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good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight is the economy, stupid. in a surprise news conference today the president blamed congress for keeping americans out of work. they left most of the jobs plan just sitting there, and in light of the head winds that we re facing right now, i urged them to reconsider because there are steps to take right now to put more people back to work. the president is angry that congress has not passed his jobs bill, which sat on the shelf since last fall. part of it did pass. the payroll tax cut extension and long-term unemployment insurance, but the president wants to pass the rest immediately and the price tag is $297 billion. his bill summary, which we obtained from the white house, says that money will go to things like preventing teacher layoffs, modernizing schools, building science labs for a total of $297 billion. does spending more at up? we did the math on how much money taxpayers have spent on stimulus since ....
bomber, that this was a way to upgrade the technology into an ie d and explosive device. what do you know? just speaking to a senior administration official tells us while there are many similarities to the past bombs we heard out of aqap, there was differences to this which is why they want to take the time to being make sure the fbi goes through the forensicing. we have heard a number of threats about body bombs and senior administration officials tell cnn this was not intended to be a body bomb. this was more in line with the sort of underwear bomber type of thing. look, they really feel strongly this is a success. they worked with their international partners, make no mistake about it, the best internal service against this target is the saudi service. we know that the saudi service is tipped off the americans when it came to the cargo plane threat and worked with them, and the head of the saudi service, muhammed benaif was the target of the one of the al bombs so ....
killed when the twin towers collapsed. and there is tight security in new york and washington this weekend as people gather to mark the anniversary. police and the fbi are on high alert looking for any signs of a terror plot. u.s. officials say they received information of a credible, yet unconfirmed plot to attack those cities. our susan candiotti joins us now from new york. do we know what law enforcement may be looking for? any more details on that potential plot? reporter: yes, fredericka, hello. cnn is learning new details about the timing of this possible conspiracy. at least two of the three men are now believed to have traveled from the mideast region to the u.s. last week. according to a u.s. government official. and a third man believed to be possibly part of this plot was said to be traveling in europe. now, as we ve been telling you, two of those three men are believed to be u.s. citizens. and now we are also learning that there s a further description tha ....