The president will finish his trip to california with a Campaign Event for Governor Newsom. The two will be urging californians to vote no on tomorrows recall ballot. Live to our traveling to southern california, they are expected to arrive in long beach in just about an hour to hold a big rally. Elizabeth . Thank you. One of Governor Newsoms top republican challengers made a final push in the Bay Area today. John cox spoke outside the french laundry restaurant, where Governor Newsom was spotted dining during covid19 restrictions. Talked to said that helped spark the recall and he is urging voters on how to fix california. I am here to offer myself to the people of this state as a businessman who is actually going to fix the problems that beset this state. We tried career politicians and media personalities, they have failed miserably at delivering a better quality of life for the people of this state. Other republican candidates are in southern California Today as they try to get vote
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
fleury sent this report. the december notes from the us central bank s last meeting showed policymakers are feeling better about inflation. they agreed with investors that interest rates are at or near the peak for this cycle. they also agree it will come down this year. but they offered no clues as to how or when that will happen. to remind viewers, the federal reserve started raising rates in march 2022 to tame inflation. it did so 11 times, taking the benchmark rate to 5.5%. inflation, by the time of the last meeting, had dropped to 3.2% from a peak of 9.1%. meanwhile, new data out on wednesday showed the number ofjob openings in the united states fell to 8.79 million in november. this points to weaker demand for labour but is still well above pre covid levels. that is consistent with the fed s goal. to slow the economy without triggering a nasty recession. the feds first rate setting meeting this year starting january 30. investors are holding their breath is beneficial t
america s late news, fox news at night . and breaking, jewelry store owner was robbed and beaten, including with a hammer. the attack was caught on camera and yet the slamdunk trial productive be a hung jury the chief correspondent jonathan hunt is live in the newsroom with what happened jonathan, good evening. let s take a look at part of the video shown to the jury in wilmington, delaware. the jewelry store owner being violently beaten by a robber wh after initially attacking and then stopping pieces of jewelry into a bag returns to be the store owner once again, hitting him with a hammer. my father experience not jus a robbery, but a perfect assaul that changed his life and our family. my father was able to call 911 and coming away from this near deadly definitely a counter alive. he spent several days in intensive care and one year fro the robbery and attack him is still recovering. police at the roco was 39 -year-old calvin audrey and that his trial last week, p
one of nine maximums and 15 fours in his 124 ball innings that shot beating the previous best of 180 made byjason roy in 2018. well, that helped england to 368 all out, stokes ably supported by dawid malan who made 96 off 95 balls. who made 96 off 95 balls. england did lose their last four wickets forjust eight runs. new zealand are now into bat and are currently 32 for 3the series stands at 1 each going into this one. the sides meet in the final one dayer on friday at lords. at the davis cup, great britain are playing the first of their three round robin matches in manchester kicking things off against australia as they look to get through this group stage and reach november s knockouts. and what a davis cup debut for 21 year old jack draper up against thanasi kokkinakis in the opening singles rubber, who s 32 places above him in the world rankings. he won 6 7 6 3 7 6. dan evans is now taking on alex di minaur in the second singles match. evans eva ns ha d evans had co