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lets get straight to the news. we have a busy hour ahead. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the government says another 227,000 jobs were added to the u.s. economy in february and the unemployment rate held steady at 8.3%. thats largely due to almost half a million discouraged job seekers returning to the search. is the third straight month of job growth, above 200,000. chief business correspondent ali velshi is taking notice, of course. hes in austin, texas, at the music -- oh, bo...

Interesting thing to me about this sort of -- the kind of field of play we have now in which we have both the candidates and the sort of -- the billionaire funders and pro public did a good sort of reader in on who is giving more than a million dollars and its a variety of wealthy individuals. the sort of danger, i think, or the interesting part of the super pac era prior to citizens united, private citizens werent barred from doing this time of activity. it was clearly within the four squares o...

>> thanks, bro. that is the crowd. unfortunately they are captured audience. >> torres used to sing in a band on the outside. but hes probably better known for being a prolific bank robber. now, hes pursuing a literary career working on his autobiography. the bank robber blues, tale of the mummy bandit. a couple guys i let them read it and they are my critics. they say its a page-turner. keeps the reader interested. it doesnt take a genius to figure how to write one and lay it down. im just gett...

Time he or she is 2 years old. >> one of them is anti-disestablishmentarianism. >> very good. >> the language development surveys list of must-know words include words about toys and food. and they say if your child doesnt know them by 24 months it could lead to him being a slow reader or it could be an indication of other developmental delays. >> now we go over this list we have in front of us. some of these words kids should know. >> mommy, daddy, baby, milk, juice, hi. >> youre doing really w...

was the only tv producer invited to whitney houstons funeral from any network. so well have not only the inside look, but also the explanation from bobby brown as to why he bailed on the ceremony. >> did you hear about the deadly avalanche near a ski resort in washington state. skiers buried in snow after falling 1500 feet. there were warnings of high avalanche danger. they were not supposed to be in that area. reports were it was an out-of-bounds area they were skiing in. we have all ...

>> arthel: every time you look around, it seems like there is a new batch of smart phones hitting the market. >> rick: its fun, right? >> arthel: very fun. >> rick: how do you know if its worth trading in the one you have for the one you want? mike is "consumer reports" senior electronics editor. he has three of these top new phones. these are hot off the press. >> both pairly new. introduced at the electronics show last month. first up -- >> arthel: big screen there. >> cross between a phone an...

very good friday morning to you. welcome to "early start." im ashleigh banfield. >> im zoraida sambolin. we are bringing you the news from a to z. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. >> lets get started here. >> some developments overnight be want to tell you about, very unusual. a shoot-out? a federal building and ice agent killing another and another ice agent injured. how and why this happened. >> new details on whitney houstons funeral. we know who will sing, who will speak and who will s...

Now. >> arthel: $730. and the droid raiser. >> its a hot phone right now. the thinnest smart phone out there, its light, it works on 4 g. and it actually comes in purple now, which i thought was kind of sexy. >> arthel: im sorry. thats my favorite color. keep going. >> and this is the nikona really, really nice camera. it comes in red. i was into the colors of these. 12 mega pixels and 12 x zoom. >> arthel: its $199. >> right. this is $200. >> arthel: for $100? >> this is the nook simple touch e...

Interest and their holdings and whatever they do on the hill. in this case earmark, requesting special money, and what we were able to find was that, time after time they were asking for either earmarks that were right by property that they owned or in many cases they were asking for earmarks that went to organizations their family members work at, in many cases directly to programs that their family members run. so very tight, close connections there. jenna: lets pick up off of that, i saw how ...

You could determine who the biggest offenders are. we really try to stay away from ranking anything, and i think its a very level, even story. we show you where their projects are, and we show you where -- how much money they got, and we show you where their property is, and you as reader can make the determination as to whether or not you think they did it to personally benefit themselves. we tried to not make those judgments or do the range, but i think its very telling if you just look at it....