headwinds the european debt crisis, japan, high gas prices from the arab spring and what a lot of folks are worried about is that the recovery that we have been on is stalling or not moving as quickly as it needs to. reporter: to you think we re in danger of another recession? i don t think we re in danger of another recession, but we are in danger of not having a recovery that s fast enough to deal with what is a genuine unemployment crisis for a whole lot of folks out there and that s why we need to be doing more. reporter: the concern last week and the week before was that the market was saying we were closer to it than we thought, and that in fact the markets themselves might cause consumers to pull back and tip us into a recession. what is absolutely true is confidence matters. we should not have any any kind of brinksmanship around the debt sealing. i wish the speaker had taken me up on the grand bargain to deal with our long-term debt and deficit. we still ha
this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening. a lot of economists say that with chronic unemployment, wild giationing in the stock market, and americans cutting back on spending, the oddsave session recession are growing. today, at the end of his midwest bus tour, we asked president obama which way he thinks the economy is headed? senior business correspondent anthony mason is in illinois where he sat down with mr. obama this afternoon for the cbs news program sunday morning. anthony. reporter: scott, the president said he was happy to be out of washington and he looked it. he insisted that he s on a listening tour, not on a campaign swing. but in the three-day bus trip across minnesota, iowa, and illinois three states he carried in the last election the president has been given an ear full about the economy. i asked him today about the recent violent swings in the stock market and what message he thinks the markets are sending. what i thin
swells to record levels. entire towns are already submerged. and it s only going to get worse, in what s being called a slow-motion disaster. and look at this. the duchess of cambridge, kate middleton, doing her own grocery shopping. is this the new face of the royals? that kate middleton just can t get it wrong. she looks beautiful in a wedding dress. equally beautiful in jeanses. grocery shopping. were you grocery story shopping after your wedding? i might let someone else buy my groceries. there is nothing in the cart. we assume this was taken on her way into the store. prince charles, by contrast, he lets someone put the toothpaste on his toothbrush before she he starts rushing his teeth. look at this video. these are rescuers working around the clock trying to save a dozen beached pilot whales. they became stranded friday afternoon. but 13 have already died. we ll have the live report from florida. it s incredible. you can see in the pictures, literally hol
submerged. and it s only going to get worse, in what s being called a slow-motion disaster. and just like us. look at these pictures. the new duchess of cambridge, kate middleton, just a week after her fairy tale wedding, doing her own grocery shopping. is this the new face of the royals? that kate middleton just can t get it wrong. she looks beautiful in a wedding dress. equally beautiful in jeans. look at her. grocery shopping. were you grocery shopping the week after your wedding? i might let someone else buy my groceries. there is nothing in the cart. we assume this was taken on her way into the store. prince charles, by the way, by contrast, he lets someone put the toothpaste on his toothbrush before he starts brushing his teeth. that was one of the most startling of details that came out in the coverage of the wedding. i never knew that. and there s a desperate rescue going on this morning off the coast of florida. look at this video. these are rescuers wo
united states, if they want to receive money which is approved by congress, they better change their attitude very quickly because regardless of what they think of the united states or osama bin laden, it s a simple issue of money. congress will not approve the money that they depend on, not just their military, their economy, so they re going to have to make a very important decision here about literally whether they re with us or against us. evan, real quickly because we have to bust out of here, but you just put in a hot note about the medications that were recovered, nothing that indicates that he had any type of kidney failure or was on dialysis. no kidney medication, nothing like that, though a lot of medications relating to stomach ulcers and problems. apparently beingle head of al qaeda is more stressful than maybe we give him credit for. i don t see tums on your list, some more strongly noted things here. thank you. appreciate it. thank you. we have new developments