right now on "newsnation," credible threat just before the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an unconfirmed report that al qaeda plans to use a car bomb here in new york or washington. right now authorities are responding with an army of increased security. >> i am sending this congress a plan that you should pass right away. it is called the american jobs act. pass this jobs bill. pass this jobs bill. pass this bill. you should pass this jobs plan right away. >> the president is certainly on the offense taking the jobs plan bill on the road and putting the burden on congress to pass it. plus a flood of trouble left

behind. swollen rivers are receding in the northeast after force 1g 00,000 people to evacuate, but no word yet on when people will be allowed to see what is left of their homes. good afternoon, everyone. i'm alex witt filling in for tamron hall. the "newsnation" is following the effort to track down what could be al qaeda operatives plotting an attack on new york city and washington, d.c., this just days before the 9/11 anniversary. take a look at what is going on in new york city. the white house says that president obama has told his security advisers to take all precautions necessary to avert an attack. police have been pulling over suspicious vehicles all day long while staking out bridges and tunnels for anything out of the ordinary. secretary of state hillary clinton told cnbc this morning why it is so important to take this threat seriously. >> by making it public, you enlist literally millions of people to be your eyes and your

ears. remember, we were very fortunate to foil the times square bomber, because a food vendor some something suspicious, so we want people to go on with their daily lives and get out and get around, but keep your eyes open. >> and joining me now is justice correspondent pete williams and good afternoon to you. can you tell me the difference of something that is credible and still yet unconfirmed? >> sure. if you have a neighbor who has told you accurate things in the past, sometimes inaccurately and your neighbor tells you that something is happening to another neighbor, that's credible. but it is unconfirmed because you don't know whether it is true or not, and that is what we have here. what we are told is that this comes from the source who has given reliable information to the u.s. in the past, and sometimes not so reliable, but has a record of telling us things that are true, and has said that he has heard that three people, three men were coming to the u.s. to set off car bombs in either new york or washington. now, the source did not have any

names, didn't have a lot of specifics about what their target would be, just said car or truck bomb. so, yes, credible and somewhat specific, but unconfirmed and what is going on is two things, police in new york and washington treating this as though it could well be true and that is why you are seeing all of the searches of cars and trucks whether they are suspicious or not, and they are looking at a lot of the cars and trucks especially around the bridges and tunnels and secondly things that we don't see which is checks of travel records and computer databases trying to figure out who these three might be and when they might have gotten here if in fact they got here. part of what is going on here is that they are assuming that this could be true and acting like it could be true, but at the same time they are not shure. the course may have heard something untrue and that is why they are trying i toying to cor it and find out whether or not it is true. >> pete, there was a treasure

troe trove of documents found in the compound when osama bin laden was killed. does this have anything to do with that? >> well, it could tenuously, but we know that documents were taken from bin laden was killed and he, himself, thought it would be good to attack u.s. around the 9/11 anniversary or other big dates on the calendar. and secondly, the u.s. was concerned about the fact that somebody might retaliate osama bin laden's death. so that is true, but this information on top of it and it is in addition and independent to those two things, but in addition to the background, it is getting extra attention. >> thank you, pete in washington. >> you bet. >> and with me is evan coleman, and good day to you, a terrorist analyst, and a lot of this unconfirmed and not a lot of specifics here. why do we take this seriously? because of the timing here? >> because of the timing and the

general information and we know that bin laden was looking for an attack on 9/11, the anniversary, and he assigned various operatives in hopes of carrying out this mission, and so that given that information and we have potential report and it is important to know that we don't know whether the individuals came to the united states, and we don't know their names yet, so it is an overabundance of caution, and look, we have to be this way, because despitef of the nonsense said in the past, clearly al qaeda does care about the 9/11 anniversary, and there is a significan significance, so we have to be on the alert. >> we are on the alert for three men presumably who entered the united states from afghanistan and any time in recent history, and we are talking about a needle in a haystack. >> yes, and that is fair that even if it is accurate, tracing that is not easy. we had a similar incident happen not long ago with an individual assigned by the pakistani taliban feisal shabaab who

managed to come in to try to carry out a car bombing in new york times square. so if this is a plot, it is along the same lines of what fiz al shabab tried to do, and this time targeting the public or targeting area where the first responders would have difficulty in responding and causing chaos for them, and will this succeed or a plot? it is not clear right now, but an overabundance of caution. >> and having everyone stay on alert. evan kohlman, thank you very much. and now live to new york with peter alexander, and what is the reaction there? >> well, we had a chance the speak to the mayor here in new york, and he said this is the new new york, and we are used to, but it is different with the days leading up to the 9/11 anniversary. these are the pictures of west and liberty and right there at the world trade center site.

