about 40 negotiation sessions with the union and they came to an agreement, we were told nine days ago that members had to decide they were going to end their career, get the shot, or go on unpaid leave. we have had members retire, as of this morning 1700 on leave without pay and a very hard time staffing the firehouse this morning, there are fire houses, fire companies that are closed, there are many companies that are writing without the full contract-mandated number of firefighters on each one. when you see a fire truck rolled down the street, every person on that rig has a unique responsibility. in order for the other members to be able to do their jobs. when you start removing people from that rig when we assemble for fire, a regular fire s four engines and three trucks, they are coming from wherever depending on who is in and out of service, now we are having a miss mosh of understaffed rigs
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house. molly? reporter: hi, jon, yes. president obama spoke to the top republican and the top democrat in both the house and the senate when he was in hawaii before flying back here to washington. still no negotiation sessions have been set, at least not publicly, not formally. the president cut short his vacation, he left his wife and daughters there in hawaii and flew back here to washington to be here at the white house for any last minute meetings on the fiscalcliff. the vice president is scheduled to be here at the white house for meetings as well. over in congress the senate is in session, the first time either the house or senate has been in session for legislative business between christmas and new year s since 1970. and this morning the top senate democrat, harry reid, chided the top house republican, speaker john boehner, for not calling house legislators into session. speaker boehner should call members of the house back to washington today. he shouldn t have let them go
beef up security there. he also beefed up security at other u.s. installations around the world. he says those responsible for the violence in benghazi will be brought to justice. officials here say libyans are working with u.s. authorities on that. jon? jon: wendell goler at the state department for us today. thanks, wendell. jenna: from washington, d.c. we take you out to chicago. for the third day the strikes there. the thousands of parents scrambling for an alternative to the day care they got when their kids were in school. teachers are taking to the picket lines instead of to the classroom. steve brown live in chicago with more. steve? reporter: yeah, jenna, the indications we re getting from negotiation sessions, there is another one ongoing as we speak, that progress is not good. karen lewis, the chicago teachers union president described the progress at the bargaining table as millimeters while the two sides are kilometers apart. there are kids in chicago schools, just not i