that's going to do it for us. thank you for joining us. we will see you back here tomorrow for "american morning." go to our blog for more stories at cnn.com/amfix. a big rigging, lies, bribes, payoffs. something mafia good fellows could be doing. suicide hard to fatham. how is it a 9-year-old does not want to live anymore, and knows how to end it all? espn to.com to espn.gone. a blog comes back to bite him. he should have stuck with hoops and left haiti alone. a different emphasis than what we heard a couple months ago, but we also got some of the old standards. >> we face big and difficult challenges. what the american people hope, what they deserve, is for all of us, democrats and republicans, to work through our differences. to overcome the numbing weight of politics. >> we heard that talk before. still waiting for the walk. breaking down the speech with carolyn costello in youngstown, ohio. and brianna is on the hill, and republicans feeling a whole lot better than a year ago. and the tune changed a bit at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, too. and ed, let's start with you. the drum beat message of the president has been health care, health care, health care, and now it's jobs, jobs, jobs. what gives? >> reporter: we knew beforehand there would be a pivot to jobs. but i was stunned how abrupt it was. i think in the station of the the president's supporters, and top officials here, they think it was done effectively, this is the number one issue on the minds of the voters. but can you hear the president's critics on the republican side, this is a speech that should have been delivered months ago. pretty long speech, 70 minutes. on the issue of health care that she staked much of his presidency on in the first year really did not come up until halfway through the speech. it was relatively short. and it's going to be very interesting to see whether the plea he made about, look, we have come so far, don't give up now, and is that going to be enough to get lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to come to a compromise. the senate will debate the jobs bill the president is pushing. it's unclear whether they can come together on health care, kyra. >> yeah, and we will talk about that and the republican's view to the speech. and coming to common ground on the slippery slope. listen. >> we cut taxes for 8 million americans paying for college. i thought i would get some applause on that one. >> so was the president barking up the wrong tree? you know, republicans smell blood in the water, brianna. their reactions last night proved that. will they give it on on what the president wants to get done? >> reporter: it's hard to tell this soon, kyra, but we heard from the number two republican in the house, eric cantor, and he said there was not enough to hear a change of message from president obama, he wanted to hear president obama admit his policies have been wrong over the last year. obviously that was not going to happen and it did not happen. what you have now is as democratic leaders in the house and senate try to move forward on a jobs bill, there is a reality check, and that is the reality of about a week and a half ago when they lost in the senate, that 60th seat, republican scott brown taking the seat of former senator ted kennedy. they realize if they wanted to pass a jobs bill, they will have to appeal to republicans. what the senate is looking at, kyra, is a more scaled down jobs bill. that pales in comparison to what they passed in december. they are looking at things that will appeal to republicans, like tax credits for new hires, and tax incentives to promote growth and new jobs. that's what they are hoping will get them republican support. but we still have to wait for the details. we are not expecting them until next week. we will see if maybe there is going to be some republican support on this, although the early signs is that it's going to be a tough road, kyra. >> it always is a tough road. thank you so much. the reaction from the american people? mostly positive. according to the new cnn opinion pole, we asked speech watchers to weigh in. 48% had a positive reaction, and 21% reacted negatively. we want to know your thoughts on the president's speech. right in to my blog. i look forward to reading some responses in the next hour of "cnn newsroom." what do you think? were you nodding your head in agreement or rolling your eyes or grasping for the remote? we know what the politicians thought of the speech, so what do you say? i am jacqui jaris, and schools are out and travel not advised in parts of oklahoma. and plus in the northeast, we have snow. that's causing travel delays. we will tell you where the worse of it is coming up in the forecast. there are icy stares last night, but nothing like the weather ice. >> ice is the big story. in terms of winter weather, it really doesn't get worse than an ice storm. worse than a blizzard in my opinion, and pretty much everything else. it can just cripple an area. you get accumulations of a quarter of an inch, you cannot drive and it brings down trees and power lines. we have not seen the freezing rain in the amarillo area. oklahoma city, we are getting in on the freezing rain as your temperature dipped below the 32-degree mark in this area. we will continue to watch those temperatures drop as the cold air moves in. we will watch that freeze. it's really the i-40 corridor in particular that we think is going to be very problematic in terms of travel. state of the emergency has been declared for all 77 counties in oklahoma. behind the system, we see the heavy snow. accumulations could reach 12, maybe 10 inches easily. it's a potent system. watch areas of the mid south, and even memphis could pick up a couple inches of sleet and snow for tomorrow. and folks in the northeast, have you a little clipper type system here. it's associated with that same system in the sense that that arctic air pushing in. we are getting the snow showers across the northeast, and we will not see much accumulation, but the roadways could get icy. we just had a ground stop issued for laguardia, and delays in san francisco, and baltimore, delays for 30 minutes. expect those delays in the northeast throughout much of the day today. the midsection dealing with cold air coming down. upper midwest, and one other element to the storm is heavy rain and a slight risk of thunderstorms across texas. and the cold air i mentioned moving across the great lakes, bringing in lake-effect snow. you cannot see town, can you in pittsburgh. fog in the area. expecting a couple inches. one thing we are dealing with across parts of pennsylvania, including the pittsburgh area, flood advisories. things are freezing up and you get the ice jamming up and so be careful if you are traveling around town today. >> thank you, jacqui. how did the president play out in peoria? that's where our own karen costello went. >> they wanted last night to see the obama of old. bottom line, they did and they didn't. jim's bar was packed for a wednesday night. the cloud, middle class democrats and independents gathered here to knock a few back while the president tried to reach out for them. >> i have never been more hopeful than i am about america's future than tonight. >> reporter: good try, but -- >> he is living a dream. >> reporter: this area has not seen signs of the easing. one-third of the people here live below the poverty level. >> i didn't say it would be easy. >> reporter: it's something people here understand, but distrust in government runs deep, even among democrats. >> they should be embarrassed, republicans and democrats, they should be embarrassed what they are doing to us now. >> reporter: