Out, 227,000 jobs created last month and a hiring surge thats much bigger than expected. Cnn chief Business Correspondent Christine Romans is here to break it down for us. Good morning. Starting on a strong note with hiring 227,000 new jobs in january. That is a Strong Performance and continuing a strong pace we have seen over the past few months. You can see january is the strongest weve seen since the summer. Here is the job gains, retail, 46,000 jobs there. In construction, for the year about 170,000 construction jobs added. Theres a lot of residential building. Theres business groundbreaking as well. In business, these tend to be higher paid jobs. Were talking about lawyers, people who work in information technology. Computer systems designer. Every month i see a lot of job creation in that category. When we look at the unemployment rate, you can see how dramatically it has fallen from those terrible days of 10 after the financial crisis, now sitting there at 4. 8 . Carol, this is