industrial average was speeding towards 17,000. right now it's about 800 points lower even with the rally today. on this jobs report friday we learned the economy added a patry 113,000 jobs last month, about 70,000 below expectations. but the unemployment rate went from 6.7% to 6.6%. and all the bad weather we're having adds to the confusion over what's causing this. luckry we have not one but two experts to clear it up. our dynamic duo of jared bernstein and peter morici. jared, we have this 6.6% unemployment rate now, but that doesn't really tell the whole story, does it. >> no. i mean, last month we were sitting here saying we expected 2,000 jobs. we ended up with 74,000. this month we expected 180,000. we ended up with 113,000. we thought that december number, that 74,000, that patry december number, would be revised up. it was revised up from 74,000 to 75,000. so i'm beginning to think like that character montoya in "the

princess bride," this word expectation, it doesn't mean what you think it means. >> whoa, "princess bride" references 50 seconds into the show. >> nice. >> happey friday. >> so there is underlying weakness. i will say this report wasn't as bad as last month's and i actually think it's a little better than a lot of folks are unpacking. if you get into the weeds, there were some decent numbers. the participation rate picked up 0.2%, but you really have to worry if the job market is once again downshifting. >> peter, respond to what jared said and make a pixar reference within that, please. >> wealth, i'm not good at pixar references. i'm a dull professor, not a white house talking head. >> sorry, jared. >> whoa! >> totally unnecessary. >> there's a lot of -- there's a lot of bad news in the jobs report, but there is some good.

the goods producing sectors were very strong. manufacturing is strong. construction was very strong despite the cold weather. now, the survey was taken at a time when the weather wasn't cold. the week they took the survey was a good week, but still we were expecting some difficulties. hospitality was strong. we would expect the weather to affect that. so overall, overall there is bright spots in this, but we clearly may differ on the prescriptions. but i think that jared and i would agree that a lot more is going to have to be done. 4 1/2 years into the recovery this simply is inadequate. >> yeah. well, jared, one of the sectors that did the worst was retail shedding over 11,000 jobs, which seems to me just a sign that ordinary people still don't feel like they've got a lot of money to spend. they're still suffering. we keep shooting ourselves in the foot by doing things like not extending unemployment benefits. that's definitely on my list of prescriptions. and you are right. although if you go back say for

the past three months retail has been doing better, so i'm not sure to what extent that's a blip. >> holiday sales were weak, weren't they. >> that's true. but i tell you, the sector i worry more about right now is government. government shed about 30,000 jobs last month, and something like 14,000 or 15,000 the month before. in fact, if you take government out of the picture, that 113, that disappointing top-line number, becomes 142. 142,000 on the private sector. not great. but you really see the government once again dragging down that total number. >> peter, t"the wall street journal" on the cover this week, they highlighted a group in particular that is feeling the effects of the economy. and that is men in their prime years of work. more than 1 in 6 men between the ages of 25 and 54 don't have jobs. that's a total of 10.4 million men. the guy they highlighted, mark riley, he was 53 when he lost his job due to state budget

cuts. that was three years ago. still out of work. peter, what would you say to him? what are his chances? >> i think his chances are not particularly good because he's someone with a social science degree late in his career who's basically working for community college. i read the same article. what was more disturbing about the article, and i do feel for this gentleman, is that the plight of people who don't have a college education, people with less than two years of college, veterans that have come home and so forth, we just don't have the old manufacturing jobs we used to have. and the construction sector is going to have to heat up a lot more if it's going to absorb these guys. this was a man session and it hasn't gone away far lot of men without sophisticated skills and that's worrisome to me. we just don't see men 25 to 54 not wanting to work. but 1 in 6 -- and many of them have very little prospect of ever finding a job. one of the reasons the unl

employment rate went down was because of the end of long-term benefits. those folks quit looking so they fall off the statistics. >> and that is obviously a real serious problem. appreciate your point there. jared, i want to go back to "the princess bride for a moment." >> if he dares. >> i'm gonna. >> i never left. >> it's happening right now, in fact. i'm reminded of the classic analogy where the fed is eduardo montoya trying to kill the recession. at what point if the numbers are bad enough does the fed rethink any of its tapers and pulling back from trying to stimulate? >> my sense is they'd have to get considerably worse than they are now. i think the fed will continue apace in part because it's built up these expectations that it's going to continue doing so nols it has a very good reason not to. let me say one caveat to that. the federal reserve said a while

