winter-like blast, i should say, is causing all kinds of problems. snarling air travel and knocking out power to thousands of people. we re on top of all this for you. cnn reporters and anchors out in forceful our weather anchor chad smirs in pennsylvania. and standing by in the severe weather center. we want to start with our meteorologist out in the field. i spoke to you a little while ago. is it still snowing? reporter: it s still snowing and it is noticeably colder than a couple hours ago. so the slush on the ground right now is starting to turn into ice. and you may say, what are you in the parking lot for? we re in the parking lot where there is electricity. people are literally out driving around, looking for something with power. because their houses are without power. there are so many houses without power in this area, they re getting cold and hungry. they re driving around looking for a restaurant that s open. this happens to be one that s open. this is very heav
i m ali velshi. welcome to your money. rick perry is proposing give you a tax choice. currently you can pay it under the cold or pay a 20% flat tax rate. the bottom line, most americans choose a 20%, and at the least this would amount to a tax cut for the wealthy. candy crowley is the chief political course it dent and anchor of state of the union on cnn. no one is sure what romney s proposal is, whether it s economically sound. after herman cain s success for getting attention for the 9-9-9 tax plan i can see why perry seized on the idea of a simple tax. i m not clear on whether they succeed or fail on the economic plans or how sexy or simple the plan sounds or whether it has nothing to do with that and who has the best chance to beat president obama. it s somewhere in between there, ali. there are certain things to say in this republican primary that would make him or her a non-starter, and that is i m going to raise your taxes. i will make big cuts in defense spendin
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he s plunging in the polls and in need of a boost. will a new plan help rick perry climb back to the top of the republican race? his rival, herman cain, is leading the pack according to a brand new poll and perry is a distant fifth with cain apparently benefitting from his 9-9-9 tax plan, perry today unveiled his own new tax plan and 20 is the magic number. he proposes a flat tax of 20% for individuals and corporations, but in a twist, perry would let people choose to pay his flat tax rate or file under the current system, which he derived. the size of the current code is more than 72,000 pages. that s represented by this palate right over here and the reams of paper. that s what the current tax code looks like. the best representation of my plan is this postcard. this is is size of what we re talking about right here. taxpayers will be able to fill this out and file their taxes on that.
perry, the texas governor who is running for the gop nomination. not in the newspaper hard copy, a lot of americans get, but in the online edition. he talked about the president and his birth certificate and he said he believes the president was born in the united states, but a little less confident on that birth certificate. of course, released earlier this year by hawaii after a request from the president. he went on in that interview to say i had dinner with donald trump and he doesn t think it was real. trump was flirting with a bid for the gop nomination and part of that was a push for the president to reveal his birth certificate and questions whether the president was born in hawaii. an interview released by cnbc john harwood, their top political guy. here s what perry said, take a listen. my grades ended up on the front page of the newspaper, if we re going to show stuff, let s show stuff. but, look, that s all a distraction. i get it. i m really not worried about t
he also served at a.l. west xhixer. he died at the age of 82. new york mayor michael bloomberg sharply criticizing occupy wall street. he said the protest over high unemployment and corporate greed could destroy jobs in lower manhattan. national correspondent susan candiotti in new york following this movement. saturdays have seen the most activity. what s going on? reporter: that s right. well, now there is additional activity by way of a second location, because now occupy wall street has set up a second base of operations about two miles north of where they were before. that park is still full with protestors near wall street, but now they re in a historic park called washington square park up in the 1800s. it is home to street performers and street artists and chess players and people who just like to hang out on a beautiful day like this. on this day at this hour there is a rally that just started by occupy wall street. unlike the other location, they are not g