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Want to do. and i think joy is absolutely right. and i will tell you that plenty of my constituents right now already feel the impact of health care reform and they would fight tooth and nail for anybody to take away the benefits that theyre already receiving. >> now not only does her constituents, the congresswomans, joys constituents know the benefits there. let me run this by you for your reaction. if theres a government shut down, and its looking more and more like were headed that way. the ...

Were involved. i can tell you, patti ann, however, from personal experience i have been on this highway, it is tricky, it is treacherous day or night. if there are problems with your vehicle at or not. there have been a lot of accidents on this stretch of highway. theyre looking hard into this.. >> what a tragedy. greg palkot, thank you. bill: helicopter crash in pennsylvania leaving five dead including a child. the pilot told traffic controllers he was losing altitude before the aircraft vanish...

>> i think its thanks to, in part, the u.s. leadership on this issue about air safety. many countries, and there are others who have been leading, but many countries look to the united states as the primary and key group involved with air travel. now, of course, they are the ones who are certifying these aircraft as are the europeans and others, but these aircraft need to be certified by regulatory authorities after vast amounts of testing and checking over and monitoring. so we also have things...

Moved earlier to a prison facility. hes at the devens federal medical center which houses inmates who need medical care. president obama addressed concerns about syria today. he said there are questions about how, when and where the assad regime may have used chemical weapons. and the house voted on a bill to end the furlough of traffic controllers. back to "terror in boston." >> reporter: just three days after the bombings that ripped through the boston marathon, the first pictures of the...

Possibly the pilot is trying to work out the situation here. and airport preparing as well. we know the previous airport they had ambulances on the tarmac there getting ready. it is going to be the same case at this st. louis lambert field. so for right now, were all sort of in a wait and see mode as the pilots are talking to air traffic controllers and trying to figure out best course of action in dealing with the problem at hand, brooke. >> we have, thank you, tory. we have dan gourd on the ph...

Been taking one cent out of every dollar that they earn, two cents out of every dollar they earn just to get by. that the government cant do this is mystifying to most people. >> mikas right that people are being affected by this. military towns, traffic controllers. there are people losing money over this, but these are, in the grand scheme of our budget, marginal cuts. so as nicolle says, if you believe it has to happen next year o ten years from now, how can we tackle that if we cant do this?...

But march 1 also means sequestration and were going to be gutting $85 billion out of the budget. what is it going to mean to you and the long-term unemployed? whats it going to mean to the meat inspectors, the traffic controllers? is it going to make a difference? well go over all of it. >> steve: listen, chicken little, it sounds like the sky will fall. if you listen to other people, they say dont count on it. well get to the sequester mess in just a minute. right now weve got headlines. >> gre...

Associate and collectively bargain which is inappropriate, anything base -- >> bill: the air traffic controllers could have said that, too. youre saying let me out because a federal employee, youre telling me i cant have collective bargaining powers. >> a higher court could overrule this decision and be on solid legal ground. >> a big difference from air traffic controllers and people that are working just in the basic state government. >> bill: why? whats the difference? >> the reagan and the t...

Associate and collectively bargain which is inappropriate, anything base -- >> bill: the air traffic controllers could have said that, too. youre saying let me out because a federal employee, youre telling me i cant have collective bargaining powers. >> a higher court could overrule this decision and be on solid legal ground. >> a big difference from air traffic controllers and people that are working just in the basic state government. >> bill: why? whats the difference? >> the reagan and the t...

Associate and collectively bargain which is inappropriate, anything base -- >> bill: the air traffic controllers could have said that, too. youre saying let me out because a federal employee, youre telling me i cant have collective bargaining powers. >> a higher court could overrule this decision and be on solid legal ground. >> a big difference from air traffic controllers and people that are working just in the basic state government. >> bill: why? whats the difference? >> the reagan and the t...