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firefighters rescued a woman trapped in an area still standing. at least nine people were saved after the collapse, but there are still people unaccounted for, and the authorities say that the building has to be demolished soon. adrienne broaddus, what are people saying about the demolition? they are standing outside of the building, rahel, they are saying save our friends and family, and keep the building standing. they are using the voice to appeal to officials as folks handling the demolition are trying to determine the exact timing of it. and a man said he heard from his cousin hours before the collapse. listen in. my cousin said that he had just came home at 5:00, and he was tired, and when he get up, he is coming to the family gathering. so like three hours or more after that, the building collapsed, and we have not seen my cousin brandon covin since then, and his clothes are hanging up in the closet right there if you can see it. it is still hanging, and the ....
Monday but things have been busy here at airports across the country. the line was past where i m standing here at reagan national airport. 2.73 million people screened by tsa yesterday. 14% higher than the same day last year. in fact, almost reached the post-2020 high mark that we saw on the friday before memorial day when 2.74 million people were screened. only about 10,000 people shy. the numbers all week have been huge. above 2.4 million people each day. here s what s happening. a confluence of things. the federal holiday of juneteenth, more states recognizing it, father s day weekend and the kickoff to summer travel that happened back on memorial day. in fact, it will be even busier in the air than we have seen since the depths of the pandemic. the faa anticipated 52,000 flights nationwide yesterday. scheduled by air curious. about 50,000 today. it dips off little bit, then ....
International airport, and what are you seeing? these numbers are way bigger than before the pandemic. if you add up all of the numbers, the number of people screened by tsa across the country, 9.8 million people, and that is 300,000 people more people than the same period back before the pandemic. 2.58 million people was the second wave of folks coming home all at once, and 2.74 million people on friday. that is now the pandemic era air travel record. we have not seen a number that high since 2019. the good news here for all of those people is that airlines really passed a big test, and the cancellation numbers were realtively low, and about 700 cancellations, and a quarter of what we saw over the same period last year which really kicked off a summer of cancellations from memorial day to labor day, the airlines canceled 55,000 ....
Attorney may actually help his case. we ll turn now to business news. newly-released jobs numbers. 304,000 americans filing for unemployment benefits in the last week. the labor department says hiring has actually picked up after a slow winter. fox business network s adam shapiro live from the floor of the new york stock exchange with more what is happening today. adam. reporter: that s right, jenna. the weekended last week, last friday, there were 304,000 initial filings for unemployment benefits for the weekending april 12th. they revised the 300,000 to 302,000. the four-week moving average which people watch a lot is falling to 312,000. this is considered a good report. the other key metric is continuing claims. people who file more than one week of benefits. those were down 11,000, to roughly 2.74 million people. that is the lowest since december of 2007. so this is an, in all explanations a good employment ....
Claims for unemployment benefits at 304,000. now, everyone was expecting 315,000. so this 304,000 is considered pretty good. the four-week moving average fell to 312,000. the figure you want to pay attention to as well is the continuing claims. those are people who have filed for claims for more than a week. that s down to 2.74 million. that s the lowest it s been since december of 2007. so all in all, this is being considered a good report for the week. initial jobless claims coming in lower than have been expected. back to you. all right. thank you very much. after some rough days on wall street, i would imagine today will probably be an up day. right? wall street, good news sometime becomes bad news. we re going into a long weekend. the markets will be closed tomorrow. we might see some selling today. thank you so much adam. coming up here on the show, three terrorist attacks in new york city. so why are cops no longer allowed to keep an eye on muslim extremists. we ll ask c ....