this is cnn breaking news. very good busy friday morning to you. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. it is a busy friday morning. let s begin with breaking news on the u.s. economy. the labor department announcing the u.s. added 531,000 jobs last month. that s a pretty significant increase from a disappointing august and september. we should note too, numbers for those months were revised higher. this is beating analysts expectations. the unemployment rate down to 4.6%. just ahead, i ll speak with labor secretary marty walsh about the new numbers. that s coming up this hour. big numbers this month, revisions upward for last two months. we re expecting to hear from president joe biden this morning. he s set to address the impressive jobs numbers and the prospect that his economic agenda could become a reality today. we ll have important votes during our hours. right now, debate around the build back better plan as it is known happening on the house floor. today could be
locked in a contest still too close to call with his republican challenger jack ciattarelli. what to make of all of this and where is it taking us click senator martha blackburn will talk join us to talk about the implications for the midterms. alexandria hoff is live in chantilly, virginia. live from jersey city with the very latest on the garden state governors race. what a night and on into the da now. good afternoon. the nailbiter here, most of the people we talk to, voters in ne jersey said they did not expect the governors race to be so close here in the state of new jersey. early results show democratic governor slightly ahead by several thousand votes, those ballots still rolling into let get to it. phil murphy running for his second term here in new jersey. has long been considered the favorite in this race. the challenger of former and local in new jersey has been running at the moderate republicans. right now an estimated 89 percent of those votes have been
senator catherine cortez masto described that texas rulin with a word i cannot say o television and that exclusive interview i coming up first. plus, what is next for justi j. pearson one of the tennessee three who captivity the country this week i will ask him when he joins m in just a few minutes. meanwhile, after donald trump arraignment in new york, republican stepped up thei calls to defund the fbi into the doj. i will explain all the reasons why the gop is anything but th party of law and order and later, what was th governor of california doing i alabama? i traveled to montgomery for a wide-ranging conversation with governor gavin newsom. i asked him about gun reform abortion rights, the trump indictment and of course his favorite foil, ron desantis. i try not to be alarmists on this show, but every now and then there is good reason to b alarmed. on friday night there was a ne assault on women s rights in this country because a federal judge in amarillo, texas, issued
a remarkable scheme playing ou right now in the tennessee capital, as you can see there. absolutely shocking scenes i tennessee today. we just saw the third of three votes on expelled expulsion, i will take you through what happened today just so you know, what s happening right now, three members were voted on to b expelled two african american members one white member they expelled, successfully, with a two thirds vote, to the two black members and did no expel the white woman who wa up as well they just held that vote kicking out three democrat from protesting gun violence it started a week ago, whe protesters descended on th state capitol, they were calling for lawmakers to pas gun control legislation after shooter had killed 39 year old and three adults at a privat elementary school in nashville the protesters made it into th gallery of the legislature, an those three democratic lawmakers, the ones that we sa today, justin jones, whose district is in nashville justin pea
democrats who led gun safety protests we will take you there and across the country as we loo at what is going on in a state houses from coast to coast the big question, the lawmaker know what their constituents really want? money power politics and the supreme court the investigation into justice clarence thomas secretly accepting luxury trips from major republican donor the 11th hour is getting underway on this thursda night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, we begin in the state of tennessee we are in a stunning act o political retaliation. republican lawmakers expelle two of their democrati colleagues, justin jones and justin pearson they joined in a peacefu protest on gun violence with students jones and are both black a third democratic lawmaker wh is white was up for a vote but was not expelled here saw the tennessee newspaper wrote it up. quote, ten days after a shoote on loaded 152 rounds inside nashville school and killed si people, tennessee