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Cowboys. >> that's what they are called? >> yeah. >> thank you very much, jeff. big stories happening right now. libyan rebels, they have benghazi and are on the move toward tripoli. hundreds of state jobs on the line in wisconsin. pink slips will go out if democratic lawmakers don't come back now and fill in the seats in the capitol. virginity may be catching on with young people. fewer teens are having sex. good news on the unemployment front. the u.s. economy added 192,000 jobs in february, and the unemployment rate dropped below 9% for the first time since april of 2009. christine ...

I think the way it's going to be on friday is going to depend on that jobs report. non-farm payrolls for february, 192,000 seems to be the consensus forecast. more than that, we could see the dow rising and we could see it falling if it's less than that. in terms of thursday's session, the gains there were due to falling oil prices and good news on unemployment claims. looking forward to a good non-farm payroll, as well. allison kosik has the details. >> a pullback in oil prices gave stocks room to run thursday. oil prices eased on news that moammar gadhafi might agree to peace negotiations wi...

But what do all of these numbers really mean? for that, i turn to cnn's christine romans. >> let's look at the trend over a longer period. you've showed the head lines, but you can see for the past five months now we've been adding jobs in the economy, most recently 192,000. but as you've heard me say over and over again, it takings 100,000 to 150,000 jobs each month just to keep up with population growth in this country. so it's not a significant enough of an amount to really eat into the 8 million jobs lost during the recession. we have the white house painting it in a pretty rosy light. i'l...

Economy added 190,000 jobs and it actually added 192,000 jobs but the problem is that wall street wanted the number to be better, especially since other economic reports that have been coming in lately have been very strong. i'm talking about weekly jobless claim numbers are down. service sector is heating up and retail sales are improving so analysts are now pushing up their expectations and it looks like investors wound up buying into the expectations. still, though, a strong jobs report. the february number shows the job market is at a turning point. even the december and january jobs numbe...

Market. the economy is continuing to add jobs. that's a good thing, but christine romans joins us from new york with details. good, bad, should we be optimistic about what we're seeing? >> well, a lot of folks were optimistic about it, 192,000 jobs. it's the best we've seen since last may, and that jobless rate, suzanne has fallen more quickly than any other time in three years. it's gone down really fast to 8.9%. when you look at the trend for job growth, you say the last five months of jobs gains. you see a couple of those months revised higher. and you can see that it looks as though the ma...