text:  This is NPR News. And this is HPR 1 at 549. Some bookkeeping here in Hilo. Hawaii Street will be closed from 8.30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. beginning Monday to remove the existing bridge deck. Disclosure will go through the week. The unemployment rate for Hawaii in June was 2.9%. That's slightly down from 3% in May. That's also lower than the national employment rate, which is around 4%.