no agreement. nor is there an agreement on a house republican push for a much smaller plan made up of spending cuts alone. if all else fails, we may end up with an idea floated by the top senate republican, mitch mcconnell. we laid it out for you. three separate votes between now and the next elections to raise the nation s debt by $2.5 trillion, and there would be $1 trillion in spending cuts and a special congressional panel to shore up entitlements, and the up side supposedly for republicans is keeping the issue alive for another year and blaming the president, who, by the way, is not ruling it out. it s constructive to say if washington operates as usual and cannot get anything done, let s at least avert armageddon. that s i m glad that people are serious about the consequences of default. i want to bring in my colleagues from the white house. dan, to you first. the president says the negotiations have not been ugly, as some have claimed, and he still has hope for a
australia at least eastern parts of australia, drastically affected by la nina or el nino. el nino they will get draught and fire and la nina, you obviously see the rainfall and the flooding there. what s been unusual about this lat n la nina event is now far south the rains and snows have gone into california. this would be more typical of a an el nino event. nonetheless, winter storm warnings are posted for the mountains around los angeles again today. 4 to 14 inches of snow at about the 2,000 foot mark. the grapevine, the 5 freeway north of l.a. is shut down until the snow begins to clear. seeing snow in las vegas. the temperatures there are about 35 degrees and snowing lightly around the vegas strip and at the airport. so that s pretty rare event. we might see a little bit pile up at least on the side of the roads and maybe the sidewalks and whatever grass is there. a little weak system is moving across parts of the northern