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CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Mondays: not as awesome as Fridays. But it does mean the start of a new week of CNN Student News! Welcome! Hello, everyone. I'm Carl Azuz. Today, we're talking about space, sports, labor and Libya.

Unemployment Report

AZUZ: The U.S. unemployment rate is down one-tenth of a point. It went from 9 percent in January to 8.9 percent in February. That's the lowest unemployment has been since April of '09. But experts still have some concerns about the future of the U.S. economy. Samantha Hayes explains some of those concerns and breaks down some more details from this month's unemployment report.

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SAMANTHA HAYES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The Obama administration was cautiously upbeat Friday after the Labor Department's February jobs report showed a slight dip in unemployment, to 8.9 percent from 9 percent in January.

HILDA SOLIS, U.S. LABOR SECRETARY: More people are going to work. We're adding jobs. We're finding that there is growth in manufacturing, construction and health.

HAYES: But there is also concern the rising price of food and gas could thwart any economic gains unless Americans change their ways.

SOLIS: Cut our dependency on foreign oil by making those investments in fuel-efficient cars, lithium batteries, wind turbines and global energy and solar power.

HAYES: Private businesses added 222,000 jobs in February, the best month in a year. But the news was not good for public workers. State and local governments cut 30,000 jobs. University of Maryland economics professor Peter Morici says jobs losses in the public sector indicate an overall problem with the recovery.

PETER MORICI, ECONOMICS PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: If the economy were growing like it should, states like Wisconsin, New Jersey, California, they'd have enough money, they wouldn't have to lay people off.

HAYES: The jobs report also offered some good news for the hardest hit sector of the economy during the recession: construction. Thirty-three thousand jobs were added in construction and manufacturing in February, the biggest one-month gain in nearly four years. The number of uncounted unemployed, those who are not actively seeking a job, remained about the same at 2.7 million. For CNN Student News, I'm Samantha Hayes.

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Shoutout

STAN CASE, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mrs. Borman's social studies class at Nipher Middle School in Kirkwood, Missouri! Who is the commissioner of the NFL? If you think you know it, shout it out! Is it: A) Roger Goodell, B) Bud Selig, C) David Stern or D) Gary Bettman? You've got three seconds -- GO! Roger Goodell was once an intern with the National Football League; now, he's the commissioner. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!

NFL Labor Talks

AZUZ: Commissioner Goodell is a big part of negotiations between the NFL and the players' union. There have been some problems between the two sides lately that could lead to a work stoppage in pro football! The biggest problem between them is how to split up the billions of dollars in profit that the NFL makes every year. The deadline for a new deal was last week. Both sides agreed to extend that deadline, and they're both optimistic.

ROGER GOODELL, NFL COMMISSIONER: We've extended our agreement for mediation for another seven days. We are continuing to work hard trying to identify solutions. We believe that, as I've said many times before, this will be solved through negotiations, and that's what we're focused on.

DEMAURICE SMITH, NFLPA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: There's a commitment from both sides to engage in another round of negotiations at the request of the mediation service. We look forward to a deal coming out of that.

AZUZ: One well-known football fan says he hopes that the two sides can work out a deal before he has to get involved.

U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I'm a big football fan. But I also think that for an industry that's making $9 billion a year in revenue, they can figure out how to divide it up in a sensible way and be true to their fans, who are the ones who obviously allow for all the money that they're making. So, my expectation and hope is that they will resolve it without me intervening, because it turns out I've got a lot of other stuff to do.

Basketball Tragedy

AZUZ: The town of Fennville, Michigan is in mourning after the sudden and shocking death of a high school athlete. 16-year-old Wes Leonard was a star on his school's football and basketball teams. Last Thursday, Leonard hit the game winning shot, helping his team finish an undefeated season. But moments later, Leonard collapsed on the court. He was pronounced dead later that night. Doctors say what happened was that he suffered cardiac arrest from an enlarged heart. Fennville is scheduled to play again tonight in a tournament. The superintendent says the focus is not on the outcome of this game, but on making it a fitting tribute to the memory of Wes Leonard.

