0 you are looking now at live footage of the finish line they re painting. they painted last night right near where the attacks were. two weeks and one day ago. we saw them paint it last night. it is usually painted the night the marathon ends but they had to wait until last night for obvious reasons. that s it for the lead today. i m jake tapper. i now leave you in the able hands of mr. wolf blitzer who is currently in the situation room. thanks very much. happening now, investigators discover at least one fingerprint among the bomb debris from the marathon attacks. it doesn t appear to belong to one of the two suspects. plus president obama renews his push to close the prison at guantanamo bay in cuba amid an alarming hunger strike involving more than half of its detainees. could you soon be seeing more nudity and profanity on your tv? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the dramatic potentially revealing new twist in the hunt for clues behind the deadly boston
welcome, everyone! big night last night with american idol. and brian is here. i know. 20 million people about watched last night. and it turns out 136 million votes cast. they say. they say. right. most teenaged girls must be casting the votes because a woman can t win american idol anymore. can t win. yeah, but as we all know, you don t have to win to be a winner because a lot of the ones who don t win it end up being more successful. we have exactly the moment we re talking about and we ll show you it here on this thursday that feels like a friday for us. fire burning on a nuclear powered sub. the situation is holding at this hour at the portsmouth naval shipyard in maine. u.s.s. miami dry docked there. officials say the sub s nuclear reactor was not operating when the fire broke out. keeping an eye on this developing story and bringing you any updates as they come in. first hurricane of the pacific season forming while you were sleeping. here s a
participation rate, the percent of the population over the age of 16 were actively employed to reach it s lowest point since 1981. the president tried to stay positive. after the worst economic cries since the great depression, our business versus now created more than 4.2 million new jobs over the last 26 months. more than 1 million jobs in the last six months alone. [applause] joining me now is noble price winning economist professor at princeton university, new york times columnist and author of the new book end this depression now, paul krugman. he has been proven right time and time again, more than any economist i have ever encountered. i don t know if that s more important than the noble prize to you, sir, but for those of us who consume and read, it s always important to see and hear your thoughts and i wish the president had listened to more of them. to that, nobody imposed upon you. what do you make of today s numbers? how bad are they? it s not terrible.
and bit prevent the united states of america from defaulting on its loans from the first time in history next tuesday. tonight, republicans and democrats are still very far apart on some very important issues. and with days of red tape likely to delay things, once lawmakers do finally agree, time is running out. today, the republicans who control the house and the democrats who control the senate offered separate plans to raise the debt limit. the republican house speaker john boehner unveiling a two-step plan that would cut spending by $1.2 trillion and then have a congressional committee recommend additional cuts, meaning there would be not one but two votes to decrease the debt limit. one now and another next year. that came because of the right wing of his party and in a statement late today, they said it wasn t enough. a coalition of tea party members and other conservatives rejected the republican plan. democrats say they will, too. meanwhile, the democratic senate majo
alaska. and the bear just started going after a bunch of the kids in the group. it got him and knocked him down and bit prevent the united states of america from defaulting on its loans from the first time in history next tuesday. tonight, republicans and democrats are still very far apart on some very important issues. and with days of red tape likely to delay things, once lawmakers do finally agree, time is running out. today, the republicans who control the house and the democrats who control the senate offered separate plans to raise the debt limit. the republican house speaker john boehner unveiling a two-step plan that would cut spending by $1.2 trillion and then have a congressional committee recommend additional cuts, meaning there would be not one but two votes to decrease the debt limit. one now and another next year. that came because of the right wing of his party and in a statement late today, they said it wasn t enough. a coalition of tea party members and oth