i m lynn berry. today, we begin with meeting in the middle. for the first time since the gop s midterm election victory, president obama will sit down with congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle this morning in hopes of finding common ground on several political sticking points. tracie potts joins us from washington with more. tracie, good morning. reporter: lynn, good morning. there are two things on their agenda today. whether or not they could get the s.t.a.r.t. treaty with russia and the tax cuts extensions. president obama has said that they re going to have to budget both sides on their deeply held positions and compromise on this. republicans now want an up or down vote on a permanent extension of these tax cuts for everyone. democrats say that there will probably be a vote just on the middle class portion sometime this week. all of this a day after president obama announced a federal pay freeze for 2 million federal workers. he specifically said that doe
captive. it happened in the town of marinette, about an hour north of green bay. hugs of relief all around. parents reunite with their children, after a classmate held 22 students and a teacher hostage for hours. i didn t actually think it was happening until i had actually figured out some of my friends were missing. reporter: the standoff began during the school day s final period. moments later, he returned with a backpack. it had at least two handguns in it. he pulled out a gunt, students say. shot the movie projector. ordering the classmates to hand over their cell phones. reporter: terrified students kept the gunman calm by talking about hunting and fishing. it ended well after dark, when police busted down the classroom door. the officers approached him. the suspect then fired one shot. injured himself in a self-inflicted gunshot wound. reporter: the hostages were immediately evacuated from the room. the boy s motive is still in question. it s sad that
zucker burg zhuks it up with george w. bush. in an interview for facebook. you ll see their exchange of social awkwardness in a few moments. first let s get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. later this morning, president obama will sit down with the new leaders of congress for their first face-to-face meeting since the midterm elections. the closed door session expected to include discussion on the expiring bush era tax cuts and ratification of the s.t.a.r.t. arms reduction treaty. that meeting set to take place later this morning. the meeting scheduled to last just about an hour or so. neither side expects to emerge with any big agreements on everything. this is a getting to know you deal. in his briefing yesterday, press secretary robert gibbs says he hopes the gathering will be, quote, the beginning of a longer term conversation. i think this is the first of many, many meetings over the course of the next several years, as democrats and re
an armed 15-year-old held his western civilization class captive. it happened in the town of marinette, about an hour north of green bay. hugs of relief all around. parents reunite with their children, after a classmate held 22 students and a teacher hostage for hours. i didn t actually think it was happening until i had actually figured out some of my friends were missing. reporter: the standoff began during the school day s final period. moments later, he returned with a backpack. it had at least two handguns in it. he pulled out a gunt, students say. shot the movie projector. ordering the classmates to hand over their cell phones. reporter: terrified students kept the gunman calm by talking about hunting and fishing. it ended well after dark, when police busted down the classroom door. the officers approached him. the suspect then fired one shot. injured himself in a self-inflicted gunshot wound. reporter: the hostages were immediately evacuated from the ro
he is being kept overnight for unspecified medical examination. the inmade allegedly attacked a sheriff s deputy, tased her and took her gun before running off into a near by neighborhood. at around 4:30 this afternoon, heavily armed s.w.a.t. police brought the 6 7 into custody tonight. so frightened everybody that a run went running out of the house. and the dog made an escape route for the parents who ran out as well. leaving the guy in the house by himself. reporter: when police arrived, they initially went to the wrong house. our officers actually located the suspect in the house next door to the one where the initial entry and burglary had occurred. reporter: officers recovered the deputies gun and taser, the suspect did not resist. he took advantage of advantage and punched the deputy. he fled out into the perimeter of the hospital area where they fought again. he managed to take the deputies taser then tased the deputy. reporter: the inmate took the deputy