it stands illegal. the united states no longer operating prisons or holding detainees in afghanistan. the final three inmates have been transferred as nato combat mission winds down to the december 31st withdraw date. the afghan military will be in charge. the $1.1 trillion spending plan to keep the federal government operating beyond midnight tonight hit a snag. the democratic house leader is demanding two provisions be removed from the measure. one eases financial derivatives and the other is on campaign finance funds. you get the sense no one thinks there will be a shutdown and the vote on the $1.1 trillion measure could be razor thin. there is a lot in there. they crammed a lot in the measure. it is a reminder it is the function of congress to fund
public sector spending at exactly moment that we need the stimulus. our solutions are right here at our fingertips and just about making decision as a federal government to support the states and localities so they can do the hiring where americans live. and i think that, to me, an optimistic narrative that we could solve this almost overnight. so the economy being issue number one in the presidential campaign, we ve got the unemployment numbers out for last month, not doing anything to help the president s message about the economy turning around. we also just recently got the numbers of the campaign finance funds from both sides with mitt romney raking in $77 million, the president at $60 million. both sides complain about finance money. and this side s making too much and this side s get too much and it needs to be grassroots and all of this other stuff. we ve got all of the money poured into campaign ads trying to convince people to vote one way or the other. only to convince a
her bedroom nine days ago. the focus this morning a new surveillance video capturing three people outside of her home. heights of freedom on the eve of osama bin laden death. one world trade center marking a milestone today becoming the tallest building in new york city. blasting the bible. dan savage from it gets better campaign goes on the attack saying, quote, he should learn to ignore the b.s. in the bible and when it says about gay people. this morning, he is not backing down. newsroom begins right now! . a daring escape and diplomatic quandary. house arrest slipped away and apparently hiding inside the u.s. embassy in beijing and sets the stage for a tug of war between the two countries. you may remember the plight of chen in december. we were the only crew to accompany actor christian bale as he tried to meet with the activist instead bale was roughed up by chins chinese security guards. carol, this is an extraordinary story of escape. a blind man who under
nationwide is on your side. live from america s news headquarters i m harris faulkner. the situation we are watching in new york times square right now has ended in some arrests. just a couple of blocks from fox news headquarters more than 40 people reportedly arrest the as thousands of occupy wall street demonstrators converge and they have been out there for hour and a half hours. protesting what they say is corporate greed. they moved from wall street to times square. and in washington, throngs of people making their way from the washington monument to the new martin luther king memorial. that rally was in support of president obama s jobs plan, already shot down by senate republicans. gop p campaign finance reports released today show rick perry leading the pack in campaign finance funds. followed by former massachusetts governor mitt romney with more than $14 million collected.
house. he is inside of the courthouse in winston salem courthouse. and you can see it in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, but we are expecting john edwards along with the defense attorney to walk in front of a crowd of reporters, and we will bring it to you live as soon as we see it, but i know that my pal, joe johns, has been out there off and on covering the story, and he has literally walked outside of the courtroom. joe, first, talk me through what you have just experienced inside of the courtroom. you saw edwards, himself, in front of the magistrate, and how did he appear and what did he say? did you see his daughter with him as well? i didn t see his daughter. and it is funny, you know, i have covered john edwards for a long time, and i have to tell you that it looked like the exact same john ed warwards not hair out of place. i have known his lawyer for a long time and been around town for about 15 years. he looks like he has aged immensely and has gray ha