in washington, jennifer davis, fox news. >>> the drop in the unemployment rate helped fuel a rally on wall street today and early trading, dow jones soared to a 2011 high. by the closing bell, dow rosed 57 points closing at 12,376. >>> all right, so what does this mean for you? scott, the seen orvice president for government affairs at the financial round table is here to join us. a lot of people thought this was an april fools joke, but the unemployment numbers are looking good. what is fueling these lower numbers? >> i think the economy is starting to recover and employers are starting to hire again. there has been a decrease in the uncertainty and employers are willing to hire those people, get them off the unemployment roll. there is more that needs to be done. 8.8 is the lowest unemployment we have seen. >> let me ask you, the second straight month that the u.s. added 200,000 plus jobs, can we sustain that and if we don't, what will that mean for the economy? >> hopefully it can be sustained. we are seeing a lot of strengths in the markets. the point about fuel cost is valid. so