Page 5 - Jon Jonathan News Today

call or go online now. [♪.. the preceding was a paid presentation for 10 minute trainer, brought to you by beachbody. pad pad . a teenage race car driver is involved in a crash that killed two people. what we are learning this morning about the drivers backgrounds. >> shooting outside a home in sacramento county sent six people to the hospital. the weekend of happy st. patricks day tips. people are sell -- continues. people are celebrating all over the world. this is ktvu, "morni...

reminder of the grim economic reality were all facing. jon: those new weekly jobless claims just out today came out higher than expected, 418,000 americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits. wendall goler live at the white house right now, explain the presidents offer for this short-term extension of the debt ceiling. >> reporter: well, you pretty much had it. the president wont agree to extend the time of the august 2nd deadline for lawmakers to reach a deficit-cutting agree...

short-term extension of the debt ceiling. >> reporter: well, you pretty much had it. the president wont agree to extend the time of the august 2nd deadline for lawmakers to reach a deficit-cutting agreement, but if they agree on a deal, hell give them a few more days to turn it into legislation and put it on his desk. and the best hope, it appears, for a bipartisan compromise appears to be the so-called gang of six proposal which would trim the deficit about $3 be.7 trillion -- $3.7 tr...

speaks to the leaders of tomorrow in south africa. she tells the young women that their generation can banish the hunger and aids virus that has plagued that continent. ♪ its the longest war in u.s. history. today, president obama turns our attention toward ending it. his prime time address will provide long-awaited details of withdrawing the first u.s. troops from afghanistan. according to a congressional source, 10,000 u.s. troops will be pulled out by the end of this year. anoth...