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our "end point" this morning is all business news with the new job numbers in. >> 236,000 jobs created in the month better than expected. futures are up. shows you employers are hiring. the jobless rate fell and part of the reason it fell is because you had 130,000 people drop out of the labor market. they weren't finding any opportunities and simply dropped out of the labor market. one economist said this is not significant jobs growth but it is moving in the right direction. >> revision is upward. >> last month was revised downward, lost 10,000 government

jobs in the month, most of those were schooled jobs. look for that in the month ahead. >> thanks, guys, have a great weekend. see you back here monday morning. "cnn newsroom" with don lemon begins right now. next right here in "the newsroom," your paycheck your nest egg, your neighborhood, this morning, new numbers giving us a better picture of the economy and where it is heading. picking the next pope, it's a long and specific process and in a few hours the vatican will make a major announcement revealing the date of the conclave. during the spring break crush many south florida beaches closed because of sharks. you're in the "cnn newsroom." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. i'm don lemon. carol is off today. minutes ago we learned u.s.

employers added many more jobs than expected last month, 236,000 in all, experts had predicted about 170,000, that drops the unemployment rate to 7.7%, we're covering all the angles and how they impact your wallet. christine romans breaks down the numbers, dan lothian is at the white house with the political implications and alison kosik looks ahead at the ripples on wall street. christine first to you what is the big takeaway from the new numbers? >> the takeaway is the private sector is hiring again, the private sector is hiring and the government is laying off, 10,000 government sector jobs laid off in the month, most likely those were school related jobs, but the private sector has been hiring now for more than 30 some months and so you're seeing despite worries about gas prices, despite worries about the higher payroll tax holiday hurting consumers, some companies are feeling more confident. there were some tax season jobs and health care jobs and construction jobs, very interesting the construction

jobs it's been several months in a row of that. economists are telling us that's because of a recovering housing market, at first they thought maybe it was hurricane sandy and some storm rebuilding that was behind a lot of those construction jobs and now they're saying they think it was because of the housing market. couple of things to add, the unemployment rate drops in part because 130,000 people left the labor market. they weren't finding something for them, they stopped looking and left the labor market. you still have 8 million people, don, who are employed part-time but want to be employed full time. they would like to be working more, they'd like to be working a better job but working part-time because there isn't anything for them there. we need to see improvements. with the downward revision last month and this month 236,000 jobs created this shows forward momentum in the jobs market. don? >> all right, christine romans thank you very much. now let's head to wall street. [ bell ringing ] by the time the closing bell

rang yesterday the dow set a record high 14,329. it was a third day in a row for a record finish, so where is it headed this hour? alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. will today's jobless numbers impact trading you think? >> you can count on that with this upside surprise. this report was certainly a big beat at least that's the way wall street sees it. we certainly saw the reaction in market futures, they went from 40 points for the dow up to 100, expect about a 70-point higher open for the dow when the bell rings in about a half hour, and when you look at how this trend has been for the jobs report as the jobs reports held their own the markets reacted in tandem reacting to the better than expected numbers. there was a triple-digit rally when the january jobs number came out. it really does seem to be the path of least resistance, meaning that upward trend with the dow breaking new records every single day this week.

one analyst puts it this way, he says as we get further and further from the crisis, confidence continues to build, and everybody has this thought where they want to get on this train before it leaves the station. 'kind of hard to find the bears out there but they are out there because don, i did talk with one trader who he expects to see the market pull back 10% to 15% by the summer so that's by the summer, we'll enjoy today's gains. don? >> alison we'll be watching for sure and get back to you. these job numbers will no doubt have political implications. dan lothian joins us now. these numbers have to help the president's approval rating and his fight over forced spending cuts. >> they certainly might. the white house will see these numbers as encouraging. typically every night when the numbers come out they will release a statement. we expect that to happen within the hour. the president has been talking for quite some time that the economy is moving in the right direction, that it's pointed in that right trajectory that will

see these numbers as supporting that, that some of their policies that they've put in place helping to turn the economy around, help for small businesses, help for housing, changing the overall climate giving some of the business owners incentive to start hiring so they'll point to those numbers as well and the other thing you've heard from this administration over the last few weeks is that this concern of these cuts and what that could mean to the economic recovery, that was something that the president played up quite a bit and was part of sort of that dark rhetoric that they did tone down saying if these cuts went forward it could really stall the economic recovery so we expect the president and the statement of the white house and the statement today to talk about encouraging news but at the same time point out there's still a long way to go and up on capitol hill we expect republicans to say what they've been saying, if the unemployment drops that's good news but still at 7.7% and it's been at that level or above for way too long,

don. >> just at the bottom of the hour we expect the market will open and we'll check back and see how it affects the job numbers and how it affects the market these new job mornings. join us bottom of the hour when the bell rings. bill clinton taking a very public stand against the defense of marriage act which he signed into law in 1996. the legislation defines marriage as between a man and a woman. now clinton wants the supreme court to declare it unconstitutional. in an opinion piece to "the washington post," clinton questions if the act goes against the principles of freedom, equality and justice. he writes "as a president who signed the act into law, i have come to believe that the defense of marriage act is contrary to those principles and in fact incompatible with our constitution." residents along the northeast still battling the latest blast of winter weather. you could see it in dan

