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The 327 million dollar state deficit. it would also eliminate half of the public schools. detroit's cuts and budget woes have been poppy harlow's beat for a while now. is this the best option at this point? >> i think it's the only option, kyra. what is going on in detroit is what arne duncan, the education director, calling ground crisis. people are fleeing detroit when you take a look at the last decade. the population of the city fell 20% but the public school enrollment fell by half. parents are pick will up their students and putting them in the schools in the suburbs. here is robert bob,...

It is beyond wisconsin. it is throughout the country, whether ohio, new jersey, new hampshire. you see the attacks on workers. >> reporter: labor officials in wisconsin are being unfairly targeted for deep cuts. they get smaller raises, more out of pocket for pensions and health care and lose bargaining rights for both. the republican governor staring at a $3.6 billion state deficit says he needs to cut somewhere. he's getting air cover from house speaker john boehner. the president knows wisconsin is a proxy for their own showdown. a possible shutdown is looming. he was elected to lead, not t...

You're just making it harder for public employees to collectively bargain generally, seems like more of an assault on unions. >> reporter: the president knows wisconsin is just round one in the national battle for control of the budget message. so he sent his outside political team organizing for america to help build even larger crowds. and union officials are vowing to keep up the fight in key 2012 political battlegrounds. and this is beyond wisconsin, it seems? >> absolutely. it is beyond wisconsin. it is, quite frankly, throughout the country, whether in ohio, new jersey, new hampshire. yo...

This morning. the bill heads to the senate with two weeks remaining before the funding is set to expire. in wisconsin thousands of employees storm the state capital to propose budget cuts from governor scott walker. he grapples with a growing state deficit. more than a dozen lawmakers fled the state to delay the vote. first, tunisia, then egypt. now a popular up rise sg sweeping the at least. people are upset about housing, unemployment, political corruption and personal freedoms. the epicenter of the protest seems to have shifted from egypt to bahrain and flood shed with government forces...

Indiana and other big 2012 political battle grounds. wisconsin is just a start. >> it's just a start, just a start. you'll start to see it all over the country, andation said this is payback for some of these, you know, folks. >> reporter: labor officials charge teachers in wisconsin are being unfairly targeted for deep cuts. they get smaller raises, pay more out of pocket for pensions and health care and lose collective bargaining rights for both. wisconsin's republican governor scott walker staring at a $3.6 billion state deficit, says he needs to cut somewhere, and he's getting air cover fr...