ago when the unemployment rate gets to 6.5% they'll start thinking about raising the interest rate, which, of course, has been around zero for like four or five years. i don't think they're going to stick to that because they know that the unemployment rate is biased down by this labor force exit issue that we've been discussing about. so on that point, i think they'll be a little more flexible. but i think we'll continue to see the taper. there are other indicators in the economy that look better than that. the second half gdp growth was actually twice that of the first half last year. so there have been some acceleration there. >> peter, i want to get you in here and if you can do it without harshing on jared that would be great. >> that would be nice. >> go ahead. >> i don't believe that the fed is going to change course. i would be very firm about that if bernanke had not left because i'm pretty confident that the only real issue here is a new personality who is a little bit more dovish by disposition. but the fed doesn't like the reverse itself back and forth.

i don't believe these numbers are bad enough to warrant the reversal. moreover, i think we're going through a soft patch in what is a general strengthening of the recovery. once we get warm weather, watch for the housing sector then the auto sector and pickup trucks to hit up. i see us creating 200,000 jobs a month april, may, june and forward. >> let me say i hope pete ears right. i think he's got certainly others who believe that. one of the problems we've seen with this economy, it's just been a head fake economy. we've seen it numerous times over. we'll have to keep watching. >> out on a limb. >> about 100% more "the princess bride" than i thought we'd ever get. peter morici, jared bernstein, thank you very much. all right. cue the olympics music that we love so much. the opening ceremonies are tonight. we're going to give you a taste of what's to come.

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we are back with breaking news related to the sochi olympics. the president has been notified of that attempted plane hijacking. a passenger aboard a flight originating in the ukraine demanded the flight be diverted to sochi and claimed to have a

bomb. a crew told him they were diverting the flight to sochi but turned off flight monitors and landed in turkey instead. security forces are searching the plane, going through luggage trying to identify any bags that were belonging to the suspect. the would-be hijacker is in custody at an undisclosed location, and there are some reports that the man may have been drunk. we will keep you posted on any further developments there. all of this is taking place as the opening ceremonies were also taking place in sochi. it is now midnight there and some 40,000 got to experience the spectacle in fish stadium in person. we get to watch tonight at 7:30 eastern. an estimated 2 billion people around the world are expected to tune in. that's like our ratings, guys. [ laughter ] >> is it? wow. >> some of the details are already leaking out and keir simmons, who joins us live from olympic park with a few little teasers. keir, we know this is all very hush-hush, but what can you tell

us right now? >> reporter: that's right. i'm not really allowed to tell you about it, guys. so sorry about that. back to you. we do have a few bits and pieces that we have managed to glean being outside the stadium, of course. and so at one point it felt like we were just surrounded by fireworks. fireworks over the stadium, fireworks over the my left. and at the end of it all they lit the olympic cauldron, got the 22nd winter olympic games under way. it was pretty good, actually. a runthrough of russia's history of its great people, dostoevsky, ballet, all the things you can imagine, a real celebration of russia, and good actually when you've had ul all of this controversy, political fighting, fears over terrorism. that incident you were talking act. all of those things in the run-up to this. now it feels as if the olympic games are really under way and the focus we hope will be on the sport. >> absolutely. time to get down to business.

keir simmons, thank you so much. and let's do an olympic-sized spin. i'm not totally sure exactly what that means. >> bigger than usual, maybesome. >> we'll give it a try. >> better? >> it means there are six interlocking circular tables like the olympic rings. >> do we need more cyclists? are all the rings going to light up? >> maybe snooif. >> we'll workshop that one. so one person who is not at games obviously is president obama. who decided not to go and some felt that might be sending a signal about some of the controversy in russia in particular around gay rights. president obama actually spoke to bob costas about that and about the fact that his olympic delegation he also nominated sort of pointedly features a number of gay athletes. let's listen to some of that.

