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CARL AZUZ: Monday, February 4.

And we hope your week is off to a good start.

I'm Carl Azuz for CNN 10.

And today's first topic concerns the United States and Russia.

On Friday, the US government announced its plans

to pull out of an international agreement

that concerns nuclear weapons.

On Saturday, the Russian government

announced it was also suspending its participation

in the agreement.

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

It was signed when Russia was the dominant part

of the Soviet Union.

It was called the Intermediate-Range Nuclear

Forces Treaty or INF Treaty.

What the US and the Soviet Union did was

agree to stop making missiles that

could be launched from land and could travel

between 300 and 3,400 miles.

The treaty did not cover missiles that

could travel the same distances, but are

launched from planes or ships.

Why was the treaty made?

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 US and the Soviet Union closer to war.

The treaty remained in place after the Soviet

Union broke up in 1991.

But in 2014, the US government under the Obama administration

publicly accused Russia of violating the agreement.

And late last week, the Trump administration

said the US would leave the deal,

unless Russia came back in line within it, within six months.

Russia has repeatedly denied that it

was violating the treaty.

But there's another country--

China-- that also may factor into what's taking place.

MIKE POMPEO: Good morning, everyone.

- The United States announcing today it is suspending one

of the last remaining nuclear arms

treaties between the US and Russia.

MIKE POMPEO: We provided Russia an ample window of time

to mend its ways and for Russia to honor its commitment.

Tomorrow that time runs out.

- The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or INF,

was signed by President Ronald Reagan and then Soviet leader

Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987.

For the past several years, the US

has accused Russia of violating the treaty

of developing and deploying medium-range, nuclear-ready

missiles.

DONALD TRUMP: We can't be put at the disadvantage of going

by a treaty, limiting what we do when somebody else

doesn't go by that treaty, OK?

- The Trump administration says Russia has placed battalions

of missiles near the borders of Europe

not allowed by the treaty's terms.

The missile is called the 9M729.

Russia recently showed off the system, but not the missile

itself, to journalists and claims

that it does abide by the INF.

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- Russia has implemented and continues to meticulously

implement the requirements of the treaty,

this Russian general said, and does not allow

for any violations to happen.

The goal of the treaty was to prevent the two

sides from developing land-based,

medium-range nuclear weapons.

NATO, whose members are the most threatened

by the Russian moves, expressed its full support of the US

pulling out, while some experts, including former Secretary

of State General Colin Powell, told

Jake on "State of the Union" it's a wrong and dangerous

thing to do.

COLIN POWELL: Now, there are a lot of people now, saying,

well, let's-- we got to get out of this treaty, we

got to get out of that treaty.

Bad, terrible mistakes which we will regret,

because they don't make sense.

- 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.

JOHN KIRBY: China is already developing

these capabilities as well as strategic nuclear capabilities.

You've got the North Koreans.

And of course, the Russians have not only

been developing these intermediate-range missiles,

but hypersonic and more strategic,

nuclear-capable missiles as well.

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

CARL AZUZ: Ten-second trivia--

Which of these US government organizations is oldest?

Office of Management and Budget, Bureau of Energy Resources,

Bureau of Labor Statistics, or Department of Commerce?

Established in 1884, the Bureau of Labor Statistics

is the oldest organization on this list.

On the first Friday of every month,

the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases a jobs report.

It's seen as one measure of how the US economy as a whole

is doing.

One thing the report looks at is how many new jobs were

added or lost the month before.

So in January, the US economy grew by 304,000 jobs.

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.

January was the 100th month in a row that jobs grew in America.

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

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

but it's still a sign of continued wage

growth over the past 12 months.

The Labor Department says the partial government shutdown

that recently ended, but was the longest ever in US history,

did not have a noticeable impact on hiring and wages.

But it did cause a slight increase in the unemployment

rate-- the percentage of the American workforce

that doesn't have a job.

In December, that rate was 3.9%.

In January, it was 4%.

Jobs, wages, and unemployment are

three highlights of the report, but there's a lot more to it

than that.

CHRISTINE ROMANS: It's the Super Bowl of economic statistics,

the monthly jobs report known technically

as the "Employment Situation Summary" or non-farm payrolls.

Two statistics received the most attention,

of course-- the jobless rate currently

near the lowest in a generation and the number of net new jobs

created.

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 are 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, about 163 million people.

How many people are unemployed?

About 6.3 million.

And how many people are not counted in the labor force?

Millions more.

Oh, but there's a lot more in there--

jobless rates by age, race, and gender,

the share of workers who would like to be working full time,

but can only find part-time work,

the unemployed, the underemployed,

and the not even counted--

think stay-at-home parents, retirees, students.

There's something called the labor force participation rate.

It's the percentage of the population older

than 16 years old, either working or unemployed,

but looking for work.

This is an important statistic.

It's around 63%.

So the jobs report outlines who is working, where, and for how

much.

Wage growth has been slow in the recent recovery,

so economists have been carefully

watching the wage component recently climbing above 3%.

- Six more weeks of winter to go!

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- He and I just basically go eye to eye,

and you see some positive vibes or some not positive vibes.

Look at me.

Phil!

Phil!

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Punxsutawney Phil, the Seer of Seers, the Prognosticator

of all Prognosticators was awakened

at sunrise from his burrow.

- It's Groundhog Day!

- Groundhog time.

- A thousand people waiting to worship a rat.

- Back when we did this, if we got 4 to 500 people come,

we thought we had a lot.

And now, what's happened is it just got

bigger, and bigger, and bigger.

The movie has given us a lot of attention.

OPRAH WINFREY: How many people were there this past February?

- We had over 8,000 people.

- (SINGING) Punxsutawney Phil.

He's the Seer of all Seers, Punxsutawney Phil.

CARL AZUZ: Looks like spring is going to come early this year

for America, that is if you trust a Pennsylvania groundhog

to predict it accurately.

Punxsutawney Phil came out of his burrow Saturday morning

and did not see his shadow.

What that means as far as the legend goes

is that spring is on the way.

This actually dates back to ancient methods of trying

to predict the weather.

A sunny sky on February 2 was said

to mean that six more weeks of stormy winter weather

were ahead.

A cloudy sky meant spring was coming early.

The groundhog in question is not accurate.

The US government says he's right about 40% of the time.

His counterpart in Georgia, General Beauregard Lee,

is said to be slightly more accurate.

And he saw his shadow, indicating more

cold could still be to come.

You might be able to beat your little brother at Jenga.

But could you beat a robot?

Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

have built one that uses a gripper, a sensor that

detects force and a camera.

Its purpose?

To dominate the tower game of 54 blocks.

OK, but so what?

Well, the makers say their robot could eventually help out

in assembling the things we buy or separating

recyclable objects from trash.

So is this a towering achievement?

Will it topple the human champion?

Will it loosen a whole other level to the game

that brings it to new heights?

We wouldn't know right now.

And we haven't Jengot enough time left to extract an answer.

But we can say it stacks up the block party.

The puns have come crashing down on CNN 10.

I'm Carl Azuz.

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