getting the mage? we ve got new polling that says all of that. and this is important. recent polling may also explain why we haven t got an deal yet. we ll tell you what we re talking about. in any case, americans are speaking out today. good morning, speaker boehner s office. how may i help you? a summer avalanche of phone calls hitting the capitol. president obama asked for it in his address to the nation last night. here it is. house switchboard today getting nearly double the volume of normal phone calls, house speaker baine er s office reporting as many as 300 people on hold for as long as an hour. online the same story. site unavailable. server busy. we found better than one in three congressional web sites either slow or down entirely from all the volume. also multiple calls to the white house switchboard by one of our producers also not getting through. that s what s happening. and it s unusual. and there s new polling out there on the debt issue from pew research
live on capitol hill correspondent. you ve been following ins and o outs. i want to begin with the one offered in the last hour we heard from senate majority leader harry reid. what s in the latest plan. i was realizing this is $2.7 trillion in proposed cuts, brooke, on two sides of a piece of paper. obviously details need to be filled in what they are proposing raise it by this month, cut by this month. the cuts include $1 trillion immediately in discretionary spending. also a lot of money from war money. he s saying as afghanistan and iraq wrap up, there s about a trillion dollars in savings. that s kind of controversial, brooke, because republicans don t count that money. but bottom line, $2.7 trillion all in savings cuts. you might like all them. that s what he s saying. he has a longer term committee in here but it would just make recommendations for long-term reform, really would have a vote on that but wouldn t force those reforms to happen. so i want to look at th
officials say nothing suggests an attack is imminent. they only say recent incidents reinforce the terror threat. and hope for a grand debt fix was dimmed just a bit in washington. some democrats and republicans are picking apart the latest plan with the same old complaints. liberals say it cuts social security and medicare. conservatives say it raises taxes. republicans have refused to raise the nation s debt limit without deep spending cuts and no tax increases. the deadline now is just 12 days away. somalia s president is asking the world for immediate help to feed his country s people. the united nations says more than 3.5 million somalis are threatened by famine. aide workers call the food shortage even worse than the ethiopian famine of the mid- 80s. our children need immediate action. immediate action is action today. almost half of this country s population will be sweltering in a dangerous heat wave today. hot air and high humidity will make big cities along
in this country, a new debt ceiling compromise seems to be getting traction in washington. six senators, three republicans, and three democrats are offering a plan to cut the nation s debt by about $3.7 trillion over the next decade. it includes spending cuts and about a trillion dollars in new tax revenue. republicans have insisted on deep cuts and no tax increases before they ll agree to raise the country s borrowing limit. that debt ceiling deds line is now just 13 days away. minnesota s three-week government shutdown is over. democratic governor park dayton signed a budget bill today. he and republican lawmakers finally agreed to use accounting gimmicks to close the state s $5 billion shortfall. republicans refused to raise taxes. the shutdown left 22,000 state workers without a paycheck. and memphis public schools may not open august 8th as scheduled because of a budget fight. the school board says no classes till the city pace $55 million. the board says the city ow
says the reporter who blew the whistle on the uk hacking scandal has been sound dead. his name is john ford, he was found today in his london home. police are calling his death unexplained. this is important because we re going to have much more on this story, got a lot of questions for our correspondent in london, we ll bring that to you coming up. but i want to begin this hour with a warning. i want you to listen to a warning. this is a warning that i m about to show you a video of 16 men being shot to death. i m going give you a moment here right now to go ahead and get the kids out of the room, but this is a video released by taliban insurgents in pakistan and it shows more than a dozen men believed to be pakistani policemen lined up. there they are, against the backdrop of the hillside with their hands tied behind their backs facing several men with rifles on the right side of your screen. this man shouting is accusing them of killing children in a crime against islam. a