lothian's live shot lots of wind, from new york to new england, snow expected to turn to rain as temperatures rise before clearing out tomorrow. wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour also likely. meteorologist samantha mohr joins us now. parts of massachusetts and connecticut have had more than a foot of snow. any relief in sight? >> it will be a long day in boston, don. heavy snow is reported at this hour with the north winds close to 20 so it's blowing that snow around and accumulating across new england. not so much in new york city, that will be the scenario as it turns to rain and things taper off. here is the scenario with the low out to sea and all this moisture, the water vapor satellite imagery, shows where the moisture is entrenched in the bands that is moving into new england now. we'll see snow in some spots

that will get heavy snow including the boston area throughout the day, probably around dinnertime, 6:00, 7:00, before this tapers off and we'll continue to see the snowfall amounts really accumulating as well. on long island the snow is coming down. we have winter storm warnings in pink, winter weather advisories in the purple and worcester they've really seen it pile up well over a foot across the neighborhoods there and we're concerned about the high surf with the counterclockwise flow that pushes the water into the shore so still a coastal flood warning for parts of long island and the boston, massachusetts, coast. it's likely to be worse today than yesterday and it's peaking right now. >> samantha thank you very much, we appreciate it. just ahead here in "the newsroom," he is osama bin laden's son-in-law and he's in the custody of the united states and in less than an hour this man will make his first court appearance.

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north after it threatened a possible preemptive nuclear attack on the u.s. walmart throws its weight behind women launching a line of products ranging from ipad cases and jewelry to home decorations, made by women-owned businesses. the products come from cambodia and haiti and exclusively sold on the company's website. at the top of the hour the son-in-law of osama bin laden will make his first court appearance in a u.s. court. sulaiman abu ghaith was captured last month, charged with conspiring to kill americans, that's him on the right next to his father-in-law. susan candiotti, this man made some strong threats. >> reporter: good morning to you, don. he's been called the mouthpiece of osama bin laden, and over the years he's made all kinds of video messages and all kinds of threats against americans, including one in particular right after the 9/11 attacks. listen to this and watch this.

these are his words, "the storms will not stop, especially the airplane storms." he warned americans "not to board any aircraft and not to live in high-rises." this photo puts sulaiman abu ghaith squarely in al qaeda's inner circle, he's sitting to the left of his father-in-law, osama bin laden, along with top lieutenants ayman al zawahiri and mohammad attaf. ghaith was appearing in video making ominous statements "we have the right to kill 4 million americans with chemical and biological weapons." abu ghaith is also believed to have been in osama bin laden's final stand at tora bora in december 2001 before escaping to pakistan. we lived in iran in 2002 mostly

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>> reporter: we're expecting the announcement 1:00 in the east coast, which is 7:00 in the evening in rome immediately after the cardinals finish their general congregation meetings the all-important sessions in the run-up to the conclave when they hash out the issues facing the church and the $64,000 question, who is the next pope going to be. >> so john, listen, in this age of instant gratification some are wondering what's taking so long, it's not taking that long, is it? >> reporter: don bear in mind this is the vatican where they think in centuries. the normal working motto around here is talk to me on tuesday and i'll get back to you in 300 years. by that standard, getting their act together in a week to elect a pope is, well that qualifies as rapid response. >> the sistine chapel chimney could be raised today. tell us the significance of that. >> reporter: the chimney on the

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today will begin at an all-time high. markets expected to move even higher after today's jobs report which showed 236,000 americans got jobs last month and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.7%. team coverage for you, alison kosik live at the new york stock exchange, christine romans is in new york, paul vercammen in los angeles. dan lothian is at the white house getting the president's reaction. paul, let's talk about the rebound of construction jobs, very important facet to the economy. alison, i want to start with you and what this is doing to the markets today as we wait for the opening bell. >> you look at how the dow has been performing all week, don, hit that trifecta of records and the dow will go for a fourth day for that record especially after this better than expected jobs report that came in for the month of february showing that 236,000 jobs were added.

this was a surprise to the upside. the expectation only 170,000 jobs were added. there's not much stopping the bulls lately. we've been saying all week the jobs report was a miss. you would have seen a pullback so expect to see just the opposite today and the disconnect between the market and what we're feeling in the economy, it still is there but what we're seeing with this jobs report is that it's sort of building more confidence in this rally that we're seeing and these records that the dow is hitting every day. the bell is going to be ringing in about two minutes, with he will see how the dow does. >> that's the in news from wall street. christine romans what does this mean? >> it means the private sector is hiring more robustly than in recent months. we look at the trend, don, more than 200,000 jobs created on average, we've been seeing 195,000 jobs created month after month. you want to see it more robust than that, no question but that is moving in the right

direction. can i show you something that's interesting, here, where we're seeing jobs created, retail jobs almost 24,000 there, wholesale trade, professional business services. look at construction, 48,000 jobs, economists like to see that because those are better paying jobs typically, manufacturing 14,000 jobs there and health care, don, we saw jobs created in health care as well, we've seen that month after month after month, so i would say that you're seeing the private sector jobs, seeing the government sector pull back, lost 10,000 government jobs most likely education related to schools. >> you love your charts and you got to use them. >> i love them. >> stand by, we'll go back to wall street and to alison kosik. the bell is to about ring in a little bit. take it away. tell us what we're going to expect here. >> just to let you know although the number is great as christine was saying, 236,000 it's a great number. you want to see this consistently month after month.

