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Smelling of gasoline. the police bomb squad x-rayed the vehicle and discovered it was empty. the robert f. kennedy bridge closed three hours. this coming just days after the failed car bomb plot in times square. s in s in the a few hour, the greek parliament will vote on new austerility measures. tens of thousands of rioters took to the streets of athens on wednesday to protest new taxes and spending cuts. look at this. three people were killed when a bank was torched. the measures must be passed before the international monetary fund can grant greece a $141 billion loan. >> greta: reverend fr...

Parts the hotel still under ten feet of water. forcing the evacuation of nearly 1,500 people. damage estimates well into the tens of millions. 18 deaths have been confirmed. and there is concern that number will get bigger. and then, breaking news right now from overseas. as a result of the debt crisis that exists in that part of the world, violent bank protests tied to the greek financial crisis has now turned deadly. senior officials saying firefighters could have saved three bank workers trapped in a building burning today but demonstrators refused to allow the firefighters into the bank....

To grow. we can't just cut our way into growth. we can cut back on the things we don't need, but we also have to make sure that everyone is paying their fair share for the things we do need. >> there you have it. no budget cuts in the short run and basically make the richer pay more taxes. part of the budget meant to jump-start the economy as the president just said. he's proposing $500 billion in transportation projects. $141 billion on defense spending and research and $8 billion for job training. jobs and job training now. no spending cuts now. trying to get the rich to pay their share. >> ...

Veterans. we can't do both. we can't afford it. some people go around and say, well, president is engaging in class warfare. that's not class warfare. that's common sense. [ applause ] that's common sense. >> the president's plan includes $4 trillion in deficit cuts over the next ten years. most coming by way of new tax revenue and savings from the wars in e pl includes $350 bill for job creation, $476 billion to upgrade the country's transportation system and $141 billion for research and development, including a 5% increase in nondefense research. the republican critique is that the presiden...

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