3.4%. black unemployment a lowest ever level of 4.7%. job gains in health care, in the restaurant industry, construction, wages climbing, us is purltives are plenty. but yes, also disruptive. the fed suggesting this week it might be done with interest rate hikes, but these jobs numbers spiking after a downward trnd the past three months underlies the effect to cool the economy to tame inflation. let s get to new york and matt egan. walk us through the big numbers, and forgive me if i have to interrupt. this historic jobs boom continues. despite everything going on now, despite the fed slamming the brakes on the economy, despite the worst banking crisis since 2008, and despite the wave of tech layoffs we keep hearing about, people thought hiring would slow down in april. instead, it accelerated. 253,000 jobs added. 3.4% unemployment rate. to go low you have to go back to 1953 under dwight eisenhower. we saw across the board solid numbers here. professional services, health c
could be a major setback for russian forces as they are bracing for an expected ukrainian counteroffensive. cnn s chief international security correspondent nick paton walsh is live. nick, of course, the messages from prigozhin are not new. but what is significant to you about this video that he posted overnight? reporter: the fact that they are saying they will leave in five days. they have never said that before. they have threatened that they might compromise their position for a week now, we have been seeing these messages from yevgeny prigozhin after people thought his long-term rift as the head of the wagner mercenary group with the russian defense ministry establishment, the top brass might have begun to be healing. he has been kplalg they haven t got the artillery shells. that expletive-laden video, what s done that before in front of corpses to ask for more ammunition. quite a different tone. this would be a staggering gift to the ukrainian forces if wagner was abl
everyone, have a good weekend. cnn news central starts right now. an insider at mar-a-lago, a major new development as the new york times reports on a potentially crucial cooperator in the classified documents probe. what this could mean for the special counsel s investigation. just in this morning, a surprising april jobs report, the labor market is heating back up. what does this mean now for the economy? we will break it down. plus, the countdown to the coronation is on. we re live at buckingham palace as the official crowning of king charles iii happens tomorrow. those major stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news central. all right. we have to start with those april jobs numbers showing surprising growth in the labor growth in the labor market when other indicators have very clearly recently been pointing to possibly a cooling off. the new data was just released in the last 30 minutes and it shows employers added 253,000 jobs last month, t
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state of our economy. good evening. the day started well enough for biden with a jobs report showing the u.s. economy adding 311,000 jobs last month. we created more jobs in two years than any administration created in the first four years. it s no accident. it mean our economic plan is working. but that good news was quickly overtaken by bad news that could get a lot worse. thank you. thank you. silicon valley bank may not be a house hold name. but it is a very big deal in term of lending to and financing operations of many leading tech companies. and today, it collapsed. struggling with high interest rates, unable to find a buyer. well, the very last time we ve seen a bank of this magnitude fell was in 2008. and, that could be a true indication of where our economy is at. now, the white house insists comparisons with the financial crisis of 2008 are overblown. our banking system is fundamentally different because of the changes that we put in place in 2008.