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decade after 9/11 as investigator investigato investigators investigate a suspected plot. scientists are still working nonstop to identify the remains of 9/11 victims. and thats enabling some loved ones to find closure. were taking you behind the scenes. and president obama hits the road to prince william up support for his job creation plan. his first stop is the home turf of one of his sharpest critics. im wolf blitzer in tampa, florida. the site of mondays cnn tea party debate and y...

also mitt romneys preemptive strike on jobs, the republican unveils his plan days before the presidents big speech. this hour political leaders zeroizer zeroing in on issue number one. do any have a plan that will really work? and texas wildfires destroying more than 700 homes in 48 hours. a massive blaze growing closer to the states capital is growing bigger and more destructive every minute. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." ive covered dick cheney for many years as...

thank you for waking up with us. im live in new york. lets start in texas, shall we? its a dry, scorched burning place this morning. its wildfire problems are getting worse. more than 60 new fires broke out over the weekend. the biggest and maybe the most dangerous is the one youre looking at in bastrop county, 30 miles from downtown usa. p lets go to atlanta and check in with rob marciano. were going to get to chris welch whos in texas just a bit. i wanted to talk to you first about t...

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...

newsroom" starts with the handsome t.j. holmes. >> i hope erin burnett knows she is getting a great bartender there. kelly takes this seriously and made great drinks for you when i was up there with you guys a couple of weeks. you all do your 9:00 thing. i know exactly where yall are going there in the time warner center. good to see you all! thanks so much, guys. all right. top of the hour here now. i am t.j. holmes today in for kyra phillips. this hour, unfortunately, we have to ...

a week after irene hit the east coast, the central gulf coast is getting ready for storm with flooding rains. louisiana governor bobby jindal already declared a state of emergency. oil companies are pulling workers off the rigs in the gulf. some places including new orleans could get as much as 20 inches of rain. texas could really use some of that rain from the tropical system. it doesnt look promising. 14 big wildfires are burning in that state. just one of them west of dallas. firef...

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...

operating but on a weekend schedule. and bus service is on a modified weekday schedule. so the only thing that is suspended is all the new jersey transit rail service except for the atlantic city rail line. everything else will be operating but on a reduced schedule, fewer trips. >> im sorry, that confuses earlier information we got earlier. there would be service on the northeast corridor -- >> no, its under water. nothing. the tranrail station is under four feet of water. no amtrak. ...

canada, millions in americas southeast corner are thankful it wasnt much worse. >> and hurricane irene first made landfall yesterday and northern new england, where the brunt of the storm just left theyll remember irene for the rain. 16 inches or more in some spots. with tidal surges battering beaches, inundating roads and bridges and in cases whole communitiesants more than 4 million are without electricity today. from florida to connecticut 19 deaths blamed on irene. among them an 11...

Have been under scott walker. ten hours from now, wisconsin voters have a chance to go to the polls and recall six republican state senators and take money out of the pockets of hundreds of thousands of middle class state workers in the state. less than 24 hours from now, wisconsin voters could send shock waves into every republican house in the country. this is still ground zero for the fight for the middle class in america. these people didnt cause the s&p to downgrade our country. they didnt ...