and re-evaluation by the end of 2012. reporter: what do you say to a patient who has to have an artificial hip removed because that product wasn t safe? not every single patient is going to have a perfect experience with that device. and that s unfortunate. we re striving to make devices as safe as possible. the patients with those faulty devices, it means having a second operation to replace the bad part with a good one. the universe is sending us a valentine of its own. a comet half the size of manhattan sped by a nasa spacecraft monday night. scientists clapped when they received a message from the astronauts on the spaceship saying they snapped six dozen photos of the comet. the fly-by occurred 210 million miles from earth at 24,000 miles per hour. researchers say the photos could provide clues to how the sun and planets are formed. well, if you were alone on valentine s day, we have a lesson from a band of intrepid romantics. a boca raton retirement community held a vale
this year and 8.2% in the fourth quarter of 2012. reporter: that is still about 3 points higher than what he calls the natural and sustainable unemployment rate which he predicts we won t see until 2016. jon: it was yesterday that the cbo came out with the pretty awful deficit number. is he saying anything about debt in front of the senate. reporter: that awful number is a revised budget deficit number for fiscal 2011 which is $1.5 trillion, which will make the past three years the largest in history, as a percentage of the gross domestic product it s the highest since world war ii. the numbers are likely to fuel debate between the president and republican leaders in congress, the president calling the deficit just one of five pillars needed for a strong economy and republicans saying it should be the main focus reducing the deficit now that we re actually coming out of the recession. jon: wendell, thanks.
state that would be in play in 2012. reporter: as in other parts of country, some voters here were unhappy with the administration s handling of the economy or had deep concerns about the federal deficit. president obama will continue making his pitch on main street, pushing for more jobs and trying to change the minds of skeptical americans. wolf? dan lothian in wisconsin traveling with the president. less than 24 hours after the president spoke to the house chamber, sweeping talk of the future and bipartisanship is being drawn out by republicans who are challenging his agenda head-on. let s bring in our senior congressional correspondent dana bash. what s going on, dana? reporter: well, you know, the president did try to appeal to republicans in his speech last night, wolf, but the sound was barely up this morning when republicans in the senate formally introduced their legislation to repeal his top priorities that has been apparently the health care law and in the house repu
do to not only govern effectively but look towards 2012. reporter: to that point, the liberal activist group released a statement criticizing the reed announcement as gravitating towards individuals that push policies that benefit big corporations over regular americans. kate bolduan, cnn, the white house. across america. we begin in orlando, florida. an amateur artist used an unusual medium to express her creativity. laundry lint. and now to california. a miniature schnauzer was rescued from a drainpipe. rescuers believe he may have been stuck there up to three days. casper was spotted by another dog who barked out the alarm. his owner believes he fell into the storm drain near his house.
are empowered and wasting no time to attack the president. reporter: in a warm and mostly sunny hawaii, president obama came to washington where the sudden drop in temperature is not the only reason for a frigid welcome. republicans want to repeal his signature agenda, health care reform. well, i think that we are go going to be politics. that s what happens in washington. reporter: but the president seems confident that the congress will focus on governing and puts a side campaign posturing. there is plenty of time to campaign for 2012 in 2012. reporter: but a shift in the house could lead to big clashes. well, obviously, the president needs to do more ne goe goschating and more compromising and maybe he will want to do it in a private way.