breaking jobs news at this hour. better than expected unemployment report. the jobless rate is now at a four-year low of 7.5%. revised numbers showing the last two months weren't as disappointing as we first thought. we'll get reaction from the white house. new details today from the surviving suspect in the boston bombings. what he told investigators about the target and the timeline for the terror plot. and we are off to the 2016 races, nope, not your kentucky derby, folks. potential presidential candidates marking their calendars headlining events in south carolina, new hampshire. we have the round up for you. good morning to you from washington. it is friday, may 3rd. i'm peter alexand aer, my friend chuck todd on assignment in arizona. he's out there for education nation. we begin with developing new surprising numbers in the

april's jobs report not to mention critical revisions from february and march. but, first, the numbers from this past month. 165,000 jobs were added in april. lowering the unemployment rate to 7.5%. that is the lowest level in more than four years. on top of that, we saw significant revisions over the last two months, according to the labor department. employers added 332,000 jobs in february. and 138,000 in march. that is a lot more than last month's estimates of roughly 268,000 for february and just about 88,000 for the month of march. so, when you put it altogether, the revisions add up to an additional 114,000 jobs. we're going to check in with the folks at moody's analytics in just a moment. but also tell you about another story making headlines today and that is syria with al assad's

regime killing in a large-scale massacre in a coastal village. this is according to a british human right's organization and rebel forces there. syrian troops executed men, women and children in this attack. the opposition also insists that president assad has repeatedly crossed the president, president obama's red line and used chemical weapons. the leader of the rebel forces spoke today to nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel in an exclusive interview. here's that conversation. >> use chemical weapons more than four times against the civilians. >> the regime used chemical weapons at least four times. >> yes, yes. >> what kind of weapons? >> it was some kind of sgas. >> the administration may be

rethinking the option of arm aing the syrian rebels but president obama said so far nothing has been decided. >> what i said is that we're going to look at all options and we know that there are countries that are currently providing lethal aid to the opposition. we also know that the assad regime is getting not just lethal aid, but also training and support from countries outside of syria. we want to make sure that we look before we leap. and that what we're doing is actually helpful to the situation, as opposed to making it more deadly or more complex. >> president obama continues his three-day latin american trip this morning with a speech to students in mexico city and then head to costa rica for a summit with central american leaders. at a joint news conference with mexico's new president on thursday, president obama responded to florida senator marco rubio who has recently

suggested that the immigration bill being hammered out in the senate may need stronger border security provisions to pass. >> i expressed to president that i'm opt a mystic about us getting this done because it's the right thing to do. we've seen leaders from both parties indicate that now is the time to get comprehensive immigration reform done. what i'm not going to do is to go along with something where we're looking for an excuse not to do it, as opposed to a way to do it. >> nbc's kristen wellker traveling with the president today joins us live from mexico city. one of the potential point of tension, what more are we hearing about that cooperative effort? >> well, peter, i can tell you that both leaders downplayed the significance of that shift.

mexico's president during that press conference yesterday saying that both countries will still have a close cooperation. there is no clash between those two goals. president obama said it made sense. he is a new leader. he should reassess how he approaches such a difficult problem. the president also vowing to continue the tradition of close cooperation between the united states and mexico. peter, the reality there is still a big question mark about it. the new president is addressing the drug problem in a different way than his predecessor. instead of going directly after the drug cartels, he is focusing more on prevention and also really trying to broaden his approach to focus on enhancing the economy. it increased, by the way, by 3.9% last year. trade was also boosted between the united states and mexico. so, this president taking a very different tactic. while both leaders pledging close cooperation, remains to be seen how that is going to be played out. peter? >> the jobs issue in this country is significant.

