try to fill remaining positions. will also today president biden signed an executive order on abortion access following criticism within his own party. he s not doing enough to protect reproductive rights. white house correspondent peter doocy is following it all tonight from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, mike. president biden s team pored over today s jobs report and filled up part of a speech with some numbers they think prove that things are going well and the president deserves credit. my economic plan is moving this country in a better direction. the reason to believe the president thinks that unemployment rate low and steady at 3.6%. recovered all of the jobs lost during the pandemic and added jobs on top of that. but more than 11 million jobs remain unfilled as hundreds of thousands have decided to stop looking. the labor force participation rate dropped another two tenths percent the labor force 300,000 people. fewer out there availabl
the shooting, but at this point, his motive remains unclear. the murder of a long time leader has stunned japan, a country where gun violence is virtually unheard of. a former adviser likens abe s assassination to that of jfk. president biden visited the japanese ambassador s residence to offer his condolences, and flags are half staff. let s bring in selina gomez. what more do we know about the suspect and the investigation. we learned from police that the suspect confessed to shooting former prime minister shinzo abe. in terms of the motive, all we know is he holds a grudge against a specific organization and believe that former prime minister shinzo abe was a part of it. he is a 41-year-old unemployed man. former prime minister shinzo a bay was shot at 11:30 a.m. local time. he immediately collapsed. there was excessive bleeding. medical examiners say he died of excessive blood loss when he was pronounced dead at 5:00 p.m. local time. this sent shock waves across japan,
Hey! the white house is celebrating today s strong jobs report, but president biden says more work needs to be done. now, look, i know times are tough. prices are too high. families are facing a cost of living crunch. but today s economic news confirms the fact that my economic plan is moving this country in a better direction. we still have a lot of work to do. i m not suggesting there s a lot more work to do. i am suggesting we re making significant progress. the u.s. added 372,000 jobs in june, outpacing expectations, the unemployment rate remained