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captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening, everyone. tom, american businesses are hiring again. they added 243,000 jobs in january, way above expectations. the unemployment rate fell to 8.3%-- the lowest in three years. thats a big drop from 8.5% percent in december. >> tom: decent numbers. susie, this is good news for out-of-work americans, for the economy and for investors. stocks rallied strongly on that jobs report. the dow surged 156 points, closing at its best level sin...

really dropped severely so what were doing now and seeing now is a little bit of making up ground. >> reporter: in the bay area, manufacturing jobs make up 9% of the workforce. thats not all high-tech. golden bear employs about 20 people and pays more than the citys 10.25 an hour minimum wage. annabelle candy company in hayward employs up to 70 people depending on the season and pays production workers an average $17 an hour. annabelles a 62-year-old family-owned company thrives on fiv...

story because this is more fun than ive had in ages. todays game-changing jobs number. lets go right to former labor secretary and cnbc contributor robert reich. hes the author of "aftershock." and we welcome back former republican presidential hopeful herman cain. hes endorsed newt gingrich for president. herman cain, right to you. happy days are here again. america and finally recovering. what do you think? >> not so fast. not so fast. they forgot to count those that have given up or...

13,000. good evening. surgeon hiring aroubl the country driven the national unemployment rate to the lowest level in three years. businesses added 243,000 people to their payroll last month. driving down the jobless rate from 8.5 percent to 8.3 percen percent. about what it was when president obama took office. >> one expert calls this news a game changer. dan harris tonight on who is getting the jobs. tape. job report reminded us once again of the clint eastwood classic the good the b...

of women who depend on them. >> if people decide not to donate to us its those low income women in the bay area who will be hurt. >> reporter: some pro-life activists had come out in support of komens original decision but planned parenthood is reporting $3 million in donations since the story broke. live in san francisco, christin ayers, cbs 5. new at 5:00 an emotional plea as the san francisco sheriff learns wont be reunited with his son this weekend. >> i know what he -- [ pause ]...

>> reporter: this kind of bay area traffic is something mary masoten is seeing more than ever. >> pretty much if im not leaving my house by 6:00 in the morning, its crazy out there. >> reporter: she drives her prius to work from richmond to brisbane every day and that trip includes crossing the bay bridge. >> when you have a big chunk of water out there you live with it. >> reporter: in december we learned she shared that part of her commute with an extra 70,000 cars and trucks an incr...

with a more expedited opportunity to be reunited with my son, and thats kind of what i was hoping. >> love you daddy. i love you mommy. >> her wife and lawyer showed reporters a picture little theo drew for his dad. aliana lopez says her son constantly asks for his father and runs to the window every day looking for his daddy. >> both parents very much hope visitation will be restored. right now we have a little boy who has nod idea where his daddy is. >> its being overprosecuted. part...

>> the politics of breast cancer. >> the scurrilous accusations are profoundly hurtful. >> and the possibility of an early exit from afghanistan. >> why would you go to the people you are fighting with and tell them the date you pull out your troops? it makes absolutely no sense. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> after taking a shellacking from newt gingrich in south carolina, mitt romney was on a roll again in florida. he want women voters, moderate ...

"nightly business report" is made possible by: captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening, everyone. tom, american businesses are hiring again. they added 243,000 jobs in january, way above expectations. the unemployment rate fell to 8.3%-- the lowest in three years. thats a big drop from 8.5% percent in december. >> tom: decent numbers. susie, this is good news for out-of-work americans, for the economy and for investors. stocks rallied strongly on that jobs report. the dow s...

challenge challenged. and why did he double down? so maybe mitt said precisely what he meant. he doesnt intend to think about the worst off in in this country. plus you can just imagine how republicans hopes dropped when they heard that 243,000 new jobs were created last month. the unemployment rate dropped down to 8.3%. its good for american workers at 8.3%. and for president obama. but the president still facing head winds from europe. from a shutdown of middle east oil perhaps. and ...