researchers believe you may be doing yourself more harm than good. it is tuesday, october 11th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol costello joining you live from new york. president obama s $447 billion jobs bill faces its first vote in the senate later today. in a warning to republican critics, the president s senior campaign strategist says that voting against the measure could cost them the election. next year in a member row release the by the obama campaign david axelrod wrote the more people know about the american jobs act, the more they want congress to pass the plan. axelrod also takes aim at critics of the bill s millionaires tax quoting while republicans claim it is class warfare, the american people are seeing right through their opposition to asking the wealthiest to do their part. some democrats have doubts and while they control the senate there is no guarantee the bill will get the 60 votes needed to clear tonight s procedural hurdle. the occupy
that answer may why people say they can do this at home. if it goes out of hand, it goes away quickly. the problem, there s nobody there to resuscitate you and nobody could bring you back. that was pretty quick. you gave some of the medication. he s gone from being completely awake to asleep. he s not breathing. i m breathing for him. murray could face four years in prison if found guilty. let s look at the world market. things looking better in asia. all the major markets have made gains this morning. european markets have gotten off to a decent start. u.s. futures are also looking positive. confidence and plans for resolving debt crisis pushed u.s. stocks higher yesterday much the dow surged 272 point or 2.5%. the s&p 500 added 27 points and the nasdaq rose 33. protesters will be back on wall street again today for an 11th straight day. they claimed the big financial firms are greedy, corrupt and have hijacked democracy. michael moore, the filmmaker, spoke to the pr
it is september 14th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol costello joining you live this morning from new york. thanks for waking up with us. nearly one in six americans are now living in poverty. that s according to a new report from the census bureau. it s a gut check on where we stand in the wake of the recession. here are the raw numbers from the government. 46.2 million lived in poverty in 2010. that s over 15% of the population, the highest level since 1993. for a family of four, the poverty line is just over $22,000 a year. some advocates for the poor say that bar is way too low, but the conservative heritage foundation is pushing back again. if you qualify as being in poverty today, then you re really in deep poverty because that number is so low. that s based on an outdated formula from the 60s. i think that these numbers are designed to exaggerate the extent of poverty in the united states in order to build a larger welfare state, and it does make it mo
good morning. i m ali velshi joining us live from new york. let s start with the fast and furious wildfires wrecking land and property in texas. they ve killed four people and destroyed more than 700 homes in the past few days. the biggest fire is just outside austin. firefighters have been struggling to contain it. let s go right to cnn s chris welch. what s the latest? reporter: well, you just mentioned four death so is far at this point associated with these fires. two of those came from here in bass rtrop county. we assume they occurred yesterday. we don t know for sure because officials aren t providing more details. what we do know is this morning search crews will finally be going in for the first time over the past three days, look for anymore fatalities, look for any bodies. they hope obviously that they don t find anymore, but these fires have been very massive. we re talking these fires are 30% contained. that honestly is a big step from what we ve seen in the la
the shanghai composite all down this morning. the major european markets are in the red as well. u.s. futures are down too. the world is waiting to hear the results of the monthly u.s. jobs reports. that comes out at 8:30 a.m. eastern. on the weather front, just a few days after irene, the weather radar is getting another big workout. a tropical depression is running loose in the gulf of mexico, and it s heading for the gulf coast, packing lots of rain and lots of wind. cnn s jennifer delgado is keeping watch for us. jennifer, this thing popped up pretty fast, didn t it? yeah. you know, we ve been watching this, really, for the last two days. you re right it did develop quickly. it is still a tropical depression, but we do have tropical warnings in place from pascagoula, mississippi, all the way toward sabine, texas. you re looking at satellite imagery. the winds sustained at 35 miles per hour with gusts up to 45. working into parts of southern louisiana as well as into a