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
mariucci video predict what another four years could look like. teacher s union boss randi weingarten expected to get grilled on capitol hill with. a new report out on the response to covid calling it collective national incompetence. many of the schools could have been opened earlier. [applause] high drive center field. it is out of here! this game is over! here we go back this is the moment tonight is the night we ll fight until it s over so we put our hands up like the ceiling can t hold us like the ceiling can t hold us can we go back this is the moment. ainsley: lots of people already on the streets in hot atlanta down there in georgia. it s 58 degrees. feels like it s 56. going to get up into the 60 s. not too bad. 63, going to rain around noon. take your umbrella. actually, 60% chance of chance of rain around noon. steve: right now is probably a pretty good time to go to work. ainsley: beat the traffic. steve: it s a beautiful town but t
the white house from camp david today saying he wanted to shoot down the balloon at the first available opportunity and that, in his view, is exactly what the pentagon did. watch it come over into the united states from canada. i told them to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate. they concluded we should not shoot it down over land, was not a serious threat and we should wait until it got across the water. that s, of course, what happened saturday afternoon. a usf-22 fighter firing a single sidewinder missile at the chinese balloon bringing it down just off the coast of south carolina, and the president said the chinese were well aware of what was coming. we made it clear to china what we were going to do. reporter: but critics, many of them republican, question the wisdom of waiting to shoot down the balloon until after it had flown right across the united states and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. look, i m not saying detonate this thing over a
the train derailment emergency in ohio. authorities release toxic chemicals from tanker cars. the race to recover that suspected chinese spy balloon shot down off the south carolina coast. the military saying the debris field is roughly 15 football fields by 15 football fields wide. what can the u.s. learn from the remnants? president biden on the eve of the state of the union address. our new reporting on last-minute changes to his speech. a day after she made grammy history, tickets to beyonce s new tour on sale. and the father, the daughter, and the bucket list in inspiring america. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and thank you for joining us. powerful and dangerous aftershocks have continued to rattle parts of turkey near the syria border where the death toll has climbed above 3,000 after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake. as we begin tonight, let me warn you, some of the videos are terrifying. multiple-story buildings crashing into
no, sir, i cannot. norah: tonight, 100 million americans face heavy snow, high winds, and tornado threats. paducah, kentucky, to alexandria, louisiana, and memphis, solidly in the heart of that risk zone. nikki haley speaks for the first time since announcing her run for the white house. we are more than ready for a new generation to lead us into the future. norah: and parade of champions. the kansas city chiefs celebrate their super bowl win. kansas city, how we feeling today, baby? chiefs kingdom, let me hear you! [cheers and applause] norah: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this wednesday night. ahead, the news we are just getting in about an american icon. actress and international sex symbol raquel welch has died at the age of 82. the start of the 1960s and 70s appeared in nearly 100 films and tv shows, including one million years b.c. also tonight, the holocaust-era musical instruments that were saved af