Page 119 - 169 News Today

split, 6-6 along party lines. theyll have until thanksgiving to come up with a package of cuts and/or taxes to get the $1.5 trillion. now, congress would then vote up or down on the entire chunk. they have to vote. but remember, the supercommittee was set up to do what congress and the white house failed to do. keeping them honest tonight, its not like this is the first time politicians have decided to set up a committee to do what they themselves have failed to do. in targets we have ...

>> we were on a second short break and heading to the fieldhouse. he collapsed outside the fieldhouse. >> the heat proving to be fatal in georgia. two high school football players collapsed while out practicings under the sun and the heat. they both later died. if you have kids who say, mom, dad, the coach says i have to practice, i have to be out there, maybe in full pads, i want you to listen to the father of one of those high school players who just passed away. >> when your body te...

but "cnn newsroom" continues right now with brooke baldwin. >> speak of washington, we have a busy two hours ahead. randi, thank you very much. hello, everyone. are you ready for this? the debt deal is done, right? not exactly. we still need to see votes happening both in the senate and the house. on the house side, it looks like some democrats could be holding things up. well speak with one of them. we expect to hear from speaker of the house, john boehner this hour. well carry that...

Celebrations in misratah, libya. a spokesman for the oppositions political leadership says that after two months of fighting, all of misratah has been liberated from government control. but rebel fighters, not the government, say that thats not quite accurate, that libyan troops still hold the citys eastern gate. representatives of the libyan opposition will be at the white house tomorrow to meet with senior administration officials. at least 13 people are dead in the latest round of bloodshed...

Used live ammunition in protesters in sanaa. doctors say 169 people are wounded, some critically. they expect the death toll will rise. the. the army corps of engineers it will probably open a missouri river spillway near baton rouge as early as saturday. people who live in the floods path are filling sandbag. opening the spillway will take pressure off the levees and cut the flood threat to baton rouge and new orleans. but that means more than 2,000 homes in the spillway are certain now to fl...

Bullets, firing machine guns into the air to break up rallies across the countrys leader, that is to actually oust him, ali abdullah saleh. doctors on the scene say so far 169 are injured. activists say the death toll is at least 13. the standoff only intensifying. michael holmes is going behind the headlines with the worsening situation that is in yemen. and we have seen this stand-off three months now, back and forth, back and forth. what is the state of play now? why is this such a critical t...

Jenna: fox news alert coming out of iowa where we are just hearing about a brink collapse. it happened in the for the dodge area about an hour and a half from des moine. a section of u.s. highway 169, a bridge that was being demolished, workers were on it trying to remove part of it. part of the deck collapsed and the workers fell about 20 feet. no word on the condition. working to get you more information and pictures from this area. as we get more well bring it to you. jon: and this fox news a...

169 people were arrested for simply praying earlier this week. why is this happening and why now? the china scholar mingshing pei says chinas leaders have reason to feel insecure. inflation is rising. there is a housing bubble. unemployment is getting higher. and beijing likes to err on the side of caution. china will have a new set of leaders a year from now. they all need to show they are tough against domestic dissent. to me its an interesting sign of the nervousness of chinas leaders and the...

Seek political reform while few people showed up a heavy police presence was already there. resistance was swiftly detained. journalists including a cnn reporter were presented from covering the story. >> im not doing anything illegal. >> cnn was blacked out and people in china probably arent seeing the segment you are watching now. im certain it, too, will be blacked out. but censorship is standard in china. whats new is the ferocity of the crack down. consider is arrest of chinas best known ar...

Itself is saying they werent slow to react. when i spoke to the minister, he sid the reports from the farmers themselves were quite slow. it was difficult for the ministry to act as quickly. it is a case at this point of both sides blaming each other. the ministry says it has a hot line open for people who believe the infection may have spread to their farm to call. theyre also putting a lot of money into this problem, compensation, they say they are paying, for example, one farmer we went to se...