state of the union address, president obama now is touring three american businesses in wisconsin today. steve centanni is at the white house with details about the road show. that s right, steve. the president follows up on his state of the union address by hitting the road. he ll leave the white house this morning in a few hours, actually, and make three stops in wisconsin. it s all part of a so-called white house to main street tour. he ll tour three factories in wisconsin that the white house says would benefit from the investment in the infrastructure and innovation that the president heralded last night as a way forward for the u.s. economy. obama will also highlight how the companies benefited from the policies enacted during his first two years in office including grants to provide incentives for the production of renewable energy. one company the president will visit, orien energy systems designs energy efficient and renewable energy technology. the president will deliver re
president somewhere in terms of the criticism that you mentioned he s been facing in the last two weeks that s he goes to factories or political events and doesn t do what bilclinton did, i feel your pain. does this achieve that for him? reporter: maybe. he has tried, we should say. the white house to main street tour. he s been trying to get in people s living rooms and backyards. maybe he can do more oft and maybe we ll see more between now and november. they do feel like it s making some headway because we were talking about ohlast ur john boehner seeming to shift a little bit yesterday on cbs s face the nation and go more en line with the president s position. to be sure boehner saying i want to extend all of the bush tax cuts including those for the rich. but when pinned down if it only the middle class tax cu et to be extended i m ready to do that. our producer deidra walls has gotten new information that in private some republicans are frustrated with boehner because
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the white house. they re not calling it a white house to main street tour, but on tuesday president obama heads to youngstown, ohio. he ll tour a steel manufacturing company and then talk jobs and the economy. then on wednesday, mexico s president and first lady will visit the white house for a state dinner. there will be a welcoming ceremony, then president obama and president felipe calderon will hold a joint news conference. i m barbara starr at the pentagon. this week, defense secretary robert gates is expected to meet with a number of wounded and ill troops. he wants to find out firsthand if the army is taking care of its soldiers the way it s supposed to. and commanders in afghanistan will start taking a very close look at progress and whether enough progress is being made. a big week ahead on wall street. lawmakers will continue to debate financial regulatory reform a reform, an increasingly contentious issue. and investors are awaiting earnings reports from walmart,
bp says it s expecting the latest attempt to be the one that does the trick. capping out of all that oil gushing into the gulf of mexico. workers have managed to insert a four-inch tube down to the spill site, capturing some of the leaking oil and pumping it to a ship on the surface of the gulf. after weeks of bad news, they re calling it a positive step forward. we ran the they call it the riser insertion tube tool. and they ran it up night and started to get oil up to the surface into the drill ship. then we had a small problem and the tool came out of the riser, but they got that reinserted this morning and as we speak, there is oil going into the drill ship. so we need to get a bit more time with it to see how effective it can be, but it is working. cnn s david mattingly covering this story from the very beginning. david, is this the real deal or is it spin? what s going on here? reporter: it is the real deal in the sense that they re finally able to siphon some o