happy monday. september 12th. this is your wake-up call. thank you for joining us this morning. breaking news on the world markets to tell you about this morning. they're taking quite a hit. investors are worried that greece could default on loan repayments. the nikkei closed at a 2 1/2-year low. the hang seng down over 4%. european markets opened over two hours ago. they're all down. about four hours until the markets open here. but dow futures are down 180 points. the nasdaq and s&p are down, as well. sorry. i had to tell you. congress supposed to get its hands on president obama's jobs bill today. but the president will hold a rose garden ceremony, flanked with teachers and business owners. 40,000 bank of america jobs are reportedly on the chopping block today. and today, we're expected to get details from the ceo at an investor conference at 9:00 p.m. eastern in new york. but "the l.a. times" are reporting most of the layoffs are supposed to come from consumer banking operations. branches and loan centers will feel the cuts big-time. this is the first step in a major overhaul for the country's largest banks. we turn to security concerns, ten years and one day after the terrorist 9/11 attacks. there was tight security. officers rounded up a handful of trucks. two of them operated by a company at the world trade center sites. officers found on abandoned truck full of pyrotechnics. it was spr a discovery channel show. a production company executive called it a colossal error in judgment. and fighter jets scrambled on reports of passengers acting strangely. an american airlines flight to new york. both flights landed with no trouble. the 9/11 memorial at ground zero opens to the public today. one day after victims' family members turned out for a ceremony of somber silences, ringing bells and names slowly read aloud. nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks that brought down the twin towers, hipped a hole in the pentagon and crashed in a pennsylvania field. two wars were set in motion in the name of 9/11. and in afghanistan, a grim reminder that the fight does go on. 77 american troops were wounded of a huge truck bomb blew up outside of kabul on saturday. all of them are expected to be okay, talking about the troops. but the commander of coalition forces says this taliban attack was meant to grab attention. >> this was a high-profile attack. it was a significant vehicle suicide bomb. but they've been rejected by the population. their only way to influence is a high-profile attack. >> general john allen says there's much work to be done in the fight against taliban militants. firefighters in texas are making headway on a wildfire that's burned about 1,500 homes. it's halfway contained now. people could get the go ahead to go back to their evacuated neighborhoods. six people still unaccounted for. so, officials want everyone to register at evacuation centers to let friends and family members know they are okay. let's check in with rob marciano. he's watching the weather in the tropics this morning. anything we should be keeping an eye on? >> we chatted on friday, we had three storms. one of which has a slight chance of bringing some moisture up into texas. now, we're pretty much left with one in mexico. katia's on its way to the u.k. and tropical storm maria turns north and east of puerto rico. 60 miles per hour winds. it's almost near hurricane strength. but with the cold fronts protecting us, looks like this will be shoved off like katia was. no worries there, just big surf. you're getting a late season holiday on the beaches of the east coast. mild weather in the eastern third of the country. that's good stuff there. but the heat is going to build across to texas. that part of the forecast has not changed at all. 106 expected in dallas. a cool spell from canada. chicago, boston, detroit, maybe some delays there. denver, just a little bit of wind. relative to the last couple of weeks, realtively quiet. we'll take it. >> we will. and here's to you, rob, in my paper cup. this is coffee. we'll see you soon, i'm sure. >> all right, then. president obama is far from done talking about how to create jobs. that's giving comedians plenty of fodder for their late-night routines. here's your punch line. >> president obama introduced his $447 billion jobs plan. it sounds like a pretty good plan. a lot in congress said today, it would work, if we had $447 billion. it would be a fantastic plan. in his speech, president obama called the plan the american jobs act. that sounded better than the original title, the save my ass plan. that seemed to fall flat. did you watch the packers/saints game. i saw the weirdest thing during the game last night. did anybody catch this? take a look. >> we have a flag back at the 35 yard line. >> you should pass this jobs plan right away. >> and did you see joe biden and john boehner in the speech. did you see what boehner did to biden? it's so petty with these