Jobs. And jobs is one of the primary reasons im standing here today as your president. And i will never, ever disappoint you. Believe me. I will not disappoint you. I campaigned in the promise that i will do everything in my power to bring those jobs back into america. We wanted to make much easier, it has to be much easy to manufacture in our country and much harder to leave. I dont Want Companies leaving our country. Making their product, selling it back, no tax, no nothing, firing everybody in our country. Were not letting that happen anymore, folks. Believe me. There will be a very substantial penalty to be paid when they fire their people and move to another country. Make the product and think they will sell it back over what will soon be a very, very strong border. It will be a lot different. Its going to be a lot different. Youve heard me say it before, and i will say it again. From now on, its going to be America First. While the president is applauding boeing for keeping jobs
10-month-old child, the youngest of the children. 25 children died on the flight. other parents left their children in the care of relatives here. now there are quite a number of orphans in st. petersburg because of the tragedy of the flight. a lot of people we have seen stop by to put flowers down and are in tears. questioning looks about how this could happen. the realization for so many people this could easily have happened to them. the most painful part of today will be for those families who are now beginning to identify their loved ones. alison. nick roberts robertson, live petersburg. thank you. the republicans are trying to gain control from the rnc and the networks. a meeting last night
reporter: open floodgates, thousands hit by floodwaters so new orleans stays dry. the alternative, city officials say, would have been worse than katrina. water is pouring through 15 of 125 floodgates at morganza, louisiana right now, a quarter of the gates will eventually be opened. downstream, water from the spillway is already overrunning some homes. as many as 25,000 could go under water in the next few weeks. president obama is welcoming jordan king abdallah to the white house. the conversation is expected to center on the arab uprising. so thursday, the president is expected to layout detailed u.s. viewpoints and a vision on events that are reshaping the middle east. lawyers for imf chief dominique strauss-kahn says their client has an alibi. lunch with another person at the same time that police say he was attacking a hotel housekeeper. lawyers say his launch part they are will come forward to vouch for his whereabouts. strauss-kahn is jailed at new york s rike