let's talk a quick look at this poll from the nbc wall street journal. just came out this morning. shows that rick perry is riding very high at 38% in this poll. in fact, he's got a 15-point lead over romney. the problem with this though is that he's the front-runner and nobody want to be the front-runner this early on. it puts him at the top of the mountain. all the other candidates will try to push him off that moup tan. rick perry has had a fantastic start with his campaign about a-month-old. he is the front-runner and there are problems that come with that. randi? >> yes, we got a long way to go. mark preston, thank you very much. be sure to tune in to cnn sunday night for the cnn tea party express gop presidential debate. that is live from tampa, florida. our coverage with the best political team on television starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern. thanks for watching. that will do it for me. cnn newsroom continues right now with brooke baldwin. hey there, brooke. >> randi, good to see you.

thank you very much. i'm brooke baldwin. i want to pass along a quick note on an announcement from mitt romney. the former republican governor of massachusetts will lay out his plan to put americans to work. he'll do that a little later this hour in nevada. we, of course, will bring that to you live. first shall we're working right now to get more details on this deadly shooting that happened earlier today in nevada. here's what we know right now. a man reportedly entered this ihop restaurant, we're talking approximate carson city, nevada, shot three people dead, wounded six others and then turned the gun on himself and shot himself. last we heard, the shooter is not dead. but is not expected to survive. a police spokesperson says at least two of the people killed in that restaurant were military members and they were there in uniform. no identity kret on that gunman. we're making calls and if we get someone on the line, we'll have

it live on cnn. i want to move to texas where firefighters are struggling to control dozens of wildfires burning all across that state. two people have been killed, 700 homes destroyed and thousands of acres scorched since last week. this is the worst fire season in all of texas history. although wind speeds, they are down today, that should help somewhat. the firefighters battle gain the upper hand over all these different planes. i wanted to take a look at this picture. this is a picture, obviously the fires from space. this is from the international space station. the smoke is so thick, it can just be seen like a cloud all over texas. governor the texas, rick perry, he had words of caution for texans today. >> texans need to rile be careful as they go outside and any activities that could cause a brushfire. at this point we're urging people to avoid any outdoor activity which could conceivably

start a fire. >> let's go to jim spellman live in bastrop, texas. this is from texas forest service. this under scores how bad it is. this is unprecedented fire behavior. no one on the face of this earth has ever fought fires in the extreme conditions. bring me up to speed. >> it's unbelievable. 290-some consecutive days that they've been fighting these fires here. every time you turn around, a new one popped up. the main one we're following here has kicked up again. we see new smoke coming up here. inside that fire, right now firefighters are doing burnouts. clearing away brush by burning it around residences and setting up fire lines and try to get containment. it's unbelievable -- burned with starting sunday, prooke. about 500 homes destroyed in about a day are burning. what's really amazing here is down the road a few miles, another fire bopped up yesterday. 24 houses gone.

the steiner ranch fire, homes gone there. in houston, about 20 homes gone there. with the intense drought conditions shall the fires can pop up out of nowhere and the real shame about the last couple of fires is they're in populated areas. that's the last thing that -- in that perfect combinations for disaster of the fire, weather conditions in a populated area. it's devastating brooke? >> i'm trying to look at you, jim. let's pull jim up full, roger. over your shoulders, i see white. is that just a wall of smoke behind you? >> uh-huh. it goes on. it just goes on and on. >> wow. >> it's really intense and it's not as bad right now, brooke as it was yesterday when the wind was blowing. when the wind is calm, the smoke settles down and it's less distinct. it goes on and on. yesterday, as we arrived driving in, it was like staring up at a skyscraper or something. had yient wall of smoke. that's what the firefighters are

dealing with. >> talk about what the firefighters are dealing with. i know that they have this two-prong approach, right? trying to fight it from land and from air. how do they do that? >> uh-huh. so from the air, we've all seen that. helicopter drops of mostly water and plane drops of water and fire retardant. on the ground is really back breaking work. they're in there with chainsaws and setting these fires. they have these little tanks with fuel in them. they set these little fires. you have to be careful about that. they have to take advantage of the relatively calm winds. this is about the time of day when the winds pick up. as well as the fire that exists, it can pick up an ember, shoot it on the other side of the fire line. now, the firefighters have fire on both sides of them. you have to pull over and start again. it's really punishing work that they do really, really well and unbelievable conditions. >> you mentioned the 500 homes lost just on sunday. where are those people going? there are a number of shelters set up. what kind of help are they

receiving? >> there's a few hundred people in shelters, a lot of people staying with friends, family members. that sort of thing. you've seen this community like in the disasters, pulling together, people taking each other in. some people are trying to rent homes. families getting together to do that. trying to get through it. a lot of people don't even know what the status of their home is. haven't been able to go back in and get an assessment. >> people are dropping by here. command centers to pick up water. even things like underwear, pair of socks to get them through the immediate next day or two. i mean, it's really that severe. could be as much as half of the community. that have their homes lost or heavily damaged. a lot of people starting from scratch. >> not each knowing, that would be difficult. do i have a home or not? jim spellman, thank you so much. as jim mentioned, people have

fled the area, they're forced to escape. grab whatever they can. throw it in a car and leave. many are not sure what remains of their homes. if anything. sharon johnson evacuated in a hurry after friends called to warn her and her family. she joins me from bastrop, texas. let's begin your home. what's the word? >> the word is that our house is gone and i've received confirmation that our house is definitely burned. >> so your house gone. you're one of the 500 who lost your home on sunday. where are you staying right now in. >> right now, we're staying at a friend's house in town. and we -- we're fortunate enough to be able to get a rent house and we're going to be moving over to the rent house either this afternoon or maybe tomorrow.

there's a lot of uncertainty because you see the smoke behind us. it's hard to nowhere to go. >> can you just elaborate on what that feels like. you've lost your home. you're trying to work out your tear shelter, rent house and also what was the moment like when you tossed your kids and the dog in the car and took off. what was that hike? >> you said it exactly. you tossed the kids and the dog in the car and took off. and out on the street, it was fairly chaotic. we spent -- sheriff's deputy who said the fire would be on our street in about ten minutes. once we turned on the highway, there was a ton of traffic, of course. there were cars. people with horses. lots of livestock in our area that i don't know if they've

been able to evacuate all of the livestock. we expect -- we have friends who have -- >> go ahead. go ahead. your friends? >> who have pets that were in their home that they weren't able to get home and so they haven't heard one way or the other if their houses are safe, if their animals are safe. so there's a lot of uncertainty right now. >> how are you drawing your strength? i understand you have a daughter claire, who is pretty tough gal. is she helping you sort of move forward? >> she is amazing. claire just is so good in a crisis. she's so calm. and my husband, my family and our friends are really helping each other through this and helping each other stay focused on what we can at the moment.

first off, that we're safe and that we're together. and so it really helps you to put your priorities in order and my daughter's been gathering her friends together and they've been volunteering. there's a huge outpouring in this community of everybody trying to watch out for each other. >> a final question. >> up what they need. >> what do you need? how can we help you? >> thank you so much for asking. we received lots of calls and we're just not sure what we need right now. because you know, when you see the smoke, you don't know how entrenched you want to be in any new thought because that fire

could happen anywhere. the conditions are so bad right now for fires. but water good, ice water, inflatable beds have been just a godsend for us. food. just the real basic necessities. >> hopefully people are listening and hearing and maybe can toss some inflatable beds and water your way. my best to you and your whole family getting through this tough time. clearly. thank you so much. >> all right. thank you. this was a racially motivated hate motivated let's go kill a black guy crime. >> absolutely. there's no doubt. they were looking for a black victim. >> you remember this story? police say a group of teenagers targeted a man, they beat him, they ran him over in their truck because he was black.

