the roads here by the way are also a slippery, slushy mess. heightened alert in north texas as it sits in the path of what could be one of the worst ice storms to hit the u.s. in years. sleet, started falling in denton county late thursday. slushy surfaces slowing traffic. reports of up to a half inch of sleet and ice, accumulating on bridges and overpasses. making them more treacherous. denton police responding to more than 50 vehicle wrecks and calls for assistance in an eight-hour span. in dallas, dozens of salt trucks an employees are on standby, ready to treat dangerous road conditions. we stand ready as the city of dallas to address the ice and hazards that might come. reporter: the threat serious enough to cause the cancellation of saturday s holiday parade for the first time in its 26-year history.
on it. it is one area you get a national consensus on this. but obama wants to blow it up by using the revenue to spend it again on the same old stuff, on bridges and roads and all that stuff that we thought was going to be addressed in the 09 stimulus, it is the same old stuff warmed over. i think it is an attempt to prevent real tax reform, which i think is the ultimate irony. kirsten, there was a problem in the first round of the shovel ready jobs, but there are a number of republicans behind infrastructure projects done the right way. your thoughts on the president s pitch today and where it is headed? well, it doesn t seem to be headed anywhere because of the way republicans responded to it, you re getting into this back and forth with john boehner complaining that they didn t reach out to him, then they said they did reach out to him, he didn t return the calls. it is starting to sound aggravating to listen to this over and over, watch both sides
i was traveling throughout central cairo a half hour ago and i saw these pockets of egyptians celebrating what many of them felt was the imminent overthrow, you could call it, of egypt s first ever democratically elected president, morsi, elected just a year ago. i m frankly quite stunned at how much ill will he generated among so many egyptians that they just felt it was time now to throw away the electoral process and simply start fresh. it imposed a lot of challenges here. it was remarkable to see the soldiers, the troops, the police, the special forces deploying on bridges, on major roads, blocking traffic, especially around areas where morsi supporters set up protest camps, one in particular that we
deploying on bridges, on major roads, blocking traffic, especially around areas where the morsi supporters had set up protest camps. one in particular that we visited in front of the university of cairo. i ve met some of the young men who are walking through there who have not military. and one of them said to me, wolf, of course this is a military coup. but i want this. i want to protect the people from the muslim brotherhood who are out for blood. that s what one supporter of this move by the military said to me. and then, of course, i walked across the 200 meters, the 200 yards from the phalanxes of special forces and police and armored personnel carriers to the encampment of muslim brotherhood supporters who were also firing off fireworks about an hour ago. and they said this is a military coup. we re not going anywhere. we are not vnviolent. we re going to stay here and defend our man, morsi, even if
hole exposed in the roof and yet, everyone somehow landed this plane, no one was injured, no one seriously hurt on this flight. southwest airlines, still, a major scare for everyone aboard this flight. alisyn: southwest has grounded about 80 of its planes and it may have to cancel another 300 flights today because they need to reinspect the planes and see if there s wear and tear, metal fatigue and what s up with that plane and the rest of the fleet. clayton: this is interesting as he we talked to greg piper earlier on the show and how it works and how they do the inspections and he says they go through the top of the plane and in some cases scrape the paint off and see if there s metal fatigue and cracks in it. you think you might visually see cracks, they re going to use electrodes to touch the metal like on bridges and overpasses and see if there are minuscule cracks you couldn t see with the naked