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
travel record, despite a warning not to travel for the thanksgiving holiday. let s just confine the celebration to the family unit that lives with you. stop rocking the gravy boat, doc. if you re seeing grandma, it is suddenly a superspreader event. this is some people s final thanksgiving, believe it or not. for some, it was their final thanksgiving as president. confirmed biden s win with a small boost, adding 87 votes. ahoy, it s the fox phone, who is calling at this hour? joe biden did not get 80 million votes. they call them dumps, big, massive dumps. speaking of massive dumps the legal team has been a national embarrassment. unless things change, joe biden will be inaugurated on january 20th. say it ain t joe. trump takes questions from his adoable little desk. don t talk to me that way. just a lightweight. don t talk to me. i m the president of the united states. this has been this week in covid history. those are so good. good morni
already seeing its busiest travel day of the year so far. travel numbers reaching levels seen at the height of the thanksgiving and winter holiday rush. amid the crunch, a flight from tel aviv diverted as it tried to land at newark airport hitting severe turbulence. several passengers treated for motion sickness. the roads packed despite higher gas prices. our team tracking it all. the weather expected to have an impact in the west. more than 20 million americans on alert for potential flooding as a powerful cross-country storm hits southern california. winter weather alerts from the california mountains into parts of the rockies. creating hazardous driving conditions. that system sweeping east expected to impact the northeast early next week. our weather team timing it all out. the unprecedented around the clock salvage effort gets under way in baltimore. officials bringing in heavy equipment beginning the process to move millions of tons of wreckage from the key bridge.
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