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updating you because mitt romney, one of the presidential candidates, has now tweeted about this shooting this morning. he will be giving his jobs address in about 15 minutes. he says i'm deeply saddened by the senseless violence today in carson city. my thought and prayers go out to the victims and their families. that is from mitt romney who we will be hearing from in las vegas 15 minutes from now. the family of a black man killed in a brutal attack allegedly at the hands of seven white teenagers is looking for justice in a courtroom. james craig anderson died in june after being beaten and run over. today, his family filed a civil lawsuit against the seven teens who were involved in his death. the lawsuit claims the teens "set out on a mission to find and harm african-americans." two of the suspects, they are already facing criminal charges. they are 19-year-old deryl dedmon charged with murder. prosecutors say he led and

instigated that attack. they say he repeatedly beat anderson, ran him over with a truck, then boasted and laughed about the killing. >> also john aaron rice was initially charged with murder. a judge reduced the charge to simple assault because rice wasn't behind the wheel of the truck. the family's lawsuit says the other teens were negligent. it contends they acted as lookouts and did nothing to save anderson after he was beaten. they have this, surveillance video of the incident that cnn obtained exclusively. at the bottom right-hand corner of your screen, you can james anderson, he's walking along that sidewalk, he's highlighted or he was in that circle. you see the truck moving forward. prosecutors say this was after he was brutally beaten in that parking lot. he was staggering and then the truck backs up, surges forward and runs him right over. the southern poverty law center is helping anderson's family with the lawsuit. the group says this case goes

beyond what is happening in mississippi. >> this isn't just something that happens in mississippi. this is something that's happening all across the nation. we feel like this case is particularly egregious and we feel like that it gives the anderson family this opportunity to use this case as an object lesson, an example. hopefully, it will extend beyond this courthouse here. >> the fib is helping with that investigation and the district attorney is expected to take the case to a grand jury later this month. other stories we are keeping a close eye on for you. a long police standoff with a man who claimed to have a bomb. this is in australia. this man barricaded himself inside a law office with a young girl believed to be his daughter. there he is. making signs out this window here. shouting gesturing, after 11 hours of fruitless negotiations, police stormed the office, took the man into custody. the girl was reportedly not harmed. no official word on the man's

motivations or if he even had a bomb. the cia has a new man at the top. he is david petraeus hanging up the army uniform he wore for 37 years. vice president joe biden swore in mr. petraeus in the office this morning in the roosevelt room at the white house. the former commander of the u.s. troops in iraq and afghanistan takes over from leon panetta who is now defense secretary. petraeus is the 20th drekt director of the cia. former defense secretary robert gates is returning to school. he has been chosen to become the new chancellor of the college of william and mary in williamsburg, virginia. gates is a 1965 graduate of the school and will succeed former supreme court justice sandra day o'connor as chancellor there. it is not his first time in academia. he was president of texas a&m before george w. bush selected him to be his secretary of defense. just in to cnn, it's confirmed. eddie murphy will host next

year's oscars. this is the first time he has hosted the ceremony. murphy, of course, known for his comedy. saturday night live. beverly hills cop. nutty professor, franchises, he was the donkey in shah rec. he can sing and dance. the academy awards scheduled for february. and now, a quick check on some of the numbers here as we're about 45 minutes away from the closing bell on wall street. huber watching the time hour of trading. corrine a, not much positive news. what's going on? >> it's the same story, the economy. today is the focus is more about europe. there's fear that the problems in greece are continuing to deteriorate and spreading to countries like italy. also, we've got fears about the u.s. economy. growth here slowing to a crawl. this is not new news. this has been hanging over the market for weeks now. the dow has fallen from five out of the past six weeks.

the dow plunged 300 point in the first hour. we're well off the recession lows. 1.7%. we saw a bit of a bounceback after the release of a letter that bernanke sent to a senator in july. he said the u.s. banks aren't too exposed to european debt problems. >> let's talk jobs, ka rin owe. mitt romney will update his plan in a few minutes and president obama making a speech to a joint session of congress. how big of a concern is the job market for investors? >> this is huge. i spoke to a couple of traders today. they're not too optimistic about the jobs plan coming out on thursday. they want to see corporate tax cuts. they don't think that will happen. not a lot of optimism ahead of that speech on thursday. we've had a litany of bad news when it comes to the job front. world bank president zoellick says he sees the u.s. going through high unemployment and financial stocks have been particularly hard hit of late.

bank of america may have to cut 30,000 workers. deutsche bank is also warning that job cuts could be on the horizon and there are a lot of dark clouds over the fpgss because they're getting hit with more and more lawsuit. it could lead to cutbacks. this is particularly worse because you can't have a healthy economy without the banks. >> let's not forget the goose egg from the labor department on friday. zero net jobs created in august. ka rinna huber thank you very much. as i mentioned, heads up, we're waiting for mitt romney to appear on that stage in las vegas. as i mentioned, he's set to announce his jobs plan. will it be enough for republicans? we'll take you there live. also, this. >> all i know is that there was trouble and i wanted to warn everybody. >> ten years later, you're still thinking that? >> yeah. yeah. >> he warned the pilots of flight 93 moments before

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all this week here on cnn, we're presenting what we're calling the footnotes of 9/11. the people who went to work on september 11th, ten years ago, without knowing they would play a professional part in that tragic day. drew griffin met up with a united airlines dispatcher who on that day, remember that tuesday, suddenly found himself with information that his pilots in the air didn't know yet. >> for six years, ed ballinger

has been sailing away from his memories. his refuge, this boat named the great old broad. he's been afloat with his wife trying to escape the memory of a few brief words. beware, cockpit intrusion. >> try locking the so-and-so door. alert, hijacking. should i said possible hijacking. >> ballinger is footnote 69. ten years ago on september 11th, he was a dispatcher for united airlines in chicago handling 16 flights leaving the east coast and heading west. including united's flight's 175 out of boston and 93 from newark. >> all i know is that there was trouble and i wanted to warn everybody. >> one of those flights, ballinger tried to warn are the

airlines version of an e-mail, united flight 93. i was sending out messages one after the other. i think i sent 122 messages in a short time, an hour or two. i don't know what it was. like screaming on the keyboard. at that time, this huge tv's that we have came on with cnn. >> this just in, you are looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there. that is the world trade center. >> i saw the second airplane, which i didn't know at the time was my airplane. 175 hit the second tower. i thought the succinct method of doing the least amount of work. beware, cockpit intrusion. i sent to owl my 16 flights. before that was off, 93 called up and said they had military -- going off. >> 93 as routine at that point? >> it was routine. >> so you sent out your note and you know they got that. >> it came back, ed, confirm.

