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Vehicle slammed into the embers of a school band as the gulf shores mardi gras parade was beginning. officials say a 73-year-old man was driving the suv. they say they do not believe the act was intentional and that so far there was no sign of drugs or alcohol. fox 32 in chicago. public school officials say the academic year will end early unless the state provides enough funds to close a deficit and provide teacher pension fund relief. the governor has vetoed a bill to put $215 million into pension assistants. the district has instituted a spending freeze, program cuts, and furlough days. thi...

Protection agency. i know donald trump doesn't like it and the head of the e.p.a. doesn't like it, but americans like that rule companies can't dump stuff in your water. >> it could be a gray area. because the e.p.a. is important and the title, environmental protection agency doesn't mean there's not fat to cut. >> there's fat all over the government to cut. >> it's low level nondefense programs. we have had budget fights and big deficits and it's impossible to cut medicare and social security. the military spending has been relatively restrained. so, essentially there's been a lot of cutting ...

For some of the program cuts. president obama borrowed money from s.n.a.p. to pay for a portion of the first lady's anti-obesity campaign and he was perhaps naively counting on congress to refund the money he took away. cnn's rosa flores has more. >> reporter: it sounded like a great idea when it was launched. a program aimed in part at making school lunches healthier. >> we're determined to finally take on one of the most serious threats to their future and that's the epidemic of childhood obesity. >> reporter: but to fund that war on obesity, the white house borrowed money from the war on hu...

Boehner during their effort at the grand bargain. one thing republicans were demanding, put it on paper. can't just be in private conversation, at least this part of it the president will be putting on paper when he released the budget on wednesday. >> today's jobs numbers came out. fairly abuss mall and the labor participation is now as low as the jimmy carter levels. never a good comparison. might those numbers add a sense of urgency to the negotiation? >> yeah. i think they could. and i think that you can see the president saying, look, part of my budget is -- it would end the sequester, an...

Then you put it over to payroll. the president could fix it, but so far he's chosen not to. >> gretchen: this is a big deal for 800,000 people, most civilians at the pentagon. it's furloughed one day every week, cut of 20%. interesting e-mails we received since we talked about this at 6:00 o'clock from viewers, they say that during this time employees will be unable to take another job due to federal restrictions. so it seems like they're going to be in a tough spot. i wonder how many calls will be coming into the white house today to say, mr. president, please try to do something about this. ...