all right. we did not have the audio on that, but part of what the president said is there's no doubt we wanted to make it clear that we do not abide by discrimination in anything, including discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. that has been an issue hanging over these games at the start. and i'm sure one thing people are going to be looking for in the opening ceremony and throughout these games is if there will be any protests around gay rights in particular. we've already seen one maybe protest or not protest from a russian snowboarder whose snowboard had an image that looked to be the russian protest punk rock group pussy riot. >> nice. >> he said sort of wryly, i didn't make the snowboard. >> i'm glad to see in our delegation, billie jean king, an extraordinary advocate for women's rights and gay rights far long time. her representation of america has been extraordinary so glad

to see her part of our group. >> absolutely. >> that's part of where the diplomacy comes in. i mean, liberals in foreign policy often say we should engage countries like cuba or iran. russia has a bad record in a lot of these arias, but this is engagement, too, when you look tonight at these opening ceremonies you'll hear the russian national anthem. one reporter reports in the new yorker when you look at his control, putin's control, the lyrics and the notes in that national anthem were overseen by vladimir putin. >> now he's a songwriter p. >> the russian and soviet history and the textbooks is overseen personally by putin. >> wow. >> state-run television obviously overseen and controlled by putin. >> orwellian. >> just like barack obama, really. >> exactly. >> yeah. >> but he's actually from the country that he's in charge of. that's the deal. >> i guess it depends who you ask. yet that is the tension here. which is we're going to celebrate something that is

international, that is global, that has a lot of wonderful parts of russia. not all russians personally obviously support a man who rules over them with such an iron fist. something else he writes, "dissident russian voices call these putin's game and minus the tone of derision, russian officials close to putin explain his motives aren't that different but the political tension of the games, putin's desire to reassert a powerful, confident russian state on the world stage in the face of his critics and his government's disregard for principles of human rights cannot easily be eclipsed by the glint of gold medals and fireworks." i think of that as the real challenge tonight, an incredible global diplomatic and athletic celebration that we can all rally around to some degree. yet also a time for the world community to think about the record of this authoritarian in charge of russia. >> the expectations are so high, even on the opening ceremonies. you think about the resources and the money being poured into this. you mentioned $50 billion being

spent on the olympics so long, more than every olympic combined up to this. so the expectations are very high. and i think this is a way for russia to say, you know, we're putting it all out there, we are back in the game. what i love about the opening ceremonies is it gives the rest of the world sort of a better understanding of the history of the country that's hosting the olympics. and russia has such an interesting history. they actually have a lot to highlight, especially in terms of the arts, whether it's the ballet or the opera or classical music. and i have no doubt they're going to highlight all those things. i'm sure it will be spectacular. i hope it is for everything they are putting into this. but it could be a disaster. you never know. >> they also have some things they want to hide but definitely an extraordinary history that they can show to the rest of the world. i'm interested to see what they do tonight. i'm interested to see what happens this weekend. going to be some great stuff. some speed skating, figure skating, luge, snowboard, some ski jumping and on sunday some skiing. bode miller will be skiing on sunday. this is his fifth olympics.

>> wow. >> the guy says, and i quote, "tot to take anything away from the olympics, but it just isn't the same after i've done it as many times as i have." this is his fifth. >> pretty lame. >> screw you, dude. this is awesome. this is very cool. and i get excited about the olympics. i like the olympics. i like sort of the global aspect of it, the nationalistic aspect of it. you know, you get excited about the stars then the sort of jamaican bobsled sort of people coming out of nowhere. and, you know -- >> "cool running." >> it seems he does this four years, to poop on the whole exercise, not take it seriously enough and underperform. you know, this is cool. and i'm not too cool to be like i don't like the olympics. i like the olympics. and if i had a chance to go i'd be fliled about it because if he didn't go someone else who was thrilled to be there would be able to go. if you don't want to go, stay home. >> if you don't want to be there, move over e, let someone who's super psyched to be there.

i'm sure we have plenty of talented individuals who would love to be there instead. >> in skiing, absolutely. >> you would dominate the slopes. why would you think that? >> just scream amazing superstorm sandy skier. >> are you being sarcastic. >> yes. >> i get it. >> there's this epic rivalry between the u.s. and canadian women's hockey, like totally dominant, you know, they dominate every world competition, and have this absolutely bitter epic rivalry. so that starts tomorrow, which will be a lot of fun. >> and ice-skating, my favorite. that's over the weekend. >> don't forget "the princess bride." >> i'm not too cool -- >> oh, wow. i did it. you worked "the princess bride." >> that doesn't count. >> apropos of nothing. >> row dent amy robach dent row row row dens of unusual size.

