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Sept. 8, 2011

Cronkite NewsWatch looks into President Barack Obama's jobs plan speech to Congress and asks several Arizona congressional representatives what they want to see in the president's bill. And in Phoenix, the unemployed attend a local job fair, hoping for better job prospects. A reporter also takes a tour of an Arizona Department of Health Service's lab that tests cells from across the state for the flu virus.  The brother of a Sikh Mesa man fatally shot on Sept. 15, 2001, in a hate crime speaks out against profiling and calls for the acceptance of all races and religions.  And downtown Phoenix community members are planting the seeds for 30,000 sunflowers on a vacant dirt lot. Watch video

Cronkite NewsWatch looks into President Barack Obama's jobs plan speech to Congress and asks several Arizona congressional representatives what they want to see in the president's bill. And in Phoenix, the unemployed attend a local job fair, hoping for better job prospects. A reporter also takes a tour of an Arizona Department of Health Service's lab that tests cells from across the state for the flu virus. The brother of a Sikh Mesa man fatally shot on Sept. 15, 2001, in a hate crime speaks out against profiling and calls for the acceptance of all races and religions. And downtown Phoenix community members are planting the seeds for 30,000 sunflowers on a vacant dirt lot.

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