the job issue there also sig kn candidate. people less likely to try to come to the u.s. what else is on the president's schedule today as he heads off to costa rica soon? >> well, i think that's a good point. the president is going to deliver his keynote address this morning here in mexico city. he'll speak to university students, but he will be equally directing his comments to an american audience and recast how they see mexico. he'll make the point this is a country that is seeing the economy on the rise. that trade is increasing and that is key to immigration reform. he'll make the point that both economies will be strengthened, if immigration reform is passed back in the u.s. peter? >> kristen welker, safe travels. we'll talk to you soon. >> thank you. we turn to the developing news we were telling you about this morning. the jobs report. mark zandy the chief jobs report for moody's. thanks for your time. these aren't necessarily strong numbers, but certainly better

than expected. what is your headline from this new jobs report? >> it's relief. i think a pleasant surprise. not only that the job growth, i think job growth is slowing, but not as much as fears and we saw that decline in the unemployment rate and this time it happened because of stronger job growth. all in all, i take a lot of optimism away from it. i think the economy is hanging tough. >> nearly three years since we saw the kind of revisions we saw in this report, particularly from february. if you combine from february, march, more than 110,000 jobs that were actually add aed there. why were the original numbers so far off and what does that tell us, actually, about the last several months? >> the data is based on an incomplete survey of businesses and, so, as the bureau of labor statistics gets more information, then they're subject to revision. the upper revisions are very positive. probably means that smaller businesses are adding jobs and that doesn't get picked up

initially, but does get picked up in subsequent information. that's also very encouraging. >> mark, you were expecting more impact from the sequester. i think you said a couple days ago, the longer it is in place, the more damage it will do to the economy. does this undermine the argument of some saying the sequester is problematic? >> no, i think the sequester is going to hurt. i think it is hurting. the job growth numbers are beginning to weaken and we'll see weaker job growth numbers in the spring and summer. no, the script is still being written here. we have a long way to go. the sequester effects on the job market will be at their a largest in the third quarter. of course, we're in the second quarter. we have a few months to go here. >> very briefly. last month we said it was not since 1979 that we saw the number of people drop out of the workforce as we did. it was the smallest labor force since then. do we know if that number is improved? >> you know, it's still very -- it improved a little bit last month but in the grand scheme of

thi things, it is still very weak. we shouldn't feel comfortable until job market is moving south and labor force is moving consistently south and we're not there yet. >> we appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. we want to move on now to our friday daily rundown lineup. we acknowledge the 2014 mid-terms are 18 months away, whether or not you like it on this friday the speechifying as we like to say for 2016 has already begun. tonight, two potential presidential candidates will just coincidentally, of course, headline party dinners in the first in the south primary state of south carolina. vice president biden will speak at the south carolina democratic jefferson jackson dinner in columbia. just two miles down the road, texas senator ted cruz will deliver the keynote address. at the silver elephant dinner and annual party fund-raiser, it is a gathering of key republican activists which this year honors former south carolina senator

jim diminte. biden joked at a an event with senator john mccain last week that he is really in south carolina for senator lindsey graham who has his own politics to worry about. >> my buddy lindsey who i told him i'll come to south carolina and campaign for him or against him, whichever will help the most. i know which it will be. i know that. i know. again, not going down there to do it next weekend, lindsey. i assure you, i will rip your skin off for you and i expect a thank you note. >> biden will also attend congressman jim clyborn world's famous fish fry. a launching pad in the state for a lot of past presidential wannabies, president barack obama. also today 70,000 people kick off the nra three-day stand and fight themed annual convention in houston, texas. you can expect that to be a big event. among today's speakers, cruz,

rick perry and former senator rick santorum. one guy who is not going to be there is florida's marco rubio. the national review celebrating rubio with the yes, he can, cover. that was early in president obama's first term. now rubio is on the magazine's cover, again. this time not so flattering. there he is in the middle with the headline, rubio's folly. mark murray is here now with this morning's first read. mark, nice to visit with you. >> morning. >> give a us a sense of the challenges that marco rubio face. times have clearly changed in terms of the position and the standing. >> there's two dynamics that play this immigration debate. the one is that all of a sudden marco rubio is joining on to comprehensive bipartisan immigration reform. conservatives don't like that. people see that as helping the president and the united states, but rubio, paul ryan, john boehner all on the camp of

