. >> i love ashville. in fact, i think i should be on the tourism promotion bureau of ashville. >> reporter: the official reason for the trip, to sell the american jobs act. but with almost every phrase, the president took direct aim at republicans. >> they want to gut regulations. they want to let wall street do whatever it wants. >> reporter: the line seemed like an attempt to tap into the occupy wall street populist anger that's swept the country. and mr. obama railed against republicans for voting against his jobs bill. >> we're going to break up the jobs bill. maybe they couldn't understand the whole thing all at once. so we're going to break it up into bite-sized pieces. >> reporter: the president stopped to take in some north carolina barbecue along the way -- an image that fuelled the charge that this is about getting re-elected. >> on the taxpayer's dime the president is now traveling attacking the republican plan. >> reporter: today is the first day of a three-day presidential trip to virginia an

work on the chicago world's fair ground and when he sensed a break in the action would sneak to ashvillesecure his reputation and make sure he left a lasting legacy. >> and writing letters all the time. he sent -- we sent short e-mails that will vanish off of the face of the earth. but he wrote thousands of letters. >> the way i always describe it is it was the nineteenth century. he was very much a man about town. he had a lot of friends. if he crossed the street he did a diary entry about it and wrote a variety of letters about it and an article about it and several friends had died resort letters they wrote about olmsted crossing the street. it created so many different takes on any given action but it was an environment to be able to have so many -- articulately and very long -- ten or 15 pages of explanation of his being enraged about a park design being rolled back and all the people he sent letters to responding to create a rich trove to date in 2. >> nobody will be easy to find in the future. >> facebook page. >> i wonder what his facebook page look like. and the 8 horrible food.

where his client was the richest man, sneaked off to louisville, close to ashville, did work on that park system, and he was desperate, traveling around, taking late night raillines, securing that reputation, and making sure he left a big lasting legacy. figured if he did enough parks, you know, maybe some of them would last. >> and writing letters all the time. i mean, we've all forgotten -- we send e-mails to people, and who knows they'll probably vanish, but for an ark architect, that's fabulous. he wrote thousands of letters. >> he did. it was wonderful. it was a 19th century. olmstead was very much sort of a man about talents, had a lot of friends, and the best way to describe it if olmstead crossed the street, he wrote about it. several friends. either had diary entries or letters about olmstead crossing the street. it created this kind of, you know, oh, there's so many different, you know, takes on any given action, but at least -- it was an embarrassment of riches basically to be able to have so many acts in his life for him to account for them very insightfully often in long

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president is on a 3 day bus tour through north carolina and virginia this morning he stopped in ashville. he once again asked congress to pass his $450 billion proposal, the same one senate rejected last week. he slammed republican ideas for jobs creation saying they will hurt ordinary americans. >> they want to gut regulation, they want to let wall street do whatever it wants they want to drill more, and they want to repeal health care reform. >>> republicans denounced his bus trip saying it is a taxpayer funded campaign trip. >>> cornell west is out of jail, prosecutors agreed not to charge west after he was arrested yesterday at the supreme court he spent the night behind bars among 19 protestors taken into custody after police told them to leave the group, october 2011 stop the machine organized the demonstration, to protest corporate influence in politics. >>> vincente grey once again facing questions about his mayoral run last year. federal prosecutors are moving forward with their probe into allegations the grey campaign offered brown a job and cash for verbal attacks he made on f

. >> and yesterday, in ashville he told the crowd that congress will have the vote on the bill in piecesvotes are votes against americans. >> reporter: at a packed high school auditorium in north carolina, president obama pushed congress to pass the jobs plan piece by piece. >> we're going to hot up up into -- chop it up into some bite size pieces and give them another chance to look out for your jobs instead of their jobs! >> reporter: he implied that tea party conservatives hijacked the debate. >> to stop tie trying to satisfy some branch of the party and help america. >> reporter: the bus tour will continue rolling through north carolina today before pulling into virginia. monday, he stock up on can day and -- stocked up on candy and greeted locals at a general store. it's about jobs, not votes the white house says. but that didn't stop supporters

in ashville from shouting four more years. >> i appreciate the four more years but right now i'm thinking about the next 13 months. >> reporter: here in washington republicans didn't waste any time slamming the bus tour calling it nothing more than a taxpayer funded campaign trip. >> we sat appropriate on the taxpayer's dime since it is clearly campaigning and i must say again i've never seen an uglier bus. >> reporter: senate democrats could bring up the first part of the president's plan this week. it contains $35 billion to help states keep hundreds of teachers, firefighters and police on the job. susan mcginnis for cbs news, washington. >>> this morning, police are scheduled to resume their search for an 11-year-old william mcquain. >> after a week of searching for william police are still coming up empty. his mother jane mcquain was found dead inside their apartment last week. her estranged husband curtis lopez has been charged with her murder. he is awaiting extradition from charlotte, north carolina. yesterday a team of eight people spent all day searching for william. >>> children

