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gulf of mexico. residents of mississippi and louisiana got short notice warnings today. get ready for tropical storm lee to hit this weekend. it may not be as powerful as a hurricane, but its moving at a crawl, which means new orleans canals and levees will be tested by a prolonged rain. up to 15 inches or more are expected plus a storm surge. well get a live update on storm preparations in a few minutes. but first, todays stunner from the labor department, the country saw a net gain...

Rip crew is the level of sophistication. they will pull over cars they believe are carrying drugs and proceed to rob the drugs from those people. that tends to be a violent act. they dont have any problem assaulting people. they dont have any problem shooting people. >> it is no longer the case where they can continue to lose marijuana loads or lose alien loads. it is cutting into their profit margin. what they want to do now is expend a lot of time, energy and money to protect that. >> theyve f...

Rip crew is the level of sophistication. they will pull over cars they believe are carrying drugs and proceed to rob the drugs from those people. that tends to be a violent act. they dont have any problem assaulting people. they dont have any problem shooting people. >> it is no longer the case where they can continue to lose marijuana loads or lose alien loads. it is cutting into their profit margin. what they want to do now is expend a lot of time, energy and money to protect that. >> theyve f...

You were cutting out 90% of the people who might be bidding. >> what happened to all those shovel-ready jobs? dont we still have a couple hundred billion left unspent? look how hard it is for the government to spend even when it is gleefully trying to spend. we ought to start spinning off all kinds of government owned stuff to private interests and let those investors pay. sell off bridges and interstate highways. wall street should handle those sales and then private interests -- >> pretty mode...

Energy sources like solar and wind power on to the grid. things we need to start thinking about now. >> i was going to say youre touching on the things of the future that need to be worked on right now as well. okay. heidi cullen, good to talk to you. thanks so much. >> thanks, alex. new developments in the wake of apples iphone 4 flap. mark papermaster was senior vice president of engineering. he is out of job. it is unclear whether he was fired or leaving on his own. lets go from there to ...

What to do? >> its interesting what heidi said. if we focused the stimulus money i think was ill-spent since early 2009, on upgrading our energy infrastructure, particularly the electrical grid, it would cost about a trillion dlashgs but add high paying, high value jobs that would have spinoff effects on the economy going forward you could bring in disenfranchised auto workers and others to work on this grid and provide real jobs, like the hoover dam, interstate highways, thats something that co...

That hostages held captive for 12 years were rescued. a red cross official describes the ethnic violence now occupying or occurring in kyrgyzstan as a catastrophe. the conflict flareed up after the government was overthrown in april. its home to a u.s. military base vital too troops in afghanistan. lightning struck a tank that caused a huge fire that shut down two interstate highways. firefighters used special foam to extinguish the blaze at the colonial pipeline. all eyes are on south afric...

Wry yoe the international red cross warn withes a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding. lightning struck a gasoline truck in north carolina earlier today, igniting a huge fire that shut down sections of two interstate highways. stretches of i-40 and i-73 in greensboro were closed for several hours. firefighters used special foam to extinguish the blaze. the death toll rose to 19 from flash floods in arkansas. authorities say there is one person still missing. it hit campgrounds, rushing s...

Happens sometimes when its raining like that. but then he -- we felt it and the it was like 3 or 4 inches under the tent. it was like being on a waterbed kind of. at the time, i thought it was rain coming down the hillside, and i didnt even think about the river because the river is only normally a couple feet deep and it was about 25 feet away from us so i didnt even really think about that. >> within minutes that ankle-deep floodwater was thigh high. luckily his truck could handle the water an...

Avoid the banking system melting down. and i know that wasnt popular. wasnt popular with me. but heres what the recovery act did. we cut taxes for small businesses and 95% of working families to promote spending and hiring. cut taxes. [ applause ] thats what the recovery act did, was cutting peoples taxes across america. [ applause ] were also making investments in our infrastructure from interstate highways to broadband networks. that not only crates private sector jobs but it creates the platf...