is now the speaker of the house and he is promising hard work and tough decisions ahead and tough lines and showdowns likely with president obama and the democrats. let s discuss what is going on with the gop s new chief deputy whip of the house, and one of the republicans so-called enforcers congressman peter rosten. and you have a lot of congratulations of not only yourself getting re-elected, but the republicans becoming the majority. there is some confusion, because you promised in the fiscal year, currently, that you would cut $100 million spending and now back to $50 billion and what is going on, cutting it in half? well, it is not. it is at the time it was made was the roll out of america, and the speaking out america that the house republicans launched a and that was the attention of speaker pelosi to bring them up, and that was the ent end of september. so since then, there is a great deal of spending going onb and
let s take a look at some hot shots. in japan, artists participate in a contest celebrating the new year. in germany, during a zoo inventory, a cane toad rests on a scale while it waits to be counted. in australia, people used boats to travel throughout the city of rockhampton. in india, a boy hides a large kite in preparation for a festival. hot shot, pictures worth a thousand words. when we introduced you to ted williams, who would have thought he d suddenly become a national sensation. cnn s jeanne moos has an update. reporter: hair today, gone tomorrow. but the main thing that changed overnight wasn t ted williams look, it was his life. who is responsible for everything reporter: no wonder he was tearfully thanking folks. the offers were pretty amazing. we had a listener offer up $15,000 of her own money.
the nation went into a deficit then because the bubble burst and it wouldn t have mattered what policies you tried to implement. we re going to have a great big reversal. beyond that, i would say that in every fight i ever had on the president s behalf with congress, and there were a lot of them, there was never one where i would suggest spending more and they would suggest spending zes because the national deficit doubled in the eight years of administration? well, nobody is happy about that. nobody you know, the deficit that the president left was dramatic. we would love to be back that the today. but the government turned out to be during those eight years a lot bigger than when he started? it did. and we don t have to agre with that to agree who was to blame for that? republicans are saying forever, the government has to be smaller and balanced budgets. during the eight years of the government administration, it
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develop diseases. what i did tell you, wolf, is that what has happened today which is shocking in the scientific world, but keep in mind that this data, wakefield s papers had been discredited and questioned and scrutinized for a long time, but it did not quelled or changed people who were concerned about vaccines, and it didn t change their opinions. so i don t know how much what is happening today will change their opinion either. i think that they will say, what exactly causes autism and can you tell me the answer to that question, and science can t right now, so there is still going to be a lot of question marks, but with regard to vaccines and autism, this is a significant, significant development. certainly is. sanjay, thank you very much. dr. sanjay gupta with the latest on this. wow, what a story. a scare on a jetliner due to a cup of coffee. what is the airline doing about this? what happened? we will tell you. plus, we first brought you a story that went viral and now