millions of people are still out of work. [ bell ringing ] they can't find jobs. they see the number they don't feel it for them in their own house they don't feel like the economy is improving, so the economy still has a long way to go. this is the start as we see the dow begin the day yes at a new record high at 14,335. the dow is setting a new record every day until you start to see it in the red. don? >> it's been amazing. we want to go to the white house, dan lothian standing by, 7.7,% unemployment rate. good news for the white house. any response yet? >> reporter: not yet. typically the white house when the numbers come out will release a statement sometime after the market opens so any time now we should be getting some kind of reaction from the white house, no doubt we'll see these numbers overall as encouraging. the president has been talking about how the economy is moving in the right direction, the right trajectory. they'll most likely point to some of the policies they believe are helping this

turnaround, help for small businesses, the fact that the president had been pushing hard for health wear americans to pay more, the money they have put into the real estate mortgages and so forth so these are all things that they believe collectively are helping to push the market forward but we also expect the president to say and the white house in the statement is that there's still a long way to go, while 7.7% unemployment is much less than it was before, it's way too high and so the president needs to keep pushing on this course. up on capitol hill we expect republicans to push back the way they have when the numbers come out in the past. we got something from speaker boehner's office which mirrored what i said earlier is that the numbers are positive, any time you have a drop in unemployment that's positive but that it remains still too high and that the president when he was pushing his stimulus promised bigger gains or lower unemployment and that has not materialized, and it's time to

come up with a plan to tackle the debt and the deficit so that is what the reaction is from republicans still waiting officially to hear what the white house has to say, don. >> when the white house has a response we'll get back to you. let's go to the ground and see how americans are reacting to this and really the jobs, one sector showing signs of recovery construction, last month 48,000 construction jobs were added around the country, that continues the steady gains made since the fall. since october the construction industry added an average of 1,000 jobs a day. paul vercammen is in california, showing signs of a rebound. you join us from los angeles, what do you have? >> reporter: it's definitely picking up. california overall, los angeles and extremely specific, right here in hollywood, the project behind me, emerson college building an l.a. campus, we saw 100 workers in here yesterday,

up to 150 on this project. we talked to one young man, he did not have full time work for two and a half years, he collected unemployment for a year and now back on the job and looking forward to getting married. let's hear what he had to say. >> there's definitely the extra money to finally go out on a friday night to have din we are the fiance, you know, or with friends, the money to go to the movie or gas money to go to the beach, to go to las vegas for the weekend. it definitely feels nice to get back out there and live life for what it's supposed to be instead of at home trying to scrape pennies and nickels to make ends meet. >> reporter: so a great sense of satisfaction on this construction site, john -- don, as we see people in california getting people back to construction jobs in california. >> paul thank you very much. christine romans i want to ask you this, because i think it's an important question from

social media someone just sent me. hey, listen, they also sent it to alison kosik, i'm really concerned about all of these fast rises. it usually equates to a very hard fall. is there any truth in that? >> oh, fast rises meaning in the stock market? >> yes. >> well here is the interesting thing. the stock market still looks like it's fairly valued when you look at price-to-earnings ratios. i don't want to get too wonky on you. lot of people say it's fairly valued here right now, you look at the fed pumping money into the system, how much money companies have. companies are still making money. if we could predict what would happen tomorrow in the stock market that would be great. you can't. that's what's so intriguing and engaging about watching stock markets and investing in them. it's a risk. there are certainly don hedge funds who are betting against the stock market here. they're saying it's the fed that's propping up the whole economy and that has to turn at some point but so far they have

wrong. this is a four-year-old bull market and the last leg is often the most profitable. if you are just buying stocks for the first time at the high you should evaluate what you're doing. if you've been buying stocks all along the way -- >> you're fine. >> evaluate when you need the money, if you're close to retirement be careful here. you were talking about two different things, talking about the stock market and the labor market. for a lot of people they say stocks are at record highs but we still have 7.7% unemployment, how can that be? it is. we'd like to see more jobs growth with stock market growth but we aren't. >> christine, alison and paul thanks to all of you. bill clinton back in the headline saying he wants the defense of marriage act overturned, why the former president says his views on same-sex marriage have evolved.

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all right, discriminatory law that should be overturned, that's how bill clinton sums up the defense of marriage act, which he signed into law nearly 17 years ago. clinton has said that at the time, he was trying to block efforts to send a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage to the states. the supreme court will review doma in just a few weeks and in a "the washington post" op-ed the former president writes in part, "the justices must decide whether it is consistent with the principles of a nation that honors freedom, equality and justice above all. as the president who signed the act into law i have come to believe that doma is contrary to those principles and in fact, incompatible with our constitution." joining me is form he obama white house official van jones and cnn republican strategist anna in a va know. i know anna you think same-sex marriage is a civil or human

right for all. are you surprised by the former president's statement or op-ed? >> you know, no, i'm not, don. i know bill clinton, i know and have spoken to him many times. this is consistent with bill clinton. the issue has evolved and bill clinton and so many other americans have evolved on the issue. when bill clinton first signed the law there was 29% approval for gay marriage. today, it's upwards of 55%, and i also think it's timely. i commend him. it takes humility to admit a mistake. it takes more humility for a president to admit a mistake. bill clinton is getting old. he's faced mortality and he didn't want to get caught on the wrong side of history on this issue. like me, he has many gay friends, gay couples living in a loving relationship. i think it's very difficult to look at your gay friends in the

