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than 300 civilians. an illness sweeps through two ships belonging to the princess cruise line, leaving nearly 500 people sick. the vessels returned to port in florida. the cruise line says all the people who got sick are suffering from neurovirus, which is similar to the stomach flu. angry frustrated parents in western new york want answers. almost four months ago, more than a dozen teenagers and one adult from leroy developed uncontrollable twitching and verbal ticks. tests done by the school and health department have found no environmental link, but further testing will be done. mitt romney is celebrating a resounding victory in the nevada caucuses, making him the only republican candidate to score back-to-back wins in two states in this 2012 run for the white house. let me ask you just four days after winning florida s primary, romney captured 48% of the nevada vote. newt gingrich came in a distant second with 23%. ron paul got 18%. and rick santorum came in l
considering a two step process to get this done. if it gets done. will it fly with lawmakers facing tough election battles? fox news editor keeping track of it. what do they want to do here? reporter: get out of this with their skins intact. i don t know what they want do do about money but they want to survive this. right now it is looking like it will be challenging. neil: by punting in a to step process the bottom line is, any of the cuts or savings are not until 2013 regardless. what is the problem? guest: well, the problem here is there are two negotiations taking place, one public next for public consumption everybody want dozen go big and sane the country and do the important patriotic things but that is hard because republicans and democrats are so far apart. congress is divided. and the president is running for re-election. under that you have a little bit of a deal maybe now, say, $600
there a boost and they need ahead of the mid terms. now the story from los angeles. the most popular democrat in the land comes to the west coast to lend his star power to fellow democrats facing tough election battles. in some cases, letting buy gones be buy gones with formal rivals. reelect jerry brown. bill clinton in california last night to help fellow democrat jerry brown as he runs for governor. i am so grateful that jerry brown, that you know, we re not very far apart in age. we ve been doing this a long time. he still cares about your future. that is important. the two are no stranger to sharing a stage. you ought to be ashamed of yourself for jumping on my wife. i tell you something, president clinton. the circumstances are much friendlier than they were in the coats when they were competing for the democratic nomination for president.