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Economists had predicted about 680,000 new jobs were created in may, but yesterday private pay roll company adp reported almost a million new hires last month. economists are also optimistic after learning that unemployment benefits fell to 385,000 for the final week of may. the first time claims have fallen below 400,000 since the pandemic began. alarm bells rang last month when the labor department reported 266,000 new hires when a million were expected. the disappointing number led to debate over whether the pandemic era extension of unemployment benefits were holding back payrolls. on tues...

Frankly, it is ostlm f onne: manuel bojorquez, k you. tonight, there is some good economic news. 385,000 americans filed for first-time jobless benefits last week, the lowest number since the pandemic started. business owners are seeing customers return, but are struggling to find workers. so governors from 25 states are ending federal jobless programs early. here's cbs' carter evans. >> reporter: covid struck the idyllic central california coast hard, both in cases and cost. >> our main revenue stream just shut off like a faucet. >> reporter: with so much of this region dependent on travelers...

But his legacy is all over the professional league. three of this year's ten leading scorers played for coach k at duke. the man who will replace him is seen here in a photo with the coach from yesteryear. jon scheyer was a duke recruit. he's currently a coach on the team. and now has large shoes to fill. the coach says he's a very lucky man. that he knew early on what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. and he has certainly changed the lives of many young people. this final season, he says he plans to give it his all and hopefully win one more championship. david? >> he wouldn't give a...

One on one. the lead negotiator is hammering out a bipartisan infrastructure bill. both sides seemed optimistic about it. >> this has been a good discussion and good ongoing discussion where we've -- we're working to find areas of agreement. we also feel there are a number of paths forward. >> we're still hoping we can come to an agreement on a fully paid for and significant infrastructure package. >> and out of tomorrow's may jobs report, we learned that just 385,000 americans filed new unemployment claims last week. that's the first time that that number has been below 400,000 since the star...

Good news in the labor market as the economy roars back to life. chief business correspondent christine romans with the latest jobless claims numbers. >> this trend is so clear here. this is the lowest number of new jobless benefit filings of the pandemic. 385,000. normal times that's still too high, but you can see on the chart, john, the trend is very clear here. down five weeks in a row. we still have about 15.4 million people receiving some sort of jobless check. those are going to start to expire heading into the fall. this number is going to come down, too. we're marking a brand-new phas...