recognizing the party needs to do something when it comes to latino voters. they lost by 70% in the election. if marco rubio is able to get this done, despite the flack he is getting from some conservatives, he will have two feathers in his cap. one on having bipartisan, something to point to, an accomplishment. the other thing, if he runs in 2016, look, i stood up to part of my party. i'm an independent voice, just like barack obama was able to do in 2008 when it came to education reform. >> i want to read part of the op-ed he has in today's "wall street journal." many concerned citizens have gone a step further and offered specific ideas to improve it. he would go on to communicate the fact that the house, obviously, needs to come on board as he did in recent days and not certain that would happen right now. how does he persuade those folks

to come on board to this immigration plan? >> the immigration debate with the right is to placate them. hey, this is something that we need. that's why he's gone to so many conservative media outlets saying this is not amnesty and we need to get this done. peter, here he's talking about the process. some conservatives have a big problem with this process. they don't want this thing to be rushed through. full order, regular order and marco rubio every step of the way included on trying to alleviate republican concerns about the process. >> only so much time we get with you on a friday. ted cruz, joe biden both in south carolina. any chance that's your 2016 matchup? >> probably not, peter. one thing, we're off and running. we have our 2016 caps on right now. >> you have clinton and christie, as well, doing a little dance. >> next month. still to come, the white house's take on the brand-new job numbers and also new details from the surviving suspect of

the boston bombing. the marathon was apparently not their original target for last month's terror attack. we'll talk to philadelphia mayor michael nutter on what he is doing to keep his city safe. first, a look ahead at today's politics planner. department of agriculture just shy of noon. nra 70,000 expected kicks off at 1:00 p.m. you are watching "daily rundown" on msnb krp. have you eaten today? i had some lebanese food for lunch. i love the lebanese. i... i'm not sure. enough of the formalities... lets get started shall we? jimmy how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico? happier than dracula volunteering at a blood drive. we have cookies... get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more.

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developments on the boston bombing suspects. officials say dzhokhar tsarnaev tells the boston marathon was not their original target. the brothers finished building the bombs more quickly than anticipated and tsarnaev says when they moved the date up to april 15th. the body of tamerlan tsarnaev has been moved to a funeral home. they determined tamerlan's exact cause of death but the results aren't ready to be made public. in the wake of the boston bombings, city throughout the country are struggling to figure out how to protect themselves during major events by add aing more security personnel. but there, obviously, is never 100% guarantee for safety. but how do you prepare for the risk and reaction to an attack. joining me now is democratic mayor from philadelphia, mayor michael nutter, whose city will host a major road race of its

own this sunday. and mayor nutter, we appreciate your time. the first big race your city is holding since the boston bombings. in the fuweeks that have passed, what new efforts you're empl employing now that you think will help your community? >> thank you for having me on. an enhanced police presence and more coordination and certainly learning from the tragedy in boston and our hearts and prayers will go out to the folks who, the family as of those who were killed and those who were injured. nearly 300 people hurt and pretty crazy kind of situation. but, nonetheless, we're going to have the street run on sunday. we communicated consistently with the runners and spectators. for instance, you know, no backpacks or kind of cloth bags.

if you need to bring some stuff, we'll give you at our expo clear bags to bring your stuff in. the race concludes at the navy yard, philadelphia navy yard. no bags allowed there. we have a number of evacuation stations. >> sorry a to interrupt. one item, one thing we learned. when you have ten miles like that, the marathon, obviously, 26.2. you guys have ten miles. what do you do in something that is that long to protect not just the runners but the people walking along the sidelines to cheer them on? >> it's about both. about the runners and spectators and just regular folks who may be coming to check out the race. i mean, again, constant communication with the public. everyone is aware of what happened in boston. and there are procedures that we will take, as i said, in philly some seen and some unseen and we talk about some of the other elements. but i think people are well aware that we need to be extra

cautious. the boston situation, you know, was a tragedy in and of itself. you never know, you have copy cats and other folks have things on their mind. we take precautions for big events. but in light of that, extra precautions. >> i want to make sure i move on because we have several other topics. congressman peter king of new york pushed for more surveillance cameras like the ones used in parts of new york city. do you support surveillance cameras in philadelphia? >> absolutely. extensive surveillance camera network both those owned and a operated by the city. we have our safe cam program where we encourage private entities. think about what happened in boston. i think that was lord & taylor, the company, who had the best video of these two individuals who were involved. so, the combination of public, private, those kind of partnerships. allowing the police to tie into private sector camera networks.

