bernanke's. >> rick: patricia powell, thanks very much. see you soon. >> thanks for having me. >> arthel: a swarm of bees attacking five children in arizona. firefighters say one of the kids lifted the lid to a box where the bees had made a hive and the bees attacked. the victims ran into a nearby store for safety. witnesses describe what happened. listen. >> we just heard a bunch of kids screaming. we just thought they were messing around in the parking lot. once i got closer, you could see the bees over them. >> you can see the bees on the ground. >> one fell into the bushes, clothing flying around. they ran about a quarter mile down the street. >> arthel: the kids were taken to the hospital, but the good news is they're expected to be fine. i would have freaked out. i do not like bees. i would have run. >> rick: who does like bee as soon as newt gingrich provoking strong reaction from some of his former colleagues. republicans divided on the former speaker of the house. what's behind the opposition? what does it mean for the president?

patricia powell is here and well informed on these sorts of things.llo, good to see you. >> thank you for having me today. >> arthel: let's start with the good news first. we're talking about 1.6 million more people working today as compared to a year ago. so to what can we attribute this boost? >> we are into the third year of the economic recovery. so that's actually good news, much better than 2010 where less than a million jobs were actually created. the problem is that we need to create 100,000 jobs each and every month just to deal with the net new people entering the work force. so 1.6 million, better than we've been. but not enough. >> arthel: again, what do we attribute that to? >> this has been a really lack luster recovery for the most part. as you look at the recovery, there is no great strength anywhere except maybe in corporate profits. i think one of the things people have to realize when looking at the unemployment number, when you drill down, it's all about educational attainment. if you dropped out of high school, your unemployment r

let's bring in our panel today, steve moore with "the wall street journal", patricia powell is foundernd ceo of powell financial group, and mark madsen is founder and ceo of madsen money. welcome to you all, nice to have you all with us. sorry, guys, but ladies first because that's where it has to be on this show. [laughter] pat, why do we see this number, why do we see such a good number -- depends on how you see it -- but what's behind snit. >> actually, it was everywhere. this was a pretty good number. it was everywhere. every part of the economy had some growth, the private economy had some growth in employment with the exception, perhaps, of construction which was flat. so it was pretty much across the board. i use the word that it's good, but you have to remember that we've not yet had any robust recovery of jobs in the neighborhood of five, six, of seven hundred thousand which is what you've seen from prior recessions. it wasn't too impress i have. jenna: mark, should we even expect a number like that, a half million jobs created in one month? >> well, the economy's a chaotic sy