and at 4:00 eastern time, at the movies, we re getting the grade on contagion. president obama calls his plan a jolt, not a stimulus. but it is. still, the big question remains, will it work? i m christine romans. welcome to your your money. the american jobs act includes payroll tax cuts for 98% of businesses, a tax credit for hiring unemployed veterans, modernization of 35,000 public schools, a tax credit for hiring the long-term unemployed and a provision to help refinance mortgages at very low interest rates. stephen moore is an editorial writer with the wall street journal. mark zandi says this plan, if it was enacted in its entirety could create almost 2 million jobs. let me guess, you re skeptical? i am. i m friends with mark and have known him for a long time. but he s been wrong on his projections on jobs. an amazing statistic, i just looked up these numbers. we have 1 million fewer jobs today than we did in february of y when we created the $800 billion st
decade after 9/11 as investigator investigato investigators investigate a suspected plot. scientists are still working nonstop to identify the remains of 9/11 victims. and that s enabling some loved ones to find closure. we re taking you behind the scenes. and president obama hits the road to prince william up support for his job creation plan. his first stop is the home turf of one of his sharpest critics. i m wolf blitzer in tampa, florida. the site of monday s cnn tea party debate and you re in the situation room. security sweeps and a frantic scramble now for more intelligence. a decade after 9/11, america once again faces a threat. precaution precautions were already ramped up, but new information is shifting those efforts into overdriel. the official is suspicious and credible apparently focused on new york city and washington, d.c. it may involve three people, including one u.s. citizen and it may involve a car bomb. let s go to susan candiotti on the scene for us. w
continues. we will see t. j. holmes from new york on 9/11 as well. on sunday, yes. and you are in now for randi kaye. yeah, and i will see you tomorrow. what is your show called, the saturday afternoon we re just here. let s stick with the news room, how about that. you at least got the cnn part right. got that right, okay. i am in for randi kaye at the top of the hour here. new yorkers have been through a lot and have seen a lot. here we go. something else they have to deal with and something else they have to see. police check points set up all around the city in response in response to what is being called, a credible and specific, but not a confirmed threat. shatter among security officials talk about three individuals that might be involved. one of them a u.s. citizen. not known if they are actually in the country yet. and also a bulletin put out said the attackers could be using a truck or carloaded with explosives. they warn small arms or poisons could be u
because your choice didn t win or you want to checkup the other runners up, go to suzanne malveaux s page,. and it s the big story today. today is the big day for president obama. that long awaited jobs speech on congress. it was planned for last night. you know the republicans were debating last night and had to be moved to tonight, the president s speech. here we are six hours away from the speech. he is expected to propose more investments and tax breaks that will cost $3 billion. the president may call for an infrastructure bank providing for low cost loans to get projects off the ground. he is expected to call for an extension in the payroll tax break which almost every american worker gets. and more tax breaks for those that hire veterans and the long-term unemployed. the white house says none of this ought to come as objectionable to republicans. all of these ideas are bipartisan in nature. they are the kinds of things that republicans and democrats have broadly su
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