>> i confirmed back with him by tell him two airplanes at the world trade center, which i sent to all the other flight. >> but the confirmation came too late. investigators say two minutes after flight 93's pilot, jason dal requested clarification, hijackers stormed his dock pot. >> does beware cockpit intrusion say it all? can you say it faster, quicker? i wanted to quickly get the message out. >> it's ten years later. you're still thinking that. >> yeah. yeah. maybe i should have wrote a dissertation on the thing and sent it to everybody. but i just sent them the quickest, fastest i could. how would you do it faster? i keep asking myself that question. >> isn't that the real reason you're out on this boat? >> it could be.

yeah. >> that is just one of many stories we're going to be telling tonight about these americans. noted in what we're calling the footnotes of 9/11 in the commissioned report. watch drew's documentary at 11 o'clock eastern. it's called footnotes of 9/11. fsh here has a vote. if we go back and keep the eye on the prize, let's take these son of a ex -- harsh words from the teamsters boss before president obama addressed detroit. members are furious with the comments. james hoffa not apologizing. in fact, he's declaring war. that's next. cheesh cloo your dinner's in the microwave, dear.

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told you the top of the show about the fatal shooting in nevada right around 8:00 local time. breakfast rush. 11 o'clock eastern. three people shot and killed. two of whom members of the mill tear any uniform. six wounded. the gunman turned the gun on himself. although he's still alive. the u.s. senate has now reconvened. in fact, we turned around sound for you i want to play.

this is harry reid speaking about what happened in his home state a little while ago. take a listen. >> mr. president, i was saddened just a few minutes ago to hear of a senseless act of violence committed in our capital, carson city, nevada. it was a restaurant. there are few details on what happened or what led to this tragedy. occurred a few minute ago. here are the reports. three people are now dead and six others wound bid a single gunman. i extend my deepest sympathies to all those affected. the victims and their families are in my thoughts every day and will be every day and certainly they have been the last several minutes. i'm disturbed to hear that two of the victims were serving this nation proudly as part of the nevada national guard. >> senator harry reid there just moments ago speaking approximate what happened in carson city. meantime, here we are day after the holiday, hope you had a nice

labor day. in detroit yesterday, they had the president, they had organized labor and they had aretha franklin. >> ♪ ♪ >> singing aretha. she's looking good. age 69. still bringing it. then you have these labor guys. uaw, teamsters. you can say they brought it as well. they have not minced words. have a listen for yourself. >> we've got a bunch of people there that don't want the president to succeed and they're called the tea party. let's take these -- out and give america back to the america where we belong. thank you very much. >> we don't care about the debt ceiling. raise it. we don't care about the debt. spend it. what we care about is to put americans back to work.

we got 13 million people out of work. put them back to work. quit screwing around. >> okay. well, jimmy hoffa speaking i will of the tea party. they're saying that he was out of bounds inciting violence. calling on the president to denounce him. the president of the united states spoke there a little later on. we have not heard a response yet from the white house. we're watching the clock, watching the stage for mitt romney has been attacking on the slumping economy. any minute now, the republican will reveal his 59-point plan for creating jobs. we'll take you live to las vegas, next.

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watching and waiting for mitt romney. former massachusetts governor, to speak there from las vegas about his jobs plan. he plans to unveil this 59-point plan, 160 pages. i don't know if you read the usa today editorial from mr. romney, but he's ready to roll. we'll take him live as soon as we see him on the stage. meantime, we'll switch gears. we've talked texas drought. they need the rain. chad myers, though, katia, it's still out there in the atlantic swirling, category 3. >> big storm. >> anywhere near the east coast or blowing through? >> should turn earlier than irene. here's the irony of katia. we talked about what could have happened with irene, the potential was. katia is actually a -- not as strong hurricane pressurewise as irene, yet, because there's nothing influencing katia, the wind are 115 miles per hour. remember irene was supposed to be the big storm that could have hit the northeast, could have hit new york. well, the pressure was even lower in irene than this is

right now. brooke, the forecast is still to be -- it's going to be close to cape cod. block island. here's bermuda and here's the u.s. that's why we call it a gutter ball. it does not hit bermuda and not the u.s. i haven't seen the storm begin to make that turn yet. that's what we always wait for. that oh, is it going to turn, it's not turning yet, oh, there it goes, finally. it's sometimes a late arriving turn. if that happens, it could make some pretty good rip tides and current. we've talked about some of the stingrays and the jellyfish that are now being washed up on shore in florida because of the big waves from katia. i know it's a long way off, but the waves come in with this. so still a potential storm. i'm not giving up on it yet. if you had asked me should i go to cape cod for the weekend, i will say wait until tomorrow. then i will give you my opinion. wait until you see if it turns or not. if we see the turn, everybody is in good shape. if we don't see the turn, it could be more sinister.

talking about lee, we'll change directions just for a second because those big red boxes, brooke those are tornadoes watches. you saw the tornadoes in georgia. south carolina, north carolina, into virginia today for the potential tornado. not a big storm, but a lot of wind made smoke and fires in texas. >> they didn't get the rain,just the wind which is not good news for the firefighters. chad myers, thanks so much. wind die down for a tad today. i'm going to sneak over and i do see mitt romney on the stage. we're going to sneak in a quick break and once he gets to the meat of his jobs address, which should be momentarily, we'll bring it to you live. be right back. oath. the same set of values that drive our nation's military are the ones we used to build usaa bank. from free checking to credit cards to loans, our commitment to the military, veterans, and their families is without equal. ♪ visit us online to learn what makes our bank so different.