expands your ability to see what is really going on across the city and absolutely i support that. >> i want to ask you on the issue of guns now, if we can very quickly. your city's murder rate is down significantly in the last four months compared to last year. great progress for you. you did that by focusing on high crime areas and prevention programs also play a role. doesn't the success you have reinforce the altogethrgument t solution is not more gun laws but tougher enforcement of the laws that already exist? >> a combination of the two. clearly philadelphia when you look at our sister city to the north, new york city. they have the ability, the only city in new york state to enact their own gun legislation and we would benefit in philadelphia from the same. it's a combination of enforcing what you have. but certainly other steps that we can take. i support the second amendment, but, you know, quite frankly, i think i have a first amendment right not to be shot.

so these rights are not at odds with each other and reasonable, sensible gun legislation, gun safety legislation, background checks. why do you need a 30 clip, 30 clips, 30 bullets in a magazine. all these kind of things. we can still make our citizens safe in america and not negatively impact second amendment rights. we have to have some reasonable in all of this. i think we can accomplish that. we need tougher laws, better laws and also enforcement of what we have. >> mayor, i would be remisif i didn't ask you quickly, the jury deliberating, that case prompted pennsylvania to tighten its regulations governing inspections of abortion clinics. are you confident the women of all income levels in your city right now have access? >> they do have access.

this person was clearly disturbed. i'll leave it at that for the moment. the is this is a highly unusual situation but the women in philadelphia and certainly in pennsylvania. there are certainly numerous places where you can go to have legitimate, safe services for whatever any of the women in philadelphia, pennsylvania, may need. this guy was bizarre in the things that he did and clearly an aberration. >> yeah. mayor michael nutter of philadelphia. big race this weekend. ten miles. more than i can do. i hope everybody out there has a safe time. >> broad street run. >> we hope it is a gorgeous and safe weekend. >> thank you. you right now looking at a scene that is vastly different. wildfires raging in california. talk about an ugly scene to witness. multiple fires burning out of control as we speak this morning. again, live pictures that are threatening homes, schools and firefighters continuing to

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evacuated from the fire's path. this fire is still growing. at least six fires have broken out over california over the last two days. in the midwest, a vastly different scene. snow falling in missouri. several inches forecast for central kansas and iowa. 18 inches of snow fell in minnesota on thursday. along with three states that set all-time snowfall records for the month of may. and the top republican on the foreign relations committee senator bob corker wants president obama to explain reports that the cia has delivered millions of dollars to harmid karzai in a letter to the white house. if the reports are true and indicates a an incoherent policy towards afghanistan. also, it's official hawaiian democratic congresswoman

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back right now on "daily rundown" i'm peter alexander in for chuck todd. the nra is kicking off its annual convention in texas where more than 70,000 supporters are expected to attend. they're expecting a record crowd this year. the fight over gun control is far from over as president obama doubled down on his push for serious reform. take a listen. >> i said the day that the legislation that had been proposed by senators manchin and

toomey, the day that failed to get 60 votes, this was the beginning. things happened somewhat slowly in washington. but this is just the first ro d round. i believe that eventually we'll get that done and i'll keep on trying. >> the issue of the gun fight, obviously, following the president to mexico. we want to bring in our friday gaggle for women's politics and public policy. michelle bernard. nice to see all you guys, again. michelle, we'll start with you. president obama expressing confidence that gun control will get done. joe biden has a new offense in his pocket. joe manchin talking about a second effort. how does this happen? how does this get done? >> we'll look to see a major grassroots strategy. what we see happening, everyone who voted against it is

suffering and they're going to continue to suffer. as you see parent and victims and anyone who has suffered because of gun violence in this country, they're going to go after members of congress who voted no and we'll see a critical mass and that is what will do the job. it's impossible to look at the images of all the people that have been slaughtered over the last few years in the united states and not say as a member of the american public, how could you vote no. >> kelly ayotte in new hampshire, she does this, she wants to hit every county in her state and no surprise that people from out of state came to speak to her, as well. here's part of her conversation from just a couple days ago from some people upset with her decision. take a listen. >> i really don't understand. it doesn't make sense to me. what is wrong with universal background checks? >> thank you. i have a lot of concerns about that leading to a registry that