eye and say you deserve less rights than i do. bill clinton's a man who has got no discrimination in his heart. i think this is the right thing to do at the right time. >> van, a similar question, when you look at the polling on this, this is no longer who believes in what. this is about the courts and what the courts decide and that's what bill clinton is saying in this op-ed. >> it's very markable. it's unbelievable to have, has it ever have a sitting president signs something into law and tells the supreme court i am wrong, what i did was unconstitutional, strike down a part myself legacy. that is a remarkable moment i think in american history. i am personally excited because the supreme court has an opportunity to do something that really conservatives should go along with. why? you got nine states that have said we believe marriage applies to everybody. the federal government says right now under law we don't

care what you say, states, we know what marriage is and we're going to discriminate against your citizens. this is a state's rights issues now. when you talk about this particular law it's not going to be about imposing any federal definitional law on a state. it's about recognizing state's rights to do this, so right wing and left wing should stand together on this. for a former president to say to the world i want the supreme court to strike down part of my legacy because justice is more important than my legacy, that is unbelievable, extraordinary, i'm very proud. >> the justice department also filed a brief last month asking scotus to declare portions of doma dealing with federal benefits, immigration, unconstitutional. is it in part, can part of this do you think, part of this be struck down or do you think that the court is going to take up the whole thing instead of looking at just parts of it, ana. i know you're not a

constitutional lawyer but it seems to many people this is a done deal and once the court signs off it is an even donner deal as they say. >> you don't know me enough. i did go to law school. i'm not a constitutional lawyer but i think who knows what the supreme court is going to do. somewhere they struck down part of the law, most of us were surprised by what they did in the health care law. this has been a very difficult to predict supreme court and they have taking surprising decisions, i hope what they focus on is discrimination, equal rights for everyone. i have hope with this port that it will reflect the evolution that has happened in the american people. it is at this point undeniable, don, what's happening. debris with van that bill

clinton not only is he saying strike down part of my legacy, more importantly, i think bill clinton didn't want it to be his legacy. he doesn't want this mark on his history as president, and you know, i think there's going to be some political speculation here. what does this mean? does this mean hillary is going to be running in three years? is he laying the ground work? but i know bill clinton and i think he did it for the right reasons. >> van i'm running out of time but i'll give you the last word. >> it's important to recognize as a person of faith, more than 50% of catholics now are in support of marriage equality. this is no longer a left/right issue. it's a right/wrong issue in america and i hope the supreme court listens to the president and the people. it's time to do what we must. >> i like my new term donner deal. thank you guys, appreciate it,

ana navarro and van jones. more reaction on the jobs numbers. dan lothian, what is the reaction? >> reporter: this reaction coming from alan krueger, the chairman of the council of economic advisers sounding that optimistic tone that we talked about, pointing out more work needs to be done, saying "while more work remains to be done today's report provides evidence that the recovery that began in mid 2009 is gaining traction." he goes oon to say "the administration urges congress to move toward a federal budget in a responsible way that balances loophole closing while making critical investments in the committee." the rnc putting out a statement saying those who are getting back in the workforce it's good for them but 7.7% unemployment is way too high and a lot of americans are living paycheck to

paycheck. >> dan lothian with the white house response we appreciate it. up next on cnn officials in south florida are keeping an eye on the beaches as sharks are spotted off the shore and what is the threat to people. what's next?

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there. all those are sharks. they were spotted just offshore. people in boca raton and singer island and boynton beach are among those on high alert. i'm joined now by john zarrella. john, how many sharks are we talking about? it looks like thousands from this video. >> reporter: you're absolutely right, don, could very well be thousands of sharks out there and it's unusual. this is the time of the year, they're like the snow birds, like the tourists, they come down to florida for the sunshine and the water and black tips, nearly all of them you see in the video are black tipped sharks although interspersed in there the experts tell me you might find a tiger shark, which is a little bit more of a predator simply because they feed on the black tips which the average size of a black tip is five or six feet long and toward the end of april these black

tips mifwrat bagrate back to th which is the cycle they take. t. but it happens every year, and we see incredible pictures of just thousands and thousands of sharks. and i'm actually on the beach not far from where they were seen. they are studyi ining the bacte and they'll swab the sharks because they want to find out try to identify bacteria because you're usually treating with broad spectrum antibiotic. trying to get a handle on the best to use for shark bite victims. i was amazed to find that even in 2013, there is very little

research on the kind of bacteria sharks carry. hoping to catch a couple this morning, but no luck so far. >> you can see them from where you are? >> no. we're using literally whole fish and bait and if we were out there this morning, chances are they would be biting. and the water is very rough. so i would suspect even in a helicopter video today, if they're out, probably be very difficult to find. >> are you going to get in the water, john? >> i'm not going in the water, although we do have -- i don't see anybody else in the water either, although we do have a kayaker out here who is one of our fishermen who literally takes the bait out the sandbar, drops it off and comes back in. he just made it back in after putting out one of these baits. so hopefully we'll catch a couple sharks. but they're not here, which is

an indication that they've moved on. which is common. >> so no john zarrella shark bait today. be safe. tracking sharks is nothing new to the production team behind the discovery channel annual shark week. it in our next hour, we'll it talk with an expert from shark week about what's happening off the florida coast.

denny hamlin says he's been disrespected by nascar for fining him because of a comment he made. he said he's not paying the fine. not going to do it, joe carter. he ain't going to do it. what's going on? >> we'll see where that gets him. might get him suspended. basically after the race in phoenix, he shared his pin kron about the new generation six cars. he believes that they don't run as well as the generation five model which was last year. so nascar felt disrespected by that public criticism, so they decided to find him $25,000. hamlin wants to know why nascar didn't simply come to him first before fining him, so in protest, he says not going to pay the fine. >> this is the most upset and angry i've been in a really, really long time. i don't believe in this. never going to believe in it. as far as i'm concerned, i'm not

going to pay. >> the greatest closer in baseball is reportedly calling it a career after this season. mario rivera is the man the yankees have called upon since 1995 to get the final three outs in a game. he won five world series titles. when you think great relief pitcher, you think rivera. nba player is a huge betty white fan. who isn't. he's put together an epic twitter campaign just to meet her. in august, still searching for beltity white. then months later in january, got to meet betty white. well, this week, his dream finally came true. he posted this picture with everybody's favorite golden girl. and then tweeted mission accomplished. cute story. kobe bryant was on jimmy kimmel last night a few days after dennis rodman's visit to north compakorea.

