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>> that was cool. "american morning" continues right now. after the deluge, i'm christine romans, tropical storm lee now a tropical depression, but still, packing plenty of rain after dumping a foot on parts of the gulf coast. >> i'm carol costello. right now massive wildfires threatening to burn down thousands of homes in texas. it is the worst fire season in state history and it's far from over on this "american morning." all right. good morning, everybody. it's monday, september 5th. labor day. welcome to "american morning." ali is off today. >> happy labor day. i hope you're ...

Getting any jobs bill passed and these presidential actions by all accounts are really operating on a small level. so as we approach election day, thomas, the main indicator that people are going to be looking at really is the unemployment rate, which, as i said, is at 9%. not expected to drop that much lower when voters head to the polls. thomas? >> nbc's kristen welker at the white house for us. as we did mention, president obama will layout his plan for getting war vets back to work in aen hour. stay with us for live coverage beginning at 12:00 p.m. eastern for that talk. as kristen jus...