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Barriers like these, it does not cover the concrete wall the president campaigned on. many of the president's conservative allies are slamming the deal. today, house speaker nancy pelosi was asked if it's a win for her party. >> well, it's not a question of win. it's a win for the american people. it's a compromise. >> reporter: the president's options now? declaring a national emergency and using money already set aside for the pentagon, treasury department and disaster relief programs, moves that are sure to be challenged in court. >> with the wall, they want to be stingy. but we have option...

Against this? >> well, i think, obviously, those are all pieces that they're putting together to see if we can get bipartisan support. that's about negotiating the deal across the aisle in order to support things that need to get done, things like the children's health insurance program, things like the disaster relief programs that are out there. these people are suffering and we need to deliver for them. and hopefully we can just put partisan politics aside, get the extremism out of here and put the people first. that's what we want to do. >> that would be quite the christmas gift. congressm...

Sequestration cut 7% of the budget of the national oceanic and atmospheric center, n.o.a.a., which of course runs the national weather service and other weather detection programs, as well. from the article, if there is a more active tornado season, the money for many of these disaster relief programs could run out before the end of the fiscal year in september, while n.o.a.a. may not be able to provide the most accurate weather information and don't look now, but hurricane season also starts next week. how real is the possibility that the cuts affect our ability to predict storms and our abil...

And horseshoe, and we are having the employees out volunteering and working with the disaster relief programs that are possibly out there, and so all we can do is to wait for old man river to tell us what is going to happen, and do the best we can with what we are given. >> old man river, go down. valerie morris, thank you very much. live for me in memphis. they are known as the s.e.a.l. team six, and the navy's elite of the elite, and one of the groups who carried off the nation's most secret commando missions. have you wondered what it would take to be one of these guys? i will speak to a ...