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Votes on two key budget bills in the u.s. senate as march 18th grows ever closer. it is the new deadline to avoid a government shutdown. our chief political course spoepbtd carl cameron is live on capitol hill. here we go. >> ground hog day, and jon today's vote is fairly well determined. there are two proposals and they're expected to be defeated. the first from the hours, it's passed the house, hr1, the gop proposal to cut six is 1/2 million dollars from -- 61 1/2 billion dollars from current spending, this would fulfill the budget obligations for the fiscal year. the counteroffer from the w...

Anticipated. the word now that hosni mubarak has stepped down. doug mcelway, stay with us if you would, we'll come back to you as the news warrants. jon: let's get to dominic denatalli. he is on the ground there where the situation is absolutely electric. if you're able too hear us give us some sense of what it feels like there. >> reporter: jon today was labeled a day of confrontation and hosni mubarak could no longer stand up to the 200,000 people ho*r just roar inch that victory cry. this is the sound of a popular victory. the people are finally getting what they've been demanding for 18 st...

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Congressman meek who's running for the senate seat, he pulled in about $1 million. jon: so what's with this speculation about crist potentially running as an independent? this comes, i guess, from some late poll numbers? >> reporter: yeah. a recent poll's come out last week, and it really shows options for governor crist because he is currently far behind marco rubio, the former speaker of the florida legislature and the house. he is now down 56% to 33% in this latest quinnipiac university poll. take a look at this, if governor crist does not run as a republican, runs as an independent, so thr...

Investment companies can both help people to buy bonds the investment houses themselves believe will go bust, the americans will support tighter regulations. jon. >> wendell goler at the white house. thank you. jane? >> just outside of chicago, police officers -- a police officer's own dashcam caught him on videotape, beating a driver of a car he had pulled over after he tasered the passenger and you can see it pretty clearly here, the officer is hitting ronald, 15 times with his baton while he was on the ground and not armed and the officer is a 15 year veteran of the police department in str...