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Israeli prime minister ariel sharon is facing imminent death but doctors say hes holding on for now. >> reporter: fighting like a lion is how doctors describe former israeli prime minister ariel sharon despite multiple organ failure and a blood infection. they say his heart is strong and blood pressure is stable. ultimately doctors are pessimistic saying that hes in critical condition and hes in significant danger. all treatments are being made available but its a matter of time before the 85 ye...

Susteren. there is bipartisan sch p cuts back benefits for veteran retirees. a veteran who served in iraq joins us now. first, ryan, let me thank you for your service and for, of course, joining us tonight. what was your reaction when you first heard about these possible cuts, i would imagine you are in a little bit of a state of disbelief that the congress would actually pass something like that. >> well, dana, honestly, i was a little disheartened more than anything else that this would be a t...

Lets get caught up some of the other stories. anderson, the senate has passed the compromise budget agreement that the house approved last week, the president is expected to sign it. the agreement reduces the chance of another government shutdown. a record day on wall street after the fed announced a modest cutback in its bond buying program that helped stimulate the economy. the dow surfaced 290 points, closing at a high of 1,167. and the s&p had good news, as well. and good news for a blin...

Lets get caught up some of the other stories. susan hendricks has more for us. anderson, the senate has passed the compromise budget agreement that the house approved last week, the president is expected to sign it. the agreement reduces the chance of another government shutdown. a record day on wall street after the fed announced a modest cutback in its bond buying program that helped stimulate the economy. >> the dow surged 290 points, closing at a high of 1,167. and the s&p had good news,...

They used that fear to produce a monster voter suppression law, not just voter i.d. they ended same-day registration, cut back early voting, cut back sunday voting, denied 16 and 17-year-olds from preregistering. what they do is they use this fraud to create fear, and then they use that fear to do an extreme reduction in voting opportunity. because at the end of the day, injustice always has to have a lie to support it to create the fear to undergird it, and then they use that to destroy the opp...

And once they created the fear, they used that fear to produce a monster voter suppression law, not just voter i.d. they ended same-day registration, cut back early voting, cut back sunday voting, denied 16 and 17-year-olds from preregistering. what they do is they use this fraud to create fear, and then they use that fear to do an extreme reduction in voting opportunity. because at the end of the day, injustice always has to have a lie to support it to create the fear to undergird it, and then ...

Care. with these funding cuts, thats becoming ever more difficult. give us, if you will, a picture of what its been like for hospitals in states where theres been no medicaid expansion. >> its really a nightmare scenario. the supreme court kind of blew a hole in the law. we have a situation where half the states arent expanding medicaid. people still depending on hospital emergency room for care at the same time payments to essential hospitals are cut back, everyone assumed coverage would pick u...

Pope just said. but we get it. ben, thanks so much. shoppers this year may be heeding the popes call to cutback on the tyranny of capital limp. morgan stanley says this year may be the worst holiday shopping season since the height of the recession. >> consumers have to tighten their belts. theres a higher rate of pie roll tax. theres a lot of belt tightening going on. and what were finding is that retailers are having to discount prices in order to drive sales this holiday season. >> good n...

I do think that its a symptom on the newspaper side and on all of the local media side of whats happening at many small markets and media markets around the country where you have staff cuts at the newspaper and staff cuts at the broadcasting outlets and reporters being asked to do a lot more these days than just report the news and they are putting up websites. they are responsible for taking photos. they have to be on twitter and facebook. theres a lot that smaller newsrooms are asked to do an...

S.n.a.p., food stamp benefits, actually are working. theyre part of the working poor. theyre making $7 to $8 an hour, mind you. >> on an average, according to cbo, $8,800 a year. that certainly is below the poverty line. what are people telling about how theyre working and trying to balance this objective, just to feed their family? >> yeah, i spoke to one person who actually works at a food pantry and is also a regular customer of the food pantry. people are really struggling. there is a miscon...