hard want to do because once you do it, you gotta keep doing here. >> monday. how about that? all right. sounds good. >> and be sure to watch speaking of which cnn special coverage of the eclipse across america starting monday 1:00 p.m. eastern or stream it on max, a new our of cnn news central starts right now all right >> breaking news, waffle, new number is just in from the new jobs report way higher than expected. the unemployment rate dropped, no recession in sight it justin israeli military releases initial findings into the strike that killed seven world central kitchen aid workers, where the idf is placing the blame. >> i'm >> john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. this is cnn news central >> all right breaking news coming in hot red hot the economy added 303,000 jobs in march. >> way way higher than expectation. cnn's matt egan is with us now, mac give us a sense of these numbers and what it means >> john, this is another blockbuster jobs report and i gotta give you credit because about an hour ago after off-camera you have jokingly said, well, what if it comes in at 300,000, you almost nailed it 303,000 jobs it was added last month. >> this >> is 50% more than expected. it is an acceleration from what we saw on february the unemployment rate taking down to 3.8%. these really are very impressive numbers and this jobs market, it just continues to defy expectations both in a short-term basis, coming in hotter and hotter than expected, but also when you zoom out, this jobs market is so much better than people thought. >> a lot >> of economists reasonably expected that the fed's war on inflation spiking interest rates was going to cause the unemployment rate to go up, was going to cause job loss and that just has not happened, if anything, this jobs margaret is heating up and some economists are already there baffled by these numbers, right? one economists just put out a report with the subject line wow, and writing the data, leave us border line speechless. some context around these numbers. we're now looking at more than three straight years of monthly job gains. that is the fifth longest streak on record in the unemployment rate is now below 4% for 26 months. in a row, that is the longest streak since the late 60s and early 1970s under lbj and richard nixon, john listen, you can't bet a bet. bet against his jobs market because it just continues to defy expectations. >> oh, look at that graph there we have right here. that's what you want to see, just the jobs, unemployment going down, down, down, down, job growth, up, up, up and up. matt egan. thank you very much for that >> oh, mistaken identification and errors in decision-making. those are two of the findings from the initial investigation into the israeli airstrike that killed seven aid workers in gaza. now the idf review also saying that the strike should never have happened, calling it a grave mistake, and have now fired military officers involved in that decision-making in that strike. the aid workers with world central kitchen. we know they were traveling in a convoy of three vehicles two were armored vehicles. the idf says, some of the aid workers survived the first strike in the first vehicle and that they fled to the second vehicle in the convoy after that and then that one, of course then was also hit and no one survived. seen as a prop person is in jerusalem, seen as arlette saenz at the white house, flores are let stand by for us nick, let me first go to you, talk to us more about what we're learning happened from this initial investigation >> yeah, the idea is calling it a grave mistake that it happened out with the protocols of the rules of engagement. and here you have to start adding caveats in because we don't know and the idf doesn't close the rules of engagement. but what they have said in this report is that they spotted a gunman, a gunman getting on one of the aid trucks big trucks carrying the aid they then saw another somebody they believe to be a gunman. now the trucks and the suv's carrying the aid workers went to a warehouse the idf says, when those suvs came out of the warehouse they thought that the gunman might be in one of those suvs and that's why they were targeted now the idf is saying that this was a miss identification of the vehicles by the forces of miss clarification of the events on the ground. an additional details that the idf i've, briefed as well, say that they believe that they saw somebody in one of those vehicles who had some things slung over their shoulder which they later now believed was a bag. now the global central world central kitchen, i said very clearly that the fact that the idf has accepted sponsor ability and actually disciplined some stuff and accepted that the world central kitchen were acting along the protocols that they were supposed to followis next, stan transparent. alex, what donald mean everything. >> oh, absolutely. which is why they're pressuring before i just played session ends to change the law so that so that way it's winner take all for the entire state to basically get rid of that cratic advantage in omaha. >> and the >> biden team knows this too, ene trump's recent pu, it was not a coinciden that secd gentleman,oug i'half jt happened to op and omaha and you go to 2020, the biden mpaign