you can see the police officers, additional officers here. among the changes over the course of the next several days that we learned from the mayor, there are 12-hour police shifts instead of the normal eight-hour shiftings and roughly one-third more officers on the streets at any given time, and added vehicle checkpoints and bomb sweeps in parking garages and they will immediately toe illegally parked cars at a higher rate than in the past. and also police cars with scanners to scan the license plates of cars passing by to make sure there is no suspicious activity that they need to be aware of and what we are aware of is convoys of police to go through specific areas to make their presence known and the checkpoints throughout the areas, and sometimes checking every single vehicle at some stops in this neighborhood. if you are planning to come down to the ground zero site, you are certainly going to need to give yourself extra time. the subway has h bag checks as well, but that is maybe the easiest way to get around new

york city this weekend and that is the way that michael bloomberg, himself, got to the office today. alex? >> well, peter, a lot going on in lower manhattan today, and what else are you seeing? >> well, over the course of the weekend and specifically sunday, i want to show you another live picture here, one of the two pools that follow the waterfalls that fall into darkness here, and two of thele pools at the site of each of the two towers that collapsed that day almost ten years ago, and then around that area, there is a forest of trees. they will all be oak xepts for one, and that is the survivor tree, the tree that survived at the base of the rubble on that day. also, surrounding the waterfalls, themselves, the names of the nearly 3,000 victims of 9/11 will be revealed this weekend during the events that take place beginning at roughly 8:40 sunday and a large list of dignitaries will be here and among them the president of the united states barack obama, and the mayor michael bloomberg

and the former governor george pataki, and the former president of the united states, george w. bush. and if you can bring the camera over briefly, we will show you the flag of what is the side of the freedom tower and what is specifically 1 world trade center, and there it is, the flag right now that was unfurled a short time ago at roughly 9:00 this morning and 9:03 specifically which is the exact time that the second plane hit, hitting the south tower and the workers who will not be here this weekendb unfurled the flag to show support of those who lost their lives at this location. >> i bet that brought a lot of cheers in the hearts of people seeing that. thank you, peter alexander. we will also have reports from shanksville, pennsylvania, and the pentagon. stay with us all weekend for the 9/11 vents. the dow is down almost 300 points. and today's sell-off is blamed

on intensifying worries of europe's debt crisis and today's resignation of a key figure of the central bank, and that is a sign of continuing turmoil, and that is how it is interpreted. we will follow those developments and check in with cnbc when we can for you. and meantime, president obama hitting the road to take his new plan of job revitalization to the voters. he rolled out the $437 billion jobs plan in front of a joint session of congress touting tax cuts and pushing lawmakers to pass the bill asap and he took that message to the university of richmond a few hours ago. >> i want you to call. i want you to e-mail. i want you to tweet. i want you to fax. i want you to visit, and i want you to facebook, send a carrier pigeon, and i want you to tell your congressperson that the time for gridlock and games is over.

the time for action is now. >> so, is the president doing enough to get his base on capitol hill on board with white house policy? democratic congresswoman maxine waters is joining me now. good afternoon to you madam. i want to play this back to you where you were in a cnbc town hall in detroit, and this is what you said. >> we don't put pressure on the president because y'all love the president. when you tell us it is all right, and you unleash us and you tell us you are ready for us to have this conversation, we are ready to have the conversation. the congressional black caucus loves the president, too. we are supportive of the president, but we are getting tired, y'all. we want to give him every opportunity. but our people are hurting. the unemployment is unconscionable, and we don't know what the strategy is. >> how much do you think that

the president was listening directly to you in all of the comments at the cbc last month and do you feel he has righted the ship now? >> he heard us. as a matter of fact, we can see our hand print all over this proposal, and we are pleased about it. we wish it had been bigger, but it is substantial, and not only substantial, but it targets the communities in this infrastructure repair that is the central part of this proposal, and basically, he is going to those communities most in need. of course, this jobs proposal is for everybody. but this targeting to communities of need will certainly help uplift the community that is most in need. african-american communities with 16.7 unemployment, up to 45% youth that are unemployed. in this proposal not only does he target the infrastructure repair, but he also supports the young people who are out of

