it is good to be back with you for this second hour of chris jansing reports. ahead this hour, the welcome surprise from the december jobs report showing the u.s. labor market closed out 2023 with a bang. plus, former blade runner, oscar pistorius out on parole after serving almost a decade in prison for murdering his girlfriend. how her family is responding. the latest from iowa where that horrific school shooting has rocked the community of perry. new reporting on how the school s principal acted to save his students. and house democrats and their push to get supreme court justice clarence thomas off the key 2024 ballot. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with that new jobs report. nbc senior business report christine roman is with us. give us the big adnes. look, it was a sol i woul - solid end to the year, 216 new jobs in december. they eected the job market to keep slowing because of the fed rate increases, and the job
arabia, as i do with mexico, as i do with everybody. you know, they all buy apartments from me. they pay millions and millions of dollars. am i supposed to dislike them? i love them. china. i sell apartments for $50 million, $30 million, $25 million, the cheap ones like $10 million. i don t bother to sign those contracts because those are the cheap ones. but i get it from saudi arabia. i get it from japan. i get it from everybody. i love these people. willie, what do i always say? when he s talking, there s laugh tracks going in the audience, but you can believe him, right? you can always believe trump when he makes a claim like that. yeah, that was almost a decade ago, too. wow. there s some new information we re getting this morning. we ll get into specifics about how much he enjoys those relationships he was bragging about. yeah, there is a new report that finds those payments continued during his years in the white house. we ll talk about that. good morning. w
Brian Deputy Montgomery county sheriff was out of the house when fire crews arrived along with his wife tracy and nineyearold daughter sophia. Inside in their second floor bedroom 11yearold brian, jr. , and sixyearold parker. Unfortunately there were two juvenile males located on the second floor deceased. The cause of this fire is unknown at this time. Reporter by daylight, the blackened structure was surrounded by state and local fire investigators who could be seen handling what looked like a scorched piece of wire. Nearby, what appeared to be a blackened portable heater. Kyles son grayson was pals with brian, jr. Here they are brian on the right enjoying a field trip just last week. What are you telling your boys . You know, we gave them a big hug this morning. My wife broke the news to my son. And he broke down immediately. Reporter a truck destroyed by the flames in a car sit in the driveway investigators removed several guns from a gun locker in the front of the home. Dave about
Frontal in movie he produced. What else she said in the powerful new op ed. And later, wawa d. C. Debut. They open thirties first store in the d. C. Today. Giving philadelphians a taste of home. It may make your friends and family in the city of brotherly love a little jealous. Good day at 9a starts now. And there it is. Live picture of the wawa it is Ribbon Cutting ceremony thats about to begin. 9 00 a. M. Big doings here in the nations capitol. Now im not judging, but im just saying can any of you tell that our show is produced by someone who is from philadelphia . This takes me back 25 years ago. I actually covered, to your first market. T bell. I know. I said that. My career has come full circle. Opening of a wawa. Never changes. Chris, claim it. Pop yourself up. Its a big day for you and erin. I mean look. We love wawa. Whats that, chris . North of baltimore on the to get a soda. You get sandwich all the t time. Okay. Seriously though. Sandwich shops in between subway, taylor gore
Reporter at least stefon diggs will not have to buy himself a drink in minnesota soon. Reporter i was at a friends house, saturday night, they were popping the campaign. Reporter intense games this weekend most of them, other than the patriots game they were really close. The weather center, we have satellite and radar, we have a few clouds around, and overall were expecting a bright start and high clouds move in as the day goes on. Well be looking at a clipper system out to the west by cincinnati bringing us light snow. 1 in reading, 15 in trenton. 18 in millville. 16 in philadelphia. Its cold as you step outside. Dry conditions, but a little bit of a breeze out there, too. A windchill currently of 5 in philadelphia. One degrees in allentown. 4 in wilmington, 4 in trenton. 5 in millville. You get the picture you have to bundle up as you head out to the bus stop and the train station or just to heat up the car. 19 degrees by 7 00. Well improve a little bit expecting a high of 32 at 3 0