To 6. 7 but the Labor Department telling us little has changed. The trend is whats important. Hiring has been slowly picking up this year but it needs to be stronger. You need to be seeing 200,000, 200,000 plus every month. What economists are telling me this morning is if you hadnt had that bad weather you might have been there. This might have been a month that saw hiring doing what we wanted to see, doing 200, 250 or higher. The real key is next month and the month after whether this momentum continue. We knew the weather would be very difficult to see what the underlying trend was in the labor market. Professional services, lawyers and accountants those tend to be higher paying jobs. 79,000 jobs created there. You saw even hiring in manufacturing. You saw hiring in construction. Some of the areas we feared would be held back by the weather. You saw some good hiring there. Pull back in hiring and retail no surprise. You werent going the enamel when you were shoveling out your drivew
World has erupted in outrage and rare concert against the groups brutality. With one breathtakingly vicious murder, the the New York Times reports, the Islamic State has united most of the region against it. But even in the face of widespread condemnation, news of brutality continues. The new video by isis urges attacks in france. They report some are speculating the fighter second from the right in that image could be a woman. Perhaps the widow of french terrorist coulibaly. Nbc news has not been able to confirm the fighters identity or if she is in fact a woman. In the meantime isis continues the bloody cam tan. Today a u. N. Watchdog says isis militants are selling abducted iraqi children at markets as sex slaves and crucifying them or burying them alive. It is a savagery president obama condemned during the National Prayer breakfast this morning. We see faith driving us to do right. But we also see faith being twisted. And distorted. Used as a wedge, or sometimes worse, used as a w
Breakfast today, president obama says isis is betraying islam. We see isil a brutal vicious death cult that in the name of religion carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism. Good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Right now secretaries of state kerry is wrapping up a critical trip to ukraine, a full day of crisis meetings focused on the renewed violence in donetsk and possibility of u. S. Arming troops. He also had a message for Vladimir Putin. Far from meeting the commitments, russia and separatists are seizing more territory, terror sizing more citizens and refusing to participate in serious negotiations. Let there be no doubt about who is blocking the prospect of peace here. Joining me now is former u. S. Ambassador to russia. Thank you very much for being with us. The kremlin said there are no russians on the ground in ukraine and secretary kerry and Prime Minister were asked about that and i want to play some of their answer. I would ask him simply mr. Prime minister is it tr
Lets talk about this nbc news that weve been able to confirm. Jordan has launched new air strikes today against targets in syria. Obviously we heard that they would seek revenge as a result of that death of the pilot and now were seeing more action. King abdullah who is a very close u. S. Ally has vowed to to take a relentless response against Islamic State after the murder horrific murder of the pilot and the day after the video was released we saw two being executed and the ramping up of the air strikes by the Jordanian Air force and hes following through on that vow. To your point, to the two executions already. Jordan is saying that it will perhaps execute another four individuals here but the targets within syria, do we know anymore about those targets . Very little detail on what exactly the targets were but the the strikes were very heavily covered in the jordanian press on state tv and kind of a notion about them. The king sunday a lot of pressure to respond. Theres been massiv
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