in this country, a new debt ceiling compromise seems to be getting traction in washington. six senators, three republicans, and three democrats are offering a plan to cut the nation s debt by about $3.7 trillion over the next decade. it includes spending cuts and about a trillion dollars in new tax revenue. republicans have insisted on deep cuts and no tax increases before they ll agree to raise the country s borrowing limit. that debt ceiling deds line is now just 13 days away. minnesota s three-week government shutdown is over. democratic governor park dayton signed a budget bill today. he and republican lawmakers finally agreed to use accounting gimmicks to close the state s $5 billion shortfall. republicans refused to raise taxes. the shutdown left 22,000 state workers without a paycheck. and memphis public schools may not open august 8th as scheduled because of a budget fight. the school board says no classes till the city pace $55 million. the board says the city ow
to buy it on the black market. this woman complains that a kilo of rice is 1,000 franks, four times the price it used to be. for now, there is enough food. these people are fed up with the chaos, the instability and the violence. they hope the worst is over now. dan rivers, cnn, abidjan, ivory coast. even as libyan opposition forces met with their supporters in doha, moammar gadhafi s forces showed no sign of stopping their offensive on the ground. gadhafi s tanks pounded misrata today. we are joined from benghazi with the latest. reza, you re in one part of the country. you ve been able to get information on what is happening in misrata. what are you hearing? reporter: during this conflict, most of the nightmare story have been coming out of misrata and those stories continue to come in and there s more and more accounts that
he has stressed that any of his troops found have committed crimes will also be punished. human rights watch published a scathing report by abuses carried out by pro-ouattara forces. gbagbo has been taken to an undisclosed location while the new government decides what to do next. senior international correspondent dan rivers is in the city and has new video showing the dramatic moment gbagbo was captured. reporter: the moment laurent gbagbo s enemy arrived at the gates of his palace. this dramatic new video shows troops loyal to alassane ouattara storming the final hiding place of gbagbo. heavy weapons explode as the men enter the compound and shoot their way into gbagbo s last refuge. when they found the man who had been defiant for five months refusing to give up his claim to the presidency, they put a
a lesson to all african leaders. senior international correspondent dan rivers is in ivory coast abidjan. he joins us now with more. the challenges ahead for ouattara are absolutely huge. there are militias roaming the streets of abidjan and elsewhere in the country that poses a threat to stability. how is he going to hand this will. reporter: it s going to be a fine balancing act, clearly not to inflame tensions further if they do go ahead and prosecute laurent gbagbo as they indicated they may do here. the picture here this morning in abidjan is one of a slight degree of normality beginning to return. we were hearing yesterday that there was extensive looting as there has been for almost a week now across the city. but this morning, there are people on the streets, some