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It all happened saturday when a pack of drivers jockeying for first place barreled right into each other in the final lap and one car went flying into the fence. 28 spectators were hurt when they got hit with the flying debris. Good day to all of you. Welcome. We begin with that developing story. Coming as drivers are fueling up right now for americas biggest and most famous auto race, the daytona 500. Just a short time ago, track officials told reporters some fans who were injured in that crash are so devoted to the sport they insisted on returning to the track today. Some of the patients who were released late last night and early this morning will be coming back to attend the vent, and were going to make sure theyve got good accommodations to enjoy the event. That was a key on some of the guests that were released. They wanted to make sure they could come back to the race today. Janet shanleyian is in daytona. What else are we hearing . Reporter at that briefing from the speedway just a short time ago, they told reporters they are ready for todays race, that overnight they made the necessary repairs to the catch fence and the retaining wall, and the signature event here, the daytona 500, will go on as skem yu scheduled today. In terms of yesterdays crash, we know there are two critical but stable patients and one of them is a child. There will be a review of safety here at daytona. Authorities say that that catch fence that really prevented a lot more debris from going up into the grandstands is 25 feet high, and there was a full safety review here in 2009. That followed the incident at talladega where debris went up into the grandstand, and eight people were hurt. But they will once again take a full review of what happened here and see what they can improve on. Heres what they had to say. I think weve taupe a great job being prepared for our racing events. Incidents do happen. And i think that those are the exception now. If you look at our 55 years in the business, weve got a pretty good safety track record, and so i think were prepared today. And we met with nascar this morning to review everything we did last night, to actually inspect what we repaired. So i feel like were going to do a great job for our fans today. Reporter we were here when this happened yesterday. At first all eyes were on the track. I mean, it was a terrible fire, basically the car was severed in two, and it was only in the moments after that you realized that there was something far more serious going on in the stands. And, in fact, the drivers involved were all treated and released. It was up in the stands that we had these very serious injuries. But as we turn to today and the daytona 500, there is a secondary story twopointing here, and that is danica patrick. Shes got the pole position. Shes the first woman to ever have that. A lot of people are wondering and hoping she might win this race and take it pap woman for the first time. Back to you, alex. Wouldnt that be interesting. Thank you, janet. Frontpage politics. Pressure intensifying with just five days until massive budget cuts take effect barring any lastminute deal. Members from both parties are ratchetting up the rhetoric and pointing fingers. Heres bobby jindal and Deval Patrick of massachusetts both on meet the press. The pet needs to step up to the plate and say to congress heres how you can cut 85 billion. Delay the medicare and Health Care Exchanges so they can work with states on waivers on flexibility. You could save tens of billions of dollars there and youre not cutting a program that even started yet. Weve seen 2. 5 trillion of budget kouts from this president and the only plan on the table to avoid sequester is the president s plan. This notion about not having leadership, this is about leadership, and the president has shown that a balanced approach, which is about cuts and closing loopholes that enables us to invest in the things that grow jobs also knew nu today, the Washington Post reports a Bipartisan Group of senators is close to a deal that would expand background checks to all private gun sales with limited exceptions. Sources say the talks are being led by two republicans and two democrats and the plan is expected to earn gop support in the coming days. Peter alexander joins me. Good sunday to you. What else did we hear on the sequester issue today snr. A good question. A gorgeous day at the white house but not nearly as pretty as you look at the horizon, barely 100 hours from the sequester that leading democrats call stupid, they call dumb across the board cuts, the white house rolging out some of its top cabinet secretaries, arne duncan, raily lahood, to make i clear the potential impact of these cuts. David gregory this morning on meet the press suggests perhaps this is being overstated by the government. This is not your fathers faa. This is an faa that has to meet certain contract obligations with our controllers. We know that air travel back at a par prior to 9 11, and we know that a lot of people are flying, and were not making this up, daismd, and were not making this up in order to put pain on the American People. We are required to cut a billion dollars, and were going to