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months. the unemployment rate stalled at 9.1%. the flat performance is sharply down from 85,000 jobs added in july and well below forecasts of 60,000 new jobs in august. and while the white house is playing it somewhat low-key, and cautioning not to read too much into the numbers, there is no doubt that the flatline alarm is sounding and raising pressure on president obama to perform economic cpr with the jobs speech next week, but with the partisan gridlock reigning in congress, there...

to secure the city. what we are seeing now is that they dont quite have a complete control of the city. there are still gadhafi forces that look ready to fight back. but also keep in mind that gadhafi made a commitment in the early days of this to give guns to all of his supporters, so there are a lot of people armed with ep with upons in the city, and remains to be seen how many of them are willing to get out and the streets and fight, but that is the situation. it is incredibly volat...

tunisia, and rebels remain in control of his compound in tripoli, and what can you tell us that you have acquired as far as information, stephanie? >> well, stability is one thing, and it is surprising that rebels were able to go into that city as quickly as they did and seemingly as unimpeded as they did and it is another to go in to secure the city. what we are seeing now is that they dont quite have a complete control of the city. there are still gadhafi forces that look ready to fi...

as a long barreled gun with a short handle, walking across the campus with what they thought was the weapon partially covered by cloth. now, the police have interviewed these three young people, 14 year olds who were attending the summer program, and they extensively searched the campus to see if they can find this person, and they have yet to find any trace of the person that the young people described, very distinct descriptions, wearing a blue and white vertically striped shirt, sho...

short handle, walking across the campus with what they thought was the weapon partially covered by cloth. now, the police have interviewed these three young people, 14 year olds who were attending the summer program, and they extensively searched the campus to see if they can find this person, and they have yet to find any trace of the person that the young people described, very distinct descriptions, wearing a blue and white vertically striped shirt, shorts, brown sandals, clean-shav...

from several different avenues get back here. whats likely to happen? >> well, it appears that her attorneys are working on many different fronts. specifically in court where they are trying to get a change to this order by judge strickland. the first thing thats taken place is judge strickland the one who said she could not have served her probation while sitting in a jail cell, i end sbd for her to serve her probation after she was released from jail. he has now been recused. he took...

in orlando. now shes getting the demand from several different avenues get back here. whats likely to happen? >> well, it appears that her attorneys are working on many different fronts. specifically in court where they are trying to get a change to this order by judge strickland. the first thing thats taken place is judge strickland the one who said she could not have served her probation while sitting in a jail cell, i end sbd for her to serve her probation after she was released fro...

room. he consulted with national security experts, his military and top aides. he came out with his policy that included a surge of 30,000 troops, bringing the total number of u.s. combat forces in afghanistan to 100,000, but at the same time he said there are three objectives, no safe haven for al qaeda, turn back the talibans momentum, recent military momentum they had been building over the time previous to that and stabilize afghanistan. i think we can expect the president to say t...

best trained, the best equipped, and the strongest military in the world. >> nbcs kristen welker is live on the north lawn this morning. i think confirmation most would agree is not the problem here. its all about the things leon panetta will be inheriting, isnt it? >> reporter: it absolutely is, thomas. he is expected to be confirmed. he has about four decades of public service under his belt. he served as congressman, chief of staff to the clinton and of course as the current cia dir...

>> "the washington post"/abc poll also showed mitt romney seen by many as high on the economy, tied with the president in a head to head matchup. >> when he took office the economy was in recession and he made it worst. >> it is believed his toughest opponent next fall will be the economy. >> we are on the path of a recovery but its got to accelerate. >> nbcs kristin welker is at the white house for us. >> reporter: you also heard the president today at northern virginia community coll...