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. we begin with politics and president obama who just, moments ago, landed in miami where he's visiting a school to promote education reform. the president is sharing the political stage with the former governor of florida, jeb bush. it's also happening on a day when the white house received good news on jobs. unemployment dipped below 9% and 192,000 new jobs were added in february. nbc's mark potter is live in miami. good afternoon, mark. >> reporter: hi, martin. it seems the president's quite pleased with the job numbers. his spokesman, jay carney, on air force one, on the plane ride down,...

Have been up and running. it's not like oil is actually getting out of the ports. >> okay. thank you for that update. let's go now to the jobs puzzle here in the u.s. in what the white house calls very good news. 192,000 jobs were added. it is the best showing in nearly a year. overall the unemployment rate dropped to 8.9%. it is the lowest mark since 2009. millions are still out of work and republicans say white house policies are part of that problem. >> despite some signs of life, the unemployment rate is still far above the levels that the president's advisors promised when the spending ...

Total new jobs created 192,000. >> most private sector jobs in nearly two years. >> news gets better. >> unemployment dipped to 8.9%. that's a good road map. >> i think we're on the right path. >> seems to be a very good report. >> republicans take credit for the good and of course blame the president for it not being good enough. >> john boehner put out a statement saying this improvement in the job situation is welcome news, but he says this is far above where the obama administration promised it would be. >> republicans in wisconsin that promised to make jobs are going to cut jobs. >> gover...