I'm Carla Zeus for CNN 10. 3

Today's first topic concerns the United States and Russia. 4

On Friday, the U. 5

S government announced its plans to pull out of an international agreement that concerns nuclear weapons. 6

On Saturday, the Russian government announced it was also suspending its participation in the agreement. 7

The deal we're talking about is more than three decades old. 8

It was signed what Russia was the dominant part of the Soviet Union. 9

It was called the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or I N F Treaty. 10

What the U. 11

S. 12

And the Soviet Union did was agreed to stop making missiles that could be launched from land and could travel between 334 100 miles. 13

The treaty did not cover missiles that could travel the same distance. 14

Is butter launched from planes or ships? 15

Why was the treaty made? 16

Because both sides were developing dangerous weapons that could carry nuclear warheads and placing these missiles in Europe, there were concerns that all this was bringing the U. 17

S. 18

And the Soviet Union closer to war. 19

The trading remained in place after the Soviet union broke up in 1991 but in 2014 the U. 20

S government under the Obama administration publicly accused Russia of violating the agreement. 21

In late last week, the Trump administration said the U. 22

S would leave the deal unless Russia came back in line with it within six months. 23

Russia has repeatedly denied that it was violating the treaty. 24

But there's another country, China, that also may factor into what's taking place. 25

United States Announcing today it is suspending one of the last remaining nuclear arms treaties between the US and Russia. 26

We provided Russia and ample window of time to mend its ways and for Russia to honor its commitment tomorrow that time runs out wth e intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or I M F was signed by President Ronald Reagan and then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. 27

For the past several years, the U. 28

S has accused Russia of violating the treaty of developing and deploying medium range nuclear ready missiles. 29

We can't be put at the disadvantage of going by a treaty living what we do when somebody else doesn't go by that, Trump administration says. 30

Russia has placed battalions of missiles near the borders of Europe not allowed by the treaty's terms. 31

The missile is called the nine m 7 to 9. 32

Russia recently showed off the system, but not the missile itself to journalists and claims that it does abide by the i. 33

N F. 34

Russia has implemented and continues to meticulously implement the requirements of the treaty, this Russian general said, and does not allow for any violations toe happen. 35

The goal of the treaty was to prevent the two sides from developing land based medium range nuclear weapons. 36

NATO, whose members of the most threatened by the Russian moves expressed its full support of the U. 37

S pulling out while some experts, including former Secretary of State General Colin Powell, told Jake on State of the Union. 38

It's a wrong and dangerous thing to do now. 39

There are a lot of people now. 40

Well, look, we got to get out of this, treating that treaty bad, terrible mistakes which we will regret because they don't make sense. 41

The biggest concern today's move could spark an arms race not just with Russia but with China, which has not been constrained by the treaty and has grown exponentially more powerful over the past three decades. 42

China is already developing these capabilities as well. 43

A strategic nuclear capabilities. 44

You've got the North Koreans. 45

And of course, the Russians have not only been developing these intermediate range missiles, but hypersonic and more strategic nuclear capable missiles as well. 46

So we're already in a bit of an arms race. 47

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Which of these U. 49

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Government organizations is oldest Office of Management and Budget. 51

Bureau of Energy Resource is Bureau of Labor Statistics, or Department of Commerce. 52

Established in 18 84 the Bureau of Labor Statistics is the oldest organization on this list. 53

On the first Friday of every month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases a jobs report it's seen is one measure of how the U. 54

S. 55

Economy is one thing. 56

That report looks at us. 57

How many new jobs were added or lost the month before? 58

So in January, the U. 59

S economy grew by 304,000 jobs. 60

That's considered to be a sign of strong jobs growth, and it came at a time when some economists predicted that only 170,000 jobs would be added. 61

January was the 1/100 month in a row that jobs grew in America. 62

Wages also went up last month, increasing by 1/10 of 1%. 63

That's less than the 3/10 of a percent that was expected. 64

But it's still a sign of continued wage growth over the past 12 months. 65

The Labor Department says the partial government shutdown that recently ended but was the longest ever in U. 66

S history did not have a noticeable impact on hiring and wages. 67

But it did cause a slight increase in the unemployment rate, the percentage of the American workforce that doesn't have a job. 68

In December, that rate was 3.9%. 69

In January, it was 4% jobs. 70

Wages and unemployment are three highlights of the report, but there's a lot more to it than that. 71

It's the Super Bowl of economic statistics. 72

The monthly jobs report, known technically as the employment situation summary or non farm payrolls to statistics received the most attention. 73

Of course, the jobless rate currently near the lowest in a generation and the number of net new jobs created. 74

Now the jobs report is actually two different surveys, one of employers asking them how many employees they have and one of regular people asking if they're working every month we learn where people are working in America's hospitals, factories, shopping malls and put together the data show how big the American labor market is right now. 75

About 163 million people. 76

How many people are unemployed? 77

About 6.3 million and how many people are not counted in the labor force? 78

Millions more. 79

Oh, but there's a lot more in their jobless rates by age, race and gender share of workers who would like to be working full time but can only find part time, work the unemployed, the underemployed and not even counted. 80

Think stay at home parents, retirees, students. 81

There's something called the labor force participation rate. 82

It's the percentage of the population older than 16 years old either working or unemployed but looking for work. 83

This is an important statistic. 84

It's around 63% of the jobs report outlines who was working where and for how much. 85

Wage growth has been slow in the recent recovery, so economists have been carefully watching the wage component recently climbing above 3% more weeks of winner Thio. 86

He and I just basically go out I and you see some positive vibes or some not positive I look at me. 87

Tony Phil, the seer of seers, prognosticator of all prognosticators, was awakened at sunrise from his birth, 1000 people waiting to worship back when we did this, if we got 4 to 500 people come, we thought we had a lot. 88

And now what's happened is it just got bigger and bigger and bigger. 89

The movie is. 90

Give us. 91

A lot of people were there this past February had over 8000 people, but the tonic film used to see Europe. 92

I'll see your books and tonic. 93

Looks like spring is gonna come early this year for America, That is, if you trust a Pennsylvania ground hog to predict it accurately. 94

Punks a Tony Phil came out of his burrow Saturday morning and did not see his shadow. 95

What that means, as far as the legend goes, is that spring is on the weight. 96

This actually dates back to ancient methods of trying to predict the weather. 97

Ah, sunny sky on February 2nd was said to mean that six more weeks of stormy winter weather we're ahead. 98

A cloudy sky meant spring was coming early. 99

The ground hog in question is not accurate. 100

The U. 101

S government says he's right about 40% of the time. 102

His counterpart in Georgia, General Beauregard Lee, is said to be slightly more accurate, and he saw his shadow indicating Maur cold could still be to come. 103

You might be able to beat your little brother at Jenga, but could you beat a robot? 104

Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have built one that uses a gripper, a sensor that detects force and the camera its purpose to dominate the tower game of 54 blocks. 105

Okay, but so what will the makers say their robot could eventually help out in assembling the things we buy or separating recyclable objects from trash? 106

So is this a towering achievement? 107

Will it topple the human champion? 108

Will it loose in a whole other level to the game that brings it to new heights? 109

We wouldn't know right now, and we haven't got enough time left to extract an answer. 110

But we can't say it stacks up the block. 111

Party puns have come crashing down on CNN. 112

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