try to fill remaining positions. will also today president biden signed an executive order on abortion access following criticism within his own party. he s not doing enough to protect reproductive rights. white house correspondent peter doocy is following it all tonight from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, mike. president biden s team pored over today s jobs report and filled up part of a speech with some numbers they think prove that things are going well and the president deserves credit. my economic plan is moving this country in a better direction. the reason to believe the president thinks that unemployment rate low and steady at 3.6%. recovered all of the jobs lost during the pandemic and added jobs on top of that. but more than 11 million jobs remain unfilled as hundreds of thousands have decided to stop looking. the labor force participation rate dropped another two tenths percent the labor force 300,000 people. fewer out there availabl
zelenskyy says his country will not see cede any territory and putin warns he s prepared to drag this war out. we ll talk with the former ukrainian president live. and right now, former trump white house counsel, pat cipollone, is testifying in person behind closed doors before the house january 6th committee. and we begin with the breaking and stunning news from japan. overnight, japan s former prime minister, shinzo abe, was assassinated at a campaign event in nara. the moment captured on video. a warning, it may be disturbing. abe was shot in the chest and the neck while giving a speech. he was quickly rushed to the hospital before his death was announced at 5:00 a.m. eastern time. abe was 67 years old and had been japan s longest serving prime minister. police say a suspect was arrested at the scene and is being investigated for murder. the killing shocking the world as gun violence is incredibly rare in japan. joining us now with the latest is former cnbc tokyo burea
yeah, this is difficult. hello, my name is michael mcmullin. i m speaking to you on january 17th, inside of a plywood box here to relay my recollections of 9/11. i mean, obviously, it s very unresolved for me. [noise] i can see the damage done to people. they couldn t tell their own story in their own words. it was just plain, plain, plain building down, building down. there was absolutely no space for more complicated stories . it became absolutely clear that this really was a very shattered experience. with a lot of feeling okay, rei guess it s working. [noise] what the bleep was that? the trade center, the trade center. oh my god. oh my god. oh my god! so, my husband and i had decided that we were gonna take the morning to do some errands and have breakfast to gather. so, we dropped our daughter off to school. the stairs from the school and my husband was talking to a stranger. he had a page from a paperback novel in his hand. and the edges were burnt. and
that is. an unexpected journey. yes, your father is dead. you are now queen. whoa! it was a man s world. she had not a clue what he was doing. she confronted challenges. everything that could go wrong did go wrong for the queen. it turned out to be and when the nation mourned princess diana has died tonight, she faced public scrutiny. the queen got crucified in the media. she chose family over duty. no one who knew diana will ever forget her. that was something she knew she had to do if she was gonna preserve the monarchy. then, more than two decades later, diana s youngest son was at the center of a royal shakeup. prince harry, the most popular royal after the queen, and his american wife, meghan, issuing what amounts to a declaration of independence. first of all, on the shock here, from 1 to 10, was this an 11? this was a 20, yes. modern-day drama added to a story past and tradition that had spanned generation. from the age of 21 t
believed was connected to the former prime minister. later at the man s home, investigators found more weapons, also hand made. among the 125 million people, there are less than 200,000 licensed firearms, mostly hunting rifles and shotguns in japan. the process to get one over there is daunting. you must pass a written test, a psychiatric evaluation, an extensive background check, a drug test and a shooting test to prove you know how to handle the weapon. because of all of that, japan s violent crime rate, especially gun crime, is exceedingly rare. put to it in context, japan experienced just ten shooting incidents in all of 2021 where just one person was killed. just one. abe s assassination has rattled the country and world leaders alike. here was president biden earlier today. i tried to put a call in to the present prime minister, and he was on the very late night there. i m going to be stopping to sign the condolence book at the japanese embassy on the way to the cia.