Storms approaching...Joblessness soars...Candidates on the road

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) Tropical Storm Hanna is expected to dump lots of rain when it hits somewhere in the Carolinas.

Forecasters are calling for heavy rain in the Mid-Atlantic states.

Some spots could see up to 10 inches. Trailing behind Hanna is a much more dangerous Hurricane Ike. It could hit Florida by mid week.

Washington (AP) The nation's jobless rate has topped 6 percent for the first time in five years and is likely to go higher in the months ahead. The Labor Department says it jumped from 5.7 percent in July to 6.1 percent in August. Such a sharp increase is usually a strong warning of a recession.

DURYEA, Pa. (AP) Barack Obama says the Republicans didn't say a thing in their convention about what's happening to the middle class. And addressing workers at a glass factory in Pennsylvania, Obama seized on dismal jobs numbers in his strategy of tying John McCain to President Bush's stewardship of the economy.

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) John McCain and sarah palin have been responding to the country's economic woes in campaign appearances Wisconsin and Michigan today. McCain says he knows these are "tough times" that require a team of mavericks who aren't afraid to go to Washington and "break some China."


wheatON, Ill. (AP) A standoff in suburban Chicago is over.

Police say a man who wrested a gun from a police officer and took hostages in a bank in Wheaton, Illinois, has killed himself. The incident began when an officer responded to a hit-and-run accident.

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