you know some people criticize the data wongs that love to look at the monthly jobs report. what we need to gauge if jobs are being created. data wongs i love that. that s you. it is actually. it s carmen as well. but it s also look i prefer nerd. but look, this is the number that shows what all of you have been telling us, it s hard to get a job, no matter what. reality and what people are feeling, they see it, sense it, feel it. we got the jobs report for april going to be released at 8:30 a.m. today but the expectations are as such, economists are saying that about 185,000 jobs look to be added, mostly from the private sector. this is a big, big drop from the month before, which was over 200,000. the unemployment rate remains unchanged at 8.8%. and a new cnn opinion research poll just came out this morning,
acquiring a new accent overnight. sometimes even your own husband can t understand you. i did want to buy some you want to buy some push carts? not push cart. a postcard. postcard, cnn. push cart. reporter: cnn, new york. the relationship, right, after all those years. what a strange thing. where do you think that comes from? these accents they re not native born. i m no brain scientist. we should get sanjay and his brain to tell us this. you get bombarded by this stuff she s just absorbing something. the other thing jeanne wrote to us, the funniest thing, she used to be shy, almost a wall flower and now because of her accent people are always asking her where she s from. open up a whole new world, talk to more people. when she gets stressed out it sounds more australian na irish. her husband seems cool. answered a question as the husband should. she s just the same she is.
found material there which indicates al qaeda was still interested in hitting major cities in the united states, specifically new york, washington, d.c., l.a., and chicago were all mentioned. in addition, they talk about hitting on specific significant dates, not just the september 11th anniversary as is mentioned in the rail information, but also july 4th, christmas, and the opening day of the u.n. general assembly when all the world leaders would be assembled in new york city. last night, the former homeland security secretary, the first homeland security secretary, tom ridge, appeared on cnn. here s a bit of what he had to say about the rail notice. it s a head s up, it s a warning. i don t think it s necessarily actionable but it s appropriate to send this information out to those responsible for that infrastructure. they wanted to remind people there s still a potential target, take notice, but use the information that we have, but don t make any changes now. there s no ness itt
it s unbelievable if you looked at it on a map. this cnn i-report sent to us from steven gibson in memphis, parts of the city as we ve been showing you are under water. about 300 people are in shelters this morning and the flooding, this is clear. we ve been hearing this from everybody. it is expected to get worse before it gets better. one big area of concern in tennessee is mud island. the mississippi is so swollen it s causing the wolf river to flow backward and spill over it banks. joining us live from memphis, radio talk show host ben ferguson, a mud island resident, who has been warning people of memphis about the rising waters. ben, welcome to the program. i mean give us a sense of what it s like to be there in the middle of this disaster? yeah. well it s eerie. you know it s eerie when you go on the radio when osama bin laden has been killed, we ll get to that in a minute but let s get to the flooding. something i never thought i would say. for people here it s probably
people what our interests are and then thirdly, it s not clear what the road map to victory is. we went to afghanistan to get him and he hasn t been there. now that he s killed, boy, it is a wonderful time for this country now to reassess it and get the troops out of afghanistan and end that war that hasn t helped us and hasn t helped anybody in the middle east. you can check out the latest cnn opinion research poll conducted before the news of bin laden s death broke. you can see that mike huckabee leads the gop field with 16%, donald trump, mitt romney, sarah palin, newt gingrich, ron paul, all of them are within six points of him in double digits. all right. there is speculation that america s addiction to foreign oil has given life to al qaeda. a theory out there, i guess you could say. some terror experts say becoming energy independent would help deliver the end to al qaeda.