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Everybody said that they would ride four-whilers with him. >> lily, thank you very much for sharing your report with us. leelah has been reporting on this story for years. jo john, what do you make of this situation? the parallels, obviously, a lot of unanswered questions. she knew who she was and what the problem was and reached out. what does that say to you? >> listening to that 9-1-1 call, you can hear the terror in amanda's voice.

There's two heroes tonight, one is amanda for escaping and chaur chaurls ramsey. a guy is walking by. it's a white girl yelling and i'm another black guy and i thought it was a domestic abuse. but he cared enough and was smart enough to have the courage to goup and save that girl's life, her child's live and the two women. i know what its's like. people say it broke amanda berry's mother's heart and she died of a brokenhearted. i hope some day i meet charles ramsey because i eemd going to give him a big hug. >> john, a couple of mysteries here. there are many, but i want to ask you one. one is...

Okay, john. i'm going to start with you since you made the trip to new york. we saw small business optimism index from nfib, bill's group has dropped what have you seen? >> we're seeing somewhat different. we did a poll. we did it with christy's organization. we now see unemployment at the lowest level it's been in four years and we're in no means out of the woods but there is glimmers of hope that seven of ten of the small businesses that we polled and this is a scientific across the country, not just our membership. seven out of ten said they're planning to hire and they're expecting busines...

Many times on this program. your colleague, bill, about how many people, the health care and raises taxes affects. interestingly we were just speaking about a survey. we asked small business owners what do you care about most and taxes came fourth out of four things we talked about and number one was getting customers. and so while we sit here and debate taxes and big picture ideas rj really people want to get people through the door, spending money. i'm going to ask you the same question, john, that i just asked bill. what do you suggest for small business owners? is it a time to invest ins b...

headed toward what's being called the fiscal cliff and there are dire new warnings today about what will happen to american families unless congress and the president reach a budget deal by december 31. that is the day that a series of tax cuts will expire and big cuts in federal spending will take hold. tax experts said today 90% of american families are facing llat they call unprecedented tax increases. how much? wyatt andrews is in washington tonight. intt? >> reporter: scott, according to the non-partisan tax policy center, the united states is now on the threshold of one of the ...