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welcome back to "the cycle." jay leno from last night. >> greatest 20 years of my life. what people say to me, why don't you go to abc, why don't you go to fox, why don't you go -- i didn't know anybody over there. these are the only people i've ever known. >> leno says late night will not be in his future. he's focusing on stand-up. he makes his return at a soldout show tonight in sarasota,

florida. a rainy weekend generally sounds depressing unless you live out west. much-needed rain is falling in california, which is in the middle of one of the worst droughts ever. san francisco has gotten just 2 inches of rain in the past year. the average is nearly seven times that. back in the east, a number of states are scrambling to restore power after this week's ice storm. about a half a million people could remain in the antarctica through the weekend. most are in pennsylvania. crews have been called in from as far north as canada and as far south as arkansas to help out. >> not month minimize the difficulties on the east coast but we could not let this go unnoticed. a local reporter in philadelphia warning viewers of the impending ice-pocalypse and a performance that proved more epic than the storm. >> this is not the end of the storm. this is the beginning of our problems. we are entering an ice storm. this is what i was hoping against hope would not happen. we'll have people that are going

to be dying over the next couple days. we'll be losing heat in our homes. people will be making poor choices. we'll see people use candles. we will have fires. we'll see heaters catching fire. people will bring generators into their houses. it is such a dangerous situation we have just entered. we're hoping we would avoid it but we got slammed in the worst possible way. if you don't have a gas stove, it's difficult to heat. maybe you have a grill and people are will make the mistake act bringing grills inside. this is the time to look around and say what am i going to do to survive? get snow and put it in your baggies because you'll need to freeze your food. it's start to pull together. how do we survive this together? we'll have a lot of fires. that's tonight and tomorrow. >> that's right. >> let's hope not. >> thank you for that. >> i love the passion she brings to the job. >> survive this together. >> really. i was going to say if there's one word to describe that, it's certainly passion.

all right. the word "crazy" and toronto mayor rob ford have pretty much become synonymous with each other. ♪ >> i had a minor setback. ♪ >> from his wild dancing in city council to his angry public rants, the world has gotten to know one side of the mayor, but there is a much more deeper troubling side to the story that hasn't been told until now. it's a story of a family dynasty, a history of addiction, and a strong bond with the people of toronto that could make him win re-election. that's what i said. he could win again. toronto star reporter robyn doolittle takes readers inside this twisted world with her new book "crazy town: the rob ford

story:" she joins us live from toronto. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> the question i've had since ford began making national news is how did this guy get elected in the first place? what were the voters thinking? as you point out in your book, he has this unique ability to connect on a personal level. people feel they have an ally in rob ford, that he will fight for them, he'll keep taxes low, and he has deliver on that in large part. so what are we not seeing that the voters see? >> yeah. whenever i go outside of toronto, that's the question people always ask me. how is it that this guy got elected? there's a couple things at play. one of the things is that in 2010 when he ran, rob ford was just your typical unusual politician if that makes sense. he was often getting into trouble for sticking his foot in his mouth and he wasn't perfect. he had a drunk driving conviction. he'd been charged with marijuana possession, although that was

dropped, and most seriously domestic assault, although that was also dropped. voters knew they were electing a flawed man but thought they were putting an ally at city hall. rob ford made a name for himself by calling back constituents. he's a city counselor in toronto and has been since 2000. and when people in his ward would call saying i have a pipe busted at the end of the road, ford would show up. and over the years he developed this really loyal following. and so when he was running for mayor and saying i won't raise your taxes and i'm here to listen, people bought it. and that sentiment is still there today. >> well, robyn, take us back a little into this the sort of back story of who rob ford is and how he came up and how he came to be at this place where he would run for mayor. >> right. so rob ford's father was a member of provincial parliament. and he has three siblings, one of whom is his brother, doug, who is also city counselor at

