stephanos. this morning perry s mother, pamela, along with his stepfather and their friend and neighbor nfl legend joe namath spoke with cnn. none of us are giving up hope they re going to find those boys. obviously it s a terrifying experience to be living through. yes. second by second. but i have 100% faith that they will find our boys. terrifying experience, no kidding. joining us wetis petty officer k barney. it s described as searching for a needle in a haystack. where does the search stand right now? yes, ma am. thank you for having me. right now we are searching, our focus area is 50 nautical miles east of jacksonville. it stretches from daytona beach north of jacksonville. it s a huge search area but we have resources available to us
morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. good morning, alina. good morning, everybody. welcome to american morning. it is tuesday october 25th. i m alina cho along with carol costello. ali and christine are off today. up first this morning, presidential politics as texas governor rick perry trying to one-up herman cain s 9-9-9 plan and get back the good graces of gop voters. this morning perry will unveil his economic growth plan that includes a flat tax. cnn deputy political director paul steinhauser joins us from washington with more details. he has this 20% flat tax, but taxpayers is actually opt out if they like their tax rate better? reporter: yeah, and banking on most americans not liking the way they have their taxes right now and hoping for some of that 9-9-9 that boosted herman cain from an afterthought to a front-runner in the gop nomination. yes, basically this morning the texas governor rick perry unvams his plan. cut, balance and gr