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movie there. we head home and by that time it s on every tv screen and just at trite as it sounds, a stage you ll nerver fert. fegt. forget. you can see john s work on sportsillustrated.com. i m don lemon, live for the cnn debate happening monday. we begin with a report for moammar gadhafi, crumbled empire in libya, his son, we re told, saadi, a former playboy fled to niger. we ll be joined now by cnn s ben we dman with the latest on that. ben what can you tell us? reporter: yes, don. we know from the justice minister of niger, saadi, the third son of moammar gadhafi, 37 years old, traveled into that country with eight other so-called minor libyan officials. they were granted refuge there on a humanitarian basis. so saadi is not really the big fish that libyan officials are hoping to catch. they re most interested in saif islam the other brother and the man they call the big fish, moammar gadhafi. don? cnn s ben wedeman. thank you, ben. moving on to talk a ....
newsroom. i m don lemon in tampa, florida, tonight where preparations are under way for monday s cnn tea party republican debate. we begin though with the tenth anniversary of 9/11. security is extra high tonight as final preparations are made for sunday s dedication of the 9/11 memorial site at ground zero. a massive police presence rolled into lower manhattan just a short time ago as part of a security sweep. a hunt is on right now for three stolen trucks, including two that belonged to a company that worked at ground zero. we will take you live to the site in a few minutes, but first leroy homer. earlier today the 40 people who died board united airlines flight 939 were remembered at a ceremony in shanksville, pennsylvania. george bush who was president when the 9/11 attacks happened and former president bill clinton were among the dignitaries to speak at today s dedication. the site features a long marble wall with the names of the flight 93 passengers and cr ....
and at 4:00 eastern time, at the movies, we re getting the grade on contagion. president obama calls his plan a jolt, not a stimulus. but it is. still, the big question remains, will it work? i m christine romans. welcome to your your money. the american jobs act includes payroll tax cuts for 98% of businesses, a tax credit for hiring unemployed veterans, modernization of 35,000 public schools, a tax credit for hiring the long-term unemployed and a provision to help refinance mortgages at very low interest rates. stephen moore is an editorial writer with the wall street journal. mark zandi says this plan, if it was enacted in its entirety could create almost 2 million jobs. let me guess, you re skeptical? i am. i m friends with mark and have known him for a long time. but he s been wrong on his projections on jobs. an amazing statistic, i just looked up these numbers. we have 1 million fewer jobs today than we did in february of y when we created the $800 bill ....
rick perry and mitt romney taking off the gloves and turning up the volume. the gop heavy weights going toe to toe in the republican debate. sparring over social security and who is better qualified to create jobs. jim a costas live in los angeles. the sparks were were flying between romney and rick perry. yes, they certainly were. you can say that for sure. last nitric perot o owe rick perry showed he can hit back. rick perry and mitt romney stood side by side last night. first on the question of which governor created more jobs. michael dukakis created jobs faster than you did. george bush and his predecessor created jobs more than you did, governor. a newly aggressive john huntsman. i hate to rain on the parade of the lonestar governor, but we were the number one job creator. it switched to the healthcare plan and the mandate requiring residents to have medical insurance. what some republicans call owe bottom any care. an individual mandate in this cou ....
this american morning. good morning. zogood morning alina. it s early. it is early. not so early for you. always great to have you here. carol is off, christine is off. that s right. we ve got you back, which is fantastic. we ve got a really serious situation going on in texas. it s it seems to be getting worse although in some parts getting a little more control over it. these raging wildfires we re telling you about sweeping across the country right now. the governor rick perry is describing the disaster as, quote, a monstrous storm of smoke and flames. the flames are sending thousands of people running for their lives, showing no mercy. it s killed four people. hundreds of firefighters are on the frontlines dousing some of the fires, new ones, they re starting new ones hoping to get rid of the bone dry bub brush that goes up in an instant. this is what s left of a ranch in austin, texas. a pile of twisted metal and ash. the texas forest serv ....