a leading congressman says we decades if not centuries of should pay for it but only with protocol in what republicans spending cuts in unrelated call an effort to run up the programs elsewhere. even though during another big gop. disaster, he wanted relief money in case you were wondering what all the gamesmanship and game for his own district with no strings attached. playing and petty politics is we re keeping them honest tonight. about, jobs, not politics, jobs. also in a moment, we ll take you new numbers tonight showing the live to a town that s still private sector created fewer under water and you ll hear from than 100,000 jobs this month. a man who has been stranded by hurricane irene and he says forgotten by fema. rising waters leaving him surrounded. president obama requested a time roads are gone. to speak to congress wednesday nearby houses gone as well. power is out. supplies are still limited. night to lay out his new jobs he says he hasn t seen a government o
plane headed into this thing. they are calling it a tropical disturbance for now just to see if it s serious enough to name it a tropical storm possibly in the next couple of hours. keep in mind we re also learning major oil companies are not taking any chances with this disturbance. evacuations have begun just in case and the mayor of new orleans, mitch landrieu, he ll be holding a news conference as they are all watching this disturbance as well heading precariously closely to their government line. we ll keep an eye on all of it and let s move on to some other news. moammar gadhafi, a la saddam hussein, is threatening to plunge his country into a drawn out civil war, but did you know it is 42 years to the day since a much younger gadhafi seized control of libya in a military coup. now presumably on the run but apparently still alive, gadhafi is extorting supporters exhorting excuse me, exhorting supporters to fight to the death. here s his message. this was aired today
hurricane irene and he says forgotten by fema. rising waters leaving him surrounded. roads are gone. nearby houses gone as well. power is out. supplies are still limited. he says he hasn t seen a government official or fema worker and only local sheriffs trying to deal with the problem. he joins us shortly by phone. breaking news tonight, late word that president obama will hit hard hit patterson new jersey over the weekend. flood warnings in effect for the area up and down the east coast in fact days after rain from hurricane irene first began falling. susan candiotti is in the middle of it in little falls, new jersey. parts of little falls have been evacuated. what s the latest on the flooding there? reporter: just to give you a sense of where i am standing on the ledge of one of those vacuum cleaners at a car wash now dipping into the water so you can see how high the water is. putting this piece of paper in there to show you how fast the current is flowing. it s cold he
though, who want his job. plus, the tea party movement dealing with new divisions while stirring up red hot anger among liberals in congress. why some democrats see the tea party as their worst enemies. and a state of alert as the nation prepares to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11. we re digging for information on the fbi s latest concerns and whether americans should be worried. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we now know that president obama wants to deliver his big speech on jobs next wednesday night before a joint session of the house and senate. with millions of americans out of work, this address will be a make-or-break moment for the president and for his campaign to keep his job for another four years. let s bring in our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. jessica, this speech, though, may not happen wednesday night as the white house wants. what s going on? reporter: that s right, wolf. even before the speech, there s already
moammar gadhafi and members of his family. several hours ago, a senior rebel commander told cnn that one of his sons, khamis gadhafi died sunday night in a battle in northwest libya. also today, algeria revealed it had allowed gadhafi s wife and daughter and two of his grown sons and some of his grandchildren to enter the country for what they call humanitarian reasons. nic robertson is in tripoli now. can you update us on the latest on this humanitarian so-called giving of them refuge in algeria? reporter: you know, one of the interesting things is that algeria still recognizes moammar gadhafi as the leader of libya. they haven t yet recognized the transition council, the rebels, as traditional rulers now. so what happened in the early hours of the day is that moammar gadhafi s wife, daughter, two sons, showed up at the border and crossed over into algeria. they said they re taking them in on humanitarian grounds. the national transitional council say they want them back,