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Going to be delayed. >> reporter: border states are burdened with vacancies and a heavy immigration caseload. royal ferguson says it is overwhelming. >> you have judges handling eight times the number of criminal cases that are normally registered in other courts across the nation. thats a staggering document it is hard to give it that kind of attention, you have such a heavy case load. >> it cant be done. those judges are having to improvise and no judge likes to -- to -- to come up with shortc...

Of perception by the american people, if that should happen friday, and therein may lie the secret to breaking this logjam. neither can afford, heading toward 2012, to be perceived as causing a shutdown of the federal government. >> the president said yesterday, listen, were in the middle of an economic recovery and that a shutdown would certainly have a great impact on this recovery. what are your listeners telling you? are they at the point where they are concerned that the mess in washington ...

Anything more to negotiate? >> we you are talking about negotiating, we are negotiating on behalf of the american people. >> you have your number, your ideas. >> were fighting for as much as we can cut. when i have this conversation back home with people, i tell them all the time we accumulated more debt in february in that one month than for the entire year of 2007. thats how quickly our spending has ramped up in this country. during my campaign we had a commercial where my son and daughters we...

Anything more to negotiate? >> we you are talking about negotiating, we are negotiating on behalf of the american people. >> you have your number, your ideas. >> were fighting for as much as we can cut. when i have this conversation back home with people, i tell them all the time we accumulated more debt in february in that one month than for the entire year of 2007. thats how quickly our spending has ramped up in this country. during my campaign we had a commercial where my son and daughters we...

Of those defendants will walk. that could put thousands of dangerous drivers back on the road. it is also shaping up as a costly logjam in the courts and may lead to lawsuits against the city. commissioner ramsey has launched an internal investigation. >> theres one person that was responsible for calibrating these machines. the error was human error. it is inexcusable. period. should not have happened. >> wow. unbelievable story there. and theyve actually -- the city stopped using breathalyzers...

Secret in politics these days is our problems are so tough on the fiscal side that the politicians that go out there and break the logjam are done. and they got to have the courage to go into office knowing that they may only thereabout for two or four hours and have the guts to go out there and make the changes. >> is anybody who has done the math wrong, when you look at the cost of health care in america, not the coverage of health care in america which the last debate was ultimately about. bu...

Reforms because youre committed to the senate as an institution. i know you would think this would not be something that would lend partisan advantage to either side. but you think this would be the right thing for the legislative branch? i know weve talked about this before. how are you going to keep pursuing this? >> well, first we went to the floor and tom harkin and tom udall and i made the case. you showed footage of that. we said, look, the senate is broken. so lets work together to fix it...

Next? i know youre committed to these reforms because youre committed to the senate as an institution. i know you would think this would not be something that would lend partisan advantage to either side. but you think this would be the right thing for the legislative branch? i know weve talked about this before. how are you going to keep pursuing this? >> well, first we went to the floor and tom harkin and tom udall and i made the case. you showed footage of that. we said, look, the senate is b...

Next? i know youre committed to these reforms because youre committed to the senate as an institution. i know you would think this would not be something that would lend partisan advantage to either side. but you think this would be the right thing for the legislative branch? i know weve talked about this before. how are you going to keep pursuing this? >> well, first we went to the floor and tom harkin and tom udall and i made the case. you showed footage of that. we said, look, the senate is b...

Female fire fighting service. demand for women on the rise and increasing discrimination complaints only. >> oregon, they are working to clear a logjam on the sandy river in i-94 bridges. they say it will take two weeks to clean it all up. massachusetts, rescuers finally reached a small dog reportedly stuck on a frozen pond since sunday. one crew worker says they couldnt catch. >> it its such a big area, she would ran run from one area to the other. >> helicopter lowered a rescuer that grabbed t...