race less than a week until the florida primary and it s a virtual dead heat between mitt and newt. absentee voters may make the difference. a navy s.e.a.l. rescuing american from pirates. it s real life. it s real life. we go there tonight. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good evening. tonight, the super rich surtax. okay, i keep stumbling on that one. but president obama today went on the road to press a theme from his state of the union address telling millionaires they need to pay up. if you make more than a million dollars a year you should pay a tax rate of at least 30%. all right, the president s proposal would affect about 240,000 tax filers across the country. an expert tells us it would effectively raise the top margin rate about 44% for millionaires. now, that s the highest it s been since the middle of this guy s administration when he was cutting taxes. now, putting aside the debate over whether it s fair, here s the math. tacking this group would bring
we are watching that. chris for news new orleans. chris, thank you. another side of this story here. tragic side. listen to this. friends of a charter boat captain that killed himself say the stress of the oil spill simply became too much for him. alan cruise, he shot himself onboard his beaut. cruise loved fishing but fellow captains say that this spill down there was the latest blow for a gulf coast industry that s taken hit after hit. really they say over the last six years. we will have more on this man s story coming up next hour. also, you can check our website for the latest developments from the gulf coast. that address is cnn.com/oildisaster. president obama will be taking off in a couple of minutes bound for canada, ontar ontario. for the weekend of meetings. first today the g-1k38 then the g-20 overing the weekend with the world s richest nations. a warning at the g-8 and g-20
the talent that we ve grown in major league soccer in the united states has helped that national team progress and now guys are going all over the world and finding successes, which we didn t have the opportunity to do in 1990. reporter: tony meola, i assume you ll be watching tomorrow afternoon when the u.s. playing ghana, easy side to the draw maybe. who knows? richard, tony, thank you both. risking life and limb just to chase the american dream. thousands of migrants packing into this so-called train of death in hopes of reaching the u.s. meantime, live to huntsville, ontario. there it is, air force one, just touched down. the president on board heading to the g-8 meeting with the top world leaders and this weekend being the g-20 over in toronto. live pictures from canada. okay, audition in two weeks. whiten your smile. no red wine, blueberry pie, coffee, or tea.
summits. they say failure to get on the same page could mean the world loses out on tens of millions of jobs over the next couple of years. and some $4 trillion of economic output. white house correspondent dan lothian is in ontario. huge meet it is next couple of days. can you sum it up for me? what s at stake here? reporter: that s right. huge meetings. two of them happening, g-8 and g-20, at the same time. focussing on the issues such as child health, water sanitation. the bigger group, g-20, which the president will be meeting with other world leaders, that begins late tomorrow and then the rest of the weekend as well. the focus, obviously, is on the global economic crisis to ensure that all of the nations are doing everything they can to contain that crisis to ensure that the recovery happens as you pointed out dan, can i interrupt you?
weekend comes the g-8 today in huntsville, ontario, and it s there that he will be sitting down with leaders from the really bill world economies, canada, france, germany, italy, japan, russia and, of course, the u kuchlt, and then they move to toronto and broaden to the g-20, 19 nations but ut european union and a couple of visiting countries. although one country is bowing out, we are hearing that brazil s country will not attend because of the awful, awful floods down in his home country. most of us remember where we were when we got word one year ago today that michael jackson died. we are continuing to look at the live picturing. there s the mausoleum where the king of pop is buried. thousands of people will descend upon that mausoleum to have a