that provide services to me. reporter: with that in mind we now go to south carolina where earlier this morning rick perry was campaigning and he has been talking specifically about mitt romney s time at his former firm bain capital as a venture capitalist helping to build and grow companies very successful. occasionally some of those companies went under. why the investors may have made money people lost their jobs. rick perry, paring down on mitt romney in south carolina. listen. i have no doubt that mitt romney was worried about pink slips, whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out. because his company, bain capital with all the jobs they killed i m sure he was worried he would run out of pink slips. there is nothing wrong with being successful and making money, that is the american dream, but there is something inherently wrong when getting rich off failure and sticking it to someone else is how you do your business. i happen to think that that is indefensible.
we now go to south carolina where earlier this morning rick perry was campaigning and he has been talking specifically about mitt romney s time at his former firm bain capital as a venture capitalist helping to build and grow companies very successful. occasionally some of those companies went under. why the investors may have made money people lost their jobs. rick perry, paring down on mitt romney in south carolina. listen. i have no doubt that mitt romney was worried about pink slips, whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out. because his company, bain capital with all the jobs they killed i m sure he was worried he would run out of pink slips. there is nothing wrong with being successful and making money, that is the american dream, but there is something inherently wrong when getting rich off failure and sticking it to someone else is how you do your business. i happen to think that that is indefensible. reporter: for many of the would be conservative alternative
is the candidate still making money from layoffs? we re checking the facts. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room . captions by vitac www.vitac.com let s get right to the breaking news. a possible deal in the stalemate over extending the payroll tax cut for at least another two months, but potentially for the entire year. the year of 2012. we have all of our reporters standing by. let s go to our chief congressional correspondent, dana bash, he s up on capitol hill hill. for viewers just tuniing in, wht was just happened? what we expect is that the house republicans that they will not go for a short-term two-month extension of this payroll tax so that americans taxes will not go up on january 1st, we believe they are going to give in, back down on that and they will in fact go for it. this deal is being worked out, the final details of it as we speak. but our understanding, jessica yellin, kate bolduan and myself, basically what we re hearin
gabe ben myers body outside his home five hours after the shooting. police don t have any strong leads in this case. check out this x-ray. that is a two-inch diameter pole, two-inch diameter, from a chain linked fence. it went right through the skull of this guy who fell asleep behind the wheel and crashed. doctors call andrew lynn s survival a miracle. the pole just narrowly missed his spip. he talked about it on today with ann curry. i didn t see the x-ray until sometime later. but when i came to, after the surgery and everything, they told me what happened. i was i was pretty shook up, to say the least. i m very emotional. of course. and just scared, you know. but thankful that, you know, i was so lucky and fortunate. no kidding. get this. lynn is iraq war veteran who also cheated death in 2008 when a drunk driver nearly killed him in another car accident. the first wave of pink slips
all right. a look now at how youth sports can consume a family, both in time and money. but first, a look at today s top stories. providence, rhode island, becomes the city of pink slips. every single teacher in the public school system there will be getting one. providence, like so many cities, is struggling with budget issues and must cut a $40 million deficit in the school district by next year. the teachers are being told they can reply for available jobs, but there s no guarantee that they will actually be rehired. and it s cold in wisconsin, where tens of thousands of demonstrators are gathering again at the state s capitol in madison. they re protesting the governor s plan to limit collective bargaining. and there are new signs a compromise is in the works to avoid a federal government shutdown. senate democrats tentatively approved a republican plan to cut $4 billion in federal spending. the proposal would keep the government running for two weeks past the march 4th deadlin