>> i'm sorry. >> i will take it from here. have yourself a great day. hello, everyone. the battle ground state is different. the pitch is the same. right now, president obama is trying to pump up support for his jobs bill at north carolina state university in raleigh. since he unveiled the plan in a speech to congress last thursday, he's traveled to virginia, ohio, and now north carolina, promoting its mix of tax cuts, cuts on the wealthy to pay for it. those are fighting words to republicans. but look at this a brand-new cnn/orc poll, show more americans like the jobs act than not. the president also leads in the trust contest. asked whom may trust more to handle our troubled economy? 46 .say mr. obama. 37 .say republicans in congress. more than 7 americans say they're angry about the way things are going. and that could explain, at least one of the outcomes of yesterday's special elections. vacant house seats were up in nevada and new york. the new york seat is in heavily democratic district. it, too, went to a drm, bob turner, he called his race a referendum on president obama. next year is another story. that brings us back to jobs. the aparent front-runner is this man, rick perry. my colleague ed lavendera tried to find out >> my actions as governor are helping to create jobs in this country. >> reporter: really loves to talk about jobs. >> it is time to get america working again. >> is rick perry, restoration of jobs and the american dream begins now. >> reporter: the campaign ads are clear. since perry became governor, the state's gained more than 1 million jobs. while the rest of the country has lost 1.5 million jobs. some call it the texas miracle. perry said that his push for tort reform, lower tax cuts, makes texas a model state. >> it wouldn't think your model state would be number one in low wages. number one in a lack of health insurance. you wouldn't think your model state would be smack dab in the middle in terms of unemployment. >> we literally people have crammed in like this. >> reporter: this is a high-tech company virtual computing environment. >> we looked both coasts. boston area, chicago. >> reporter: the vice president said that the company picked a dallas suburb in large part b because of a program created by rick perry. >> d texas come after you guys in. >> they didn't approach us proactively. when we came here, they embraced us heavily. >> reporter: in march, rick p per perry mentioned that a health care would be locating to the dallas suburb of plano. he said that the company would create hundred new jobs in dallas. a official at golden living said they're relocating 50 of those employees and hire another 50 here. >> job attraction and job creation are two different things. if all of you're doing is moving jobs from utah to texas, then the nation's not any better off competitively. >> reporter: critics say that governor perry is claiming credit for things out of his control. about a fourth of the jobs created in texas under perry are mostly government jobs. the state's also benefitted from high energy prices, fueling growth for oil and gas companies. but rick perry's convinced that voters will give him credit for making texas a better place to do business. >> and ed joins me live from dallas. bottom line, is ricky perry a job creation master mind? >> that's what he wants people to believe. his critics, you heard mitt romney said, when you're dealt four aces, the oil and gas industry in texas has been going pretty well. the governor will latch on to that as well. you know, a lot of his critics will say, if it fits on the bumper sticker nicely that the texas is doing better much of the country. >> a couple of things that i find interesting here if you look at what's helped texas, hasn't it been big government and government jobs and even the stimulus which rick perry isn't exactly a fan of? >> this is interesting. the texas legislation meets every two year. obviously, this year, governor perry wasn't going to touch stimulus money. it needed federal stimulus to balance the budget. lot of people don't remember that, or haven't really paid a lot of attention what happened two years ago. what's interesting as well n the last few months, we have seen an uptick in the texas unemployment rate, it's at 8.4%. the national unemployment rate is 9.1%. when those unemployment numbers and texas numbers are a lot closer than they are right now? what does that to rick perry's campaign? that would -- many people think that would deflate rick perry's jobs theme that he has going so well for him. >> ed, thank you so much. checking some other developing stories that we're following along with you today, not the kind of news that you want to especially if yourself if this money, russell pierce, the state's supreme court has cleared the way for vote. supporters trying to block the move on grounds that there were problems with petitions calling for the reform. casey anthony's parents speaking out on the case that a lot of people just can't seem to get enough. in an interview on the dr. phil program, george and cindy anthony said they still have questions about her granddaughter's death. cindy mentioned that casey had a history of seizures. >> i don't know if she had a e seizure that day. there's a cause for those. >> george and cindy's comments on the dr. phil program, are the first since their daughter was cleared in the murder charges in the death of her daughter. good news for you who have been outraged over physical searches on children. new procedures should reduce not completely eliminate the number of times that children are patted down. a f a suspicion object, kids will allow multiple passes throu through. the new rules will be rolled out in the coming weeks and months. google's taking off into a whole new industry. what the powerhouse company thinks it can help you do better. next. yep. the longer you stay with us, the more you save. and when you switch from another company to us, we even reward you for the time you spent there. genius. yeah, genius. you guys must have your own loyalty program, right? 