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the unemployment rate drops. dow climbs in record territory. have we turned the corner? our experts have the answers for you. plus osama bin laden's son-in-law heads to court in new york city this hour. he's accused of conspiring to kill americans. we'll tell you how the cia finally caught him. and a frightening sight near several south florida beaches. >> highly unlikely that sharks are looking for fish. they're not looking for people. but someone could get bitten mistakenly being in the water when sharks are present. >> why are so many sharks gathering near the shore? newsroom starts right now. good morning. thanks for joining us. i'm don lemon in for carol. we begin with your wallet and a glimmer of good news.

this morning we learn that u.s. employers added many more job than expected last month. experts had predicted about 170,000. the unemployment rate is 7.7%. we're breaking down what this means to you. ali velshi and christine romans both in new york, alison kosik on wall street. it is the a team. so ali to you first. the numbers are okay, but not reason to celebrate, is it? >> i got to say these numbers are very good. i'll give you the cloud inside the silver lining in a minute. but both you and i were on the campaign trail, both candidates romney and obama promised 12 million jobs over four years. and i don't know if you recall, i promised i would wear a dress if that happened because we don't have the economic growth to support that. but 4 million jobs ov, that's

350,000 every month for four years. i'd love if that happened, but i didn't think it was likely. to get 236,000 jobs in the first full month of president obama's presidency is pretty remarkable consering our economic growth is puny. it's almost nonexistent. so this is actually quite interesting. we were all very surprised when this number came out. the estimates were for job creation of about 165,000 jobs. some people said 170,000. to come up with 236,000 is pretty impressive. now, christine will burst this bubble very shortly which tells you about the quality of the jobs and the type of jobs. and allison will tell you how investors are not reacting. but the bottom line, i am the thorn between two roses, is that the jobs number is positive. it is positive. there is no way to spin it as unpositive. i will tell you one thing that i always say, ignore the 7.7% unemployment rate. it measures a moving target

every month, i don't mean to get the ire of jack welsh, but people have dropped out, it's just not a steady measure. so what you need to think about is how many jobs get created every month, what is the quality of those job, how many hours a week are people work. and how much are they getting paid. that's what that christine romans is for. but overall it is actually a good jobs report. >> two thorns between two roses. let's go to the voice of reason, christine romans, with a closer look at what the numbers really mean. >> ali trying to know what we say. it's called a nice producer trying to make sure we have synergy in the broadcast. let me tell you what i'm looking at. i'm looking at private sector job creation, 246,000 private sector jobs, that's the 36th month in a row of private sector job creation. and you can see the government, public sector losing job, 10,000.

and economists this morning are telling us they think those are mostly related to school related jobs. let's look further at some of these jobs gains and where they're coming there. i'm not going to be pessimistic, i won't be a dark cloud, i'll look at construction jobs. 48,000 of those created. and those at first we thought that this trend in construction jobs might have something to do with rebuilding from hurricane sandy. now economists say, hey, this might be real. this is also a housing recovery. those are good jobs that pay more than the average. also some manufacturing jobs there. health care jobs. for several year, we've seen ze health care jobs there. be careful leisure, hospitality, some don't have benefits, don't necessarily pay as much as you'd like to see for example sending a kid to college. now i'm going to give you the dark cloud. this is something that people call the real unemployment rate. und und underemployment. 14.3%. people working part-time, people

unemployed, people side lined. but 14.3%, that number still way too high. there you go. >> take that, velshi. you call her the wonk, i like to call her the chart lady because she always likes her chart and her measures. >> lady makes me sound so old, but you're from the south, so you're being polite. >> people call you the economy guy, they call me the news guy. so we want to check in on wall street. the dow closed record highs the last three days. so let's check in with the market lady today, alison kosik. how are investors responding to this? >> again, it's an interesting day so far. you've seen the dow already have a trifecta of record setting days. this week and we're all thinking can it go for a fourth. i'm not so sure it will carry the fourth day. we're watching the dow bob a little higher and then lower. not the reaction that you'd expect on this up side surprise to this positive jobs report.

