also, infighting within the tea party movement, and a congressman s explosive charges that elements of the movement would like to see him hanging from a tree. and we ll take you inside the archives of moammar gadhafi s brutal regime and uncover secrets that massacre victims took to their graves. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. there is little to celebrate this labor day weekend here in the united states for millions of americans who want to be working, but simply can t find a job. and there s no comfort for them in the government s latest labor report, which shows the economy basically added no jobs in august, leaving the unemployment rate unchanged at a dismal 9.1%. it all puts even more pressure on president obama as he gets ready to unveil his highly anticipated jobs plan later this coming week. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is joining us now with details of
all day heavy rains from tropical storm irene overwhelmed creeks and rivers across new england. quaint main streets became muddy torrens. this is a little village north of new york city in the catskills. just look at the force of this water at woodstock, vermont. those are propane tanks picked up and carried away. nothing can escape the current once it falls in. not even cars. trapped in the raging waters this sedan was batted around like driftwood. fortunately no one was in the vehicle. whoa! get out of here. grab the mic. that s a reporter with wcbs at ashbury park, new jersey. she and the crew thought they were far enough away from the water, but they were wrong. on long island large sand berms to protect the life guard station worked for a while. but in the end the building smashed into the pier. hello. thanks for joining us. i m martin as a savidge. don lemon is off tonight. irene may have lost hurricane status but as a tropical storm it s been just as menacing. it m
who may be in need of damage control after irene? plus graphic new evidence of brutality by moammar gadhafi and his inner circle. this just as we re hearing his wife and several children have now escaped libya. the pressure now growing to make sure gadhafi himself doesn t get away. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. raging water in the northeast so powerful it can sweep away cars and swallow up homes. right now vermont is devastated by the worst flooding in decades. cnn s amber lyon joins us from brattleboro in vermont. set the scene a little bit, amber, for what s going on. what are you seeing? what are you hearing? reporter: well, out here, wolf, had i been standing out here earlier yesterday, i would be completely under water. i want to come here and show you this brook right here, this is pretty much representative of what s across this state. this is wet stone brook, flowing more like a river now. it s about four feet wider than usual and look over her
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tonight about 65 million people from north carolina to new england are in the path of hurricane irene. ten governors declared states of emerge system new york city officials ordered the first mandatory evacuations in city history, but along the jersey shore, drivers can testify trying to get out of harm s way is a slow nerve-racking process. the hurricane isn t waiting. right now, the storm, a category 2 with 100 mile-an-hour sustained winds is heading for the north carolina coast. our coverage starts with john in north carolina. we probably don t need to ask you to set the scene for us. what does it feel like there? reporter: we are getting the winds as you see right now gusting and picking up a little bit. the rain has been constant. periodically heavy and then it lightens up a little bit. the past couple of hours or so here on atlantic beach, a mandatory evacuation, obviously, this is an island. the atlantic ocean is that way. that s actually south the way this beach fac