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president -- the white house, basically, saying that this dire straits will last for another year and a half at least. >> reporter: that's right, kelly. the prediction pretty grim both from the administration itself and from this new jobs report. as you mentioned, the president just left for camp david. two things struck me as he departed. number one, he's walking with his daughter, sasha, he didn't talk to reporters about this jobs report. he could have, obviously, done that. he chose to leave without talking about what is a pretty desperate situation right now. and, number two, as marine one took off, there were some pretty gray skies here in washington as he heads to camp david for a long weekend to start going through some of the final details on that new economic plan that you mentioned he's going to be unveiling next thursday night. bottom line is this new report shows, essentially, the economy ground to a halt in august. no new jobs, so one of the president's top aide z, he did speak out, gene sperling, a short time ago on fox and tried to give a preview of what the president's going to do next thursday. take a listen. >> he's going to put forward very meaningful proposals that would have a very significant impact on the economy and job creation in areas like tax relief for workers and small businesses, in the areas like jobs for rebuilding america, in areas like strategies to deal with those who have been unemployed for a long time through no fault of their own. >> reporter: the problem for this white house, of course s is the president has talked about every one of those issues that gene sperling just mentioned for over two and a half years now right through the line. he's had various tax cuts, he's had various ways to try to stimulate the economy whether it be green jobs, whether it be the shovel-ready construction projects which the president acknowledged a couple months ago were not so shovel-ready. all of this is ratcheting more pressure on this president as he lays out that new plan next thursday night, kelly. >> your so right about that -- you're so right about that. earlier in the week jay carney said we might hear something we didn't expect from the president next week. any idea what that might be? what can he do to turn this around? is. >> well, you know, they've already kind of previewed or hinted at various pieces of this new plan and not really much of it is new whether it be tweaks of a payroll tax cut, an extension of that which is not new. there's one new program that the state of georgia has been working on about worker training, getting people who are unemployed, getting them in to the work force that republicans like eric cantor have pushed before. the president's aides have suggested maybe he'll adopt that proposal which would be somewhat new. but the bottom line is he's tried a lot of this before, and so far based on this new jobs report it's clear it hasn't worked. >> bottom line, we wish it could be better. ed henry, reporting from the white house, good to see you. jamie: if you were to look over the last eight months, you would see unemployment climbing again as the economy slowed down this week. it has stayed stubbornly above 9% since then. coming up in a few minutes, we're going to talk with steve forbes about what the white house needs to do to tackle the problem. we'll get great perspective from him. >> fox news alert, a developing weather situation. golf bobby jindal briefing reporters a short while ago about emergency preparations going on in his state of louisiana. a tropical depression there is expected to soak southern louisiana over the weekend bringing extensive flooding. forecasters say the storm could dump as much as 10-15 inches of rain on the state, possibly even 20 inches in some areas. in new orleans the city just marked six years since hurricane katrina. folks there now working to clear storm drains fearing clogged drains could flood homes. >> most of this is gravity drain, you know, this is an old section of town, and the water used to just run off. and when it runs off, it collects. and if they don't pump it, it'll build up here. >> the water can't get through that. there's so much debris there. >> we have to kind of keep up after ourselves, or we would really be in trouble. >> yeah. a lot of concern down there, and is we'll have a full weather report shortly. jamie: they're not alone in the worrying about the weather. vermont is just trying to dry out from the remnants of hurricane irene, and we're getting reports even of a new round of flash flooding in vermont. what's more, thunderstorms are expected this weekend. take a look at the tiny town of pittsville, vermont, almost completely out after the storm cut off, so folks are trying to work together just to make life bearable. >> i was told one of the bridges was condemned, so there's no travel in or out, there's been no power since the storm. >> be we're doing okay, but we just want to make sure we're not forgotten about and that supplies keep coming in. we are getting a little tired and a little impatient, but our morale's good. jamie: the president declared a major disaster in vermont clearing the way for them to get more federal aid. and president obama is planning to visit new jersey this weekend. he wants to get a firsthand look at the damage from hurricane irene left there. they were hard-hit too. all up and down the east coast we're getting reports that hundreds of thousands of folks are still without power. many of them are just struggling to pick up the pieces of their lives. david lee miller live in our new york city newsroom, he's been taking a look at that for us. david lee? >> reporter: jamie, nearly one week after irene first slammed into the east coast, some flood waters have noticeably receded. new aerial video shows a dramatic improvement in patterson, new jersey, where president obama is slated to visit sunday. the swollen river is dropping about two feet a day. sometime this weekend it is expected to drop below flood stage. meanwhile, hundreds of roads in vermont remain closed because of the storm. some 100 members of the maine national guard are being sent to assist in the road repairs. the new hampshire and illinois national guards are also helping out there. the state has called in 1,000 private contractors and consultants to assist in the ongoing cleanup. and in new york state governor andrew cuomo says private insurance companies will be the main source of funding for the one, b with a billion dollars in damages statewide. cuomo is asking new yorkers to volunteer during the labor day holiday to clean up the mess in hard-hit upstate communities. the storm has made life difficult for some 2300 daily commuters to get to work, a 14-mile stretch of railroad line through rockland and orange county was left twisted like a pretzel. an official said he has never seen anything like it. the repairs are likely take months and cost millions. and you might recall as many as nine million people throughout the east coast were without power. that figure is now down to about 400,000. it continues to dwindle. nevertheless, irene is taking a very heavy emotional toll. a new york man frustrated about the lack of electricity has been charged with aggravated harassment for allegedly