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Shutdown. people waiting for approval of federal home loans would have to wait longer. paper tax refund checks would also stop. and 800,000 federal workers could be furloughed with no pay. congress members will get their paychecks. but active duty military personnel, probably not. >> well be going to work with no paycheck. >> a government shutdown has real consequences for real people. >> president obama called house speaker john boehner and harry reid to the white house for a late-night session...

Night, an official said levels of radioactive iodine from a pipe near the number one reactor had reached 10,000 times the standard limit. a short time later, the utility said no, thats wrong and well get you more information shortly, but they havent. a government minister later tried to clear up the confusion saying more testing would be done. keeping them honest, were joined now also with michael freelander. is this an attempt at message control backfiring, are people becoming increasingly upse...

Libya, gathering information to get a better sense of the political and military situation there. on the ground, fighting is continuing to rage between rebels and gadhafi forces and the opposition has retreated between bin jawad and ras lanuf, losing much of the territory they regained. rebels try to recover from their loss. >> reporter: to say this front is fluid is a serious understatement. here we are yet again at the gates of aa agaajdabiya. there was talk about them reaching the town of sir...

Circumstance or any nation that has had to deal with so much all atne time as they are trying to do here. and to libya now where forces who are trying to topping moammar gadhafi says the front line is fluid, that may be the understatement of the week. the libyan coastline is once more moving away from. a rapid push from the unofficial capitol of lib yachlt heres the landscape today, take a look at how its changed. regime forces driving the rebels back, by some accounts, past the town of al-bre...

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17th, the day they left. why didnt you take out that collective bargaining provision and vote on it separate from the budget repair bill? why did you wait until today? >> it was kind of a package and we kept being led on by senate democrats who kept implying they would be back the next day. we didnt want to get people upset. it would have been so much nicer if one of those 14 democrats would have said, well be happy to debate on the floor. this morning, one more time they didnt show up, despite ...

Casey, it was a scary ride. what is the latest on the story. >> yeah, uma, that may be a understatement. the thought of manage like this happening in the middle of the flight is terrifying. we dont know information in terps of what caused this at this point. but we can tell you that the incident happened 35 minutes into the flight after the southwest airline boeing 737 departed from the phoenix sky harbor international airport. it was en route to sacramento when passengers say they heard a loud ...

In libya has lost control of portions of the couple tri. amid all that unrest, senior officials in libya found time to hall into their offices yesterday the top u.s. diplomat in the country, our embassy sar jay along with diplomats from other countries. those journalists in libya without the governments approval would be considered al qaeda collaborators and subjected to quote the full range of possible immigration charges. >> the conversation as i remember her saying this morning was at the und...

Like to turn to for the middle east. talk to us about somalia, this is say country weve had tricky relations with. we know al qaeda tries to use it as a training ground on one hand, this pirate thing is an offshoot of their economic downturn. all of these issues. >> economic downturn is an understatement. youre talking about a societal collapse. this is -- the piracy is just an offshoot, a symptom of a failed state status. when theres no governance, things like piracy develop. and, of course, th...