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this is ali. >> chris seen on a well-deserved vacation. we have a lot going on today. let's get to it. high drama and high stakes over raising america's debt ceiling. we are now just 20 day ace way from the treasury deadline. president obama will meet again today with congressional leaders for the fifth straight day of negotiations that ended abruptly yesterday. republicans saying the president stormed out of the talks. this morning, democratic source is telling cnn president obama shut down the meeting after house majority leader eric cantor continued to push for a short-term extens...

Recent scandal. one of npr's top managers caught on videotape calling republicans anti-intellectual and two-party members racist. the chief executive resigned amid the scandal of that. he is the world's largest man again. mexican businessman carlos slim. according to forbes, he added $20 billion more to his fortune in just the past year. this guy's moving along. he brings his total fortune here to a whopping $74 billion. and then bill gates and warren buffett, they round out the top three. six of the founders and investors behind facebook, they made the anl yule list, including mark zuckerbe...

Very personal way, kicking a record number of families out of their homes. more than 250,000 bank re repossessions in the first quarter and that is a 35% surge from one year ago. realty track says 1 out of 138 households had their home repossessed or were on the brink of losing it. in march alone, more than 367,000 homes got a foreclosure filing. that's the most in five years. and that is a nearly 19% jump from february. i'm joined by personal finance expert lynnette cox, her book is "your first home: the smart way to keep it and get it." we know the devastating kbangt on families, but when yo...

That jenna is the smallest increase in four years, i guess that's good news. >> reporter: less bad news. that's exactly what we're looking at. we're also still looking at one in every 418 homes getting some sort of foreclosure filing last month. just to be really clear on that, just because you get a foreclosure filing doesn't mean your home is going to be repossessed, but it forces the start of that process, which is never a good thing. a still high number. we would like to see that number not necessarily be one in every 14, you want to see it much higher than that so it's not such an impact ...

Lee, back with us, that is never good news. >> reporter: i wish i had better news, it's a little better, january was, compared to december but down year over year, which is concerning. so we're talking about 315,000 homes receiving some sort of foreclosure filing in the latest month, that's according to realty track, that breaks down to one in every 409 homes, in areas like las vegas the hardest hit, you're talking one in 82 homes. with the foreclosure filing note it's not an automatic eviction, it's like the first notice one receives. it's not an automatic eviction from the home, so we're not...