and residents across the midwest are returning to communities devastated by wednesday tornadoes and powerful storms. there's still severe weather warnings in effect for tennessee and mississippi and another storm front is coming. springtime can be very violent out there in the plains. well, we're minutes away from the opening bell. time for the market rundown. becky quick is here. becky, weekly jobs claims. what did we get? >> we got a pretty decent number. a surprisingly strong number. economists had been expecting 351, that's what it came in at. and i guess the surprise here is that number continues to confound people like ben bernanke who say that the jobs picture has been much better than the fed had been anticipating. this morning, looks like the futures are opening up. looks like we're up about 40 points on the dow. the numbers that came in, very positive from wall street's perspective. you continue to see some improvement coming into the jobless picture. not only are the jobless claims at the lowest level, be uh the

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