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and happening right now at a d.c. court, a member of the proud boys facing sentencing for his role on january 6th, how long he could face behind bars. good day to you, it s 10:00 this friday morning eastern time. i m peter alexander reporting from washington, we are going to begin with that breaking economic news, the u.s. economy adding 187,000 jobs in the last month, in the month of august, nearly 20,000 more than what the analysts have been predicting. the unemployment rate, as you note, it went up about, well, 0.3% to 3.8%. the highest place it s been since february of last year. we want to get to nbc news business and data reporter brian cheung. he is at the big board with the very latest on all of this. brian, walk us through these numbers and what you find significant. yeah, good morning, peter. there s a lot of numbers in here. let s add a little bit of context to help us understand exactly what it is we re looking at. as you mentioned, 187,000 jobs. that ....