independents, and hollywood paid tribute to dr. martin luther king and his great speech of course included a reference to lips dripping with interposition and nullification. and here we have it in real life terms in 2013, 50 years after the speech, 150 years after the emancipation proclamation. here we have a state inmore missouri which is a border state saying to hell with washington. nullify it. yeah, it s amazing that we sometimes seem to still be fighting the civil war, still be fighting and slogging through the civil rights era. if you look at the states, many of them that are involved in these kind of nullification efforts not just around guns, but also around obama care, you know, it s the southern states and of course the rural states up there into the high plains. and stuff too. it is extraordinary. and it s as if there is a certain segment of the population here, the political body who simply says federal government doesn t work. we ll have none of it, and we re going our o
you re talking about immigration and that really could seal that bill s fate in the fall. we ll see. we re waiting with bated breath as they say. dana bash, many thanks to you. let s look at your money now. a surprise jump for the american economy. we re still a long way from where we need to be, though. cnn business guru christine romans is in new york to break it all down for us. good morning, christine. good morning, carol. i would say we re crawling forward here. these economic numbers show we re crawling forward in the second quarter. economy growing at 1.7 annual rate and that s better, better than anyone thought it would, but look at the last three quarters and fourth quarter of last year, first quarter of this year and second quarter and that s still below potential. still below par. you want to see it growing more. one thing i ll say about the second quarter is that economists saying this economy is slogging through the worst of those federal budget cuts, the
optimistic. these monthly numbers tend to be volatile as we ve just learned. you talked about the revisions to february and march. they were revised up over 100,000 jobs. so when you and i were talking a month ago, we were a bit gloomy because of the 88,000 job initial job estimate for march and of course, that was marked up. i think the underlying points are twofold. one, the economy is doing i should say the job market, better than we thought and that s good. but two, we re still kind of slogging along steady as she goes, and she goes a bit too slowly. so if you kind of average things out, we re adding about 160,000, 170,000 jobs per month as we did in april, and that s enough to very slowly take the unemployment rate down. but there are still people out there feeling some economic stress for sure. let s look at sort of the numbers behind the numbers. strong gains in professional and business services, restaurants, retail did very well.
something along the way and can provide answers with some level of accuracy in the future. lieutenant jeff kramer with the el paso county sheriff s office there in colorado, thanks so much for that. you re welcome. right now, millions of americans from the midwest to east coast are slogging through snow and wondering when will it finally start to feel like spring. this is what it looked like earlier not far from here in the d.c. suburbs. people in a dozen states have been facing similar conditions. some, but maybe not for some. chad myers is standing by, but first to martin savidge in snowy pittsburgh. martin, where is spring? reporter: yeah, that s what a lot of people are wondering. we have rain falling now, but the temperature is going to drop, so this will turn back into snow. snow is in the forecast here the next three days, which is why people are wondering whatever happened to that thing called spring? from denver to d.c., if you re looking for signs of spring, you ll ne
its way through senate, or certainly through the house. so this is really tough slogging going forward. so mayor michael bloomberg sort of rolling out what he hopes will be a counterweight to the nra, that $12 million ad campaign, which you mentioned. it s going to air in 13 states, really targeting senators who he believes he might be able to sway to vote yes on this legislation. but, of course, a big question mark there, because you have the nra, you have democrats who live in red states, and of course you have republicans who are not in favor of these stiffer gun control laws. it continues to be a very divisive issue, craig, and really tough to get through both chambers. craig? what more can you tell me about the president s road trip that he s going to be taking? we heard yesterday that he might be hitting the road again to try to sway the public. reporter: well, craig, i think you re going to continue to see the president and the vice president hitting the road. of course, thi