about this for years and under the president s plan anyone making more than $1 million a year would paper the same percentage of taxes at the middle class. boy, it does not sit well with republicans. when you pick one area of the economy and say we re going to tax those people, because most people are not those people, that s class warfare. warren buffett has been honest and others i know who have haven t fortunate in life and wealthy say, for goodness sake, raise my taxes if that s going to help this economy move forward. brianna keilar is on the phone in washington with more details of the president s plan. depending on your perspective it s class warfare or sharing the burden. reporter: that s right. you re going to hear a lot more of that playing out today after the president unveils his plan in the rose garden at 10:30 a.m. let s look overall as what it is. it would save, according to the white house, $3 trillion over ten years bp twice what this super committee
you re looking at live picture from the united nations. where all eyes right now are on this year s general assembly. president obama and the first lady, michele bachmann, expected to arrive in new york only minutes from now. at issue for the united states and much of the world this week, a showdown over the middle east. the palestinian authority president vowing to submit a formal application for statehood to the united nation s security council. it could have serious implications for the u.s. relationships with iz real and the arab world. much more on this part of the story coming up. let s get to the president s plan it slash trillions of dollars through the national debt. a plan he says will do the right thing. either we ask the wealthiest americanes it pay their fair share of taxes or asking seniors to pay more thor medicare. we can t afford do both. either we gut education and medical research or we ve got to reform the tax code so that most profitable corporations
and we ll go live to paris in a few minutes and talk to cnn s jim bittermann, who watched the entire interview. and now on u.s. soil, investigators in nevada may have found clues that could help them figure out what caused the deadly plane crash at an air race in reno. they recovered parts from the plane s tail and right now the death toll stands at nine. dozens of other people were hurt and today we re hearing more from witnesses. just happened so fast, just split second event so, you know, you think, is this it? am i going to die? dan simon is in reno. dan, tell us what investigators have found so far and how they re piecing together the puzzles of this mystery. reporter: fredricka, first of all, this was to be the final day of the event. there would be thousands of people in attendance behind me, but it is relatively quiet today. a few planes on the tarmac and they ll probably be leaving pretty soon. no doubt the economic loss to reno is in the tens of millions o
officer who was killed says she will never believe davis is innocent. it has been hell because i want like, i would like to have some peace. i would like to have this situation over with. we are the victims. and those people that recanted, why did they wait 17 years before they recanted? they should have done it if they felt that way earlier, not when the final time has come now. a clemency hearing for davis is set for monday. former u.s. senator charles pier percy. he served in the senate for nearly 0 years and became a chairman of the foreign relations committee. he was battling alzheimer s disease. he reportedly died today at a washington, d.c. hospice. he was 91 years old. a teacher strike in tacoma, washington has cancelled school on monday. that will be the fifth day of the walkout. teachers are defying a judge s order to return to the classroom. as a result the teacher s union could face fines. 28,000 school kids in tacoma wait for classes to resume. on the cam
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