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Plus, questions tonight about whether washington is playing politics with the troops and what deep cuts would mean for our military. and a police cruiser there one moment and gone the next after a car slams into it somewhere caught in all of that blur, a little boy. >> i am harris faulkner and it is time for the clean up the day after what looked like an assault from the sky. amateur video caught it all. it is a bright light, a meteor streaking across the sky in rush yampt the space rock hurdled out of the atmosphere at 40,000 miles per hour faster than we were told and then the sonic boom. th...

Cuts as bill clinton and larry summers have suggested? >> i don't think that's fair to them. i want to revisit that history because i know you've talked about that. our view right now is, i think it's right, we need to take advantage of the incentive created by the sector and creative tax cuts to force this town to confront and take on the things that divide us now in those long term fiscal reforms so we can go ahead and govern. this is a place where, you know, people spend a lot of time worrying. it's a bit of cloud over the american economy, by whether washington can work again. for washingt...

Complaints by whistle plower. they are playing games and taking naps all while on the job. peter has the news from washington. >> there are 178 whistleblowers since 2007 and 89 of them were tied to aviation safety and the office of special council referred them for investigation and all but five were substanteated and the faa is taking iniadeate stips. first responder helicopter don't have property night vision and air affic controllers are sleep using personal computers at work . small planes leaving the new jersey teeterborrow are flying too close to the bigiets and delta maintenance was

Essentially this -- that the nation is within $100 billion of the debt ceiling limit. in 31 usc 312ab. a bunch of jargon. basically we need another increase and we need it now. the response from thecious speaker's office, one statement. washington's mounting debt is a drag on our economic recovery. this request is another remind they're the president consistently punted on the tough choices needed to reign rn in the deficit and protect programs for american seniors from going bankrupt." this is the last around final request for the debt ceiling increase. back with the panel. it's just 4-1/2 mo...

And americans are less popula popular. >> the administration laid out the red line. the afghan government and international community must see insurgents break with al-qaeda and support laws and constitution of afghanistan. >> clinton set a practical tone. >> all of us are entering into it with a realistic sense of what is possible. >> there are detainee with direct contact to al-qaeda, the white house continues to publicly insist that nothing was final. >> any decision to transfer detainee from guantanamo would be undertaken in accordance with the u.s. law and in consultation with congress. >...