politicians. take a look. they're cats that literally glow in the dark. that's not all they do. scientists hope they will fight against aids, coming up. first, check out our quote of the day. quote, can you ever imagine what would happen to the country if lyndon was president? end quote. find out who said this and why it's important today.lciu and vi. and tastes simply delicious. for those of us with lactose intolerance... lactaid® milk. the original 100% lactose-free milk. who need imagine... one scooter or power chair that could improve your mobility and your life. one medicare benefit that, with private insurance, may entitle you to pay little to nothing to own it. one company that can make it all happen ... your power chair will be paid in full. the scooter store. hi i'm doug harrison. we're experts at getting you the power chair or scooter you need. i didn't pay a penny out of pocket for my power chair. with help from the scooter store, medicare and my insurance covered it all. call the scooter store for free information today. it is 8:00 minutes past the hour. now, back to the quote of the day. according to tapes obtained by "the new york times," former first kennedy jacqueline kennedy onassis, was quoting her husband, john f. kennedy, back in 1964. the tapes will be released this wednesday, along with a book called "jacqueline kennedy: tapes of life with john f. kennedy. the kennedys' daughter, caroline, wrote the forward in the book. remember the ibm computer that beat all of the "jeopardy" contestants? watson will help doctors find the latest research in patient information to determine diagnoses. ibm is teaming up with well point for the venture. let's go live to hong kong. let's talk about the 9/11 memorial. it used these really cool, complicated algarhythms to organize the names. >> the idea was to arrange the names of the victims in relationships. co-workers, friends. even a shared place of death. memorial planners didn't want to arrange the names alphabetical or con logically. so, they called for significant ajay sencies. even though an algorithm was used, it provided the framework. the site is a human memorial. a deeply moving experience. and it's opened to the public, starting today. >> yeah. we have a live picture of it, i believe, so people can get a glimpse of what it looks like. it is beautiful. if you get a chance to come to new york city, go down to that site because it's just awesome. i'm not just talking to you kristi. i'm talking to everybody out there. let's talk about glow-in-the-dark cats, fighting aids? >> yeah. there's logic behind here. and the goal is to create cats with immunity to the feline aids virus. it invofled inserting two things. monkey genes that block the virus. and jellyfish genes that make the modify glow green. the cats that underwent this procedure, glow green when placed under a special light, to show they're resistant to aids in cats. scientists hope this technique will help human medical research. great story. cute kittens. but all in the name of hiv research. back to you. >> that's amazing. thank you. a bitter labor dispute. and a news krut caugcrew caught the middle. ooh, it was nasty. >> you are trespassing. get out of here now. >> what prompted this tirade? coming up. it's 12 minutes past the hour. ♪ [ male announcer ] sitting. waiting. hoping. that's a recipe for failed investing. open an e-trade account and open doors, seize opportunities, take action with some of the most powerful yet easy-to-use trading tools on the planet all built to help you maximize the potential of every dollar you invest. successful investing isn't done by throwing ideas against the wall and hoping. it's done by lowering your costs and raising your expectations by using unbiased research and powerful screeners to build a diversified portfolio with stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and every etf sold. and we'll help you every step of the way. with 5-star research and free education covering everything from the basics to advanced investing strategies. start now and we'll give you up to $500 and let you trade free for 60 days. visit our website, call us, open an account. e-trade. investing unleashed. it is 13 minutes past the hour. this is your a.m. wake-up call. here's three things to put on your radar today. the national 9/11 memorial and museum opens to the public today. it was open to victims' families yesterday in new york. a trial date could be set today to the jorn vander salute murder trial. and president obama will take to the rose garden to make a pitch for his jobs creation plan. he officially sent the american jobs act to congress. he will send that american jobs act to congress tonight. time for your political ticker with tim farley, part of your morning briefing, live from washington. you know what today is, tim. >> it is what? monday. of course. >> it is monday. it's not only monday, though. it's the day of the momentous cnn tea party republican debate