on the broadcast tonight, where are the jobs? new numbers tonight and they are dismal, the worst in a year. the stock market takes a tumble. what does it mean and where does it all end? it's back to jail for george zimmerman, but why? the developing story tonight in florida. the jurors in the john edwards trial, what it was like inside the jury room, and whether they really think edwards is guilty. fighting cancer, new hope tonight after a mother in late stage breast cancer patient has a remarkable turnaround with a new type of treatment. and diamond jubilee, the queen of england marks 60 years, and tonight, never before seen home movies of the royal family and a touching tribute from the queen's grandson, prince william. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television

>> good evening, brian is off tonight. i'm lester holt. those promising job gains of earlier this year tonight are looking a lot like a false start for the economy in the wake of what can only be described as a hugely disappointing jobs report for the month of may. the economy adding only 69,000 jobs last month, sending the unemployment rate back up a tick to 8.2%. the news hit the stock market like a punch to the gut with 2012's gains essentially erased in one day. the dow shed almost 275 points, the nasdaq and s&p each dropped more than 2% as the pace and trajectory of the american economic recovery suddenly looks a lot more uncertain. we've asked cnbc's tyler mathisen to put it in perspective. >> lester, today's numbers plus ones out earlier this week point to an economy that is dramatically losing momentum since the start of the year.

hundreds of people lined up at a jobs fair in los angeles this week. >> i've been actively looking for employment for the last three years. >> you just have to keep positive and just know there's something out there somewhere. >> nearly 13 million americans are without jobs and hunting for work, in an economy that clearly from today's report is still struggling. the 69,000 new jobs added are less than half the 150,000 or so most forecasters expected, a dramatic drop from just a few months ago, when in january, february, and march, the economy added an average of more than 225,000 new jobs a month. some economists see may's sluggish performance as a kind of payback for that hiring surge. although there were some new jobs in may, the unemployment rate ticked up for the first time in 11 months. >> i think all of us expected to see more job creation than to see that only, you know, less than 70,000 jobs actually were created in the u.s. it's certainly signs that

employers are still cautious about hiring. >> reporter: among the few bright spots, employment increased in health care, transportation and manufacturing, including the auto industry. in fact, ford, chrysler and gm all showed double digit sales gains in may. still, government payrolls fell again last month and there were job losses in housing and construction. >> housing really is one of the biggest concerns. it's not just impacting the builders that are building these houses. it's impacting all the people that work on these homes, electricians to plumbing, painters, concrete, you know, it's the trade positions. >> reporter: but even those who work in construction and are able to find jobs say the industry isn't what it used to be. >> we used to do about seven to ten jobs per month. now it's probably half of that or three-quarters of that. obviously if we don't have enough revenue coming in i have to let some of my people go.

>> the bottom line, lester, is that the economy added jobs for the 27th straight month. that's the good news but it was the 40th month in a row of unemployment above 8%, and that hasn't happened since the 1940s. >> tyler, i got to tell you, watching the dramatic wall street reaction to this, i have to wonder if it's almost a circular effect here that a bad report like this further undermines confidence and potentially further undermines the recovery. >> well, today was the dipping point for the dow, it went into negative territory for the year today. certainly consumers, investors and policymakers everywhere are concerned most especially perhaps about what's going on in europe, the debt mess there and how that is chilling the global economy. >> you know, we talk about these in policy terms, this being a political year, certainly that will be the conversation, but is there any talk that maybe we are seeing a new normal, that unemployment rate is going to be in the 7% to 8% range for the long-term? >> well, you know when you've got 40 straight months of 8%

plus unemployment, you've got, if not a new normal, certainly a new different, a new different. policy is certainly a big part of it, but how we have and have not dealt with our own national debt and the pressures of globalization may be a more fundamental lasting part of it indeed. >> tyler mathisen from cnbc headquarters tonight, tyler, thanks. of course, as we noted the big job numbers became immediate political fodder on the campaign trail today with mitt romney and barack obama offering competing interpretations of what they signal. >> our businesses have created almost 4.3 million new jobs over the last 27 months, but as we learned in today's jobs report, we're still not creating them as fast as we want. >> their policies have not worked and in many respects their policies have made it harder for the economy to recover. i think that's one of the reasons why people are looking for a new direction. >> let's bring in nbc's david gregory, moderator of "meet the press."

