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the latest shooting was on monday when three children and a teenager were kill at a nearby jewish school. police say negotiations are still under way with the suspect in this hours long standoff. diana magnay joins us from toulouse with the latest. this standoff has been going on for three hours now at the very least. is there a sense theyre making any headway? >> reporter: well, weve just heard from the mayor, actually, whos been talking to police right outside the house, just up the ...

Or trouble in the middle east, oil companies and wall street use it as a chance to spike prices. the government needs to fight back on that. >> you have fighting for jobs in ohio. your by america amendment that closes some of the loopholes just passed the senate. tell us the significance of that. >> passed on a voice vote. it just simply says if taxpayers are going to spend money building bridges like the oakland bridge that we know about with a lot of chinese steel, but if were going to spend t...

About jobs, i mean, saying that -- trying to blame in terms of gas and jobs, keystone, the presidents opposition on that, if they really cared about that, how come they didnt support some of the infrastructure projects in the jobs bill. the key is were just going to have to keep hammering back with the truth. >> at the end of the day, i dont know that people, you know you deal so much in punditry and politics. people are really hurting. this is for real. when you look at the fact that in a recen...

Its expected to call for reducing the deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade but also projects a $1.3 trillion deficit for this year. the president plans to cut medicare and medicaid by $360 billion and eliminate the bush tax cuts for the wealthy as well. hes proposing $475 billion for infrastructure projects and another 350 billion to create jobs and stimulate the economy. i know we just threw a lot of numbers at you. the president is still facing criticism, however, over the mandate to pa...

You reach the pinnacle, the top of your career, and youre always trying to figure out whats next. you really cant get any higher. and a lot of times you think that they would have everything, fame, fortune, success, and -- >> theyre still human. >> theyre still human. and you know what? the more you have to lose, the more youre going to be attacked, too. >> its a shame. so many lives gone too soon. >> yep. now to another major headline this morning. the president outlines his big budget plans ...

the maldives. president mohammed masheed announced his resignation after a police mutiny. they are calling for a greater role for islamic values in the country. cnn has no confirmation of who is currently in control. europe is still dging itself out from last weeks snow and more cold weather on the way. some communities in southeastern europe are struggling to cope with record low temperatures. ukraine along has reported 135 deaths from the extreme weather. those are the headlines fr...

$98 billion, travel times that will longer than promised. and ticket prices higher than airplanes, which would require the taxpayers subsidiaries. >> the cost has gone up. typical of the large infrastructure projects. >> the numbers dont lie. every time you look at this more, the worse it looks. >> supporters are trying to get some rail bed, some track laid in the areas of california where the land is cheap. and then argue well for a penny in for a pound and continue to draw federal money over t...

Billion in bonds to help pay for the project that promised to create thousands of jobs and reduce gridlock. today polls show a majority consider the proposal a boondoggle. >> the reason that private equity is slow in coming is because congress is not taking action. >> reporter: a dozen lawmakers called for a federal audit into potentially false claims including figures that show more people riding california bullet trains than all americans now using amtrak. a price increase from $33 to $98 bill...

Jeopardize the strength of the programs and you are the one says, well, risk it a little bit. >>guest: well, we actually have been at this before. this would be the third year this was done and the social security and the medicare that is affected by this, the money is backfilled, in other words, it comes from the general fund into those trust accounts so that this is not damage to the trust accounts. you could say that the old coin or the old glass was broken. >>neil: you are worried about jobs...

Look the reality is that there are serious questions that need to be resolved and i think we would want our president to get answers to those questions before making a final decision. interestingly while mitch mcconnell says that thats a shovel-ready project, the reality there are lots of infrastructure projects out there around the country right now that the president has asked for additional funding for that would be done by the private sector, that mitch mcconnell and republicans in the senat...