Jobs Added in July; Poison and the Power Couple; CNN Hero
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: The story about -- what's coming on with the jobs reports, we're going to want to talk about this morning also, right?</s>KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: We've got big numbers that are going to be coming up.</s>CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS ANCHOR: Yes.</s>BOLDUAN: Christine Romans is here with some of that. So we, of course, we're kind of in the holding period.</s>ROMANS: Right.</s>BOLDUAN: We're waiting for them to get in your ear right now.</s>ROMANS: I got the number. I do have the number.</s>CUOMO: You have it?</s>BOLDUAN: Oh, good. So what's the latest?</s>ROMANS: It's 162,000 jobs created, 7.4 percent is the unemployment rate. So, a mixed message. You've got an unemployment rate that slipped 7.4 percent. That's going to be the best we've seen in months. But 162,000 jobs created, though, is a little shy of what Wall Street economists had wanted.</s>CUOMO: Of what they expected (ph).</s>ROMANS: We've had an average job creation this year, you guys, of about $200,000 a month. So this shows that in the month, you didn't have quite as many people hired, but you had the jobless rate tick down. One of the reasons why the jobless rate could have ticked down is because people pop out of the labor market, right, so they stop looking. So we're going to be looking into this. The U-6, the underemployment rate, that's a number that's not budging too much here and you still have less than 12 million people out of work and looking. The question here is the quality of the jobs versus the quantity of jobs. And this is what I've been really worried about. I have been worried about the fact that so many of the jobs created in the second quarter are bartenders, part-time hotel cleaners, leisure and hospitality, maybe not any benefits. So we'll closely watch that. Dow futures have just turned lower on this. We had record highs in stocks yesterday. We'll see if this is something that upsets the market a little bit today.</s>CUOMO: That's the whale watching effect, right?</s>ROMANS: Yes.</s>CUOMO: The street looks at the number and they want a big number. When they don't get a big number, they turn away. But the quality of that number is what will assess the economy over time.</s>ROMANS: Right. Right.</s>CUOMO: Is that what you're saying?</s>ROMANS: So you want to see the 7.4 percent. You know, you wanted that. We had 47,000 jobs created in retail, trade. And I'm going to break through all of these numbers for you and let you know how they break out. But 162,000 is the headline number, 7.4 percent unemployment rate. Futures ticking down just a little bit this Friday morning.</s>BOLDUAN: All right. So you see the breaking news on the bottom of your screen. New July jobs report out. Christine, thanks for breaking it down.</s>ROMANS: You're welcome.</s>CUOMO: All right, thank you for that. Now, we want to tell you about the latest in a murder mystery involving a husband and wife, both esteem specialists at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. After Dr. Autumn Klein suddenly died in April by cyanide poisoning, police investigators honed in on her husband.</s>CUOMO (voice-over): Robert Ferrante remains behind bars this morning, awaiting his trial. Prosecutors accuse the 64-year-old medical researcher and professor of poisoning his 41-year-old wife, Dr. Autumn Klein, with cyanide. Klein, seen here in this Discovery Channel video, was the chief of women's neurology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. A rising star in her field.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She was so kind, compassionate and caring. I could not imagine anyone wanting to murder her.</s>CUOMO: But after a three-month investigation following her death, authorities charged her husband with criminal homicide. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment this week. A source tells CNN. the prosecution will argue that Ferrante mixed cyanide with the Creatine Klein took. According to the criminal complaint, he told her the supplement would help her get pregnant. The police search warrants say Ferrante allegedly prepared five grams of Creatine for his wife to take in the morning and evening by mixing it into a sugary drink or putting it on her toast.</s>PAUL CALLAN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: People have said it's a circumstantial evidence cases so it can't be strong. In fact, circumstantial evidence cases can be extremely strong because they don't rely on eyewitness testimony.</s>BLITHE RUNSDORF, NEIGHBOR: Stunned is too little a word for how we feel about this. And the thing that I think bothers most of us is, what's the motivation?</s>CUOMO: One possible motive, police allege in the affidavit that Ferrante thought his wife might be having an affair.</s>CUOMO: Joining us now from Pittsburgh is Dr. Robert Ferrante's defense lawyer Bill Defenderfer. Boy, Bill, first off, didn't leave you much choices of employment with a name like that. You had to become a defense attorney at some point.</s>BILL DEFENDERFER, DR. ROBERT FERRANTE'S DEFENSE LAWYER: Well, thank you, Chris. How are you?</s>CUOMO: I know you get it a lot, but it's our first time talking so you had to give me that -- that joke. Now let's get down to business.</s>DEFENDERFER: Yes, it is -- it is Defenderfer, but that's -- I certainly understand.</s>CUOMO: Oh, good. See, good, I'm glad you corrected it, because that's what I thought it was.</s>DEFENDERFER: You're welcome.</s>CUOMO: It's the control room. You can never trust management. It's good to have you here.</s>DEFENDERFER: Thank you.</s>CUOMO: Let's talk first about what you don't want to discuss right now and why. You don't want to talk about what your client thinks about what killed his wife or why he bought the cyanide. Explain why you don't want to discuss that?