their word, their stories, america s hope. this is a special edition of piers morgan tonight. good evening. big story tonight, london 2012. it s hard to believe we re fewer than 50 days away from the oimp licks. for america the best athletes will be hoping to take home the gold. the nationals are taking place this very weekend. the last great contest before the games themselves. i ve talked with the star in just a moment. but first let s get to preparations under way back in london. days after the jubilee, the city is working around the clock to get ready. let s start with richard quest, who is at the heart of things. richard? piers, barely have we got over the excitement of the jubilee and finely dried out, and now get ready for the olympics in 49 days time. 10,500 athletes from more than 200 countries will be arriving in the british capital. the olympic torch is north of the border in scotland, making its way around. and when all is said, the britains will have spent
we want to kel come our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer you re in the situation room . ment obama sounding an urgent note about the u.s. economy and the new risks it faces from europe s growing cries. he warns that so-called head winds from europe can setback the recover in the united states. he says the u.s. businesses are improving and creating jobs but he s pressing congress to take action on the public sector. the big challenge we have in our economy right now is state and local government hiring has been going in the wrong direction. you ve seen teacher layoffs, police officers, cops, firefighters being laid off. the other sector that s still weak has been the construction industry. those two areas we ve directly addressed with our jobs plan. the problem is that it requires congress to take action and we re going to keep pushing them to see if they can move in that direction. the truth of the matter is as i said we ve created 4.3 mi
states. hello, alip looking at seven battleground states and how the rate compares today with when he took office. nevada and florida, unemployment rate is higher than the national average. nevada and colorado the rate is above what it was when president obama stepped into the white house. rest of the battleground states it s interesting. the jobs marks are improving. they had been improving since when the president president went into office, still improving, iowa, new hampshire, low unemployment levels. 5% in iowa. new hampshire, 5%. virginia, 5.6%. in ohio, with 18 electoral votes, much more than iowa and virginia combined, you ve seen a significant drop in the unemployment rate from 8.6% to 7.4% over the year. they went from 48th in the nation to higher than that. it s an interesting story, ohio, big auto manufacturing, big manufacturing base, and this is one of those places where mitt romney had said, don t have that auto bailout. my feeling is nobody wins without
chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is joining us now with the breaking news. so the administration has been feeling clearly bipartisan pressure for several days now on these leaks. what do we know? look, it s a time tested washington strategy leak unpleasant news on a friday night and hope the media is out drinking and too busy to pay attention. the president, joking a little bit, the president also was under a lot of pressure after his answers at a press conference today when he didn t definitively say whether or not the administration was investigating these leaks. here s the president. what i m saying is we consistently whenever there is classified information that is put out into the public, we try to find out where that came from. all right? okay. thank you very much, everybody. thank you. now anderson, the president some on the hill have accused the white house of deliberately leaking the information to make the president look like a strong command
jessica yellin is joining us now with the breaking news. so the administration has been feeling clearly bipartisan pressure for several days now on these leaks. what do we know? look, it s a time tested washington strategy leak unpleasant news on a friday night and hope the media is out drinking and too busy to pay attention. the president, joking a little bit, the president also was under a lot of pressure after his answers at a press conference today when he didn t definitively say whether or not the administration was investigating these leaks. here s the president. what i m saying is we consistently whenever there is classified information that is put out into the public, we try to find out where that came from. all right? okay. thank you very much, everybody. thank you. now anderson, the president some on the hill have accused the white house of deliberately leaking the information to make the president look like a strong commander in chief in an election year.