work. african-american youth that he talked about in his proposal last night, and so, yes, we do believe that he has hurt us, but we have to pay attention now, and we have to work hard in congress to make sure that the targeting remains in all of this. that we get to those communities whether they are urban or rural that are most in need. but, you know, the proposal is a good one. >> well, let's listen right now to congressman paul ryan's take on the president's speech. he spoke about it this morning. here he is. >> it is what we expected. more keynesian demand sustained stimulus, and lot of the strongman arguments, and we are used to those by now and we were looking for new ideas, but we didn't get a lot of those. >> how effective do you think that congress can be coming together and passing this jobs bill right away as the president demanded of us what some 1 or6 17 times in the speech last night when you have an attitude

that paul ryan said, more of the same and couple new details, but he has heard it before? >> well, the president asked all of the members of congress to take the politics out of this discussion that the people of this nation want jobs, and that is not just in the inner cities but all over america and families are hurting. even some of the members who are going to oppose them, they are not representing their districts for the most part. what they are doing is that they are playing politics, and we need to get beyond that. certainly the congressional black caucus put the face on the poverty in our communities and went to fife cities and people stood in long lines and some people got ill. and in los angeles, there were 10,000 people in the one i did, so people want jobs, and they don't want the politics basically directing what happens, and i'm hopeful that paul ryan and others can stop this tired old talk about new ideas, and where are their ideas? what do they want to do to help

the american public? what do they want to do to create jobs in their own district? that is a key question. what are we going to do to create jobs so that families can have a decent quality of life? the black caucus has done a great job of getting the attention of the the white house and the president and the targeting and all of that and we will follow it all of the way through and we will make sure that we are not simply robbing peter to pay paul and on one hand do the cuts and lose some jobs perhaps in government and other places, but rather, this is an addition to the jobs that we have already, because we need so many. >> all right, california congresswoman from my hometown. thank you, maxine waters, so much. >> you're welcome. is there compromise on the president's job plan? nancy pelosi said she was encouraged by what leader boehner had to say. and a so wellen river has

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waters from the swollen rivers from the northeast have begun to recede, but the more than 100,000 people under mandatory evacuation orders have not been told when they can return to assess the damage. up to 75,000 of those evacuees are from parts of northeastern pennsylvania where the rising waters have been blamed for tet ds of fife people and another person remains missing. president obama has declared a state of emergency there giving more than three dozen rain soaked counties federal

aid. up to nine inches of rain fell in parts of the state in little more than a week. ann thompson is live for us in west pitson, pennsylvania, and ann, good afternoon, but it is still waterlogged there. >> yes, it is, alex. take a look at wyoming avenue, because this is a major thoroughfare in the borough of west pitson, and it is inundated with the susquehanna river. you can see in a little piece of irony, there is the water street blij a bridge and the sign saying no crossing that bridge. and several of the neighborhoods on the river's edge are waterlogged. 350 homes have suffered some water damage the mayor says which is 25% of the homes in this burorough, and we have gotn new information about the crest

of the susquehanna and it is reported it was 13.9 inches, by it has been revised over to 42 feet which is a record quest surpassing hurricane agnes, and the good news is that the levees have held. you are asking me, if the levees have held why is west pittson inundated? that is because there are no levees here. in wilkes bubury and 44th, ther are reports of seepage coming above the levees on the other side, but no major bleaches to report at this hour. >> thank you, anne thompson, for that report. and right now, we are watching the potential of two tropical storms as well as a hurricane churning in the atlantic and the gulf of mexico, and we are sieve ejust receiveds from todd santos from the weather channel. we are talking about tropical storm nate and maria as well, right?

