today, g.m. will announce that s how much it s investing in a flint, michigan assembly plant. updates needed to build g.m. s next generation of full sized pickup trucks. next, $69. that was the advertised price of a new ipad 2 at sears.com. they usually go for $750. after hundreds of people tried to buy them, sears canceled their orders saying the ad was a mistake. sorry. $476 million. that s how much the final harry potter movie cleared in global ticket sales over the weekend. the u.s. total was nearly $169 million. the best three-day opening ever. steve? that s a lot of harry potter. meanwhile, faced with a cash flow shortage, the superintendent of claremont, ohio, schools faced a tough choice when he took over in 2007. force the district to raise taxes or think outside the box. he grabbed attention all over
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york. glad you re with outside this monday. it s july 18th. a lot going on. nice to see you as well. nice to see you. christine s still off, i guess. two more casualties in the uk hacking scandal leaving rupert murdock s empire reeling this morning. rebekah brooks arrested. reported friday she had resi resigned. she s been released on bail. it s not clear if she ll testify tomorrow. last night in a shock move that has left scotland yard for accepting almost $20,000 in hospitality from a private health clinic after he had yound yund gone surgery. that health clinic was represented by a p.r. firm owned by former editor of the news of the world. this picture is building up. this cozy relationship between the police and senior executives at news of the world. that made his position very difficult. he decided to step down last night. insisting all the while he had done nothing wrong. the issue of my integrity, let me set clear that i the the people that know me know my i
allow the president to raise a debt ceiling and avert crisis. a vote on that could happen this week. the fallback plan would likely pass the democrat-controlled senate but face a bigger challenge in the house where republicans hold the majority. let s get the latest with brianna keilar. are we any closer to a deal? on a deficit reduction plan, kyra, it doesn t appear so. no announced meetings between the white house and congressional leaders over the weekend, there were staff-level meetings and a lot of focus has to do with this fallback plan you mentioned. it s sort of the brainchild of the center republican leader, mitch mcconnell, working out some details with the senate majority leader harry reid. essentially, it would give the president for all practical purposes the ability to increase the debt ceiling with really just a minority of support from congress. it would allow congress to voice its disapproval and this is something that the president would have to do in thre
just before that meeting the house republicans put out this proposal for deep budget cuts. they ve been asked to name which popular government programs they d take a knife to. we re getting the answer. today they ve issued this list. i have part of the list here. they re targeting 70 government programs. i ll give you ten, job training, big priority, $2 billion, women and infant children, cut $758 million, high speed rail, 1 billion, amtrak, 224 million, nuclear energy, cut $169 million, and even more, the list continues, flood control and coastal disaster relief. they want to cut 30 million bucks, state and local law enforcement, $256 million, environmental protection agency, $1.6 billion, i m almost done, fbi $74 million, nasa $379 million there. so, jessica, i mean, ten programs right there alone, that s really just the tip of the iceberg.