he offered tax credits for child care and a cap on student loan programs. the most popular idea, using money paid back by bailed out wall street banks to help small businesses. >> i think he means it, but can he get it done? that's the question. >> seems like he was trying to put a lot of sugar on a lot of things. he was jumping around and trying to appease everybody. >> reporter: still, others felt they heard what they heard during his run for president, especially when he called for bipartis bipartisansh bipartisanship. >> the civil war is over. >> reporter: as for whether president obama managed to reach out to the middle class and convince it he was on his side, p people here liked his ideas because were skeptical, wondering if he could get anything done. >> thank you so much. what about the guys paid to make politicians sound perfect? p that's coming up in 30 minutes. more cars pulled off the road in america. the number one automaker has to be looking in the rear view mirror. it used one tank of petrol and i had to refill it twice with oil. a new car today has 95% lower emissions than in 1970. exxonmobil is working to improve cars, liners of tires, plastics which are lighter and advanced hydrogen technologies that could increase fuel 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eyebro eyebrows. >> reporter: kentucky construction magnet lawson on trial this week for bribing the official in the last decade to win big projects, but that did not stop the lawson family companies from winning $24 million in recovery act contracts. the company should have been suspended forbidding within stimulus work after 45 days after he was indicted. according to the department of transportation rule, even though he pleaded not guilty. but it took ten months for that to happen. >> when folks see people getting contracts after they have been indicted, that does not people. >> reporter: cnn learned that federal investigators already are finding evidence of bid rigging and recovery act contracts for the federal highway administration. prosecutors are examining cases where contractors appear to have been working with each other. no criminal charges have been filed yet, but the department of transportation inspector general has 25 criminal investigations under way, a dozen of which have been referred to the department of justice for prosecution. other cases involve what the government calls disadvantaged business enterprise. after taking a cut, they pass the work to a nonqualified contractor. inspectors general at all federal departments and agencies are aggressively searching for stimulus fraud. >> fraud will occur. typically we see false statements and complaints, and conflict of interest, antitrust violatio violations. >> reporter: ten months into the cover react, 106 active investigation, and 25 cases accepted for prosecution review. every department is training federal, state and municipal workers in fraud detection. >> allen churnoff joining us life. you found another case of stimulus money not going where it should, right, allen? >> yeah, $27 million contract here in new york city. the controller is voiding that contract. he will be doing that today. it's with a company called l & l painting. they had a deal to paint vie ducts and ramps, and apparently the company has ties to a firm that settled charges, paid $350,000 fine because it allegedly had been involved in misrepresenting itself as one of the disadvantaged businesses we referred to in the case. the controller say new york state has not been tight enough in looking as to whether the companies are legit. how much of the stimulus money will be tied up in fraud? >> yeah, no doubt, when you are spending hundreds of billions of dollars, it's going to attract fraudsters. it's about finding the cases and doing the prosecution. it's going to take time. we don't have criminal cases just yet. you can be certain they will be coming. >> great reporting. thank you so much. tomorrow on "american morning," the recession has meant changing careers. we will introduce you to one unemployed man that could afford to do that thanks to the stimulus money. tonight on "campbell brown," how is the small town in alaska getting $15 million of your money? and then on "ac 360," the napa wine train got more than $15 million in stimulus money. the locals say they don't understand why, but the local government is furious. let's take you to the stimulus desk. our colleagues hard at work to see how the stimulus money is being spent. don: now get free delivery of walmart's $10 90-day generic prescriptions... don: ...no matter where you live. don: plus get free shipping on over 3,000 other prescriptions. don: call 1-800-2-refill for your free home delivery. save money. live better. walmart. treasury secretary, tim geithner, appearing on capitol hill, and angry lawmakers get their money at their expense. geithner says doing nothing could have been more costly. >> thousands of more factories would have closed their doors. millions more americans would have lost their jobs. the value of america's houses and savings would have fallen further than they did at that time. people would have rushed to take their money out of banks. it would have brought about utter collapse. i don't know a better way to say it than that. >> members of the house also reeled against the bailout of aig. geithner says he had no direct role in those deals or hiding them from the public. president obama told the nation jobs is his number one priority today. and susan at the new york stock exchange. >> reporter: well, it's a big disappointment. no question about it. a lot of cross currents. let's get to that headline. 470,000 americans joined the unemployment line last week. that is down from the week before. but the decline fell short of estimates. so we are expecting a higher open, not because of that, but because of some strong earnings reports. consumer projects makers, and colgate, and procter & gamble says their earnings also topped expectations. you want to talk about earnings? let's talk about a real aboraton. ford made a profit. the automaker benefitted from cost-cutting, of course, and strong sales of the fuel efficient fusion. ford expects to be profitable this year as well. the big three are looking to capitalize on toyota's massive recall. gm is offering $1,000 rebates and zero percent financing on many gm vehicles if you are currently a toyota customer. as the opening bell rings, we will look at numbers. ford shares are up 3% on the nice results. toyota shares that here, no surprise, are no surprise. we are seeing green arrows for the dow early on. kyra, we will be back. >> see you soon, susan. thank you so much. president obama is in tampa, florida, later today. he will be announcing $8 billion in stimulus money for several high-speed rail projects. and one of the projects is in california. don lemon at the stimulus desk, running the numbers. what do you think? >> this is your backyard. >> yeah, my hometown. actually, i wish there was a train. from san diego to l.a. would have made things so much easier rather than driving through the l.a. traffic. >> yeah, a lot of people travel back and forth, right, along the pch, pacific coast highway, yeah, and so that's going to be interesting. the $8 billion you mention, $2.25 billion will go to the project. here is it. it will go from anaheim all the way up to san francisco. it's about 2.4 hours, two hours and 40 minutes to do it. let's check the total. 2.