do that unless Congress Gets together and works together and compromises on this all right. So you reporter thats 1 billion from the department of transportation, less than 2 of its overall budget. But to give you an example of where the impact may exist for average americans, 600 million come out of the faa and a lot of that money will affect the security checkpoints that you experience around here. That more specifically comes from homeland security, but at airports there could be long delays at security checkpoints ultimately because of airTraffic Controllers being affected. That could mean long delays on the tarmac. This is one of those balances where no ones exactly sure what its going to look like. Some republicans think the white house is overplaying its hand, the white house insisting this is going to be very bad. Recognize some of though notices about furloughs and forced days off unpaid dont go out until march 1st, which means they wont go into effect until the start of april. There may be, as one observer described it, why it may look like a lowspeed car crash. Peter alexander, thank you for that. Youve set us up for this next interview. Joining me now, contributor to newsweek and the daily beast, Pa Tri Ma Murphy and mother jones Staff Reporter andy croel. Thanks for joining me. Patricia, five days until the cuts take effect. Does either side have any real incentive to compromise . It seems like theres Little Common ground here, the president who wants revenues, republicans want only the spending cuts, and never the twain shall meet. There does not seem to be any ensi incentive for either side to compromise, and i dont understand that because both sides stand to lose significantly when it comes to going back to voters and explaining how this happened because both sides have their frinlts on this deal. The president did come up with the idea. 70 of republicans voted for it. So nobody is without blame in this situation. I think once you start to see how these sequester start to affect people not in d. C. But around the country, 780 80 of change, the furloughs will happen outside washington. Once people see their neighbors being affected, losing their jobs, security lines longer, people will see the effects of these cuts. Theres no benefit to americans in their daily lives to see this happen with such a cleaver. And i think that everyones going to start and the president and republicans will hear it. Patricia makes a good about how well start to feel the effects potentially. What are you hearing about any realistic framework for a deal . Does it have to be by this friday because the government doesnt run out of money until the end of march, that they feel like theyve got these other four weeks or so to get this together. There is some talk of putting together a deal after the sequester begins to go into effect. We heard peter have this kwld of sl idea of slowmotion car crash, perhaps when people feel the effects, government parts make the cuts, perhaps that could nudge republicans and white house and congress to come to some agreement. Once this thing is in effect. As you said, the looming potential Government Shutdown is a whole other battle thats yet to be played ow, more brinksmanship, but maybe again, like we saw with the fiscal cliff, maybe they need to see this thing actually go into effect before they feel the urgency to do something about it. Okay. I want to get to one aspect of gun control, patricia, a new report in the Washington Post says there are senators close to a deal on background checks for most private gun sales. But then theres disagreement over whether the government should keep records of those sales. Heres gop senator tom coburn, part of this group. I dont think were that close to a deal, and there absolutely will not be recordkeeping on legitimate lawabiding gun owners in this country. And if they want to eliminate the benefits of actually trying to prevent the sales to people who are mentally ill and to criminals, all they have to do is create a recordkeeping, and that will kill this bill. So how close are they to getting something they can agree upon and potentially pass . I think theyre closer than theyve been obviously in the last 10 to 20 years. The senate has been unwilling to take up gun control legislation, so i think theyre closer than they have been, but with this congress that really means absolutely nothing. For senator coburn, who is the lead republican on this, for him to be laying the groundwork to step away from this if pieces of that legislation arent the way he wants them to be, if there is this concept of sort of universal list of who owns guns and who doesnt, that has always been just a total deal killer for republicans and moderate democrats, by the way, so i think that theyre closer than they ever have been, but that is not close enough if tom coburn doesnt like the way it looks. The senate will start to look at this in committee this week, and democrats know time is starting to run out. Their momentum is slowing down. We start to get into the sequester, start to get into the budget shutdowns, the Government Shutdowns, people are going to lose their focus on this issue if democrats dont move quickly. Andy, nra Ceo Wayne Lapierre spoke last