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 just d
lawmaker barred from speaking on the floor. a pastor killed, police say, by a man he stopped to help it turned out to be an inmate escaped from jail the violent standoff and manhunt ongoing. menopause and money. the new data on the billions in lost work. how some businesses are changing their thinking and a song that echoes through the past the violins that survived the holocaust and the people who saved them announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. it is like the worst of winter in reverse as excessive snow melt poses a rising disaster threat in parts of the country tonight. along the mississippi river, flood warnings up from st. paul to north of st. louis in places like davenport, an agonizing wait for residents powerless to halt the creeping waters still days before the river is expected to crest. almost 2,000 miles away, the atmospheric rivers that brought massive snowpacks to california s high country are gone, but war
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obviously losing patience. right now you re sitting up here playing cards because they are short staffed and we can check-in and get in there in time so we are waiting for more people to come in. i was supposed to leave at 1:30 and they delayed it to 3:00 p.m. already today. i don t know if i m going to get out on time or not. i brought my laptop charger and i may be hanging out here for a while. we are hoping the plane is there when we are ready to get on and a pilot to fly it, so we have to get back and get back to life. mike: charles watson s life from hartsfield-jackson airport in atlanta. good morning, charles. good morning, mike and julie. things are pretty busy here in atlanta so far this morning but so far operations appeared to be moving smoothly here at hartsfield-jackson atlanta international. that said, passengers should prepare for another busy day at airports. the delays and cancellations are already racking up this morning. we are seeing about 140 u.s
several private messages on facebook in the 30 minutes leading up to the massacre. one message referred to shooting his own grandmother. another about attacking an elementary school. julie: a short time later he entered the school through a back door and went into a fourth grade classroom, barricaded himself and opened fire. a border patrol agent from an elite unit rushed into the shooter killing the student. bill: we have heard from many anguished parents waiting for news of their missing children and many are now left to remember their loved ones who are no longer. she was very happy and very outgoing. loved to dance and sing and play sports. hundreds of friends. they were all frantic praying. they were saying anything they could to the policemen to let them get the kids. he is still in there, we can t do that. other kids staying he is in still in there. we re stronger together. julie: last night mourners gathered for a vigil to honor the victims, wanting to com