it was community people you knew from your community. reporter: two week ago, a may know blow when jones learned her kids like dozens of others in columbus would be staying home. all because of the sequester. those deep across the board spending cuts that forced federal programs like head start to cut back. in columbus, that meant holding a lottery to see which students would stay or go. their name didn t get picked. she is reading off this name and you re waiting, waiting, and praying for her to read your name. like she hasn t said my name yet. then you get down to the end of the name and they tell you that s it. it is a shock. it is a shock. reporter: administrators are also reeling. not been a fun couple weeks for us. what the cuts represent is taking away from babies and toddlers. reporter: matthew mehlman is the executive director of zero to three. a washington based group aimed at improving early childhood
that says that dozen of white house staffers are still earning six-figure salaries despite repeated warnings from the obama administration on the consequences of the big automatic spending cuts. senator marco rubio says the white house he believes is playing politics with a serious issue. listen to him. they are going to lock for the most painful cuts from a publicity perspective in order to drive home the point that this was a bad idea. the reality of it is there will be spend raoeg deductions here and there. i think people watching this program who have had reductions of 10, 15, 20% in their house old budgets, some people have lost everything, i think they d be shocked to hear a bunch of of politicians belly aching with a 10% across the board spending. when people have seen mass reductions in their own home budgets and so forth. martha: with that as a backdrop we bring in doug schoen a
police now blame a prime suspect in deadly shooting and crash on thelation strip that prompted a multi-state manhunt. oscar harris, investigators say his location is unknown and police finding the black range rover sport car or sport s.u.v. i should say used in the get away as a getaway car a few blocks from where the violent conflict took place at some of the city s best resorts and wanted in connection to two to three deaths, rather, including an aspiring rapper gunned down in his maserati. two others inside a taxi cab and caught up in the whole thing. criminal record includes arrest on kidnapping, sexual assault and other charges. now to the budget stalemate in washington. with 85 billion dollars in across the board spending cuts
another industry besides this industry, it s clean, high wages, et cetera and he says he wants to encourage manufacturing. bill: we ll see fit happens. appreciate your time. steve ferguson, thank you out of indiana with us today. we ll follow it. thank thank you, sir. martha: the president is expected to speak just a few minutes from now to put pressure on congress to make a move on the across the board spending cuts that congress is facing at first of the month. bret baier is with us live to get ready for the president s statement in a moment. bill: brace yourself. there is another big storm sweeping across the country, it s winter after all. the potential to affect just about everybody, though. we ll explain. two. three. my credit card rewards are easy to remember with the bankamericard cash rewards credit card. earn 1% cash back everywhere, every time. [ both ] 2% back on groceries. [ all ] 3% on gas. no hoops to jump through. i earn more cash back on the things i buy the most. [ wo
ceiling at the end of december when they re home, so they want to do it now so they don t have to come back at the end of the year. it s a different dynamic, republicans are willing to play more around the debt ceiling. that s one reasons the democrats want to take care of it now. republicans would rather leave that for later. the story is going to be, i think, it s going to shift a little bit from republicans trying to make their way toward more revenues or agreeing to a higher tax rate for the top earners to democrats trying to do something about spending. i mean, there are a number of democrats who say we won, we won on a platform of raising taxes. we did not win on a platform of big across the board spending, entitlement cuts. so we re not going to go there. the problem is, give them if you factor into it, hip pottically give them a tax raise, that s enough for eight days.