making a threatening phone call to his power company. jamie? jake jim just how desperate so many are. david lee miller, thank you. >> it's pretty tough in sections of oklahoma as well. the problem there is fire where you've now seen several days of fast-moving fires that got so hot at times that trees were literally bursting, education loading. -- exploding. one flare-up destroying more than 40 homes and threatening another 4000. joining us now on the phone, a spokesman for the forest service. it's a very difficult challenge that all of you have there, and our hearts and prayers go out to all of you. what seems to be the toughest thing right now? >> well, about 80% of our state is in exceptional drought, so the conditions are pretty ripe for wildfire. it can happen with just the tiniest little spark, so we're out there aggressively battling this fire near fort worth, texas. it is, this one is particularly delaware stating just -- devastating just because the same area we saw burn in april and may about 126,000 acres burned, and we lost 167 homes in the very same county. so there's not direct overlap right now, but like you said, it's threatening hundreds of homes, and it's a heavily-populated area. we did bring in some aircraft last night that carry 1400 gallons of water, and they're dipping directly out of possum kingdom lake to drop on that fire today. >> you mentioned the lake, and we've actually seen pictures where some of the lakes there have actually dried, and the creek beds are dried because of the drought conditions there. and we know that things are so dry there. what are you telling people to do in order to avoid any continued fires or spreading these fires? >> we're really just telling folks to be careful outside doing anything that can cause a spark. we've got labor day weekend coming up, and dove hunting season has just begun, and we're sitting here hoping for the best, but when people are grilling outdoors or dragging chains behind their cars, parking in this dry grass, you know, things that normally would be harmless are now starting fires, and they're spreading really rapidly. this one we've got in fort worth is about 6600 acres. it jumped a highway yesterday, so they're pretty dangerous. >> wow. you know, april, a lot of us take these things for granted. we don't expect these kinds of conditions, and the fact that this has gone on so long, what's it going to take to turn this around? i guess you need a really good dose of rain, i mean, a soaking. >> we need rain with a name to make a difference. and we're getting a little -- we may get a little moisture from this tropical storm this weekend, but we may also get some heavy winds there that this could be a problem for us. >> yeah, that could be a problem. let's hope you get the opposite, and that's more rain to actually give you some soaking. april, what's your advice to the people, have you given them advice, are you evacuating people at this point? >> >> we've had about six subdivisions evacuated, and three have been allowed to return. we're just trying to keep everyone as informed as possible, we're using a lot of social media which hasn't been done by the texas forest service in the past, but we're wanting to get the information out to people as quickly as possible, and people who are in an area threatened by wildfire even if you're far away from the actual blaze itself, the wind can carry these things pretty quickly, so stay tuned to your news and monitor the situation. >> april, we thank you for keeping us up-to-date, and, again, our thoughts and prayers are with all of you as you fight these fires. jamie: a big scare on the beaches of california. several shark sightings right in san diego. a great white was caught further north, and we're live on the west coast on shark watch. >> plus, we are waiting for a police news conference on the strange death of this woman. she was found hanging from the balcony at her boyfriend's california mansion. we are told the death is being ruled a suicide, but her family lawyer will join us live to explain what that is not -- that is not what happened. jamie: certainly believes it, i can't wait for that. plus, a not-so-happy labor day. steve forbes is next on how the president can really do something about america's jobs crisis. >> whether it had been 50 or 70 or 100,000, we have to get a much more robust recovery going to dig ourselves out of the deep hole we inherited, and i want them to know that their president is deeply focused on this like a laser beam. with diabetes, it's tough to keep life balanced. i don't always have time to eat like i should. that's why i like glucerna shakes. they have slowly digestible carbs to help minimize blood sugar spikes, which can help lower a1c. 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>> no, he's the living definition of insanity. he tries another variation of it. you're going to see that next week with the jobs thing. a new infrastructure bank, sort of fannie may for highways and other programs that are short term but don't get to the heart of the problem; weak dollar, uncertainty about taxes, overspending and overregulation. jamie: so if that's his plan, and he will present that again in this jobs speech, by your estimation is there a plan that would fix this? >> yes. and it's going back to what ronald reagan did in the early 1980s, that is stabilize the dollar, reduce the tax burden, reduce the regulatory burden and, voila, american entrepreneurship flourishes again. we can do it now. jamie: do you believe that the president has shared his ideas with his staff or the people he's assigned the task of telling him from an economy point of view what should be done, or do you think he's still thinking about what he will do watching the numbers today has to be sobering. >> well, he's probably going back to them and saying how can we gin this thing up? problem is, the advisers around him share his world outlook, so they're a part of thisinsanity bubble that he's in right now. he's not bringing in outsiders of people like a reaganesque persuasion who will say stabilize the dollar, start getting foreign capital coming into the u.s. do something firm on simplifying the tax code. he makes references to it, but he never puts something substantive on the table that has credibility. jamie: why would he do that, steve? do you think he cares even from a political point of view? he wants to be reelected. >> i think ideologically he feels he's done a positive thing on health care, on financial reform, on trying to take over the energy industry. that's the way he sees the world. so it's not like a political animal like bill clinton who would decide, my gosh, i've got to make some real changes or the whole ship's going to sink. this guy can't break himself so far away from his own economic ideology. jamie: how far off the rails are we with these numbers we learned today? >> what it shows is an automobile going 10, 20, 30 miles an hour on an open highway. we should be going 70, 75 miles an hour. so it's a pitiful performance. now, europe is not doing much better than we are, but just because everyone's doing badly doesn't mean you can't do better. jamie: can the president, if he has a plan, come up with something that will work in a period of time that's reasonable? >> if people feel that he makes