southeast at 25 m.p.h. just about everybody else chicago area under a severe thunderstorm watch parts of the area under severe thunderstorm warning. southeastern counties northwestern cook county and northern dekalb, southwest of lake county in northeastern illinois warning into effect until 9:45 p.m. entire area extent of the severe thunderstorm watch in effect until about 1:00 in the morning, exciting to watch storms powerful storms took the advantage of unusual heat and humidity noticed the first storm moving east second line of thunderstorms behind, another hour or to keeping a close watch repeated most of chicago area under a severe thunderstorm watch parts of the area under a warning, a tornado warning and affect parts of the far western suburbs. top story chicago police warning sexual predator on the loose in the lincoln park neighborhoods. police working on this case for about three weeks with no luck so today decided to send out a community alert toward women and t
plan where a committee will be established to look for a long term fiscal reform . we aborts now from michigan democrat carl levin . and its ideology so extreme reeks economic havoc if these conservatives do not get their way . liberal democrats in the house like jesse jackson jr. and jan schakowsky did not vote yes for the bill and republicans kym johnson joe walsh and randy hultgren voted no for the bill . agreeing on a debt deal has been a long and stressful ordeal but the house was all smiles when gabrielle giffords made a surprise appearance on the floor to cast her vote for the first time since being shot in january she was given a standing ovation she voted in support of the bill . we were also blown away . there was not a dry eye in the house i whispered to myself welcome back i really didn t know her what a moment it was really amazing she made it . gabrielle giffords was shot in the head on january 8th outside the tucson grocery store where she was having a pub
clinton administration, has said that accused clinton of being an outsider, and other candidates, the former candidate james meeks has accused him of saying that clinton risks losing his standing among the black black community. of course, we heard that also during the 2008 campaign between hillary clinton and barack obama. one quick note, it s not only political star power that rahm emanuel has coming in for him, he s got a little celebrity star power. on friday, andy sandburg of saturday night live who, of course, portrays emanuel on saturday night live will be in for a fund-raiser friday afternoon. embracing the impersonation, i guess. all right, john, thanks. we ll see. and we ll see if what the emanuel campaign can get out of the obama white house. does he do a radio ad or phone call at the very, very end because he s so close to 50%.
that he s actually raised the risk of attack. well, i when i made that comment, i was concerned that the counterterrorism policies that we put in place after 9/11, that had kept the nation safe for over seven years, were being sort of rapidly discarded, or he was he he was going to attempt to discar them, things like enhanced trogsz b interrogation techniques, enhanced surveillance program. i think he also he obviously has been through the fires of becoming president and having to make decisions and live with the consequences and i think he s learned that what we did was far more appropriate than he ever gave us credit for while he was a candidate. so i think he s learned from experience. let s talk about the tragic shooting in tucson. well, i first heard the news, i was shocked i think like
remarkable progress. ready for this? doctors say she could be out of the hospital in a matter of weeks, perhaps days. plus i will continue to speak out. they re not going to shut me up. well, there you go. sarah palin defends her controversial response to the tucson shootings. also, former vice president take cha dick cheney speaks out about the tucson shootings and whether he ll have a heart transplant and president obama. i think he ll be a one-term president. it s tuesday, january 18th, 2011, i m chuck todd. savannah, it s a work day now in washington. we worked yesterday, but washington actually goes back to work today. and going through a lot of bad weather. kind of a tough commute for those on the east coast. we ll have more on that in a minute. tim pawlenty, likely candidate for president, will join us live. we ll begin on capitol hill and a day republicans have been waiting for. today they begin their attempt to repeal health care reform. kelly o d