Good morning. 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart. We begin this hour with breaking news, a brandnew Jobs Report beating expectations. The government reporting employers added 254,000 jobs in september, thats well above the 150,000 predicted by most economists. The Unemployment Rate fell slightly to 4. 1 . And when you break it down by race, both the black and hispanic Unemployment Rates fell by. 4 last month. There you see the drop. This report comes hours after Port Workers and Port Operators along the East And Gulf coasts reached a tentative deal to end a strike that began on tuesday. That walkout threatened to bring chaos at the start of the holiday shopping season. With us now, cnbcs dominic chu. Dom, good morning. This was a strong Jobs Report. What else did we learn from it . Good morning, jose. Yes, it stands in stark contrast, this Jobs Report, what we saw the previous month, which got read as a very big at least disappointment. What we did note beyond
It is good to be back with you on this second hour of chris jansing reports. At this hour, the bombardments around beirut. Massive Fire Balls as israel carries out some of its biggest strikes yet. A live report on that, and the disturbing new comments from irans supreme leader. Plus, hes the governor who Donald Trump torched as disloyal, bad, and very average but today, a reunion, four years in the making. Will it all be water under the bridge between trump and Brian Kemp . A blue Collar Pitch in the battle for the blue wall. Were live on the trail with Kamala Harris in michigan. And the second to last Jobs Report before the election is now out, and it is crushing expectations, weve got the numbers. Our Nbc News reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin with nbcs Matt Bradley live on the ground in beirut. Matt, israel carried out one of the biggest bombardments yet. What do we know about what happened, what they were targeting . Reporter they were targeting what
Baseball and in life, itf it happens in elections some of the time and if it happens somewhere else and sometimes you lose and sometimes you win. That is what we teach our kids to act like pat murphy. Thank you so much for letting us into your homes for another week of shows. Were so grateful. The beat with Ari Melber starts now. Today i learned about the peaceful transfer of power between baseball teams. Love itted. The brewers were so good and they beat the mets so many times but this one went the other way and that was just beautiful. I clipped it to everyone i know. I loved it. I love it. Sports, culture there is a lot of places that we could look as you said for examples, whether it is for the next generation or even certain politicians, so love that going into the weekend. Thanks, nicolle. Happy friday. Have a great show. Thank you. Our thanks to Nicolle Wallace, welcome to the beat. Im Ari Melber. Voting is underway in over 25 tates. Were 32 days out to Election Day. Kamala harr
Gulf coast ports shut down. That was going to be disastrous. President biden helped get that thing fixed fast. They have agreed, tentatively, to a 62% increase in wages over the next six years. The first offer that the union turned down, to show you how far apart this was, was 40%. That is where this began, so the pressure that the union put on related work and of course the port companies, they were hoping that president biden would feel the pressure of this and just order a tafthartley return to work by that union to get through the election and you can imagine how the company s thought the president will have to do this because this will be so difficult for the harris campaign, but the president kept the administration pushing both sides to an agreement. At 5:30 you can imagine how this was at the white house. The white house chief of staff is on zoom. Pete buttigieg and others in the administration, with both sides forcing them to get together and so both sides understood that it l
President Biden Tours Florida And Georgia hit hard by helene. The Death Toll in Western North Carolina continues to rise. The world is on edge waiting to see how israel will respond to irans missile attack. The White House arguing against targeting irans nuclear program. Joining me this hour, former Defense Secretary Leon panetta on the crisis across the Middle East, former dls second Jeh Johnson joins on domestic terror threats and the anniversary of the October 7th Terror Attacks in israel, four days away. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. We are 33 days from the election. For the first time, we have former Vice President make pences own words under oath about Donald Trumps alleged attempts to discount votes and overthrow the election. Yesterday afternoon, Judge Chutkan unsealed a legal filing in the 2020 Election Interference case. The 165page Document is Special Counsel Smiths Response to the Supreme Court Immunity Decision, sending the case back to the Lower Co