chief of staff will be up on the senate side talking to senator democrats about what may be about to unfold over here at the white house in terms of potential fixes, administrative fixes or legislative fixes. for the last week or so, carol, the white house said they ve been working on administrative fixes but they ve been open to legislative fixes, that s why you re hearing from people like mary landrieu and incumbent democrat up for re-election next year, vulnerable democrat making her own proposal for people who like their insurance plan to keep their insurance plan requiring the insurers to allow people to stay on the plans so long as they keep making propose from republicans the white house has been cool to but the white house is not knocking down the mary landrieu proposal. deidra walsh our producer on the house here at cnn she has been told by two senior house democratic aides leaders have not been given specifics but they expect administration officials to detail at a 2:30.
the dual crises we have going. also working hard is atheno jones is up on capitol hill. we are getting our money s worth out of you today, athena. what have you heard about this meeting? reporter: hi, miguel. well, we know we have seen senator reid arrived, but i should men on capitol hill there was a lot of activity earlier, but because of all that s been going on we ve had a whole team of folks going to the different events. my colleague deidra walsh is reporting she was also able to grab some folks after that presser right before senator reid and others headed to the white house. she was able to learn that harry reid plans to continue talking with mitch mcconnell. he said there s not a meeting scheduled, but imagines will be tacking about phony. another reporter said if the senate is going to be in session tomorrow.
necessarily that done deal, dana. what it mean is even if it were to pass the senate, if they had the 60 votes to break the expected republican led filibuster, let s say on the senate floor. let s say they get more than 60 votes to break that filibuster, they have an up and down vote, they get 51 votes in favor and then goes to the house of representatives where i don t know what s going to happen if the nra comes out and adamantly opposes this compromise to expand background checks. that s right. and i think so much of it is going to be determined by how big the vote is in the senate. if it is overwhelming, the l be very hard for republicans who run the house to stop it. one thing that we can report is our deidra walsh learned there s a companion bill in the house. peter king the republican from new york is on it and virtually, she s told is the same as the manchin/toomey bill. that is a start for them to try to move this in the house. because they would need at least one republican
grounded, some parts of the 2,500 mile lifeline 50 feet below flood levels last year. america s fight over same-sex marriage coming down to a fried chicken sandwich. today, round two, a kiss-in at chick-fil-a s nationwide. we ll talk to the organizer live in 30 minutes. newsroom starts right now. and good morning to you, happy, happy friday, i m carol costello. we begin this friday morning with some better news about the nation s economy. the labor department says 163,000 jobs were created last month beating expectations of around 95,000. in the meantime, the unemployment rate edged higher to 8.3%. that s the headline. but for more on this story behind the numbers, we want to bring in christine romans. she s in new york. tell us what these numbers mean, christine. well, it s a solid report. a solid report for july. but remember june was revised downward. so 64,000 jobs created in june and 163,000 created in july. this is the best month for jobs creation now in five mo
happening today with the former massachusetts governor, he s trying to move beyond all of this, obviously. he s been sort of giving his prebuttal to the president s state of the union address tonight and they have sort of been showing us these postcards from the edge of the housing crisis and financial crisis in this country. earlier today mitt romney gave his speech inside an abandoned warehouse that used to be an old drywall factory and here we are now standing in front of a house that s been foreclosed on in southwest florida. so this is what the romney campaign feels like has been working well for him. they feel like he s more effective on the campaign trail when he s talking about the president and not focusing on his rivals. that s what we re seeing today, brooke. what do we expect to hear from mitt romney once he speaks there in tampa again? reporter: well, i think it s going to be more of the same. you know, it s been interesting because, you know, he has been goi