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No. plus a new poll out on what you think. kyron horman, the oregon boy missing now for more than a month, why police are saying a break in this case could be eminent. the universe like you have never seen it before. we'll tell you how we got these stunning new pictures. jon: it's all your money. members of the house, adding more than $20 billion to a spending bill providing funds for the wars in iraq and afghanistan. but those extra billions are not for the troops. capitol hill lawmakers want more of your money for discretionary spending on things like schools, disaster relief, and bord...

Catch like that yet. rick: as a phillies fan, i'm glad the mets lost. sorry! martha: it was a good one. rick: it's all your money, the house passing the prop operations act of 2010, this mainly provides funding for the war in afghanistan but that's not all it does, of course. the house added money to prevent school layoffs ands to help clean up the oil spill. so if this bill could pass the senate, what would it cost you? molly henneberg is live in washington to break down the numbers for us. molly, good morning. so what extra spending did house democratic lawmakers add to this bill? >> reporte...

Up. on the 70th anniversary of the massacre this week, russian prime minister vladimir putin and his polish counterpart honored the victims in aer is many in katyn and president obama met with the polish leader while he was in prague. that's our report for today. thank you for joining us. for all of us here, good-bye from new york. the fall of 2008, the critically acclaimed film "iou usa" warned of the rapidably growing debt and implications for the country. no one could have predicted how much worse the situation would become in just 19 months. consider these facts. in 2008, our federal b...

Mounting, exploding debt problems in the country. ali, let's listen to a little bit of the clip of the field. film. >> in 2008 our federal budget deaf stfici deficit, which is how much money the government needed to borrow to pay all the bills rose to $459 billion. last year, due to extraordinary economic conditions, our budget deficit exploded to $1.4 trillion. that's over $4500 for every american. >> and then when that graphic and that film goes on to show the projected budget deficits you keep having to pull back from that screen to make the scale so you can get all of that red ink. it's a ...

Billion. discretionary freeze saving $250 billion. $90 billion a special fee for banks that benefited from the bailout. more money for the military, $159 billion for wars in afghanistan and iraq. today the president laid the blame for the skyrocketing deficit squarely at the feet of the bush administration. >> previous administration and previous congresses created an expensive new drug program, passed massive tax cuts for the wealthy and funded two wars without paying for any of it, all of which was compounded by recession and rising health care costs. as a result when i first walked through ...