trapped to kill. plus, stories of heroism among the gunfire, and chilling tales of survival. i was just thinking, we ve got to get out. just a few millimeters in or sent meters in, and i don t think i would have left the theater. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. right now, explosives experts in aurora, colorado, are putting themselves in harm s way. they are trying to make sure the apartment left booby trapped by the suspect in the colorado shootings is finally saved. a few hours ago, we watched as crews carefully placeded a robot in the apartment and then waited for it to set off an explosion to take out the triggering devices for the many bombs and accelerants left inside. the suspect, 24-year-old james holmes, will be spending tonight in a county jail in suburban denver. he s scheduled to appear in court monday morning. a couple of hours ago, police disclosed holmes received
he s facing it right now too. now mushy land. if he had been specific, directly contradicts what he was saying during the republican primaries. he will have to flip flop in the campaign. that s an etch-a-sketch. he does not appeal to mainstream voters. i m not in that campaign. it s unbelievable. it s frustrating. as it should be easier. there was some expectation this week mitt romney was going to get together with marco rubio who was on the front page of usa today. diffused by what the president did on friday. there wasn t a lot of distance between with what romney was going to announce and the president announced on friday. a little bit. i want to ask you one other thing as a man who served in congress, how do you feel about the use i would ask this about george bush too, of the executive order? in other words, we couldn t get the dream act through congress so he s going to sign something and put it into law, something that could be as easily erased by the next
know, americans think, let s get in there and send charitable activities in there, let s build new infrastructure, let s figure this out. but when you have a crisis that is as big as our current unemployment crisis, but it is long and it s slow and diffused and in all these different places, it is harder to get that sense of urgency to get in there and address it. that causes me to be haunted by it. they are a hidden population. and to a lot of folks, i think there s a lot of folks that think maybe they wonder why they re unemployed and the more likely it will be to leave the force. when they do they can have the effect of lowering the unemployment rate because of their hardship. i call it a carnage a few weeks a ago and it is. there will be 4 million people at some point this year this category of unemployed and the way the market is changing, it s a pious market out there, we can t deny that, but it is militating against the interest
congress needs to pass an extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance without drama and without delay and without needs to pass this without drama and delay and without linking it to some other ideological side issues. we ve been through this before, remember? we ve seen this movie. we don t need to see it again. the time for self-inflicted wounds to our economy has to be over. let s go straight to cnn congressional correspondent kate bouldan. kate, this is a surprising turn-around. what are you hearing there? what made them decide to make this move? jessica a surpriseding turn-around and sharp and surprising reversal by house republicans on the issue of the payroll tax cut. as you know, one of the demands house republicans have been making all along during this month s long battle over extending the payroll tax cut is their incidentses that the payroll tax cut and other measures be included in the deal be paid for. be covered and paid for by offsets tha
megyn: occupy oaked getting a taste of its own occupy oakland found themselves met by a counter protest from dozens of residents and local business people. the occupy crowd who is out protesting what they say were heavy handed police tactics during a january demonstration. but a group of fed up oaklanders say they have had enough. this fringe element, they are destroying children s art in city hall. it makes no sense at all. their message has gotten diffused. i have had the win doze of my dry cleaner, of my grocery store, of my bank, all broken into and had graffiti on those businesses. megyn: a new headache for the administration s push to develop so-called green jobs.