david, is this going to be seen as a defining moment or at least the defining issue going forward? >> well certainly a defining issue and it may be a defining moment. this could be a time when president obama becomes an underdog again, if there is that loss of momentum in the economy that tyler referenced and you see that false dawn, the idea that things were going to turn around, only to see kind of stagnation, or jobless recovery in the months ahead and you look at how few jobs have been created as compared to earlier in the year. here's the reality, lester, five, five jobs reports between now and election day. the president has to ride the wave of this economic data. >> david, thank you. we'll be watching sunday as the republican governor of ohio and the democratic governor of massachusetts face off on "meet the press" with david gregory. a developing story tonight in florida in the trayvon martin murder case. judge has ordered george zimmerman back to jail. nbc's kerry sanders is there. kerry, what happened? >> reporter: well, lester,

george zimmerman has been ordered to turn himself in to authorities in less than 48 hours. florida prosecutors say it was misrepresentation, deception and an outright lie that led to george zimmerman's release on bond, following the killing of 17-year-old trayvon martin. zimmerman has pleaded self-defense. at issue a paypal account that george zimmerman failed to reveal to the court when the judge granted him bond. that account was set up with a website zimmerman created to raise money for his defense. at the bond hearing in april, zimmerman made no mention of the account, even though it had grown to more than $135,000. trayvon martin's family attorneys say this goes to the heart of the case, that if george zimmerman would lie to the court about this account then how can he be believed when he alleges what happened the night trayvon martin was killed in february? lester? >> kerry sanders, thank you.

tonight for the first time some of the jurors in the john edwards case are speaking out publicly about what went on in the jury room, what they think of edwards and why. after nine days of deliberations, they were unable to reach a verdict in five of the six counts against him. here's nbc's lisa myers. >> reporter: jurors say they put aside their personal feelings about john edwards, deliberated diligently and tried to work it out but finally realized yesterday there would be no unanimous decision on five of the six counts. on the "today" show, the foreman and two other jurors told matt lauer they voted strictly on the evidence. >> raise your hands if you think john edwards was guilty on at least some of the counts against him. okay, raise your hands if you think john edwards is a bad guy. >> reporter: later one juror explained the contradiction. >> in this instance i think he is a, possibly a good person who made a bad decision. >> reporter: why wasn't edwards convicted of anything? these jurors say the government

simply failed to prove the allegations. that edwards orchestrated a scheme to use almost $1 million in illegal contributions from wealthy donors to hide his mistress, rielle hunter, and that he knew he was breaking the law when he did it. >> we all thought that he knew, but there just was not the evidence there to prove it. >> it was just a lack of evidence. we had to go back and ask for assistance and direction, but it just, it wasn't there. >> reporter: they said they didn't find the prosecution's star witness, andrew young, to be credible. two jurors said the fact that the youngs pocketed most of the money and poured much of it into this, their dream home, was huge. >> our goal in that jury room was to follow the money. that money just was never in john edwards' hands. >> reporter: jurors told us that on every count, the majority of jurors sided with edwards,

voting not guilty. in the end, they say the most votes prosecutors got on any count was 4 out of the 12 needed, a stinging defeat. the jury foreman called it a victory for the system. >> it proved that someone can be innocent until proven guilty and that's exactly what happened in this case. >> reporter: the justice department still is not commenting on the verdict or on whether it will retry a case that was highly criticized from the start. a federal law enforcement source says a retile is unlikely. lester? >> lisa myers in north carolina tonight. now to the west, where it is still early in the wildfire season, but it's already a bad one with major fires burning in arizona, colorado, utah, and new mexico, all areas that got almost no appreciable rain or snow over the winter. the biggest fire is burning in the gila national forest in new mexico and it is so huge and hard to fight, experts say it could burn for weeks. nbc's miguel almaguer reports from new mexico.