the moment. rob ford when he was younger didn't know what he wanted to do. somewhere along the line looking at his dad decided maybe he wanted to get into politics and follow in his father's footsteps, someone he looked up to. he sort of styled him after his dad. his dad was colorful, outspoken. he'd heckle people in the legislature who were coming to listen to depeople. he old say why don't you go get a job in why do you have time to be here? these kind of blunt talking antics got him a lot of press. that's sort of the footsteps that rob ford followed in. in the book i talk about the story behind the story. i think a lot of people know obviously about his famous youtube vid y youtube videos and some of his more vulgar statements and of course the crack, but there's this really compelling story about a family in suburban toronto that is unorthodox and dysfunctional and has a history of substances and lying -- substance abuse and lies and

there's been several shootings in their history. and they style themselves as the canadian kennedys. >> the canadian kennedy thing kills me because i think you have to be at least prime minister of canada, at least one of you, to earn that. but let me give you the two questions i want to touch on. first, quickly, as a writer, i'm curious how long it took you to write this book because you're right on trend with this thing. secondari secondarily, at the end, you almost talk about the near probability in your mind he'll be re-elected probably because he's been delivering for people, his approval rating is still in the mid-40s, unaffected by the crack revelation, and you say that a weakened ford will lead to arm larger field, which will mean it will be easier to win with a smaller number. talk about the potential of another ford administration. >> few things there. so in terms of writing the book, yeah, definitely, it was a tight time line. i've been covering this guy, though, since january of 2010. so i'm obviously very familiar

with the subject matter and i've been investigating him with "the star" and others at "the star" so i saw the crack video, as you pointed out, his domestic incidents, his drink, his inability to show up for work. a lot of that was already done. obviously, yeah, we wrote this quickly. it meant a lot of early morningings, late nights and not a lot of leaving the house. in terms of whether he can get re-elected, you mention his approval ratings in the mid-40s, they hover between 40 and 40 45. people note that might be more an endorse m of his policies, which are pretty black and white -- don't raise taxes as opposed to the man himself. but i do say that anyone who thinks that rob ford can't get re-elected wasn't really paying attention to the last election. and with him being weakened, there will be more people, there could be a split vote. he won in 2010 with 47% of the vote. but all of this hinges on whether he can clean up his act. i think when you look at the pattern of how this story has unfolded there are deep problems that aren't going away, and so

far the mayor is refusing to go to any sort of treatment facility. >> robyn, how do people in toronto and canada feel about the way rob ford has been por trade, how the media has cove d ed him here in the united states? do they feel like it it's been overplayed? are they embarrassed at all. >> it's really split, and that's an area i explore in the book is this declining trust in media and increasing polarization in terms of the public politically. and it's been really interesting with this book. you can see some people who find sympathy in the mayor that maybe weren't expecting to see that. they thought it would be this kind of takedown and it's not. it's a full picture of how we got to this point. but he's a very polarizing figure, and the things that you read about him are -- how you take it will often depend on your politics. >> politics is an interesting thing. robyn, doolittle, thank you so

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welcome back to "the cycle." the annual grio 100 highlighting black leaders making history today released this week including ten prominent people from ten different fields including business, education, culture, sports. this list includes quest love, brandon marshall, former miss america era harold running for a house seat in illinois now, and 12-year-old mosiah bridges, a creator. the field gets suggestions from all around the country and as they report in their new series here they look not just at achievement but at scale.

this year every person on the list is something of a newcomer. let's get to it with founding editor and managing editor, david, is that the title? >> founder, managing editor. >> founder and managing editor. >> the guy who does everything. >> i wanted to get it right. >> janitor. >> david wilson, you've got a lot of people on this list who are leaders and who are doers. it's not just celebrities and media people. we look at one who's an educator. tell us about some of the folks who are changing lives who are on this list. >> we have a lot of folks. gromwell harper started scholar rich, he was a math teacher, he became a visionary and figured out how to motivate kids through education with music and getting them inspired to also get into philanthropy. we're looking at folks like him. we're looking at, you know, folks like laverne cox, who we all know was -- is one of the stars from ""orange is the new black."" she was born a male. she is now one of the leading