</s>DEFENDERFER: Well, Chris, in terms of defending the case, you know, we don't even have any of the discovery. We have, at this point in time, we have literally what you guys have. There's a preliminary hearing that's going to be coming up in about a month and a half, September 23rd. That may even be delayed. We don't receive discovery for a good period of time after that. So for as a defense attorney to ever allow a revelation of what the defense is at this point would be -- would not be wise. I mean my client -- I can tell you, my client is adamant he had nothing to do with the cause of her death.</s>CUOMO: OK.</s>DEFENDERFER: At this point, we're not even prepared to concede that she passed away from cyanide. You know, and I certainly understand that what's in the affidavit and what all these allegations consist of.</s>CUOMO: Right.</s>DEFENDERFER: But we're absolutely proclaiming his innocence. I mean I have a guy who -- a great family man, loved his wife. The one witness you put on of why, we totally agree. There is no why and there was no motivation for him to do something as crazy as that.</s>CUOMO: All right, so look -- let's look at some of the behavior here. Prosecutors say that your client fled to Florida in the aftermath here and insisted on a fast autopsy. Does he deny those assertions?</s>DEFENDERFER: Well, the assertion that he fled to Florida, I love the adjectives. When Dr. Ferrante, obviously, when the suspicion cloud, if you will, was surrounding him here in Pittsburgh, keep in mind he was only here for a couple of years, as well as the hospital put him on leave. In terms of staying here, he requested -- he actually communicated with me, do you think it would be all right if I go visit my daughter, quite frankly, in California, not in Florida. And I said, of course, you know. But I kept in touch with the district attorney's office. Obviously, I have a very close relationship with them. And in terms of him leaving and, again, no charges being filed. You know, he's just a person of interest as people say. I turned, as a good faith gesture, I gave the prosecutor his passport. I said, keep in touch with us. I said if, in fact, there is going to -- if, in fact, this is going to result in an arrest, certainly give me a call and we'll turn him in right away. He went to --</s>CUOMO: So you're saying he didn't flee? You're saying he didn't flee?</s>DEFENDERFER: No, he was down in --</s>CUOMO: But what about the quick autopsy, the cremation? You know, that's been very suspicious, that why did it all get done so quickly?</s>DEFENDERFER: Well, I mean, you know, it -- again, in terms of -- there's not only that, the quick autopsy, there's a number of other things in the affidavit that we're well aware of that we have to answer. And as I told your producers, we intend to answer all of those in court.</s>CUOMO: And the affair. We say that we don't know why, but prosecutors say the why is an affair and your client didn't like it. What has he told you? Was there an affair?</s>DEFENDERFER: Well, first of all, we're not going to reveal what he told me.</s>CUOMO: OK.</s>DEFENDERFER: And in terms of whether or not there was an affair, that's something, obviously, again, that will -- I'm sure will come out in court.</s>CUOMO: All right. What do you know about whether or not, when it comes to the texts and about the Creatine, there's this curious turn in this story, as you're well aware, that there were these text messages between your client and his wife about maybe getting pregnant using Creatine. Does your client have any --</s>DEFENDERFER: Well, the --</s>CUOMO: Peer studies or any kind of science to back up this theory about Creatine and pregnancy?</s>DEFENDERFER: Well, keep in mind, they're both doctors, as well as they were both very much trying to have a child. They were, from all accounts that I've seen, they were very much in love and wanted to have a child as up to, as you know from your reporting, the date that she went into the hospital. And both being doctors, they believed, obviously, that Creatine may help promote or somehow improve the chances of her getting pregnant.</s>CUOMO: All right. But in terms of the Creatine thing, you don't know where that came from, as to why that would be the way to do it?</s>DEFENDERFER: Again, you're getting to -- that's one of the -- that's one of the many things and assertions that's in the affidavit that I'm -- that, you know, I'm well aware of that we need to answer those things at trial and we certainly will.</s>CUOMO: All right, Mr. Defenderfer, thank you very much for joining us today.</s>DEFENDERFER: Thank you, Chris.</s>CUOMO: I hope to speak to you again as we get into the case.</s>DEFENDERFER: All right, thank you.</s>CUOMO: All right. Kate.</s>BOLDUAN: Thanks, Chris. In the central African nation of Cameroon, there are only two doctors for every 10,000 people, if you can believe it. But this week's CNN Hero is a surgeon who devotes his personal time to bringing medical care to the remote jungles of his country for free.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): So are you also</s>BWELLE: I help people and they are happy. I'm bringing (ph) back to give them opportunity to restart (ph).</s>BOLDUAN: Opportunity is what they need. Two doctors for every 10,000 people in Cameroon. It's just amazing what he is doing. More people need to do that. Thank you so much.</s>CUOMO: The need is great.</s>BOLDUAN: That's absolutely right. Coming up next on NEW DAY, Anthony Weiner's sexting relapse. Why friends of Huma Abedin tells "People" magazine she blames herself for her husband's mistakes. And can other women relate? We'll have that conversation coming up.</s>CUOMO: And there's an old saying, a man is never so tall to when he stoops to help a child. One Marine lived that and it is the good stuff.