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intercom, and it is all caught on video. three major stories we are watching right now. record heat, millions without power, and a massive wildfire in colorado. we ve got it all covered. rob marciano is in colorado springs, meteorologist karen maginnes is watching the heat, and athena jones is keeping an eye on the outages on the east coast, which could be a very dangerous combination with the heat for people hours from now. this all after a violent line of thunderstorms swept across the east coast. you re looking at the fierce winds and heavy rains that pounded indiana. and in virginia, falling trees killed two people and over a million people are without power. there are widespread outages from indiana to new jersey. athena jones is in rockville, maryland, this morning, where the power is out and triple-digit temperatures are expected. athena, what kind of progress are crews making to try and get this power back on? reporter: well, good morning. it s happening slo ....
online. it includes digital, audio, video files, printed materials, handwritten documents and recording devices. peter bergen has a new book out called manhunt and he is one of the few people outside of the government that s seen these documents. what sticks out to you? u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s recovered a great deal of material. not all of it will be published today, in fact. a fraction of it. some of it is household stuff. but the things that leaked out of the documents that i was able to review, first of all, bin laden was quite conscious of al qaeda as a brand had suffered. he told them not to use al qaeda, you re going to draw too much negative attention. he was advising one of his sons to leave the afghanistani tribal regions where the drones were focused at the same time he s calling for young men to do a holy war, he was basically telling his own son to get out of dodge. it s bin laden unplugged. he was it s not like you can get on the internet and send a memo or ....
i m fredricka whitfield in for kyra phillips. we have a number of stories developing on this busy morning but we begin with your pocketbook. just minutes ago we learned the jobless rate has fallen to 8.3%. that s a pretty billing surprise seeing some economists expected it to tick up. let s get perspective from christine romans. what have you learned about how this number has gone down slightly? you know, the economy grew in january, and it grew jobs. it grew more jobs than anyone really thought. 243,000 jobs were created in january. the jobs growth, fredricka, was pretty widespread. in professional and business services, 70,000 jobs created. leisure, hospitality, health care again. but even manufacturing and health care jobs, those have been two bright spots the past couple of months. health care for maybe the past year or something. one thing that s interesting about these numbers is 243,000 jobs. we ve had a hard time having jobs growth like this and sustaining i ....
there on christmas day. the white house condemning these blasts. nigeria s president calling an end to the sectarian violence voug to catch those responsible. churches also bombed in nigeria last christmas season. more arab league observers are on their way to sir yeah here s why. an opposition group says security forces killed more than 20 people in the city of homs today. the observer planned to go there. u.n. says more than 5,000 people have died since syria s crackdown on protests began in march. a suicide car bomber in iraq got through six security check points before setting off an explosive device at the interior ministry. at least five people killed there, 39 wounded. this happened after iraq s prime minister was meeting with the senior security officials to talk about how to keep the country safe. a series of explosions killed almost 70 people in baghdad just last week. mexico says it s captured the chief of security for one of the most wanted alleged dru ....
for the wall street journal and david gergen. what was behind the selloff, er? i was talking to a few investors today what ben bernanke said yesterday, anderson what is the market expected him to same we know things are weak we know europe is a very severe issue but him saying it, even though they knew he was going to say it makes people more worried, people are kind of looking for nothing hold on to, maybe for a little bit of hope, why you see this people are saying this is a rather dramatic selloff and might see stablization that isn t the same thing as saying we aren t in a real economic problem. we know that we are. and steven, seems like the markets were also underwhelmeded by the fed s latest moves to kick start the economisome there anything at this point that policymakers can do to raise expectations? certainly not the fed. anderson, certainly not the fed. the fed has been deluging the economy with money for the last three years and the idea of more purc ....