was up with lots of ads in thomaha market to win that congressional strict like th did last time. so this could i mean, because of the crazy system that our founders gave us, this electoral college where every state can do it differently. we are now in this crazy scenario where we are fighting over for the end of the state legislative session in nebraska, it is just one electoral college vote. and the way to get a pass into brassica turns out is not going to be super easy for the republicans to do it. errol but boy, when you see donald trump and republican candidate starting to play with the electoral college system that already, at least right now seems to advantage them. it is interesting. yeah, it is interesting. and this is a candidate who, every time he's involved in a either a campaign rally or one of his court appearances. he comes out and talks about voter suppression, about how unfair it is, about how they're changing the rules on him and lo and behold, here they are trying to change rules, not in an nefarious kind of a way, you know, it's perfectly acceptable to go and try and persuade this unusual legislature. i mean, the brassica, among other things, is the only unicameral legislature. they don't have an assembly and a senate. they have drought that's the one legislature. so yeah, they can, they can try and they can push, but it really would be a matter of disenfranchising a number of people who went into this election season, expecting it to be like all of the other ones where their votes would count in the omaha area and of course, then main could try to change its rules and that would benefit the democrats. >> but >> we will take that as it calms. donald trump did an interview with hugh hewitt >> end. he said some wild things here. he talked about president binds performance during the state of the union address. and i want to play a little bit of that. this is sought number two, guys you know that that white stuff that they happen to find which happen to be cocaine and the white as i don't know, i think i think shop is >> going on there because i watched his state of the union and he was object up at the beginning by the end, he was fading fast there's something going on. i want to debate and i take debates with him at least should be drug tested >> i want >> are you >> suggesting president biden's using cocaine? >> i don't know what he's using, but that was not hey, he was higher than a kite >> i suppose you can look at that any number of ways. one of the ways is donald trump actually thought that president biden's performance during the state of the union, at least the first part, was quite good. it seems he seemed to think he did well. >> yeah, he's like, you know, it was all fake. he was it was just a temporary high, but this is also very classic trump. i'm just asking questions in order to, because now look at us. we're on tv talking. well, was biden high on cocaine during the state of the union? i mean, this is a classic trump example of just putting it into the media bloodstream so that people keep talking about it. i mean, it reminds me back in 2016 when with ted cruz's dad involved in the jfk assassination in ball, i just, you know, it's out there. >> yeah, confusion, chaos, deception it's it is certainly unworthy of a former president of the united states, unworthy of a candidate for that same office but apparently, this is what we're going to get that those are the words of somebody who is stuck in the polls, can't figure out how to build his base and in fact is going to just try and juice up his base with wild conspiracy theories and just try and put a shot of pure conspiracy theory energy out there to attract as many people as possible. it doesn't sound like a winning strategy to beat. >> no. i mean, it present buying good i'm just hi in the state of the union. do i mean, he could say, look, this is the problem was they made it sound as if he was a doddering old man and he came out and just gave a speech like the practice politician that but now they have to sort of explain it. they can't quite accept that. he's a vigorous man who happens to be in his late 70s as far as getting out, i mean, it's a sort of admission from donald trump that he thinks that the state of the union address was good or at least with something that needs to be dealt with. >> absolutely. there are a victim of their own setting of low expectations. he saw some 2022 when you have joe biden gets on the debate stage with trump and number for one was like, oh, he can commit, he can finish a sentence and it's not like joe biden's speech was perfect you know, he he mistakenly said russia instead of canada, like he, he had his flubs but i think it's more probably coffee than okay. very >> quickly, i want to play what donald trump said about richard nixon >> they went after him like they've never gone after anybody. he made some mistakes wildly. the firings were mistake. you notice the way i kept people that i couldn't stand that from nixon. i was a fan of his in many respects. and so will you. >> but >> in many ways he was his own worst enemy >> and he >> did things that were he didn't treat people. some people well and those people ended up coming back to get them learn his lessons from richard nixon. >> well, i think we all those of us who remember