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Presidential con tenders. its important to the country that we examine what is wrong with the red sox. nice crowd in cleveland, by the way. highlights of yet another loss coming up later. but first, lets get to the news live at 5:30 here at 30 rock in new york city. congressional negotiators have been working through the night no n. an effort to avoid a government shutdown that would take place tomorrow at midnight. the white house last night, president obama met with senate majority leader harr...

The goal of the military mission was to prevent gadhafi going into benghazi and eastern libya and slaughtering the people there, hunting down those people who stood up for their liberty with only their courage and asked us for their help and would being hunted down tonight as we speak if he hadnt done this. >> so what is our end game here, tom? how does this end? >> well it begins with people being safe in eastern libya. now we have time to work on the end game that the president committed ourse...

Was to prevent gadhafi going into benghazi and eastern libya and slaughtering the people there, hunting down those people who stood up for their liberty with only their courage and asked us for their help and would being hunted down tonight as we speak if he hadnt done this. >> so what is our end game here, tom? how does this end? >> well it begins with people being safe in eastern libya. now we have time to work on the end game that the president committed ourselves to two or three weeks ago. i...

Women are more likely to be in graduate school. a record percent of women now earn more than their husbands. theyre marrying later, marrying less, and having fewer children. and women make just 75 cents on the dollar compared to men. ron, women are getting all these -- >> thats a great blog name by the way. >> yeah. if women are getting these degrees and marrying later and getting the jobs they want, how come theyre only earning 75 cents on the dollar? >> this stems from a white house report. we...

The obama administration took this on. what do we know about this, this is a first comprehensive report like this. >> there is. there are a lot of norms in the place say 40 years ago that have totally reversed today. one of of the first ones is in the field of education. for one thing, across the board more women than men are earning cloth degrees. thats a big shift from 1969 to 2009. however, those degrees are concentrated in certain areas, not including engineering and computer science. in fac...

Theyre up 15 points. so there you have it. more women are going to college and more are in the workplace, but a new white house report shows women still make less money than their male counterparts. stefan ifphanie elam is here. >> weve money is for years and years. what the report pound is that the gender pay gap is narrowing, but theres still a lot of work to go because theyre saying when it comes to women what are making, its sill 75% of what men make. you talk about college, more women are...

Line because they want deep cuts. for reed, he has moderate democrats who want more than reed is proposing. when something comes to the floor that does more than reed has, can he hold the moderates in line? that is this question? you have claire mccaskill, ben nelson, those for examplks need home and prove theyre serious about spending cuts and whether they vote with majority leader or go out on their own on spending cuts. >> thank you. now to presidential politics, in the list of early 2012 r...

Going for $44 million, bent for $29 million. were going to keep our eye on a lot of transfers that could go on for the next few hours, charles. well have a number on the update and we should have new faces and new places in the next few hours. >> pedro, thank you for that. a quick look at the stock markets, were seeing europe selling off. if we have a quick look at the numbers, up. i would say narrowing perhaps in response to an outlook of a flat opening. what about asia, manisha? >> very much...

Layoffs in the government side of the business, especially the state and municipal. on the flip side, a lot of hiring in the u.s. government side. in the state and municipal area were going to see more layoffs and it does affect more women. and i have to mention, this is statistically insignificant. if you look at 8 million jobs, we have 15 million people unemployed. were talking about a very small number. i think its way too early to make a broad stroke, one out of ten women are being hired, ni...

Amy kellogg looks at a session with a lot of talk but not much to show for it. >> talks kicked off today again. not in western capital but heart of the moderate islamic country. long day of meeting with a break for prayers. with iran now more than ever feeling the bite of sanction and interim strife in the government, it might be a good time for a deal. or maybe not. >> they are under pressure. iranians resist pressure well and say they wont compromise. >> despite the stories of economic gloom, ...