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>> sean: president obamas disastrous deficit reduction plan includes one proposal that is not sitting well with republicans. it is called the buffet rule named after billionaire investor warren buffet who claim he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. the provision sets a new rate for americans who make a million dollars a year or more. today tax cheat treasury secretary geithner promised the plan to revamp the tax code would be ready by the end of the year. joining me with reaction karen ha...

could put people to work. >> but critics say federal spending infrastructure has a minimal affect on job creation. >> i think if the federal government could create jobs we wouldnt see this new jobs report coming out. >> with congressional approval needed for any boost in instructure spending, its a debate thats unlikely to go away. athena jones, cnn, washington. top of the hour, 4:00 on the east coast, youre in the cnn newsroom, hi, everybody, thank you for joining us. im alena cho,...

blamed on hurricane/tropical storm irene. more than three million homes and businesses still dont have power. flood warnings still are in effect in five states from vermont to new jersey. all this brings me to my colleague, mary snow, in patterson, new jersey. mary, what is going on there around you right now? >> reporter: well, evacuations have been going on for the past 48 hours and they are only intensifying because you just mentioned, there are some rivers that have yet to crest. h...

who may be in need of damage control after irene? plus graphic new evidence of brutality by moammar gadhafi and his inner circle. this just as were hearing his wife and several children have now escaped libya. the pressure now growing to make sure gadhafi himself doesnt get away. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." raging water in the northeast so powerful it can sweep away cars and swallow up homes. right now vermont is devastated by the worst flooding in decades. cnns a...

lashing new england with powerful winds and rain. hello again, everyone. im fredricka whitfield. >> im brooke baldwin. lets get you caught up on what we know at this hour on this storm. president obama an hour away from making the statement about the storm. he will be doing so 5:00 eastern from the rose garden. well bring it to you live as soon as we see the president. >> irene continues to lose power since making landfall this morning. floodwaters are receding on new yorks long island...

nice to be here with you for the next five hours. tropical storm irene after lashing new york city, irene is dutching heavy, heavy rainfall in parts of upstate new york and also new england. the storm made landfall overnight as a hurricane in two stops, first on the landfall on little egg inlet in new jersey, and then it hit another landfall, coney island, new york. at that time irene had weakened to a tropical storm. >> on long island, irenes storm surge flooded downtown long beach. s...

hurricane irene, now officially made landfall as a category 1 storm on the east coast of the united states. the most up-to-date satellite image we can show you now of re irene, showing wear and tear, described as sloppy, not very well organized but starting to get more disorganized. you can see it there, it was a more organized storm over the past couple of days but as its making landfall now and making its way up the east coast maybe not so much so. it has been lashing out at the caro...

we see any clear skies here. anderson. >> thats it for us on "360". more hurricane coverage next. hi there. good morning, everybody, from the cnn center. this is your cnn start morning. coming to you an hour earlier today to cover this storm, hurricane irene that is actually putting about 20% of this countrys population under threat of this storm. were talking about 65 million people are in the path of this sucker. you see the line there. thats the cone of uncertainty they call it. b...

cnns jim spellman is seeing its power firsthand. hes now in the bahamas. well try to get jim spellman. we dont have him quite yet because the wind is blowing really, really hard in the bahamas at this moment. lets head into atlanta and check in with jack can jeras. can you tell us the track of the storm? >> we can, carol. weve seen more changes and it bridges it closer to hugging the coast of the united states, potentially from north carolina all the way on up northward. i do want to t...

residents to get out or get ready. >> walking free from the hotel. christine romans. 33 journalists are out this morning and are talking after a terrifying ordeal. held at gunpoint by gadhafi loyalists growing more desperate by the second. the end of an era at am. im carol costello. steve jobs, creator force behind apple, resigns. what will this mean for the company? the change the way you live on this "american morning." good morning to you. it is thursday, august 25. welcome to "...