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The dow closed up 747 points, that is 3.3% friday. fourth biggest point increase of all-time. the s&p 500 rose 3%, the nasdaq up 4%. why? the u.s. economy added a much better than expected 312,000 jobs in december. the unemployment rate, it ticked up to 3.9%, but that is for a good reason. that is because more than 400,000 people came of on the sidelines into the labor force looking for work. this week investors may get more clues on the fed's thinking on wednesday the central bank res minutes from last month's meeting. americans may find themselves missing an agency they usually love to hat...

Is states have high levels of flu activity, that is twice as many states as a week earlier. mostly in the southern part of the country. the number of children who have died also rose. two more report in the weekending december 29th bringing the total of the season to 13. this year's flu is h1n1, also known as the swine flu which tends to affect more children and adults under 50. and markets around the world are mixed ahead of a new round of trade talks between the u.s. and china. you can see asian stocks closed higher. european stocks opened slightly lower. a on wall street, barely moving. i...

Time, a presidential record. so much potential as trade and military deals are completed. i remember back then there was a warning to the president, look, you know, if you're going to take credit for when it's high, you have to take blame for when it's low. what do you think? >> so, look, the stock markets had a brutal month. by the way, this last week was -- i think you might have buried the lead. this last week is maybe the biggest point increase for any week in american history in terms of the turn-around. so it's been an incredibly bullish week this week. >> but the month. overall, the mon...

>> reporter: well, outgoing defense secretary mattis, who the president is pushing out of office as of next week, was not on the trip. but the president was asked when he intends to nominate a permanent replacement to mattis as defense secretary, he told reporters he is in no hurry to do so. bull tom, he insisted that, quote, everybody wants the job. >> jonathan karl for us at the white house tonight. jon, thank you. next, to the stock market surge back here at home. the dow closing at 22,878, up more than 1,000 points. the highest one-day point gain in history. tonight, bouncing back in a h...

Levels which is greater than the 12 point increase nationwide and early voting doubled. file evidence this dismissed abrams benefited from the surge in turnout. >> some of this is a political narrative for stacy abrams to try to couch herself for a future election and wrap herself and something that may benefit from the progressive wing of the democratic party for example. at the end of the day this is not something i think is voter suppression so to speak but i do think it was strategic because what they were looking for was an opportunity to trigger not a medic recount. there were 20,000 unc...