>> yes. of course, katia, the hurricane name that won't go away at this moment. and you know, alex, i want to mention the system or the set-up that allowed basically all of this rainfall to fall across portions of say the mid-atlantic and down back into maryland and up into new york, that upper level low and that is what blocked katia and kept the system off of the coastline and now the system is moving farther away from land and i did a quick measurement and it is over 270 miles, the center of the storm from nantucket and moving further away. this is a category 1 storm moving northeast at 29 miles per hour, and it is expected to accelerate so in the u.s., this is a storm that we don't have much of a concern for, aside from the numbers at the long island sound where the numbers are down the nine feet, and nantucket where the wave heights are holding up. and still some rip current through the gulf of maine. when you get back towards maria, here is a look of say in the

relation to the caribbean and the u.s. and british and virgin islands, you will see in the northeast a disorganized system, and that why i wanted to show you the other one first. it is a low impact storm, but it has potential of reaching the hurricane strength in the longer term, and say once five days. so through the caribbean and the winward and the leeward islands we have rain showers in barbados, and saturday and sunday, that is the time frame for the virgin islands and puerto rico where we had a wet august could deal with flooding concerns, and if it stays near hispaniola, it will have a better chance of reaching the hurricane strength through the bahamas and that is in the middle of the week, and alex, to keep this system off of the coastline here, but it is too far out to tell exactly, so we will keep an eye on it. >> thank you, todd santos. and up next, power is back on for millions of people for a

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some hospital patients was exposed online. several memorials will be held around the country this weekend to honor the thousands of lives lost in the 9/11 terror attacks. in shanksville, pennsylvania, a memorial for the heroes who fought hijackers aboard flight 93. one of the memorials will be unveil unveiled this weekend. we have mar ra compose who is there in shanksville. i'm expecting the turnout will be very big? >> yes, from the chairs put out for the dedication, yes. many dignitaries are scheduled to be here and former presidents george w. bush and bill clinton and vice president joe biden. behind me, you can see the memorial and it is covered so you can't get a great look at it, but you see a memorial tho victims of flight 93. it is a white marble wall and inscribed with the 33 passengers

a seven crewers who were aboard the flight. that is one of the hijacked planes that did not reach the destination. you can see a boulder which marks the exact spot of impact where that plane came down in this empty field in rural pennsylvania. the reason that the flight did not reach the destination is because the passengers and crew made phone calls out from the flight to loved ones and family on the ground and realized what is going on around the country and they took a vote and decided to fight back and regain control of the plane. there is a cockpit flight control that says when the hijackers allowed what was going on, they put the plane down as opposed to letting them take control of it. it was about 90 minutes flying time from here to washington, d.c. and so many of them are hailed as heroes. there is a dedication ceremony happening tomorrow to unveil the first part of the memorial

sunday. but this is the first part of this memorial that is completed. it is not finished by any means, and in fact, organizers say they are raising money and there are $10 million short of what they need to complete the projects of the various parts of the memorial and they are confident they will get the money and it will be completed by 2014. >> thank you maria shiishiacamp. and leon pa net netta who ow the killing of osama bin laden spoke at in front of employees today. >> you don't mess with this country when you attack us. and what we made clear is that

when that happens, we will come and get you. nbc's nick miklaszewski, and he was there working at the pentagon on september 11th, what comes to your mind first when you think about that day? >> well, alex, how incredibly beautifully that day started on september 11th, and with the flash of an eye, it turned so horrific. many of us here in the pentagon not only we, reporter, but many who worked in the pentagon and particularly on defense, active defense issues, we were working very hard to figure out exactly what was going on, and then when the flight 77 smacked into the pentagon here at 9:37 in the morning, our focus changed immediately to that, and what was i was most impressed about is how the entire building sprung into action, and not only in the immediate response to

those who were injured and trying to rescue people here in the building, but then in the days after how everybody set their mind on what had to be done in response to those terrorist attacks, putting aside all of the sacrifice and all of the pain to immediately get down to that task, and even now, ten years later, many of them are still at war as a result of 9/11, alex. >> nick, when that plane hit the pentagon, did you feel the impact? was there a huge shudder? because people talk about the pentagon and the miles of corridor? >> that is right. there is a huge building and where the plane hit the pentagon and where i was sitting on the air for the "today" show, it is around the corner, but around the corner in this building is a couple of hundred yards as the crow flies, but even then when i looked back at katy curic on the

