Middle class families will have their lives disrupted in significant ways. Reporter meanwhile, away from the noise of political washington, sequester fears are real. From military bases in maryland. I try not to curse, but ive been cursing under my breath, trying to figure out how im going to get through this. Reporter to federally funded shelters in ohio. It is of great concern. The Emergency Shelter is funded with federal dollars. Reporter the white house acknowledges Homeland Security has released hundreds of undocumented immigrants as a result of the budget cut. And the air force is grounding the worldfamous thunderbirds. But the broad impact wont be felt for a while, if ever. One immediate effect, advertising gimmicks at d. C. Burger joints. Only in washington could you have a burger joint do a deal around automatic federal spending cuts. Reporter parks, museums, airports and buildings, hummed along, even as both sides maintained the blame game. Its happening because a choice that
So you see roadways a lot of times get this, have this happen. For houses like this, of course having somebody in the house at the time is quite tragic. Quite tragic and very rare. Randall orndorff, geologist with the u. S. Geological survey. Thank you for talking with us. Just to bring you up to date, youre watching pictures of the home in seffner, florida outside of tampa where jeff bush was killed on thursday night when a sinkhole opened up in his bedroom and swallowed his bed with him on it. Obviously very, very sad situation for the family as crews there have had to call off trying to recover his body. They are now demolishing the house, Getting Started on that, hoping to recover some of his personal effects before it works the rest of the day and tomorrow. Well keep an eye on the picture and update with developments. For now ill hand over with my colleague Candy Crowley and state of the union. X xxx can you feel it now . Today it happened. Budget cuts. Republicans chose this outc
Dickey tells us what is in store. Good morning, john and diana. Tracking a large storm system that will drift its way east as we head through the day. Two areas of heavy snow expected. Today into tonight from chicago into the ohio valley. Overnight through thursday night, some heavy snow across Northern Virginia into the midatlantic. Accumulations through today, a stripe of 6 to 12 inches from the twin cities toward chicago. With heavy snow again in central and Northern Virginia through thursday morning. John and diana, back to you. Our extreme weather team is tracking the storms every move. Theyll bring you the latest on good morning america. New developments now on north Koreas Nuclear program. China, the norths closest ally, has joined the u. S. In agreeing to new sanctions over last months nuclear test. The u. N. Security Council Meets later today. Secretary of state john kerry has tough words for iran over its nuclear program. Traveling in the region, he says time is running out f
Quickly as it would have. Unemployment will not go down as quickly as it would have. And there are lives behind that. And thats real. And its not necessary. Thats the problem. Reporter there is a way out of this, of course, scott, and thats for both sides to compromise. But in this conflict, neither side has shown any willingness to do that at all. Pelley thank you. It is a feature of this law that federal managers cant choose where to cut. The reductions must be across the board thereby eliminating both the wasteful and the vital. A few programs are exempt, however, and we asked nancy cordes to tell us where the cuts are coming. Reporter food stamp fund will not be cut. Neither will Childrens Health subsidies or medicaid. Democrats protected those programs for the poor and a few others when they were negotiating the sequester with republicans two years ago. And both sides agreed that military pay and benefits along with funding for veterans should be shielded from the budget ax as wel
Of government. The speaker of the house and leader of the senate and all those folks have responsibilities. What i can do is i can make the best possible case for why we need to do the right thing. I can speak to the American People about the consequences of the decisions that congress is making or the lack of Decision Making by congress. But ultimately its a choice they make. And this idea that somehow there is a secret formula or secret sauce to get Speaker Boehner or Mitch Mcconnell to say, you know what, mr. President , youre right, we should close some tax loopholes for the well connected in change for serious entitlement reform and spending cuts for programs we dont need, you know, i think if there was a secret way to do that, would i have tried it, i would have done it. What i can do is make the best possible argument. I can offer concessions. And i can offer compromise. I can negotiate. I can make sure that my party is willing to compromise and is not being ideological or think