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to hit this weekend. it may not be as powerful as a hurricane, but it s moving as a crawl which means new orleans canals and levees will be tested by a prolonged rain, up to 15 inches or more are expected, plus a storm surge. we ll get a live update. but first today s stunner from the labor department. the country saw a net gain of no jobs in august. plus no change in the unemployment rate, still 9.1%. it is the worst jobs report in a year. wall street cratered, the dow industrials, s&p and nasdaq all lost more than 2% today. president obama didn t even try to put a positive spin on the news. no on camera statement, not even a written one. we did catch one glimpse of him today as he left for cam david without even turning to wave good-bye. with us now, the president s former economic adviser, christina romer, she s now an economics professor at the university of california. proofgs or, thank you for being here. let me ask you first off whether you saw any good news inside thi
newsroom starts with the handsome t.j. holmes. i hope erin burnett knows she is getting a great bartender there. kelly takes this seriously and made great drinks for you when i was up there with you guys a couple of weeks. you all do your 9:00 thing. i know exactly where y all are going there in the time warner center. good to see you all! thanks so much, guys. all right. top of the hour here now. i am t.j. holmes today in for kyra phillips. this hour, unfortunately, we have to begin with the latest bad sign that this economy in this country is stalled. you ve been hearing about it for some time now and we have more information that confirms it. just minutes ago we learned that there were no jobs created last month. the new jobs report came out so this means that the unemployment rate holding steady at 9.1%. this is another sobering development that underscores the deepening concerns about this economy and concerns you re hearing a lot about a double dip recession. let
where a manhunt by nato forces, muammar gadhafi keeps surfacing and taunting the world. earlier today nato bombed the barracks in baun knee wall lead where some reports say gadhafi may be hiding. if he is they didn t get him. a few hours later, gadhafi or presumably his voice turned up on a sympathetic tv network, al rae. translator: give up ourselves to them? we re not stupid. we are not cowards. the libyan people are brave. a few hours ago, the voice was back, this time gadhafi called on his followers to start an insurgency like the one that nearly destroyed iraq after the fall of saddam hussein. translator: we will fight against you, wherever you are. we will sacrifice our lives so that the son of libya will become and the stones of libya will become fire and fight against you. you will never have peace of mind inside our land. cnn s senior international correspondent nic robertson is with us tonight in tripoli. nick, is anybody listening to these tapes? reporter
if spoke on thursday telling people to rise up and attack. the nation s capital has been moved from tripoli to gadhafi s place. the challenges that lie ahead. over 70 countries recognize them as libya s interim leaders. japan s new prime minister is said to hold his first news conference in just a few minutes. he previously served as finance minister. par lament elected him on tuesday, making him the country s sixth new leader in five years. in istanbol, some of the worst protest violence in turkey in years. scores of young kurdish threw stones ant petro bombs at security forces as they fired tear gas to try to break up the grounds. they organized it to mark world peace day and it did start out peacefully, but some kurds are bitter over the turkish/kurdish rebels on the diopside of the border. those are the world news headlines. i m max foster. world business today starts right now. good morning. from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. and a very good afternoon from c