let s get straight to the news. we have a busy hour ahead. captions by vitac www.vitac.com the government says another 227,000 jobs were added to the u.s. economy in february and the unemployment rate held steady at 8.3%. that s largely due to almost half a million discouraged job seekers returning to the search. is the third straight month of job growth, above 200,000. chief business correspondent ali velshi is taking notice, of course. he s in austin, texas, at the music oh, boy. he s at the music, movie, festival, technology, all that stuff, south by southwest, kind of threw me off with the cowboy hat, but i should have expected that because he s in austin. do you have your rope and boots on and your wranglers also? could you please give me a full shot? kyra, i want you to think back to g-8, and i don t remember when it was when i was in the south of france. and i put on a i had blue speedos on tv for you so don t ask me what i m wearing below here. it s not view
brandon, have you been surprised at the rallying support that you ve gotten since this went viral, of the attention that s been focused on this from the atlanta mayor, the atlanta police department? it s nice to know that you have so many people willing to help find these guys that did this is very surprising. you never know how much support you have until it s actually there. brandon, we wish you the best, we hope they are caught, we hope they are prosecuted. but we do appreciate you having the confidence to come forward and talk to us today. a young girl is home safe now because of some very quick thinking and some swift kicking. a man out on parole tried to abduct a 7-year-old girl from georgia. thomas woods grabbed this girl from a toy section. the girl freed herself by kicking the suspect.
divorce in the hospital with cancer. mr. gingrich said and i m quoting him, the media doesn t do an accurate job of reporting. isn t he s tacking the media because we reported with accuracy and you included his serial adultery and his wife s addiction to jewelry? yes, i did a little of that. the reporting that is. yes, i mean newt gingrich has found that this will be the strategy in the debate. he doesn t have a lot of money. his candidacy is all about doing well in the debates. if you look at it, he has gone after an attack on the moderator. even when the moderator was attacking the news and that had the effect of rallying support to him. jonathan is right, it s a process of elimination. it s funny that we are talking about a three-man race. herman and newt gingrich are two
yesterday rallying support for joe paterno. just a few minutes ago it was announced by pa attorney they in fact he decided to resign. he issued a statement, part of it said. i will read it. we can bring on the screen. i decided to announce my retirement effective end of the season. they have far more important matters to address. i want to make this as easy for them as i possibly can. and to give a little context to that, the board of trustees had a telephonic meeting yesterday. they issued a statement saying on friday when they meet, as you mentioned the governor will be with them, they are going to form this special committee. this special committee will try to investigate and determine what went wrong here, who needs to be held accountable. the special committee wants to make sure this type of tragedy does not happen again on campus. many people here are calling for the head of the university president, graham spanier. they say he must be held accountable. he had a great deal of inf
a hospital spokesperson says he is now recovering and is expected to be released on sunday. no further details are being given. he served as secretary of state under presidents richard nixon and gerald ford. gregg: health care drama on capitol hill is nearing the final act. nancy pelosi rallying support for the democratic reform bill and expressing optimism it can pass in her chamber within the next ten days. can she deliver the votes she needs? joining us now, new york post bureau chief, charlie, you say republicans are powerless to stop this, really? oh, absolutely. if democrats really want to railroad this thing through which what it appears, if i can believe what they are saying that is what they plan to do. republicans are going to sit on