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today. here in south carolina, a handful of republican presidential candidates took part in a forum organized by the conservative and tea party power broker senator jim demint. what are the programs at the federal level that we need to get out of the federal government? well, that s a difficult question because that s a long list. i d rather you give me the list of one of the things we should keep. president obama was also on the road this labor day in detroit for what the white house billed as an official policy event. thank you, everybody. thank you. thank you. thank you. but those chants of four more years and the appearance with major players from organized labor left doubt the focus was on the troubled economic climate that puts the president s re-election hopes in serious jeopardy. now is not the time for the people you sent to washington to worry about their jobs. now is the time for them to worry about your jobs. action in new hampshire too, where ....
a leading congressman says we decades if not centuries of should pay for it but only with protocol in what republicans spending cuts in unrelated call an effort to run up the programs elsewhere. even though during another big gop. disaster, he wanted relief money in case you were wondering what all the gamesmanship and game for his own district with no strings attached. playing and petty politics is we re keeping them honest tonight. about, jobs, not politics, jobs. also in a moment, we ll take you new numbers tonight showing the live to a town that s still private sector created fewer under water and you ll hear from than 100,000 jobs this month. a man who has been stranded by hurricane irene and he says forgotten by fema. rising waters leaving him surrounded. president obama requested a time roads are gone. to speak to congress wednesday nearby houses gone as well. power is out. supplies are still limited. night to lay out his new jobs he says he hasn t seen a govern ....
that may come as news to thousands of vermonters that still do not have power or cannot get in out of their homes or towns but have lost their homes or businesses, but four days after irene came and went food and supplies are reaching towns that had been entirely cut off. and there are makeshift roads made for emergency vehicles only, and national guard helicopters are going where atvs can t. some of the 16 helicopters now on the job are on loan from new hampshire, right next door, and illinois, hundreds of miles away. amber lyon is in the town of wilmington. do the folks you met believe the worst is over? reporter: they do. they feel positive, randi. you can t go anywhere look at this. we have construction equipment wheeling by. you cannot go anywhere in vermont without finding road crews out here trying to rebuild and open the communities, randi. when you talk about what is being done there, and you are showing the road and the construction being done, but what ....
where the only way out is by chopper or boat. and some folks in some areas in vermont are frankly strand asked have been since the storm on sunday. near paterson, inning, the passaic river is 18 feet deep. they ve been evacuating people from here all day. and just down the river in wallington borough, evacuations went out at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. rescuers have been busy pulling 34 people to safety in paterson, new jersey. 14 kids among them. three dogs. people stayed thinking the worst was over, not knowing the rivers were still rising. even in a place where you expect water, they have never seen anything like this before. look at the images. in little falls, new jersey. more like niagara falls, so much storm water flowing through. in vermont we re getting around, it is not only impossible. hundred of stretches of roads have been washed away. the national guard is bringing in supplies in some of the hardest hit areas. in addition, nearly 3 million homes are without po ....
i m gloria borger. john king is off today. thanks for joining us on what turns out to be a very significant day on the campaign trail. mitt romney who has been taking a rather low-key approach to his republican opponents so far today decided to take some jabs at the man who s replaced him as the official frontrunner, texas governor rick perry. and he did it in perry s home state. thank you. during a speech to the veterans of foreign wars convention in san antonio, romney pointed to his own business resume and then took a shot at people he called career politicians. i m a conservative businessman. i spent most of my life outside politics, dealing with real problems in the real economy. career politicians got us into this mess, and they simply don t know how to get us out. get ready for even more romney versus perry. late this afternoon we learned romney has changed his mind and now has decided to attend a candidate forum on monday in south carolina. rick perry, ....