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endangering the lives of civilians who could be caught in the crossphile. jurlists, three being held after five days at the tripoli hotel. cnn's chaunce was one of them. steve jobs will step down. jobs is on his third medical leave of absence. he didn't mention his health problems directly but he said the time has come to resign. portions of the u.s. east coast are likely to be under a hurricane watch in just a few hours. hurricane irene is tearing through the bahamas right now with sustained winds at 160 miles an hour. it could hit the populated, northeast this weekend. those are ...

broker a ceasefire. meantime, a bombshell in the business world to tell you about. steve jobs steps aside as apple's ceo. we'll hear who's in line to replace the long-time leader. and hurricane irene batters the dominican republic, is over the bahamas and is heading towards the united states. full coverage of all these stories is straight ahead. -- captions by vitac -- battles, bounty and an offer to broker a ceasefire. we begin this hour with developments from libya. fighting continues to rage in the capital as rebels take on pockets of resistance. gunfire can be heard in the ...

Hill conservatives in in a effort to defund the remaining stimulus, and he says some $168 billion has still not been spent and another $7 billion is unsubmitted so far and is it possible to return the money to the treasury? here now congressman thaddeus mccotter of michigan and a member of the house financial services committee and democratic congressman fraon th house budget and services committee. congressman mccotter, do you think rescinding the remaining stimulus fund and sending it back to the treasury for deficit reduction would send an important message that our government is truly seri...

The help and what it has done varies state by state. california, 42,000 jobs added because of stimulus money in that period of time, florida, 58,000 jobs is what they are saying on recovery.gov. look at nevada. they have the single highest unemployment rate in the country. it is 14.5%. they have seen just over 2500 jobs added. so nevada not getting the help that many argue that it would need. it differs state by state, but you are hearing political cries over this, saying, look, this hasn't worked from republicans and the white house saying it certainly has. >> obviously the cost, poppy, we're...

That would help put our economy on a stronger road to recovery. >> so it is not stimulus. >> are you prepared to deficit spend? >> there are certainly proposals in here that would do that. >> my next guest supports what the president is doing. democratic congressman from massachusetts joins us now. congressman, in 2007 president bush, then president bush agreed with nancy pelosi on a $168 billion stimulus plan. in march of 2009, president obama passed the $814 billion stimulus program. and now, after all this spending we have 1.percent growth. why do you think another stimulus program would wo...