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Kind of thing. and states and local governments are shutting down essential services. so the senate did pass this bill and it comes before the house on tuesday. another measure that the president supports is help for small businesses. $30 billion in loans for some of the small businesses who are having trouble getting enough money to sort of run their businesses and, in turn, we hope hire. >> theres been lots of talk about the bush tax cuts, right, may expire at the end of the year if the obama ...

Immigration you llaw, etc., doe have anything to do with that sf>> no, this conversation started back in december. it has nothing to do with immigration or national origin. it has everything to do with the cost of government and the cost of language. one of the towns here in the neighboring -- county to us is actually spending -- ive been told spent $4 million in a 10-year period. in a little city like us, we cant afford to do something like that. our employees have had their wages frozen and th...

Personnel and overhead. approximately 75% of what we spend in the city of houston goes to our employees, and they provide essential services. so if you cut spending in a city, you cut people. and that in turn affects the local economy and theres a feedback loop that you dont want to get into it. >> mayor nutter, theres a feedback loop that some -- you dont have any control over in some cases. i mean, this has sort of been handed to you guys. here you are on the ground as a mayor of a big america...

That youre not comfortable with having to make but necessary because of the recession? >> well, not any city in america thats not dealing with the current economic climate. were fortunate in houston that ive been able to balance the budget without having to furlough or layoff employees but cities are service organizations, the bulk of our expenditures are personnel and overhead. 75% of what we spend in houston goes to our employees and they provide essential services, so if cut spending in a cit...

Molotov cocktails at the eiffel tower. the french had dignity to take off for dinner. continue protesting after dinner. this is getting bad because they dont want to give back anything. i cant blame them. youre used to this your entire life and everything has been handle your entire life. your final year, whatever you make in your salary is what you make for the pension for the rest of your life. you dont want it taken back. but a microcosm of a lot of workers have enjoyed for many years but now...

214 people are now dead. the quake triggered tsunami warnings for the entire pacific basin. officials say the leading edge has reached hawaii. a large wave killed three people on the island of fernandez off the coast of chile and ten people, we understand, are missing. there is loss of essential services and people in the streets are looking for places to go. many people have been displaced. the airport serving santiago is temporarily closed. our reporter is at the chile desk. what is being asse...

Lets call this what this is. this is a bail-out for the government. remember how you felt when we bailed out banks and car companies and everybody is furious? where is the outrage over this? these are public employees. this is government bail-out for the government. and its no le less horrish and repulsive than bailing out car companies. if this was an individual and i did this and ran this company and i did this, it would be fraud. i would go to jail. in 2009, if you dont believe me, the states...

Around the district of columbia as they go on emergency calls and try to help people who are in trouble, and the guy who is helping to organize that is colonel aaron dean. colonel, exactly what will you do in your humvees there? >> were here to provide essential services to the city, with resources they normally dont have in the form of a humvee, so we have the highly mobile vehicles we provide for police department, fire department and d.c. homeland security with the necessary resources to prov...

The decision affects some 230,000 government employees who have been told to stay home for safety reasons. essential services will continue, though, and emergency workers are still expected to report to work. snow suspended all flights into and out of washington. reagans national airport today. service at dulles was severely limited. we want to go now to cnns meteorologist boppie schneider in the cnn severe weather center. bonnie, what a mess, and its not over yet. >> no, not at all. were stil...

Safety reasons. essential services will continue, though, and emergency workers are still expected to report to work. snow suspended all flights into and out of washington. reagans national airport today. service at dulles was severely limited. we want to go now to cnns meteorologist boppie schneider in the cnn severe weather center. bonnie, what a mess, and its not over yet. >> no, not at all. were still looking at the threat for more snowy weather for washed wash and the rest of the country ...