$2.25 billion to this total. $7 billion of projects for that. let's look at this right now before we go to that. that's the golden gate bridge. is that the golden -- yeah, it's dark out there. if you were still living there you would be sleeping now. and you look at this. this is a high-speed rail, and the old trains that you see. there is amtrak. but look at this new animation, kyra. it's like the jetsons'. how cool is that? pretty cool, right? so i want to talk to jesse. she has been working on this getting information. appears lot of money. california is in a recession, and the country is in a recession, how will they afford this. i understand there are matching funds in california. but it's $42 billion is what it will end up being? >> yeah, let me recap how it will work. the $8 billion is part of a larger $13 billion initiative, and that seems like a lot of money, right? we are talking about billions here. and it's going to take more than that to get some of the projects completed. there is a plan. what the white house is saying is that the states will invest some of their money, and california is matching the award they have gotten. they are going to open it up for private investment as well, because they need a lot of money to get the projects completed. >> it's like tens of thousands of jobs it's supposed to create. there is the total. let's hope it creates jobs and let's hope it gets people there, in your neck of the woods, to and fro much better. >> there we go. thank you. and you will meet an unemployment man that could afford to change careers thanks to the stimulus money. and tonight on "campbell brown," no stop lights or paved roads, so how is the small down in alaska doing as it gets $15 million of your money. and then the napa wine train got more than $15 million stimulus dollars. two powerful senators are furious about that, and locals say they don't understand why. who is right? the stimulus project this week on cnn. truly another incredible story survival out of haiti. trapped for 15 days. that's how long french rescue workers believe a 16-year-old girl was intombed in the rubble here. neighbors got rescuers after they heard a voice in the rubble. a helicopter took the teen to a french medical ship offshore. right now she is in stable condition. ♪ music healing haiti. the first donations will be districted next week from the "hope for haiti" fund. the live performances from last friday's global telethon. that album had been purchased for download more than 171,000 times through sunday. the first digital-only album to debut at number one on the billboard charts. ♪ a love song for haiti. gospel singer, kirk franklin, and his crew joining us with their talents. all for the people of haiti. we will have 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yesterday, michael, about how you would write the speech after you heard it. the president kicked off with jobs, jobs, jobs. good move? did it surprise you? did it grab your attention? >> i think nobody would confuse last night's speech with not being poetry. he was able to connect with the pain of the people out there. it set a tone of optimism, which he needed to do. it made it clear that he was the guy in washington looking out for those. i think he was pretty affective. >> was there a line that resonated with you, a moment that resonated with you as a speechwriter? >> i thought -- in my mind the most surprising thing of the speech is when he criticized the supreme court directly in their space in the decision they made on campaign finance. and also, pushing democrats saying it's no time to run to the hills. that's rhetoric the democrats needed to hear. i think the voters needed to hear the president was not going to back away from his principles. >> we hear feisty and rhetoric. okay. critics saying now you will talk about jobs? where was that a year ago? >> a lot of people at home were wishing this was something they were hearing a year ago. they needed to connect with independents and moderates and the middle class. i think he did that to a large extent. there were soaring moments of rhetoric. but this is not a moment of rhetoric. this is about building a record. he made steps in that direction, but there is a huge creditability gap the president needs to clear. the special interests on the far right and left, and populists anger among independents, at big business and big government, that's the retain he needs to reverse this year. >> you talked about the fact that he focused on independents. scott brown won the seat in massachusetts, and a lot of people said he did not run as a republican, he ran more of the independent-type, and he did not say on the website he was a republican, but the people's seat he kept saying. is obama catching on that, targeting the independent idea? >> ironically, that's the way he campaigned in '08. that's what he discovered last night, the rhetoric of his '08 campaign. and the massachusetts win should be a wake up call to many. massachusetts is stereotyped as a liberal state, but it's 51% in the. so it's only right. congress is definitely held hostage and polarized by extremes on both sides. the american people are not. it's the role of an american president to connect with the center and lead the center and make the case he is not here to lead the country to the left or right but to move it forward. that's the winning message in america. >> when you were writing speeches, was that on your mind? did you ever think, we got to kind of hit that independent vibe? >> sure. i think every politician wants to find the middle ground. i think sometimes that's what obama wanted to do yesterday. even though he made digs at the republicans, he did seem to fight for middle class. the problem is, it's going to be hard to get that agenda passed through a congress that has become pretty obstructionists over the past year or so. i think that's where it might be difficult. he set a tone as somebody fighting for these policies, and whether he can get it to work that's different. >> yeah, it's whether there will be negotiation. thank you, guys. what did president obama have last night for small business owners? we will see what is in it for them after the break. keep him in his lane if he starts to wander. even stop itself... if he becomes distracted. if you want to see the future of the automobile, look at where the e-class is...today. this is the 9th generation e-class. this...is mercedes-benz. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial. president obama focused much of his speech last night on shoring up the economy. cnn personal finance editor gerri willis here with what was said about those important pocketbook issues. what was your take, gerri? >> reporter: hey there, kyra. yeah, a lot about small business. why? that's because small business is an important jobs generator, and with ten million people out of work in this country it's critical to get small business back on track. one of the most interesting things he proposed was using $30 billion paid back by wall street bailouts to help community banks to live loans to small businesses. they would allow small businesses not to pay payroll taxes, about 7.65% of wages that go to social security and medicare. that would be capped at $105,000. having that break might encourage some small business owners to actually hire. that's what we want to see in this economy. obviously tax incentives for investing in new equipment and plants. this is something that a lot of administrations have done, pretty typical stuff. eliminating capital gains on small business investments. this is interesting because when you invest in a small business, you expect your returns to be taxed. this would allow you to sell that investment and not pay taxes. it's another incentive to get people investing in their communities, investing in businesses. and then of course we talked about the tax breaks for job creations. so a long list