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more of the headlines. detroit will officially emerge from bankruptcy midnight tonight according to the michigan governor. the emergency manager says his two-year budget erases $7 billion in debt. "time" magazine's person of the year is a group of people this year. the ebola fighters. including dr. kent brantley the first american who flew to the u.s. for treatment in the current outbreak. health officials say more than 6,000 people have died of eeb will this year in west africa but time's editor the rest of the world can sleep at night because of brave doctors and nurses on the front line. one guy cruises through the streets in shanghai in a tiny car, the size of a tricycle. he says he built it himself. top speed 12 miles per hour.
there's a new mentoring program over in brooklyn. it's unorthodox to say the least. it brings together teenagers, adults and tattoos. the teens you see they sketch out designs that their new mentors, some of whom they have known for just hours, then get inked on their body. and they don't eeb get to choose the design but it promises to make them better people. our panel is here with me. scott, let me start with you. how does this idea pop into your head? how was this born? >> it started out free art asked me to do a project with our kids and a day with their kids. i was trying to figure out a way
>> several houses were leveled a majority of displaced residents won't be able to go home until later this morning at the earliest. it does look like a plane crash. another fox news alert. looking at the mounting crisis in the ukraine. the nato alliance calling a meeting again today looking at possible sanctions against russia. this as russia launches a test missile. elizabeth prann is following the breaking developments for us in washington. good morning elizabeth. >> good morning, heather. according to routers they got information ahead of the balltis tick launch. the ones responsible for ukraine's revolution are mostly neo nazi protestors bringing back very cringing memories from world war ii. he's also alleging the far right is on the rise in the former soviet republic. he says if armed forces are used it will be justified. >> eeb if i take a decision to
for him, that's a real sign of a problem with his base and with democrats in general. >> here's another example of that exact point you're making. take a look at this, who do you trust a better job when it comes to the economy, the committee issue number one. back in december, a year ago, 2012 right after he was re-elected, obama had 54% to 36% for the republicans. but look at now, the republicans are actually ahead of the president with 41%, republicans 45%. what a complete shift in a year. >> a total shift. and you know, when you think eeb back to october reggie during the government shutdown, the democrats were riding high, and what scares the democrats right now as they head into the midterm elections, wolf, is that their generic numbers are not doing well. what that means is you ask the american bilk, who would you rather have run the country and the congress right now, would you rather have democrats or republicans? so right after the shutdown, the
and we do our best to get them. and -- but like you said earlier, america wants an anti-septic war. we want a clean war. the reality is that nothing is clean. >> and brandon bryant also said that at one point, he thought he had killed a child in one of those attacks. his superiors, however, insist that it was not a child that it might have been a dog. he however and this is part of the reason he says he has ptsd, something he hasn't been able to shake. you mentioned amnesty and human rights watch. this is very important because all these groups including u.n. are saying look, out of the several thousand that possibly have been killed and these are all secret numbers, the u.s. government is not releasing them, potentially you're looking at a third to sometimes half according to human rights watch in six attacks it documented in yemen might be civilians. those who look at these programs say here's the problem, even if it is eeb, it breeds so much
finally sign off on the plan to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling with the president getting largely what he wanted. >> tonight the republicans and democrats in congress have come together around an agreement that will reopen our government and remove the threat of default fr from our economy. >> the ned rale employees will return to work today. parks should reopen as well. there should be some pain. the president has the authority to run up the national debt eeb higher as we go to $20 million. that has many voting to row pose the deal. >> at some point the president will have to provide leadership he failed to provide you to this point. >> if that is the case will we go through this again just after
stretching rough little 130 miles can submerge a lot of homes and isolate plenty of towns with roads offering no way in or out, rescuers are getting creative. flying over swollen rivers by zip line, navigating brand new bodies of water by boat, and delivering families to safety by helicopter. >> we had two ways into the house. we had two driveways. and they're just totally gone. >> the national guard is working to pluck stranded residents from water locked jamestown, airlifting them and their pets to the boulder airport. >> i don't have any idea when we'll get back into jamestown. they said maybe a couple of months even. >> it's a similar scene in the town of lyons where as many as 2500 people need to be rescued by extra high vehicles. but as this video from a fire truck shows, eeb the tallest rigs struggle to maneuver through flooded streets.
there. it's fostered by the argument, maybe the old testament that says mankind has only lasteded as long as the begats added up starting with adam and eeb into the new testament. yet, there's scientific evidence that mankind in some form or another has been on this planet for over 3 million years going back to at least lucy. will there ever be a reconciliation of true mum knowledge through science and true human acceptance of knowledge. >> as you heard chip sort of allude to, there is a bit of a schism ta is emerging within the republican party. those like the chairman of the house science committee, lamar smith, a texan who denies climate change exists. he's the chair of the house science committee. maybe we need to rename it the houses anti-science committee given its current stance on issues like climate change. there are those politician who's completely dismiss the
electoral politics and he won it and to the victor go the spoils. but right now we're in a race that's unusually tight that shouldn't be. very competitive. shouldn't have had the national attention it had. and i'm not here to apologize for those apologize for those transgressions but that was fair game. that's what they're doing. we'll see how the voters take it. whether they take personality over public policy is what the answer is going to be on tuesday. >> thank you both for being here this morning. >> thank you. well, federal investigators look for more clues in the boston bombing case, could friend of dzhokhar tsarnaev face eeb more? [ agent smith ] i've found software that intrigues me. it appears it's an agent of good. ♪ [ agent smith ] ge software connects patients to nurses to the right machines while dramatically reducing waiting time. [ telephone ringing ] now a waiting room is just a room.
of americans tax hikes? do the republicans want to be known as the party that raised your taxes for everybody but 2%? >> right. and i think, martin -- >> so, the 2% solution may be a noose around the republicans' neck. >> i think the republicans have little leverage. not just for that reason but a couple of other reasons. if you consider the fact that taxes are at 15% of gdp, spending is at 24%, even the paul ryan budget proposes we only reduce spending to 20% of gdp. that means five percentage points have to be made up if you want a balanced budget from tax increases. you can't do that alone where just -- >> loopholes and reductions. >> the argument that obama has is eeb simpler -- >> no, republicans are losing leverage on the substance. they're losing leverage on the politics of this, as the polls showed. and losing leverage because if they do nothing taxes will go up on everyone. this is the republicans being hoisted with their own -- they