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morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. >> good morning, alina. >> good morning, everybody. welcome to "american morning." it is tuesday october 25th. i'm alina cho along with carol costello. ali and christine are off today. >> up first this morning, presidential politics as texas governor rick perry trying to one-up herman cain's 9-9-9 plan and get back the good graces of gop voters. this morning perry will unveil his economic growth plan that includes a flat tax. cnn deputy political director paul steinhauser joins us from washington with more details. he ha...

the income tax rate they pay now or 20%. it would keep the hugely mortgage interest and deductions for families earning less than half a million a year and would cut the corporate tax rate from 5% to 20 and temporarily slash it to 5.25 and eliminate taxes on stock dividends and long term capital gains. perry says he aims to unleash american ingeneral unite for a new american century. >> we will set our employers and our people free by slashing the cost of government, cutting taxes for the middle class families, balancing our budget and growing our economy. the future of america is to...

41 people now confirmed dead from hurricane irene. this hour vermont is still trying to pull people out of the rushing rivers. i'll speak with several people still trapped there. including a groom got married saturday, hoping to leave on his honeymoon in 48 hours. we'll get a live update pr him. also from fema and the governor of vermont. stay tuned for that. in addition to the wildfires, there's talk about a formation off the coast of the yucatan peninsula. chad myers, who is racing back out here. chad myers, as we're looking at this formation, do we need to be worried? >> we don't ...

Families have been huge. it's good to get good news, and it's great to have the support of americans behind us. the key for us now is to keep that up. memorial day is coming in a couple of weeks, we want americans to remember this feeling, remember that support for our troops and veterans, carry it over to memorial day, veterans day and throughout the next couple of years, we need folks to stay focused after this event passes. >> you went down to ground zero the night of. why did you go down there? >> i was there working as a rescue worker ten years ago. never thought i would go back and see f...

And that must be is going up. in ringgold, georgia, a town flattened. >> death toll now stands at seven but that number will likely rise the next 48 hours with the cadaver dogs out. a rescue worker expects the body count to go up quite a bit because they are finding a lot of bodies there. a short timing a we were in the commercial center of town and it is a scene of devastation and entire buildings, and hotels and restaurants and mcdonald's gone. the high school hit hard and the church. a real sense, here, too, of fear, shaken up to the degree of damage and the rapidness which it all happened....