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>> reporter: that's a good question, randi. one big difference google actually makes you an open-ended destination search. if you're flying out of san francisco and you want to get out of town, you don't know exactly where, you know the perimeters, you want to visit somewhere within three hours, for less $300. you can do that with this google search. google.com/flights. that's where you can find this. it just rolled out yesterday. you can search round trip domestic to limited cities. some cities don't pop up. yours did. i did an open-ended dst nations for next week. i can fly to atlanta next week and visit you for $224. >> what a deal. i think you should come visit. >> let me ask you, what does it mean to other search engines? >> if you look at the other rivals they offer more complete searches. their searches include hotels and cars. also, it's a very, very crowded marketplace right now. there's orbitz, bing, priceline. remember, google is one of those real giants in search and it does offer some different options, it could become a force to reckon with as it grows. randi? >> speaking of the marketplace, and the markets, we have had a nice couple of days on wall street, how is today looking? two we're seeing the dow move between losses and the gains. right now the dow is higher. close to a session high right now. some retailers are ral lig. analysts say, what we're watching right now is a very fickle market, it's probably going to stay that way because we have those worries hanging around about europe. you know, after some so many bailouts already for greece, it's going to be tough to push that financial help through with germany fighting against it. >> alison kosik, thank you for seei. coming up the man accused of killing michael jackson about to get his day in court. a look at michael jackson's doctor next. met an old man at the top asked him if he had a secret and the old man stopped and thought and said: free 'cause that's how it ought to be my brother credit 'cause you'll need a loan for one thing or another score 'cause they break it down to one simple number that you can use dot to take a break because the name is kinda long com in honor of the internet that it's on put it all together at the end of the song it gives you freecreditscore-dot-com, and i'm gone... offer applies with enrollment in freecreditscore.com [ doorbell rings ] hello there. i'm here to pick up helen. ah. mom? 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[ female announcer ] new ultra downy with silktouch, it's an upgrade in a bottle. if you were to walk down the street right now, i want you to look at this. about 1 out of every 6 people that you pass could be living in poverty, many of them are children, that's the brutal reality according to the latest numbers released by the census bureau. a new segment devoted to news this we should be covering a whole lot more. here are what the numbers tell us. there you go, last year's the nation's poverty rate was 15%. more than 46 million people lived in poverty last year that 's the highest number in 52 years. we're talking more and more of your family members, your friends and co-wokkers just struggling to survive. what's the most heartbreaking is how this has devastated the children. 1 out of every 5 children live in poverty. the poverty rate for them is 22%. i want to point out that's higher than the nation's overall rate. and the rate for african-american children is nearly 40%. 39.2%. and for hispanic children more than 1/3 live in poverty. we're just scratching the surface here. here to talk with us about this is tavis smiley. what's most striking to you about these latest numbers that we just looked at? >> well, first of all, randi, thank you for doing this statement. this is a subject matter that we ought to be talking about in this country. too often those us in the media, are content to cover the horse race in washington. to answer your question, what troubles me about these numbers is that they keep growing. no signs that these numbers are going to go down. in any significant way. over the next couple of years. i just saw a report in the car on the way to the studio in new york, suggested that african-american unemployment isn't going to drop until 2013, maybe 2014, that's a long time to go with numbers increasing every month, every quarter and so the striking part to answer your question, these numbers keep growing. >> and what would you say is happening to the middle class? when you look at these numbers, some people describe it as society is taking the shape of an hour glass. >> the new poor are the former middle class. i get sick and tired of politicians talking all the time about and to the middle class as if somehow the middle class is the same now then it was ten, 12 years ago. the new poor are the former middle class. the numbers that you just laid out, make the case loudly. more and more people are falling into the ranks of the poor every single day. so, at some point, politicians have to stop being afraid to say the word, poor, we can discuss everything else in washington. and never get serious about a conversation about we eradicate poverty. the folk they should be referencing f the middle class continues to fall more and more into the ranks of the poor, we have to move beyond to placate and talk about the middle class. >> tavis, when you talk about the president's jobs plan, extending unemployment benefits, unemployment insurance helped 3.2 million people out of poverty in 2010, so how significant or how important is this? >> i think his jobs bill is important. i think he should have gotten around to this earlier. having said that, i'm glad that he finally addressed the issue. the question is, will he compromise or cave when the republicans start pushing back on this plan? as they surely will. will he have the courage, conviction, commitment to stand by the proposals that he laid out? having said, i don't think personally, with all due respect to the president, is big enough. that's the real issue for me, we got to serious about this. i'm glad we're starting somewhere. i wish the plan were bigger. considering the deficit reduction plan passed this summer, that plan didn't have any new taxes on the rich or the lucky. didn't close a single corporate loophole. the question is, will the president and those who support this plan stick by it? or will they get pushed against the wall again by the republicans in. >> very quickly here, how do we get beyond these numbers? how do we pull this country out of poverty? >> by making jobs a priority. i can do it quickly. this country can do anything it wants to do when it makes the issue a priority. we bailed out the washington and the auto industry. we won wars. this is not a skill problem, it's a will problem. do we have the will to eradicate poverty in this country? >> tavis smiley, such an important topic to who gives it attention. we'll continue to follow it and we hope to have you on again. >> good to be on with you. coming up the man accused of strapping a fake bomb on 18-year-old girl has a court date today. i'll tell you what you missed right after the break. 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