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want to remind you we're keeping a close eye. he's still being introduced. not quite speaking yet. presidential candidate mitt romney. as he gets into the details, outlining the job plan, a lot of americans want to hear about jobs. want to move on and talk to you about this. this story may seem a tad familiar. if not a little strange. remember this little phone. it was lost in a bar back in april of 2010. well, it's happened again. much like the iphone 4. apple once again searching for a secret prototype that could be the iphone 5. reportedly this poen was also lost in a bar. dan simon is on the hunt. >> a new not yet for sale iphone would be considered priceless if it ever got into the hands of apple competitors who would love to take it apart and find out what's inside. so if reports that an apple employees lost an iphone five

prototype are true, whoever found it probably had no idea what he or she had stumbled upon. >> with an ad that appeared on craigslist offering the phone for $200 from a bernl heights resident. we think that's where it ended up. >> c net reported that an apple employee lost the iphone in a bar in san francisco. >> it appears to be you have a few too many drinks and you leave it behind. >> the san francisco police department put out a press release friday evening saying apple requested assistance in tracking down a lost item. police said four police department officers accompanied employees to a san francisco home. they went into the house to look for the lost item. none recovered. but then the publication, sf weekly reported that it interviewed a man who consented to having his home searched for a phone last month after being confronted by people he presumed were police officers. no one in the group identified

themselves as apple employees. again, no comment from apple. this whole story may seem a bit familiar. >> iphone 4. >> when steve jobs introduced the iphone 4 last year, he joked about whether anyone had seen it in advance. >> stop me if you've already seen this. [ laughter ] >> that's because many had. >> i'm jason chang. this is the new iphone. >> an iphone 4 prototype was lost in a bar and wound up in the hands of a tech guy which paid $5,000 for the device. dan simon, thank you. there is possible good news for all you sprint customers. wall street journal is reporting that the iphone will soon be available to you, either later this month or october. and we're going to get a quick break in. we're keeping a close eye on the mitt romney event in las vegas. we'll bring it to you live momentarily. be right back. purn push

there he is. just now taking the podium saying his hellos, presidential candidate mitt romney about to outline his jobs plan. >> it is great for human beings to participate in hard work and it's also great for the country as people work hard, we're able

to build a strong economy that can afford a military that can defend us. my heart goes out to those in our military and the lives that have been lost today. [ applause ] we love and care for the people who serve us. thank you to congressman joe heck for welcoming us here in his district. appreciate his election and look forward to many more. [ applause ] now, this is going to be a conversation today. i don't have a text written. you can actually see here what i've got. i've got some notes. some things i want to tell you. i'm not going to be reading. i don't have a teleprompter here. nothing wrong with that. i use them from time to time. i just want to talk to you about our economy, about what's happening to american families and what it's going to take to america back to work again. not just over the next couple of months, but over the next couple

of decades. before i get into my plan, i want to describe for you the vision i have what this country ought to look like down the road. there are a number of things. one is middle income americans, the average american ought to have the highest income in the world. they calculate that as gdp per capita. let's say simply, our people should be the best paid people in the world. that's number one. number two, it should be good to be in the middle class in america. you shouldn't have to wonder -- [ applause ] how you're going to meet your bills and how you're going to afford college for your kids and whether you can take the prescriptions that have been prescribed. it should be good in the middle class in america. america should be a job machine, jobs being created all the time, people looking for employees to join their enterprises, young people coming out of college, able to get jobs right away, people coming out of vocational schools, able to get jobs right away, even those coming out of high school knowing there are

opportunities for them. we should have a job creating machine in america. we also ought to see the world buying the things we make. we should be proud of the fact that they buy as much from us if not more than we buy from them. and we also -- i also see america being on the leading edge of inno he vavation. when there's a new invention, new economy, new era at the very front is america. innovation and being the innovation leader in the world is probably the best leading indicator of what the future will be. with those elements of vision in place we know one thing, we'll never question whether the future will be brighter than the past. we're leaving to our kids a legacy of prosperity and liberty and america will remain as it's always been, an example to the world, a shining city on the hill, and the hope of the earth. that's the vision.

[ cheers and applause ] now to john and a few of the other older folks in the audience, like myself, that sounds a bit like more of the 1950s and 1960s and the 1970s, and you might say, can't we just go back to the way things were back then? well, a lot's changed in our economy globally over the last few day kads. i hope we recognize just how much has changed, and the fact that so much has changed says that the right course ahead is to adhere to the principles that made us the powerful nation we are economically but also to update our strategy, our economic policies in such a way that we can conform to the new realities of a new global economy and you know some of these changes. 30 years ago china represented 1% of the economic conditions of

the world, 1%. now they're ten times that amount. 30 years ago america was overwhelmingly the largest manufacturing nation in the world. this year, china is slated to pass us as the largest manufacturing nation in the world. about 30 years ago at the nobel prize awards, americans or people affiliated with american institutions won three-quarters of the nobel prizes. today it's less than half that amount. the world has changed. i mean 20 years ago if you wanted to make a phone call to the airport you took out a quarter and you went to the pay phone and you put it in the pay phone. today you got these things, all right? you got a smartphone, a pay phone you put your quarter in, oftentimes an operator came on, told you to put in a couple more quarters and you were connected to another person and spoke

voice to voice. if you happened to connect a fax machine, remember the screech it put in your ear? today with these you're connected to the world. you can buy products from anywhere the world, you can read what's being written all over the world. this is an entirely different economy than the kind of economy we knew in the '50s and the 1960s. and so our economic strategy has to be brought up to date and to make sure that we're able to provide the vision that i described. the right course for america is to believe in growth. growing our economy is the way to get people to work and to balance our national budget. the right answer for america is not to grow government or to believe that government can create jobs. it is instead to create the conditions that allow the private sector and entrepreneurs to create jobs, create jobs and to grow our economy. growth is the answer, not government. [ cheers and applause ]

now, over the last several months, my team and i spent a lot of time talking about what things we think we ought to do to update america's economic strategy for this century, and we put together a plan which i'll describe here in a moment and we've gone through an analysis to look and see what the impact would be on the american people and just to put this in context in the first four years, if i'm lucky enough to be president, in the first four years this will grow the economy at approximately 4% per year for each of those four years. it will add 11.5 million new jobs for americans. that's what i want to see happening. [ cheers and applause ] now let's just talk about how much the economy has changed globally and how we need to change our policies to take advantage of the changes.

one is, back in the 1950s and the 1960s, every business in the world wanted to be located here. this was the place business was done. this was the largest market in the world. nothing else compared with the market of the united states of america. and so government could charge businesses whatever the heck they wanted in taxes, because where else were the businesses going to go. this is where they were. this is where their capital was, their capital plant, their blast furna furnaces, transfer lines, assembly lines, all of them were here in the united states. today they're outside the united states. they're growing fast. america is not the only market in the world where enterprises wanted to participate. we now compete to grow and create jobs here so it's no longer a wise decision for us to have the highest tax rate for employers in the world. our taxes are higher than any other nation besides japan.

