defended a controversial $535 million government loan to a california solar panel company that eventually went belly up. the solyndra drama continues. reporter: continues, and will for some time. the president when asked about that, jonathan silver, the man who has been heading up the loan program, which, of course, is the controversial part of this program, because of a guaranteed loan that was given to that solar panel company that president obama visited, and that went belly up in august, that s really what all of this stems around. well, he has resigned, and to listen to the department of energy we re hearing from secretary steven chu, he s saying jonathan silver, the man who testified before congress about this controversy recently. he was already leaving, had been told in july before news broke of solyndra filing for bankruptcy that he would be going into the private sector. so you re hearing from sort of the executive branch this was already going to happen, but you
from president obama tonight, the world has lost a visionary and there may be no greater tribute to steve s success that most of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. michelle and i send thoughts and prayers to his wife lauren, his family and all who loved him. from bill gates, the world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact steve has had. the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. for those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it s been an insanely great honor. i will miss steve immensely. the tributes are pouring in on twitter as well, so many the service has been jammed on and off throughout the evening. throughout the hour tonight we ll be talking to a lot of people who can fill in the picture of what steve jobs would likely have called an insanely great life. but we begin tonight with the one person who was there at the very beginning, steve jobs partner in the creation of apple computer, steve wozniak. he jo
jobs. and it is now cheaper to buy a home than ever before. time to play reporter roulette on this thursday. dan lothian, let s begin with you there at the white house. dan, we listen to the president this morning answering many questions and not only did he take on republicans, he s taking on, again, millionaires. reporter: that s right. what we are talking about here is that surtax to pay for the president s jobs bill which senate democrats are pushing 5.6% on those making over a million dollars. we did not see or hear a full-throated endorsement of this from the president. in fact, though, what he said was that he was comfortable in that he thought that this approach from senate democrats was fine. the president supporting this as a means of paying for this jobs bill which, of course, that s been the big issue. how to pay for all of this. president obama, though will congress do something? if congress does something, then i can t run against a do-nothing congress.
who will fill the shoes and be the product visionary. steve jobs could understand what consumers want before they wanted all these products. who will step in and be able to sort of create the next iphone or the next ipad? that s the own question here. i don t think anybody can answer that, kyra. i think a lot of people are asking that question. i understand there are some special services for employees today. we don t know when they re going to occur, what we know is that when steve jobs died ceo tim cook put out a statement and said at some point there will be a celebration of steve jobs life for apple employees who can attend. we know that, of course, steve jobs was a very private person, despite his public percsona. funeral details were not released to the public and we re not aware of any planned services for his friends or for his family. i m sure those details will eventually come out and, also, kyra, it s believed that really is only his true inner circle was awar
behind closed doors. i remember well one time when i was very little and i was fighting with my brother every other minute and my mother put us in a back room and said don t come out until you got it figured out, we stares at each other for a while but came out friends. thanks, senator, murray for confirming congress is just a bunch of feuding children. to me that s proof they don t get it. tonight s number, it will warm your heart. military widow who lost her navy s.e.a.l. in combat weeks ago lost his treasured keepsake but there s help flooding in from new friends. first, tonight s breaking news and other stories you need to know right now. breaking right now in new york, take a look. huge crowd gathering in new york city protesting against the big banks. washington gridlock and the state of the u.s. economy. these occupy wall street protests started several weeks ago. but as of today they re getting big union support, and going national. looking right now at what c