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watching this morning. crude oil prices falling. this is all coming as traders question reports that opec might meet for the meeting in june. some people questioning those sources but it s been something the oil market has been watching closely. in other global news positive developments on the on going greek saga. athens sending economic reform plans to the euro zone overnight. the proposals include measures to crack down on tax evasion and corruption. and back here a packed agenda of economic and corporate news. we ll be getting the the home price index. february consumer confidence and the richmond fed survey. home depot and comcast and macy s. we have earnings that are just out from dow component home depot you saw across the screen while becky was talking. earning $1 per share. beating estimates of 89 cents. home depot also announced 26% increase in it s quarterly dividend. now up to 59 cents per share as well as an $18 billion share repurchase program. the compa ....
woodruff: and it s friday, mark shields and michael gerson are here, to analyze the week s news. those are some of the stories we re covering on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become you re own chief life officer. supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation.org. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: february was a solid month for americans looking for work. the latest job numbers from the labor department show employers added 295,000 jobs last month. that helped push the unemployment rate down to 5.5%. but it also fell becau ....
woodruff: and it s friday, mark shields and michael gerson are here, to analyze the week s news. those are some of the stories we re covering on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become you re own chief life officer. supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation.org. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: february was a solid month for americans looking for work. the latest job numbers from the labor department show employers added 295,000 jobs last month. that helped push the unemployment rate down to 5.5%. but it also fell becau ....
allentown, the northeast extension. your drive time is looking pretty good. 21 22 minutes in both directions. vai? thank you, katy. overnight police say a gunman confessed to a shooting just after it happened. officers arrived on felton street around 2ing this morning. they found the victim on the ground and another man who told police he did it and handed over his gun. the confessed shooter is being interviewed right now by police. a 20-year-old maryland man is behind bars charged with murdering his teenage girlfriend s mother in lehigh valley. matt? vai, this 55-year-old mother was stabbed several times in the neck. we re not mentioning her name bus the d.a. s office says her daughter is the victim of statutory rape. the man, 20-year-old taylor barnes is an army soldier out of ft. lee. he killed her in the drive way of her macungie home. he tried to hide the body. when officers got there, the car was gone but the victim s body was found buried under some dirt ....
continues into the apparent suicide of a nurse at the hospital where the duchess of cambridge was being treated. she took a prank phone call from australian radio deejays looking for information on the duchess condition. today, a letter to the hospital, he called the whole thing quote truly tragic and said we are anxious to review the results of the investigation. the family of the nurse posted about her on facebook her daughter wrote simply i miss you. i love you. the dallas cowboys took the field today without two players. jerry brown jr. was killed early yesterday when the car he was riding in hit a curb at high speed in irving, texas. police say the mercedes went 900 feet, flipped and caught fire. police say cowboys nose tackle was pulling him from the burnt car when they arrived. brent was charged with intoxication manslaughter. our officers on scene felt as if alcohol was a contributing factor in the accident, so mr. price brent was asked to perform some fiel ....