the average of developed nations tax rate for corporations is 25%. ours is 35%. we've got to bring our tax rate down to that same 25% level. i will do that on day one. there's something else we do that doesn't make a lot of sense. this was from the mind-set of the past. what we said in the past was if you're an american company and you're making money over in some far country and let's say you got a bunch of money you've made there, if you want to keep the money there and invest in that country, we'll let you do it tax free. you don't pay any u.s. taxes, you just pay local taxes but if you want to bring the money home and invest here, then we're going to tax you at our 35% rate. it doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? so we got to change it, they call it changing to a territorial system. we have to end the repatriation

tax and get money back to america to change and create jobs and invest in america. now we also got to help the american people not just american employers but the american people, if we're going to them grow this economy. if i were to ask who are the people hurt the most by the obama economy? you said it right there, the middle class. that's why i look at changes to our tax policy, the place i really want to make a difference is for the middle class and one way i'd like to do that is to help people in the middle class be able to save their money. how do you do that? i will eliminate any tax on your savings, if you're in the middle class. no tax on interest, dividends or capital gains. let's be able to save our money for our own future. now back in the 1950s and the 1960s and the 1970s, you could

put all sorts of regulatory burdens and government burdens and bureaucrat burdens on american business and again where else were they going to go? this was the biggest market in the world so they swallowed it and stayed right here. today they can go other places. of course it's still important to have regulations, to go after the bad actors and get them out of the marketplaces and toeffic but we've got to stap this extraordinary weight, the burden we put on small businesses and middle sized businesses as they try and grow or they won't be able to grow and start or they'll move elsewhere, so -- by the way, do you know how much the burden is? this is something that shocked me. do you know how much we pay in taxes a year as a people? if you take all the people in america and all the companies in america, and add up their income tax, the government collects about $1.1 trillion a year. that's the total amount. the government does a

calculation, however, of what the cost is of regulations per year. now don't forget, the total tax burden is $1.1 trillion. do you know what the total regulatory burden is? $1.7 trillion a year. this is not just some little side issue. this is burdens on enterprises from growing and expanding and starting in america, and if i'm in the white house, the first thing i'm going to do on day one is say all those regulations that were put in place by president obama, and by the way his rate of adding regulations is about four times greater than president bush's was. so all those policies, all those regulations he put in place, i'm going to stop in their tracks and say any of those -- [ cheers and applause ] any of those regulations, any of those regulations that cost american jobs we're going to get rid of. that's number one. number two we'll say to every department in government if you have a regulation you want to

enact, you have to remove another regulation of equal scale. that's number two. and number three, we're going to make sure congress gets in on the act. and what i mean by that, if some regulator wants to put in place some grand new scheme i want congress f it's a major new regulation, i want congress to be able to vote it up or down. i want people who we can elect or remove if we don't like him, having a word to say about the regulations and the burdens that are placed on american employers. again, in the past, the 1950s and the 1960s and the 1970s, why our market was king. everybody wanted to be here. businesses that i knew were oftentimes thinking about international markets as sort of gravy, icing on the cake. this is where the real stuff happened in this market. today some of the fastest growing economies in the world are outside the united states.

do you realize that the world, the global middle class is going to more than double over the next ten years? so markets for our goods and services are expanding extraordinarily, and so we have to rethink trade. there's also a reality associated with a nation that's a high productivity nation. we hear that term a lot, "high productivity." what does that mean? americans are the most productive workforce in the world. productivity means output per person. how much stuff each person does. on average we're the highest in the world. if people in this country can do more and more stuff per person, the question's going to be, well why do we need so many people? how are we going to find jobs for all those people if the ones we have are making more and more stuff per person? the answer is we'll find more jobs for our people if we can sell our goods to other nations, for a high productivity nation, it's good to have trade, as long

as the people we trade with play by the rules. over the last two and a half years, the european nations and china have been putting place trade agreements with other nations, and we've been sitting as if nothing's going on in the world, no trade agreements negotiated, no trade agreements signed, and by the way, that puts us behind. those nations that establish those linkages with other nations they get distribution, consumers in those markets get used to the brand names, and when we come in ten years later there's not much of a market for us. this doesn't make any sense at all. so i will dramatically increase the interest and the effort in our nation to establish trade relations with other nations. i'll actually establish something i'm going to call the reagan economic zone. i'm going to say to those nations around the world that want to trade on a fair and free basis, that will honor our intellectual property, our patents, our designs, our

know-how, if they'll honor those things and float their currency and not cheap, they can come in this reagan economic zone of prosperity and we'll trade in more places and americans will be seen around the world and one more thing i'll do, and that is i'll clamp down on the cheaters and china is the worst example of that. they have manipulated their currency to make their products artificially inexpensive, it's hallowed our manufacturing companies in this country, and i will label china as a currency manipulator and go after them for stealing our intellectual property and recognize if they cheat there is a price to pay. we're not going to have a trade war but we can't have a trade surrender either. we have to protect americans, that we have fair trade with nations willing to live by the rules and we're going to insist on that with all of our friends.

now you recognize in the energy world, you know that we're an energy-rich nation? but we're living like an energy poor nation. we have established in washington barriers by politicians who think they know better than american people and markets, hard to use coal, hard to get oil, hard to get natural gas, virtually impossible to establish a nuclear facility, nuclear power generation facility. look, i believe in wind and solar and green jobs are great except where are all those green jobs? a lot of those green jobs cost more other jobs, than the jobs they create. i want to take down those barriers and get america's energy industries and companies back to work, creating the energy we need at the price we can afford, and i'll do that. now let me mention one more

thing and i got a long list here and so i'm not going to go through all of them. but if you want to convince businesses -- and by the way what is a business? oots' jobs. you want to convince people like john to say i'm going to take my life savings and i'm going to go to my family and friends and say would you loan me some of your money and i'm going to start a business, maybe it's big companies that want to build a factory somewhere and deciding whether to build it in a nation in latin america or here in the u.s. or somewhere else, if you want to convince people to invest in america they have to have confidence that america's currency and america's government are stable, and that we're not going to find ourselves in a grease-like situation down the road and so it's absolutely essential to get this economy going long-term to stop this incess ant practice of spending massively more money than you take in. you have to ultimately balance our budget.

and so my economic plan lays out how i will ultimately get government to shrink, grow our economy, balance our budget so that investors in new jobs and enterprises will have confidence in america. now this is a pretty complete volume of the work that we've had over the last several months. it's about 150 pages with 59 different policy ideas. there are a lot more where these came from, but we've got one of these for each of you if you'd like to ache it and read it. if you don't happen to get one in your hand you can go on amazon kindle and you can -- i don't know if it's free or not, i hope so but maybe not, you can get one of these and take a look at it. it's in color on kindle so you can take a look and see the specific 59 steps i would take. this is an effort to really

update our economic strategy for this century, and the next century. this is recognition that the old ways have principles that will work forever, that growth is the foundation of economic prosperity but that our tactics and strategy have to be updated from time to time, particularly in a world that's changing at the rate our world is changing. now imagine why and then, why isn't obama working? why is the obama economy so tepid? how has it failed so badly to put americans to work? he'll be giving a speech in a couple of days. i haven't read it but i know what's coming. i've seen version one, two, three, four and five. they're not working, and the reason is -- [ cheers and applause ] i mentioned a moment ago we're now using smartphones, not pay

phones. president obama's strategy is a pay phone strategy and we're in a smartphone world. and so we're going to have to change -- what he's doing is taking quarters and stuffing them into the pay phone and thinking, can't figure out why it's not working. it's not connected anymore, mr. president. your pay phone strategy does not work in a smartphone world. i mean, we're going to have hear about another stimulus and more quarters, trillions of them. they won't be getting them back to work. a middle class that's prosperous, kids leading the world in innovation, continuing to do so. these outcomes, that vision

