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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 ov ....
state of illinois. he s been talking to people about the fight for america s future, even as he steps up his own fight for reelection. when i travel through down state illinois, iowa, the midwest, i am absolutely confident about this country. and the reason is because of you. the reason is because of the american people. because as tough of a time as we ve had there s not a country on earth that would not ready change places with us right now. the president told me just yesterday in iowa he knows voters will hold him accountable for the constituent of economy, so he s getting ready to speak to the nation about the unemployment problem and what h he can try to do to make it better. jessica, what are you learning about the president s proposed speech? it will come after labor day when the president will unveil not specifically proposal, but legislative packages that his team says will include new initiatives. now, this is separate from the proposal we have heard he ....
generation of republicans in line. and president obama warns, and i m quoting him now, we are almost out of time, urging all americans to keep the pressure on washington and bring this devastating crisis to an end. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. you re looking at a live picture right now of the house floor, where just a short time from now, we expect to see that critical vote on the gop debt plan. the vote was supposed to happen yesterday around this time, but was abruptly postponed when the house speaker john boehner failed to get the 216 votes it needs for passage. meanwhile, with only days left to solve this unprecedented crisis, wall street is already reeling. stocks posted their worst weekly performance in more than a year while the dow fell about 97 points today. this on the heels of a dismal new economic report out today, showing the country s economic growth has now slowed to a crawl. let s go straight to our congressional correspondent, k ....
you re looking at live pictures right now in the house floor, where just moments from now a vote is scheduled on republican house speaker john boehner s plan to avoid unprecedented default. but the bill which needs 216 votes to pass is facing fierce new backlash inside the party. if it does pass, it immediately goes to the senate for a vote where harry reid essentially says it s dead on arrival. meanwhile, ceos at the biggest banks have their own warnings. fix this now or there will be grave, in their words, consequences for all of us. kate bolduan is standing by live on capitol hill with the latest. that vote getting ready pretty soon, right? reporter: pretty soon. house republican leaders have been working hard all day loin to secure the votes they need to pass. house speaker john boehner s debt ceiling bill. a a sign of how close this vote might actually be. boehner has been holding one-on-one meetings in this lobbying effort, trying to at the very same time, dem ....
this hour, concerns that there are potential targets at risk by cutting homeland security funds. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with deadly new clashes today in syria as security forces try to break up anti-government protests in a number of cities. human rights activists say that at least 34 people were killed. they say to end the crackdown or get out of the way. here is arwa damon. reporter: wolf, when we see the images coming out of syria, the path that the regime continues to take seems pretty clear. they are aiming to clear. a voice yells off camera. this is video said to be from the city of hopes, which has seen many protests in recent weeks. it was posted to youtube. cnn cannot verify its authenticity or when it was shot. but one opposition activist told cnn on friday that the security forces fired straight in crowds of demonstrators and the syrian human rights information link reported a mounting death poll throughout the day. a ....