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unemployment rate holding at 3.6%. bill: that might be a bit of welcome news after wall street s worse day in two years. the dow closing down more than 1,000 points. maria bartiromo is here. we re on the air live to you and good morning. hello, bill and dagen. bill: i was watching fox business last hour. size it up? is it getting better, worse, treading water do you think? well here is the deal, bill. this is a good report. there is no doubt about it. unfortunately it is not good enough to change a narrative which has been all about inflation. here are the details. 428,000 jobs created in the month of april. much better than the expectations. we were expecting 390,000. the problem is the wages. wages were up 5 1/2% for the month of april. initially markets saw that as a positive that goes back down from the month before. in the month of march wages were up 5.6%. however, when you look at the inflation that we re talking about, inflation is running at 8 1/2%. so ....
to ukraine in a surprise visit to kyiv. and poland is welcoming millions of ukrainian refugees, but 50 years ago when the anti-semitic campaign started, we started losing friends fast. is polish generosity now a way to make up for the past? good morning, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is showing solidarity with ukraine. and we have breaking news. house speaker nancy pelosi announced this morning a surprise visit to meet with ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy in kyiv, making her the highest ranking u.s. official to visit ukraine since russia invaded. she spoke at a news conference this morning from poland. do not be bullied by bullies. if they re making threats, you cannot back down. that s my view of it. that you we re there for the fight and you cannot you cannot fold to a bully. speaker pelosi s visit comes as congress is now considering whether to approve president biden s request for $33 billion of additional aid for u ....
headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex reports. we have this breaking news in the war in ukraine. president zelenskyy is now confirming a un coordinated effort to evacuate civilians trapped in zelenskyy has tweeted that the first group of about 100 evacuees are now heading to a controlled area, and will eventually make their way to another city. he says that his teams are working with you and to evacuate more. russians military, meanwhile, show the president putin lied to a with ukrainians in the plant. these damages show about plant look like after weeks of bombardment from russian forces, and we are learning more about how speaker nancy pelosi s high profile visit to kyiv. she laid a congressional delegation to a meeting with president zelenskyy just moments ago. i asked congressman adam schiff what victory would look like for ukraine. i think forcing russia out, reclaiming territorial integrity. if ukraine wants to join the european union, it should ....
that report. presumably, this is a correspondent on the ground in mariupol, embedded with russian forces. but we don t have that detail. there is no confirmation at this time from the ukrainian side that any civilians have come out of that plant. alex, as you say, there are a lot of questions here. we do not know, assuming for a moment it is accurate, that civilians have come out of that plant, we do not know, are they in russian custody? or are they going to be escorted beyond the russian lines into ukrainian held territory, outside of mariupol. that was certainly the hope of president zelenskyy at his office yesterday, when they put out the statement saying they were moving towards an evacuation. their hope was that officials from the united nations, from the international community of the red cross, we move into russian lines, and then would escort people out. we just do not know, at that point, if this is how it s gone down. or if these civilians are now in the cust ....
that these talks will succeed between russia and his country. which saw several other cities, including kyiv, hit by russian airstrikes this week. the west continues to plead with russia to allow evacuations from the besieged port of mariupol, the war of words has escalated as well. russia saying that western armed shipments are fair game. it s president biden declares that the u.s. would be sending as much as 33 billion dollars in mostly military aid to ukraine, on the domestic side, the president s reckoning with another aid pledge ahead of midterm elections. the president confirmed this week that he is considering some debt relief, but at a price point far below what s some activists and step civil rights groups say is helpful to younger voters. that democrats want, add to thousands of borrowers of color, that the white house needs. later in the show, the minnesota department of human resources find the city of minneapolis and the minneapolis police department prac ....