that does it for us on this friday morning, ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. happy friday. so glad you are with us. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and it may be friday, but there s still a lot of news this morning, including big economic shifts. we just got the april jobs report, and instead of the decline economists expected, unemployment numbers ticked down. the unemployment rate is 3.4%. jobs were added, many more than expected. that is some good news, but with interest rate hikes, banking turmoil, layoffs, and store closures, how do you assess the state of the u.s. economy? former new orleans mayor mitch landrieu who s also a senior adviser to president biden will join us. plus, a judge could hand down a record sentence for a january 6th rioter today. how long that defendant could spend behind bars. and we re following reaction to the historic verdicts against members of the proud boys. what does it all reveal about the
hello and thanks for being with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we re now into day four in the manhunt for a suspected mass killer. the search growing more urgent by the hour as false alarms turn up empty. and today new questions about the police response to the shooting. what a survivor of that attack is telling nbc news about the terror that unfolded and five desperate calls reportedly made to 911. plus, zero visibility, look at this. a sudden blinding dust storm engulfing a highway, causing a deadly chain reaction crash. also developing overnight, hollywood writers trying to write their own ending, now on strike for the first time in 15 years. the ripple effects you could see if this strike lasts weeks or even months. if this lasts a couple of months, we ll start to see the impact on the fall tv schedule and some movies will have to be pushed back. and june 1st, mark your calendar, that s how soon the country could default on its debt,
so what is dhs secretary mayorkas doing during his visit there? happening as we speak. to convince folks the government has things under control. and the gunman accused of shooting five people in atlanta is expected in court later today less than 24 hours after he was captured, why the police chief says technology was key to making the arrest. we are going to start, though, with the breaking news, four members of the right wing militia group the proud boys have been found guilty of rare seditious conspiracy charges, all of them now facing the possibility of spending up to 50 years behind bars. this is just a partial verdict. the jury was considering more than 40 counts against the five defendants, and is yet to decide several of them including a seditious conspiracy charge against the fifth man, dominick pizzola. i want to go ahead and bring in nbc s ryan reilly outside the courthouse in washington, carol lamb is a former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, and ma
branches. should supreme court justices be held to the same standard as any and all other public servants? the senate judiciary committee held a hearing on the ethical standards or lack thereof for supreme court justices a topic that has come up in light of new reporting on repeated failures by justices to disclose details of lavish vacations, travel, gifts, even real estate transactions, testifying on behalf of democrats, a former federal judge and group of legal experts, guests invited by republicans included a former attorney general. more notable than who testified was who did not. chief justice john roberts declined an invitation from the committee, something dick durbin brought up at the start of today s hearing. in his letter last week the chief justice sent a statement of ethics principles and practices. it was a document that was attacheded to his letter. it is an extraordinary document. not in a good way. it makes clear while the justices are fine with consulting
you president trump. the former president poses as mike pence opens up. they are already to witness one mike pence and suggests to me that they are pretty late in the game. tonight, is what make pence already wrote in his book enough for jack smith? then, the brazen move by the state supreme court to seize political power in north carolina. in portland, seattle, and chicago all those breaking loose new york. and an unbelievable twist in one of the fox news scare stories about big city crime. so how is san francisco doing? the real story foxwood tell you about the san francisco fire commissioner attacked by a homeless man. he was just minding his own business, but outside of his mom s house, he got whacked in the head. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes, mike pence spent seven hours testifying before special counsel jack smith yesterday in a grand jury. you see his suv leaving on the left side of the screen, on the right sid