>> reporter: from the air, thick smoke stretches for miles, the largest wildfire in the country, the biggest in the history of new mexico, is tonight on the move in all directions, raging out of control. >> tree coming down! >> reporter: sparked by a lightning strike two weeks ago, now clearly visible from space, the whitewater-baldy fire has consumed more than 200,000 acres. the burn zone is roughly 340 square miles, the size of new york city. >> it's going to get hotter and drier and that lower humidity is going to make the columns, the fire stand up and make the big fire columns. >> reporter: officials closed the gila cliff dwellings national monument due to smoke generated from the fire, smoke that's now spreading over population centers. hospitals like this one in albuquerque are on high alert. >> patients who have chronic lung diseases, chronic heart diseases, the elderly and infants, are all at risk. >> reporter: in what feels like triple-digit heat, 1,200 firefighters are battling the

blaze in difficult terrain, setting backfires, fighting fire with fire. >> we're going to put our fire on the ground, it's going to go up and meet that fire and keep it away from this side so it won't jump this road and continue on. >> reporter: across the west, fire officials say bone dry conditions and low humidity are a recipe for a destructive fire season. >> as we gear up towards the peak of fire season, we are looking for vegetation conditions that are very conducive to large and damaging fires. >> reporter: lester, here in albuquerque, you can smell this fire burning some 240 miles away. one of the big concerns here is going to be air quality. health officials are worried it's only going to get worse. meantime this fire is 10% contained. the bad news, it shows no signs of slowing down. lester? >> miguel, thank you. still ahead, as "nbc nightly news" continues, big news in the fight against cancer. a new drug that treats the disease while greatly reducing some of the side effects. later the royal family as

we've never seen it before, as the queen gets ready to mark a milestone.

we've got some good news to report tonight about fighting cancer. researchers have found a new class of drugs that kill the cancer without ruining the patient's quality of life. chief science correspondent robert bazell has the story of a woman with advanced breast cancer who now has a new lease on life. >> you're going to knock me over. >> reporter: with two young kids always on the move, 47-year-old

fern saitowitz is happy to have her energy and her life back. >> i'm the last one standing. >> reporter: a far different picture from 2009 when saitowitz's stage four breast cancer had spread to her body including her bones. her doctors gave her herceptin, an antibody that attaches to her type of breast cancer but needs to be combined with standard chemotherapy drugs that have severe side effects, including hair loss. >> i felt nauseous. i felt really sick. >> reporter: the combination worked for a year but the cancer returned and when it did, doctors had a new experimental option called t-dm1. to make it, scientists coupled the herceptin antibody with a powerful toxin. the antibody travelless through the bloodstream and attaches to the cancer cells. it delivers the poison directly, sparing the healthy cells and eliminating the need for additional chemotherapy. >> the fact that we have been successful in proving that you can actually get chemotherapy right to the cancer cells by using this magic bullet or what's known as the antibody

drug conjugate, is really a dream that's being realized at this meeting. >> whoa, give me five! >> reporter: when saitowitz got the new drug, not only did her cancer go into remission, the treatment carried few side effects. >> i've not lost my hair or my eyebrows. i don't feel sick. my insides don't feel raw. my fingernails are not turning black and i'm not losing my fingernails. >> reporter: in a major cancer conference starting today in chicago, scientists will present results of many so-called magic bullets or activated antibodies including a very large study of t-dm1. fern saitowitz is thrilled with that news. >> i'm dreaming that it would be amazing if they with had sort of treatment for every type of cancer. >> reporter: many scientists believe there will be such therapies for many cancers, opening a new era in cancer treatment that could preserve the quality of life for patients. robert bazell, nbc news, chicago. still ahead here tonight, on what would have been her 86th birthday, a first look at some never before seen photos of the legendary marilyn monroe.

