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Taking a break in wisconsin, but the budget battle is far from over. >> adam shapiro live in madison, wisconsin with i guess a preview of whats to come. another round of protests, adam? >> thats correct. the protesters against governor walker and his plans to balance the budget here. the labor protesters are expected to return and they say theyre going to be here until this issue resolves, the question how will it be resolved? the 14 awol senators are still not back and the government will start...

Protesters and supporters of governor walker were saying, look, this state needs to make some tough decisions and its true that the nation is watching whats happening in wisconsin and protests like the ones weve seen here are planned in other states this coming week an as they also consider legislation, which would require public sector employees who are part of labor unions to pay more towards health care, and restrict the collective bargaining rights. >> back to you from a cold and beginning t...

Ill let the photographs show a much different scene. these are labor protesters. the state capitol can actually accommodate 8,000 people, although no one really knows if that many will show up. theres a few hundred inside, about a hundred slept here last night. the situation with the protests today as i come back into the frame, is will the protesters show up with this bad weather because the labor protesters are saying, jamie, that they are not going to leave until the they gt what they want. t...

Almost 70,000 as you said, jamie but today will be the labor protesters and people who do not want collective bashing at least, part of the collective bargaining rights taken away and would maintain the rights over the salaries, if and when the bill becomes law but the key question is what happens next? when might that happen? because the 14 awol democratic senators are not coming back, according to republicans theyll go on with the business of the state of wisconsin, and vote on bills which are...

Lama hasan is joining us from cairo by phone. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the city is slowly getting back to normal. stores are open. the traffic is flowing. cairo is bustling once again. but thats not stopping people from still coming out on the street to protest, to let their voices be heard. were not seeing the huge protests like we saw last week that were successful in toppling the former president hosni mubarak. what were seeing now are smaller pockets of demonstrations. these ...

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15 minutes past the hour. a symbolic victory this morning for labor protesters in wisconsin. see theyd been ordered to evacuate the capitol building after two weeks of protests, but hundreds of them refused. they spent the night there anyway. so police backed off ended up allowing them to stay. meanwhile governor scott walker says if his budget isnt passed soon, 1,500 layoff notices will go out. there was a strong show of support for wisconsin state workers in all 50 u.s. capitals this weekend...

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