of things for people who want to start a new business. this is probably going to be -- if these go through this would be one of the best years ever to start a small business because you'll get help with hiring, help with buying equipment. you'll be able to write that off faster if these things actually move through congress. keep in mind this has a lot of appeal both to the left and to the right. kyra. >> all right. cost of college also a major theme, and it created a lot of rounds of applause. >> reporter: that's because everybody has college kids. i think probably people in that room -- >> or kids getting ready. >> reporter: exactly. right, right. so what the president is talking about, and this is very interesting, he wants to cap student loan payments at 10% of discretionary income. so think about it. people who have just gotten into the marketplace, the jobs market right now, trying to get a job, maybe they're getting no job at all, maybe they're getting a job that doesn't pay what they need, they would be able to pay less and that would be a big break for them. the question is, how long does that last. are we willing to bankroll college students for a long time. also, of course, he's also talked about doubling the child care tax credit which would be essential to middle class families, a really big help for people out there. so he's trying to appeal both to small business and to middle class families, really trying to get some traction on main street. mainly, as you know, i think there's been a lot of concern about some of his previous proposals. this is retuning that appeal, trying to see if he can get some traction also with congress. next week the budget, of course. that discussion starts monday. that's when the real deal will be on the table. >> all right, gerri. we'll be following all the deals. there's a lot going on this morning. our crews are bringing you the details. let's check in with our correspondents beginning with ed henry at the white house. ed. >> reporter: well, you may hear some of the noise behind me. that's because on the south lawn the president, marine one, getting ready to head out of town to go to tampa for a town hall meeting. a lot coming out of the state of the union. can the president really pivot the jobs and can he save that health care bill. we'll have that at the top of the power. and ed talked about leaving to go to tampa. he and the vice president announcing $8 billion in stimulus money to try to ramp up the high speed rail system in the country. we'll dig deeper on where that's going and how many jobs, if any, this is going to create. and schools out, businesses are closed, streets turning into ice skating rinks. the latest on the ice storm in the southern plains is coming up in the 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together? norman rockwell painting it's not. this family time is at one nebraska time where father and sons are bonding over the bong. they were taking videos and posting them on youtube. the boys are 17 and 19 looksing at misdemeanors. dad is 43 and is in much more trouble. child neglect and drug charges. go ahead, call him shirley, just don't call him a contributor to espn.com anymore. the sport site dunked former nba player paul shirley over some non-basketball but intentionally foul things that he wrote about haiti. shirley wrote that he wouldn't be donating to relief efforts there, and he had this message for haitians, quote, could you not resort to the creation of film see shanty and shack towns and could some of you maybe use a condom once in a while? nice, shirley. well, we want to know what you thought of that so here's what some of you are saying. go straight to the blog. from lane, only an utterly pathetic person would write and publish something like this. obviously paul shirley is a miserable person. he should be ashamed of himself. from d.k., paul, you actually make some good points, they should have had a well thought out plan on how to rebuild the country but please don't judge them until you go this and spend a year with them. and from mark, although this guy's comments are insensitive, the fact that the country of haiti was in a dire state before the recent catastrophe is true. the fact that the people of haiti are in need of international help now is not in question. it would have been more effective if the international community would have offered help before a catastrophe hit. remember we want to hear from you. just log on to cnn.com/kyra and share your comments. we'll take a look at some of the top stories. the world's largest automaker taking ear hit. toyota recalling another million cars because of sticking gas pedals and bad floor mats. they're also recalling cars in europe and china. just a day earlier they stopped selling eight models in the u.s. because of that problem. you can get a full list of the cars affected at cnn.com. getting the taliban to turn in their weapons and become part of afghanistan's mainstream. that's the goal for more than 60 nations and organizations meeting in london today. the summit is looking at a $500 million pay for peace proposal. that money expected to come from deep-pocketed international donors. it would go to jobs and housing. and don't be surprised if ben bernanke ultimately gets a second term as fed chief. it's looking like he'll win a key vote this afternoon. bernanke's second term has been in doubt due to arpg ovnger ove street bailouts and not seeing the financial crisis looming. still, he's expected to have enough senators on his side to beat a filibuster today. the president heading to tampa, florida, this morning with the vp in tow, so what's in tampa? eventually high-speed rail service, which means jobs. something the president emphasized during the state of the union speech last night. >> for every success story, there are other stories. of men and women who wake up with the anguish of not knowing where their next paycheck will come from, who send out resumes week after week and hear nothing in response. that is why jobs must be our number one focus in 2010 and that's why i'm calling for a new jobs bill tonight. >> now a lot of people asking what happened to health care? the president barely mentioned it last night. cnn senior white house correspondent ed henry joining me now. it seems like that's all we've been talking about too recently too, ed. >> reporter: that's right. there had been a lot of criticism from republicans and even some democrats saying he needed to have a pivot to jobs and there needed to be a lot less focus on health care. i was still struck by how small the focus was on health care. it took quite a long time to get to it. it was a very small part of the speech. but it's very clear that this president does want to make that hard turn to jobs and i think he was candid about some mistakes, saying that there have been some political missteps. he said, you know, some things that were deserved in terms of mistakes made and there's been backlash, as he put it. and i think he was also, though, somewhat defiant about saying, look, i'm not going to give up the fight on health care or some other big shall yissues in the . >> we have come through a difficult decade, but a new year has come. a new decade stretches before us. we don't quit. i don't quit. let's seize this moment to start anew, to carry the dream forward and to strengthen our union once more. >> reporter: so a stirring call there in the conclusion to try to bring both sides together. you see a live picture at andrews air force base. marine one has arrived. the president will be boarding air force one shortly. he's going to be going to the tamp a area for a town hall meeting. a rare joint appearance with vice