that takes place tonight in tampa. and some are calling this crucial for michele bachmann. >> when people have a party. remember when you're in school and there's competing parties? tonight, we're going to see who gets the tea party people. she is expected to take him on a little bit more, because she's been waning in the polls lately. we're expecting tonight that the two of them will be going at it a little bit more. she will probably be on the offensive against rick perry tonight. >> and a little birdie told me she is falling into the single digits, according to a new poll that's going to be officially released at 6:00 a.m. eastern. because of that, she has released a new pro-bachmann ad, where she slams rick perry on immigration. >> rick perry signed a law where taxpayers pay college tuition for illegal immigrants. michele bachmann opposes giving benefits to illegal immigrants. michele bachmann also supports the arizona immigration law. but perry opposed it in texas. the difference is clear. to stop illegal immigration, support michele bachmann. >> these are going to be on the radio. obviously, they're not made for television because they're not exactly impressive. this is one of the examples where she's going after him on an issue that he's been more nuanced on. he's some harkening back to the way george w. bush as governor of that border state. expect not just from michele bachmann, but maybe a hit from mitt romney, who is also going to have to try to take a piece of perry flesh, if you will, to get the nomination. that might be part of the debate tonight, too. let's move on to this story out of washington state. i don't know why it makes me laugh because it shouldn't. there was a horrible confrontation between long shoremen and the media. watch what happens when a news crew tries to ask questions of these people. >> hey. get your camera out of here. that's none of your business [ bleep ]. unless you want trespassing, get out of here now. get out of here now. >> okay. okay. >> don't [ bleep ] partner. >> you're not the p.r. staff, are you? >> you don't have to [ bleep ] worry about who i'm with. >> they're long shoremen. what else do you expect? >> i understand he identified you as blank you blank sucker. i'm not sure what his title is. i want to know what top-secret information is posted on the building outside. anybody walking by can probably see what they are. but this stems a long standing disagreement between the long shoreman union. and this guy's probably never heard of the internet. he will probably be pretty famous pretty darn soon. >> i guess so. with we even know what they were so upset about? was the media bothering them? >> that was the point. it's being more heavily covered there. a company is outsourcing some of the jobs, they claim. and taking away their rights. this has been turned into an issue that stemmed from what we were seeing from james hoffa last week, about taking them out. it's unrelated to that. but it plays into the narrative that the unions are thugs. and that can't be helping the unions right now. >> that was unfortunate for the unions, at least from a p.r. standpoint. tim farley, thank you very much. you can watch the first-ever cnn tea party republican debate live on cnn. that comes your way tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. wolf blitzer will be the moderator. on the weekend of 9/11, four arrested on terrorism charges. we'll have details for you in a moment. 18 minutes past the hour. any questions? no. you know... ♪ we're not magicians ♪ we can't read your mind ♪ ♪ read your mind ♪ we need your questions ♪ each and every kind ♪ every kind ♪ will this react with my other medicine? ♪ ♪ hey, what are all these tests even for? ♪ ♪ questions are the answer ♪ yeah ♪ oh we have just learned former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn has been questioned by police about the alleged rape of a french writer. this information coming from one of his lawyers. charges were dropped against strauss-kahn in new york, of a hotel maid accused him of sexually assaulted her in may. he returned to paris shortly thereafter. s.w.a.t. teams arrested people over the weekend. an official from the secret service said, we were able to pro vent a vision from occurring. an art gallery in the city was evacuated late saturday night. sweden did not raise its terror alert level, however. to libya, now. and another member of moammar gadhafi's family. his son is in niger. that's according to the justice minister. able other libyan officials were with him. at least three convoys crossed into niger recently, carrying military officials and their families. gadhafi's wife and three sons fleed three weeks ago. the question remains, where the heck is moammar gadhafi? no one seems to know. zoo workers in tripoli risking their own lives to save the lives of animals going hungry and thirsty in the middle of the war zone. the report on the dire conditions at the zoo a few