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taxes on the wealthy. >> i will not support any plan that butts the burden on ordinary americans. i will veto any bill that does not raise serious revenues by asking the wealthiest americans or biggest corporations to pay their fair share. this is not class warfare. its math. >> this is not class warfare, reference to the opposition hes getting from republicans who are saying it is just that, class warfare. theyre calling the presidents tax proposal a cheap political gimmick. pure poli...

he plans to cut and veto any legislation that cuts medicaid and medicare that doesnt raise taxes on the wealthy. >> i will not support any plan that butts the burden on ordinary americans. i will veto any bill that does not raise serious revenues by asking the wealthiest americans or biggest corporations to pay their fair share. this is not class warfare. its math. >> this is not class warfare, reference to the opposition hes getting from republicans who are saying it is just that, cla...

a billionaire who famously lives modestly in omaha, nebraska. they argues the richest americans arent being taxed enough. he says he pays a lower rate than his secretary. he wrote about it in an op-ed in "the new york times" called "stop coddling the rich." he plans to cut and veto any legislation that cuts medicaid and medicare that doesnt raise taxes on the wealthy. >> i will not support any plan that butts the burden on ordinary americans. i will veto any bill that does not raise se...

Finally free after three years of captivity. >> im just standing there and i was free. i just ran into the airport. i found the first pay phone and called my mother. she came to pick me up. >> afraid the man might make good on her threats, the family decided not to go to the police. that decision would turn out to have dire consequences for other young women in the syracuse area. ten years after kirsten left the old mans dungeon, this woman went in. coming up, another prisoner, another victim....

president hopes now to influence that so-called congressional super committee, charged with drafting a big deficit reduction plan. fellow democrats for months on this issue and others have complained the president is too quick to compromise with republicans. well, today that same president delivered this warning. >> i will not support -- i will not support any plan that puts all the burden for closing our deficit on ordinary americans. and i will veto any bill that changes benefits for...

both democrats and republicans are waiting to hear his proposal, and, of course, so are you. millions of americans out of a job and looking for work. in a matter of minutes, one of the people closest to the president who advised him on this very plan will join me live, with you, first, i want to begin with a fast-moving situation right now. in pennsylvania, really across much of the northeast, the floodwater is rising. people have to get out. more than 100,000 ordered to evacuate. i wa...

how about you? >> oh, im a bears fan. >> shes a chicago boy. ill give you the highlights. >> there you go. >> okay, drew. >> thanks a lot. drew griffin here in studio 7 for suzanne malveaux, whos over in afghanistan. lets get you up to speed. new numbers out today provide more evidence of a very weak job market. the number of americans filing first-time claims rose. it was up to 414,000 last week. why is that important? economists say the number needs to fall below 400,000 to reduce th...

more than 2.5 million homes and businesses are still without power. the death toll has risen to at least 43. and thousands of people have evacuated from flooded neighborhoods and communities. yet, flood advisories are still in place for portions of seven states. one of the towns hardest hit is little falls, new jersey, along the passaic river. mary snow is there with the latest. mary, this is the worst flooding in a century there. are things improving at all? >> reporter: its hard to...

in tripoli as opposition forces continue their manhunt for the fugitive muammar gadhafi. and hurricane irene churning up the u.s. east coast. hundreds of thousands have already fled. 16 million americans are in the path of this monster storm. weve got all the angles covered on both stories. right now on world report. its early morning in tripoli where rebel forces control most but not all of the capital city. theres sporadic but fierce fighting in several parts of tripoli. cnn jour...

carolinas and threatening the entire northeastern seaboard. well have a lot of details about that tonight. the other breaking story, of course, libya and the hunt for gadhafi. the oppositions already got his cap. this guy took it out of his pal as. now they want that head that goes with it and theyre willing to pay. $2.5 million for the dictator dead or alive, they say. one of his sons still at large is sending e-mails to our nick robertson. nick just got another one a few minutes ag...