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survivors. their cries for help can be heard through the rubble. we need help. we need the international community to do something, to help us, to support us. survivors being pulled from the wreckage including this toddler. i ll speak with a u.n. official about the recovery effort. also this morning, tensions flaerg with china as the u.s. rushes to collect the debris from that spy balloon. china calling it a clear overreaction. the fallout from that hanging over president biden one day out from his second state of the union address. what we know about tomorrow s high stakes speech. we re going to begin with those massive deadly earthquakes rocking turkey and syria. p nbc news foreign correspondent meagan fitzgerald has the latest on the damage. i m joined by senior communications adviser and spokesperson for the u.n. high commissioner for the refugee office for middle east and north africa. the images coming out of the region are horrifying. children being pulle ....
Exchange is cnbc s morgan brennan. help us make sense of all of this after this really strong jobs report. that s right. so it may feel and seem like a little bit of a head scratch right now because, as you mentioned, dell joins a list of companies that are growing, including just in the past week, paypal, pinterest and fedex as well as so many others you just touched on here. we are seeing the layoffs climb well into the hundreds of thousands. it s not showing up in the broader labor data, at least not yet. that s of course because we re coming off these incredibly tight labor market dynamics. so you re seeing more job openings than workers still right now. unemployment rate is at a 53-year low according to that jobs report last friday, and if you think about the kinds of skill sets that companies, many companies across many industries both large and small in terms of the size of those companies are looking for in terms of the types of jobs that it d still be recruiting for, it s a ....
Solutions. isis look. a lot of stuff we could of, would of, should of done and we have to deal with the world now and isis is controlled and deeply embedded in a broad swath of northern syria and western iraq, and i don t see how we will get them out of there. i think the best we maybe hope for is some kind of a coalition government in iraq that actually functions. maliki being gone, of course. and some kind of uneasy piece among the three major factions there. the idea of, i think, rolling back the clock and turning syria and iraq and turkey into the same countries they were before, just i don t think it s going to happen. so we are going to take a look now at the other domestic story that we have been looking at the past hour or so and it has to do with the economy. you both bring something to the table that adds to this conversation, steve and leigh. the headlines the past three days, the dow, the jobs report last friday, the american economy seems to be on track ....
Again and so many positives to talk about. the latest jobs report showed a gain of 288,000 jobs and we are on the best stretch of job growth in almost a decade. look at the markets. they are back to setting records. isn t this nice? the dow opening above 17,000 this morning. corporate profits, housing markets also up as well. what is to be upset about? wage growth. we could start there, right, steve? struggling year after year. it s stuck at 2%. most of the job growth has been within sectors that have lower salaries. first, steve, let s get some charts out and take a look at profits and income because we have talked about this before. there hasn t been a lot of growth in the amount of money people bring in since before lehman collapsed. that is crazy. what characterized this recession unfortunately is the gains have gone to corporate profits and not the workers. can you illustrate it with a simple chart that goes back and ....
Welcome back. it is the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. president obama in florida armed with a new study that he says shows sky rocketing costs for future medicare recipients under the romney-ryan plan. republicans say the president is trying to further distance himself from the jobs report last friday. a bloody day across iraq. baghdad official report a light night car bomb killed 11 people in a shiite neighborhood with one of several countrywide attacks that left 82 people dead and more than 300 wounded today. across the northeast folks are cleaning up the mess left behind by the powerful storms that barreled across the region. it spawned two tornadoes in new york city flooding towns in new england and leaving thousands without power near dc. the ailing u.s. economy is taking center stage on the ....