will create a privacy situation for lawful firearms owners. however, i do believe that our current system should be fixed. >> that's actually from thursday and fits, as we play that clip, i see you nodding your head. the white house would be shaking its head, too. registry. we made it clear this was not about a registry. events like this, like past events over health care. you remember arlen specter and john mccain and do events like these put pressure on senators that could affect a real change? >> i think so. this was on television. this is different than, you know, people calling and e-mailing, which isn't as visible. and that kind of confrontation. i mean, if we were to see a lot more of that. i mean, we're not seeing, we're seeing rep seeing r seeing reprucushions on the other side.

>> ourn states among others say they're not going to vote for this thing or they didn't vote for this thing. do you think biden could put pressure on those and do we have to wait until a new election until something changes? >> i don't know if it's exactly what the bill looks like right now. the bill will have to legislate. >> just come back and say, let's try it, again? >> a lot of senators on the republican side and democratic side. >> these are the democrats that voted no. >> listen, i just think the senate as a whole did not realize. they did this, go on a recess. i don't think they were ready for what came out of this recess and the outrage that was there on this issue and i think they're going to come back knowing that something is going to have to happen. whether it is this bill or something that looks like this bill, but i'm pretty sure something will have to happen. >> we have to take a break quickly. our gaggle is not going to go anywhere. chuck todd is in arizona on

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and march, these are those revisions. 114,000 additional jobs added to the mix. and take a look at the markets already. just within the last 30 minutes or so. last 15 minutes or so. 152 points up. the dow nearly, nearly 15,000. look at that. s&p also on its way up. joining me now is alan kruger, chair of president obama's council of economic advisors outside on the white house north lawn. i appreciate you taking time with us. what does this say, the new numbers about the sequester and tax increase issues? are we still waiting for the real impact, like you told us when we spoke to you last month? >> oh, i think we've seen the impact of the sequester already. today's numbers and other indicators coming in show us the resilience of the u.s. economy. what we saw in last quarter's gdp a head wind on economic growth. the government spending

subtracted from gdp growth last quarter. the congressional budget office that the sequester will reduce job growth. i think if it weren't for the sequester, the economy would be in even a stronger position. the president has proposed a balanced way to replace the sequester with balanced deficit reduction. that would help the economy in the near term and also address our long-term budget problem. >> mr. kruger, whieger, we put graph. construction down 6,000 jobs in the last month. government also down 11,000. a lot of that attributable to sequester, i suspect. the construction issue, does that concern you? >> one of the bright signs we're seeing in the economy is that

the housing sector is turning around. we had strong increases in prices nationwide after the bubble burst back in 2006, 2007. the drop in construction jobs was primarily the result of nonresidential construction. i think the president's proposal to invest more in infrastructure is still well timed. i think it will help put more construction workers back to work, right away. also raise our competitiveness in the future. >> alan kreuger joining us with the white house's perspective on the job numbers today. lowest unemployment in four years. thank you for your time, we appreciate it. >> thank you. which president visited costa rica after he was elected but before inauguration? your answer, herbert hoover. he took a seven-week tour of latin america. a seven-week tour. stopping in ten countries, including costa rica.

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heading out to arizona where chuck is taking part in the 2013 education nation on the road tour across the country. education nation, of course, is nbc news ongoing initiative to engage the country in a solutions focused conversation about the state of education in america. chuck joining us now live from

phoenix. good morning to you, nice to see you. chuck, give us a sense. what's the state of education in phoenix? why is the focus on arizona? they spent, i think, 49th in the country per pupil spending in thatyear, we partner with a lot of our affiliates in different states and in different cities where there have been some challenges, and the entire state of arizona to put it bluntly has a challenging issue when it comes to education. you brought up the per pupil ranking, 49th out of 50, yet when you think about how fast-growing arizona is, the challenges they have and that they have a lot of students where english is a second language, for me, it's somewhat familiar. this is how i grew up in the '70s and '80s in miami, in south florida, when it was growing like crazy, had sort of this culture clash, if you will, and you can see when you dig deep into what's going on here, a lot of this has to do with sort of old political guard not ready to change the infrastructure, if