weeks ago. since then, crews have rushed into help. jill dougherty was with them. >> reporter: in a city slashed by war, a tiger fights for life. osama, a siberian tiger at the tripoli zoo, has been suffering for days. do you know why he's so sick? >> weakened on a few days here. but i think he's old. number two, it was a lot of stress surrounding here. >> reporter: during the battle for tripoli, there was shooting just outside the zoo. humans fled. the animals didn't have that option. >> our biggest coming from on the surface to take a much larger house. >> reporter: the zoo's director, abdul fa abdul fat hosni leads us to the animal house. none of the animals were injured. >> reporter: for two weeks, there was no water in tripoli. a disaster for hippos, who had to survive on what little stagnant water was left in their pool. >> the water is good. they're swimming. no problem. >> reporter: shells still litter the zoo grounds. right here. in the zoo. >> that's coming from outside. you know? >> just all over the place. >> reporter: at the height of the conflict, 15 of the staff came here every day to feed and water the animals, risking their own lives to do it. if they hadn't, many of the animals would have died in three or four days. dr. amir halil from an international rescue team rushed here from vienna to help, after seeing cnn reports about the fate of these animals. >> it was too late. >> he just died. >> yeah. too late. >> reporter: tripoli's zoo was being rebuilt when the war started. the director hopes that will continue. there will be exchanges with zoos around the world, he says. something that stopped during the gadhafi regime. bringing new animals, unscarred by war. jill dougherty, cnn, tripoli. a 3-year-old boy snatched from his home in the middle of the night. he's back with his family now. but his kidnapper still on the loose. we'll have more on that story ahead. good morning. happy monday to you. it's september 12th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. joining you live from new york this morning. it's just about half past the hour. look for president obama to make a trip to the rose garden today, joined by teachers, veterans and small business owners. he'll be calling on congress to pass his jobs bill, which he'll be sending to capitol hill today, as well. in his jobs plan, a tax cut for businesses. a tax credit for hiring veterans. modernizing 35,000 public schools. a tax credit for hiring long-term jobless. and a plan for mortgages at very low rates. ♪ last night, president obama joined others at the kennedy center in washington for a concert of hope. it capped off a day filled with the president spoke of the sacrifices in the wake of 9/11, of resilience, and of courage. >> these past ten years have shown that america does not give in to fear. the rescue workers who rushed to the scene, the firefighters who charged up the stairs, the passengers who stormed the cockpit. these patriots define the very nature of courage. >> the president said nothing can break the will of a truly united states of america. not slavery. not war. and not terrorism. amid the sadness of remembrances of 9/11, a few odd things popped up on the white house facebook page. threats. wnbc reports at least three threats. one saying, we'll come back and kill you all. the posts have since been taken down. and the secret service is now investigating. you may remember during the last republican debate, texas governor, rick perry, called social security, quote, a ponzi scheme. vice president joe biden said, hold on a minute. he spoke with cnn's john king. >> it's not a ponzi scheme. he should look back and find who ponzi was. he was an individual. it was a different deal. it is not a ponzi scheme. it is secure through 2036. and to fix it is not hard. >> you can see the full interview with the vice president on "john king usa." that's 7:00 eastern right here on cnn. a 3-year-old canadian boy is back with his family after going missing for four days. investigators say kienan hebert was abducted from his bed tuesday night. his family pleaded with his kidnapper to return him. over the weekend, they got their wish. >> kienan was happily home. he is playing with his brothers and sisters. thank you. thank you. >> amazing. police are still looking for the suspect, 46-year-old randall hopley. he lives a few miles away from the toddler's family. seven of the ten oil workers who went missing last week in the gulf of mexico have been found alive. two were found dead, though. and one is still missing. the crew was on a boat in the gulf of mexico on thursday in the bay of campeche. tropical storm nate's fury caused them to abandon ship. the search is still on for the missing worker. bank of america is reportedly getting ready to cut tens of thousands of jobs. this is the beginning of big changes at the bank. what it could mean for customers in 60 seconds. that's a recipe for failed investing. open an e-trade account and ope