air and i heard a loud thunk, and i looked out and people were running from the building and i reported immediately that there was an explosion here, but it took me a while to figure out and find out that it was in fact a plane that struck the building. interestingly enough, in talking to a defense intelligence ofi official here in the building about 30 minutes before of the plane struck the pentagon, we were talking about the attacks up there in new york, and he said, look, it has to be al qaeda, because it was so well planned, and he said, it was so well coordinated if i were you, i would stay out of the e-room, the outer corridor of the building on that day, because he said hours later, he said, well, i had no idea we were going to be attacked, but it was a gut feeling. i said, did you stay off of the e-ring the rest of the day? and he said, you're damned

right. >> okay. jim miklaszewski, thank you so much, and a reflective weekend for you certainly this weekend. thanks. and reflective time as well for my next guest, joseph camrada who lost his brother on 9/11. he is a former police officer and first responder on 9/11, and he is the author of "face of courage, rise from the rubble." thanks for coming, joe. >> thank you, alex. >> you know i asked jim miklaszews miklaszewski, what is the first thing you remember? >> i remember getting a call headed into work to the new york police department that the world trade center had been hit by a small plane. >> and when you realized that, that days what struck you what was happening? >> i could not believe that america was under attack. i could not believe it. >> after ten years of reflecting

and having lost your brother, how did it change your life? >> well, it changed my life in a lot of ways. you value things that you may have taken for granted in the past. every conversation with your family may be the last, so you should cherish every moment you have with your family and i look back on 9/11, and right now i say that some gifts were left to me as a result of 9/11. i got focused toto school and law school where i am currently attending, and give k to the public the gifts that were left to me. >> and where was michael that day and how did you find out he was lost? >> he worked for engine company ladder 11 that day, and -- i knew instantaneously he was lost. when i was on the staten island ferry heading over with the new york city police department, because that was the best means of unimpeded access to the

tower, and i knew that when i saw it, i knew he was gone. >> but you didn't know he was there necessarily? >> i knew he would be responding and i knew he was a rookie firefighter with seven weeks on the job and getting to work early that day, a i knnd i knew was on his way. >> well he was. you are on your rise with this book, and best of luck getting through this weekend. >> god bless. >> all of you stay with msnbc throughout the weekend for the special live coverage of ground zero and shanksville and the pentagon on this anniversary of 9/11. support of the democratic base is one half of the equation for president obama's jobs bill, but some people on the hill have indicated there is some room for compromise. >> what i heard in the speech last night were policy proposals that are something that we can work on together. >> let's bring in domenico mo

montanaro, and what do you think? >> well, they may get something done on the low-hanging fruit, but don't expect a lot to be done on the larger bill. in many respects and you hate to be cynical, but we have seen what has happened over the last three years and for the president, it is wins if they don't get it passed or if he doesn't is how the white house sees it. because if you think about it, if something is passed out of this or the whole thing is, then he looks like he has shown leadership and if not, well, then as he is running for re-election he needs something to run against and on, and he can run against this intransigence in congress and on this bill. >> and it is a softer tone from

speaker boehner saying that the proposals that the president outlined merit consideration and my hope to work together. what is the strategy with that? >> well, what is behind it is that the republicans read the polls, too, and the fact of the matter is that, yes, the president took a hit, with the lowest point in the polling, and it has not translated to bumps for republicans. we have not seen, you know, congressional ratings go up, and in fact, they are at the lowest at any point in the polling. congressional republicans haven't gotten a boost either. they are still worse than even democrats in congress and neither of them looks good. nobody looking good right now and republicans don't want to look like they are the, you know, the party of no. look, here are things that we can work with and we don't like the spending and the taxes that could potentially come from the something that we are not sure is something quite paid for and they want to look reasonable and be able to maybe help some of the poll numbers. >> okay.

domenico montnardo, thank you so much. and joining me now is representative micah who is the chairman of the finance committee. and you said that the government should not be in charge of rebuilding infrastructure, and you want to put it to the states of which 33 are doing it currently. how good of a job are the states doing? >> well, that is really a comment on the president's proposal last night for a national infrastructure bank which is the legislation that he referenced. i have no problem with infrastructure banking, and it is a good mechanism, and in fact, 33 states already have state infrastructure banking so rather than set up a big bureaucracy in washington and more bureaucrats and people come on bended knees asking members of congress and bureaucrats for approval, a long process, i

