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>> welcome back. the latest unemployment figures released friday show 36,000 jobs lost, americans lost their jobs last month. adding to the millions more already out of work. nicole petallides from the fox business network is here to break down the numbers. nicole, they are not really good as harry reid said the other day, i economist the economists would say they're better than expected. what do you make of the number? >> harry reid, 9.2%, better than 10.2. the number on friday was 36,000. only 36,000 people lost their jobs, that's a big deal, not good. 8.4 million americans have lost their j...

That's been done so well, we have 10.2% unemployment. >> the democratic stimulus bill has famed to system u lit anything other than a few bureaucrats. >> many warned as did i that the stimulus would amount to a mountain of wasted money. >> can you tell me where the stimulus money is? >> the $787 billion stimulus package only stimulated more welfare. >> we're united in imposing the massive waste filled stimulus, or as i prefer to call it, stimu-less bill. >> it's a bad idea that does bad things, bad president, bad way of making a bad economy more bad because he's bad. also? stimulus good. you'r...

With me now, they're against that, too. seeing the pattern here? what republicans are doing on policy is no longer interesting. it is so thoroughly unrelenti unrelentingly predictable anyone who thinks it's an open question what republicans will do about the next legislation proposed is not paying attention. let me be emphatic here. let me be emphatic about one particular example, the stimulus. it passed despite every single republican in the house voting no on it, everyone. since then the consensus among economists is that the stimulus has worked even though it's maybe been too small ppt cons...

Proposals is a plan to take $30 billion from the troubled asset relief program, t.a.r.p., and create a small business lending fund. the president also wants to give a tax credit to small business to hire employees or raise wages. the president's remarks came one day after the labor department reported a drop in the nation's unemployment rate, fell to 9.7% in january. that's from 10% in december. a lot of analysts hoping that the worst is over now on the jobless rate so far. seems to have peaked in october at 10.2%. well, you know, jobs top of mind for the president, but if you are looking fo...

So new york can go either way, but the swath will be from philly back through d.c. and it's not likely to stop until tomorrow afternoon. schools are beginning to shut down early in some of these spots. the airports will be shut down in at least d.c. if not philly as well tomorrow morning. back to you. >> just the beginning for the northeast. thank you very much, rob marciano. we have some other big stories to tell you about this friday morning. the surprise on the jobs front today. the labor department says the nation's unemployment rate fell to 9.7% in january from 10% in december. that is ...