headquarters. aretha franklin is playing behind me, but the president wants to talk about jobs. what his aides say he ll do here is challenge democrats and republicans on capitol hill to get behind his new economic plan. as you suggested, the new details we have so far suggest this is not necessarily a completely new plan the president s been talking about extending the payroll tax cuts, for example. that s been around. talking about more infrastructure spending. he s tried that before, so we re still waiting for him to lay out much more specific details thursday to see if there really is anything new. here in michigan, obviously, it s been very hard hit in large part because of the auto industry. the white house, clearly, picked the gm headquarters to talk a little bit about the auto bailouts which they believe saved thousands of jobs. and the unemployment rate in this state has dropped. two summers ago it was over 14%. now it s 10.9%. but, obviously, still far worse than th
and good morning, everyone. and, boy, the tension is rising on capitol hill. behind closed doors, the house speaker john boehner browbeating his tea party troops. big vote on his plan today but, robin, that doesn t mean this crisis is any closer than being solved. hat doesn t mean this far from it. plus, a remarkable story of survival after a trip to a family reunion went terribly wrong, how one man hung on for help, used his socks to save his life. treaded water for 17 hours, unbelievable. also, alex trebek, what a strange story. now he is a crime fighter. a burglar broke into his hotel room. he decided to take her on. he hurt himself in the process. getting to the bottom of that story coming up. right to the tropical storm taking aim at the gulf coast. sam is back with us in the studio and has been tracking the latest on don. good morning, sam. good morning, robin, good morning, george. let s get to don and put it right in the circle of suspicion because last night
and good morning, everyone. and, boy, the tension is rising on capitol hill. behind closed doors, the house speaker john boehner browbeating his tea party troops. big vote on his plan today but, robin, that doesn t mean this crisis is any closer than being solved. far from it. plus, a remarkable story of survival after a trip to a family reunion went terribly wrong, how one man hung on for help, used his socks to save his life. treaded water for 17 hours, unbelievable. also, alex trebek, what a strange story. now he is a crime fighter. a burglar broke into his hotel room. he decided to take her on. he hurt himself in the process. getting to the bottom of that story coming up. right to the tropical storm taking aim at the gulf coast. sam is back with us in the studio and has been tracking the latest on don. good morning, sam. good morning, robin, good morning, george. let s get to don and put it right in the circle of suspicion because last night, see, wait, wait, wa