vanessa yurkevich. thank you so much. we are keeping a close eye on several other key races as well, including in the swing state of north carolina. that's right. cnn's dianne gallagher is live outside of a polling place in the charlotte suburb of cornelius dianne, what are you hearing from voters there about the race for president >> we've talked >> before about this long down-ballot after the presidential race. so there are a lot of people coming here for different reasons, but it's terms of issues that are inspiring them to come out here. i have heard pretty much unanimously abortion, education, immigration, and talking about just what they see for the future of the state and the country. now, i've spoken to people who have cast ballots for president biden, former president trump, and me bachelor haley old saying that they have their own reasons to do so. now, in terms of votes for nikki haley, the majority of people whose tell me they've cast her ballot for her did so because they were unaffiliated voters registered u

we have cnn's vanessa yurkevich following this story for us, tell us vanessa what led to this decision >> you have 1,000 stores, family dollar stores that are going to be closing over the next couple of years. the first 600 closing this year, and then about 370 over the next couple of years. the ceo a family dollar, saying that the reason for these closures is that inflation and fewer gov, government assistance programs for their low-income customers has really impacted them. and that has impacted the amount of money that those folks can spend in stores. there was a purchase that was made dollar dollar tree bought family dollar in 2015, and there was an effort to improve a lot of the family dollar stores. but they were hit as you mentioned, with safety violations food violations that actually resulted in a fine by the department of justice for over 40 million and family dollar really took a hit it there. on the flip side though the parent company dollar tree, as you mentioned, is finally finding success with americans who are making over $125,000. so those $1 items are now being are go

healthy sign for the economy cnn's vanessa yurkevich joining us now to break down the report and vanessa, when it comes to wage grew growth, some interesting numbers here >> yeah, we have to take it all together. so we have a really strong jobs number 275,000 jobs added in february. that is hot, but not too hot. and this also pushed up the unemployment rate to 3.9%. >> but that is >> because you had more people who were unemployed looking for jobs. but we've still seen a sub 4% unemployment rate for many, many months now, a streak really that we haven't been seen in decades. also, the sectors that have added jobs in february are the sectors that have been adding jobs for the past year or so now, you have health care, 67,000 jobs added. government 52,000 jobs added and food and drinking establishments adding 42,000 jobs. but as you mentioned, brianna, it's always important to dig a little bit deeper in this report and look at wages. wages on an annual basis in february, cool to about 4.3%. and if you're an american, you're saying, well, wait a minute, i don't want my wages to go down, but

cnn's vanessa yurkevich breaks down the numbers a better-than-expected jobs report in february, 2 hundred and jobs added a little hot, but not too >> hot, just right. and that push the unemployment rate up to 3.9%. but that was largely because there are more americans looking for work, right now. and here are the second does that lead the way in terms of job gains in february health care at his 67,000 jobs government adding 52,000 jobs and food and drinking places, adding 42,000 jobs. this is historically where we have seen jobs added over the past year or so interesting though, in this report, we got revisions for the months of january and december. in january, we saw a blockbuster jobs report, 353,000 jobs added. but in this report, we're seeing that actually 229,000 jobs were added less than february it's so still very good job growth, just not as strong as we initially thought, also worth pointing out that wages have cooled on an annual basis, 4.3% in february. that may sound a little scary to americans who want more wages in their pocket, but that's actually encouraging news for the

this coming ahead of the president's state of the year union address on thursday night, cnn's vanessa yurkevich is joining us now. this announcement is coming amid a really big conversation about so-called shrinkflation and the shrinkflation effect. it's fun to say and apparently cookie monster is jumping into this. what's going on? he's leading the charge. bottom line is do not mess with cookie monster's cookie. but a lot of americans agree he's talking about something called shrinkflation. and this is what we see when corporations shrink the product size to avoid raising prices. further, research has indicated that consumers are actually more okay with smaller product bucks than higher prices. but essentially, if you look at cookie prices over the past two years or so for about a pound of cookies, you see that the price started about 370 for a pound. it's all the way up to 50 to a pound. and in the last year, according to a study by senator bob casey in just the last year, we've seen cookie products shrink by 6%. and so you have everyone dow, jumping on this conversation with cookie monster w

cnn's vanessa yurkevich is here. you've been listening in to get all of the details that are just coming in, talk to you about what we see here. >> a nice >> strong number better than expectations analysts were predicting around 200,000 jobs added last month 275,000 jobs added strong, the economy is still chugging along the jobs market is very robust. the unemployment rate though ticking up to 3.9%. however, we are on a streak of a sub 4% unemployment rate, something we haven't seen since president nixon was in office. and important to note that the sectors where we've seen job gains over the past couple months, even years. so traditionally have been in health care government, and food services. that's exactly where we were seeing these job gains today, 67,000 and health care 52,000 and government and food and drink 42,000 of the things that we always, that is fascinating and important. also talk about is not just the number released today is the residual revisions that have been popping up from months prior. what's

it's vanessa yurkevich. thank you so much. appreciate it >> a sweet spot to preventing an all-out nato war with putin while making sure he is defeated in ukraine. retired joint chiefs chairman general mark milley says there is one, there is this sweet spot, and this is now being revealed in the new book by cnn anchor and chief national security analyst, jim sciutto gyms joining us now for more on this. and jim, your book is out today. if i am not mistaken, the return of great powers, russia, china, and the new world. and the next world war tell us more about your conversation with milley. what this sweet spot is? >> so this is notable at the time he was still the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. now, of course, he is step step down, but he was saying in effect, what i've heard often in private, but he's saying it in public here and that is that it's some point there has to be a settlement to end this war because really no one or very few people believe that either side is going to be defeated on the battlefield. what he