first lady know what he had been eating. can t trust those journalists, mr. president. we ve got to report the news. for all the latest political news anytime, you can always check out cnnpolitics.com. you can also follow what s going on here in the situation room. i m on twitter. you can get my tweets at twitter.com/wolfblitzercnn, all one word. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. up next, campbell brown. hey, everybody. we have some breaking news to tell you about tonight. a truce on capitol hill to stop a one-man filibuster and return unemployment benefits to thousands of americans. that story tops the mash-up. we are watching it all so you don t have to. after a whole day of closed-door negotiations, kentucky senator jim bunning finally gave in. he has agreed to vote for a bill extending temporary unemployment benefits. he had blocked it in protests, saying that lawmakers first had to figure out how to pay for it. his move furloughed thousands of workers and s
galapogos. bret: has he thanks for inviting us into your home tonight, fair, balanced, and unafraid. inside the aftermath of the earthquake. i m shepard smith. the news starts now. thousands of troops screaming to keep the peace in some of capitol chile s hearteddest hit areas. survivors need help and they need it soon. tonight, growing desperation in the disaster zone. plus, a major new car recall and it s not toyota this time. tonight, the problem that s going to force a lot of g.m. owners to bring back their cars. and a new push to end saturday mail delivery in america first from fox tonight, there are new troubles tore for a couple of major car makers and all of those of you who own their cars. first, we re getting fresh details of a big general motors recall. the automaker today announced its recalling more than a million chevies and pontiacs because of power steering issues. the feds apparently started investigating in january after getting 1100 complaints of cars l
for blanche lincoln s senate seat. we will get to this over the next hour, and there are many, many dogs on this show over the next hour. that s all coming up. we begin tonight with breaking news out of washington, the dramatic end to a day s long stand-off in the united states senate. a stand-off between senators hoping to extend unemployment benefits to hundreds of thousands of americans and one lone republican senator standing in their way. jim bunning of kentucky who turned himself into a one-man roadblock has finally caved. mr. bunning agreed to lift his solo objection to a benefit s bill that the senate has been attempting to pass for days now. his five-day objection forced thousands of federal workers to go without pay and put on ice hundreds of thousands of americans who are getting unemployment benefits. senator bunning s decision to relent that bill to go forward. this ends a strange chapter for what has been a strange career for senator bunning. it s not accurate
in texas, right now a primary race is under way to drive home some of the big divisions within the republican party nationwide. it pits the incumbent governor rick perry against kay bailey hutchison and the activist debra medina, a popular figure with the tea party movement. they ll be closing the polls in a few hours. right, candy? it has, and it has pitted basically kay bailey hutchison, who is seen as an establishment republican, she had the backing of george bush, the dad, and a lot of the bush folks around in the bush camp against sitting governor rick perry, who had the support of sarah palin, and that sort of thing. so you had two very different republicans, and what you saw was really the overall fight that the republicans are having right now, because you have
he s more in the news for this election year than somebody running for re-election. you can see christine and i on your $$$$$. let s get a check of the headlines. gm is recalling 1.3 million chevrolet and pontiac compacts to fix power steering problems. it affects models sold in the united states, canada, and mexico. gm says the cars may be safe to drive but may be harder to steer when traveling under 15 miles an hour. in chile, president michelle bachelet is threatening to crack down on looters in the aftermath of the earthquake that killed more than 700 people. she said the looting in concepcion and other cities is intolerable. in texas, voters are casting ballots in the republican primary race for governor, between incumbent rick perry and u.s. senator kay bailey hutchison. fellow republican debra medina, a favorite of tea party voters,