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a moment on "world business today." in south korea, landslides and flooding sparked by heavy rain has killed at least 44 people. rescue workers are searching for survivors in and around the capital. hundreds of people have lost their homes and thousands don't have power. we're getting the first videos of the moment of the bomb blast in oslo during friday's terror attacks. the norwegian prime minister's announced an independent commission to examine the killings there and on utoya island. as of now, the death toll stands at 76. those are the headlines from cnn, the world news lead...

allow the president to raise a debt ceiling and avert crisis. a vote on that could happen this week. the fallback plan would likely pass the democrat-controlled senate but face a bigger challenge in the house where republicans hold the majority. let's get the latest with brianna keilar. are we any closer to a deal? >> on a deficit reduction plan, kyra, it doesn't appear so. no announced meetings between the white house and congressional leaders over the weekend, there were staff-level meetings and a lot of focus has to do with this fallback plan you mentioned. it's sort of the brainc...

Jeffrey dickens and rich noise at the media research center calculated by 3-1 margin the media are taking his side on this whole fight. so, he doesn't need to go over their heads, he needs to go-- they're cheering him on. >> the media research center, which is after all, a conservative media watch dog group, but they compiled a study about the coverage of the debt debate. here is what they found by a 3-1 margin. network newscasts put the blame by the impasse on the republicans during the period from july 20th, i'm sorry, july 1st to july 27th, and 66% mainly blame the republicans for the debt ...

Press, because they're carrying him. jeffrey dickens and rich noise at the media research center calculated by 3-1 margin the media are taking his side on this whole fight. so, he doesn't need to go over their heads, he needs to go-- they're cheering him on. >> the media research center, which is after all, a conservative media watch dog group, but they compiled a study about the coverage of the debt debate. here is what they found by a 3-1 margin. network newscasts put the blame by the impasse on the republicans during the period from july 20th, i'm sorry, july 1st to july 27th, and 66% mainl...

Chances of passing the house and the senate, could this gang of sex save america from default? that is the question at this hour. the plan, the basics of it it would reduce the deficit by 500 bill kwrorz. the top income tax rates would be lowered to no more than 25%, much lower than the top rate right now of 79.6% we'll have once the bush tax cuts expire. strict true spending cats and conform social security to t secure sol advance see if they've worked this out. >> reporter: there is a very strong sense in the senate that this gang of six proposal may be the way out of this debt impasse that ...