faces of the transgender community, particularly in the african-american community. so that's another person what we're looking at. michael b. jordan is another person we're looking at. obviously he got his big break through royal station. a close friend of ours here, angela wry, she is somebody we think is a huge breakout star in the political world. >> w00t w00t! >> you guys like her. >> oh, yeah. >> angela is the fifth cyclist. you know we love her. we're all about her. i'm glad you brought up laverne. really powerful figure in the trans community and activist, not just an actress but an activist. i have a clip of her on the katie couric show. let's run that. >> the preoccupation with transition and surgery objectifies trans people and we don't get to deal with the real lived experiences, the reality is so often we're targets of violence. we experience discrimination diggs proportion to the rest of the community. our unemployment rate is twice the national average. if it you're a trans person of

color it's four times. the homicide is highest among trans women. when we focus on transition, we don't actually get to talk about those things. >> i think it's a smart choice and a courageous a courageous c laverne on the list. why is she on the list? >> again, you saw it just there. she is somebody who is very much outspoken. we believe that she's speaking for so many people who won't have the visibility or opportunity to express themselves. that's what typifies anybody on the grio's 100. >> another person changing america today is phillip agnew. >> there are few people like him. he has been able to take sort of

activist methods, marching, and getting people involved, but doing it with a lot of youth and getting a lot of youth involved. so he's taking a little bit of the 60s style protest and updating it towards this new generation. you're finding a lot of young folks, who are very passionate about phillip agnew because he inspires them to get involved. he was one of the faces in the forefront during the trayvon martin protests. he's someone i think we're all going to be paying more attention to as the years go by. >> many folks are inspiring this next generation, reverend al sharpton is on there. he started preaching at the age of 4 years old. one of my favorites, the kid president. let's take a look. >> life is not a game, people.

it's not a cereal either. well, it is a cereal. aren't we all on the same team? >> he is politically active and he has such a confidence. >> and so much wisdom. everybody can be boring, but you're good at that. you're going to see him for the next few decades going forward. he's gotten the attention of the president, oprah, beyonce. he's my role model. >> he's a lot of people's role models. >> exactly. >> he's earned the attention he's getting. thank you very much. up next, tori has a message for republicans in washington and it may not be a love note. - dozens of tax free zones all across the state.

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yesterday the senate failed to pass an extension for assistance of the long-term unemployed. 1.7 million people have lost a lifeline of a program. as usual, the bill needed five republican senators to overcome the filibuster. five states had two senators vote against. getting a vote on this in the house is next to impossible. as a republican congressman said, right now jesus himself couldn't be speaker and get 218 republicans behind something. this couldn't even get out of the senate. harry reid tried. he had tom coburn's idea to

prohibit those who made a million dollars from getting benefits. coburn voted to kill the bill. he represented illinois, which has the third highest unemployment rate in america. they are acting like a kidnapper who demanded a ransom, got paid, and are still keeping 1.7 million hostages. she wrote this failure and the food stamp cut and the attack on the obamacare is having the gop positioning itself as the "f" you party. this is a party that loathes social spending for the poor. maybe the economic harm that could come from not extending

this program could be used to bash obama this fall. what's happened here is a large group of folks who used to work, needed help, and the rare americans rich enough to congress said, no, you can't have help while you look for work. they're too rich to know what it's like to fear losing your home. what's going to happen to these people now that they have lost their job and their benefits? what's going to happen to their children and the gop if they keep making it clear they're the party of the wealthy and they're not in d.c. to help the poor? they're republicans because of social issues. there may be little electoral risk for republicans here. before that happens, we'll get another crack at passing this.

harry reid is determined to try again. he said to republicans, we need one more vote. what do you need? let's try to get something done. the house is not going the pass this. john boehner said -- >> mother teresa is a saint now. if the congress wanted to make her a saint and attach that to the debt ceiling, we probably couldn't get 218 republican votes. >> it's not funny. lord, help us. sochi talk of shoddy hotel rooms and undrinkable water. it is friday, february 7th, and this is "now." >> let the games begin. >> the official opening of the xxii olympic games. >> it opened today in lake placid, new york. >> call it bad timing. >> the temperatures are frigid.

>> the u.s. state department called the eavesdropping a new low. >> we have seen some protests over russia's anti-gay laws. >> making it a crime distribute so-called gay propaganda. >> the american withdrawal from the games will not be taken lightly here. yet another blow to east-west relations. >> president obama and putin have not had a good relationship. >> in