some substantive changes, that things are actually going to start getting better, they'll give him the benefit of the doubt. and the thing on the dollar that nobody pays attention to because it's so boring, if he made the dollar stable, that alone would do a lot of good for the financial markets and a lot of good for investing, and it would show people this guy's serious about making substantive changes. jamie: if small business ownerses are the major employers in our nation, what is it that they need to hear in that jobs speech that will give them the confidence to hire again? >> they won't hear it, that he's going to suspend obamacare, us send dodd-frank so he doesn't crush community bankers, and he's going to have the epa take a six month sabbatical, perhaps six years. he's already suspended one crushing regulation, he's got several more that are coming out of that agency. if he suspended those, people would say he's serious about making a real change, change we can believe in. jamie: yes, that is what folks voted for that voted for president obama. i think they want change now, don't you, that really works. and the question is stimulus and spending is a big part of the obama plan. do you think in this jobs speech he'll discuss again another stimulus? >> he won't use the word stimulus, but he'll use the word infrastructure bank or something suiting that they've tested with focus groups and say this is the way to repair america and get jobs out there. but it's simply the same old, same old. what you have to do is get the private sector ginned up again and stimulus, in terms of stimulus, jamie, what happens on stimulus is where does the money come from? they take it from the taxpayers, and so it does not work. japan's tried it for 20 years, hello. jamie: i have to leave it there, steve, but great perspective. thank you so much. steve forbes, everyone. thanks for joining us. kelly? >> thank you very much. a new warning now about america's nuclear plants following the earthquake that struck virginia just last week. we'll show you what nuclear regulators are now worried about. jamie: and as we approach ten years since the 9/11 attacks, fox news takes a closer look at the first attempted attack on the world trade center almost 20 years ago. that's just ahead. >> well, the 1993 bombing was just indicative of what was to come. that was not a success, relatively speaking, for them, and i guess that just gave them an inspiration to go further. jamie: we may see some new work and new benefits, there's certainly a new focus on america's nuclear plants after last week's earthquake in virginia. a frightening new report says the risk of a quake could cause an accident at a plant, so nuclear regulators say they believe quarter of reactors may need safety modifications, and it includes these two located in northern virginia. ♪ >> as the united states marks the rise of freedom some ten years since the 9/11 attacks, we are reminded of of the tremendous loss of life. but the attacks on that september morning were not the first to target the trade center. shepard smith now takes us back to 1993 when extremists first tried to blow up the twin towers. >> reporter: on february 26, 1993, a group of muslim extremists tried to destroy the skyscrapers by detonating a truck bomb beneath the north tower. their plan? make the north tower collapse and bring down the south tower with it. that ambitious plot failed, but six people died, more than a thousand were injured, and the cleanup and rebuilding cost half a billion dollars. >> the attack of '93 was an eye-opener. it staggered everybody. thereafter, however, measures were taken that were extraordinary. >> reporter: the port authority rethought and revamped security at the towers, and life eventually returned to normal. while worker at the world trade center went back to their jobs, the terrorists went back to the drawing board. in 1996 usama bin laden issued a fatwa declaring war on america, but no one knew when he would strike or where, or that al-qaeda would succeed in be bringing down one of america's great symbols. >> well, the 1993 bombing was just indicative of what was to come. that was not a success, relatively speaking, for them, and i depress that just gave them -- i guess that just ghei them an inspiration to go further. >> reporter: meanwhile, the new york governor george pataki and the new jersey governor, christine todd whitman, decided to privatize the world trade center. the port authority offered a 99-year lease to the highest bidder. larry silverstein almost missed the january 2001 deadline. >> i got hit by a car. i ended up with a broken pelvis, and then i suddenly woke up, i think, on the 27th or the 28th day of january. i suddenly woke up, and i said, oh, my god, get my -- turn off the morphine, get my guys in here. >> reporter: his bid, $3.2 billion. that did the trick. >> it was the 26th day of july of 2001, governor pataki giving me a massive pair of scissors, cardboard, with which to cut the ribbon when we took title of the twin towers. >> reporter: it seemed like the culmination of his career. little did he know two months later, everything would chae. >> shepard smith with that. here's something new on foxnews.com. you can check out a new e-book allows readers to explore the new world trade center te. fox news has partnered with harpercoins publisher to brinyou a digital-onlynhanced e-book, "rise of freem: the new world trade center." you can find video, photos and much more. head over to foxnews.com for all the detai. keure you do. jamie: well, we thought the fight s over yterday, and we thout wrong. in tee mites,ngry new accusations in the washiton batt over wh the president should give hijobs speech. >> plus, several shark sightings around san dgo. and a great white caught further north. we're live o the west coast with shark watch just as we head into the last beach weekend of the busy mmer season. i heard the helicopters, hearthe acvity and said to my sister, i bet there's another shark. land best eggs. the best in nutrition... just got better. now with even more the vitaminyour bodneed likeitamin d. plus omega 3. there's one portant ingredient that hasn't change better taste. 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[laughter] >> reporter: i tell you, jamie, they say your odds are better of winning the lottery twice than getting attacked by a shark. if you're in the water and you see a fin, a gray fin, you know, it will get your heart pumping every time. i saw a dolphin out there last week and almost had a heart attack. [laughter] they're seeing the real deal in san diego. we're talking about three times in just the past week, and now at least a couple of those, you mentioned one, they're thinking at least a couple of those may have belonged to great white sharks. and the first one they saw they think the shark was somewhere between 12 and 15 feet. that is a pretty big fish. we're talking two of them off the coast of mission beach, and the pictures you're looking at here is off the coast of la jolla which is about two beaches up from mission beach. you can see the people there, they're going out day after day, spa they're looking -- and they're looking for those gray fins to pop up. the life guards are out. every time they spot one of these things, they go in the