president biden who runs the middle class task force that's been getting a lot of coverage lately. it's about the high-speed rail. the president handing out billions of dollars from the stimulus on that. one of the areas expected to get money, tampa, orlando. they want to eventually link it to miami as well. as you noted, the president trying to make the case there will be jobs in building that high-speed rail in the short term and long-term you may be making the commutes of various people with jobs, hoping to get jobs a little bit easier there. >> live pictures now of the president getting ready to head to tampa. as we follow that, ed, you know he lost over health care. what about national security. >> reporter: well, it's interesting. i saw rudy giuliani, the former new york city mayor, was pretty tough on american morning this morning saying it was a very small amount of the speech. the speech was almost 70 minutes long. foreign policy was less than ten minutes of that. again, in fairness to the president, republicans spent a lot of time saying what are you going to do about jobs, we want to hear a lot more about that. he gave maybe republicans as well as democrats and independents a lot more on jobs. now, though, the criticism is not enough on foreign policy. it's a tough balancing act. while he wants to focus on the economy and a lot of these important domestic issues, he's still commander in chief. there are a lot of big issues around the world and he's certainly hearing that criticism that maybe he should have spent a little more time on national security, especially after that christmas day attempted terror attack, national security has certainly gotten back in the mind. you see the president now getting ready to board air force base one there, kyra. >> watching him live. we'll follow him obviously throughout the day. still, his message continues rolling in from last night and state of the union address. ed henry, thanks so much. you know, the president maybe glossed over health care but the republican response sure didn't. the newly elected governor of virginia delivered it from richmond. >> all americans agree that we need health care system that is affordable, accessible and high quality. but most americans do not want to turn over the best medical care system in the world to the federal government. republicans in congress have offered legislation to reform health care without shifting medicaid costs to the states, without cutting medicare and without raising your taxes. >> financial institutions took a hit in last night's speech too. the president made reference to the unpopularity of giving government funds to save them. >> and if there's one thing that has unified democrats and republicans and everybody in between, it's that we all hated the bank bailout. i hated it, i hated it, i hated it, you hated it. it was about as popular as a root canal. >> poppy harlow, don't know if she's had a root canal but she's live from the world economic forum there in switzerland with the reaction. hi, poppy. >> reporter: hi there, kyra. it's very interesting. we also after the president said that, we heard him reinstate what he has proposed which is a tax on big banks, saying listen, if they have enough to pay out bonuses they have enough to pay back taxpayers that rescued them. well, it was sort of a we versus them tone at points and you could feel that. the bankers here at this world economic forum responding today. we had a chance to have an in-depth conversation with the former ceo, now the chairman of morgan stanley. i asked him what he thought. take a listen. is the president pointing too many fingers? >> well, i think he has an obligation to tell the american people what he thinks. if that's how he feels he clearly should be doing that. we have a responsibility and we are responsible for some of the problems and we should be held accountable. it's too easy to say it's just the banks. >> reporter: do you understand the outrage and do you think there will be an understanding? >> i think any time people are losing their jobs and losing their homes, if you can't understand that outrage when money is being paid, there is outrage and we do understand it and that's why we're making changes. the question is very simple. are the changes we make, are they fast enough, are they enough, do we need to do more. >> reporter: and that is the key question here, kyra. since the depths of the financial crisis, simply put, we have not seen a broad overhaul of the u.s. financial regulatory system. it has made it through the house, still to make it through the senate. that's simply put, we just haven't seen a change. >> and it's that lack of change that angers a lot of people. so, poppy, does there seem to be a willingness to cooperate between bankers and policy makers there? >> reporter: there seems to be a willingness, but honestly what i'm hearing from some of these bank executives is they would like a dialogue. it seems like the two parties sometimes are talking at one other. that is the sense that we're getting. what's very interesting is the president pointed out his goal to use $30 billion from what the banks have paid back to the government to aid small community banks so they can help small businesses. a big focus on small businesses. but what's interesting and what's clear here from davos to washington to wall street, this debates going to continue. i want to quote tom friedman here, he said when our government is this deeply involved in propping up our economy, and the economy is this fragile, politics as usual will kill us. something to keep on eye on in this debate all the way from here to where you're sitting. kyra. >> all right, poppy harlow, appreciate it. and a post-speech bump for the president. here's our new cnn opinion research poll. we talked to 400 people who watched the speech and they're showing more confidence in the president's ideas. 71% now say his policies are moving the country in the right direction. only 53% thought that right before the speech. well, beware, the wicked weather is looming, right, jacqui? >> yeah, it's starting to accumulate already in oklahoma city. the latest on the ice storm and its track and we've got flooding too. in fact, a high-water rescue just took place in odessa, texas. we'll tell you more about that coming up. and a love song to haiti. yep, a heart-felt message from kirk franklin. i see him over there getting ready. what do you think, kirk, do you want to take us to break? let's do it. ♪ is there anybody out there listening and does anybody know my name ♪ ♪ no, my friend we were not there but we're here ♪ . and helps you stay on top of your business anytime, anywhere. get a 30-day free trial at intuit.com. all right. let's check out cnn.com, specifically the news pulse icon in case you are not familiar with this. this is our outstanding new cnn.com page. there's a little tab up here called news pulse that we like to track every day. we're not always able to 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you can see our temperatures are dropping below freezing now. oklahoma city, for example, down there into the upper 20s. so you've got warm air overriding it. it comes down as liquid and freezes on contact. our senior weather producer trying to get out of oklahoma city right now and he said that ice is starting to accumulate so we're expecting conditions to go downhill here very, very rapidly. very hazardous travel on i-40, especially over towards the west. amarillo has been seeing the freezing rain over the last number of hours changing over to some snowfall, which is likely going to be extremely heavy as we head into the afternoon. in fact i think we've got that tower cam