james rosen with the news life in washington tonight. we are growing at a slower pace but we re north the only ones. that s right. a lot of developed countries are experiencing something similar, shep. compared to some other leading nations we are still growing quickly. take the french and english populations, for example, they each grew at 5% over the last decade. japan saw virtually no change. china grew at 6%. despite a 2002 law limiting most families to only one child. and then there is canada where the trend line was pointing due north up roughly 10%. while some analysts believe blame low birth rate brought on by lean economic times by america s population growth, one demographer noted others. the fact that we have seen less population, it has more to do with the immigration decline and the movement within the united states has frozen. census bureau data shows the poverty rate in differing
okay? human life that we are talking about. we re not asking to have a bill passed to send us to disney land. we re not asking to have a pool put in all our backyards. we re asking to the right to live. why can t the senate help these men and women? i m not going away. i m not kidding. if i have to run for congress in two years and filibuster everything that you people do, i will do it. shepard: one republican says he has concerns about the plan. he is this man. is he vowing to delay the vote until next year. details live from d.c. and our top story at the bottom of the hour. that s coming up. first, only a few hours left for congress to avoid a government shutdown. today, the senate passed a bill to keep things running until march. now, the house has to do the same before the fed runs out of money about five hours from now. america might seem a little more crowded these days. and now we know why. just ahead, of the new census report that reveals just how many millions of people li
internet service providers from favoring any one site over any other site. so, for example, a blog about grandma s recipes is treated no differently than google. the rules also include some protections for providers. for instance, allowing them to manage traffic and avoid slow downs as long as the companies are open about their policies. supporters say this will help the internet keep it open and keep it fair. but the critics say the fcc just created a fix for a problem that doesn t exist. shannon bream is live in washington. you know, shannon the interwebs were slow today because everybody is shopping. why did the fcc step in to regulate it? that was the question of the day. when they were pressed for example of consumers who actually had any problems. hard time accessing information on the internet. supporters of the new rules didn t have much to offer. still julian general jen knowkowski has obligation to
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according to cops, they have been carrying out reconnaissance missions at shopping malls in cities like birmingham and manchester two of the biggest cities in the u.k. they also carried out reconnaissance missions around the parliament. all houses busy with tourists and shoppers and nightclubbers at this time of year. one security official in the u.k. said that everybody in europe is extremely edgy right now. shep? shepard: jonathan hunt live for news new york city tonight. security teams have randomly started checking bags for explosives inside washington s metro system. new york and boston have performed similar checks in the past. it s the first time we have seen this sort of thing in the d.c. metro. reaction? mixed. i don t like it. of course not. tell me why. because it s invasive. it s intrusive. i m a law abiding citizen and it makes me feel like i m about ready to do something wrong. when i first walked in, it was kind of scary. i wasn t prepared for it, but it was ok