perry different back down. tara has more on this. good morning to you. reporter: good morning to you, terrell. for now, rick perry is still the candidate to beat and his rivals came at him last night like never before. ladies and gentlemen reporter: republican presidential candidates are fighting to knock rick perry out of the front ronner slot. i think we ought to have a conversation we re having that right now, governor. reporter: at last night s debate in florida, former massachusetts governor mitt romney slammed the texas governor for calling social security a fraud. a term ponzi scheme i think is over the top and frightful to many poem. reporter: and the attack didn t stop there. the drug company gave thousands of dollars of political donations to the governor and this is just flat out wrong.. if you re saying that i can be bought for 5,000, i m offended. i m offended for all the little girls and the parents that didn t have a choice, that s wha
high-profile road trip today drumming up support for his new jobs bill from americans who need it most. his first stop, house speaker john boehner s home state, ohio. we get the latest from nbc s brian mooar. reporter: president obama sends his jobs bill and a message to congress. no games, no politics, no delays. i m sending this bill to congress today. and they ought to pass it immediately. reporter: he was joined by teachers, public safety workers, military veterans and small business owners. the very people this $447 billion bill is designed to help. folks are living week to week, paycheck to paycheck. they need action. reporter: the white house says the plan pays for itself by cutting some tax breaks for oil and gas companies, corporate jet owners and americans making more than $200,000 a year. skeptics want do see the fine print. because anywhere between $230,000 and $400,000 to create a $50,000 job. that math doesn t make a lot of sense. good morning, eve
side. 95 to the bw parkway, take a live look at i-95. pace is good from baltimore all the way down. same story on the bw parkway and on the beltway east side of town. coming up, we ll go ahead and look at virginia roads at 5:09. back to you. one of the lawmakers who propose the creation of the transportation security administration now says the tsa is failing to protect americans. it was created in the aftermath of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. 9news now reporter surae chinn is live at reagan national airport with more on this story. surae, good morning. reporter: good morning to both of you. there are plenty of tsa workers here at reagan national at this hour. but the creator of the transportation safety administration after 9-11 is now blasting the very organization he founded to keep air travel safe. the government has failed. reporter: tsa s performance, a d minus is what florida congressman john mica gives the agency he founded. it is too large, too reactive and
the wet carpeting and cleaning up. and it won t be a quick job. those lower floor offices which handle land records and marriage licenses will likely be closed for weeks. employees have been reshuffled to different parts of the building. some have been sent to offices elsewhere in the county. but for everyone else, it was back to work this morning after an unexpected three days off. obviously, we had to make sure the building was safe before anyone came in. obviously with the electrical power. so looking forward to getting back to work. from what i could see yesterday, it s better. look like it s going to take a little while, you know, they may have to do a little rewiring. i don t know. you know, water damage in general. reporter: but everything s starting to get back to normal. yeah, wrae. no doubt about it, yes. what we saw last week was unprecedented for our region. veronica johnson joins us now to break down our record rain plus more in her forecast. veronica
we don t want. last night s high spirited as we get deeper into campaign 2012, cbs s fastdraw debate. and a big win early this team of animators will show you animation and today they focus on rick perry. tuesday morning for djokovic at every four years, there s a and a big win early this tuesday morning for djokovic at the men s u.s. open. contest. america s next top republicans, captioning funded by cbs will it be newt gingerich, the professor, herman kain, ceo or rick perry? rick perry says less is more. lots of politicians promise smaller government but good morning. politicians say he s the real welcome to the early show. deal. he s from a place that has less. the best news in months for perry was born in 1950 in the families for those hikers held dusty town of paint creek. in iran. their lawyer says they re going there wasn t much money and he to be freed as soon as the bail bathed on the back porch. we weren t rich in material money is paid, so good news