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Money to clear its backlog. he asked for almost $4 billion from congress. the head of the house appropriations committee says that simply is too much of an amount, and republicans won't sign off on the money. john boehner says the only way to change the crisis, change the 2008 law he blames for creating the situation in the first place. secretary johnson toured a federal facility that has been converted into a detention center for immigrants. it's one of several stop gap measures by the obama administration to deal with the flood of undocumented people. our anna cabrera is there. >> reporter: ...

Some kind of extension. but extension of benefits is not where you want to be. not permanent benefits, they want permanent jobs. get the training and employer incentives right. you have to have stopgap measures for people. >> he will need a partner with congress to do that. he talked about that last year and the year before. >> as soon as president obama says he's for job training, it's marxism. >> right. >> right. coming up. more on the winter weather and how some cities are digging out and preparing for the bitter cold. a live report from the hardest hit areas and a live report from our mete...

Tepco's immediate concerns. tanks can hold 400,000 tons of water, 370,000 tons of space have already been used. in this building, the effort to process the toxic water to remove some of the radioactive elements is ongoing on the ocean front, barriers are being built to protect the plant from another tsunami. and to stop an estimated 300 tons of toxic groundwater seeping into the pacific ocean every day. yellow tanks that you can see mark where this barrier is. it's effectively liquid cement that they have injected all wait here to try to keep the contaminated groundwater within the power plant...

Course, the stock market. everybody who is involved in investing on that, they pull back and that kicks it over to the next level of dominoes back here. now businesses start saying we have to lay people off. we certainly can't create jobs in this environment. investors say if businesses are in that much trouble, we can't invest in them right now. that means your savings, your 401(k), everything else you have in the bank, becomes worth a little bit less and if there's anybody out there who will still loan money to the united states at that point, they say this is not the safe bet it once was, o...

That means he has massive amounts of classified dat ark, still in russia, of course, and we don't know what it is. >> we have some idea he's released only about 10% of this. according to glen greenwald, "the guardian," says about 10% of what snowden has is released, which is remarkable. the nsa is trying to go back and do laws, when asked about this a couple months ago, do we know what edward snowden got, they were cagey about it. even though obama administration made assurances to congress there wouldn't be abusing within the nsa, any information from the surveillance programs, we now know th...