think that it is a better to empower and also help fund the state infrastructure banks which already exist. >> all right. congressman, as we look at house majority cantor took issue with the way that the president's message was conveyed, but he had good things to say as well. tweeting that the president's speech had things that both sides could work on and streamlining and regulations and does this sound like the republicans are ready to cooperate with the president on the policy? >> well n the a, in the area i transportation, i have been ready to deal with the democrats and they controlled the house, the senate and the white house and president obama himself floats down a six-year long-term bill, and he did that almost a year and a half ago when he first came in office. i have been willing to move forward and willing to do it today and tomorrow. we need to get people working and jobs created, and we can do

it through infrastructure and a cooperative effort. >> how concerned are you about going about paying for this? that is something that the president called for the have a special committee of 12 to figure out how to add another $447 billion on top of that which they are charged with coming up with deficit cutting. >> my dad said it is not how much you spend, but how how you spend it. we have to take the money to be responsible stewards, and we have money coming into the federal highway trust fund, and that money, when you go to get a gallon of gasoline, the 18.4 cents and the truck diesel taxes go into the fund, and we are charged with spending it, but we can make programs that don't work, work. we can make programs that bourquwork, work better and find creative ways. but we have to deal with the problem of streamlining. i'm happy that the president

talked about it. 35% of the stimulus money from 2 1/2 years ago is still here in washington, d.c. so, people are not working even that money that is not out. so, it is not how much money we throw at a problem, but it is how we spend it, and we do it responsibly. >> all right. representative john mica, thank you for your time here on ne "newsnation." >> thank you. good to be with you. the second day of jury selection in the trial of conrad murray is under way. it is described as exhaustive process. here is one thing you should know, that according to a new book jfk scorned the notion that lyndon johnson succeeded him as president. this book is based on newly released interviews with former first lady jacqueline kennedy. she said that her husband and robert kennedy discussed ways of preventing johnson from winning the nomination.

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will take a while. it is going to take time. it is not that you cannot find anybody who heard it, but the real test is if they can puts a side the opinions they have formulated to make a decision. then you are to deal with people who want to be on the jury for the historical component of it and then weed out those who are impar impartial, and so it would not surprise me if it takes three or four weeks. >> three or four weeks for the case -- >> no, just jury selection. >> and then you add on to that the case which is ex-presidented to ta-- which is expected to ta a month or longer and that is a hardship about the jurors. >> yes, and they are asked about the hardship and there are a lot of people on this jury, so as opposed to having a lot of hardships, you will have less, so you have to watch out for those people, because they want to be on it for the historical value and you didn't know what the true values are, but at this

point of view, it is a real challenge. >> and it is interesting, because this is the second time they have tried to pick a jury to hear the case against dr. murray, and the original jury was dismissed when t attorneys prepare, but they are not sequestering this jury and what do you think about that? >> well, i don't think that the jury has to be sequestered after finishing a case just now in los angeles, where the jury was not. you can obscure the whole case, itself, because people are restless when they are aware from the families, but on the other hand, i can understand that someone wanting that to occur to keep the testimony from the trial. i think that what the judge should do is put a gag order on the case so that the lawyers can not make statements and try the case to the jury when the case is not in session. so there are things that he can do, but it is going to be a real challenge for everyone here, and from the defense i would be more concerned, because people loved michael jackson so much, and they are going to wonder if this

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an update to the massive west coast blackout tops the stories around "newsnation" today. most of the power is back on in parts of southern california, arizona and northern mexico. 5 million people lost power yesterday after an electrical worker removed a piece of monitoring equipment at a substation in arizona. the blackout caused a sewage spill that closed several beaches near san diego and the schools there are also closed. stanford hospital in palo alto, california, confirms to the new york times that information on 20,000 emergency

room patients were posted on a commercial website. the information included names as well as diagnosis codes, and it stayed online for nearly a year until it was discovered last month. firefighters are tamping down the hot spots and holding back the flames from what is beingb÷ called the most devastating wildfire ever in texas. it has burned since sunday and killing two people and destroying nearly 1,400 homes near austin. because of the progress in controlling the fire, officials called off the plans to use a dc-10 jetliner to drop fire retardant on the flames. i'm alex witt in for tamron hall, and join me this weekend for the live anniversary coverage of 9/11. and my colleague will be in for martin bashir next. gas and bloating. with three strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic."

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