job growth, above 200,000. chief business correspondent ali velshi is taking notice, of course. he's in austin, texas, at the music -- oh, boy. he's at the music, movie, festival, technology, all that stuff, south by southwest, kind of threw me off with the cowboy hat, but i should have expected that because he's in austin. do you have your rope and boots on and your wranglers also? could you please give me a full shot? >> kyra, i want you to think back to g-8, and i don't remember when it was when i was in the south of france. and i put on a -- i had blue speedos on tv for you so don't ask me what i'm wearing below here. it's not viewer friendly. >> ooh! get to the numbers, would you, ali? i really don't know where to go from here. giddy up! >> it's going to make me grow hair on my head to listen to all these people complaining about the jobs numbers. we have 227,000 jobs created in february which, by the way, is less than we had the month before in january, but that's because they revised those numbers even higher. so the bottom line is that at this pace, we are doing very, very well. what i hear is people saying you need 300,000 jobs a month to make up for population growth and bring the unemployment rate down to 5% below where it was before the recession. i'd also like to look like brad pitt, but that's not going happen. we need growth in the 200,000 range. it's happening. forget about the unemployment rate. don't talk about the 8.3% because what happens, as the jobs come back and people get discouraged and come back into the workforce and that's not what we should be measuring right now. what you should be measuring is the number of jobs that are being created. here's another thing, the number of government jobs and we don't see big losses in government jobs because we're not shedding a whole lot of them and all of the jobs that have been created have been in the private sector and this is a good, robust jobs report that shows a recovering economy. end of story. >> i'll tell you, austin's doing pretty well. is that a stetson there? >> yes. ? austin is doing well. there are a lot of start-ups around here and south by southwest, while some think of it as a music festival and film thing, there's this interactive part which is where we're at, which is four square started and where twitter became popular and i don't know if you saw me on tv earlier, but yesterday when i pulled up with the cnn election express, somebody came up to me and said hey, dude, i've got a swivel in my pocket. want to see it? i was, like, what does that mean? he showed me this thing. i can't demo it just yet, but it's a little device. you stick your iphone in it and wear this around your neck and put the video on and you walk around and it follows you as you walk around. this is just one of -- it's got to be about 1,000 examples that people are offering to pitch you on or show you as if they were dealing drugs. >> ali velshi, always keeping his head on a swivel. i'll stay away from the drugs. talk to you later. and the richmond suburb of prince george. 12:30 eastern and that's 90 minutes from now and then he's headed to houston for a pair of campaign fund raisers. it's republican caucus eve in one of the most republican states around, kansas. ron paul wants a big share of the gop candidates at stake and would love to rack up his first win. he'll be in wichita and topeka. after a rally last hour in mobile, alabama and alabama and mississippi hold primaries next tuesday and both are eager for the campaign survival plan. for him, the southern contest are an away game. he was out this morning at a farmers market in jackson. >> you see that sign out there, more jobs, less debt, smaller government and that's what we want and that is not what we got. with this president we have fewer jobs and we have more debt and we have bigger government. that's what's wrong with this president. that's why we have to get him out of office. >> and we can't forget hawaii, president obama's home state holds caucuses four days from today. pope benedict announcing moves in the u.s. to legalize same-sex marriage and the pope's comments came to address on the regular visit to the vatican. >> the pope called for the marriage to be defended with the misrepresentation of the true nature. maryland became the eighth state to legalize same-sex marriage. a federal judge is ordering new york city to pay $100 million to would-be new york firefighters who failed a discriminatory hiring test. the federal government argued and the court now apparently agrees the test exists mainly to keep minorities out of the new york fire department. the city denies it, but fdny has long been almost entirely white. under the latest ruling almost 300 black and latino applicants have to be hired. the u.n.'s humanitarian chief says she's horrified of what she saw in syria. valerie amos just wrapped up a two-day visit to that region including a war-torn home where hardly a soul can be found now. today she's asking the syrian government for unhindered access to the wounded, something they've denied so far. 62 more civilians have been reported killed in fighting today. the opposition says government forces are storming villages, killing soldiers who have defected and given the dangerous situation there it's hard to imagine why anyone would want to put themselves on the front line, but cnn arwa damon did just that. she was in homes reporting on the atrocities first hand. >> reporter: this has been completely trashed and the activists were telling us that the bombardment, they keep hearing it over and over again, the sounds of artillery falling and it's nothing compared to what they've been through before. but this was once an ordinary home and an ordinary family lives here and we don't know what their story was. there's just bits and pieces of their lives left behind including this children's toy. >> what happened -- >> this weekend learn what it's like to be trapped in terror for "72 hours under fire." well, straight ahead. he must be stopped. the documentary of a ugandan warlord goes viral. the hunt for joseph coney, why you should care next. plus the machine gun preacher. he's known for saving the kids taken by coney. we'll talk to him live after the break. if you are one of the millions of men who have used androgel 1%, there's big news. presenting androgel 1.62%. both are used to treat men with low testosterone. androgel 1.62% is from the makers of the number one prescribed testosterone replacement therapy. it raises your testosterone levels, and... is concentrated, so you could use less gel. and with androgel 1.62%, you can save on your monthly prescription. 