malone s is the country s only village post office. the postal service says they expect to save about $42,000 a year here and may turn as many as 3,700 existing locations into village post offices. but with a looming debt of $9 billion, saving the u.s. mail service is going to take more than a village post office. patrick oppman, cnn, malone, washington. the news continues now with randi kaye. this is the bill, says president obama. the question now is whether the american jobs act will ever be turned into law and how fast. as you may have seen live right here on cnn, president today showed off the job creating blueprint he plans to send to congress just hours from now. it is $447 billion worth of tax breaks and new federal spending which the white house says will be more than offset elsewhere in the budget. it would deepen and extent the existing payroll tax cut for employees and employers, it would pump $60 billion into infrastructure projects and $25 billion into schoo
thanks so much. just hours from now, eight presidential candidates will square off in tampa, florida. rick perry the front-runner and also the main target of his fellow republicans. and perry may have made the bull s-eye even bigger by attacking social security, a program considered sacred by millions of older americans. jim accosta is in tampa. and let s begin with word of a new endorsement we re hearing about this morning. reporter: that s right. if mitt romney was looking for a spark to help his campaign, he may have gotten it this morning. former minnesota governor tim pawlenty has announced that he is getting behind the former massachusetts governor. so that is good news for mitt romney. but this debate comes this evening, kyra, as a new cnn/orc poll shows that there is a big lead for rick perry. the race is basically boiling down to rick perry and whoever can keep up. texas governor rick perry has ditched his cowboy boots for his running shoes, staying far ahead of th
hello, everyone. i m fredricka whitfield. breaking news we re covering now. new developments this hour from the conflict in libya. we re working to confirm several reports that one of the sons of toppled leader moammar gadhafi has left libya and may have surfaced in another country. live now from kabul, afghanistan, our senior international correspondent nic robertson. nic, you know that saadi gadhafi may have left. you apparently know him personally, you ve had e-mail exchanges, et cetera. what are you learning about his where abouts? reporter: what we know from the minister of justice and ministerial spokesman as well is that saaad gadhafi has crossed into niger. they say he was allowed into the country for humanitarian reasons. niger is to the south of libya across part of the sahara desert. we do know and i do know from talking to saadi gadhafi last weekend, exactly a week ago today, that he has split essentially with his family, with his father and with his brother. it