All swear clouds gathered without burkes outbreaks of rain. The full forecast coming up here on breakfast. Its saturday the 30th of september. Our main story. A teenage girl who died after a School Bus Crashed on the motorway in merseyside has been named as 15 year old Jessica Baker. She was killed along with the coach driver in the collision on the m53 at morning rush hour yesterday. Several other children were injured. Our correspondent Helena Wilkinson has the latest. This is a 15 year old Jessica Baker, one of S Schoolchildren on the bus skilled in the crash. The driver who has been named online as Stephen Shrimpton also died. More than 50 children were on their way to school when their journey children were on their way to school when theirjourney ended in tragedy. This is the aftermath of the crash on the m53 On Merseyside. The coach overturned. It happened just after eight 0clock yesterday morning. A Major Incident was declared. Police, ambulance and fire crews were quickly sen
And tomorrow s going to be looking at american troops heading outside the wire of their forward operating bases. an assignment fraught with danger, but an essential part of u.s. strategy. he s going to give us a taste of what that is like tomorrow on american morning. president obama has a packed schedule and a full plate this week. he s about to start a cross-country trip. and at every stop, voting americans will be waiting for an explanation on one thing. what s happening with the economy. a live report from ed henry just ahead. also, the real fireworks from senator john mccain s debate last night. took place outside arizona. and we have the video straight ahead from the cnnpolitics.com desk.
Anger and about politics heading into the elections. look at what happened several hours ago in arizona where john mccain was facing off in a general election debate with the democrat nominee out there. well, there was some heated arguments outside as john mccain was leaving. and in fact, a protesters a protester tried to get in his face. and we re told by the campaign you see a police officer there get in the way and push her out of the way. the protester is sawing john mccain has got to go. she goes on to say, this is how peace activists get treated and the warmonger john mccain gets to walk out. clearly a lot of passion in the midterm elections. wow, that was interesting to watch. my second home is on cape cod? wow. you re not going to generate any sympathy with that. excuse me, excuse me. let me just say that there s a lot of misinformation about cape cod. blue collar cape cod and then there s the island. that s right. just like all of long island
Duty. and getting to a forward-operating base in afghanistan was half the battle. jason carroll with the latest installment with our series a soldier s story. you got a chance to see firsthand what it s like to be out there in such a remote and dangerous part of the country. right. and it really seemed to take forever to get there. it was a little frustrating on our part. some on the part of the soldiers, as well. i think there are a number of civilians out there who might assume that when a soldier s deployed, their unit goes straight from the united states to the assignment overseas. but it can be a drawn out process, one that begins with good-bye. reporter: it s sergeant first class randy shorder s last night at home. this is the last time in the states. reporter: but his daughters aren t ready to say good-bye before dad leaves on his third deployment to afghanistan. i know it s really difficult
It s clear he does not have the votes. whence you listen to people like senator joe liberman on cnn s state of the union with candy crowley. basically saying that he and other centrist democrats are not on board with only extending middle class tax cuts. they want to also at least temporarily extend tax cuts for the rich. i think that, you know, it s easy enough to say that people who make a lot of money don t deserve a tax cut now, but the truth is, if you have more money, you spend more money, you invest more money, that s what we need to happen now to grow jobs in our economy. now, you ll remember how the president was trying to frame this a couple of weeks ago at a white house news conference. he was trying to frame the whole debate as republicans trying to hold those middle class tax cuts hostage, when, in fact, now he s got an independent democrat like joe liberman who essentially are holding this upright now because they also want to at least temporarily extend the tax cuts