pictures, and live pictures now, and he is going to be bringing in a jobs pro to tackle the crisis, and we will have that live from the white house. you are looking at the rose garden there, and we will bring it live when it happens. the president is set to nominate allan krueger to chair the council of economic advisers, and he is a professor at princeton and served as assistant treasury secretary until next year. and stewards of hurricane irene are expected to cleanout to day. it is not what many predicted, but irene did leave a severe scar. the storm took 24 lives and more than 4 million homes lost power, and $10 billion in estimates of cost. talking about hurricane irene, i want the make sure that the folks have the support they need as theys a s.e. s assess a the damages from the storm. that will continue in the days ahead. lit take time it will take time to recover from a storm of this magnitude and the effects are still being felt in the country in new england and
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
hello, everybody. i am randi kaye. we re glad you are with us. we start off with the victims of irene. for those of you who think irene was a dud, well, tell that to the families of the 21 people who died in that storm and the people that lost their homes and the estimated $10 billion price tag is nothing to sneeze at either. irene may not have been as bad as expected in some areas, but worst in others. vermont, much of the state is under water. a short time ago president obama declared a state of emergency making vermont elvauable for disaster relieve. it will take time to recover from the storm of this magnitude. the affects are being felt across much of the country. in new england and states like vermont where there has been an enormous amount of flooding. the responses continues and i want to make sure fema and other agencies are doing everything they can to help people on the ground. check out the video of vermont. it shows the power of irene destroying one of the st
doesn t it. in in case especially so. if you put a list on the screen of of the prosecution evidence and you measure it against the defense theory, which i think the defense theory is far-fetched that she drown in a pool. you could still have a i hate to say this a dead little girl in the trunk and doesn t mean it was the result of first degree murder. i mean, the thing here is, i don t think the prosecution s going to be able to prove the degree, no matter what the smell was, no matter what their evidence is, they can t prove first degree. without that, they don t get the does at that suggest to you, a second degree murder compromise? or, or an acquittal. or an acquittal. or acquittal? or acquittal. doctor, we re going to squeeze in a quick break, a quick programming note. normally at this time on saturdays we are of course, the cost of freedom business block, but due to our coverage of the casey anthony trial, the cost of freedom will be moving to a special time tomor
first suggested large scale foreign aid in 1948 or 47. it s a great idea. it does not work well in these third world dictatorships which is a maze of things for americans to navigate. may be better to have it done through private organizations maybe. all right. when we come back, the the cost of freedom staying all over the situation in libya cause unfortunately, it is getting worse. some saying sudden surge in gas prices here is all the more reason to cut federal gas taxes fast. that is at the top the hour. up next, why the new health care law could be starting a trend of costing more in emergency rooms.