simulator as a back drop, is now the center of the investigation. the chairman of the house homeland security committee who gets regular updates says an fbi team was on the ground after the investigation was formally declared a criminal case. there is a little bit of a national pride on the part of malaysia. but i would really hope they let our experts in that would do this stuff. to get to the bottom of this stuff this is too much of a mystery at this point. the malaysian authorities are nailing down the time line at 1:07 a.m. the jet s maintenance system sent out a regular update. at what is believed to be the final communication, they were told everything is okay. then, the transponder went dark, the next maintenance schedule was never sent, strongly suggesting it was also shut down. significantly, the plane was diverted as it transitioned from
let s go out front. i m erin burnett. breaking news, federal failure. gridlock reigns in washington once again. the payroll tax cut proposal passes the republican house. so why do we say failure? well, the republican bill included a controversial oil pipeline that the president has said he would veto. so pass, smash. we re at square one with congress playing chicken with the clock. there are just 18 days left until the tax cut expires. if it does, the average american will pay about a thousand dollars more in taxes next year. now, this may not be economic armageddon. but because the tax cut is popular for everyone, both parties want to pass it. so why are they failing? the bottom line, in one afternoon we found a way to compromise and get this done with the help of robert and williams at the nonpartisan tax policy center. here goes, what we call a decent proposal. if you extended the payroll tax cut for only people making under $75,000 a year, the price tag would be about $