Good morning. 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart. We begin this hour with breaking news, a brandnew Jobs Report beating expectations. The government reporting employers added 254,000 jobs in september, thats well above the 150,000 predicted by most economists. The Unemployment Rate fell slightly to 4. 1 . And when you break it down by race, both the black and hispanic Unemployment Rates fell by. 4 last month. There you see the drop. This report comes hours after Port Workers and Port Operators along the East And Gulf coasts reached a tentative deal to end a strike that began on tuesday. That walkout threatened to bring chaos at the start of the holiday shopping season. With us now, cnbcs dominic chu. Dom, good morning. This was a strong Jobs Report. What else did we learn from it . Good morning, jose. Yes, it stands in stark contrast, this Jobs Report, what we saw the previous month, which got read as a very big at least disappointment. What we did note beyond
New pictures of a massive strike in beirut. Tonight, the explosion lighting up the night sky here in these hours of the morning, all happening as israeli strike against iran appears to be imminent. Now we do have full team coverage here in tel aviv first though, of course you just watched the vice president kamala harris are wrapping up a rally with former republican congresswoman liz cheney cheney making a forceful argument for harris, a formal endorsement, which you just watched lasting former president trump. She says that quote, our republic faces a threat. Unlike any we have faced before. Tonight s rally coming in a county famous for being the birthplace of the republican party. In fact, donald trump won the county where you just saw liz cheney and kamala harris by 26 points in each of the last elections but tonight, it is clear harris and cheney see an opening 33 days to actual election day. Here s what we just heard from liz cheney, her message to republicans there is not an oun
Line 24 7 until a deal is reach. Businesses fear the strike will crush their livelihoods. Kamala harris says she supports it and the Union Boss making 900,000 a year. Carley and getting attention from federal government after being devastated by hurricane helene. Biden administrations it is running out of money. We are expecting another hurricane hitting, we do not have the funds, fema does not have funds to make it through the season. Carley what about the millions of dollars spent on shelters for migrants. Todd excellent question. Former President Trump lashing out after new filing for jack Smiths Election Case was unsealed. Why he says this is Election Interference as ballots are already being cast. Youre watch ing Fox And Friens first, im todd piro. Carley im carley shimkus. Lets go to doug luzader. Douglas this will hit us in the pocketbook. Union is not afraid to make explicit threats about the impact to the economy. Shutting down 36 ports. The New York Times reports Port Authori
11 00 here in los angeles. This is americas late News Fox News At Night. Breaking tonight we are 59 minutes away from by all accounts what could be a crippling strike by Port Workers along the east on the Gulf Coasd become the most disruptive strike to the u. S. Economy in decades. Potentially costing 5 Billion a day with very few indications that a deal might happen in the next hour. The pro Union President does not seem all of that bothered. When you intervene in a strike and they go on strike as you said . No. Trace not it is the secretary of commerce. Where have you been focused. Hearing what would happen if the strike goes on longer than a week . Again. I have not been very focused on that. If you wanted to have me back as Commerce Secretary later in the week maybe we could talk about that. But as i said i have not been particularly involved. Trace in the meantime much of the self is reeling from the devastating effects of Hurricane Helene. Vice president harris heading west to Sa
Look at Jd Vance which is like less than two years as a senator, never held public office before that other than his time in public service, all he has done his work for the sky, peter teal. And then, you also just dive in and look at the stuff he said on tape and who he says he gets his political ideas from and what his political ideas are and you realize he brings nothing to the table really i mean, aside from sheer political skill, he brings nothing to the table other than his commitment to some deeply weird stuff that is completeness to the american people, and totally off the charts bizarre in terms of modern politics and radicalism and i just have not known what to do with that for a very long time. I still dont know what to do with it, but its there. And, i appreciate, by the way, you stated when you were talking about it, reluctance to even bring it up because do we want to give this Stuff Air . Do we want to make that Guy Famous was actually guiding Jd Vances thinking, which i