new york, i m christine romans. carol has the morning off this morning. here are the morning s top stories for you. herman cain heading home to atlanta today, and he says the decision about whether to continue his campaign could come by monday at the latest. it s a decision that could be in his wife s hands after another woman accused cain of having a 13-year affair. with a $1,000 tax hike looming, congress can t get it done. the senate defeating competing payroll tax cut bills, one from republicans and one backed by the president. president obama warning that failure could deal a massive blow to the economy. and the west coast blown away. the santa ana winds on a war path. 140-mile-an-hour gusts ripping trees out of the ground, knocking out power and crushing homes. let s get a first check of today s weather. rob marciano is with us in atlanta. the big winds out west continue, although they re a little more calm than at this time yesterday. the threat will contin
rate has fallen to 8.6%. that s the lowest rate in nearly three years. christine romans back with us in new york now. so, christine, what a marked improvement. 120,000 jobs added in november, where are we seeing the most growth here? we had the last two months here res have hire, as well. many more jobs created in september and october than we thought. the growth we re seeing is in the retail industry, no surprise there. 50,000 jobs created in the retail industry and half of those were in clothing stores and also in apparel, you know, accessory stores. you also saw leisure and hospitality. that means hotels, restaurants, too, food and drinking places. anything that has to do with people starting to get out and spend money there. you saw them adding workers in those places. also, professional and business services. 27,000 jobs created there and in health care and education, we saw about 20,000 jobs created. so, retail, food and drink, professional, medical system, medical pl
and good morning, everyone. it s friday, december 2nd. ali and carol are both off today. i m christine romans along with alina cho on this american morning. so glad you got the memo. i know. we re both feeling a lot like christmas this morning. up first, the countdown is on for herman cain. he s heading back home to atlanta this morning in the decision to whether continue his campaign could be in his wife s hands. cain says we will know by monday at the latest whether he s in or out of the race, and yesterday for the very first time, cain admitted that getting out is an option. he okay knowledged he did give money to the woman he said she had a 13 jeer-year affair with . his wife only found out about ginger white when the rest of us did. that is correct, and she was hurt that she didn t know about this friend that i was helping financially. she was aware of many of the other friends that i have helped. ginger white spoke to lawrence o donnell on msnbc last night a