correspondent john harwood, both standing by. matt, there is some good in here, including revisions to prior months, but still undershot, the forecast. what happened? yeah, jim. at first glance, this did look like a big dud. just 210,000 jobs added in november, less than half of what the consensus was on wall street from economists. it s also the weakest number of the entire biden presidency. job growth was supposed to be up in leisure and hospitality, but it barely budged. the retail sector actually lost jobs. when you dig into the numbers, there are some positives, starting with the unemployment rate, which fell to 4.2%. that is the lowest of the pandemic. keep in mind, unemployment was nearly 15% in april of 2020. there s been enormous progress since then. also wages are up very sharply. they re not keeping up with inflation, but that does show really strong demand for workers. also, more americans are getting back into the workforce, the labor participation rate climbin
She did. alec baldwin is speaking out about the chaos that followed the fatal shooting on his film rust. he revealed he did not know until hours late they re cinematographer hutch-had died from a live round. listen. no one could understand it. did she have a heart attack? because, remember, the idea that someone put a live bull net the gun was not even in reality. did you go up to her? i went up to her and we were
Announces when its stricter covid-19 testing requirements for travelers internationally p this will begin as efforts ramp up to trace and follow the omicron variant. and actor alec baldwin speaking out following the tragic shooting death of cinematographer halyna hutchins on the film set of rust. he says he was not to blame and his finger wasn t even on the trigger when the gun went off. someone put a live bull net a gun, that bullet that wasn t even supposed to be on the property. this is the thing i hope the sheriff s department doesn t give up on, that they follow this to the ends of the earth. where did that bullet come from? somebody brought live rounds, plural, onto the set of the film. and one of them ended up in that gun. let s begin our coverage with those latest job numbers, what they mean. cnn chief business reporter matt egan, senior white house
Might not have ended up in the film. he began to cob the gun, let go of the hammer, but insisted he did not pull the trigger. some folks, one specific person, the attorney for the chief lighting technician, is disputing the allegation by alec baldwin that he did not pull the trigger, saying as producer of the film, baldwin is responsible. but baldwin said he wasn t involved in budget discussions. he added his production responsibilities on this specific film were strictly creative. he said the only question that needs to be resolved is how that live round ended up on set. a big question. lucy kavanagh, thanks so much. here with me now, prop master patrick story. he s worked on homeland and the latest scream film. patrick, i want to play some of interview where baldwin describings his account of what happened that day. and i want to get your reaction. have a listen. in the scene i would have cocked the gun.
I said do you want to see that? and she said yes. i take the gun and start to cob the gun. i m not going to pull the trigger. he said tilt it down a little bit like that. i cobbed the gun. can you see that? can you see that? i let go of the hammer of the gun and the gun goes off. i let go of the hammer of the gun and the gun goes off. that was the moment the gun went off. it wasn t in the script for the trigger to be pulled. well, the trigger wasn t pulled. i didn t pull the trigger. you never pulled the trigger? no, no, no. i would never point a gun at someone and pull the trigger. that s the training i had. you don t point a gun at somebody and pull the trigger. patrick, based on what you know about firearms in your experience, can you not pull the trigger, let the hammer go? what do you believe? well, i believe that you can do that if you verify exactly what is in the weapon. in this case, you could