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this is big news. for 26 years kony has been kidnapping children into his rebel group, the lra. turning the girls into sex slaves and the boys into child soldiers. he makes them mutilate people's faces and he forces them to kill their own parents. >> that was just 30 seconds of a 30-minute documentary detailing the horror unleashed by the ugandan warlord joseph kony. coney 2012 has gone voiral. more than 50 million views on youtube, but its producers do have critics. the non-profit group invisible children is accused of being fast and loose with facts and financial, but what is happening on the ground in david mackenzie is our man in africa and joins us from nairobi. what are africans saying about this documentary? >> reporter: well, kyra, africans are pretty much split down the middle. many of them share the passion that millions of viewers on youtube and other outlets have said about this filmmaker's look at joseph kony, the resistance army and how he kidnapped 30,000 children. that's just an extraordinary number over 20 years and put them in his army, an army with no particular point of view or nationalistic aim and were ordered around northern uganda and then into other countries in central africa, but then there is the other side of this debate which is rioters think ordinary africans are a couple of things. one is that they feel it's too late and one ugandan military spokesman said great message, 15 years too late. joseph kony was at his height in the late 90s and early 2000s, kyra and since then he's been pushed out of the country into more and more remote areas and he's stuck in the central african republic where u gandance are hunning for him and they're advised by u.s. special forces. in some ways that i say great message, good that people know about it, but why didn't this come earlier? >> why has it been so hard to capture him? >> it's been so hard because he is both very elusive, has no particular aim. so he's not really pushing in and taking territory like a traditional militia would try to do in a civil war. he's caused havoc wherever he's gone with his compatriots and with the child soldiers and sex slaves he's moved into more and more remote areas. now they say they're between five and ten militiamen each in the separate sections of the bush and what the u.s. can bring to the table is intelligence and technology. they believe that could provide the edge and that's why these filmmakers say that they want people to support the u.s. in trying to capture him. >> our david mackenzie in nairobi. thanks so much. >> our next guest is a machine gun carrying man of god. you heard me right. ex-con sam childers is no stranger to crime. he's gone from guarding drug dealers in the u.s. to guarding the kids of sudan, saving them from the horrors unleashed by kony's army. sam grew up in pennsylvania, but he's made africa his success home and for months he slept under a mosquito net with a bible in one hand and an ak-47 in the other. sounds like a hollywood movie issue doesn't it? gerard butler blade the machine gun preacher bringing sam's story to the masses. sam joins me live from pittsburgh. what's your reaction to the kony film? some of the criticism it's getting? >> i would have to say i think these guy have done a very good job on the message. they've always done very well on the awareness. i believe it's years too late, and i know for a fact that the ugandan government, as well as south sudan government would say joseph kony is not a threat to them right now. he's not a threat. he's in the congo area, but i believe there's more of a picture. if we're going to concentrate on him and if anybody would love to see him brought down it's me. i would love to see him brought to justice. i would do it myself if i being, but i believe we have to focus on the big picture. right now there is a genocide going on in darfur. joseph kony never caused a genocide. there -- there was 500 and some people killed last week in the mountains and there's fighting in nabie and fighting in blue nile. joseph kony did not cause this. the man who caused this is the president of northern sudan brash irand brash iris the same one that supported joseph kony in his acts in the past and he hassa also said that he supported joseph kony. joseph kony has made claims that he had support from the president of northern sudan, so let's take all of the eyes that are concentrating on kony and let's make it president brashir/kony. >> you know, sam, do you know what's interesting -- >> i think they both need to be brought to justice. >> here's what's interesting. a lot of this criticism about this documentary centers around that it's simplifying a very complex problem and you are making that clear right now. so it's raising a lot of money. people that don't even understand the issue are saying, hey, check it out. link on to this. watch this, and then they're just giving money. what do you want to see on a deeper level, what do you want to see happen because you're living this. you're going to be on a plane within 48 hours headed back to africa. >> right. i believe that people will give money, research your organization. make sure you're giving money that's being used on the grounds. they're suffering people in uganda, and there are people that need to be worked there as well as south sudan, so watch where you're giving the money. give to somebody who is actually working with the children there. don't get me wrong. invisible children have done a very good job with the story getting it out there. over 50-some million people have looked at it right now. my big concern is let's look at the true problem and the true problem is the president of northern sudan brashir. there is a genocide going on. let's take it serious. i mean, let's