there's one trader that i talked to said it's really not about this dow record these days. what's more significant than the dow hitting a record high almost every day is what these job numbers show. and what he told me is this is the first time in a while that we've seen this consistent data come out on jobs and come out of washington at the same time, meaning the preview report that we've gotten on jobs on wednesday and thursday, they actually match up with today's report. and the way this trader puts it, he sees this as a sign of real progress, unlike this disconnect that we've been talking about between why is the dow rocketing higher while the economy is just kind of muddling through. so this actually, this jobs report, while it may not show the enthusiasm right there on the screen with the numbers, the enthusiasm behind the scenes is there, that you are seeing this progress in the jobs market. albeit has a long way to go, but the momentum continues. >> i'm going to keep rolling

with this because it's tnot on which that i get all of you guys here. >> aren't you lucky. >> i am. so ali, tie a bow around it for us. people say i'm highs with the stock market and the unemployment rate falling because we don't want to get too sure of ourselves because with fast rise, then you get a fall. if something lowers, it could go back up. so what's the real deal here? velshi? we lost velshi. >> he's speechless. let me seize on this moment, ali velshi is speechless. mark down the time, 10:07 eastern time. never happened. i wanted to show you something because you're talking about the stock market and concerns about the stock market fall. there are two different things at play here. the stock market reflects the health of companies, not health

of job prospects. so the money they have in cash. someone earlier this week told me it's corporate engagement. they're not engaging by building new factories and hiring workers. they're keeping their money in the bank or gives it back to shareholders. so that's one reason why the stock market companies have been doing so well. but people don't feel it necessarily. and that's why a lot of twitter traffic this morning is what does it mean for me. we have 12 million people still out of work. i brought this up for you. unemployment by race. you look at some of the worker group, young people still really surin ing suffering. white unemployment fell in the most recent month to 6.8%, but you still have this almost 2:1 structural difference between african-american and whites. hispanic unemployment has been trending down, but we still have a lot of issues about the labor market, about opportunity. but even as we're seeing a slow steady progress, maybe eventually ali velshi will have

to wear a dress because maybe you will see big job creation, we still need to address things like will this and that's why jobs are always a big, big part of the conversation. >> now ali suddenly the cat doesn't have his tongue anymore when we're out of time. listen, christine, alison, you can help him pick out a dress because both of you ladies have great taste. >> you got it. >> thank you. people along the northeast still coping with the latest blast of a winter storm just about an hour ago, a house on plumb island, massachusetts collapsed right into the ocean. its foundation washed away by the storm. there are no reported injuries. no one was living in the home. when gusts of up to 40-mile-an-hour are causing airport delays from pifl to boston, zain asher in noomornin for us. how is the city preparing? >> there was a little uncertainty about how much snow we were actually going to get

here in manhattan, but people here genuinely surprised to wake up to it this much snow p. only roughly 2 to 3 inch, but it could be as much as a 3 to 5 inches later on on. let me show what you it looks like on the ground. i mean, here is the thing. the temperatures here are really not cold enough for the snow to actually stick to the ground, so what you're left with is a short of slushy mix of rain and snow. but manhattan is doing relatively well compared to other parts of new england. let's talk about boston. because that town simply can't get a break. roughly around 10 to 12 inches expected there. they got 8 inches overnight. also where i was yesterday, not doing too good. coastal flooding the name of the game. always want to talk about plum island as you mentioned, house collapse. so compared to other parts of new england, manhattan is doing much better. i'll shoe what you it looks like here in manhattan. central park, winter wonderland, very christmas card-ish. but look at the roads.

the drivers here are really trying to deal with the slushy mess and it does make for a very messy commute. so the bottom line is if you are driving out today, just be careful. be sure to drive slowly and carefully. also want to say that we are expecting pretty good weather this weekend. clearer sky, sunny skies. so if you can just get through today, it should be looking much better. >> thank you, zain asher in manhattan. right in the heart of it. just ahead, cardinals in rome will vote today on when to hold their conclave. we'll have the latest on the secretive election for a new pope. [ anouncer ] ihop is in time square to compare new griddle-melts to your usual breakfast sandwich. a lot more flavor. [ anouncer ] ihop's new griddle melts... made fresh and hot! hand crafted just for you. it's like a sexy sandwich. [ anouncer ] compare new griddle melts yourself. just $4.99. it's an epic breakfast sandwich. hi, i'm ensure clear... clear, huh? i'm not juice or fancy water. i've got nine grams of protein. that's three times more than me! [ female announcer ] ensure clear. nine grams protein. zero fat.

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a local coroner says that 350-pound animal opened the gate between two cages and moved to a larger space where it killed diana hanson, an intern at project survival's cat haven, cleaning a main enclosure when the incident happened. her father talked to our affiliate in seattle about his concerns for his daughter and her love for her work. >> i just said please don't get in the cages with them, though. and she said, dad, it's okay, i can handle them. she was fearless. and she loved it. so i wasn't going to try to stop her from her dream. i've never seen her happier. every day, she would post a facebook picture and photo of her with a big cat. she was in heaven down there. >> ted ro row hands lands has b following the story. the coroner says hanson did not suffer in the attack. what other it information are

they providing about her death? >> reporter: the coroner says she didn't suffer because the attack was so quick and so swens and she died of a broken neck. she did suffer other injuries to her body, but according to the coroner, all those injuries were suffered postmortem. and when deputies arrived, she was already dead. they killed the lion because they thought that there was a chance that they could revive her and the lion was right next door, they could not coax the lion away from the victim, so that's why deputies shot and killed the lion. because they thought there was a chance that they could save this young woman. they got in there and her injuries were just so severe, that she did die. now, the fact that she died so quickly and without any pain, of course, has provided some comfort to her family. and one of the mosts astounding things about the story has been her family. the way that they have reacted specifically her father saying that her love for this job, which she only had for a few months, she worked at another

