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Time for your "top of the hour" reset. hi, everyone, i'm brooke baldwin, here for you in the "cnn newsroom." it is 12:00 noon in the city of savannah, georgia, where the president will be unveiling his new program that he says will create jobs while giving your home a makeover. we'll bring it to you live in about a half an hour from now. meanwhile back in washington, a republican senator has presented a roadblock to new jobless benefits and other federal spending. and 2:00 p.m. in chile, where the president there doubles the number of troops in the earthquake-ravaged zone and welcomes th...

He'll tell you he can do it. but don't listen to him. so, that creates work for small businesses and contractors like some of the folks who are here today. and obviously construction work is -- that's been as hard hit as anything during this recession. so, you've got a lot of skilled contractors ready to go. and that, in turn, means that the contractors start hiring some of these folks who may have been laid off. some of them may have been trained right here at savannah tech. you also have to buy the insulation and the other materials, and that means you're producing bims fe ining busines loca...