on this sunday. from the cnn center, welcome to your cnn sunday morning. 6:00 a.m. in atlanta. 5:00 a.m. in st. louis. 3:00 a.m. in berkeley. as always, a special good morning to our service men and women watching on the american forces network. thank you for being here, and thank you for what you do. i m t.j. holmes. let s start with politics and with the president. he s headed out west today to washington state, has a couple of re-election fundraisers on his schedule. also has a social madia town hall on monday, he ll be talking about jobs, of course. last night he had this message during a speech to the congressional black caucus. i m going to press on for jobs. i m going to press on for equality. i m going to press on for the sake of our children. i m going press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. i don t have time to feel sorry for myself. i don t have time to complain. i m going to press on. i expect all of you to march with me and p
economic forecast. let s get to alison kosik. she s monitoring everything today where at one point today, the dow tanked morning 500 points. what s going on? that s right. these worries about a recession were ampfullied today. not just in the u.s., but overseas as well. the federal reserve spooked everybody first. this was yesterday. the fed giving a really bleak assessment of the u.s. economy warning of significant downside risks to the economic outlook. translation there that the economy will get significantly weaker. then overnight, we got weak manufacturing reports out of europe, the u.k, even china, which had been an engine of growth out of the great recession. you have to remember, wolf, we re all interconnected. only been one economist to tell us europe is probably in a recession and the u.s. is teetering on the brink of one. wolf? so, basically, it doesn t look very promising right now. what are they brace you for tomorrow? tomorrow, we re trying to see if we re
down, too. u.s. stock futures are in the red in pre trading. a lot of this comes after the federal reserve gave a cynical view of the economy. we ll talk more about this with christine romans in just a few minutes. back to troy davis now. he has been put to death. the debate over his guilt or innocence and over the death penalty itself goes on. the state of georgia executed davis last night by lethal injection for the murder of a savannah police officer in 1989. supporters claimed there was too much doubt in the case. the original prosecutor says there is no doubt. despite protests and last-minute appeals, the u.s. supreme court refused to grant a stay and his time ran out. media witnesses to the execution says just before the procedure began, davis told the victim s family he was innocent. he urged them to keep digging for the truth. he asked his family and friends to keep praying, to keep working and keep the faith. then he said to the prison staff, the ones he said who a
for state hood. this hour, the president is expected to meet with palestinian authority president abbas. he held a separate meeting just a little while ago with benjamin netanyahu. let s bring in our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. she s covering this from new york. the president also delivered a major address before the u.n. general assembly. that s rig, wolf. the palestinians continue pressing their case here at the united nations and it was the most dramatic issue the president addressed in his speech today with repeated the theme, peace is hard. the president trumpeted progress at the end of this year, america s military operation in iraq will be over. osama bin laden is gone. and warned of challenges ahead. where we stand with the syrian people or their oppressors. what so many were listening for was this. we seek a future where palestinians live in a sovereign sate of their own. how would we explain his opposition to the palestinian push
nations general assembly is underway. absolutely. because the streets are clogged. president obama and the new libyan leadershiping for face-to-face talks at the united nations and the stakes could note be higher. moammar gadhafi reportedly starving citizens. the president arrived in new york yesterday. front and center at the united nations. cnn senior correspondent, u.n. correspondent, i should say, richard roth joins us this morning. so this would be the first face-to-face meeting between president obama and the national transitional council? a good deferment for the obama administration, able to champion at that meeting and with the other diplomats, their way did work, although fighting remains. and helps solidify this new government in libya. the flag actually flew over the united nations monday for the first time, removing that green gadhafi flag. jaleel, of the national council, will be there and libya will have to set out what kind of government it will be. helpin