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>> reporter: casey wian, cnn, los angeles. let's take it to the next level. "cnn newsroom" continues right now with ali velshi! >> tony, i love it. thank you. i'm ali velshi and i'll be with you for the next two hours, today and every weekday. wh break down every important we cover -- break down every topic that we cover that's important to you, and give you a level of detail that will help you make important decisions about your voting, your spending, your safety, and your security. now, we're going to start with the president's state of the union speech and a trip that he's m...

at 8:00 p.m. eastern. see you back in the situation room tomorrow, 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. eastern. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. up next, campbell brown. we are beginning tonight with the staggering task of rebuilding in haiti. the government is putting the number of haiti's homeless at 1 million, the capital of port-au-prince virtually in ruins. you've of course seen the pictures over and over again. christiane, i know you spoke to the prime minister. give us a sense of the plans at this stage. do they have any? >> well, the plans are sort of in the initial stages. it wasn't ...

the young people of this country that i've met all across america, they understand that this is the challenge of their generations. leaders in the business community are standing with leaders in the environmental community to protect the economy and the planet we leave for our children. the house of representatives has already passed historic legislation due in large part of the efforts of massachusetts's own ed marquee, who deserves a big round of applause. we're now seeing prominent republicans like senator lindsey graham joining forces with long-time leaders like john kerry on thi...

i think of it as silver buck shot. >> well, that's a distinction that some of us who aren't hunters don't understand. joining us from the white house is vice president joe biden's chief economist joe bernstein and buck shot expert. something tells me you may not be any better at this than me. >> i think the difference between bullets and buck shots. >> heck, i covered dick cheney in the white house, i knew something about it. or bird shot, i should say. but let's talk about what joe biden had to say today. this was the vice president talking about next week's address to the nation re...

weeks? just because advocates have been outshouted, the question now is, will they be outvoted. the president doubling down now making this big speech to joint session of congress on wednesday to try to shift the parameters of this debate to get back on offense and they have been on defense all summer long. monica? >> mike, the language we heard from the white house from people like david axle rod, they have been using phrases like this is the eighth inning, the ninth inning, the end game. they are really making it as if this is it for the president and he'll push that final argument...