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>> i'm ashleigh banfield. good to have ali here all week. in the battle over the bush-era tax cuts, playing politics with your takehome pay and nothing hort of the presidency is on the line here. if the two parties can't agree on extending those tax cuts by the end of the year, a typical american family making $70,000 a year could get hit with a tax increase of $3,000. that is a lot of pain. right now house republicans are busy crafting a plan to extend those tax cuts for everyone across the board -- rich, poor and everything in between. this is a plan that cannot get through the d...

Chrysler is cutting the government a big check to pay back the money for the auto bailout. but are the taxpayers getting the best deal on the lot? a group honoring the american soldier by flying the american flag on power polls throughout their community. imagine their surprise when the company sent them a bill. >> they said the state law required them to charge us $5 for each pole we put the flags on. view require' the principle.

Taken to insure this doesn't happen again. abby's family didn't want to comment and neither did the hospital. rain and a swollen river broke a dam. we are in iowa and what a mess. >> reporter: it is a mess. chris, people who saw this storm call it an act of god. ten inches of rain in just 12 hours that caused the river to rise so quickly that it burst over the road, topped the dam and it busted through the dam creating a giant hole. that set off the flooding that swept away homes, trees, power polls. took some homes down the river

Israeli soldiers firing tear gas and rubber bullets at a group of demonstrators. the palestinians fighting back with stones. a hospital worker says tear gas container hit one palestinian in the head injuring him. they took him to a hospital. israelis say the barrier is a security measure to protect against attacks. palestinians call it a land grab. somalia: french navy men capturing six pirates off the country's coast. those pirates attacked a french warship, apparently mistaking it for civilian vessel. said to be the second time pirates thought this french navy ship was a commercial or other ...

Shannon: and i would assume that's where all the businesses are headquartered in the heart of that community. >> that is correct. the businesses are here, and it's unfortunate, entergy, arkansas, which is our local utility carrier, they have over head wires, and the power polls that carry the electricity were snapped like toot picks. last night when i came through here, at approximately 11:00 p.m. or midnight, it was -- the state highway that runs through the city of vilonia was littered with power polls. -- power poles. shannon: i can't imagine the sights and sounds there this morning. how ar...