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millionaires to pay for it. republicans say they could live with extending the current rate, but only if spending cuts offset it. last night in the senate both parties plans were voted down so there is work to be done before the end of the year. in california, powerful winds are still in the forecast for parts of southern california. nothing like the winds that did this though. did you see this damage? gusts topping 140 miles an hour were measure in the mountains outside los angeles ...

in america officially is 14 million people. the situation is getting dire. but i want to give you a bigger perspective. its hard to live in the moment and make decisions. lets go back to the beginning of 2009. thats when president obama first took office. we were losing in excess of 700,000 jobs in the month that he first took office. through 2009, things looked to get substantially better. according to experts, the recession ended in 2009. 2010, boy, we were building in the beginning ...

and at 3:00, well talk to general russell honore. plus fredrickas interview with tiger woods. im alina cho. see you in one hour. "your money" starts right now. im ali velshi. no economic issue is more important to americans than jobs. here is the latest. we had a jobs report come out for the month of august, no new jobs were created in america in august. the unemployment rate, which was 9.1% before we got into this remains at 9.1%. stubbornly high. the number of unemployed people in ...

Japan. they are using emergency medical skills, engineering degrees and a water search capability to help their colleagues in tokyo. >> they have asked for some help with search and rescue and with the range of other technical functions. so, we have today 144 search and rescue officers that are out there doing work, trying to save lives and help communities recover. >> now, more than 90 countries, the world over u have offered assistance. dra great britain sent five dozen search and rescue speci...

Suspect three weeks ago when a chemical company reported a suspicious order. i told you in the break this guy gives me the willies. chemicalz?lv2]y+oruwxi> this is a nightmare. when i was at nypd we were worried about guys like this. had engineering degrees and complete commitment to conduct an explosive event. he had the capability to do so. its not that easy to do by yourself but its possible. the good news is as of now it didnt look like he had accomplices or connected to a large organization...

The right way. >> reporter: so, perhaps, for another year, carla will drive highway 15 and samantha with the big round, brown eyes will visit her dad at his little house with the bullet holes. now, carla says that if it was not for little samantha, she would have gone ahead and moved with oscar to mexico to wait out the process. and ultimately, when the united states government does give them an answer, if they turn him down, carla and oscar says well, perhaps, theyll just move to canada. john? ...

There is definitely a noticeable theme. engineering degrees make up eight of the top ten most highly paid majors. petroleum engineering is number one with an average starting salary of $86,000, right out of college. that is the person who comes up with ways to extract oil and gas from the earth. computer science is the only nonengineering major thats high up on the list. that field has an average starting salary of $61,000. computer engineers design everything from video games to machines that b...

We are following these numbers for you, of course, throughout the day right here in the "cnn newsroom." in the next two to three months, thousands of college graduates will be joining the labor force. but what theyre going to find is one of the toughest job markets, really, in decades. and yeah, there was a new study that shows that certain majors actually pay off. stephanie elam is in the new york bureau for us with details on some of the highest paid majors. stephanie, good to see you again....