take this serious. hundreds of thousands of people have died, and there's going to be more than that right now in south sudan. oui got a serious problem going on. >> sam -- >> south sudan has lost -- yes, go ahead. >> before i let you go. why are you so passionate about this? >> you know, these people are my people now. i love south sudan. i love uganda. i've been there for almost 15 years now. i don't plan on leaving there. i actually worked in ethiopia, uganda and northern sudan. i'm not raising money for myself. i raise money to help the people there. so let's focus on rebuilding uganda if we're going do anything. and listen, joseph kony is not a threat to the people of uganda or south sudan. he needs to be brought to justice, but let's be for real. there's thousands of other people that needs to be brought to justice, but let's go to the problem and the root of the problem i'll say it over and over and over is president brash brashirof northern sudan. >> sam childer, stay in touch with us while you're in africa, will you? >> i thank you. >> we'll check in with you. now another documentary, but a totally different subject. we're ramping up to march madness, folks. so what better way to do that than to relive one of the biggest moments in ncaa history? aye the remarkable grant hill joining me live next. when you have diabetes... your doctor will say get smart about your weight. that's why there's new glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. [ male announcer ] new glucerna hunger smart. a smart way to help manage hunger and diabetes. ♪ ♪ >> there's the pass. puts it up. yes! >> we had a team of guys who felt they were good. >> the starting lineup. >> we were like the jackson 5 and each one of us thought we were michael. >> grant hill was one of the five work the abcs of the game putting two championships in the record books and that was just 13 seconds of the hour-long documentary duke '91-'92 back-to-back highlighting two historic seasons in the ncaa. when is it a better time to pump it than two weeks before march madness gets under way. trutv is airing the documentary and see it at 8:00 p.m. this sunday and of course, one of the stars the remarkable player and humanitarian grant hill. he joins me now from phoenix, arizona. grant, good to see you. >> good to see you, too. >> so what are basketball fanatics going to love and appreciate about this documentary? >> wow! you know, it is a story about our team and sort of what we went through during those two years in 1991-1992, but i like to say it's a human interest film. we really get into a lot of the relationships and a lot of the adversity and a lot of the dynamics that were at play during those two seasons and so obviously it's a basketball story, but we really get into the brotherhood, the fraternity, and the dysfunction. anything that sort of went on during those years. ? now, as we all know, college just rocked for you, and then came the pistons. you were their number one pick, but then in 2000, you got this ankle injury, but now you are closing in on 17,000 points. i guess all of us first of all, want to know who is your ankle doctor? >> my ankle doctor is dr. nunly at duke university. i had to give him a little plug. >> oh, i see, it all goes back to duke. >> duke film, duke doctors. no, i'm thankful to be still playing and obviously i've had some adversity, but you know, i'm enjoying it. i'll be 40 this year and still going out and having fun, living the dream, playing basketball on cnn talking with you, so i'm having a blast. >> you are a lucky pan. let me ask you something. i'm dying to ask you about jeremy lin. you've dealt with expectations and the highs and the lows and you've come out on top and jeremy lin is doing great. what do you say to him? >> wow! first of all, what he's been doing has been extremely impressive and certainly everyone's been captivated by his play and how he's handled himself with grace. i think for him just to continue to work hard, it doesn't seem like he takes himself too serious. he's very grounded and he's a very intelligent guy and went to harvard and played for tommy who went to duke and coached at duke. so it always comes back to duke. i would just, you know, enjoy it. have fun, keep perspective. he's in the media capital of the world in new york. he's got a good head on his shoulders and regardless of what happens going forward he'll continue to do well, and i think hopefully stay grounded. >> i'm going to take advantage of you for a second if you don't mind. i don't know if we can bring up cnn.com. we're gearing up for march madness, and i unfortunately, have to do a bracket. i was not that good, so i'm just curious if you could tell me what your final four would be and give me a little bit of an advantage, please. >> it's hard because we don't have the being braets yet so we don't know the seatings. first you have to look at duke. i know that i got blown out by north carolina, and you have coach k. so you have to put him in. >> duke's in. check. >> i would have to say, syracuse has had a great season. i really am impressed. >> good journalism school, by the way. >> good journalism school. >> that's right. >> there you go. give me two more. >> i like michigan state and i like tom izzo. i know they've been up and down this year, but he always seems to turn it on during the tournaments so i would throw michigan state in there and i think kentucky. they might be the most talented team in college basketball. so duke, syracuse, michigan state, kentucky. >> got it, all right. i'm sorry, guys. the entire control room is so upset, but they still think you're a great guy. >> ohio state beat duke pretty bad so i won't put them in the final four. >> you should hear what i'm getting right now. duke, michigan state, kentucky. thank you so much. you're a true gentleman and the documentary is great once again on trutv at 8:00. appreciate it so much, grant. >> thanks for having me. appreciate it. >> you bet. you bet. all right, this is just a glimpse of the destruction in west lenniberty, kentucky. it's where this group of people have become a team and we'll show you how they're bringing hope back in through the work of a cnn hero. we'll have that right after the