you will, to modernize the education system, to handle all the new students, new types of students, new types of challenges. it really is sort of a mess here. they've got some interesting pilot programs. we're going to highlight those. they're trying different things, they're trying to see if they can figure it out, but the big picture in arizona when it comes to education is pretty bleak. >> you're moderating a series of panels today. i want to get a sense of what the focus is on those panels, some of the guests you'll be visiting with. >> well, we're going to get, you know, arizona's one of the few states that actually elects its chief education government officer, if you will. they call it the state public -- i believe the state public superintendent of public instruction. so we're going to have that person here. we're going to have a lot of the state speaker of the house, lot of the leaders here, to try to get at what is this issue, why has it been so hard to either push for new funding mechanisms to help with these challenges that the schools are having. they've got a lot of goals. arizona is one of these states that have signed on to a lot of

the national goals when it comes to reading. a lot of different things. but there's no funding behind it. so that's going to be a large part of the conversation is that, you know, you can set all the goals that you want on teachers, on students, on when everybody reads, but if you can't fund it, for the people that you're holding back, for the extra work that has to be done, then it's not going to work. >> chuck todd, at education nation, around the cross country tour. today's stop in phoenix, arizona. chuck, we appreciate it. thanks for letting me fill in your shoes this day. see you on monday. we'll bring back michelle bernard, beth rinehart. as we are talking about some of the topics, i want to focus on 2016 in a second because some people are making stops in south carolina this friday, but beth, i want to ask you specifically, you focused a lot on the first district down there. we got a big race, it's only a couple days away. you got bush, you got sanford. what's going to be the decisive element to this race? >> i was there in charleston for

their first and only debate monday. obviously, mark sanford's very embarrassing personal scandal, his infidelity, his disappearance from the state allegedly to the appalachian trail turned out to be argentina, that is obviously dominating the race. what governor sanford is hoping that what voters will find even more offensive than that is colbert-bush's ties to nancy pelosi, that she's getting a lot of money from the democratic party -- >> mitt romney won the state by 18 points. >> 18 points in this district. also, that she's taken money from unions. unions are not popular in south carolina which is a right to work state. i talked to democrats who don't like unions so it's a very conservative district. >> african-american vote could be critical, i suspect. >> absolutely. even though it's heavily republican, 20% of the population is african-american. if those folks turn out for colbert-bush, that could make the difference. >> michele, south carolina, not so much about sc-1 as it were but about 2016.

you have joe biden, your vice president. you've got ted cruz, two miles apart tonight. unlikely this is your 2016 matchup. joe biden, give us a sense of the calculus right now, three years out as he looks at the 2016 landscape. >> you know, joe biden is so likeable that you can't help but think about him for 2016 but the thing is, quite honestly, people are really excited about the possibility of a woman, whether it's hillary clinton on the democratic side or someone soon to be seen on the republican side. i think 2016 is going to be the year of the woman, the women's vote is going to be very important and people are looking for a woman on the democratic ticket, and that might oust joe biden's hopes in 2016. >> we can't forget about hillary clinton. that's the woman most are talking about right now. emily's list launching an effort to try to get people on board. >> madam president. >> give us a sense right now, as she and chris christie will both be the headliners at the clinton global initiative event next month in chicago. that could be your 2016 matchup.

>> oh, it definitely could be. there are a lot of people who want to finish the story when it comes to hillary clinton that thought it was going to happen in 2008, and it didn't. she has a lot of supporters out there, and so if she decides to run, i think she's going to have a lot of support. it will be very interesting. >> the biggest challenges for hillary clinton right now? >> making up her mind. i think that she looks really good. if she decides to get in. >> guys, thank you for being with us. quickly, we go around shameless plugs, if we can. >> if my son had been on the "today" show this morning he would have given david gregory a run for his money. he is quite a dancer. >> in the green room he was giving it a run. beth? >> i'll plug a story about my colleague, jim oliphant about whether prosecutors should be seeking the death penalty for the boston bomber. >> okay. >> future civic leaders, nonpartisan organization that engages high school students in underserved communities to get involved in the political

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