about balloons in your entire life? now! yeah. i m a big balloon in those, yes i will frequently send people bouquets a balloons, because a leveller, but i do not think i would be talking this much about balloons on primetime television. well your fatten for the top i came across! so i appreciate that. i know more about balloons than i did an hour ago. [laughter] thank you very much. alex see an. expect you to rally. all right, remember when we said that corporations are people? yeah, no! you know who our people? people are people! workers are people! people who need jobs to pay rent, to buy food, to get diapers. and tonight, three years after commit a nosedive, that people are able to find jobs to do all those things again. here s today s blockbuster jobs report for january: 517,000 net new jobs were created. i ve been in the business for a long time. i ve covered the economy. that s a lot of jobs! that s nearly triple the number of drives that economists p
i did an hour ago. [laughter] thank you very much alex, see you next week. you too, ali. all right, remember when we said that corporations are people? yeah, no! you know who our people? people are people! workers are people! people who need jobs to pay rent, to buy food, to get diapers. and tonight, three years after commit a nosedive, that people are able to find jobs to do all those things again. here s today s blockbuster jobs report for january: 517,000 net new jobs were created. i ve been in the business for a long time. i ve covered the economy. that s a lot of jobs! that s nearly triple the number of drives that economists protected and it far outpaces the average monthly job growth through a solid 2022. on top of that, the borough of labor cities is part of the department of labor, they really stated today that show the job growth for nearly every month in the past year was stronger than originally estimated meeting hundreds of thousands more jobs were create
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and the latest on what china is saying about that balloon hovering over the u.s. and president biden is going to speak following a new jobs report that smashed expectations. 517,000 jobs added in january and nearly three times the forecast. we will bring you reaction live. and a life-threatening deep freeze headed to the northeast, and millions are bracing for once-in-a-generation sub-zero temperatures. china is confirming that the balloon floating over to the u.s. is theirs, and it is not a spy balloon as the pentagon says, but it is a civilian airship used for research are the words of the foreign ministry, and it is said to be the size of three buses. china says it accidentally drifted off course. and the sources says that china cannot manually control it, but how did it get there in the first place? the continental u.s. is a big target. yes, what happens next is the big question. the pentagon says it is not a military or physical threat to the people on the ground
floating above the continental united states, and we don t know what data it s collecting. you can see it right there on your screen and it s visable to people on the ground in montana. at least it has been since wednesday. today beijing confirmed it is theirs, claiming it is a, quote, unquote, civilian research air ship that went off course, but minutes ago, the pentagon flatly rejected that claim, calling it a surveillance balloon. secretary of state antony blinken s upcoming trip to china has now been postponed. the pro vocative move is inflaming a u.s.-china relationship already on the brink with tensions over everything from taiwan to tiktok. cnn s natasha bertrand is here to break it all down for us. natasha, there is so much to talk about here. so let s start at the beginning. what do we know about this balloon? yeah. so here, just to get a sense for the scale of this thing, this is the balloon, and what we know about it is that it is the size of about three busses.