water, they clear the swimmers out, and they shut the beaches down. here's some action from some of those people at the beach as well as a lifeguard. watch. >> heard the helicopters, heard the activity and said to my sister, i bet there's another shark, and sure enough, there was. we heard them telling the people to get out of the water. >> mix of excitement and terror. you kind of want to see it but don't want to. >> déjà vu all over again. we had four people out in the water, three of which spotted a large dorsal fin which looked to them like it belonged to a shark. based on everything they told us, it seemed to be a very credible report, especially since more than one person saw it. >> reporter: yeah, very credible. you know, the experts say it's not unusual to see great whites off the coast of california because they kind of cruise up and down the california coast all year long, especially as the water gets warmer. you tend to see more of them. just a couple of days ago they captured a baby white shark in marina dell ray which is just a couple of miles from where we are, they took it up to an aquarium in monothat ray. you mention that a guy in dell mar was killed a couple of years ago by a great white, and there's belief that you will see more great white off the coast of california in the years to come just because their migrating habits have changed, and the population of great whites is also increasing. jamie? very comforting. jamie: you know, trace, la jolla's known for the sea lions, the seals. are they ceet eating them? why are they in that area? they seem to be picking all the nice neighborhoods. what's going on? >> reporter: well, that's the deal. i mean, look, sea lions, when you're out in the water and you see one, you need to leave. you don't want to be mistaken as part of the food chain. that's what they're after. the babies come in, they breed, the water gets warm, and then they leave. most of the year they're gone, and it's seldom that they're around this part of southern california because the bay comes in, and the water is very shallow. but, you know, san diego they're very prominent, there's a very large presence of them. almost all of the year. and if you go a little deeper, i mean, there's a lot of them out there. but, look, really, the odds of them attacking are very, very slim. jamie: have a great weekend, trace, thank you. >> well, how about some chum in the water in washington, d.c.? a different kind of shark going on. new fallout, that is, from the washington shoving match over when the president should give his big jobs speech. the white house originally wanted to give the speech next wednesday, effectively preempting a televised republican debate. they rescheduled after angry reaction from the gop. but now we're hearing the white house is furious, and critics on the left are suggesting the president is not getting the respect he deserves. charlie hurt, columnist at the washington times and joshua block, former spokesman for the clinton/gore and gore/lieberman presidential campaigns, both of those gentlemen join me now. okay, let's get right to it. what the heck is going on in d.c.? i mean, more and more the american people are sitting back watching saying why can't they get something together? is why is there a lack of respect, apparently, between the president and speaker of the house john boehner and the left and the right? charlie? >> no, we really have reached kind of a new level of discord around here. but for the people that complained that president obama's not getting the respect that he deserves, you know, this is the curse of being sort of a celebrity candidate, rock star candidate. back in 2008, you know, he was running on virtually no experience whatsoever. basically, running on a campaign of giving good speeches. and he was accorded all this respect and all this deference based on nothing but just talk. and so it's sort of not surprising to me that now that, you know, the talk is sort of fallen through, and he's failed on so many different fronts that people are starting to hold him to account and say, hey, wait a minute, you know, what's going on here? and i really do think that has a lot to do with the quote-unquote lack of respect that we've seen from a lot of corners towards obama. >> have you know, josh -- you know, josh, to charlie's point there's that old adage of don't talk the talk unless you can walk the walk. what's happening here with the president? is he off his message? >> well, it's a good question. you know, ironically, i sort of agree with charlie. i think if white house wants respect, it's going to have to earn it. maybe if president had the stone, they should have gone up to the hill and kicked in the door. [laughter] you know, eric, cantor and johnny boehner are going to run roughshod over -- >> football season has not begun yet, gentlemen. >> you know, i just think we've got to get -- you know, the white house needs to take a tougher tack, and when you've got republicans that reject compromises, they give $10 of cuts for every $1 of revenue, it's obviously they're going to undermine you. >> josh, on a serious note, we're talking about something that has gone missing, and now we're seeing rancor and discord within the ranks of the democrat party, the republicans are pouncing on the democrats and the president, the president's firing back. there's just this lack of respect on all sides, and the people that are really hurt in between all of this would be the american people. >> i couldn't agree more, kelly. i think you're at a time when the american people are incredibly frustrated with the dysfunction they see in washington, and this is an embarrassing situation for the white house and an embarrassing situation for the republicans. of course, you've got to wonder how this didn't get resolved before it went public, and that's a problem on both sides, and it speaks to civility. but beyond that, you know, the white house needs to come to grips with the fact that this republican leadership is willing to stoop to any level to undermine them politically, even if it means not addressing the serious concerns that the american people have and avoiding the topic. >> josh, real quick, let me give charlie in there to get the last word so we can keep this fair and balanced. >> the other point that i think is important to make right now is that, you know, president obama had said that he wanted to give this jobs speech a couple of weeks ago -- >> all right, charlie? i've got to go, man. i'd like to give you some respect, and the president wants it as well. we'll see what happens. thank you both for joining us. >> sounds good. jamie: because we have this fox news weather alert right now, and there's less than 24 hours before a massive storm starts bringing up to a foot of rain to new orleans. the army corps of engineers putting out a new warning about the levees in that city. janice dean, breaking news, top of the hour. plus, a woman found dead in an historic mansion. we expect to learn new details shortly. adam houseley is live in san diego. adam? >> hanged, the boy she was watching, the young son of her boyfriend had fallen down the stairs and would die of his injuries a couple days later. so now authorities say the mystery is solved. we'll have the details coming up in a life report. 