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let's go to italy now where the selection of a new pope will soon again in just a few hours the vats can will announce a date for the conclave beginning the secretive process of electing a new pope. senior international correspondent ben wedeman live in rome. so, ben, when is the announcement? >> reporter: well, don, it should be within three hours. we're expecting to hear from fed recompany lombardi, the spokesman for the vatican, who said that shortly after 7:00 p.m. local time, that's 1:00 p.m. your time, they will send out an announcement in this modern age via e-mail we're

told. >> how long -- why did it take so long is the question? >> reporter: well, we understand from various sources vatican watchers and others that there was a lot to discuss, that the feeling was that pope benedict emeritus was a very good intellectual, but when it came to managing the vatican, there were a lot of things that were left unattended. so they've been discussing vatican finances, governance of the vatican, and there were apparently a lot of matters that they needed to really krclarify before they got around to actually setting a date for the conclave. now, as far as the at a tidate conclave, we're expecting sometime next week. what's interesting is italians condition tuesday and friday to be bad luck days, so it probably won't be either of those. >> ben wedeman in rome. thank you very much. just ahead here on cnn, dozens of airport control towers

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top stories. get your top stories right now on cnn. a strong jobs report is fueling wall street this morning, the unemployment rate dropped to 7.7%. government says 236,000 americans got jobs last month. construction and health care were two of the bright spots in the report. the dow is up on the news. how much more can we take? look at this dramatic video from plum island, massachusetts. massive storm surges have collapsed a home into the ocean.

the house came down on to the rocks at about 9:00 this morning. its foundation had been washed away by the storm. there there are no reported injuries. the home was unoccupied. but it shows just how fierce the storm is. the central intelligence agency preparing for its new director, john brennan, who was just sworn in a few minutes ago. that was made possible after the is that the confirmed him in a 63-34 vote. as discriminatory law that should be overturned, that's what bill clib tnton says aboute against of marriage act. he signed it into law. the supreme court will receive doma in a few weeks. the former president writes the justices must decide whether it is consistent with the principles of a nation in a honors freedom, equality apjustice above all.

as the president who signed the act into law, i have come to believe that doma is contrary to those principles and in fact incompatible with our constitution. joe johns joins us now from washington. joe, big news and it's interesting the man who signed it into law is now saying it should be done away with. >> well, yes, but that was always the conflict. even back in the day, president clinton seemingly held conflicting views. he opposed discrimination, but didn't believe in gay marriage. this is really sort of a case study of how politics, policy and the law don't always work so well together. we have a full screen of his evolution and how he describes where he is now. when i signed the bill, i included a statement with the admonition that enact tment shod not despite the fierce rhetoric be understood to provide an excuse for discrimination. i now know that even worse than

providing excuse for discrimination, the law itself is discriminatory, it should be overturned. now, don, clinton was really the first president to reach out to gay and lesbian voters and privately his administration people around him admitted they saw doma as discriminatory, there just wasn't plain evidence that it would cause the harm it caused. at the time they saw the danger as political, especially after thes miscalculation of "don't ask, don't tell," that sort of paralyzed the administration in the early days. so it turned out to be a question of politics. >> the justices must decide whether it is consistent with the principles of a nation that honors freedom, equality and justice above all. the former president making that statement, do you think this will have any impact on the court? that's a big statement. >> well, you know, the court's in a very interesting place quite frankly. and it's not that far if you think about it from where bill clinton was. nine states right now allow gay

marriage and 41 other states have laws that sort of oppose it. so, again, the supreme court is now in the position of bill clinton because they have to get out ahead of where the country appears to be going. if you look at. >> jules polonetsky: polls, most people support the idea, but the states aren't quite yet there. so it will be interesting to see where the justices go. >> it's all about human rights. we're a country that treats everyone equally under the constitution. >> right. that discrimination question that law schools debate all the time. the definition of discrimination is treating similarly situated people differently. so as a legal question, it's one thing. as a politics and policy

question, this country has had a hard time with it. >> joe johns, appreciate it, sir. thank you. moving on now. clocks ticking down for dozens of airport control towers. the faa says it has to make steep cuts because of the $85 billion in forced spending cuts that went into effect last friday. on the line, 173 air traffic control towers set to close april 7. contractors at those towers can try to convince the faa that closing their particular towers would harm the national al interests. tory, live from washington, who is most at risk here? >> well, don, that's what everyone is still trying to work out at this moment. and this week more than 100 small and medium sized airports across the country are getting letters exactly like this one. it says the faa may close their air traffic control tower next month we visited one of the towers that's on the list.

flight 2455 carrying three passengers leaves hagerstown, maryland, headed for nearby dulles airport. >> see you later. >> reporter: a half hour trip. it's one of up to six commercial flights a day. >> run way 27 -- >> reporter: today there is a controller in the tower, but the question is for how long. virtually every airport faces controller furloughs. but scores of small to medium sized airports, including hagerstown, could be forced to close their towers. phil ridnour is the airport's director. >> without the control tower here, we don't have the extra sets of eyes to watch over the airport. >> reporter: this tower stands 70 feet above the run way and gives flight controllers a 360 degree perspective. of the sky. but also importantly, of the ground. >> so kind of like having a town without a stoplight.

you take the stoplight away and it's a free for all. >> reporter: the faa says any changes would not impact safety. even if the tower closes, commercial recreational and military flights would still take off and land. pilots would be controlled by a center 60 miles away. for this flight instructor, that poses a problem. >> we have to revamp our services to get our students to a location where we can be talking on tower frequency. >> reporter: some republicans say concerns about the impact of forced spending cuts are exaggerat exaggerated. >> the sky is falling mentality permeates some of the efforts here in washington, d.c.. i think that is hiyperbolhyperb exaggeration and down right offensive. >> reporter: back in hagerstown,

business leaders worry what will happen after march 1st. >> their indecision will have a direct impact on our bottom line in our community. so for urs it's continued frustration. >> reporter: frustration at airports across the country. incidentally, hagerstown airport is within eyesight of camp david. you can't expect that to be a part of hagerstown argument to keep the tower open. we expect almost all airports to argue that closing towers will hurt local community interests, but the faa says that is not enough to keep the tower open. as we've mentioned, it must harm national interests. >> tory, thank you very much. an amazing cite off the coast of south florida. thousands of sharks. we're talking to shark week expert about the unbelievable phenomenon. [ male announcer ] let's say you pay your guy around 2% to manage your money.