requires dramatic change, not more coins in a pay phone strategy. this is not just one silver bullet. there's not just one idea in here. there are 59 of them and i take on almost every element to get our economy going. this is practical. it was not created by a professor working alone in academ academia. nothing wrong with that. this is the product of somebody who spent his life in the private sector and has done business competing with businesses around the world. it's been done with my team. i've got a lot of folks i work with on this and helped write this. this is the result of practical work. it's a practical plan to get america back to work, and to strengthen the foundations of our economy. it's also immediate. this is not something which is going to take years and years to put in place. you see up here on the boards

day one i've got five executive orders to put in place. i wonder if that works. let's see, we're going to see -- oh there we go. magic of technology. day one five executive orders. the first one is going to direct the secretary of health and human services to grant a waiver from obamacare from all 50 states so we can stop that in its tracks. the second one is going to put all of president obama's regulations on hold until we see if they cut jobs and if they do, we'll get rid of them. the third one is open up production of energy across the country and get jobs as we do so and get americans back to work. the fourth one is going to send a signal that while we love free trade, they're going to open trade in a way no other president has done in history we're going to clamp down on china for not living by the rules they signed up to live by. we're going to make sure they

get sanctioned. and finally we're going to say to america's workers, that we're going to protect you with the right to a secret ballot and not going to impoles unions on you if you don't want to have unions and not going to have money taken out of your paycheck to go into political campaigns you don't agree with. we'll protect americas workers all on day one. i'm also going to file five bills on the first day and look to congress to get them in place within 30 days. number one we're going to call it the american competitiveness act, it's going to lower our corporate tax rate from 35% to 25% so we're competitive with other nations, among other things. we're going to open markets. we're going to sign immediately the agreements that are outstanding with other nations like colombia, panama and south korea and work hard to open markets to our goods around the world and get american products around this country -- around this nation, around the globe. number three, domestic energy,

pursuing legislation that allows us to take advantage of drilling in places across this country now close to drilling, we want drilling for oil and gas to create jobs and get energy no longer being supplied by the dictates of the oil cartels. retraining, retraining, do you know how many government programs there are for job training? we all know training for the jobs of tomorrow is important. do you know how many federal programs there are for job training? 47. 47. do i hear 48, 49? 47 programs. eight different departments managing 47 programs. only five of them have been evaluated, and the ones that have been evaluated were seen to be very limited help. look i want to take the 47 programs, collapse them down to one and turn them back to the states. the states ought to be running the programs, not the federal government. and it says down there, downpayment on fiscal sanity.

i'm going to pass, propose a bill and ask for it to be passed in 30 days that says this simply, immediately cut all federal spending by 5% except in the military and entitlements, all of our discretionary government spending cut immediately by 5% and there's more to come. look, this is a business plan for the american economy. we have to recognize that our nation is in competition with other nations around the world, and if we want to create jobs we have to have the best business plan in the world. we have the best people in the world, most productive people and innovative people, best universities and institutions of learning. this nation cannot be stopped. the only thing that's stopping us right now is government and we'll say stop government and let's start growing again as a nation. now all the talk i've just made

about this plan, let me notice something else which you recognize, and that is that the plan is no more than 25% or 30% of what has to be done. if we're going to get america going like it needs to go we have to rely on one thing, the american people. we have to work hard and smart. we're going to have to tell our kids to get the best education they can, whether in vocational school or push through high school and college, to push themselves as hard as they can. we can't just sit back and think we're entitled to the great wealth we enjoy. we're going to have to work hard. we're going to have to stop demonizing other americans. one of the places where the president has disappointed me the most is the way he's attacked other americans and found someone to scapegoat for any problem that exists. look, united we stand. united we stand. if we disagree with other people, fine. talk about those disagreements but don't turn other people into

enemies. and even the president, by the way, he's not a bad guy. he just doesn't know how the economy works. he never worked in the economy. i think to create jobs it helps to have had a job, and i have, and so i'm looking forward to him coming back into the real economy. and let me mention something else, and that is when you have a plan like this and you have people ready to go to work hard and to pull together as a people, you also have to make sure that you have leadership, leadership that knows what they're doing and knows how to lead. just having a plan, a plan can be written by anybody but it takes people and leadership to know how to execute a plan to make it work for the american people. i remember looking at companies like general electric back in the '60s and '70s under the leadership of jack welch. apple computer, wonderful

company, even starbucks led by individuals. what would happen if there were competition of jack welch of general electric and a second year business student describing what it takes to turn a business around? my guess is the second year business student would win but she wouldn't have a clue to do with reality. but jack welch would. there was a time when steve jobs was removed from apple computer. some other people had things on paper this looked smart but steve jobs was the real deal. he is the leader, he knows. he's done it before. that's the nature of real leadership. i don't have all the answers to all the problems that exist in america and around the world, but i know how to find the answers and i also know how to lead. i was in the business world for 25 years. i remember, i remember one of our very first investment

opportunities in my company was to decide whether to put over $1 million of our investors' money into a new idea called staples. you heard of that company, an office supply superstore and i went around, my team went around asking people what they thought of the idea and every person we talked to said it wouldn't work, would not work. they said people will not leave their offices to go by office supplies for a few bucks less. they want convenience. they want delivery. staples will not work and we proved them wrong. staples now employs over 90,000 people. i went to the olympics in 2002, the olympic games held at salt lake city. there's one of our volunteers there. he gave me his card as i came in and i came there in 1999, january or february of '99, there were people who said we ought to give the games back because they couldn't be successful and people came

together, that state and those people came together and i was part of that leadership team, we were able to turn those games around, dic ebersol, chief executive officer of nbc sports said those were the most successful olympic sports ever. i came to massachusetts had a $3 billion budget gap. people said you can't do that without raising taxes. i said we have to find a way because raising taxes hurts people and kills business. we were able to do that >> lawmakers across the country are talking about one thing, jobs, and now mitt romney add to that list, former massachusetts governor, businessman himself, knows a thing or two about business and the economy, taking a couple swipes at the president and you know, said essentially outlining 59 specific proposals, how he can bring, create, hire

in this country, and he actually said just a couple notes, i'll pass along a few he could add 11.5 million jobs in america over the next four years, ten concrete actions, executive orders or acts he could begin to enact in the first day if he's elected president, talked about lowering corporate taxes for the middle class, eliminating tax on savings, talked about the reagan economic zone which he said would be a partnership among countries committed to free and fair trade. go to cnn.com/politics and the good folks in our political unit will be writing up proposals to read. we'll be hearing from other gop hopefuls and the president of the united states, we'll be covering when the president goes to congress and addresses the joint session thursday 7:00 eastern, we will have full

