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Have a good weekend. Today was day four, day four of testimony in the first criminal trial of a former president. Trumps lawyers were able to finish crossexamining the lead witness, Tabloid Publisher and trump insider david pecker. We will talk about how that went in just a second, but today we got to see the prosecution second witness. Someone who worked closely with donald trump for decades, including on tv. Hi, good morning, this is mr. Trumps office. Hi, good morning. Mr. Trump would like to meet you at 9 00 at tavern on the green. Good morning, it is rhona calling. Mr. Trump is meeting wi...

A big jump in the weekly unemployment numbers at that came out earlier today. jobless claims increasing to 385,000, the third straight weekly increase we'v. and there are a number of stories about the jobs that are created and peter doocy has it live in washington. >> reporter: megyn, the lower wage jobs are created two and a half times than the mid wage or higher wage jobs. lower wage jobs only made up 21% of losses during the recession and are now responsible for 58% of recovery growth according to the national employment project. and we've also got a list that shows specifically which low w...

Applications jumping now to a four-month high. that means 385,000 americans filing for first-time benefits in the last week alone. that is up now three weeks in a row. this news as a brand new study shows 60% of jobs lost during the great recession were middle class jobs. peter doocy is on that live in washington. peter, good morning. those middle class jobs, are they coming back or not? >> reporter: bill, those mid-wage occupations have only made up a fraction, 22% of recovery growth but 58% has been with lower wage jobs. if you add up all the jobs have come back in food services and retail a...

Older workers. people that have come out in tough job markets and they are clogging up the space. college grads, a lot of them are coming out and having to take jobs just to make sure they can make ends meet. >> 60% of jobs lost during the recession were considered mid wage but during the recovery, an almost identical percentage, 58% of new jobs have been low wage. the low wage openings that have increased over the last decade include food prep workers, customer service reps, registered nurses. secretaries, waiters, retail sales people and janitors. >> this is supposed to be the fourth year of...

>> eric: arthel, with millions of people out of work, you might be surprised to learn there was one sector of the work force that they say has been persist he wantly strong. according to an m.i.t. economist, that's a personal service job. they're in high demand. now more from anna kooiman. >> many of the jobs lost during the recession were related to the housing boom and bust. construction finance and manufacturing jobs. demand for service jobs from stylists to food prep workers, to home health care aides actually increased during and after the recession. after the recession from 2007 to 2010,...