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individu see the video. the pictures are incredible, but it's also scary to look at. >> i can understand why some people when you hear about a single shark it may raise concern, but hearing about thousands of sharks swarming, the reality is it's really not that scary. this is an annual migration that the black tip and spin are shnes are basically migrating to the south. these sharks are following the temperature gradients and although it might look a bit scary, in reality, they're a bit harmless. >> well, okay. i hear what you're saying. but then you see how many sharks are swimming just offshore when you're in the water. look at that, thousands. so if you see thousands in a school like that, you know there

are thousands more out there and they're probably not far from where you're swimming. >> that's true. and these migrations have been happening long, long before we've ever actually paid any attention to it. the researchers at the shark lab at florida atlantic university have been studying this closely for three years. and some of the aerial surveys, they've counted over 15,000 sharks in a single flight. they feed on smaller fish. they're not targeting humans. i mean, it's an amazing spectacle, but not quite -- when you see great whites ripping seals in half, i can understand why people get a big concern. but these are small spinner and black tip sharks. florida is home to many, many shark species and it's an amazing place to live and i would definitely not discourage people from coming here. the sharks welcome you. they are very polite predators

and mean well. >> i know he sharks are out there and they really don't look humans. and it does happen, but a rare chance. it seems that we have seen more and more sharks recently. is the shark population rising or are we doing a better job of just documenting? can we see this video again from shark week? your video is amazing. >> thank you. yeah, the reality is that people do want to believe that sharks are coming in closer and closer to shore and there are more sharks out there that are attracted to humans. but the truth is they've been around for millions and millions of year, but like you said, thousand we're docume now we're documenting it better. everyone and their mom has a phone with cameras on it, the reality is the sharks have always been there. it's just now that they're much more interest to us through television entertainment and just fascinating animals. so i grew up loving sharks and i still do. so i think it's a good way to inspire people to care about the ocean and an amazing spectacle

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xxxxx osama bin laden's son-in-law pleaded not guilty to splan to go kill americans. he was captured in jordan last week. susan candiotti, you're outside the courtroom now. you were in the courtroom for the hearing. what was his demeanor? >> reporter: well, he didn't say anything at all. this was a hearing that lasted very briefly. only about 15 minutes or so. this was an arraignment. he's indicted at this point on one charge of conspiring to kill americans. and if found guilty could be spending the rest of his life behind bars. but he entered the courtroom quietly before things began, he was escorted in handcuffed

behind his back, those cuffs came off as the hearing began. he did not say anything in court. nor was he required for. that not guilty plea was entered on his behalf by his defense attorney. and the photograph that you've been seeing of this man over the past couple of days, you've seen him with receding hairline and with a very dark colored beard. well, now that beard has turned gray. and he was quiet, he sat and listened to the proceedings as they went on. and what we learned is this. that he was arrested overseas according to prosecutors on march 1st, they didn't say exactly -- february 28th, excuse me. and then he was transferred, flown to the united states, it would appear via turkey and then jordan on to the united states, arriving here last week on on march 1st. he has been held in detention ever since. he's been held without bond. and the judge decided he would

set a trial date probably sometime next week is when he will decide on the trial date. but there a lot of discovery to take place until then before that time. back to you. >> all right, susan candiotti, thank you. more news after the break.

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. every day amid the hustle of brooklyn, something brewing at steve's place. it looks like and goes down like beer. but it smells like success. >> we sell beer now in 25 states. and the name brooklyn rings

bells in sweden, britain, italy, france, germany, japan, china. >> reporter: he was a long time foreign correspondent and some of the world's most dangerous places. he quit the news business back in the 1980s and decided to turn his hobby of making beer into a small business. he started in a part of new york where property values were comparatively reasonable. his small team focused on keeping costs low, quality high, helping community charities instead of buying big ads, and crafting distinctive brews that still out from mass produced beers. >> i think the reason why we've been successful is that we've always trusted that people have good taste rather than trying to dumb things down or do focus groups and try to figure out what does everybody like. >> reporter: the result, even as the ression raged, his place kept going. even as consumption plummeted,

the brooklyn brewery kept growing. >> i think it's the fundamental fact that people are drinking less beer, but they're drinking more special beers. and we offer a whole range, a whole rainbow of flavors of beer. >> reporter: this year, he says they will expand their staff of 90 people, open a new shop in stockholm, and sell $50 million worth of beer. >> our future is very exciting. >> reporter: for a former reporter and brooklyn, that's a headline. tom foreman, cnn. ♪ good morning, turtle. ♪ my friends are all around me ♪ my friends, they do surround me ♪ ♪ i hope this never ends ♪ and we'll be the best of friends ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing the reimagined 2013 chevrolet traverse.