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miguel marquez is joining us. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: it sounds like an accident. they were training late at night. it may have been a live fire exercise. it sounds like there was fairly intense training. these are two that provide close air support for marines on the ground. they were training for afghanistan, as you said. and they trained very, very hard at night and its possible that it was just an accident. the marines are saying that they collided in the air. obvio...

>> lets first start with basic civics. in the u.s. senate all it takes it 41 votes to stop a bill in its tracks. so even though democrats have a big majority its not big enough. republicans have enough votes to block health care. all those red votes are enough. there is a way around this and its called reconciliation. big word, simple concept. its basically a rule that says in some circumstances you can pass a bill the way most of us probably think the senate works, with a simple majority. just ...

Before he starts to think about other measures to pass a bill. you might have heard about this. one possible strategy or at least heard democrats and republicans arguing about it. the "it" in question is rem ciguation. jessica yellin is here to explain how it all works. >> lets first start with basic civics. in the u.s. senate all it takes it 41 votes to stop a bill in its tracks. so even though democrats have a big majority its not big enough. republicans have enough votes to block health care....

Jessica yellen is here to explain how it all works. jessica. >> lets first start with basic civics. in the u.s. senate all it takes it 41 votes to stop a bill in its tracks. so even though democrats have a big majority its not big enough. republicans have enough votes to block health care. all those red votes is enough. there is a way around this and its called reconciliation. big word, simple concept. its basically a rule that says in some circumstances you can pass a bill the way most of us pr...