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soon as that news conference starts. set to start some time live in the hour. we'll get right to you. we're also following this. this is a disappointing jobs report driving stocks down today. right now the dow jones down about 100 points. labor department saying hiring slowed to a crawl in mashlrch. economy added just 88,000 jobs in march. bring in alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. what were people expecting? was it anything close to what economists were expecting? >> that's why you're seeing the selloff right now. the dow down 109 points because it was so far from what expectations were. the expectation was it would have been 100,000 more jobs than that. the actual number was 190,000. so obviously it fell very short of those expectations. what it says is that the job market and the economy, suzanne, could be headed for a spring slump. in fact, fed chief ben bernanke