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>> the first thing is that there's never, jamie, been a suicide like this reported anywhere of a woman hands bound, feet bound, hanging in a suicide. there's a handful of cases where there's some men that had done this, and i say a handful and the police agree, where they tried to commit suicide before, and they didn't want to be able to stop themselves. that having been said, all the family wants is for the investigation to continue and not be closed today. the police met with my clients and with me by phone only two days ago, and there's a lot of things they want to have investigated including but not limited to having a forensic psychiatrist look at this because she has no psych history, no history of depression and sounded fine on the phone with her sister right before this. also print analysis hasn't been done with everyone close to her, there's some mixed dna, there's not been reenactment consistent with someone else doing that. there was a note found, not her handwriting, says the family. and there are a lot of other factors we want them to look into. all we ask is don't put a period at the end of the sentence, put at least a comma. jamie: do you have the option available to have an independent investigator come in? >> that's -- you know, i'm hoping today that they say that they'll keep this investigation open because there's so many things to look at. they've just got all these things from the family, and they have so many questions, and there's some, also, to some of the forensics, etc. we could ask for that. will we? i'm going to discuss that with the family. we've discussed that possibility. their own investigation, also, could be a possibility, but these are not people of means. they just want justice, they want to know what happened, and they clearly and vehemently do not believe this was a suicide. jamie: what involvement, if any, do you think jonah shacknai may have had? >> you know, we're not here to point fingers at anybody, and we're not here, and i'm not here to point this in any direction, this investigation. we want the truth and justice, i'll leave it at that. i just think what's the rush, jamie? it's only been a month and a half since it happened. some cases take years, decades -- jamie: what do you think the rush is? do you think there's pressure on -- >> i don't know. jamie: why would they close the case at this point? >> you know, it'd be speculation on my part, but there's no reason to rush this. we asked them to continue the investigation when we talked to them. they had left that possibility open and said they would check with the supervisor. i e-mailed that supervisor, the next thing i knew they're having a press conference this morning saying it was a suicide and the case would be closed. jamie: will the family be there? >> no, but they'll certainly be watching. they're in missouri and also in germany. there was no time to -- i'm sorry, there was no time to get to san diego given the notice we only got yesterday. jamie: you make a good point that it's happening so quickly, that they've only been in touch with you recently. we're going to wait to hear from that presence conference, and i hope you will send our regards to the family. we know they've suffered a tremendous loss here and your call for justice. >> we are. jamie: thank you and nice to meet you. the family attorney of the woman who lost her life. a lot of questions on that one. >> shocking new information about a so-called american ally and the bombs that are killing u.s. troops in afghanistan. we're live at the pentagon next. jamie: plus, more than a foot of rain is now headed towards louisiana say forecasters, and they're getting some new warnings about how ready that city may be to handle it. breaking news, top of the hour. 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[ female announcer ] swiffer gives cleaning a whole new meaning. jamie: fox weather alert on a major storm system in the gulf. kelly: forecasters named his system tropical storm lee it, heading for new orleans. the big concern is flooding there. jamie: they are expecting 10-15 inches of rain and that could fall right on the big easy. this is days after a new army corps of engineers report that gave the city's levee system a near failing grade. kelly: janice dean is live in the fox weather center to give us more details on tropical storm lee. >> reporter: it looks like bad news in terms of flooding rainfall across new orleans which we know is below sea level and several inches of rain in a short period time could overwhelm things for that city. fingers crossed his doesn't unfold the way it could in the next several days. tropical storm lee we ar expecting it to strengthen as it continues to meander over waters moving north at 2 miles an hour. if it continues this kind of meander it could gain strength, and we think it has the potential to be a strong tropical storm. a slight window of opportunity to become a hurricane. but it doesn't matter. the big legacy of the storm will be flooding rainfall and the pontial for tornadoes all along the gulf coast as the center eventually comes onshore sometime this weekend. but it will cause incredible amounts of flooding not just from new orleans but for much of the southern coast of louisiana, the mississippi, alabama, and the florida panhandle. some forecast models are saying upwards of a foot and we could see isolated amounts of close to two feet of rain which could overwhelm them across new orleans. as we head further out in time. this is sunday, we are thinking it's going to approach the shore, a strong tropical storm, 65-mile-per-hour sustained wind. it will be lingering across the gulf coast for days. that's the danger of this storm. hurricane katia, we'll still continue to monitor katia as it comes close to shore next friday into saturday along the east coast. so again, all eyes are on the tropics, we are watching tropical storm lee and katia heading into next week. very busy. we'll keep you up to date as best we can. kelly: as tropical storm lee gains strength hurricane irene still causing massive problems. thousands of people in connecticut on day five with no power. tour crews say they have to prioritize. leaving homeowners to wait out in the dark. >> i'm just disgusted. we are living in a hotel because we have no power and my wife is work. they said they have no idea when the road is going to get power. seriously? he says yes, it's not on our papers. that means there is no crew coming to your road. kelly: new jersey 1.5 million customers lost their power. many of them waiting for the lights to come back on. the garden state hit by severe flooding and rising waters. jamie: evidence of what may be a coverup in a botched gun running sting that had some deadly fallout. we are being told government officials tried to hide connections between the gun that killed border agent brian terry and operation fast and furious. two leading republicans are demanding answers from the justice department. they are saying the attorney general isn't cooperating with their investigation. just days after the big shakeup at agency responsible for the botched covert mission. william lajeunesse following the story in los angeles. >> reporter: investigators are not getting the documents they are requesting