it and those who learned about it through history books, we can all learn a lot from richard nixon in his presidency. i do very different conclusions than donald trump did about what that presidency was a bad, this is not a personnel dispute when he tried to, when he fired the attorney general of the united states, fired the special counsel and try to append an investigation of his doomed corrupt presidency. it was a little bit more than that. >> errol louis, we should mention, of course, of the host of the big deal with errol louis on spectrum news. thank you very much for being with us, alex thompson. thank you as well. >> okay. so john has been having fun with it all week, so i'm going to try this one on for size because i will always win because i always do depending on where you live, your view of the solar eclipse on monday may totality rock yeah. >> we're good guys. are expected and were cloudy skies may ruin everything. four, bring it to you the new cnn original series space shuttle columbia, the final flight from yours this weekend, you can watch it. you can watch the first two episodes this sunday, 9:00 p.m. right here on cnn. here is a frequent these guys have trained you know, forever for this mission. last thing they want is for them to catch something and be 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i felt a compression. >> i looked up and i saw the blue structure coming down i slammed on my brakes >> it's >> sheared off the front of my tesla. >> the car >> and all the airbags went off and i'm very very lucky to be alive. >> so that's it. i saw the structure after it hit my car, bounced in the air and then land on the car next to me >> it's like a matter of inches of that man wasn't a very different situation officials say that the bridge will remain closed indefinitely until the repairs are completed days so many gen xers, some super awesome millennials, remember, oh so well, the de, they first heard it smells like team spirit. now, today, nirvana fans are remembering the legendary grunge music icon kurt cobain. he passed away on this day, 30 years ago. also today, never before seen photos are being released of cobain, his wife, courtney love, and baby francis been in check them out on cnn.com. these were taken a year after the album, nevermind was released and are in the soon to be released book, family values. kurt, kurt, courtney, and frances bean it's always amazing to remember that cuckoo pain only released three studio albums before he died. they clearly had such a huge impact on music and pop culture sarah, it is so true, we're going from kurt cobain to pink floyd this morning one, the dark side of the moon one of america's what did you want? one of america's national parks is preparing for more than 1 million visitors coming to niagara falls for the eclipse just three days away. while in canada's niagara region officials, there have proactively declared a state of emergency. i haven't expected surge of visitors for monday's big event, but there's always the weather that could be a problem cnn senior data reporter, harry enten, for some reason is out at niagara falls with quite an outfit on harry, that dark side of the moon song written by pink floyd it was about insanity and i'm a little concerned. what do you see it out there? >> i mean, it is freakin freezing. that's the only thing i can really say. i got the eclipse glasses on. i'll take them off so i can actually see the camera this morning, we've had a buffet smorgasbord of whether it is currently though you can't see it on camera lightly snelling, we have the sun out over there. there was a rainbow forming over niagara falls. it's an absolute lunacy. now, the good news is it's supposed to warm up as we head into the weekend. it could be in the mid-fifties by monday, it's currently in the low 30s, but the big question is whether or not there'll be clouds and whether or not that we showers. now, at this particular point, the forecast is partly sunny mostly cloudy, not it's partly sunny and we just get those cirrus clouds up above. i think we're going to be okay because i was trying it on myself with these guys glasses over here and you can still see the some pretty well. but the fact is the old saying is, you know, at niagara falls, if you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes. that is definitely been the case this morning. that could be the case this monday. so we don't know what's going to happen. i'm just going to try and put on my weather camp shoes. i was looking at the model outputs, this historic data earlier on, and it does seem like the forecast is getting a little bit better. but the truth of the matter is sarah, we're just going to have to wait and see it's going to be a game-tying decision here. >> you know, it's a, great honeymoon location, niagara falls, harry would have even hearing from the lovers there i spoke with a number of lovers. we had a lovely couple out here earlier. they were with their dog who in fact was celebrating his third birthday. he had a nice little handkerchief on celebrating his birthday but the real thing that i'm hearing from them is that it's a rip off. it's a rip walk to be here come monday. the hotels are going from let's say right now, all hundred dollars they may charge upwards of $800 for monda