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Presence felt. nice feed from kobe bryant. second quarter, howard does it on defense, swatting the attempted shot. that one to the second row. kind of vintage howard. he finished with a season high 39 points and 16 rebounds. as the lakers rolled 106-97. think he was motivated? more nba now. heat facing the hawks. dwyane wade gives up. wade scored 20 on the night. the heat have now won 19 straight games. very impressive. starting to get into rarified air. ricky rubio, behind the back, once then t...

Journal of politics in washington. theyve got a letter signed by 107 democrats saying we are not going to think about any of this kind of stuff. well of course use it as a weapon against the republicans in the 2014 election. >> im talking about the president himself which is the point of this debate here today, that he himself, why do we have to be so cynical with his attempt to reach out and question the sincerity as the washington times and other conservative media outlets have done? i think t...

Officials say it doesnt hold a danger to either house. engineers will get a closer look at the original sink hole today after crews finished demolishing a house. they have been dropping flowers and pictures out of the hole. >> what i would like is some kinds of a memorial, a headstone, a bench somewhere where my mom could sit to with son. thats all we want. closure for my brother and my mom and dad not to have to go through this any more. jeff bushs body as we understand will likely never be fou...

Consumer reports. mike, thanks so much for being with us this morning. a lot of people, sick of paying the gas prices, which are going up. >> sure. i mean, its definitely a concern. peoples budgets are tight in their households. got to find a way to strecht dollar. >> are fuel-efficient cars becoming more affordable as well? >> they have to. the car companies overall have to make their whole fleets more fuel efficient. luckily these days people have more and more options which to choose. >> you ...

Payne sees the suspects gun fall to the ground. >> so, i communicate to eric, you know, hes thrown the gun. its all clear. >> the two officers run over and arrest the suspects. its only at the end of the fight when the fear settles in. >> its at that point, when you really get scared, you know, because you start thinking, you know, what if? >> paramedics arrive to take the injured to the hospital. the four teens survive. they were on the run after stealing that pickup in ohio. the shooter, 19-ye...

>> so the staffers could order the stuff. >> from a hotel here in the district. >> greta: equipment, can i be sarcastic, havent they heard of skype or whatever? and the department of justice had 107 conference ins which they spent over $100,000 and they spent 58.7 million dollars. now, what were they -- what do they do in these conferences? ive never-- i havent been to any conferences, i guess. >> a lot of essentially sessions to make people feel good, we looked at some of the things that the mo...

894 conferences in 2012 to the tune of $340 million and that only covers those conferences that cost at least 100,000 dollars. the total figure is likely higher. those in conjunction with the house over site and government freerm committee also shows some agencies are far more fond than their convictions than others. the labor department for example held four big ticket conferences last year keeping the bill under $1 million even the gsa would cut back held only 3. the defense department the big...

A loss of some $30 million of wages. there are clearly going to be layoffs among the civil servants, 3200 there. some of those people are going to be lose their jobs. the rest are going to clearly be on furlough losing perhaps 20 hours of work or more. you are looking at the coast guard. take a look at the coast guard, just this cruise ship incident. the coast guard is going to lose 20% of its ability to do its job. i mean, what are we talking about here? this is terrible for the nations securit...

Travels in america, for anyone who comes into a port in america, and for the people who screen us to make sure were safe. >> now, of course, republicans are calling that all scare tactics. well, scare on this one. officials from states dealing with hurricane sandy, well, they say the damage also is going to hurt in the cuts is going to have an affect on the recovery. >> this is nothing short of a fiscal hurricane, a fiscal storm for the victims that are already been devastated by sandy. >> these...

The governors today. jindal and walker and haley and they had interesting frank exchanges about the spending cuts with the president. we didnt see any of that. because the president kicked them all out. >> is that unusual of other presidents done the same and similar situations? >> this president has actually allowed them in in previous annual national governors association meeting and allowed in in previous ones and this is the kind of the sensitive moment between obama and the white house pres...