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were standing here with cops and firefighters whose jobs are threatened because states an communities are cutting back. this bill will keep cops on the beat and firefighters on call. so lets pass this bill so that these men and women with continue protecting our neighborhoods like they do every single day. im standing with construction workers. weve got roads that need work all over the country. our highways are backed up with traffic. our airports are clogged. and there are millions o...

thanks so much. just hours from now, eight presidential candidates will square off in tampa, florida. rick perry the front-runner and also the main target of his fellow republicans. and perry may have made the bulls-eye even bigger by attacking social security, a program considered sacred by millions of older americans. jim accosta is in tampa. and lets begin with word of a new endorsement were hearing about this morning. >> reporter: thats right. if mitt romney was looking for a spark...

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...

today. noda is to be japans sixth krm in five years. convicted lockerbie lopper al megrahi is in a coma and apparently near death. krn can cnn found him at an expensive village. freed from a scottish prison in 2009 after doctors treated him for cancer said he was dying. libyan rebels are advancing and have 14,000 fighters set to liberate moammar gadhafis hometown of sirte and have given loyalists there a monday deadline to disarm and surrender peaceful lp. the rebels gained control...

>> hey, fredericka. the losses are holding steady. the dow down about 436 points. theyre off their lows of this session where we saw the dow down as much as 500 points. this is coming after morgan stanley kind of set off an alarm bell saying that the u.s. and europe are looking like theyre getting close to going into a recession. morgan stanley also downgrading its growth forecast globally for this year and next. also not helping we got a bunch of economic reports here in the u.s. one ...

Jobs and to help save his own. the white house insists president obamas three-day bus tour through the midwest isnt a campaign swing. but it sure looked that way as he rolled into iowa and sent a message to congress. >> if they dont start paying attention, then theyre not going to be in office and well have a new congress in there that will start paying attention to what is going on all across america. >> reporter: he promised a new economic plan in september and promised congress will have to a...

Process on a possible downgrade. where were these guys as we were building up all this debt? late to the party, but at the party, threatening to take the punchbowl away. what do you make of it? >> im not sure what to make of it. these guys were wrong on enron and worldcom years ago. we were wrong on fanny and freddy a couple years ago, and they missed the boat on greece and portugal, things like that. theyre usually in a position of playing catch-up with the market. everyone in the market alread...

Three years each. i was a dairy queen for six years. i would have clearly been breaking the law in georgia had i gone there because when kids are hungry they got to eat. the real problem is that our culture has sexualized the breast so much. breasts have a day job and a night job. neither of them pay very well by the way. we have to understand that this isnt a bodily fluid thats a waste product. this is not urine. this is food. body builders would covet this stuff if they could get ahold of the ...

on it. we believe there was a fire. were trying to get details. passengers had to be evacuated. scary moments obviously but apparently there are no injuries. just a few minutes ago we did watch a bus transport passengers from that plane to the delta terminals here in atlanta. we want to bring in on the phone, you were in a hotel that overlooks the runway as im told. can you tell us exactly what you saw? >> caller: we were just out on the balcony of our hotel that overlooks the runway a...

Small towns. were all seemingly safe across the country except maybe, yeah, in new york city. in big cities with more than 1 million people, new york was the only city besides san antonio where violent crimes shot up last year. and the only place, besides philly, to have a rise in murders. crime experts explain this increase by pointing to the historic lows last year. new yorks drop in crime over the last 20 years has far outpaced many other places. they say all were doing now is playing catch-u...