from the department of justice. by evidence that the u.s. attorney's office sought to cover up a link betweened the government operation fast and furious and the death of border agent brian terry. those documents show the u.s. attorney's office in phoenix knew almost immediately the guns recovered at the murder scene were purchased by jaime avila. he was under surveillance for almost a year. atf had more than enough evidence to arrest avila before he bought the murder weapons. but officials chose not to. after the weapons had been recovered at the scene that atf helped put there. the assistant attorney in the hours after agenter yims death that both contemplated the connection and sought to prevent it from being disclosed. that's according to a letter from congressman darrell issa and charles grassley. now we have email evidence of a communication between the white house and the people who ran this operation informing national security staff of exactly what was happening, the number of suspects. the type of weapons and ammunition they were buying. >> when can't give up in this investigation. we know what they are not telling us and we need to have the cooperation that we don't have. for brian terry's family they need to know this can never happen again. >> reporter: in short what happens next is the department of justice has a week to turn over all the evidence and communication of the assistant u.s. attorneys to their office to see exactly what they were saying about this coverup. jamie: thank you for the latest, william. everything you need to know about operation fast and furious is on our web site foxnews.com. we have extensive coverage of the failed covert operation and the death of brian terry. god and check it out. kelly: breaking earlier data major reversal from the white house. president obama scrapping a controversial plan to regulate smog. the president actually overruling the environmental protection agency by withdrawing the proposal. chris stirewalt is the host of "power play" on foxnews.com. >> reporter: it's about the jobs number that said the economy for the first time since 1945 added exactly zero jobs in the month of august with these pressures bearing down on the white house he had to take to heart warnings from industry groups that said these new regulations could affect as many as 7 million jobs if they were put into effect. he pulled back. industry groups are applauding him but environmentalists are upset. they feel betrayed and are railing against the president over and over again. kelly: what is the rest of the fallout that could come from this? >> this is a play hat has to do with next year's election. the rules will be reconsidered in 2013 outside of the glaring light of this moment. this is in keeping with the trend as it relates to the production of electrical power and cars is to get regulations in the pipeline then hold them back and wait until after the election. the promise implicitly to the environmental groups is help us get another term, help us be here for four more years, then we can do these things when we don't face the political pressures in states like ohio, michigan and wisconsin that would be hit hardest by these rules. kelly: we understand the u.s. chamber of commerce signed on to support the president on this one. >> reporter: he did what they told him to do so it make sense they would be enthusiastic about it. this was one of the regulations when house speaker john boehner said to the president, you tell us if you have any regulations in the pipeline that with cost more than a billion dollars, this is at the top of the list. this is an expensive regulation and would have far-reaching effects. this went a long way for boehner and the chamber what to take care of first and they are happy with this choice. kelly: thanks very much. jamie: new jobs numbers show hiring completely stalled in august. and the national unemployment rate stayed at 9.1%. but according to the bureau of lane statistics that number jumps to 16% for -- for african-americans. one non-profit group is trying to turn it around. >> reporter: the black chamber of commerce, they have a keen interest. when you start look at inner cities like detroit. unemployment among blacks jumps to a staggering 40 per. it's no surprise in this economy one in 10 are out of work. but that number doubles for black males. the reason isn't clear, but some say it's a combination of racism and lack of education. >> people fear african-american males for some reason. we need to make sure we go to school and get an education and get trained in a particular field. >> reporter: those statistics are in michigan. >> when the companies ran into trouble and downsides we lost our jobs. >> reporter: in the 1950s, detroit had 4 million people. but a downturn in the economy and a race riot less to its downturn. now detroit is reinventing itself aped at bringing business back. >> african-americans can add to the economy. >> reporter: city leaders are inspired. their inspiration is flood federal dollars that come from the obama administration's program to boost cities. >> we have the largest exporter here in the united states. that goes from detroit to windsor. we have major fortune 500 countries right here in the city of detroit. >> reporter: the frustrated cries from the congressional black caucus is the president is not doing enough to tackle this crisis head on. kelly: as jamie just mentioned, we lad zero job d we had zero job growth in august. and the president then head off to camp david without a word. alan colmes on what this means for the president's big speech next week. jamie: they say it's just a game. apparently these guys missed that memo. the tackle that came with criminal charges. kelly: hurricane katrina dumped up to 10 inches of rain. now a tropical storm in the gulf could bring 15 inches to the big easy. we'll talk live with the emergency teams. >> you hope for the best, prepare for the worst. heavy rainfall in combination with the rising tides. you will see flood watches, flash flooding, especially in coastal areas. 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do you want them to leave if they can now? >> we are going to make that call tonight depending on how strong this gets and how the levees open up. we'll open shelters in the north end of the parish and allow those people plenty of time to get out. we have a levee concern. the amount of rain we are anticipating in a short period time, nun of the pumps will keep up with that rainfall in the concentrated area. so we are hoping those bands move in and out quickly and give the pump a chance to catch up. jamie: we know this will be a tough weekend for you. we thank you for joining us and we'll be speak to you again hopefully. through, sir. kelly: this storm looking to be the first big test for new orleans nce katrina. a lot of resources went into rebuilding and protecting the city to make sure they are not flooded again. trace gallagher has more from our west coast newsroom. >> reporter: the astonishing fact after $10 billion of rebuilding and repairing these levees, that these levees about it army corps of engineer have been grade as poor. they are given a class 2 grading which means these things could be dangerous. they could fail:you get a big storm. katrina or larger. this could dump a