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Hood. well show you some of those. >> i saw the fox report last night and i saw her with harris faulkner and uma, they looked great. >> overexposed photos. >> no. somebody else was taking the photos. maybe thats why. >> that is coming up. but first, air traffic control towers across the country will be back to normal by tonight after the fur lowe forcing flight delays. the f.a.a. ending the mandatory furloughs on saturday brought on sequestration cuts. >> elizabeth prann joins us live from washi...

>> well, i say with all due respect to my friends, its a little bit hypocritical on the same day when all of the focus was on the delays that we have in getting through airports, the chief of staff of the united states army was saying that we are going -- if we dont reverse this, were going to have a hollow army. well be unable to defend the nation, and it would take us 10 or 15 years to recover. i think we have our priorities a little bit skewed here. look, im for giving the faa flexibility, bu...

He is under constant surveillance and given medication, as he recovers from injury suffered in a chase with police. the f.b.i. says he got the right man this time in the case of the ricin-laced letters. authorities arrested 41-year-old james everett 41-year-old everett dutschke at the home in mississippi. he is accused of mailing poise on the the president, a senator and local judge. >> he thinks he smarter than everybody else. he has a mensa certificate so im not surprised at all. >> anna: tues...

Who have been off the job one day every other week. as a result of sequestration cuts. that left aports short 1500 controllers a day since sunday, thus, leading to the delays. they had to slow down takeoffs and landings. so the rest of those on duty could safely manage the traffic. the white house reaction? they are saying this is a temporary fix but a good idea for travelers and a good idea for lawmakers, too. because after today, they are headed home on a week-long break to face all those frus...

Karl, the sequestration, you fly a lot, i fly a lot. a lot of people across the country fly a lot. whats going to happen? >> well, this is not because of the sequestration cuts. lets look at the numbers. the faa budget is about $12.75 billion. they have to cut roughly just under 5%, around $600 million as a result of the sequestration. now what they have decide today do is to do it by taking ten percent of the workforce of the faa, air-traffic controller, and furloughing them but they have alter...

Karl, the sequestration, you fly a lot, i fly a lot. a lot of people across the country fly a lot. whats going to happen? >> well, this is not because of the sequestration cuts. lets look at the numbers. the faa budget is about $12.75 billion. they have to cut roughly just under 5%, around $600 million as a result of the sequestration. now what they have decide today do is to do it by taking ten percent of the workforce of the faa, air-traffic controller, and furloughing them but they have alter...

Somewhat careful. theyve got a lot of things to sift through. im sure, you know, there are thousands and thousandis of phone records that the fbi will have to deal with and you know, i think the other thing we have to recognize is the fbi had their budget cut significantly over the last couple years, $520 million, and thats before the sequestration cuts. we have to cut them slack because they are dealing with issues with reduced resources. >> congressman, as you point out, it is good and natural...

Investing in infrastructure. thats where the job creation can lead to. and those sequestration cuts were haphazard. i would rather see them target in now. not just 20 years from now. target them now but do them in a much more sophisticated way. >> i want to turn to a different issue that has been in the news this week. thats the problem of sexual assault and rape in the military. and secretary hagel has come out and said he wants to change the ability of generals to be abe to overturn a convicti...

Time of economic distress and particularly when the president is talking about sequestration. and can i rant? you had footage of him up there earlier. he called it the reckless sequestration cuts. do we have to remind it was your idea? if you think its so bad why did you come up with the idea in the first place and sign it in law if it was such a bad lie. why were you so reckless in proposing it? >> the media will never ask him. this is the next $8.2 trillion in new debt. thats a budget? thats w...

And head start programs due to federal funding cuts spurred by sequestration. for those folks, today bringing no effect in policy. places like food finders food bank are expecting a 5% drop thanks to cuts in the community development block grant program. nothing happened today to change that. there are local news stories like these across the can country and all because of sequestration. automatic austerity. it doesnt e there. because other sequestration cuts place a greater demand on the nonpro...