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Government by asking voters to extend for five years taxes that top $12 billion and due to expire this summer. the governor wants to give that money to cities and counties so they can assume state services, including security security, and child welfare. >> when these taxes go away in five years, state will be obligated to maintain the funding. we will commit to that so people arent going to say, youll give us five years and then what? the state will continue even if the taxes go away. >> the wh...

>> he wants to restructure state government by asking voters to extend for five years taxes that top $12 billion and due to expire this summer. the governor wants to give that money to cities and counties so they can assume state services, including security security, and child welfare. >> when these taxes go away in five years, state will be obligated to maintain the funding. we will commit to that so people arent going to say, youll give us five years and then what? the state will continue eve...

Martha: the highest, more formal invitation we can offer to another country, and there are tense times between our two countries. the white house says not raising the debt ceiling would be an economic catastrophy if we were to let that happen. but former governor tim pawlenty says republicans should quote call their bluff. >> you have to be willing to stand up to a culture, a history, a pattern, 21% spending in my state for four years and say we are not doing that anymore. im glad we had that sh...

2 million americans this week. meanwhile new claims rose. heres the number that just came out, 436,000. that is a jump of 23,000 people who are now having to get on that line and file for unemployment claims. tomorrow were going to get the whole look at the month of november for that rate. economists predict it will stay stuck above the 9 percent unemployment rate level for the united states right now, and that streak of high unemployment numbers could break the record that was set back in the 1...

Megyn: arnold arnold schwarzenegger the governor of california had an open ed in the "wall street journal." he said 80 cents of every government dollar in california goes to the compensation and benefits of the state employees. he says there are huge unfunded pension and retirement healthcare promises made by past governments that the californians have to pay and california is solids with $550 billion just what they have to pay in retirement debt. just servicing that debt costs the state 15% ann...

Million. maybe it is unfair to make that comparison. it is hard with all these money problems to justify who gets what. >> look, senator nelson is an expensive vote. heres the bottom line this bill, the health care bill is going to weigh down on the economy badly. the stimulus bill has turned into a disaster for the president politically, because it has been a failure from a policy perspective.k(-you are rn indiana tonight this state with a republican governor who cut spending and taxes. they cr...

Million. maybe it is unfair to make that comparison. it is hard with all these money problems to justify who gets what. >> look, senator nelson is an expensive vote. heres the bottom line this bill, the health care bill is going to weigh down on the economy badly. the stimulus bill has turned into a disaster for the president politically, because it has been a failure from a policy perspective.k(-you are rn indiana tonight this state with a republican governor who cut spending and taxes. they cr...

It as an accident. just yesterday, rescue crews pulled the car from a river in orangeburg about 100 miles north of savannah. cops were suspicious because of no skid marks or signs of a crash. listen. >> it was our early determination that this vehicle entered the edisto river by either being intentionally placed there or rolling from the secondary highway down to the river. >> shepard: the sheriff went on to say the mother likely suffocated the children in a nearby motel room and drove them to t...

Into a river. police say this woman, shaquan duley, first told police that the children drowned when the car crash under to the river. then the story changed. duley confessed the children were already dead by the time the car hit the water. she was unemployed and police say she was distraught over money problems. >> she is fed up with her mom telling her that she couldnt take care of the children or she wasnt taking care of the children and she just wanted to be free. >> joey barr with wis joins...

Of control. >> i immediately called 911, and within 30 to 40 minutes the fire department was telling everyone to get out. thats how quickly the fire spread. >> we have 150 homes that are still in immediate threat. wind conditions is one key factor but also the brush out there, its really thick, sparse, due to the rains that weve had, a lot of dry weather its really made it thick. so with this wind also providing the fuel it just pushed it really good. patti ann: the cause of the fire is under in...