ridiculist tonight. breaking news everyone. tonight right now in that building over on the senate side according to democrat harry reid who spoke last hour, nothing is going on. the senate is now adjourned. but the clock is still ticking and the government is running out of money to pay the bills at this moment because the debt limit was not raised back in may, the united states treasury has less cash on hand than apple computer. on wednesday the government will have $23 billion in social security checks to send out and not enough cash to cover them unless it doesn t send out a whole lot of other checks. now, earlier this evening after a string of delays the house narrowly passed speaker john boehner s version of a debt reduction bill. i stuck my neck out a mile to try this. to get an agreement with the president of the united states. i stuck my neck out a mile. and i put revenues on the table. in order to try this. to come to an agreement to avert us being where we are.
kate bolduan has the story. also tonight, ari fleischer and james carville get in a heated exchange. john mccain today snacking down fellow republicans. he s providing a reality check and so are the financial markets. the dow industrials today dropping nearly 200 points, making it four losing days in a row. the nasdaq and s & p down even more sharply. now, anyone with a 401 k has got to be worried at this point and watching this closely or should be. but assume for a minute that washington gets in gear and passes some kind of debt reductions deal before the treasury runs out of money and the markets react. will it be the kind of deal that most americans say they want? keeping them honest, the answer seems to be no. take a look at the latest cnn opinion research center polling. it shows 64% prefer a budget plan with a mix of spending cuts and tax increases. 34% say cuts only. that s consistent with other polling which is averaging nearly 2 to 1 in favor of what president obama
getting the mage? we ve got new polling that says all of that. and this is important. recent polling may also explain why we haven t got an deal yet. we ll tell you what we re talking about. in any case, americans are speaking out today. good morning, speaker boehner s office. how may i help you? a summer avalanche of phone calls hitting the capitol. president obama asked for it in his address to the nation last night. here it is. house switchboard today getting nearly double the volume of normal phone calls, house speaker baine er s office reporting as many as 300 people on hold for as long as an hour. online the same story. site unavailable. server busy. we found better than one in three congressional web sites either slow or down entirely from all the volume. also multiple calls to the white house switchboard by one of our producers also not getting through. that s what s happening. and it s unusual. and there s new polling out there on the debt issue from pew research
palling around with his friend arnold schwarzenegger. can he no longer be fun with women in town. tom is a man who can make just about everything funny. tonight he sits down with me for a candid conversation about his battle with various addictions, his brain chemistry changes, cocaine, alcohol, and all those drugs and it didn t give me what i was looking for. the roller coaster life. i was getting married a bunch. tom arnold for the hour. this is piers morgan tonight. my special guest, tom arnold. tom, you ve got a new dvd out, tom arnold, that s my story and i m sticking to it. what does if mean? they are my points of view on different things and i think it is just a play on that. i talk about i have a certain amount of relationships, maybe about people you know, friends of mine, most of them. it is a remarkably candid thing to watch. you ve had quite a life. to put it mildly. haven t you? i think if you do stand-up, the kind of stand-up i like, you
serial killer. that s how we know that we re dealing with a monster. ha mysterious murders. four of the victims were found in a burlap-type material. kaj larsen traces the trail of a serial killer still on the loose. this is long island, an hour s drive away from manhattan and it is known for beautiful million-dollar homes and secluded beaches. but that same isolation that people come here to seek, as of late, has been masking a darker eleme element. in december, police in long island make a shocking discovery. i don t think it is a coincidence that four bodies ended up in this area. for the past couple of years, women kept disappearing on long island. now, police think they may know why. we have a serial killer. we are dealing with a psychotic murderer. police still don t have answers, so we tried to get to the bottom of this eerie mystery. gus, man neighbors call the unofficial mayor of this community, shows me around. that s the house. that s where