the line of duty. you re looking live at the scene. this is in webster, new york, where the funeral of getting underway. the 19-year-old volunteer was one of two firefighters shot and killed on christmas eve while responding to a fire set by gunman, william spengler. we well have much more on this coming up. we have potential breaking news. potential movement on the senate on the budget battle. brand new hour of america s news headquarters. i m heather childers in for martha maccallum. gregg: i m gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer. the number two in the republican senate saying there could potentially be a bill ready for the floor. heather: there could be. mike emanuel live on capitol hill to see if this is happening or not. mike? reporter: very having trelments interesting
mike emanuel, we want to hear from vice president biden or senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. they essentially took the lead in these talks whether the president and speaker john boehner couldn t cut a deal. mccan nell says he wants to reach agreement. and california senator dianne feinstein says failure is not an option. the danger to our people, to our military, to our nation s security. to our economic base is just too great not to have a solution. so, you know, what makes this government work is compromise. when you don t compromise there is stasis. we have had enough of that for too long. reporter: the president says if biden and mcconnell can t cut a deal the senate will vote on extending tax cuts for families making less than $250,000 a year and basically force republicans to go the politically risky route voting against it, gregg. gregg: essentially that means taxes are definitely going to go up? reporter: it seems the
effectuates change and i m glad that that s what the plaintiff s attorney, he did put that in there. this isn t just a money grab, although i m not going to deny that that young person, young child is probably traumatized for the rest of her life, and some of that money will be used for treatment, but hopefully this is a push, the president of the united states spoke about it yesterday, in gun control and things like that, this is just another afternoon of changing things due to the acts of this one animal. gregg: joey jackson, negligence cases invariably come down to foreseeability, don t they. they do, gregg, they really do. ultimately and you ve heard me say this before the risk preserved is the duty defined. what does that mean? it means if you could reasonably expect and anticipate what occurred then you re in good standing with regard to filing the suit. if you can t anticipate or foresee that it would happen then it s problematic. i think here the hurdle is that, listen, these
claim that we could foresee that this would occur. gregg: one could argue that after columbine it suddenly became foreseeable that gunmen could kill children inside schools. and i agree with that, and i think the security would be much on stronger if this guy just walked into the school. but my understanding is the doors were locked, there was an intercom system. the general public did not have access to the school. he shot out the glass and walked through. gregg: you heard the lawyer he said she should have taken additional measure. every principal should have pepper spray that shoots 30 feet and put oil on the floor. i don t think that would have mattered. ultimately this gunman had an agenda, he was going to do what he was going 0 to do. it s tragic and unfortunate. i don t think pepper spray would this prevented it. this is a lawsuit on behalf of a surviving person. gregg: you ll have wrongful death lawsuits here. for the victims.
principal and the school teachers with mace and pepper spray, high grade, that can go 30 feet. the principal just presses a button, oil goes on the floor and he can t even walk. my job is to get the message out that we have to stop it and work hard. gregg: all right. that is the plaintiff s attorney. joey jackson a former prosecutor, criminal defense attorney. arthur eye della has the same pedigree. sounds like we are dogs new don t want me to go there. civil lawsuits for money damage is yes about compensating alleged victims, but it s also about something else isn t it art stphur. you are? it affects a change especially when it s against the government. investigators look and say, what happened here why did our government have to payout x amount of dollars. in new york there was a big ferry that crashed, the staten island perry and people were killed and injured. procedures were changed, it a