. >> reporter: in ashville, north carolina, the president rolled up his shirt sleeves and capped cast republicans as the party of no. >> they said no to putting teachers and construction workers back on the job. >> reporter: with his jobs bill dead in the senate, mr. obama said he would still fight for parts of his plan and he belittled his opponents. >> we'll break up my jobs bill. maybe they couldn't understand the whole thing all at once. (laughter) so we're going to break it up into bite-sized pieces. >> reporter: today we learned the first piece is a $35 billion provision to keep teachers in the classrooms and police and firefighters on the streets. and the president said republicans pay a political price if they continue to block his proposals. >> they're going to have to come down and explain to you why they don't have an answer for how we're putting americans to work right now. >> reporter: the white house claimed this three-dus bus tour was the chance for the president to talk jobs and hear the concerns of smaller communities. but with the crowd shouting "four more years" it

, he hurdled all over the united states taking on commissions in milwaukee, kansas city, denver, ashvillerth carolina down to the biltmoore estate, worked on the world chicago's fair. he had a formula to give half attention to the chicago's fair, and half attention to the estate all the way down to north carolina. he used up 100% attention to milwaukee, ect., and what he would do is working on the chicago world fairgrounds and literally when he sensed there was a break in the action, he snuck down to ashville where his client was george vander bilt, his richest clients, and then he traveled around, taking late night rail rides to secure the reputation and make sure he left a big lasting legacy. if he did enough parks, you know, maybe some of them would last. >> and writing letters all the time. i mean, we forgot we send short e-mails that will probably vanish, but as an an architect, it's fabulous. he wrote because. >> he did. it was wonderful. it was very much a man about talent. he had a lot of friend. the best way to describe it is if holmstead crossed a street, he wrote a variety of l

jobs bill and re- election campaign to virginia and north carolina he will speak at the airport in ashvilleorth carolina in a couple hours, they are traditionally republican states the president carried in 2008. >>> man arrested for d u i in frederick county gave police a trail of clues to find him. >> edward was picked up yesterday morning police say he had been in an accident and ran from the scene he took a case of beer out of his car when he ran and the cans kept falling out leaving a trail from his vehicle to the place where he was found. >>> he failed field sobriety tests and a check of his record show his license has already been suspended. >>> okay. >> he just didn't stop the pick them up. >> i am sure he you know -- i suspect he was in an awkward state we know he was. >> we know he was. well, not the end results red skins fans were hoping for yesterday they lost to the eagles, 20-13. >> annie is hang being the sports -- hanging with the sports junkies and chris coolly. >> reporter: good morning tony and alison thank you very much they have been very gracious and allowed us into the

. >> reporter: president obama kicks off a three day bus tour with a stop in ashville north carolina.e members of congress another chance. >> reporter: he is again pushing his $447 billion jobs plan while slamming lawmakers for standing in the way of a measure he says will boost the sluggish economy. >> they said no to putting teachers and construction workers on the job they said no to rebuilding roads, bridges, airports. >> reporter: it failed to pass senate last week now mr. obama wants lawmakers to pass every element bit by bit including a $35 million proposal to help prevent layoffs of -- billion patrol postle to help prevent layoffs. >>> they oppose the new taxes. >>> this is the type of money these are the type of programs the president advocated in the stimulus program. washington doesn't create jobs. >> reporter: well, the trip is about the jobs plan it is about the importance of north carolina and virginia, two traditionally republican states obama won in 2008 and will need to win again in 2012. >> president obama's bus pulls into virginia late tuesday. >>> here we go again,

drew on public discontent without mentioning the protests directly as he promoted his jobs bill in ashville, north carolina. >> when you hear what's going on out in the country, when you take the time to listen, you understand a lot of folks are hurting out there. >> reporter: the nearly month- old "occupy wall street" movement had started with 1500 gathered in manhattan's zuccotti park but the ranks surged on saturday. an estimated 6,000 people joined a rally in times square insisting the system is weighted in favor of the rich and against everyone else. >> we're out here as citizens. we're out here at women. we're here to talk with, to learn more from other people who are frustrated with the system, with this system, with people who know that they're frustrated they're suffering. they want to have something done about it. >> can't do anything about it. they only talk about their views. they don't have any money. the banks are taking the money from them. >> reporter: as many as 1,000 common straightors went to a bank branch with some closed their accounts in protest. >> it feels really goo

the tourism promotion bureau of ashville.very time i meet somebody i say, have you guys gone down to asheville? that's a nice place to be. so it is wonderful to be back in one of my favorite parts of the country. our family has great memories of staying here, and it's always nice to get out of washington -- mountain air. i want to recognize a couple people who are here. first of all, one of the outstanding senators in the united states senate, your senator, kay hagan, is in the house. kay's daughter just got married congratulations to kay's daughter. we are so thrilled by that. and we also have your lovely and intelligent mayor of asheville, terry bellamy, is in the house. the last time i was here terry said she could play basketball. and so we went out -- it turned out she was a cheerleader and not a basketball player. but she's doing an outstanding job overall. thank you both for coming. now, as you may have noticed, i came here on a plane. it's a pretty nice plane. but i'm leaving on a bus. the bus is pretty hard to miss.