both democrats and republicans are waiting to hear his proposal, and, of course, so are you. millions of americans out of a job and looking for work. in a matter of minutes, one of the people closest to the president who advised him on this very plan will join me live, with you, first, i want to begin with a fast-moving situation right now. in pennsylvania, really across much of the northeast, the floodwater is rising. people have to get out. more than 100,000 ordered to evacuate. i want to show you this first picture. this is going to be bethlehem, pennsylvania. what is left of tropical storm lee. we ve been talking about lee for a couple of days now. pouring rain on top of the already saturated land. you know, that s a bad equation. it s triggered near historic flooding there. the susquehanna river already 12 feet above flood stage and rising. at least three people in pennsylvania have died, including a 71-year-old man who was crushed when his basement walls simply collapse
night. it s still being crafted as we speak. some of the pieces are coming into focus tonight. so is the bottom line, which is growing from earlier estimates. that s certainly welcome news for democrats who say the president s been too timid and the economy need a big dose of medici medicine. at the same time the larger the price tag the tougher it may be to get through congress. even though the white house says it will offset the cost of a jobs plan with savings elsewhere in the budget. chief whos correspondent jesse allen has been working her sources. what is the latest? what s going to be in this plan this. my understanding from democrats who are familiar with the president s working figures right now tell me that the plan could end up upwards of $400 billion. the biggest ticket item would be an extension of the payroll tax cut for employees which is set to expire at the end of the year at $120 billion. he would propose in this draft roads and infrastructure above curren
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good morning. i m ali velshi joining us live from new york. let s start with the fast and furious wildfires wrecking land and property in texas. they ve killed four people and destroyed more than 700 homes in the past few days. the biggest fire is just outside austin. firefighters have been struggling to contain it. let s go right to cnn s chris welch. what s the latest? reporter: well, you just mentioned four death so is far at this point associated with these fires. two of those came from here in bass rtrop county. we assume they occurred yesterday. we don t know for sure because officials aren t providing more details. what we do know is this morning search crews will finally be going in for the first time over the past three days, look for anymore fatalities, look for any bodies. they hope obviously that they don t find anymore, but these fires have been very massive. we re talking these fires are 30% contained. that honestly is a big step from what we ve seen in the la
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