Training Together

AZUZ: Three brothers from Atlanta are banding together over an athletic goal and hoping to make history along the way. Brent, Evan and Kyle Pease are planning to compete together in the Tampa triathlon this May. What's unique is that Kyle has cerebral palsy. He'll be competing in a wheelchair, with his brothers by his side every step of the way. The idea for all this got started when Kyle watched one of his brothers compete in a triathlon and asked him what it was like.

BRENT PEASE, TRIATHLETE, KYLE'S BROTHER: He said, "What was it like out there?" And I said it was a lot like what you go through every day. You know, there's so many times when you are down in the pits and there's so many times when it just doesn't seems like it's going to get any better. And Kyle said, "Can I do an Iron Man?" And the answer was yes, of course.

This Day in History

AZUZ: It's March 7th, and on this day in history in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patented his new invention: the telephone. Bell was 29 years old, and he filed for the patent just two hours before someone else filed one for a similar invention. And in 1965, roughly 600 civil rights marchers who were marching in support of voting rights were attacked by local law enforcement on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

NASA Ups and Downs

AZUZ: The space shuttle Discovery and its crew are set to land back on solid ground this Wednesday. Right now, as you know, they're up in orbit wrapping up what's been characterized so far as a successful mission to the international space station. But not every NASA project has gone so smoothly the past few days. Nicole Collins has one; she reports on the recent ups and downs for the space agency.

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NASA ANNOUNCER: Zero.. and ignition...

NICOLE COLLINS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Liftoff went smoothly for NASA's unmanned Taurus rocket, carrying a satellite known as "Glory." But six minutes into the launch, a protective shell did not separate as planned and the mission was doomed.

OMAR BAEZ, NASA LAUNCH DIRECTOR: We failed to make orbit. All indications are that the satellite and rocket is in the Southern Pacific Ocean somewhere.

COLLINS: The satellite, Glory, would have collected information on the Earth's climate. Now, NASA officials are trying to collect themselves.

ROD GRABE, ORBITAL SCIENCES CORPORATION: We're all pretty devastated. But we will recover.

COLLINS: As NASA mourns the loss, it celebrates the success of shuttle Discovery's last mission. NASA released this video of Discovery's launch from Kennedy Space Center on February 24. Six cameras attached outside of the shuttle captured its liftoff, the decent of Discovery's two rocket boosters through the earth's atmosphere, and their crash landing in the ocean. Discovery's mission commander says the crew on the international space station has already accomplished most of their major objectives.

CMDR. STEVE LINDSEY, MISSION COMMANDER, DISCOVERY: So far, the mission has gone just absolutely spectacular. We couldn't be happier with it, and looking forward to a couple more days up here on our beautiful international space station.

COLLINS: The astronauts are also looking forward to coming home.

ERIC BOE, PILOT, STS-133, DISCOVERY: Well, we will be glad to be back on Earth. It's going to be bittersweet.

COLLINS: Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to land back on earth Wednesday, March 9th. Nicole Collins for CNN, Washington.

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Before We Go

AZUZ: All right, there are some of you out there who don't like walking the dog, who find this a serious chore. So it's nice to have some company along, even if it is some bird brain. When this South Carolina man takes his dogs to the park for a walk, this goose shows up and goes along, too. The thing lives in the park, and flocked to join the pooches on their regular walks a couple years back. The thing even tries to hop in the car and go home with them! Now, the owner doesn't allow that. But we figured you'd want to see this friendly workout routine.

Goodbye

AZUZ: Because after all, what's good for the goose is good for a gander. Plus, it's a public park, so he can exercise his right to walk there, too. We goose that'll have to be enough puns for now. Man, you can't beat goose puns; our writer really goosed that up for you. For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz. We'll see you tomorrow.