president obama pitches s sweeping jobs' bill. half what a trillion dlafrs to put americans back to work. >> pass this jobs' bill. >> we'll tell y y how he plans to do it. >>> and the west, a massive power outage in southern california reactors offline and a nuclear plant and in the east, more than 100,000 people are evacuated as major rivers continue to rise. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city and terry moran in washington, this is "nightline" september 8th, 2011. >>> good evening. i'm terry moran. we want to bring you defrals the white house to the new york city police department are calling a new credible terror threat against american civilians. it appears a puzuze piece fell into place in the last two days and here's brian ross with the latest, brian? >> the source of the information is not known to us but officials say it was developed by the cia overseas described both as unconfirmed but also, specific and credible. u.s. officials say tonight the plot wa

on monday president obama will reveal how he plans to pay for the job's act. nancy palosi says she is in support of the bill. cb s news, the white house >> scores two touchdowns but was it enough? all of a sudden the giants are the hottest team in baseball. the latest next in sports. during their season best seven game winning streak... christian, start the clock brett pill's two run triple in the 8th was part of a four run ormer a's clos made 7 game winning streak. start the clock. two run triple part of a four run ining. second triple of the night. giants hang on for the 6-5 win. now five games back with 10 to go. >>> al central champions to one run and 7 inings. the as beat the tigers 5 to 3. college football. 63 to 12. the bears are getting the blue hose. >>> stanford and arizona. caught them off guard. 23-10 now in the third. moving in for the winning score against nevada. but gets picked off in the end zone. 17-14. drops to 0 and 3 on the season >> i'm watching your giants highlights and i'm thinking is there chance they could move on? >> i wouldn't bet on them. they played arizona three times. got to win a

s&p, frank and grace is done by 7 points. >> that boa news, imagine president obama is not loving that. he's pushing the jobs billets smacked in the face with that. that's tough. >> that's where we are with the economy. we take two steps forward and then take 1 and a half steps back. hard to get any momentum going. when you get word of potential cuts like that, it won't help out the jobs picture. >>> the next version of apple's iphone will offer a new carrier option. the release of the new iphone rumored to be in a couple of weeks. when it comes out, consumers be able to choose sprint for their carrier for the first time. sprint is expected to offer an unlimited data plan. so a little competition for the iphone there. >>> one of the best known accidents on the game show "jeopardy" is now entering the insurance business. >> you might recall watson, the ibm computer that trounced some of the best contestants of all time. now the health insurance company wellpoint is hiring watson. the computer will relate the patient's symptoms and history to medical journals. in seconds it will be able to present several possible

obama will send his $447 billion jobs plan to congress. s president and -- the president and his supporters are launching a major push to get that bill passedrning. the only remember of a russian hockey team to survive that plane crash has died from his injuries. he died this morning at the hospital after severe burns covered 90% of his body. that crash killed 44 people including players and coaches of a russian hockey club. there was another survivor though a member of the flight crew who is being treated at a moscow hospital. >>> it was six months ago yesterday that an earthquake and tsunami struck japan. a minute of silence was observed at the exact time the 9.0 earthquake hit on march 11th. fukushima nuclear plant was badly damaged by the tsunami triggering the worst nuclear disaster since churr noble. >>> in order to boil drinking water in san diego has been lifted now in at least neighborhoods days after a huge power outage. the testing of the city's tap water shows there was no contamination then they say it's safe to drink the water. but more than ten miles of beaches are still closed after failed water pumps led to the spill of 2 m

s ceo is also the head of president obama's economic recovery advisory board, a questionable choice in light of this deal. with us now, national security correspondent for the washington times, bill gertz who has been following the situation closely. bill, this seems like groundhog day to me because you and i have been talking about this, transfer of technology to china for so many years and, in fact, didn't we have a similar situation to this back in, what was it, 2004? >> yes. it goes back even further to the clinton administration when we had satellite technology which improved chinese missiles. the case here involves the g.e. people insist it's purely commercici technology. the pentagon doesn't believe it. they're saying they need to get a license. they highlight the fact that this company involved has been involved in proliferation in the past and it be used to build chinese fighters, which they just unveiled their first stealth fighter in january. >> laura: the joint strike fighter, in fact, did end up using some technology that made its way from the united states. did it not? >> right. there was a big case, a cyber attack, believed to have originated in china where china s

bill, the deep water horizon disaster, midterm election republican gains, the debt ceiling fight, the s&p downgrade, ongoing wars in iraq and afghanistan, and relentless attacks from the republican presidential candidates, president obama's approval rating has actually been holding steady. with two days until the president's address on jobs and the economy to a joint session of congress, those polled scored the president poorly on his handling of the economy. -- disapproved, that is the highest of his presidency. respondents were asked to address whether the president is facing a short or long-term setback given events over the past couple of months. 32% say president obama is facing a short-term setback from which he will likely recover, and 54% say president obama is now facing a long-term setback from which he will not likely recover. that number is virtually identical to george w. bush's score just after his mishandled the hurricane katrina aftermath. white house press secretary jay carney addressed the president's poll numbers today. >> i think the american people, if you look at your poll and other polls, make abundantly clear that they have a high reservoir of skepticism towards washington in general, and i think

s&p 500 trading lower ahead of the opening bell. >>> tonight, president obama announce he intends to submit a jobs bill to congress next week that contains see the debate live tonight on cnn the at 7:00 a.m. the gop candidates will debate on monday night and in an event hosted by cnn and the tea party. >>> actress reese witherspoon said to be resting comfortable after hit by a car. the car was driven by an 84-year-old woman. the driver was cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. that is the news you need to start your break. >>> prosecution and defense in the conrad murray trial will select a jury. dr. murray was jackson's personal physician and he is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the pop star's death. >> cnn's ted rowland is live at the courthouse in los angeles. you got to think this is a difficult process. >> reporter: absolutely. today, the first of three groups of 180 potential jurors are coming to the courthouse. a lot of them will get out of this because it's a four to six-week trial and dismissed on hardship. the ones left over today and tomorrow and monday will then be given a 30 plus page questionn

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