his colleagues for a bill. just yesterday in chicago pro-reform advocates demonstrated out the district office of congressman dan lapinski but the rally came after this happened. house majority leader eric cantor being kicked out of congress. he became a short he lost his primary and then lost his leadership position as well because he failed to fend off a tea party challenger a few weeks ago. it s debatable whether immigration was the cause of all those votes against him but it definitely guaranteed this. immigration reform will not happen before the midterm election in november. at least not legislatively. here to discuss this, joineded by congressman luis gutierrez. that last point, let me start with this. the story of these undocumented children sort of intersects with the push for immigration reform because until all this happened with the children, we d been hearing that, okay, if congress doesn t take up immigration
tikrit from above. iraqi military is trying to secure the highways into and out of baghdad. they are going to be aided by a fleet of russian fighter jets. these are bought second hard reportedly for $500 million. the first batch of those jets arrived in baghdad yesterday. we want to get the very latest from the ground from nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel who is on the ground in baghdad. richard? reporter: good morning. as you said, it seems like the government is finally launching something of an effective counter offensive. there had been several attempts in the last several days to try and push the isis militants out of their stronghold areas in the north and west of iraq, but this time it seems that they are having some success. they are using more fire power. they are using some air power. they are using primarily helicopter gun ships and the focus right now is on tikrit. the iraqi government has claimed that it has liberated all of tikr tikrit. that
protesters released tonight message for obama campaign nato breeds war and communities free people. more protest this week sot more forceful than others in getting organized online. x they are in deep, and what the experts say protesters for trouble more than a megaphone marchant is not their style protesters slingshots molotov cocktails to the nato summit protests small in number they are big making an impact almost certainly be in chicago sometime this weekend. batt but target rich opportunity world audience of course they will show up. terrorism expert talking about violent protesters success overseas and more recently in a seattle may day to be exact protesters start with the crowd take the black approach disguise themselves in layers of clothing black on the outside helmets and the ski masks goggles with tear-gas will engage in aggressive activity physical violence against property at the plant back into the crowd tear off the clothing and not hard to identify and
from 1:00 in the morning part of this ring of fire pattern temperatures in kansas hit 150 degrees in spots at this hour steaming providing energy for the storms a thermometer reading temperature readings look at the triple digit heat index reading. storms this morning right here road through the area that we went into a quiet. but we started at 5:00 and watch this area in northwest illinois powerful thunderstorms and here is a look at the situation on the three-dimensional radar clouds towering at 63,000 ft. despite the hour of the night and you can see it real-time lighting bathes at each of these clashes crowds to ground like and we can show you how to have blood in the last few hours watch do relatively small area, back building building east and the notice point in your figure at the view and follow four hours of radar data which is what we are doing it has poured in those areas with steady light, situation developing eastward, to chicago with heavy rain and perhaps sever
not the skinheads, not the things that you re seeing today, but from the past. don t miss it. it s a don t miss show. definitely tomorrow night. from new york, good night, from new york, good night, america. captioned by closed captioning services, inc bret: next on special report, shades of the old west in the midwest as president obama travels to st. louis to call down bounty hunters to track down medicaid abusers. plus the role in the vote counting. the supreme justice on the supreme court takes a shot at the president over his state of the union remarks. we look at one senate democrat on shaky ground headed to the mid-terms. educators in texas try to determine what their textbooks will include. and what they won t and how that could effect you. all that, plus the fox all-stars right here, right now. bret: welcome to washington. i m bret baier. president obama s chief of staff is meeting at this hour with house and senate democrats on healthcare reform. the preside