putting together a payment plan. one possibility in that plan perhaps, do what president eisenhower did when the debt ceiling was not raised in 1953 he had the treasury department issue gold certificates to federal reserves across the country and got cash back to keep the government humming along. alex, there's some 100 million checks issued by the government every month, and in three days the unsavory job of payment triage begins, choosing grandma or governments. >> an unenviable task to be sure. coming up we'll have more on the debt ceiling crisis and president obama's role in it. we're going to speak with pat buchanan and morris reid about that. a caribbean airlines plane with 140 people on board crashed earlier today in guyana. the crash occurred at the country's main airport just south of george town. it broke in two, but remarkably looking at these pictures, no one was killed. there are several injuries, though, it's not clear how many