Very strong but it wasnt terrible either. The not so good part was that hiring slowed significantly. In fact, job growth was the slowest since last september. The u. S. Economy did add jobs but just 160,000 of them, far fewer than the 205,000 expected and below the average of the past three months. The Unemployment Rate remained steady at 5 . The good news was that worker wages picked up. Average Hourly Earnings ro rose. 3 . More on the american jobs picture. Reporter job growth in april was the weakest in seven months. Nearly all the gains came from three sectors professional and business services, health care, and finance. Which produced a combined 129,000 new jobs. I think overall the signal from the data has been that things are a little weaker than we thought. I dont think its drama i think were still improving, just at a somewhat slower pace. Reporter president obama pointed out the u. S. Job market continues to outperform most other major countries. Weve got to do everything we
The Alarming Number of starving children in yemen. The abandoned gold mine in africa thats choking a community. We begin in europe, and their in tractable refugee crisis, tens of thousands making their way into the continent every day. Europe is criticized for not working together on a cohesive response to deal with the flow of refugees. Peter sutherland said its unacceptable that some countries are taking in more than others. We should have a European Response as part of a global response, and if we arent joined up in this, it will fail to ameliorate a position which is not going away, which everyone knows, but which can be greatly improved. We need structures. How is for example at the moment that the assessment of whether a person is or is not a refugee conducted at National Level has widely different results in Different Countries . A record 7,000 Syrian Refugees arrived in the former republic of macedonia. The government has organized trains twice a day to the north of the country
United and russia disagree on the outcome. We actually agree on the outcomes. In each of the case where we disagree where the challenges in both case how you get to the outcomes. Thats where all the diplomacy and the negotiations and the meetings are focused. We agree in iran without a Nuclear Weapons program and a nuclear a Peaceful Nuclear program under appropriate International Law monitoring. We agree on that. We have to different views about how you get to that. We worked out a common approach were now implementing. On syria, similarly we agree we want syria with a government that is answerable, accountable to its own people. We agree that can only be reached ultimately through a political process. Through negotiations and the political process. Question agree we do not want syria to be an environment in which extremism is implemented and able to operate threatening not only the people of syria but also syrias neighbors. Where we struggle to find a common approach in how to get th
Season. And did so in dramatic fashion. Some tell your liking up to 48 degrees and 45 right now and sunnyvale. Sunny conditions as we head into the afternoon. We do have clouds and the forecast as we head into the weekend. Of the bread and other 7 day around the bay coming up at 615. George like traffic around the bay as would be expected as the day before christmas. Nonetheless real if youre commuting. Interstate 580 and highway 4 through the east bay. Typically have the traffic there is not the case this morning. Marin county with a 24 minute drive time from the bottle down to the golden gate bridge. Lets talk about our top story. Candlestick park. The niners closing out the final chapter of regularseason play and they did it in hard stopping fashion. Heres aerial video courtesy of our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. Thousands upon thousands of fans showed up to bid farewell to the stadium and the memories made there. With more on the big good bye to the stick, lets go live t
Assault rifle as previously thought. This afternoon were learning more about how aaron alexis got into the navy yard behind me. Officials now say he had a secret security clernsz that he got while serving in the navy and was still using that same clearance as a contractor. Thats how he got into the yard. Investigators no longer say he used an assault weapon. He had a shotgun he bought last week in virginia and also two handguns he took from an officer. With the chaos and tragedy of yesterdays shooting still fresh, the fbi is focussing on aaron alexis who they called the lone gunman. Weve learned that alexis was a former member of the navy currently working as a contractor on a computer project at the yard. We hope to learn more about how the incident happened. You know, how is this man permitted to have credentials that allowed him to the navy yard grounds in the first place. The nlgted press said the investigators administration had been treating him for Mental Health problems, includ