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 add up? we wanted to know the answer to that question. we did the math on how much mon
i m erin burnett. we are getting exit polls from wisconsin where republican governor scott walker is fighting to keep his job in what likely is the most expensive recall election. the results of the election will say a lot about how the state and the country is going to go in november. that, of course, is the $64 trillion question. john king with the exit poll numbers. what is crossing right now? could be the $80 million question. the results are fascinating. we are going to be up late tonight. this is a very close race. what started all this? a big fight over efforts to restrict collective bargaining rights to get union members to pay more for health care. our union members dominating the vote today. interesting question. 32% of the vote is in the recall election say someone in their house hold is a union member. it was in the 20s in the 2010 election. this tells you the labor unions are getting turnout. we are seeing other data suggesting republican voters are coming out
november 6th and it s getting started in just under 12 hours. wisconsin republican governor scott walker fighting what is probably going to end up being the most expensive, high-stakes recall election in american history. democrats want walker out after he and the republican-controlled legislature voted to strip union members of collective bargaining rights. remember all those pictures of just complete chaos in the state capitol? democrats accuse walker of waging a war on unions. republicans say they re doing their jobs, trying to stem a budget crisis in the state. it has become one of the most bitter political fights in america, pegging big business against big labor. talk about two sumo wrestlers. neither of those groups on those own are loaded. you re talking about $80 million just for this race. that is pretty stunning. the impact of tomorrow s election is going to be felt across the country. john avlon, rahme and ryan sim here. i like the sumo wrestler image because they
everybody went crazy. breathtaking. it was just so awesome. she s perfect and beautiful and i love her. the thing that i think is wonderful about the duchess is that she has very much her own sense of self and her own sense of style. this is a big role that she has. and she always seems to get it right. i think if people are happy in their own lives, they will do well in the public eye as well it s very important. as far as i can see, she s doing it beautifully. i m only sorry that william can t be here today. he would love it here. reporter: 12 months have now passed since kate middleton married the future king of england here at westminster abbey in london. i m max foster. as cnn s royal correspondent, i ve had a chance to watch kate close up. a senior royal source has told me that she s completed her induction and has graduated as a fully-fledged member of the royal family. it s been quite a year. reporter: william and katherine has announced their engageme
of himself online. that s when someone in the cafe noticed him, recognized him, bolted out of the cafe and called the police. detectives in montreal say they think that he s the one who stabbed and mutilated and mailed out body parts of his boyfriend, lin jun, seen here in this photo, from ctv. oh, and there s more as well. you re going to hear from magnotta himself. cnn has uncovered a 2007 interview of magnotta talking about being a stripper, about being an escort and about why the men the french press calls the butcher of montreal says he is so popular and well-liked in the video he called himself jimmy. first we want to take you live to the scene in berlin where the arrest went down today. that s where cnn s diana magnet is standing by live. i know you ve been able to get there in the last hour and a half and collect some of the more recent details. last we spoke in the last hour, you were getting the full story of how the arrest went down literally in the seats behind yo