i am the luckiest person in the world. my family is safe. now i need to check on my neighbors. michelle s home burned in the steiner ranch community northwest of austin. today we are reminded not all fire victims were lucky and we may not know all the dead. the biggest fire has killed at least two people, and two others, a mother and toddler died elsewhere in the state on sunday. today a 100-member search team from texas task force one plans to fan out southeast of austin where authorities fear not everybody fled when the flames approached. take a look here. this is an interactive map you can link to from the website of the texas forest service. it has burned more than 33,000 acres and is 30% contained. this time yesterday it was zero percent contained. and then another fire torched 75 homes and threatens many more. my colleague is watching the battle, and many don t know whether their homes burned or not and may now be getting some answers? reporter: yeah, authorities
it s got to be stopped and i know better than most. and that s it, the south carolina republican forum hosted by senator jim demint. we want to welcome our viewers. i wolf blitzer in the situation room. donna brazill is with us. let s get immediate reaction to what we heard from the five republican candidates over the past two hours. donna, let me start with you. you re a good democrat. you heard from the five republicans. they re pretty much on most of the issues on the same page. a page being very different than the page that the president of the united states is on. south carolina will hold the first primary in the deep south next february. it s a very important state for the republicans. what you saw today is michelle bachmann, mitt romney, newt gingrich, ron paul, of course, and her main cain present the ideas to jim demint. he s a heavyweight, he s a tea party favorite, and what they were running today for was not president of theite, but president of the tea part
conditions apply. tropical storm lee tearing through the gulf of mexico. this is what it looks like for oil rig workers, look at this, leaning almost 45 degrees into the wind, holding on to a railing for dear life to find out how fast the wind was blowing. on land, lee is a major flood maker. some parts of louisiana have already gotten more than ten inches of rain. that amount could double in some areas. great to see you. i m susan hendricks in for don lemon. you are in the cnn newsroom this labor day weekend. some of you are here on the gulf coast, feeling the impacts of a very slow moving storm named lee as it rolls north towards the tennessee valley. one thing is certain, it will be a soggy holiday across the south and up and down the east coast. the northeast is still reeling from the hurricane aftermath of irene. it is going to feel it, too, in the coming days with lee. if that isn t enough, another hurricane is building strength in the atlantic as well. a lot going on
into the pier. eventually punching a giant hole into the hull. you see guys trying to save it. they are okay. you are in the cnn newsroom this saturday. i m in for don lemon. good to see you. we are following a massive storm stalled off the coast of new orleans. this ireport sent to us by andrew caylee from a suburb of new orleans. doesn t look too bad now. already power has been knocked out to about 30,000 people in louisiana. the governors of louisiana and mississippi have drayeclared sts of emergency for areas, parishes are under mandatory evacuation orders because of the threat of flooding. the mayor of new orleans today warned residents to brace for a long ordeal from this storm. up to 20 inches of rain could overwhelm the area. cnn s ed lavandera has been tracking the impact of the tropical storm all day today. tropical storm lee. he joins us now from waveland, mississippi, east of new orleans. how s it looking? reporter: well, you know, i think a lot of people reme
gulf of mexico. residents of mississippi and louisiana got short notice warnings today. get ready for tropical storm lee to hit this weekend. it may not be as powerful as a hurricane, but it s moving at a crawl, which means new orleans canals and levees will be tested by a prolonged rain. up to 15 inches or more are expected plus a storm surge. we ll get a live update on storm preparations in a few minutes. but first, today s stunner from the labor department, the country saw a net gain of no jobs in august. plus no change in the unemployment rate still 9.1%. it is the worst jobses report in a year. wall street crater, the do you industrial, s & p 500 and nasdaq all lost more than 2% today. president obama didn t even try to put a positive spin on the news. no on-camera statement, not even a written one. we did catch one clims of him today as he left for camp david without even turning to wave good by. with us now, the president s former economic advisor, christina roamer