hours earlier. so the people that were crossing the finish line were many of them charity runners, were here to raise money for leukemia, for the liver foundation, for all the various things that people raise money for in the course of the 26 miles, plus they re running. as they were crossing the finish line, it was family members that were waiting there at the finish lines. so the area was packed with children, with elderly people waiting for their loved ones to cross that finish line. that s the reason these incredible amount of people that were hurt over the course of these two intentional explosions, more than 140 people injured, catastrophic injuries, many limbs lost. we have reports from the local hospitals of eardrums being blown out, shrapnel wounds, incredibly devastating injuries. here on the streets of boston there is a heightened sense of vigilance. we re constantly seeing the police circling by, military here on site. governor deval patrick is asking people to remain
there s a triage center set up, medical tent set up to handle injured runners who are pushing themselves across the finish lines. those areas were overwhelmed by people running in after the bomb blast. it s fortunate, if we can use this word, that this happened four hours into the race. that it didn t happen as leaders were crossing the finish line because there would have been many, many thousands more people, runners and spectators in the area. so, that is one thing that has kept the number of casualties down. but i don t get any sense that the medical facilities here are overwhelmed. they are amongst the best in the country, in the world. they know what they re doing. as i ve said earlier, i ve heard that a lot of volunteers have come rushing in from home who weren t on duty to try to be here to help out. as i m sitting here standing hire ta here talking to you, i can still hear the sound of ambulances in the distance heading this way. there s an ambulance going by just up the str
decent chunk of the republican caucus with the part that he can t control being voting against it but that not mattering. by the way, let me define reasonable, jonathan, as those republicans who may think they will be punished at the polls if they don t go along with a deal. there will be a lot of conservatives that won t go along with the deal to raise taxes much like the 1990s, but gingrich could always cobble together deals with bill clinton, the democratic caucus and enough republicans to get him over the finish lines. republicans should relax. whether they get a big deal now or in the spring, the economy will grow, and that will help their chances for re-election. people won t worry so much about tax increases if this economy is growing at the historic rate of 3%, 3.5%. people ought to relax a little bit on some of the details. and mika, i mean, people, we ve seen it, people want to see washington work. they do. they want people to get the deal done. andrew ross sorkin
martha: speaking of finish lines and sprinting, that s what these two gentlemen are up to right now. the presidential candidates are making their final pitches, their closing arguments to these voters, just a few days to go. what does where they are tell us, chris wallace will weigh in. bill: there was a communication break down during the assault in libya. while the counterterrorism community says they were left out of the loop. this is a classic scandal where almost every day or every few days another shoe drops. i said i think it could be as bad as watergate, and one of our veterans said, yeah, but nobody died in watergate, and they ve got a point. oh.there you go. wooohooo..hahaahahaha! i m gonna stand up to her! no you re not. i know. you know ronny folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are happy.
his trip overseas to keep a close eye on all the action. good morning, mike. reporter: good morning. deadlines, finish lines, where have we heard this before? this debate has stretched out for almost a year. the house was going to vote by the summer time then they were going to vote by the fall, then they were going to vote by the election. they actually did vote once and passed this bill narrowly, a version of it. now ever since that massachusetts election when the democrats lost their 60th vote in the senate, it s been touch and go. they think they have it this time, however they are still desperately scrambling, twisting arms to lock in the last votes. they need 216 votes and they are talking about a vote by the end of the week. the bill is displayed online for 72 hours so the public can see it. they hope to bring it up for a vote. the president has delayed his trip as you mentioned by three days. he was supposed to leave thursday for a trip to guam,