whole bunch of rain. the storm is a double whammy as you look at the levees that have been rebuilt over the past six years. you will get that storm surge that will push water up into lake pontchartrain. and the forecast for 15, maybe 20 inches of rain. if they got it all in one day would definitely flood the city because it's below sea level and the pumps here are not fast enough to keep. because the pumps won't keep up you have the trouble of trying to drain the water from lake pontchartrain. i want to show you a concrete security blanket for new orleans. this is on lake born outside of the city. this is where all the water came into lake pontchartrain during hurricane katrina. this structure wasn't there six years ago. it's there now. it's 2 miles long, 12 feet wide. it has pylons spo 200 feet beloe water level. the problem is that will not help when it comes to the rain. if you get 15-20 inches in the morals area it is going to be very, very hard to get that water out in any short order. kelly: we'll continue to keep an eye on the situation. trace gallagher, thank you. jamie: taking a look at big board. the dow jones average is down 240 points almost. investors reacting to those awful august jobs numbers that we got this morning. a little more than 0 minutes to the closing bell. we'll talk about the fallout from the political fight over this economy. a lot going on. your money at stake. stay where you are. we'll be right back. at usaa, we believe honor is not exclusive to the military. nd commitment is not limit to one's military oath. the same set of values that drive our nation's military are the ones we used to build usaa bank. from free checking to credit cards to loans, our commitment to the military, veterans, and their families is without equal. ♪ visit us online to learn what makes our bank so different. usaa. we know what it means to serve. really? 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[ major nutrition ] new ensure hh protein. ensure! nutrition in charge! kelly: we begin with a quick look at the dow as we see a big selloff. it's down 243 points fooling dismal report on america's jobs crisis. the economy add no, that's zero new jobs in august. the weakest showing in almost a year. unemployment stuck at 9.1%. investors are worried we could be head for the dreaded double dip recession. alan colmes joins me with more details. this is not something the president would have welcomed. >> he will be giving a speak and roll out a whole bunch of initiatives. that the news we just got a few minutes ago. kelly: how might this impact what the president will say next thursday. >> perhaps there will be more eyes on it now that it's not competing with the republican debate. and maybe there will be an agreement and he's saying there will be a way to pay for it now that it's down the road. you have to create jobs and you have to spend money. it's parts after stimulus package. i think we needed a bigger stimulus package to begin with and you have to stimulate to create the jobs. what's their plan? you create jobs, you ingest in the economy, you get it back. people get jobs, they pay taxes. they start spending money and the cycle continues. >> this past thursday it white house came out with its own amall civils what's going on and stated these zier straits wstate straits may last until 2012. >> the big mistake they made two years ago was to make the prediction that it would be at 8%. you have got to underpromise and overdeliver. there is a jobs banks that other departments have that will enable the money to be spent to create these jobs. >> tell me what's going on with the white house. why can't they seem to get a handle on that? we are seeing unemployment at 9.1%. >> he inherited a much worse economy than initially thought. it dipped a lot further than people thought. kelly: you say the word inherit. you know what people say. >> you can't know where you are going news know where you have been. you have to look at the whole picture. that's still -- it took us a long time to get there, takes a long time to get out. kelly: the bottom line is for the american people regardless of what the president says or what the president does, regardless of what congress does, there is a crisis of confidence. >> when the job numbers aren't as high as they should be. we expected more. the question is whether there will be somebody else to come along whether its many rick perry or mitt romney to convince the american public they have a better solution. maybe they have got something but we'll find out. kelly: we are going into the election season. can this president turn it around? >> sure he can turn it around and lots will happen. maybe there will be a jobs plan or infrastructure plan. of course a lot of things can happen. the news cycle and things happen on a dime. hopefully a year from now we'll be in better shape. >> we have some interesting things as steve forbes says, we'll save that for a later time. jamie: we are keeping an eye on a serious weather situation going on all weekend. moments ago we got word that tropical storm lee has shut down roughly half of all the oil pro dmuks the gulf of mexico. -- oil production in the gulf of mexico. how big a deal that is will depend on how long it will be before they can fire them up again. the drug wars in mexico are so bad, they are closing schools because teachers are being kidnapped and held more ransom. on the brink, south of the border, that many next. almost tastes like one of jack's als. fiber one. h, forgot jack cereal. 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>> i don't think most americans care for politics. they only seem to care about politic when it directly affects their livelihood. right now it directly affects their economic livelihood. 74% of americans are frustrated with the economy and 51% of americans are saying my employment opportunities are not going to improve anywhere in the near future. why has this occurred? because of compromise based on political convenience. jamie: what i think is interesting is that 74% say not only is the political system in our country broken. they say it's gridlocked. the question is -- they are watching it in action because they are not seeing things getting done and parties with agreeing. where do you see it going with numbers this startling? >> i think the results of the numbers comes from different' right on the record. you have the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell who said two things. one is my main objective is to see that obama is a one-term president. secondly as we saw during the debt ceiling debates, it was taking hostage the economy to put a dent in the armor of the president. and those two things show as forward mentioned earlier, the people don't give much to politics. but right now we see the gop playing politics to the point it trumps economic policy. economic policies that have been put forth by president reagan, a republican when we have been in a recession when he was 10.2 unemlow pressure rates in 1982, and we saw a high peacetime tax rates. those efforts have been thwarted by the republicans in order to prevent him from succeeding. jamie: it's worse than that. you say maybe people don't care, they may not even care about politics. but look at this poll. 51% of americans say uprising in the next 10 year are somewhat likely. but not only are they dissatisfied with the way they are going, they are going to try to do something about it. >> that's a real concern. if we keep tax, spending and trying to regulate our way to prosperity this will continue. we have to make a more business-friendly environment. if we can do that more people will be put back to work. i'm an american before i'm a republican. my top interest isn't removing president obama from the white house but putting americans back to work and make sure we do what's right to preserve our economy. >> the corporations are at all-time profits. and that money needs to go not in cutting demand, but adding to demand and hiring workers and putting more money in their pockets so that corporations can grow and put that money to work and off the sidelines. we need to boost the middle class. jamie: the 70 per of americans who feel the political system is broken, not work and grid locked. 