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anniversary of the january 6 insurrection. and then a few hours later president biden will honor 12 people at the white house including police officers injured in the capitol attack. we'll take to you both events live. also just a few moments from now, house republicans set to hold a conference call as the standoff over who will be house speaker continues. this, of course, after kevin mccarthy failed to get the votes needed after three days and 11 rounds of votes. mccarthy allies continuing to negotiate with the hardliner holdouts. the situation fluid but mccarthy remains confident...

Right now house republicans holding a critical conference call as they continue to try to hash out a deal for house speaker. this after they failed to secure the votes needed after three days and 11 rounds of voting. kevin mccarthy remaining confident this morning, vowing to reporters that they will be shocked by the progress made today. here is gop congressman jim banks last hour on where negotiations stand. take a listen. >> i don't know if i see light at the end of the tunnel yet. but i'm hearing about it. a lot of progress made overnight and negotiations continue with the holdouts as you j...

Conventional wisdom is that they will deal with this as part of the continuing resolution, which you heard speaker boehner say the house is going to vote on that next week. the deadline for that is at the end of march. this will likely drag on for a bit. now, in terms of what happened once the sequester kicks in, the number of government workers will be furloughed. there's a concern that some kids will get kicked off of head start. when does that happen? it doesn't happen immediately. the furloughs will go out. the notices will begin to go out but the actual workers won't be furloughed for abo...