The specifics of President Obama's housing rescue plan are being released today.  Lenders expect to be dealing with huge demand for refinancing plans once the rules of the new program are known.  The 75-billion-dollar Obama plan is expected to include help for about nine-million homeowners facing foreclosure.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is in Washington, DC today, where he'll address a joint session of Congress.  The global economic crisis was the topic of conversation yesterday when Brown met with President Obama at the White House. 

The Coast Guard has called off its search for three boaters missing in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast.  Still missing are Marquis [[ mar-KEES ]] Cooper of the Oakland Raiders, former Detroit Lions defensive lineman Corey Smith and William Bleakley. 

Antonio Villaraigosa [[ vee-yah-ruh-GOH-sah ]] looks like he has a good chance of winning a second term as Mayor of Los Angeles.  The 56-year-old Democrat faced off Tuesday against nine other candidates in the non-partisan race to lead America's second-largest city.  He's expected to easily win the 50-percent-plus-one majority he needs to avoid a May runoff.   

The grandfather of slain Florida toddler Caylee Anthony wants to keep a suicide note he wrote in January private.  George Anthony was hospitalized in January after police found him despondent in a motel room in Daytona Beach, Florida.  Officials say Anthony had taken some pills and written a five-page suicide letter to his family. 

Britney Spears' "Circus" tour is on its way to a city near you.  The tour launched last night in New Orleans, just 90 miles from where the pop singer grew up.  About 16-thousand fans shelled out between 95 and 250-dollars per ticket for the first date in the singer's comeback tour.  The 45-date world tour continues in Atlanta on Thursday, and Miami on Saturday.