance, mitt romney has such a lead in new hampshire, if he goes on to win the new hampshire primary on tuesday, he would be the first