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Bill there, a total of 45 states are currently facing budget shortfalls. in 2012, look at that. 45 out of our 50 states and that means only five states in the ol country are actually in the black, those are the ones that you see there, that are not highlighted. so let's look at kansas here, for a moment. it is one of the states in trouble and facing a $490 million budget gap, the latest unemployment rate there, 6.8%, that is below the national average. and, there are some cuts that have been made to higher education, as well as some cuts from kindergarten through high school as well, let's bri...

Won't have access to it. we're going stay in close touch. good luck two. good luck to all the people of libya right now. thanks very much. >> thank you very much. >> jack cafferty right now with "the cafferty file." jack? >> it's been two weeks since public unions, supporters in wisconsin, began protesting in and around the state capital of madson. in fact, they are still there. they are upset over republican governor scott walker's proposal to close the state's $3.6 billion budget gap. part of hits plan calls for putting limits on public workers collective bargaining rights and requiring thos...

To lay off 1500 state workers initially and as many as 12,000 by the end of the fiscal year. hundreds of those notices have gone out. the wife of the senate majority leader scott fitzgerald, lisa fitzgerald got her notice of impending layoff on thursday. majority leader fitzgerald told me. but that doesn't mean she's going to be laid off. the governor has to actually issue that order if he can't close the budget gap talked about. in the meantime, there are still protesters camped out inside the state capitol building. that will end as of 4:00 tomorrow. in fact today the capitol police have sai...

Happening in this country. protests right here in the u.s. they can hold up a boat, but wisconsin senate democrats can't stop the clock with their out-of-state boycott. the governor says today is the deadline for closing this year's budget gap and avoiding state layoffs. there may in fact be some wiggle room, but the dems say there's no room for compromising on labor rights for teachers and other public workers. so we go to madison where cnn's ted rowlands tells us what's going on and what's not. ted? >> reporter: don, stalemate continues between the governor and senate democrats who continue ...

I cured it. i'm done. >> well, cbs is done, too. sheen was barely off the phone when they put out a one-sentence statement. it says based on the totality of charlie sheen's statements and condition, cbs and warner brothers television have decided to discontinue production of "two and a half men" for the rest of the season. that's four episodes for which sheen won't be paid. we don't know about the rest of the cast and crew. stick around next hour. our screen team will look at whether there's a method to charlie sheen's madness. that's at 2:45 eastern. time is running out for wisconsin to clo...