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even falls, with forecasters predicting potentially catastrophic flooding. >> im al wli velshi. raging floodwaters from hurricane irene washed him away, but a new jersey man lived and now telling us how he survived mother natures wrath. in just a few hours the governments new jobs report. will it be welcome news for you, your job, and the recovery? well break it down on this "american morning." good morning, everyone. it is friday, september 2nd. jobs day, september 2nd. welcome to...

being shot at. weve shown you photos, many photos of children being slaughtered in the streets by the assad regime or taken, tortured and killed their bodies mutilated almost beyond recognition. i know its all difficult to look at but it is whats happening in syria. it is the truth. now, all the while, in spite of all these videos and all the evidence, members of that regime all the way up to the top, to bashar al assad, theyve been telling us that what is tragically, brutally, murdero...

videos of syrian forces killing ordinary syrians and hearing first hand accounts of people being shot at. weve shown you photos, many photos of children being slaughtered in the streets by the assad regime or taken, tortured and killed their bodies mutilated almost beyond recognition. i know its all difficult to look at but it is whats happening in syria. it is the truth. now, all the while, in spite of all these videos and all the evidence, members of that regime all the way up to the...

We are just learning that theres yet another fire that has ju broken out at one of the nuclear reactors. were told its the northwest fourth floor nuclear reactor, number four. thats one of the areas in the daiichi complex that has been so, so worrisome right now. just what they dont need, yet another fire complicating efforts to keep the efforts under control. there are a limited number of fire workers there to begin with because its so dangerous because of the potential of radiation poisoning. ...

Situation makes things more urgent now, but wasted money is wasted money and people are unhappy with it, at earlier times and it proved very difficult, part of it, by the way, a wisconsin connection, is collective bargaining agreements, with workers in the federal government, very hard to actually get fire -- fire workers if they are duplicating each others work and no fault of their own but congress created the enormous, crazy quilt overlapping government. bill: you think of it, times when ther...

And once they pull from it, is it taxed? >> no, its always exempt from state and city taxes, which is about -- combined, 10%, and, the way the city handles the lump sum retirement fund, they have been collecting for these selected police and fire workers, is that they roll it over into the retirement account so it is exempt from the federal taxes, as well. >> heather: okay. thank you very much, michael goodwin for joining us, thanks. >> my pleasure. >> gregg: breaking news in the world of sports...

Fire workers. pelosi called the house back and tweeted they have to come back for this special session. we heard from luke russert that they should be voting by early this afternoon. we will keep our eye on that. were back with much more right here on msnbc. its delicious. so now weve turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea and make it happen. im janet long and i formed my toffee company through legalzoom. i never really thought i would make money doing what i love. [ robe...

>> every one of the technologies is improving. you can make the case, really low wages, like some countries have with no technology, and you can make the case that raising the minimum wage could push work offshore, and its going to happen anyway. when google creates a self driving car, because its a better technology than having somebody not drive well and play the wrong radio when he is in the car with you. >> john, amazon and other companies say this is not going to stop, this is not going to ...

In my estimation, most americans actually asked in a poll, do you want to have a voice at work? would you join a union if you could, say yes, even as the union members have plummeted in this country. the reason, employers mount these massive campaign and threaten to fire workers and do fire workers. >> you are sighing at our lefty slogan here, 99%, 1%. what is your sense of these sorts of -- this kind of hand to hand combat that happens at the level of the consumer financial protection

We have tom foreman on the scene. tom, i dont know what the scene is, if its annapolis or hanover. tell me where you are, what you see and if youve had a chance to talk to any eye witnesses. >> we havent talked to any eye witnesses, brooke. its still not -- not so much confusion here, as much as people trying to figure out whats happened. im in hanover, close to the baltimore airport. the building has been emptied out and it is really surrounded right now by police units and people from the haz-...