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mistakes, heart legacy and more. wolf asked the former vice president about the effects of america going to war in iraq. here he is. >> i'm concerned that when all the dust settles in iraq, and the u.s. troops pull out, supposedly by the end of this year, although there may be a residual number of some troops left, when all the dust settles, the shiite-led regime in iraq of nuri al maliki will be a partner of iran and syria, nuri al maliki supported ba shbashar al, is that why the u.s. went to war? >> first you're constructing a worst case scenario. i don't think it's going to happen? >> you think there will be a democracy? >> i think the iraqis will in

fact be somebody we can work with on a regular basis that they will have a rudimentary democracy, if you will, and i think it will be a success. >> so when they support bashar al assad what goes through your mind? >> it looks like he's on his way out, by his own people. it's the middle east and stuff happens in the middle east. you've covered it for years. i don't think you can make the case that the world would be better today if saddam hussein were in power? >> no regrets in iraq? >> i think we made the right decisions. >> in that sit-down interview he asked cheney about his health and heart which the former vice president showed it off for the cnn camera, make sure you tune in, the top of the next hour for the entire interview, wolf blitzer in "the situation room," special edition of the sit room live in los angeles, 5:00 p.m.

eastern time. now speaking of l.a., let's go to jim acosta with the latest news fresh off the cnn political ticker. i'm sure you were sitting there as was i listening to mitt romney tick off a couple examples of his 59 point plan to create jobs. what jumped out at you? >> it's interesting to see mitt romney come out with a 59-point plan, he came out with a book his campaign e-mailed out to reporters covering his campaign, the fact that he has this 160-page book dedicated to getting jobs going in this country again so it's a my jobs plan is bigger than your jobs plan going on between the mitt romney campaign and the president who is going to have this big speech coming up on thursday night, and obviously some of this stuff is political, mitt romney is saying on day one of his administration he would get rid of obamacare as he calls the president's health care law but there are interesting items i think folks will sink their teeth into, one of them obviously is going to appeal to

tea party activists out there, talking about dramatically lowering taxes but one item on china, brooke, i want everybody to listen to, very interesting because this is something you've heard progressives talk about, something you've heard libertarians talk about, not something you hear a whole lot of mainstream politicians going on a rant about, the allegation that china manipulates its currency to keep the cost of its goods that it exports to other countries low which is an advantage for its economy and mitt romney actually went out and called china cheaters when it comes to its currency. take a listen. >> and that is i'll clamp down on the cheaters and china is the worst example of that. they have in a nip plated their currency to make their products artificially inexpensive, that's unacceptable and i will label china as it is, a currency

manipulator and go after them for stealing our intellectual property and recognize if they cheat they pay. we're not going to have a trade war but we can't have a trade surrender either. we have to protect americans and we have fair trade with nations willing to live by the rules and we're going to insist -- >> if it seems like mitt romney is pulling out all the stops this week that's because he is. there are two new polls out brooke as you know that show mitt romney basically pretty far behind rick perry who is es essentially the new front-runner in the race for the gop nomination and might explain why you saw another gop contender jon huntsman going after mitt romney's jobs accusing mitt romney's record in massachusetts the 47th in job creation, now jon huntsman is taking up that

line of attack. with rick perry in the front in the lead in this race, huntsman is trying to become the un-perry that romney very much at this point wants to stay the un-perry, we've been talking about that a whole lot lately, leaving the bachmann campaign in an official campaign, this is down to a two-person race between perry and romney, it's interesting to see mitt romney pull out all the stops and to see fellow republicans going after him on the jobs plan that quickly. >> you mention ed rollins leaving, still remaining in some capacity but joe johns was talking about that. >> as an adviser. >> yes, but go ahead. >> exactly right, a very different role for ed rollins, and it does show you this race is changing. >> it is. jim acosta, thank you very much, taking jabs at one another, in addition to the president, rick perry governor of texas headed home because here new video, firefighters fighting these

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i know a lot of you have been tweeting about me asking on this. we're working on getting more details on the deadly shooting that happened today, happened this morning in nevada. so far a man reportedly entered this i-hop strant in carson city, nevada, shot people,

killed three, wounded six others, turned the gun on himself, shot himself. last we heard the shooter is not dead but he is not expected to survive. additionally, a police spokesman says at least two of the people killed were military members in uniform, still no idea on the gunman, we'll give you updates as soon as we get them. texas is battling its worst fire season in state history. orange flames scorching thousands of acres. seven homes destroyed, two people died thus far, thousands evacuated. wind speeds, some silver lining, they are down today, giving firefighters a better chance to slow and try to contain some of the flames but the dry weather not making it easy for them. we bring back in jim spellman live in bostrop, texas. jim, 700 homes destroyed, 500 destroyed on sunday alone, is that correct? >> yes, just about.

maybe a few of those on monday but just amazing how intense this fire was, and how intense all these fires are that are breaking out over the last 48 hours or so. each seems to pop up and take out 20, 25 homes and there's this big one, almost 500 here. it's really impressive how dynamic this has been. it will cool down a little bit and we've seen flare-ups today. it's been cool today which helped firefighters and the winds have been lower but now hot again. there is avenue a lot of firefighters in the fire trying to create a fire line, a break between the active fire and the fuel that will feed it, forest and of course working around properties, trying to burn away foliage and create buffer zones. they have to take advantage of every minute of this calm weather. they think they'll have the moderate to low winds for the rest of the day. tomorrow a completely different story and the fire could flare up again. you get the winds especially what they're afraid of, embers that can lift off from the fire,

travel two miles, three miles away and start a whole new fire. a fire started by a single ember, bam, can take out another community, take out some homes and possibly hurt people so they have to take advantage of every minute of calm weather, brooke. >> firefighters are working from the air and also by land and then you have these homeowners, you and i have both spoken with this woman, hopped in the car, grabbed the calling it, a couple photos and they have to leave their home sunday, where do she and the hundreds, i don't know thousands of people who may or may not have lost their homes, where are they now? >> some of them are in shelters, a lot of them are staying with their friends and neighbors. what's going to be involved in rebuilding their lives her daughter, claire, has to go back to school sometime in the next few days. the principal's house is burned, a lot of classmates going through that and teachers and the same with police officers, firefighters. this is going to affect so many people in the community as all

of those institutions get going, will be really difficult and that's the kind of thing that people rely on, having the schools opened and things like that, all makes it more challenging for people to get back. it's how quick this came through, ten minutes when thor is i have told them to get out from when the house was burned. similar stories from people in the other fires across the state, brooke. >> it has been a tough year for texas. jim spellman thank you so much, covering it for us on the ground there, again, jim, thank you. now this. >> below the serene surface of lush landscape, moammar gadhafi built an intricate system, bunker designed to protect his family in the worst skcase scenar scenario. >> a fascinating look at secret bunker, showers, escape routes, underground hospital, and what may be his greatest fears, wait

