build board calling on the president for a job made an interesting statement when he talked about how it s important to create jobs at some of these bigger companies like ge, it s great for the administration to work with them, but what they need to focus on, what the president needs to focus on are those small businesses because they say they are the ones who really have the ability to create jobs. and that s one of the things that we ll also hear from the president here today. he ll talk about pushing congress to do additional, take additional steps to create jobs and particular small businesses, because the president believes that that is the best way to really drive this economy in creating more jobs, fredricka. dan, the president will be accepting questions as well. this really isn t s. an interactive opportunity for a lot of team? it is. first of all, he will tour this facility and then he will have this town hall style event which he has been holding at various stops across
there was a different raid conducted by the same agencies over at a gas station also right outside of boston. the owner of that gas station tried to talk to him for a few moments after all of that went down. it had nothing to say and authorities there had little to say as well. as we ve been reporting here on cnn, law enforcement sources have told colleagues like of mine like jeanne meserve, that a lot of this has to do with the money that changed hands that may have changed hands from different individuals on in route to faisal shahzad, the suspect in that times square bombing, so-called cash couri s couriers, is what law enforcement officials refer to these types. and that is apparently the process that they re in the middle of right now trying to get exactly a sense of what these suspects knew when they were transferring, if they were, in fact, transferring money through the days and months leading up to what happened in times fredricka? jim, you mentioned the neighbors notice
incredible number of times there would be suktive decisions and arguments about whether or not a school is really breaking this. fred? that s a lot of information. good information. but a lot of information that people want to go back and read for themselves to get a better view of what this law is all about. how do they do that? this is why wi posted it. it s at my facebook page. i tell you the web address of it but it has like 100 characters in it. look at that screen. see my facebook page. facebook.com/joshleavescnn. you can look eight and let us know what you think. you can weigh in. give eight good read before you come up with your opinion and let us know what you think. appreciate it. of course, we ve got many more developments in the times square terror investigation. we re going to check in with our jim acosta who is in boston, which happens to be the place of an arm of that investigation under way right now. we ll have that.
about, as i mentioned, the steps the administration has been taking to turn the economy around. but this really is a chance for the president to be right on the front lines to hear from the people who are being impacted most, but here in buffalo, they have been hit very hard because long before the rest of the country started sliding down, they were losing a lot of jobs here. their unemployment rate was above 10% back in february. things are starting to turn around. the medical field is starting to create some jobs in the region here. but people still have a lot of concerns and the president will hear some of those today. dan lothian, thanks so much. appreciate that. keep it right here to listen to what the president has to say. he is scheduled to speak next hour around 1:50 p.m. eastern time right here on cnn. meantime, some breaking news taking place out of thailand. we understand right now that there has been an anti-government demonstration taking place and reportedly, the lead
city, believe it or not. these storms have been producing some very heavy rainfall across the middle mississippi river valley as well as the upper midwest and we ve seen anywhere between one and three inches of rainfall here. we ve got a lot of reports of flooded streets. one of the worst places was springfield, missouri, where we are getting reports from the downtown area. there are delays at the airport. as a result, more than two hours for you now in chicago. midway s got over an hour. dallas, 55 minutes and those are just american flights, by the way. detroit, 45 minutes and there you can see houston at 30 minutes. quick pictures, i think we ve got them out of california. there s a wildfire that burned there yesterday, about 500 acres, but the weather has been fantastic. very light winds and helping to contain it in less than 24 hours. that is tremendous. quiet season so far for fires. we like that. because it s been a rough couple of years for california on so many differe