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That low of 3.7% and that wage number, 3.1%. that's almost the fastest wage growth in just shy of a decade. so we finally are seeing the paychecks get a little fatter. we're averaging about 218,000. september looks like a little bit of a slower hiring period. that's because of the hurricane, hurricane florence. look at august. strong hiring there. strong hiring in october as well. jobless rate has been trending down for about nine years now. we have seen a solid trend of an economy slowly getting back up on its feet. leisure and hospitality, a lot of jobs there. health care as well. these are ...

The mayor had to release water from two local reservoirs in this area. now that is particularly why they say they need that $8 billion asap in the area. as you can see people are still suffering from the devastation of harvey. >> julie: brian, how are the schools doing? the stories of the children, the youth that have been dragged into this has just been so alarming and upsetting. what are the schools doing? >> 218,000 students attend 300 schools in the houston independent school districts. more than a billion dollar in damage. nearly every single school has suffered water damage or some sort ...

Arrive? >> well, you know, the community is suffering. this has been an unprecedented event for houston. so the community is suffering. i just came from a school that i looked at for the physical aspects of the school and driving to the school saw some of our students dragging stuff out of homes that they had just gotten back to that had just come up from the water. and, you know, dragging all their possessions out. i mean, this is a heartbreaking time for houston. but in order for that to bring some healing, we're doing some things that we can do as a school district. this year every student,...

Today and then determine how we'll open up on the 11th. >> how do you know you'll be able to open up on the 11th given all these questions? >> we know we currently have enough facilities that we know we can either fix or dry out or get ready for school, that we can start. the big variable for us, our two other variables, the greater houston infrastructure. can we transport 218,000 students which is our student population, and we've got 31,000 employees. can the infrastructure support that? secondly, our teachers and our staff. they've been impacted as well. >> for sure. out don't know how many...

Many levels. you have 213,000 students -- >> 218. >> 218,000 students. parent kind of look forward to the first day back at school so they can get their own lives back in order with child care, et cetera. parents have to go back to work at some point. so what's happening with all of those kids right now? >> obviously the entire houston community has been affected. houston is coming back to work. what we're doing is partnering with community-based organizations so we have those opportunities for especially younger students to have some kind of a structured environment before they come back to s...