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[ cellphone rings ] thank you. live streaming audio. advanced charts. look at that. all right here. wherever "here" happens to be. mobile trading from td ameritrade. number one in online equity trades. plus get up to $600 when you open an account. >> good morning, this is a fox news alert. it's a working weekend for the senate as you can see, a short time ago senators passing two month extension of payroll tax cuts for almost every taxpayers. they passed jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed. and they're now so the voting on a bill to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year...

It is a working weekend. the house came back to session and the senate will do so shortly and vote on the plain as time runs out. heli, i am uma. >> and we start with mike on capitol hill. what can we expect? >> you are going to see after the senate killed john boehner's plan you will see the house take up a version of the harry reid bill. the senate majority leader's bill. it is gains man ship then the leaders will set the tone for the day. there is a lot of talk about compromise and tension here realizing that the time is short. republicans believe we must

progress. democratic senate leader harry reid and republican senate leader mitch mcconnell on the senate floor moments ago. look. >> today the speaker republican leader held a press conference to announce they're in talks with the president and that a bargain to raise the debt ceiling is in the works and is close. in president, members of the senate, that's not true. i just spent two hours with the president, vice president, and leader pelosi, and it's fair for me to say that the engagement there is not in any meaningful way. the speaker, republican leader should know that merely say...

this reid plan sometime this afternoon. expected to vote it down. it will be just a demonstration that the reid plan as is is not going to pass the house of representatives. meanwhile, the question is, what's going to happen in the senate, were there any meetings? no meetings scheduled among the leadersh leadership, a top republican leadership aide telling me mitch mcconnell doesn't want to meet with the democrats unless a representative from the white house is involved because the democrats don't have permission to sign off on anything unless the president says so. i also talked to ...

delayed. police in texas say a muslim american soldier confessed to plotting an attack on ft. hood just two years after a muslim officer shot to death 13 people on that same base. tropical storm don could hit the south texas coast tonight and drought-stricken farmers are welcoming the prospect of up to 7 inches of rain. we begin with that sobering reality check on the debt crisis and just how daunting the challenge has become. in less than four days, the federal government could run out of money and default on its bills. but on capitol hill, the process has taken a huge step back...