good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the president s math doesn t add up. in a rose garden announcement today, president obama called for a one-year extension of the bush tax cuts for families who make up to $250,000. so, for those families who make $250,000 or more, their taxes will go up in january. i believe our prosperity has always come from an economy that s built on a strong and growing middle class. so my message to congress is this, pass a bill extending the tax cuts for the middle class. i will sign it tomorrow. pass it next week, i ll sign it next week. pass it next well, you get the idea. but how much would extending the tax cuts for the family s making under $250,000 help our economy? bear with me if you will. i want to start by showing you something that the president and most democrats and republicans agree on, and that is that letting all the tax cuts expire would hurt the economy. so if we let all the bush tax cuts expire, the r
well. now, we re looking at things driving down to the south weakening somewhat but yet another wind event with thunderstorms with all this heat that we ve built up certainly not helping the situation. all right, rob, thanks very much. keep an eye on things. check in on you periodically. the countdown is on for the big june jobs report that comes out in less than 3 1/2 hours and has, wait, really not just in the u.s. but all over the world and fresh perspective. the big question will we see another month of weak jobs growth? may wasn t so hot. poppy harlow is on jobs duty. what do you think we ll see. another weak month. this is the estimate. analysts surveyed by cnn money expect this economy to have added 95,000 jobs in the month of june, not god at all. to give you perspective what we need to see 300,000, 400,000 jobs. what s interesting is that the unemployment rate hasn t been below 8% since right after the president was inaugurated. another issue we ve seen a lot o
eastern tennessee overnight. reportedly killing two people and injuring dozens more people. the storm s tearing through parts of the great smoky mountains. the park spokesamerican telling wtae that a falling tree killed a woman and another man died when his motorcycle wrecked during the storm and rob mars an mow is going to let us know where they re going. good morning. well, the storms have weakened. around 5:00 they were rolling down the south, the western part of the smoky mountains. if you don t know east of knoxville. a lot of tourists get millions of visitors, as a matter of fact. as you would imagine in the middle of july, a lot of folks camping via tents and rv. that s the danger these storms pose. there was a storm there was a severe thunderstorm watch posted at the time but regardless kind of a couple cells or clusters of cells converging on this area as it drove down to the south. with all the heat that was built up, much like the deraiecho and funny things h
here on eastern side. so unorganized so these are all of the problems with it. because the steering current are so weak, the track is uncertain. this is what we call the spaghetti model. each is representing a different computer model and where they think the track of debby will go. you can see the nature, some saying north, east and this is national hurricane center official track of where they think it will go today, farther to the north, slow, not expectational to get there thursday or any. with that, this is what it will be. the calling card will be flooding rain. you can see the potential for 12 to 24 inches. some records already 7 to 10 inches in tampa. thanks for the update, we ll keep watching that. let s get to a cnn exclusive, james clapper is expected to roll out new measures aimed at stopping government officials from blabbing. first it was the operation that killed osama bin laden then a presidential terror hit list and details about a drone program. there was
so it is hard to even warn them. we had myriad tornado warnings yesterday in florida. every little one that spins up because they re so quick you heard her say it, it came out of nowhere. that s one thing to be mindful of in south-southwestern florida and northern florida. that was video from sarasota, clearwater, flooding. major flooding with this thing. here is a couple of reasons why. it is large and expansive. also very slow moving. been stationary all through the night, maybe moving 3 miles per hour. stationary now and not a lot of movement in the next couple of days we re talking about. so soaking northwest florida and now the axis of interest getting into southeast georgia. the track with this has been so uncertain, continues to be uncertain. the reason is, the steering currents are very weak. there s not one steering current taking it west or one taking it east. this is what we call the spaghetti models. you see each different color, a different computer model, look