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In japan. 26-year-old monte dixon was an english teacher from alaska. a senior government official says secretary of state hillary clinton will travel to japan next week. no details yet on the visit. today, the confirmed death toll from the quake and tsunami climbed to 12,554. more than 15,000 people are still missing. meantime, radiation levels are falling in the seawater around the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant, according to tepco the plant owner. workers yesterday finally stopped a leak at reactor number two that was gushing radioactive water into the pacific ocean. upi is reporti...

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with an agreement that will keep the government running. we're watching a live shot location. we believe the participants might speak after this meeting. without a budget deal, parts of the federal government will shut down about 50 hours from now. the meeting started about 45 minutes ago. we anticipate hearing from some of the players tonight, maybe even the president we're told. we're watching those microphones very carefully. dana bash joins us live. dana, what is the likelihood of a deal coming out of this tonight? >> the good news is they feel they've narrowed the gap. the bad n...

dan, no surprises coming from the white house, though we didn't see a joint appearance by reid and boehner. >> that's right. you know, it was very quick. they came out and made those statements. the good news is that they believe they have narrowed the gap. the bad news is that there's still no deal. what we're hearing from both the president and also the lawmakers is that the white house teams and the hill team also be working through the night to pick up or continue on from this meeting tonight to try and hammer out a deal. from the president, what we heard was a real sense of urge...

dana bash joins us live. dana, what is the likelihood of a deal coming out of this tonight? >> reporter: going into this, i was told by forces in both parties, don't look for it, it is not that likely. miracles do happen, they have been in this room for about 50 minutes and i was just told by sources i was e-mailing with, the meeting is still going on. there was we were told some progress made here on capitol hill with democratic and republican leadership aides who were trying to find -- come closer to an agreement on really the key issues we're talking about, which is how much spend...