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After he was beaten outside of dodgers stadium following a game. should the dodgers be held responsible? a jury will soon decide. also a homeless man carrying two knives, threatening people at a jail and refusing to drop his weapons. what police did next. two men say they accidentally threw out a winning lottery ticket worth one million dollars. why the men are now saying powerball is actually at fault. now this "fox business alert." new job numbers out this morning. the number of people applying for first time unemployment benefits dropping to 312,000 last week. but analysts say, that n...

Weekly jobless numbers released just moments ago. how do they look? >> they look better. we just went down 6,000 last week from the week before, that is improvement. 312,000 americans filing unemployment claims last week. you want to see that number going down, moving in the right direction. it speaks to the trend of fewer layoffs in this country rand more job openings, while the unemployment rate not exactly where we want to see it, you do want to see those claims numbers moving to the low 300,000 level so that is certainly a good sign. i do want to talk about an alarming trend we've been see...

>> i wonder if their key faub will bet them to that floor? >> do we have a number of the victims yet? >> yes, they will be giving money to people who claim they were hurt in this, and as we now know, many people, 13 gm claims, as much as 70 or more claims by attorneys. >> you have more on this this afternoon? >> absolutely. we will talk about it in "the wi willis report" at 5:00 p.m. >> okay, we'll watch for that. more americans applied for unemployment benefits last week. the labor department says it jumped a little to 312,000. analyst say that's still close

Meaning banks have to pay the ecb to keep their money there overnight. it is europe's way to try to jump-start its economy which is exactly what we're trying to do here in the u.s. as well, jenna. we'll get an update tomorrow morning. jenna: thank you for the correction. 312,000 this week for jobless claims, lauren. so that's a relatively low number, but you point out overall there's still some questions about the recovery. >> reporter: absolutely. jenna: lauren, thank you so much. eric? eric: prosecutors in illinois are now tighting to bring a marine already convicted of another murder back t...

Next question from adam. he wants to know, what would your perfect day consist of? a healthy family, praise the lord we've had a lot of them. rapid response panel is next. i'm sue herrera with your cnbc market wrap. stocks rally ahead of the employment report. the s&p gained 12, hitting a new record high, the nasdaq added 44. it's all about jobs. jobless claims rose slightly more than expected, filings up 8,000 to 312,000 but close to post recession lows. job cuts rose to the highest level in a year as employers plan to cut payrolls by 53,000 in may. that's if from cnbc, first in business wo...