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to libya now, still no word on the whereabouts of moammar gadhafi, despite the movement of two convoys of libyan officials out of libya into niger. u.s. state department officials responded saying they don't believe he was in any vehicles that left the country but we are getting a better look at how some in the gadhafi family lived

in tripoli. you are looking at a home once occupied by one of moammar gadhafi's sons, it was overrun and seized by rebel fighters. you can see we have cameras inside, looks normal aboveground but below ground a high-tech bunker with multiple entrances, decontamination showers, airtight bomb-proof doors, a full hospital with operating rooms, kitchens, bedrooms. analysts say the bunker system was designed to sustain and protect gadhafi family members for a long period of time. now let's go to the pentagon to correspondent barbara starr, she has news as the cia has a new boss today. >> first day on the job for dave petraeus at the cia as the new director. he retired from his long and noteworthy army career. now he puts on the gray suit. he might be putting on a

business suit but is he still the general? the cia is involved in lots of joint operations with the u.s. military conducting counterterrorism operations. we saw it in pakistan on the raid to kill osama bin laden. we're seeing more and more of it in places like pakistan, yemen, somalia, so a lot of people are saying dave petraeus may no longer be owe officially an army general but a lot of what he'll be doing at the cia is essentially running joint operations, very secret wars with the u.s. military. brooke? >> it's funny to see him in a suit, is it not? we're used to seeing him highly decorated, now in a suit and tie >> he's in a suit and tie, hair looks a little bit longer. i think he's sort of getting into the washington groove just a little bit. >> yep, we should mention secretary gates looking to be chancellor at william & mary. >> held a similar post at texas

a&m. william panetta came from the cia and now the defense secretary. he's leaving the intelligence world behind and his major job ramping up in the next several weeks to deal with defense spending and budget cuts with congress. >> barbara starr thank you so much. >> sure. she is the american accused of killing her roommate during a drug-fueled sex game. today amanda knox's lawyers arguing police mishandled the evidence and the woman who examined it takes the stand, find out what she said. sunny hostin is back. we missed you. she's back with us on the case, next.

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a new twist to the amanda knox appeal in italy. experts argue today whether a key piece of evidence was condam nated. amanda knox got a 26-year sentence. her lawyers are trying to prove the dna evidence used in her original trial is not conclusive. sunny hostin is on the case for us and sunny, how could the same evidence used in that trial to convict her now be considered

inadmissible? how does that work? >> isn't that fascinating? in italy you get a new trial. that's really what an appeal is. it's very different from the american system where you're wedded to the facts that happened at trial, you're wedded to the facts and evidence at the trial. in italy you really almost get a second bite at the apple. so what this judge did was he questioned the evidence that was entered against her at trial and asked not one but two independent neutral experts, scientists to review the facts, to review the evidence and most importantly, brooke, to review the dna evidence, and what they found was that the dna evidence just was collected improperly and that the sample that was used was too small to extract a dna profile, a valid dna profile, so it really has thrown into question the entire convicti conviction. >> it means it could be possible. my question is, do you think that her lawyers, knox's lawyers will prove the evidence here and i think we're talking about the

bra clasp and even the weapon were contaminated and would that potentially mean, i know it would, that she could go free? >> i think that's right. i have a been following this case closely, brooke, and i think the defense has done a very good job of calling the dna evidence into question. as you mentioned, we're talking about the handle of the knife used to allegedly murder meredith kercher, amanda knox's dna was allegedly found on the weapon. if that is not the case, when this decision comes back at the end of september in her favor, she should be set free. we may be seeing her in the united states as early as october. >> wow, how about that, if that is the case. we'll follow it. sunny hostin, thank you so much and thank you for coming back. we missed you. >> thank you. i don't take vacation very often. coming up next, social media is blowing up over this, over the university of maryland's new

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okay, we're having a little fun on this today. in case you haven't noticed styles are changing on the gridiron, started with these guys, you know the oregon ducks, they have so many different accessories, never out in public wearing the same thing twice. well here we go, georgia got into the act saturday, kind of a red and black ninja look, if you will, and now come the maryla

marylander maryland t terrapins. vince lombardi is probably pinning around in his grave. monti, fabulous host of tlc's "say yes to the dress." >> hi, how are you? >> fabulous. i never thought i'd be talking football with you. >> nor did i. >> what do you think? >> it is amazing to me these guys kept this a well held secret. we haven't seen this much secrecy since the duchess of cambridge's gown. i mean they come out, they play in the regular uniforms, then they turn around, go back in and wow do they give us a bang! >> why keep it a secret, just to get us talking about it? >> my big thing is, here we go

a-guessing again, who designed these? where did they come from? >> i think, i'm blanking on the name, guys, underarmour. >> it's interesting to see from a design standpoint, helmet divided in half, they match hat to shoulder, they have the three fs matching, fit, fashion -- >> they're split down the middle, you think that's a fashion yes? >> you know what? i think dependsing on which side of the field you're on it could be a benefit. we don't always get to see them head on. while it's totally out of the box it is fun to see this happening in a sports arena. i'm used to seeing changes from the reception to the going away

outfit, they're following suit a little bit. what do you think? >> let me ask you this and i'll let you go. what would you say you would like to see on a football uniform, if monte durham could push something a tad? >> it would be monochromatic, the accessories would have to match and showcase the talent, so legs and arms, those would be totally showcased and i would be able to make sure every single body knew who was in the uniform so number or name would be very, very big in my book on this. >> see i'm thinking if you're going monochromatic, the ducks have that. phil knight knew what he was doing. >> team spirit, everybody looks the same and easy to read on the field. however with that being said it's kind of fun to see this peppered up there on the field and have fun with the fashion.

it's great. >> kind of fun. monte durham, you're our go-to guy, we talk to you about the weddings and dresses and now football. i love it. >> i think we're covering our bases. >> thanks for calling me up very much. also trending, it is confirmed, eddie murphy will host next year's oscars, the first time the funny man has hosted the ceremony. murphy known for his comedy "saturday night live" i loved him in "beverly hills cop" the d donkey in "shrek." the academy awards send cooled in february. how old is too old to run a presidential campaign or should the question be this, how far behind is too behind to be in a presidential campaign? joe johns looks at the big blow to michele bachmann's people in today's political pop and the democratic national committee

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>> it does for us. >> michele bachmann's campaign hasn't gone on that long. people come and go in presidential campaigns all the time depending on how the candidate's doing and for the record, ed rollins, the big name who stepped aside or changed jobs, said it was all about his health but it's also true that michele bachmann has had serious staff turnover in her congressional office over the years. one report in the -- okay, liberal leaning "slate" magazine says since 2006 her legislative offices and political operations have lost about a dozen, a dozen key staffers. she's had at least four chiefs of staff from our count. i did speak to someone who has some knowledge of what's going on in bachmann's legislative office and as you might expect they're saying some of the turnover is explainable, some people leaving for better positions, retirement in one case, in other words, amicable departures, but not all of the departures we think were on

friendly terms. >> what about the former bachmann chief of staff, who actually went public in favor of another candidate, right, what was the story there? >> that was messy. this is a guy named ron caray, former chairman of the minnesota republican party, he not only came out in support of tim pawlenty, but he actually wrote a brutal op. ed in the "des moines register" he asserted the congressional campaign offices he managed for bachmann were wildly out of control so just from that you can say there appears to be some tension and that is probably an understatement. >> quickly last topic, mr. johns, the 2012 dnc convention will be in charlotte, they unveiled a new logo today. what did it look like? >> not designed by underarmour. it is red, white and blue, no surprise. take a look at the logo, it's a circle, supposed t