from the cnn center in atlanta, georgia, this is your cnn sunday morning for october 9. 6:00 a.m. in atlanta. i m t.j. holmes. as always, we want to say a special good morning to our service men and women watching us right now, the american forces network. thank you for being here, and thank you for what you do. let s talk about the president first and the jobs bill. this is going to be an important week. in just a couple of days, the president s jobs bill will get an important test. the senate is expected to vote on his $447 billion package. the congressional budget office says the plan s tax on millionaires would raise an estimated $453 billion. still, republican leaders, they don t like that tax. the president this weekend, we heard from him. he s pushing ahead anyway. some see this as class warfare. i see it as a simple choice. we can either keep taxes exactly as they are for millionaires and approximatelynair and billionaires, or we can ask them to pay at least the
he continues on the offensive. is there any indication that the regime is feeling enough heat to stop? there isn t. one of the challenges for coalition is it s a city, a built-up, open environment. gadhafi s forces as west we understand are sort of as they were not far from tripoli. in amongst the buildings there, it is difficult for coalition to tell where one side where the government side finishes and the opposition side begins because often we ve seen in the past the tanks of the government roll straight through the neighborhoods where the opposition live. it s very tough to intervene and sort of stop the fighting there. john? and you were taken out today by the government to be shown a facility where there was clearly some damage inflicted by coalition strikes. so the gadhafi regime wants you to see the damage. why are they taking you out there? but again no signs of saying, hey, we re suffering a blow and