cruise on the carnival triumph. tonight the u.s. coast guard says a faulty fuel oil line caused the fire on board that knocked out the ship s engine. fuel sprayed on the a hot surface and that caught fire. that disabled ship stuck in the gulf of mexico for days, it left passengers with no air conditioning and incredibly unsanitary conditions. several passengers have filed lawsuits and a final report on that fire is still months away. a 6-year-old saves the day after fire rips through a building this morning. officials were told about the blaze just before 9:00. it caused extensive damage. two townhouses and minor damage to three others. officials say it was a 6-year-old who was visiting from out of town who was the hero. just before the fire alarms activated and just before the navy lodge called the emergency communication center a 6-year-old child who was a visitor at one of the units noticed the smoke and woke everyone else up in that particular residential unit. fi
now, that s no way to get it done. with both parties agreeing now is the moment to make this reform happen, will congress be open to obama s backup if the efforts fall short? it is a threat from the white house by saying, hey, if you don t do it, the politics get really bad for you very quickly, so hurry up and get something done. say good morning to our president s day political power panel, contributor jonathan caphart and an opinion writer for the washington post and angela reid, principle of impact strategies and msnbc contributor susan dellpurseo. you come in on president a days. let s dive in and get to work talking about this leaked proposal that came out. angela, i want to start with you. we have the timeline here and if we look at it, the president was scheduled to go to las vegas on january 29th and give his first policy speech of the second administration but we see that on the 28th the bipartisan group of senators, they came out with their plan trying to
first, charlie woke cameron up by jumping on his chest as a fire raged in his house in nova scotia last week. cameron says he got up and started looking for his cats. he said he collapsed by the door but felt charlie burning him out of the pulling house by his shoulders. cameron believe also the pooch rounded up the cats and herded them to safety. that does it for me. i m deb feyerick. thanks so much for spending your afternoon with us. the situation room with wolf blitzer starts right now. happening now, a teenager s excitement at seeing the president speak about gun control is marred by tragedy only hours later. her sister became a victim of gun violence. music fans shocked at the death of a troubled country star. we re now learning new information about mindy mccready s apparent suicide. plus, an explosive look at letters from don lemon s assassin to the police officer who arrested him. it turns out the music star wasn t his only target. i m wolf blitzer. you re
some saying the legislation is half-backed and seriously flawed and would make our immigration problems worse. from what you ve learned about what the white house has crafted, this rough draft, what s your first initial reaction? this is not anything new. again, we ve been hearing about this since the president s first policy speech. yeah. and i don t think there s anything new. i think it has to do more with the process. it s not what s in the content. but i think the legislative body is just a little jealous of making sure that the that congress works this first instead of the president moving on this. but if you look at it, at the end of the day, we do pass an immigration reform. a lot of the concepts are going to be very similar, both in the house and the senate. and what the president has been thinking about doing. when we look at what the white house immigration plan is specifically calling for, it is applying for a lawful perspective immigrant visa, permanent res