brooke, because they feel that history is on their side and that any time the discussions about tax cuts or more specifically tax hikes, any time they can paint democrats as wanting to raise taxes it s bad for democrats. and i just want to show you a quote from one of the top republicans to give you an illustration of how they re framing it on the republican side. this is from the number two republican jon kyl who said president obama s push to raise taxes on those earning more than $250,000 including 940,000 business owners, could not come at a worse time. friday s disappointing job numbers and the continuing crawl of economic recovery indicate job creators are still struggling yet the president would have these business owners pay more in taxes to pay more for government spending. they re trying to put meat on the bones and give specifics on who they re talking about, almost a million business owners, not just some hypothetical discussion but real people they say will be
her extended family was forced to take her off life support today. susan kand ycandiotti is standi in indiana where she s been following the developments and spoke exclusively to the man who found her. she s going to join us moments away. in the meantime, this has been a day of taking stock for victims of that deadly rash of tornadoes that hit 11 states. many of them lost everything. the extreme weather now has claimed at least 39 lives in kentucky, indiana, ohio, and georgia. this is west liberty, kentucky. it seems that no corner of this small town was spared. homes annihilated. trees plucked out of the ground. there are scenes like this all over the midwest and south today. the death toll from friday s storms, it has risen to 21 in kentucky, but despite extensive damage, we re hearing remarkable stories of survival. jim spellman is in the town of west liberty. jim? reporter: on the outskirts of west liberty, kentucky, tornado survivors return home. this was your hous
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cain says it s time to set the record straight. i will talk about all future firestorms. here s one thing people don t know about herman cain. i m in it to win it. i m not going to be discouraged. well, mary snow has the latest developments and mark preston is looking at the political fallout. mary, let s go ahead and begin with you. what caused cain to reverse course all of a sudden and decide to hold this news conference? you know, kyra, last week when herman cain railed against the press for bringing up these allegations of sexual harassment he was highly critical of anonymous users, but that all changed yesterday with a person who came forward who now brings a name, a face and specific allegations. and, you know, yesterday when sharon bialek had this news conference, herman cain s campaign came out with a general, broad statement saying that all allegations of sexual harassment against him were false. by last night, the campaign had started raising questions about s
about the occupy movement, occupy atlanta demonstrators getting some help from the martin luther king center. they are giving them classes on nonviolence. we will talk about why. and also, we will have reverend jesse jackson, joining the occupy atlanta movement in some way, he will be with us in studio this hour. let s get back to andy rooney and the news, that he has died at the age offed 92. just signed off from 60 minutes after 30 years did that with his last essay last month, done 1 00 or close to 1,100. been with cbs news 60 years all together, but he died after complications from a minor surgery. you may remember that. he had gone in for what was told us to as minor surgery but then developed complications within the hospital and now, the word is that he has died at the age of 92. our gary tuchman takes a look back at his extraordinary life. the funny thing is over the years, our opinion of how our hair looks best changes. i used to think i looked best with long s