82% of the people who say that are democrats. >> i think what we are seeing here is whether or not president obama coming to this recognition and believing in the word of mitch mcconnell that he is going to do all that he can be it hurting the economy or not to get him to be a one-term president, that there is a degree of compromise. but beyond that you have got to focus on the american middle class and doing all you can despite what obstacles are being presented by the republicans. so want obama to take the actions -- i wanted -- just to make the point. i think you see from democrats and the left that obama needs to step to the plate in terms of standing with the american middle class, and getting those policies through that the gop has thwarted. jamie: you talk about compromise and the americans that respond. the majority saying if they were in congress they would find a way to compromise. the interesting thing is there is one exception. the majority tea party members say they would sick to their guns. stick to their priorities. what will happen? will we see bipartisanship? >> i think we'll see bipartisanship if we have wide compromise and look at thing that affect the middle class. if we give wise compromise that benefits america in the business environment we'll put people back to work and everybody will be happy again and dave and i can argue about basketball. jamie: i think we had a spirited debate today and it's great to see you. thanks. >> happy labor day to you and the audience. kelly: dozens of high-powered weapons intentionally sold to known criminals, part of a covert mission designed t to trk fire power to mexico. it went more any wrong. after the break, a former atf director on new evidence of a coverup. >> brian did ultimately come home that christmas. we buried him not far from the house that he was raised in just prior to christmas day. ♪ with diabetes, it's tough to keep life balanced. i don't always have time to eat like i should. and the more i focus on everything else, the less time i have to take care of me. that's why i like glucerna shakes. they have slowly digestible carbs to help minimize blood sugar spikes, which can help ler a1c. glucerna products help me keep everything balanced. 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>> i think what went wrong was the initial thought that somehow this would assist in combating weapons being trafficked to the country of mexico. the strategy clearly is ill-fated from the beginning and contrary to all the experiences in the training that atf field agents had had in terms of combating guns getting into the hands of prohibited persons. kelly: the lead u.s. attorney has left his post and our reporter william lajeunesse learned three white house officials were briefed on operation fast and furious and the president's national security staff knew about the operation as well. now there is evidence the u.s. attorney''s office was perhaps involved in a coverup operation. the president says he knew nothing about this operation but the justice department has been slow in responding. do you think this would lead to the white house being involved? >> i would be surprised in our experience at the atf, they require authorities outside of atf. could folks have been briefed up considering the violence in mexico and the violence on the border? but the project itself was well within the rights of the director to essentially approve or to reject. kelly: by something went horribly wrong, we have the death of a border patrol agent to prove that. as a former atf director how do you clean up this mess? >> what happened yesterday, a new directive. atf needs a fresh start in terms of its leadership. by all accounting jones is the right tern at this point in time. the folks are hard working, conscientious, take their obligations extremely seriously. they have been pummeled by decisions made above their level. to the credit of the atf agents, many of them spoke up and said this is horribly wrong. and i think for years to come folks are going to be holding their breath as firearms are recovered at crime scenes as part of this fast and furious debacle. kelly: i spoke with the former mexico's president have i sent fox and he said he was angry. he said this is something the united states didn't need to do in terms of curbing the violence and drug cartels. he says the united states and mexico must continue to work diligently to remove the drugs from the streets. we have seen steve harrigan's piece hoeing schools being closed in acapulco because of the threat. how do we deal with this threat and not have any botched programs? >> by a real partnership. something we are pursuing in terms of the path that the previous administration or developing a good koon if i dent working relationship built on trust, sharing technologies that we have that could benefit our counterparts in the country of mexico. i think president fox is right. if it were our country in weapons were being trafficked into our country by a foreign federal law enforcement agency. we would be outraged to think that that information was not being shared with us as a nation. so i can appreciate that that relationship with the country of mexico is seriously strained. but i will say that folks in atf and other law enforcement agencies have been working hard over a number of years building a relationship with mexico. i think with todd jones, he will be able to rebuild the con if i den between mexico and the united states as it relates to issues around violent crime associated with drug trafficking. kelly: we appreciate you coming on and sharing your comments. we appreciate you, sir. jamie: new orleans is expecting a massive storm this weekend. we are watching tropical storm lee in the gulf. it could bring heavy flooding to the city. it was devastated by hurricane katrina six years ago. kelly: we are going to show you a preview of the work being done at the world trade center site. >> you really feel it deep inside of you physically. when you come close to them and you start to see their individual names, people who died on that day. and see literally hundreds of names surrounding each pool. >> i think it brings a closure to the place. looking good! you lost some weight. you noticed! these clothes are too big, so i'm donating them. how'd you do it? 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