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>> a very strong end to the year for hiring. 200 thousand n hu00 -- 92 thous. for november and december it a little more money in your paychecks. this is the second best year since 1999. october, more than 300 thousand jobs added. that's new number we just got. here are the sectors. business and information services. 73,000 jobs. construction. that is likely the housing market. those are well paying jobs. healthcare a steady performer here. there are pages of numbers here. i see something that really jumps out. black unemployment fell from 9.4% to 8..

Down, african-americans 9.4%, latinos 6.4%. that disparity is still so large. and i know it's coming down, jason, but look at that disparity. we also talk about that every time we talk. >> yeah, absolutely. look, a year ago, the unemployment rate for african-americans was 11%. it's come down 1.6 percentage point. that's twice the decline we've seen in the overall unemployment rate. so, when the economy strengthens, it really does work for everyone. it just doesn't work enough for everyone, which is why, you know, we need to take, as we've talked about many times before, you know, a lot of addi...

Has a disparity between the civilians and the veterans. now, this is still a problem among the youngest group of veterans, those between 24, 20 years old and 4 ye24. the unemployment rate for them is still 15%, carol. that's way above the civilian counterparts in that same age group, 9.4% for them. so clearly still a lot of work to be done. >> so good for corporate america. 200 companies, you said. >> doing something good today. >> absolutely. thanks so much. still to come in the "newsroom," the pictures are shocking. a plane crashes into an apartment building in akron, ohio. we have new det...

And it drew moisture from joaquin to this region. you look at the flood gauge points. we knew the previous flood gauge in columbia was 9.4 feet. we had an observation of 17 feet. the water was so high, it broke off. we don't know how much higher it got. you talk about a foot of water moving downstream, it has 500 pounds of lateral force behind it. incredible. you take a moving box, a one yard by one yard. you have 1,700 pounds of weight if you fill it with water. you put a couple of these down on the road, it could easily move a vehicle. >> this is very dangerous. it could be a serious situati...

Florida. that right there is not moving. it's associated at the end of the frontal boundary. you have hurricane joaquin funneling moisture to the low sitting over florida. it's being able to pull all of that rich tropical moisture from the hurricane and just sit over certain spots. then you have the high pressure that is sitting back here. that's bringing a lot of pretty intense winds in between the two systems. and the combination of that together does not make for good weather. take a look at the rainfall totals. we've had 18 inches in berkeley county, south carolina. 17 inches in mount plea...