i m really overwhelmed right now. interviewing the pilot to try to i was looking down from the get some answers about what airplane and it seemed like everything wasn t real. happened yesterday. jason carroll, thanks so much. the woman who died, that was to what s important for me to say be a part of her 40th birthday is just thank you to everyone celebration who has believed in me who has still ahead a wisconsin man trying to figure out why governor rick perry s office defended me, who has supported my family. deletes its e-mails after 70 days. he s wondering if perry s got secrets. i just want my family is the my name is robin. most important thing to me right now and i just want to go and be with them. so, thank you for being there for me. cnn s drew griffin was there. this was a very emotional moment for her and her supporters wasn t it, drew? yeah, it was. i think, you know, after hearing that statement again, fred, you could hear in her voice just how unprepar
shall we? and there is another showdown over a possible shutdown. one week from today, the federal government will are up out of money. so with critical government programs and disaster relief hanging in the balance, congress is taking the weekend off. but they say they have good reason to. they needed to cool off a bit. cnn congressional correspondent indicate baldwin tells us what s holding up a deal. with lawmakers heading for the exits and after a long week of heated debate. that s the danger to this country is the $14 trillion deficit and the $1.6 trillion we add to it every damn year. wake up. wakeup. you can t kill these programs. this is the solution you are killing. reporter: congress leaves washington with no agreement on how to avoid another government shutdown. why the holdup as the september 30th deadline looms? neither side is backing down. top republicans and democrats continue pointing fingers at each other. harry reid is holding a bill up with full
some people like me call them mental health days but not one woman in berkeley, california. elena griffing is celebrating, get this 65 years on the job, and she never called out sick. don sanchez from our san francisco affiliate kgo reports. reporter: this is not a retirement party. energetic 85-year-old elena griffing has been working for 65 years. i love to come to work. i really, truly do. reporter: she started in 1946. harry truman was president. the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour. she s never stopped wearing three-inch high heels. even after hospital founder told her to stop wearing them, she could fall and sue. you can t not smile when you see her walking down the hall i mean, running down the hall. reporter: she got hired when she came in for a lab test and the phone was ringing nonstop. one of the doctors said, what
we re talking 60s in new york city and now temperatures plummeting through the 30s. can we go back out west. this is a live picture from our affiliate kgo. look at that. oh, wow, beautiful. snow. snow. well, it s february. not here, though. got to keep it real. it s a very warm day. thank you very much, jacqui jeras. we ll check back with you throughout the evening. up next no, you know what he told everybody in court? they need to be held accountable for their actions. you need to be. do you remember me? do you remember me? do you remember my son? an all-star wrestler? he s gone. he shot hisself in the heart. you scum bag. that s hard to watch. a mother s grief for the son she no longer has. she says it s because a judge got kickbacks to send kids like him away for minor offenses. the whole story is just ahead. here s to the little guy. we hear a lot about banks foreclosing on homeowners. this hour, meet a man who