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Young egyptian faces seething with rage. weve seen it on tv screens for days now. where does the anger come from? some of it comes from poverty, desperate poverty along with hunger and homelessness. cairo is home to some of the largest slums in the world and the biggest is here in a place they call the city of the dead. its a cemetery in cairo where the dead and the living exist side by side. thats right. millions of people live in a cemetery. as many as 5 million of cairos poorest and most desp...

Among the working poor and people of color. and i think that is the conversation thats going to move the country in a more progressive direction instead of playing the old games. >> kasim reed, mayor of atlanta, georgia, that i cans for your perspective tonight. >> thank you so much for having me. >> thank you, sir, take care. next in tomorrows news tonight, chicago mayoral candidate rahm emanuel about to get a little help from his friends. somewhere in america, a city comes to life.

They didnt pay a surcharge to the tennessee fire department so when his house caught fire, the firemen came out and watched. >> i thought they would come out and put it out. even if you hadnt paid your $75. i was wrong. >> our special guest and all the news and commentary now on countdown. good evening from new york. democrats are working on a campaign strategy to push back on the tea party agenda even republicans know is so unpopular they do not want you to know about it. class warfare, a war a...

That i get a chance to know you, or if you havent met one of your neighbors, theres a good chance for you to do so. but why dont we start with this gentleman right here. and weve got some mics -- the only reason, the main reason were using mics is so that these folks behind us can hear you. this gentleman right here. >> hi, president obama. i hope i dont pass out while im asking this question. [laughter] my question is actually about health care. my brother is disabled. he is definitely what i w...

Up some peoples emotions to see thats how the authorities are looking upon them. they did not have a whole lot of issues here. they had one person apparently going through the crowd with a taser. we dont know who this man is. police say they gave chase. because this parking lot was a chaotic scene, they did not find him. they also got a package delivered to the front steps of the housing authority. it was a suitcase with a letter saying please help me. id like to get some housing. they thought f...

You deserve to have a roof of your head. this is a movie about the working poor. whose parents have jobs and are working and try to have the best lives they can for their families. >> you grew up with a working mother. your mom babysat as you were th >> you spent time with them as well as her. >> yeah. i took my own kids, i have two kids. i took them down with me to orange county. and my parents live in northern california. so, you know, its a real sort of bad atmosphere, i think, for kids to be...

Congressman pence, that youre going to try to keep the bush tax cuts for the very wealthy, even at the time youre saying no extensive unemployment and even though both factors could lead toward a higher deficit. youre going to lean towards keeping tax cuts for the rich, but lean hard against extending unemployment benefits? youre comfortable fighting the next election on that line? keeping the bush tax cuts for the rich, avoiding extending unemployment benefits for the working poor. youre comfor...

Policies that will release the inherent power of this economy. >> right now we all look at this big niagra falls coming at the end. at some point the congress will have to decide what to do with the bush tax cuts. i know the very upper income people pay a lot of taxes. we know that. is it your partys pgs now, congressman pence, that youre going to keep the bush tax cuts for the very wealthy, even at the time youre saying no extensive employment? youre going to lean towards keeping tax cuts for t...

Going to try to keep the bush tax cuts for the very wealthy, even at the time youre saying no extensive unemployment and even though both factors could lean toward a higher deficit? youre going to lean towards keeping tax cuts for the rich, but lean hard against extending unemployment benefits? youre comfortable fighting the next election on that line? keeping the bush tax cuts for the rich, avoiding extending unemployment benefits for the working poor. youre comfortable fighting on this electio...

An hours worth of work. the new prime minister naoto kan agrees. he wants to boost it by the year 2020. the prime minister says it will help the working poor and slow inflation, but businesses say it will stop them from hiring more workers. because this is japan, the national debate has a jingle and a mascot. its a cute song, but the message from this labor union is a serious one. we cant survive on the current minimum wage, we hope it will go up. in case youre wondering, the person in the cente...