gretchen: tomorrow on the show, country singer matt kennen. have a fantastic day. steve: see you tomorrow, everybody. time for cake. march good morning, everybody, we start with this fox news alert and two big stories that are breaking right now in america s newsroom , the first one is the latest peek that we are getting at the u.s. economy, brand new numbers just out for you on jobs in america, 440,000 americans, that is the number on this thursday morning, they filed first-time unemployment benefits last week. the good news is that that number is actually better than what economists were expecting. what does it all mean? stuart varney joins nous a few minutes. then there it this big story this morning, iran promising the world that on this day they would deal a harsh blow, and now we know on the 31st anniversary of the iranian revolution, ahmadinejad declared today to the people of his country they are now, quote, a nuclear state. the iranian president says they have