boehner urged the president to call on harry reid to appoint negotiators to this conference that we now are talking with so much about to try to hash out the differences between the house and senate. as you well know, senate majority reid has no intention of negotiating and as he read in a letter to speaker boehner, along with speaker boehner and all congressional leaders and the white house, they want that deal and senator reid says not until they have the assurance that the tax cut will not lapse come january 1. so they are pushing he is again pushing as well as the white house, to put to push through the two two-month extension. but bottom line, where do things stand? talks are not happening. there isn t any real progress because there aren t real talks happening. both sides are very dug in. they all seem to want the end goal but absolutely talking with each other at this point. let us know if that phone call manifests into a meeting. thank you. appreciate it. let s
the payroll tax cut. it s set to expire at the end of this year. president obama called john boehner today and the white house has even put a counterdown clock on the home page of its website. it says if the house does not act, taxes on the middle class will increase starting the first of the year. let s go to the white house. our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin, is standing by with the latest on this dramatic political showdown. what is the latest? the latest is that the white house believes there is only one way for the nation to avoid an increase in the payroll tax cut and that is for speaker john boehner to bring that senate pass two month extension to a vote. just this morning, speaker boehner said that s not going to happen. we re here, we re ready to work. we re looking for our counterparts to sit down with us so we can do what the president and leaders want and that s to extend the payroll tax cut for one year. now, midday today, the president ho
crash of an eastern airlines jumbo jet near miami s airport. but what caused the plane to crash? the mystery lies in why the auto pilot suddenly failed to hold its altitude. it turns out it wasn t a mechanical failure but rather human error. according to the report, when the captain leans across to help with a light bulb, he hits the control column, shutting off the auto pilot. the warning chime went off but no one seemed to notice. the crew not only didn t respond to it they didn t actually hear it or if they did that didn t process the significance of it. it turned into a fiasco. everybody was concentrating on this lightbulb. further deepening the tragedy, investigators discovered the nose gear had been down the whole time. it should be noted that planes can still land safely with just
metabolic syndrome a cluster of risk factors. the study said doctors can identify those for the condition by evaluating sleep symptoms. meanwhile in new york city, patients who called 911 in cardiac arrest could get two ambulances. part of a new plan to recover organs from potential donors. when the efforts to save the life fails, a second team arrives to collect the liver. the deceased must be identified as an organ donor. horror in the skies as a 737 jetliner takes a 7,000 foot plunge. a new envis gator report said in may the copilot mistakenly hit the control column while adjusting his seat then panicked. the pilot was able to grab the controls.
pilot, the investigation has shown that mr. renslow made some big mistakes. when this plane flying approaching buffalo was slowing down, the altitude was declining, there was a warning that the pilot and the co-pilot received called the stick shaker. the control column began shaking. it moved forward. and the pilot instead of allowing the column to be forward to push the nose down to accelerate the plane, he pulled back on that control column, pushing the nose up and that turned out to be a fatal mistake. his failure to make standard call-outs or even a declare afternoon statement associated with the recovery attempt further suggests that he was not responding to the situation using a well-learned habit pattern. thus the captain s improper flight control inputs were instead consistent with startle and confusion. the captain had a history of training failures, indicating