out of oklahoma city to give you an idea of what those conditions are like, and you can it's a very hazy, gray day. what's coming down is very light so accumulations right now are going to be slow but we'll watch that pick up as that moisture comes in and that storm intensifies a little bit. we'll also see real gusty winds associated with this so we're concerned if the ice accumulation isn't heavy enough to bring down power lines and trees we'll get a little snow and sleet on the back side of that system. with strong wind gusts that could be enough to take it on out, so we'll be really watching that situation over the next 12 to 24 hours. the storm will be on the east. there you can see on the move. the watches which are in effect, the white that you see. so places like memphis and nashville are going to be watching for this storm tomorrow. kyra. >> okay. appreciate it, jacqui. for millions of americans economic recovery can't come fast enough. so could this be high-speed stimulus? president obama unveils a new plan today. we'll break down some of the numbers for you. somewhere in america... there's a home by the sea powered by the wind on the plains. there's a hospital where technology has a healing touch. there's a factory giving old industries new life. and there's a train that got a whole 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back while another officer held him down. the bay area rapid transit system agreed to the settlement. a murder case remains open. the next big thing or just a big iphone that doesn't make calls? steve jobs unveiled the new ipad. yes, ipad. not a great name, i know. it's a half-inch thick tablet computer. apple hopes it revolutionizes everything, but you'll have to wait a couple of months to get to that one. all right, $8 billion of your money. that's how much president obama wants to spend on a high-speed rail system that would connect to most of the country. cnn's don lemon looking into this high-speed stimulus, breaking it down where that money is going to go. >> reporter: listen, i'm an iphone guy. you an iphone, blackberry, whatever you're thinking about the ipad? >> only a blackberry. it took me a long time to upgrade to that, don. >> reporter: to get used to that. okay. so we were talking about the $8 billion project that the president and the vice president are going to announce today. we've been drilling down on some areas and talked about where kyra grew up in california just a little bit ago, a high-speed rail system there. now what they're trying to do between chicago and st. louis, they're going to do one as well. this one is going to cost $1.1 billion. that's how much stimulus money. let's go to our tote board. $7 billion up there. we're going to add up this project that we're checking into now and that takes it up to $8 billion. okay, we are checking on here. here's exactly what this project will do. let's go live to -- okay, we don't have a picture of chicago. anyway, if we had a picture of chicago, i would imagine that it's overcast and gray as it is usually when i lived there. maybe there's better weather. let's talk about those trains now and i'll show you what most train systems look like across the country when we're talking about high-speed rail systems. this is going to be not a new system but they are going to upgrade the old system that they have. the one in california a new system. most places around the country a completely new system. real quickly i just want to tell you what they're going to do. $1.1 billion. improvements will allow passenger rail service from chicago to st. louis to operate at speeds up to 110 miles an hour, track overhaul systems, signals, existing stations, all this overhauled. implementation to train controlled technology, all of this, supposed to add overall across the country tens of thousands of jobs, right? we're not exactly sure how many it's going to add in this area. in california, barbara boxer said it's going to add tens of thousands of jobs all over the country. not exactly sure how many it's going to add. let's look at the tote board to show you what we have. we have we have -- this will cost $1.1 billion. jobs created yet to be determined. we're drilling down on other stuff. there is kyra phillips. i can hear you talking. what did you want to ask me? >> they were talking to me about something else so i apologize. >> transparency. they're like move on. >> exactly. at the same time. here's what happened. we took a live shot up on capitol hill just prior to you, the senate, you know, getting ready to vote on whether fed chairman ben bernanke was going to keep his job. there was a little incorrect information many he's not in davos, obviously, he's on capitol hill. so we wanted to just, you know, straight thaen out. so that's what we were trying to figure out how to do as you were telling me all about the stimulus money and how it's helping us get jobs. does that make sense, don? >> reporter: yeah. if people knew all the things people said to us while we were talking -- >> we're the ultimate multi taskers, right? >> reporter: someone in my ear said blah, blah, blah, it was eddie williams and that's who's talking to you. >> no wonder things are confusing. we'll blame eddie. i'll talk to you in a little bit. tomorrow on "american morning" for desperate job seekers, the recession has meant changing careers. we'll introduce you to one unemployed man who could afford to do that thanks to the stimulus money. then tonight on campbell brown at 8:00 eastern, no stoplights, no paved roads, no stores. so how is this small town in alaska, how is it getting $15 million of your money and why? and then on ac 360, the napa wine train got more than $50 million stimulus dollars. two powerful senators are furious but the locals say they don't understand why, they're popping the wine. who's right? the stimulus project all this week on cnn.com v/stimulus. it's a story that really disturbed us here in the "cnn newsroom." a boy, only nine years old, kills himself. we look at why the suicide rate is rising among kids and what we can hopefully do about it. well, this story not only got us talking, it broke a lot of our hearts. people who knew montana lance may never understand what drove the 9-year-old to kill himself. it's been a week sips tnce the s suicide in the dallas suburb of colony. he was found hanged in the bathroom of his elementary school. police don't plan to file criminal charges in this case and grief counselors are now at that school trying to make sense of this for his classmates. you know, we want to go beyond the case of the texas boy and open up a discussion of kids and suicide. it's more prevalent, believe it or not, than you might think. we checked into the cdc numbers and it's reporting suicide is the third leading cause of death for those between the ages of 10 and 24. 