night and his organization released a new ad. They dont make us free. Were free already. And as long as we have the second amendment, we always will be. We are america, and our politicians are only as powerful as we, the people, allow them to be. The message from the nra just doesnt change. How much influence does it still have . It doesnt have influence with Television Ads like that. I mean, thats an ad that they put out there, i mean, tries to appeal to patriotism or appeal to something, im not really quite sure. But the nra as a political entity, as an outside group, they do have power. Its not a power wielded with ads like that. Its power wielded in republican primaries, its power wielded with the threat of mobilizing nra members, to, you know, knock on doors and try to, you know, get someone thrown out of office whether in the primary or the general election. That is where the far naers might is really felt. Now were seeing folks on the other side sort of pop up to counter that. Mayor Mike Bloombergs superpac, but the nra really, when they wield their power, you know, it is about threatening lawmakers or use support say a registry for gun owners or universal background check, were going to come after you in election time. Lets talk about john mccain and immigration, that really tense town hall that he held last week for immigration in his home state. Lets take a look at the senators comments as a result of that. Take a listen to this. Some people say, oh, look at that. Thats what town halls are supposed to be about. Thats why theyre always packed. I didnt believe that that person was correct with his facts. So i fired back at him. And people said good, thats what we want to hear. This is a debate we want to hear. Im proud of that. And if anybody doesnt like it, then you dont have to come to the town hall meeting. Did you see what he did originally at that town hall . He called t ted the border fenc banana, and he got very testy and was really fighting back against some of his constituents there. How does the gop make strides on this issue if thats the tenor of the kind of conversations were having around this country regarding immigration . That probably strikes a lot of fear into your average republican who has any kind of town hall scheduled over the next couple months while immigration is being debated. Listen, republicans know what happened in the last election. They can read the polls. They know the hispanic population is the Fastest Growing segment of the population and they cant continue to afford to lose it by such gigantic margins. Republicans are willing to take the heat at the town halls in order to set themselves up for the next election. Theyve never been talking in ten years about their willingness to move on immigration reform. I think republicans will be much more willing than they have been in the past and will have to gird themselves for their town halls as they do it. Okay. Guys, we have to take a break now. Andy, ill begin with you the next time youre on. Hows that . Sounds great. Thank you so much. Thanks. In west coast headlines, professional athletes making big money on workers comp. Also, a strange coincidence in the case of oscar pistorius. Really getting salon quality. Or settling for wannabes . Stop compromising new Vidal Sassoon pro series. Care and styling from the original salon genius, created to let you have it all at an affordable price. New Vidal Sassoon lets you say no to compromise and yes to very shiny. Very silky. Very sexy. Very you. Its salon genius in a bottle now in your store. 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The state has reportedly awarded millions of dollars in benefits for jobrelated injuries to thousands of athletes including many who played for outofstate teams. Among those reportedly receiving money, moses malone and Dallas Cowboys great michael irvin. To vatican city, where more than 100,000 gathered in stst. Peters square to hear Pope Benedict read the angelus to the faithful one final time. Anne thompson joins us. The world just saw benedict xvi on that balcony window for the last time. Whats the mood been there to y today . Reporter i think a lot of gratitude and also sadness to see him retire. But peoplens why he wants to retire. Hes 85. He told the crowd that hes not going to abandon the church, alex. He said that in instead god has asked him to lave life of more prayer and meditation, and he says thats more appropriate for someone of his age and his strengths. Yeah. You know, not to besmirch all this, but there were some reports circulating in some italian papers about blackmail being a reason why the pope was stepping down. How does the vatican address that . The vatican has come back very strongly against those reports, alex. They were in a paper called la republica this past week. And the vatican took the unusual step yesterday, the vatican secretary of state, of calling of issuing a statement calling the situation beplorable, accusing the news media of running false reports to try to influence the election of the next pope. And, in fact, the secretary of state went so far as to call these reports unverified, unverifiable, and completely false news reports. Whats the word on when the conclave begins . Report