feeling a lot better today. a) has been monitoring his progress since he was admitted a longtime friend has been monitoring his progress since h was admitted to the hospital. he is as feisty as ever. he would like to be out of here, but he knows he is getting good care. we keep telling him you have to do this, you have to do that, so he finally cooperates. his career spans more than 50 years, including two terms as governor and the state s 32nd controller. he was responsible for the revitalization of the inner harbor. a statue still stands in his honor. when you are 89 years old, you have to make sure that the new money is gone. i expect it will be here for a couple of days. there is no official word from a hospital on when he could be released. news of his hospitalization comes the day after we learned that baseball legend robinson was also taken to hospital. in a statement issued today, robinson says doctors are hopeful he will be infection free by the end of
nervously. reporter: we re live as william s grandmother, the queen, pays him a visit at work william s grandmother, the queen, pays him a visit at work today, friday, april 1, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. welcome to today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer. i m ann curry in for meredith. good morning and happy you know, april fool s day. right. but it looks like mother nature is feeling like she s playing a joke on us. it s beginning to look a little bit like christmas in parts of the northeast. we have been having below normal temperatures. now you re looking you will look at the falling snow in concord, new hampshire. by tonight up to a foot of snow. maybe more possible in areas of new england. on the other coast, los angeles set a record of 92 degrees on thursday. we re going to have the latest on the forecast coming up. also this morning, one woman s cosmetic surgery horror story. she sued her surgeon after a pr
offensive does continue. the rebels are more organized by the day, not any coordinated military effort. still very unskilled. but they do seem to be at least trying to get better. they have radios now, they re getting some what appear to be new weapons. and for the second day in a row, they are not retreating from the front line, but holding their ground. richard engel, nbc news, benghazi. one man in fairfax county has been watching the fighting in libya very closely, and now he has gone to help. a former general who defected to the u.s. after a fallout with gadhafi is now back in libya to help lead the rebel forces and take on his former boss. jane watrel in fairfax county now with more on this story. jane? reporter: jim, he is one of dozens libyan-americans who have returned to their native country to fight against moammar gadhafi. the new opposition leader is in his late 60s. friends say he returned to libya out of a deep sense of responsibility to his homeland. and
reporter: for carlos reyes, now looking for work, the jump in jobs means a boost to his confidence. in california, they said that we raised more than 100,000 jobs last month, so my hopes are going up. reporter: nationwide, the government reports a net 216,000 jobs added in march. unemployment fell to 8.8%. at a visit to a u.p.s. facility outside washington, president obama packaged it this way. that makes 1.8 million private sector jobs created in the last 13 months. and the unemployment rate has now fallen a full point in the last four months. reporter: he acknowledged a lot of work to be done. and while the private sector grew jobs, it was a tough month for the government, and some fear just the start. we have not seen the real job cuts that are going to happen in state and local government. this will be the worst year ever. reporter: house speaker john boehner blamed democrats for creating economic uncertainty, and laid out his plan for growth. we need to c
queen, pays him a visit at work william s grandmother, the queen, pays him a visit at work today, friday, april 1, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. welcome to today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer. i m ann curry in for meredith. good morning and happy you know, april fool s day. right. but it looks like mother nature is feeling like she s playing a joke on us. it s beginning to look a little bit like christmas in parts of the northeast. we have been having below normal temperatures. now you re looking you will look at the falling snow in concord, new hampshire. by tonight up to a foot of snow. maybe more possible in areas of new england. on the other coast, los angeles set a record of 92 degrees on thursday. we re going to have the latest on the forecast coming up. also this morning, one woman s cosmetic surgery horror story. she sued her surgeon after a procedure left her unable to blink or close her eyes all the way,