4500 kids commit suicide every year. that's why we want to bring in psychologist wendy walsh to see if we can try to develop some answers here to a pretty troubling trend. like i said, wendy, we don't like to cover suicides, but the fact that this little boy was 9 years old. i mean at 9 years old, what causes depression? >> well, you know, depression is like any other biopsychological illness, an interaction between our biology and the environment. what we can talk about today is the environmental piece really. what's going on in children's lives in america to cause this increase in depression rate, up 18% in the last few years. and what our children are needing from us. it's disturbing, but children do suffer from depression. their symptoms might be a little bit different than adults, but they're definitely suffering. as many as one or two per class. >> so what's going on? what's so different now than, say, ten years ago, 20 years ago. even the president last night in the state of the union speech said i'm getting letters from kids that are breaking my heart because they're saying please do something to help my mom or dad get a job. >> you know, the biggest problem that's happened in america in the last 30 years, that nobody is home raising the kids. feminism got in bed with capitalism and now we have consumerism and if parents are home, they're stressed out. in 1985 when virtually everyone had one parent at home to today where less than 30% have a parent at home when they're elementary school age, so who's raising our children? and i think children need our attention. they need boundaries, they need our love and they definitely need to be paid attention to. >> you know, how does a 9-year-old learn how to do something like this? you just -- it's so hard to fathom. >> well, keep in mind that children at this age, death is not always that final thing. and also keep in mind that they don't think in the terms of consequences like we do. not to say that it was a game by any means, but it definitely -- it's not thought of in the same way. another point i want to make, and many people are looking at this factor, with the rise of children and teen suicide rates, is the use of antidepressants in children. keep in meeind while they can b very effective in helping people with depression and many children and teens, if not closely monitored, it can be very dangerous particularly in the first month of use because it raises energy level, a stimulant. so now a sad thought can become a sad action. >> wendy walsh, appreciate the discussion. >> thanks. straight ahead, a love song for haiti. a sampling of this great story we have for you today from the heart break, a song of hope and health. kirk franklin, take us to break. ♪ anybody out there listening, does anybody know my name ♪ (announcer) imagine one eye drop so exceptional, it relieves seven symptoms. visine totality multi-symptom. now reduce the red; bathe the dry and gritty; soothe the itch, irritated, burning and watery. visine totality. no other drop does more. advisor:... ms. davis, this is onstar. i've received a signal you've been in a crash... i'm contacting emergency services... 911 dispatch:...onstar reporting a front end crash... on wakefield road... chevy malibu... fire/ems:...air bags deployed... ...injuries reported... advisor: ma'am, help is on the way...ok. and i'll stay on the line with you until they get there. automatic crash response. built 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(announcer) afrin. why suffer? top storieses now. toyota has added more than a million vehicles to the recall list that first came out in november. this was a problem where the gas pedal could tangle with the floor mat. the more recent recall we've been telling you about where the company has stopped selling some models, it's been extended to europe. it's over for john and elizabeth edwards. the couple now separated after 30 years of marriage. last week john edwards admitted that he fathered a child with his mistress and a book by his former aide claims the former presidential candidate went to great lengths to hide the truth from his wife. millions of americans out of work but president obama says they'll be one of his top priorities. in last night's state of the union speech the president promised to put millions of people back to work. >> for every success story, there are other stories. of men and women who wake up with the anguish of not knowing where their next paycheck will come from, who send out resumes week after week and hear nothing in response. that is why jobs must be our number one focus in 2010, and that's why i'm calling for a new jobs bill tonight. >> okay. so did the president's message resonate with unemployed americans? we want to put that question now to our guests. they also have their 30-second pitches today to potential employers who may we be watching. in phoenix, we're joined by frank kitchen, a corporate trainer and speaker. in ft. lauderdale we've got marlin loban and in philadelphia we've got a media relations professional who has worked in both the public and private sector. let me ask all three of you, roslin, let's start with you, you listened to the president's speech, you're out of work, how did it hit you? >> well, to be quite honest with you, i am doing and supporting president obama during his election and right now i am desperate the for employment opportunities and i believe he is going to serve the american people. >> all right. so you've got hope. frank kitchen, what about you? >> i enjoyed the speech last night. i agreed with what he said but the main one is i believe he needs to create quality jobs because he and the other politicians talk about creating jobs, but people don't want just jobs, they want quality jobs and they want the opportunity to go for those jobs. >> marlin, what was your take after you heard the speech? did it make you feel any better? >> hi, good morning. certainly it did. i like what he said about creating a new job stimulus package and also stating more about the infrastructure here in the usa. once you do that, you'll have more jobs on board and more things coming along where you can see persons finding sustainable jobs, not just jobs we see in the last six or nine months but jobs we've seen in the past so i liked what he said about creating a new jobs package. >> hold on, guys, we'll take a quick break, we'll bring you right back and you'll make your 30-second pitch. no matter what the president says, we want to try to get you a job. stay with us. intuit quickbooks online p9 organizes your business in one place, and helps you stay on top of your business anytime, anywhere. get a 30-day free trial at intuit.com. all right. it's 30 seconds that could change their lives. once again, we are talking to three jobless americans. they shared their thoughts on the president's state of the union speech. is it enough? we want them to make their pitch to potential employers. frank kitchen, a corporate trainer and speaker in phoenix, then in florida. we got marlon lobban, a human resources executive. in philadelphia we've got rosalind fischel, a media relations professional. we'll get their e-mails up on the screen. you can also go to my blog to find out more about them. rosalind, let's start with you. give us your pitch. >> okay, thank you. my name is rosalind fischel and i'm a performance-driven and dynamic media relations professional. i also specialize in public and government relations as well. i have a rather successful record of achievements in structuring and developing marketing media initiatives for public policy in the federal government and state government and i actually provide a lot of issue advocacy, branding imaging and print for specific marketing initiatives. as part of an advanced degree i've created -- >> that was the bell. rosalind, i'd love to keep you going and going, but i've got to move on to the next. forgive me, it's fischel, i apologize for that. everybody gets my name wrong too and it drives me nuts. i apologize. we want to get that right. all right, frank kitchen, let's move on to you. are you ready for your 30-second pitch out of phoenix, arizona? >> yes, i am. >> all right. let's go. >> hi. my name is frank c. kitchen and my initials say it all. you should hire me because i am fun, creative and knowledgeable. i create the environments that everyone desires to work in. if you need someone to plan your next event, train your staff or motivate your employees, then contact me at hirefrankkitchen@yahoo. no job is too big or too small. all i need is you