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Which is basically a more short-term fix to avoid the fiscal cliff that would involve helping people who are about to lose their unemployment benefits and coming up with medium ground on extending tax cuts. take a listen. >> in the next few days ive asked leaders of congress to work toward a package that prevents a tax hike on middle class americans, protects unemployment insurance for two million americans, and lays the groundwork for further work on both growth and deficit reduction. that is a...

Become polling centers in parts of new jersey slammed by monster storms. the trucks will be parked at regular polling places on election day that dont have power and generators, so long as the locations are accessible. voters will then vote on paper ballots. that means somebody better start printing them. new jersey is extending the deadline for mail-in ballots until today. the deadline was tuesday. interestingly enough, my daughter wound up with her absentee ballot. she got it in texas yesterda...

Seen reports of that as well. and some of these states put the onus on the votero t say okay, you can vote but it is provisional. if you can prove later on we should count it, well count it. rick: we have some time, not a lot of time, but sometime before the election for those folks who dont have a photo i.d. and live in states where these laws recently have been passed maybe now is a good time to get yourself one? >> thats right. republicans say this is not complicated. you need i.d. to vote. y...

Many, many working people have. and in terms of the war on women, i mean, mitt romney has said hes for the personhood amendment that would basically strip a woman of her right to choose to have an abortion if she chooses to do that. he wants to kill planned parenthood. so there are many, many issues here. and the fact that theyve grasped on to will this one statement by a political operative who is not associated with the obama campaign and try to make it such an issue, i think is an example of ...

The violent storms tore homes apart. one survivor describes her afternoon. >> i love -- start popping and stuff. my daughter got in the closet. and then i started to get her. next thing i know, we opened the door and lay down, it was just a big disaster. >> shepard: right now search crews are looking through the debris for survivors. so far officials do not report a single death from these monster storms. as i mentioned, forecasters say the threat for more tornadoes will continue through the nig...

this late hour and typically storms die off by now, we still have 19 different cells, 19 different storms that are rotating enough or have tornados on the ground to have tornado warnings on them. 19 separate storms. these storms go all wait from louisiana to florida to almost atlanta, georgia. one now crossing the border from atlanta. a little farther to the north on up, the third storm of the day for chattanooga right there, tornado warning on that, especially just off to the east. an...

were following the breaking news this hour, a tornado outbreak that scraped parts of the midwest this morning, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 100. hardest hit, harrisburg, illinois, where at least six people died, including two children. within the last half hour, we learned the tornado was a category ef-4, with winds, get this, up to 170 miles an hour, and as wide as two football fields. in the last hour, the mayor spoke at a grief-stricken news conference. >> we ...

high cost system which candidly could not have been done by any other state because no other state had a medicaid program as lavish as yours and no other state got as much money out of the federal government. so theres big government behind romney care, not as much as obama care but a heck of a lot more than your campaign has admitted. >> he also like to hammer the centerpiece of the massachusetts law, which was the individual mandate that requires all residents above a certain income ...

virtual tie for the lead. what happened to newt gingrich nice guy? he vowed not to go negative in response to the other candidates attack ads, but that didnt stop gingrich from blasting ron paul. in an interview with cnns wolf blitzer he said he wouldnt vote for paul. gingrich pointed to incendiary newsletters distributed under pauls name in the 80s and 90s. >> you look at his newsletters and then you look at his ads, his ads are about as accurate as his newsletters. >> now if he wer...

if youre in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. >> 65 million people in danger. >> to all the people in eastern north carolina, good luck and our prayers are with you. >> mandatory evacuations, time to get out right now. >> you have to get out. >> weve never done a mandatory evacuation before and we wouldnt be doing it now if we didnt think this storm had the potential to be very serious. >> were tracking this monster minute by minute and going live ...