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I'm not making this up. do you know what the solution was? do you know, erin? she knows. take the clocks out of the lobby so nobody could see the clock. that was it. you don't have watches or a cell phone? while we're at the post office, by the way, the u.s. postal service will start process of closing additional 2,000 branchs operating in a deficit now, but they have to lobby congress to allow it to change the law so it can close the most unprofitable post offices. the law currently allows the postal service to close post offices but only for maintenance problems, lease expiration or other re...

Years. >> that is james spader. >> do we have james spader in the green room so we can trot him in here. >> send in who you think brian and steve look like. >> what women. >> what women celebrities do brian and i look like and what male celebrities do alisyn look like. >> what other male celebrities. >> aside from -- man, we are asking for trouble with this one. >> indeed we are. in the meantime, let's get right to your news. here are your headlines. there is no sign today on wall street that today will be any better than yesterday. the dow jones dropped more than 144 points following an incre...

Systems every day, you've heard reports of maybe local terrorists being involved. what do you know about that? >> that was one word that was being put out, terrorism was suggested as a possibility. we're not talking about al-qaeda. we're talking about maoist rebels, active in the heartland of india. we talked to a journalist there familiar with the indian train system and the problems there and the problems mostly are maintenance problems, terrorism pretty much has been discounted now, bad maintenance which results in a lot of collision, a lot of derailments, a lot of accidents at grade crossi...

>> 65,000 and $3.8 trillion, one is this number of flights reportedly taken off over the e past six years that shouldn't have because of maintenance problems. the other, is the price tag for the president's new badge whiudh doesn't spend a dime on airplane upkeep and you say that is a deadly mistake. >> yes. and is an industry that has been in a death spiral for a long time and is a weird industry. look at american airlines, this largest airline in the world, if you don't count northwest delta, huge, 40 countries it goes to, worth $2 billion, worth nothing. a dysfunctional sort of industry, wh...

The hottest political topics up on capitol hill. so these are the kind of issues that they have to go through. but i can tell you, the feeling here in the pentagon is that don't ask, don't tell, whether it's in six months, nine months, or two years, is going to be repealed. >> all right. jim miklaszewski reporting for us from the pentagon. thanks very much. let's move to today's reads and clicks. in the front page of the "usa today," this is frightening. a look at maintenance problems on thousands of u.s. airplanes. a six-month investigation found millions of passengers flew on planes that s...