head koerb curt budke, one of four people who did not survive last night s disaster in arkansas. on board with budke were assistant coach miranda cerna and two other people, including the pilot, not affiliated with the school. we are following this developing story for you. we ll bring you more updates as they come into our newsroom. bill: about six minutes past the hour. now we re looking at a possible showdown between congress and the white house. nothing with the supercommittee here. at odds a major defense bill under consideration in the senate, president obama threatening to veto that bill if it passes. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge, live on this. good morning! what are they digging in on over this one, catherine? reporter: good morning. senior republicans say the white house promised to close gitmo, tried to bring the 9/11 suspects to came and to court and failed. they say there s no questioning policy for the detention of terrorists. the administratio
for help, three girls dialing 911 while trapped inside an elevator shaft, the girls lying down on the ground as the elevator car comes within inches of crushing them. take a listen: [screaming and yelling] hello? lift it up, lift it up, please lift it up! help us. hello? where are you? we re in an elevator. i m sorry? hello. we re trapped under an elevator at coffman at classon sas high school. heather: the doors opened and let them directly into the shaft which they first at thought was the elevator itself. it took about 45 minutes before the girls were finally rescued. one thinks that her boot may have prevented the elevator from coming all the way down. two of the girls are suffering from minor injuries. yeah that, one girl, she was wearing steel-toed boots.
leaders to end a deadly government crackdown. and pizza, the new vegetable in school lunch rooms? congress proposing a bill that could count tomato paste in pizza sauce as a serving of vegetables. from the lunch table to the playground, one toronto school receiving serious backlash from parents and students a decision to ban ball that is are too hard, the school saying too many kids are getting hurt. bill. bill: wasn t that way at elder high school, tell you that! five days to go until the deadline, lawmakers set to work through the weekend to hammer out a deal to slash $1.2 trillion in spending. if there is no deal, cuts automatically go into effect that hit domestic and defense spending and that brings us to some of the questions we get so often from our viewers, bya, julie writes the following: if the debt commission does not come together and the budget cuts happen, what cuts are made to congress and the white house, or are they
in the plane crash. the head coach and assistant coach. in total four died because of that crash in rural arkansas that occurred 45 miles west of little rock. a sad irony in that story. 10 years ago, 2001, 10 members associated with the men s basketball team at that school were killed when their plane went down in the state of colorado. this from oklahoma state university. the. heather: our prayers with them. getting some new details about the man now charged with the attempted assassination of president obama. court documents say that the idaho man beliefs he is jesus. wendell goler is live at the white house for us. wendell, what else do we know about him? reporter: heather we know the 21-year-old from idaho falls was obsessed with president obama. he told acquaintances that he believed president obama was the antichrist and needed toe be killed and wanted to put gps chips in
park they were all over the place. mayor michael bloomberg, new york city mayor, tough to estimates, could be hundreds, could be thousands but doesn t matter because authorities are at the ready if anyone gets out of control. heather? heather: jamie, what about this? are charges being filed against the unruly and violent proterse we re seeing? reporter: the arrests are happening in the hundreds. they re definitely being taken into custody. the question is what will happen from now? well mayor michael bloomberg speaking yesterday says, he give as strong warning, heather. if things get out of hand again. we will insure that everyone has a right to exercise their first amendment rights. as well as the right to go to work, go to school, ride the subway and go about their day. but make no mistake about it, if anyone s actions cross the line and threaten the health and safety of others, including our first-responders, we will respond accordingly. reporter: and they are, heather. as wel