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♪ back for a moment now to political news. in california, former first lady nancy reagan hosted mitt romney and his wife, ann, at her home thursday. she offered lemonade and cookies and something else, her firm endorsement in the race for president. this is the first we've seen of mrs. reagan since she suffered broken ribs in a fall about two months ago. now to yesterday's big moment from suburban washington, d.c. >> guetapens. g-u-e-t-a-p-e-n-s, guetapens. >> now you too have a new word in your vocabulary, guetapens which means an ambush, snare or trap and enough for snigdha nandipati, a 14-year-old eighth grader from san diego, to win this year's scripps national spelling bee.

she says she studied for ten hours a day, using 30,000 flash cards made by her dad. today would have been marilyn monroe's 86th birthday and it's being marked with never before seen photos taken just months before she died, several of them at her 36th birthday party, june 1st, 1962. there are also some photos from the set of her final unfinished film "something's gotta give." all of the pictures were taken by lawrence schiller and are on display at a gallery in new york. today is the 75th annual national doughnut day and one day after causing a raucous with jumbo sugary sodas, new york's mayor michael bloomberg contributed a proclamation at the big occasion at madison square park that had some accusing the mayor of snack hypocrisy. entenmann's chipped in with a giant box of doughnuts. up next a celebration fit

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britain is getting ready for four days of celebration for queen elizabeth's diamond jubilee. with 60 years on the throne, she is britain's second longest

raining monarch after queen victoria. and ahead of the festivities, we're getting a look at the royal family that we've never seen before including some candid conversations about what's been an eventful year. here's nbc's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: the home movies that almost every family has, seen for the very first time. some are 1952, the recently proclaimed queen plays with prince charles and princess ann, a day at the beach with dad, the duke of edinburgh. the kids guarded by the family corgie and here's a home movie no other family has, the queen returning from her coronation. it's been 60 years of elizabeth's reign and this weekend the country will celebrate the historic achievement. >> the diamond jubilee i think gives us a chance to celebrate with pride all the queen means to us, both as a nation, and indeed as one of her children. >> reporter: prince william, who

will one day follow in his grandmother's footsteps, spoke with british broadcaster itv in a new documentary. >> they're quite hard footsteps to fill. it's just a matter of learning what's gone before me. everyone's fascinated by the queen's life, how she's done it. >> reporter: prince william's wedding was a big celebration but believe it or not, the diamond jubilee is set to be even bigger. the excitement is building on london streets, pride in country and queen on full display. ♪ the street parties have already begun, celebrating a once in a lifetime event. >> cheers for the jubilee. >> reporter: palace preparations are under way. today a full dress rehearsal for the royal procession. the stands are going up to hold thousands for a concert on the front steps of buckingham palace itself. and everything is in place for the grandest moment of all, a thousand ships on the river thames, the largest flotilla since the 16th century. special jubilee bells will ring

for the queen. some of the boats will be lavish, others a little less so. >> hip, hip, hooray! >> reporter: like the one kat stepford and her friends will be rowing. >> i think it's a great excuse for the country to have a -- >> reporter: big party. >> -- a party, yes. >> reporter: and a chance to celebrate a woman who has honored a promise made long ago. >> it's my whole life, whether it be long or short, it shall be devoted to your service. >> she is an incredible role model. i would like to take all of her experiences, all of her knowledge and put it in a small box and be able to constantly refer to it. >> reporter: a long reign, defined by duty and family. stephanie gosk, nbc news, london. that's our broadcast for this friday night. thank you for being with us. i'm lester holt. brian williams will be back here on monday. i'll see you tonight on "dateline" at a new time, we're now on at 9:00 eastern, 8:00 central and then tomorrow morning on "today." good night, everybody.

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening. i'm janelle wang in for raj mathai. >> and i'm jessica aguirre. his run from the law is over, but will he outrun justice? that's the family of a sunnyvale woman is asking tonight about the man accused of pushing a mother of two out of a car, then running over and killing her. he's back in the bay area after fleeing to india, but the suspect is not facing murder charges. nbc bay area's marianne favro was at the suspect's first court appearance. she joins us live from sunnyvale