reporter: the it he s talking about is dvd sales. and the studios are hoping the cloud will boost those sales. the cloud is the term used to describe online data storage sites where people can store all their digital goodies, things like music and pictures and movies, making them all very accessible. they re going to be able to digitize their library, and they re going to be able to get to it anytime and anywhere. and it s really something consumers have been clamoring for. reporter: that is why the heads of five hollywood studios are teaming up with retailing giant walmart, to tap into the cloud. as this walmart video demonstrates, starting april 16th buy a dvd at a walmart store or bring in one that you already own and walmart will give you access to that movie on the retailer s vudu cloud service, allowing you to watch it at home or on mobile devices. of course, it s going to cost you.
tommy s country ham house in greenville, south carolina. they ll both be there at the same time. as a matter of fact, mitt romney showed up. he showed up early, which is kind of interesting. we ll take you there. plus, a lot of people are dealing with rough weather today. meteorologist reynolds rolf will show you. from the cnn center in atlanta, georgia, this is cnn saturday morning. i m gary tuchman. for three hours and counting that is how long south carolinaens have been voting. in between are these three members of our cnn team. our don lemon is talking to voters in lexington. paul steinhauser is watching the candidates from columbia. schon na sheppard is watching the action. she s been watching newt gingrich for a long time. he s one of the two front-runner s at the ham house. it sounds funny. how did they end up going to the same restaurant in the same state at the same time? reporter: you know, gary, the candidates are saying it was purely a coincidence that th
numbers and what it tells us about the economy. right now this morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern time. it s a solid base hit. how s that? not a grand slam, but a base hit for the economy. you had job creation a little better than people had thought and remember the big zero in august, no jobs created in august. well, the government, kyra, came back and upgraded its assessment for what happened in august. now, 57,000 jobs created in august. also, july revised higher, as well. so, when you look at the whole picture. you have an unemployment rate at 9.1% and 103,000 jobs added in the month of september and august and july both increased in terms of the amount of hiring. when we look within the kind of sectors that are hiring, professional and business services. the private sector did a little bit better. you saw the government shedding jobs, but the private sector was hiring in professional and business services and temporary workers, it s a trend we ve seen for more than a year an
our pentagon xpont barbara star has more on the air strike that killed al-awlaki. reporter: this is important. this man posed a direct threat to the united states had inspired him by all accounts ordered attacks against the u.s. now this apparently is the result of a two-year effort between the u.s. intelligence community and the people to go after him to find him, target him and take him out. very controversial as he is an american born citizen. killed for his activities in another country. by all accounts, it was a drone strike that killed al-awlaki. there were three other persons in that convoy with him. they are believed also to have been killed. this is something that the u.s. long wanted. this is a target that they were making a great effort to go after inside yemen even as that country remains in a good deal of political social and economic unrest. joe? barbara, if we know how much was yemen actually involved in this strike? and if we don t know that, typically wha
since osama bin laden. the breaking news this hour, we re learning more about the air strike in yemen that killed anwar al-awlaki. first, a reminder of why this american born cleric was so dangerous. president obama says he took the lead in planning to murder americans. he s been linked to those terror suspects of the decade including the so-called underwear bomber, the accused ft. hood attacker, three of the 9/11 hijackers and the man who allegedly tried to blow up a car in times square in new york. we have in depth coverage of the mission to kill al-awlaki and the implications. first, to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. several administration officials say it was a cia hit. the cia and pentagon had been working with the yemenese for nearly two years to kill anwar al-awlaki. we had always had tremendous concern that after getting bin laden, that someone like al-awlaki was a primary target because of his continuing efforts to plan attacks against the united stat