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thanks so much. just hours from now, eight presidential candidates will square off in tampa, florida. rick perry the front-runner and also the main target of his fellow republicans. and perry may have made the bulls-eye even bigger by attacking social security, a program considered sacred by millions of older americans. jim accosta is in tampa. and lets begin with word of a new endorsement were hearing about this morning. >> reporter: thats right. if mitt romney was looking for a spark...

phillips. two stories facing our political future. barack obama will unveil his plan to create jobs and his same own job may be on the line. mitt romney and rick perry faced off in a national debate. jim acosta has the story lines for that. also this hour, my interviews with two very different members of congress republican joe walsh who is boycotting the presidents speech and democrat maxine waters who is invoicesing her own skepticism. we will hear from her in about 15 minutes. a...

first national debate and first chance millions of voters have had to get to know him. from the get-go he jumped to the top of the polls. from the beginning tonight his opponents jumped on him. heres the portion of the debate starting with former massachusetts governor mitt romney and governor perry squaring off. >> we created more jobs in the last three months in texas than he created in four years in massachusetts. >> texas is a great state. texas has zero income tax. texas has a rig...

worst fire season in history gets worse by the hour. this is the worst of the worst. southeast of austin, 30,000 acres consumed, hundreds of homes destroyed, zero containment. this fire started sunday, barely 48 hours ago, and already governor rick perry calls it as mean a fire as he has ever seen and hes seen a whole lot of wildfires this year. the texas forest service counts 294 consecutive days of wildfires somewhere in the state. you see the numbers here behind me. not coincidental...

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...

is this a bad sign? they are debating about the presidents jobs plan but they cant agree on when he should deliver the plan. thats where we are now, folks. the president asking to address congress on one night. the republican speaker of the house says that night doesnt work for us. you know the story by now. obama requesting the joint session for congress on wednesday but the same night the presidential candidates, the republican presidential candidates are holding a debate so speaker ...

ground and folks who are still trying to get out of the mess. thank you, kyra. live from studio 7, im suzanne malveaux and up to speed for august 30th, tuesday. here we go, again, the rivers in new jersey are bursting the banks overwhelmed by all of the rain that hurricane irene dumped on the state. the passaic river has been overrunning parts of paterson, new jersey, all morning long. emergency workers pulled some 1,500 people to safety after the passaic flooded homes. governor chris ...

41 people now confirmed dead from hurricane irene. this hour vermont is still trying to pull people out of the rushing rivers. ill speak with several people still trapped there. including a groom got married saturday, hoping to leave on his honeymoon in 48 hours. well get a live update pr him. also from fema and the governor of vermont. stay tuned for that. in addition to the wildfires, theres talk about a formation off the coast of the yucatan peninsula. chad myers, who is racing back...

and he did it in perrys home state. >> thank you. thank you. >> during a speech to the veterans of foreign wars convention in san antonio, romney pointed to his own business resume and then took a shot at people he called career politicians. >> im a conservative businessman. i spent most of my life outside politics. dealing with real problems in the real economy. career politicians got us into this mess, and they simply dont know how to get us out. get ready for even more romney vers...

im christine romans. hurricane forecasters feeling the heat because the wrath of irene didnt live up to all that hype. and im carol costello. like a hurricane, rick perry stormed to the front of the gop presidential pack. the latest cnn polling gives him a double-digit lead over mitt romney. is the texas governor built for the long run? well, good morning. it is tuesday, august 30th. we are still dealing with the after effects of this hurricane. things for a lot of people starting ...