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that the nation has been on brink of this kind of crisis. let's go straight to capitol hill, our congressional current kate bolduan baldwin is standing by. >> the ability to finally fand a way out of this impasse and to avoid this looming government shut down and how this could all come out has to do with the big focus on the fema funding. the additional funding for federal disaster relief that democrats and republicans wanted to put in this short term spending bill. fema came out today to confirm that different from their prior predictions, that fema may be able to stretch their dis...

on airplanes, trains and subways, intense scrutiny. backpacks are searched and sniffed. even a trip to the ball game is an exercise in homeland security. homeland security, an entire government bureaucracy that didn't exist a decade ago. an agency that gave us the terror alert level. >> the federal government was raising its threat level to orange. >> reporter: before then orange was just a color or a fruit. hardly an assessment of potential threats. there are threats the 9/11 generation is used to. they've grown up during two wars and they're still just kids. there was 9/11, then lo...

this country and its people forever. it's changed our security and our priorities. and most of all, it has changed the day-to-day of everyday life in the united states. what has changed since 9/11? maybe the question is, what hasn't? a 6-year-old girl searched before boarding a plane. a wheelchair becomes a red flag on airplanes, trains and subways, intense scrutiny. backpacks are searched and sniffed. even a trip to the ball game is an exercise in homeland security. homeland security, an entire government bureaucracy that didn't exist a decade ago. an agency that gave us the terror ...

>> when they were trying to catch him. i was wondering if you could go into the detail there and, especially, if you could go into detail on how he specifically was capture inside the end. was it the pakistanis or the cia? how did that come about? >> the tip that captured ksm came through the cia. the largest cia station in the world is in islamabad, pakistan. they are fishing where the fish are, and that's where most major al-qaeda figures have been killed or captured. ksh is catchtured, and that famous photo of his hair askew and that hairy-chested photo, he was woken up sleeping o...

congress next week called for this -- tax breaks for companies that hire new workers with special incentives for someone who sent more than six months looking for a job or for hiring veterans. extend unemployment another year, cut payroll taxes in half for every american and every small business. the president says that would save the typical family $1,500. a continuation of a tax payroll pay cut for this year. and a word, modernize 35,000 schools and rehire laid off teachers. i noted, he never said some of these buzz words, like infrastructure, sounds like government spending. somet...