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Many more houses need to be evacuated. shepard. >> steve hair began i harrigan a newsroom. republicans and democrats today failed to reach a compromise to avoid the big government-created spending or crisis known as the sequester. with a midnight deadline about nine hours away, the president said he still believes the feds will be able to avoid financial apocalypse, but he also blames republicans for failing to stop the automatic spending cuts. >> what doesn't make sense and the only thing we've seen from republicans so far in terms of proposals is to replace this set of arbitrary cuts with ...

That we won't have to deal with a threat of a government shutdown while we're dealing with the sequester at the same time. >> the president made clear he, too, wants to avoid that fight. he said he'll accept the deal but continue spending at the sequester cut level. >> thanks. so what do the employees in washington have in store for us now? we'll look at this whole sequester dust up with the fox x news sunday" host chris wallace. a driver sends a bus full of people into oncoming traffic after he passed out. we'll go live to tampa, florida. find out how a sink hole swallows up a man. and wh...

Approach including, by the way, a majority of republicans. we just need runs in congress to catch up with their own party and the country on this. if they did so, we could make a lot of progress. >> reporter: he said it's a caucus off common sense willing to use additional tax revenue to loather deficit. he hopes in a matter of weeks or months it gains the upper hand, shepard. >> what from republicans? >> reporter: republicans suggest when the president agreed not to make tax revenue a part of the sequester he basically took it out of the equation. they say he is now moving the goal posts, alt...

Chicken that they're calling sequester this time. in two or three months we'll have another crisis and it will have another time it's calling sequester. make no mistake about it, political gam building on the future of our economy. plain and simple. will the earth crack open and swallow the country, no, but it does prove that capitol hill is as divided as ever. chris, i keep readin reading pee saying this is fine. they should do this. the pentagon says this budget is making them keep a program they don't want and cancel a program that they really need. this is the dumbest thing i've ever seen....

T from-- message from one he had been giving. it will not happen overnight, but to be real. he seems to be trying to prepare folks for what, marc? >> the fact that the the sequester isn't quite what he made it out to be. reason he's changing his tone, what he was saying was not true. and like the boy who cried wolf, obama is calling sequester. they got caught and said that 40,000 teachers will lose their jobs and arne duncan said the layoff notices were going out as we speak and they couldn't find a single school district in the country where layoff notices, pink slips were going out because o...