interesting. maybe they ll have a better on-line presence. that s what zagat needs in my humble opinion. thank you very much. we appreciate it. american morning continues right now. i m christine romans. here s what you need to know to start your day. people in new york and washington being told to stay alert and stay calm. the feds watching a possible terror threat as our nation marks ten years after 9/11. i m carol costello. a fiery president obama announcing his jobs plan to jolt the economy and create jobs, challenging congress 17 times to pass his bill right away. we ll tell you what s in it and what republicans are saying about it on this american morning. hi, christine. good morning. it s friday, september 9th. welcome to american morning. ali is off. you had the president and football last night, so you re i know. i m exhausted. up first we have to talk about this breaking news. we have new information that al qaeda may want to mark 9/11 with ano
this american morning. good morning. zogood morning alina. it s early. it is early. not so early for you. always great to have you here. carol is off, christine is off. that s right. we ve got you back, which is fantastic. we ve got a really serious situation going on in texas. it s it seems to be getting worse although in some parts getting a little more control over it. these raging wildfires we re telling you about sweeping across the country right now. the governor rick perry is describing the disaster as, quote, a monstrous storm of smoke and flames. the flames are sending thousands of people running for their lives, showing no mercy. it s killed four people. hundreds of firefighters are on the frontlines dousing some of the fires, new ones, they re starting new ones hoping to get rid of the bone dry bub brush that goes up in an instant. this is what s left of a ranch in austin, texas. a pile of twisted metal and ash. the texas forest service sa
he ll lay it out thursday night to congress and the nation. democratic sources telling us tonight it calls for about $300 billion in tax breaks, incentives and other spending offset by equal amount of budget cuts. it s being described as a make or break moment for the president. we ll discuss it along with mitt romney s competing plan which he unveiled today. first jessica yellin. reporter: democratic sources in discussions with the white house confirm that $300 billion figure has been the working figure for the jobs package for at least a week now. it would mean as you say 300 billion in both spending and then cuts. the white house has said that this will be a revenue-neutral package. so that would mean that in addition to outlining the new spending, the president will also outline some cuts on thursday in his speech. but he would then put out a more detailed package later explaining more of those cuts when he makes his proposal to the deficit super committee. and i should
incentives and other spending offset by equal amount of budget cuts. it s being described as a make or break moment for the president. we ll discuss it along with mitt romney s competing plan which he unveiled today. first jessica yellin. reporter: democratic sources in discussions with the white house confirm that $300 billion figure has been the working figure for the jobs package for at least a week now. it would mean as you say 300 billion in both spending and then cuts. the white house has said that this will be a revenue-neutral package. so that would mean that in addition to outlining the new spending, the president will also outline some cuts on thursday in his speech. but he would then put out a more detailed package later explaining more of those cuts when he makes his proposal to the deficit super committee. and i should point out these numbers could change between now and thursday, anderson. just so i m clear, is that $300 billion in new spending and then an e
cnn s jim spellman is seeing its power firsthand. he s now in the bahamas. we ll try to get jim spellman. we don t have him quite yet because the wind is blowing really, really hard in the bahamas at this moment. let s head into atlanta and check in with jack can jeras. can you tell us the track of the storm? we can, carol. we ve seen more changes and it bridges it closer to hugging the coast of the united states, potentially from north carolina all the way on up northward. i do want to tell people, this is just in. normally we get this 20 minutes before the top of the hour and it literally just came in. bear with me. the hurricane watches you ve been talking about, this is the north carolina coast, from north of surfacy to the north carolina/virginia border. tropical storm watches in addition for that north of modesto beach to surfacy. basically what that means is hurricane conditions are expected in about 48 hours, but tropical storm watch means tropical storm conditions