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Miles of the daiichi power plant that they will not be allowed back in for months because of dangerous levels of radiation. also showing up in beef, more than 40 miles away. radiation testing is now under way on pork and poultry products as well. unemployment rate for march is now in. we have breaking news on that. christine? >> i was just listening to the call. 8.8% for the unemployment rate. down a little bit. best since march 2009. the economy added 216,000 jobs in the month. we have been talking about this. the private sector jobs, how much do the private sector business create? 230,000 ...

The u.s. labor department reporting 216,000 jobs were created just last month. and that there are more -- the unemployment rate knocking the unemployment rate down a notch to 8.8%. that's the lowest it's been in two years. let's bring in alison kosic. it's a little bit of good news, u.s. stocks seem to be responding positively to the report. >> they are. in fact, suzanne, stocks popped after this report came out because it was better than expected. if you don't count the job gains we got last year from the census, the 216,000 job gain in march, it is the strongest that we've seen in four years...

Brooke, as you know, these are sensitive not only day buzz hours right now in libya. the u.s. working very, very hard to make sure that in the end the civilians are protected, but beyond that the u.s. policy that gadhafi is gone is achieved. how they do that, anyone's guess right now. there's a huge debate unfolding, as you know. one piece of good news for the president on this day, political news, the jobs numbers, pretty good job numbers, what, 216,000 jobs created last month? the unemployment rate down to 8.8%, a full point lower than it was four months ago so there's some reason to be hope...

Our outback always gets us there... ... sometimes it just takes us a little longer to get back. ♪ time to update you on the latest headlines and stories you may have missed. unemployment hit the lowest level in two years in march and businesses are hiring more. take a look at the latest numbers, 216,000 jobs were added

216,000 new jobs created on top of 194,000 the month before. those are good numbers. when you create jobs people have more money to spend. so the economic activity starts to rise. that's putting pressure on oil prices. people buy things. megyn: they are buying more gasoline? >> buying more gasoline and buying more clothes or taking a flight or going to restaurants. any time you spur economic activity the demands for petroleum which underlies every product we use, eat, wear, buy -- megyn: that's not a silver line together jobs report. the jobs report is good news yet it's driving the price of o...