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self-imposed deadline for a deal and still there is no deal. some on capitol hill, some of even the president s allies are saying this is now in their view time to cut bait and stop going for this big deficit reductions package they ve been talking about and just find the easiest path forward to get the debt ceiling raised and worry about deficit reductions at another time. you know, it seemed like there was some enthusiasm and some progress yesterday. but if the two sides are even further dug in, even further apart so to speak, why is the president still pushing for something big? reporter: well, there s the overt politics of it. he seems to be nominally winning. the republicans in public polls are doing less well and are getting more blame than the president, in part because he s going for something big. but there s also just the simple fact that they have to figure out a way to get votes in the house of representatives to raise the debt ceiling. and they can t ge ....
storm. our meteorologist jen delgado joins us from the cnn weather center. jen, how is it looking now? we still have watches and warnings across parts of the midwest. of course, we talked about the stormed that happened earlier in the week but according to the national weather service it looks like based on doppler imagery we look like a possible tornado touched down in arkansas. anywhere we re seeing in red we still have a tornado watch in effect. that s for parts of arkansas and missouri. if i take you over to this, we have a report that one person died. it s a rural town, but based on the imagery, the national weather service has told cnn it looks like this area may have suffered widespread damage, the tornado roughly one mile wide is what they re reporting. of course, we have to wait until tomorrow before the national weather service goes back out and surveys the damage to find out whether or not it was a tornado that touched down. i ll tell you this. it looks lik ....
have mended fences today, offered reassurances to the american israel public affairs committee or aipac which describes itself as america s leading pro-israel lobby group. obama stressed his fundamental support for the jewish state. no country can be expected to negotiate with a terrorist organization sworn to its destruction. we will continue to demand that hamas accept the basic responsibilities of peace, including recognizing israel s right to exist and recognizing rejecting ri violence and adhering to all existing agreements. cnn s senior u.s. state department producer elise is in washington. elise, before we get to obama s verbal messages this was a confident president. did a rather warm interaction between president obama and the aipac president, lee rosenberg, set a tone. i think, fred, president obama knew he had to do a certain amount of cleanup from that speech the other day and lee rosenberg is rosy as president obama called him, really helped kind of ....