and the opportunity to shine. >> holy moly i feel like i was watching an infomercial. that was slick, frank. out standing. all right, marlon lobban, here we go. are you ready to take it away? >> i am ready to take it away. >> go ahead, marlon. >> i am marlon lobban. i'm a human resources executive with over ten years experience in h.r. operations. my concentration includes talent acquisition, talent branding, hri sichlt and tooling concerning on boarding. other areas include benefits administration, employee relations, tort and workers' compensation claims management. i've managed a budget of over $1.6 million and a hr staff of 80 professionals in fortune 5 companies. my management style is six sigma based having the ability to drive performance against the index. i can be reached at marlon underscore lobban hot mail.com. >> i love it. rosalind, i don't think you got a chance to say your e-mail. do you want to give us to us. >> yes. i would like to give you my website, it's www.rosalindfischelimages.com. you can download my publications, resume and bio. >> there we go. thanks so much, guys. you can of course go to our blog, cnn.com/kyra. send us your resume, we want to help you out. let's continue to share the love. keeping faith in the face of so much loss and pain. gospel great kirk franklin and his friends are here with a message of hope for haiti. how about a little love, kirk. ♪ [ crowd gasps ] [ announcer ] if you think about it, this is a lot like most job search sites. - they let everyone in, - [ crowd groans ] so the best people can't stand out. join theladders.com. the premium job site for only $100k+ jobs... and only $100k+ talent. (announcer) a cold or flu can start fast... new tylenol cold rapid release gels day and night release medicine fast to relieve painful coughs, congestion and sore throats. so you can feel better. i was hungry you fed me, naked you clothed me. they will know us by our love. ♪ can't imagine how it felt as you lay there, through the dark, through the heat, through the cold ♪ ♪ with your friend by your side, held his hand and watched him die, and you cried as you prayed for his soul ♪ >> well, the u.s. general who directs military relief efforts in haiti said as many as a million haitians lost their homes to that january 12th earthquake and tomorrow the world food program expands its food distribution points in port-au-prince from 12 to 15. but we wanted to focus now on helping that country. i'm joined by gospel great kirk franklin and his atlanta posse today. good to see you. >> thank you, thank you. >> it's wonderful to see you. >> these are some great people that came here in atlanta to help us just talk more about the song. >> and before we get to that, you were at home, and i love this, watching cnn. that of course means a lot to us because i've been listening to you for a very long time and i'm a big fan. so you saw what happened in haiti. and i know how much, you know, you love the lord and what you do within your ministry and your music. >> cool, cool, thank you. >> what was it that struck you? >> well, we were in nashville for this event where a lot of artists, a lot of gospel artists were together at nashville and i was at the hotel watching cnn and just crying and just really hurting about what i saw. and there was a song that i wrote several years ago after september 11th, and never did anything with it, so i called some of the greatest in gospel music, mary mary, yolanda adams, and the list goes on and on and everybody showed up and 48 hours later we had all these incredible artists in the studio and they recorded this song and 100% of the proceeds are going to unicef. >> why does that not surprise me. the majority of haitian people are catholic. even the stories that we've covered, they have been praying in the rubble, singing spirituals in the rubble. >> it's incredible. >> it is. that's got to be inspiring for you as a man of faith. >> yeah. you know, and it just shows that in spite of what we learn, as far as sbs and as far as our wisdom that at the core of the human spirit is we have to believe there's something bigger than what we can see. >> how does music heal in times like this? >> well, because it takes you from what you see now to what you believe it's going to be. what you believe god says it's going to be. so that's what we're really hoping this song will do for these beautiful people, and raise money because faith out works is dead. so we really want to raise money. that's why 100% of every dollar when they download this beautiful song is going to the people in haiti. >> as we look at the video and we see everybody in action here that came together to do this. >> incredible artists. >> how do we get it? >> you can download it on itunes today. you can download it on amazon. it will be in stores next week along with this video. these are incredible artists. this is not a kirk franklin event, this was a wonderful gospel christian community that came together. this is the first time ever in history that we've come together and responded to a global tragedy. >> well, it has been a blessing to have you here and your atlanta support guys. hats off to you guys. >> thank you all for coming to help me share the song. >> would you mind doing a little something for us as we head to break. >> sure, they're incredible. thank you, thank you. >> thanks so much. thank you, guys, we'll let you take it from here. ♪ is anybody out there listening, does anybody know my name ♪ ♪ we're here and we care, we feel your pain ♪ ♪ does anybody out there know me, can you stop the clock and make this go away ♪ ♪ and, yes, we feel your pain ♪ and yes, we feel your pain, hey, yes, we feel your pain ♪ #ññ top stories, will he stay or will he go. wall street watching capitol hill closely today. the senate set to vote on whether ben bernanke gets to keep his job. bernanke's term runs out this weekend. no fed chairman nominee has ever been turned down by the senate but this close could be the close -- this vote could be the closest ever. a 5-year-old girl who lost her father in this california subway shooting will get a $1.5 million settlement. oscar grant's killing last year in oakland was caught on cell phone video. that showed a transit officer pulling his gun and shooting grant in the back while another officer held him down. the bay area rapid transit system agreed to the settlement. a murder case remains open. the next big thing or just a big iphone that doesn't make calls? apple chief steve jobs unveiled the new ipad. yes, ipad, not a great name maybe, but it's a half-inch thick tablet computer. as tony says an unfortunate name. apple hopes that it revolutionizes everything, but you're going to have to wait a couple of months to get this one. that does it for me. i had such a fabulous day. kirk franklin got me filled with happiness today. >> i am so pumped up. you and your team are absolutely rocking it. thank you, kyra. >> i'm just trying to tee you up, my friend. >> it's wonderful. have a great day. >> you too. it is thursday, january 28th. and here are the top stories for you right here in the "cnn newsroom." the president arrives in florida this hour to put the main theme of his state of the union speech into action. that's jobs, jobs and more jobs. i really do think that this job has helped me find kind of my calling. >> stimulus dollars at work. the conservation corps hiring workers to care for our national forests and parks. and 15 days under the wreckage of haiti's earthquake. a teenager survives in a crumbled bathroom on water from the tub. good morning, everyone. i'm tony harris and you are in the "cnn newsroom." drive a toyota? 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