going to have a whole lot more on this story coming up throughout the day and throughout the afternoon here as well on cnn. the house minority leader vowing reform. a live update coming up next. [ male announcer ] progress.
daley for a couple decades. he was hoping to be mayor some day, and had said that publicly, but was also expecting mayor daley would likely run for re-election again. his recent announcement he s going to retire took rahm emanuel and some of his advisers by surprise. this is all happening very, very quickly. obviously creates a hole at the white house for a new chief of staff. i ve been heard pete rouse is likely to be acting chief of staff in the short term while they figure out who s going to be long term. a lot of people starting to leave the white house. that s pretty natural for any administration after a couple of years to have some turnover. pretty big political development these days. big political development. a lot of people concerned about what s happening in the white house. that was going to be my follow-up there. you answered it. yes, it seems like a lot of people are leaving. it happens in every administration. just some turnover. it just happens after a couple of year
business? also, rob, how are you doing, buddy? what s up? he s keeping an eye on some heavy rain. we have him running all over the place. they have a lot of stuff going on on that map. keeping an eye. fresh information from the cnn weather center, this well, the tropical storm, the tornado watch i was about to show you, is continuing and the rain is continuing in wilmington where they have four days of record-breaking rainfall. talk about that and what s left over with nicol and west coast weather as well coming up. sure i d like to diversify my workforce,
anything can happen. cnn has been following the story of army sergeant first class randy shourder who recently returned to afghanistan for his third tour of duty. shortly after his arrival sergeant shourder and his men patrolled outside the protective perimeter of the base. this is some dangerous territory. our jason carroll joined this patrol. everybody is going to get hands on on the radio. reporter: sergeant shourder hasn t been on the ground in southeastern afghanistan for two hours, and already we found him at work. testing weapons. quickly getting gear and his platoon s armored vehicles ready to roll. it s a moment where you ve got to get a lot done in a short period of time. that s correct. a frustrating time. reporter: shortly after arriving, his orders changed. his platoon made up of 14 soldiers convoyed to a much
online for us. hey, t.j. the economy has been growing a bit faster than previously thought. still painfully slowly. we ve got new numbers and insight for you right here at cnnmoney.com. we ll check in again with you shortly. our big story right now, it seems to be another case of a big corporation putting profit ahead of safety. pharmaceutical giant johnson & johnson answering to congress today about what s called a phantom recall. elizabeth cohen stepping in here, our medical correspondent. let me start with this. a lot of people right not realize what a phantom recall is. explain that, first of all. kind of tricky. this recall wasn t even a recall. it was sort of under the radar. it was very odd. what happened is johnson & johnson makes all sorts of products like tylenol and motrin and other products both for adults and kids. in may 2009 it appears that they realized that at one of their factories, they were getting things like little pieces of metal and bacterial contaminati