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Through the region in what has become the deadliest u. S. Mainland hurricane since katrina. Well take you live to North Carolina in just moments. Welcome to Fox News live, im Jacqui Heinrich. Griff im griff jenkins. Meanwhile, former President Trump is returning to butler, pennsylvania, today at the same field where he was nearly assassinated less than three months ago. Elon musk will be among the notable guests there. Alexis mcat also, who covered that event in july, is there again in butler with more. Hey, alexis. Reporter hey, griff. Yeah, things are going to look much different than they did 12 the weeks ago, last time former President Donald Trump was up on that stage here. Were 30 days away from the e ....
poised to give a consequential speech on the world stage, returning to the beaches of normandy again this morning to deliver remarks on the threats against democracy and freedom at home and overseas. now, this speech coming just hours after president biden met with ukrainian president zelenskyy in paris announcing $225 million in new aid and apologizing for the political gridlock in washington that delayed that package. nbc s kelly o donnell is traveling with the president in france. also with us, david ignatius, foreign affairs columnist for the washington post, nbc news military analyst, retired colonel jack jacobs and presidential historian mark updegrove. it s great to have all of you with us. kelly, set the stage for us as we await the president. reporter: well, it is a spectacular setting. when you see how the white house has set up the president s lectern on the cliff. this is a cliff that 80 years ago american army rangers scaled that cliff using knives and ....
A look at the days news and headlines. The average now for 2018, 215,000 a month higher than it was a couple years ago. On the down side, again the number was slightly less than anticipated. Transportation and warehouse was interesting. The monthly was almost 19,000. Last month we lost 1,000 jobs there. It was one of the things that stood out to me. Bill economists and financial people can find something negative in anything. Unemployment is at 3. 9 percent. We havent seen a number like this in 18 years. The real Unemployment Number is more impressive called the u6. It takes into account people working parttime but dont want that. That number dropped from 7. 5. Thats a sharp decline in a long time. Bill 2. 7 higher wages. You want wages to go a bit higher than that. It was the expectation. Another great piece of news, people working parttime for economic reasons because they couldnt find a job, thats dropped by 176,000. 400,0 ....
That those were that those were artillery weapons preparing to fire on them to try to disguise the fact that some of them had departed at that time. you can see the media riser there in the foreground. that is an entrance to a separate bunker right on this lookout here that the president the s about to approach. what s stunning as you look around here is that there are just truly dozens of these giant holes, these pits in the ground where they were pounded by american and allied war planes to try to soften the nazi defenses in advance of their arrival here. stunningly, 40 years ago when president reagan delivered what was perhaps one of the most iconic d-day focused speeches in american presidential history, there were 62 army rangers in attendance. today just one will be here as the president prepares to pass by us. and peter, we can hear some of the audio from other reporters who i know are really, really close to you as you re ....
Part of the problem is the president he just goads us into doing things like what jim acosta did. we shouldn t rise to the bait. our job is to keep our heads down and cover him fairly and accurately. if he makes errors to fact we should point out but not be personal. we should point out when the media makes mistakes as well because sometimes they don t. you guys played a clip before the break of trump looking at the media riser and pointing saying fake, fake, disgusting news. i hope it changes but i don t know how it changes. bill: we have a press conference coming up. judith and shelby and david. we re moments away from a news conference. mollie tibbetts, new clues, we ll see what police add to this in a moment as we take you ....