we begin this hour with the latest jobs numbers. they are providing ammunition in the battle for the white house. the labor department says 114,000 jobs were created in september with the unemployment rate coming in at 7.8%, that s a drop of 0.3 from august. the obama and romney campaign jumped on these figures and, of course, they came down on opposite sides. cnn political editor paul steinhauser joining us this morning. good morning, paul. so there s one month, hard to believe, till election day, and no issue bigger than jobs, right? no doubt about that, randi, and you re right. after what you could consider a tough week for the president coming out of that debate in denver the jobs numbers are a good sign for his re-election bid, a happy sign for the re-election team, but for mitt romney this is fascinating, landi, because the unemployment rate is below 8% for the first time since barack obama came into the white house back in january of 2009. you have heard mitt romney
the tar heels today. summer lingers down and across the tar heel state. 80 degrees at kickoff, at 12:30 this afternoon. more of your college football forecast coming up. back to you. thanks. later today a massive demonstrations expected in maryland in support of the dream act. hundreds are set to march in support of the law which would help undocumented immigrants afford higher education. news 4 s derrick ward is live at langley park where the rally is going to begin and has more on today s none administration. reporter: good morning. i m going to borrow from the words of john lennon. you may see they are dreamers but they are not the only one. a thousand people plan to take part in a march today in the name of justice, dignity, and access to higher education. the maryland dream act provides in state tuition rates to maryland s immigrant children regardless of their immigration status provided they ve been living in maryland for three years, attending high school in the