approach to crime which critics say is a culture of lawlessness. we will be joined with thoughts. john: brand-new numbers, a pulse on the u.s. economy. latest jobs report beating expectations, but still head winds from the highest inflation in four decades and record high gas prices. welcome to you today. anita: happy friday to you, the u.s. economy adding 390,000 jobs for the month of may one employment rate of 3.6%. number of job openings remains near record highs, 11.4 million positions going unfilled. john: gas prices keep climbing, more expensive to top off the tank. national average for a gallon of gas increasing another $0.05 overnight to 4.76. up $0.17 from a week ago, and 1.72 higher than last year. president biden speaking on the may jobs report and acknowledging the toll inflation is taking on american families. the president putting the onous on congress. anita: karl rove in a moment, but first white house correspondent peter doocy live from the north lawn
world. no jubilee for american drivers that are being pelted left and right with prices that go higher and higher and higher. but leaving that aside, concerns as well that the president while he talks up the idea of trying to address this and quickly, that he s falling back on things that we ve heard before. let s goo to the latest from the white house, peter doocy. neil, officials around here at the white house keep saying they think the president s economic plan is working and near celebrating last month s job report came in 65,000 jobs higher than anticipated. the president himself in delaware today saying that reports beating expectations may not be here for much longer. we re not likely to see the blockbuster job reports month after month like we had over this past year. but that s a good thing. that s a sign of a healthy economy. with steady growth. the president says inflation, it s his number 1 domestic priority while admitting there s nothing that he can do to
sandra. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. we re watching images both in the west bank where they are releasing palestinian prisoners and the israeli prisoners, hostages, that were released on the right-hand side of your screen. 12 women who walked their way to freedom just moments ago. they were brought out in the vehicles that we have seen and become familiar with. there were no americans that were released in this latest wave. we think partly because they have committed to releasing women and children first and we believe that the remaining eight to nine americans are all men. so we obviously stay on top of that story as we wait for good news for their families. these ten israelis ranging from 17 to 84. these harrowing accounts that are beginning to trickle in about life, what life was like for these individuals when they were in captivity. the aunt of this now free little boy, 12-year-old ethan, says he was force to watch videos of the october 7th attack. look at this
command center. today the israeli military released this new video showing the inside of a tunnel on the hospital s grounds. we ve reached out to hospital officials about this footage but have not heard back. oren liebermann got a chance to enter with the israeli defense forces saturday and joins us now live from tel aviv with more. orin, what did you see? reporter: paula, we spent about six hours inside of gaza crossing the border fence at 9:00 in the evening and not coming back out until about 3:00 in the morning so the entire time we spent there was at night, and much of the time in gaza city itself which has been without power for days was in nearly complete darkness, but what we went to see was the newly exposed tunnel shaft, this had been revealed by the idf only a couple days earlier but haven t gotten to look inside. even though it was pretty much the middle of the night and had to use our headlamps to see it was clear there was something substantial there, take a l
. welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world, i m kim brunhuber ahead on cnn newsroom. u.n. experts have harsh new criticism for israel s actions in gaza, saying that it points to a genocide in the making, a charge israel strenuously reyekts. we ll speak to a family member of an israeli hostage who s one of the thousands marching to jerusalem, their goal, demand their loved ones return home safely. plus, colorado judge calls trump an insurrectionist, yet says he can still appear on the colorado ballot. announcer: live from atlanta this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. it s been exactly six weeks since the terrorist attacks in southern israel that led israel to declare war on hamas, and the sight of the nova music festival became ground zero for thousands of unsuspecting people who were there on the morning of october 7th. the israeli media is now reporting that many more people died than was previously reported, cit