chris. look, he s been sort of in the center for a little while now, and i think the whole country wants to see him fighting. vis-a-vis, his comments at the cbc this weekend, where he said, look, we ve got to keep fighting, it was a call to arms in many respects. i think the quote that everybody s been showing is get out of your bedroom slippers and start marching. well, wait a minute, now that you bring it up, let s show it. here he is challenging members of the black caucus down here on their weekend. i don t have time to feel sorry more myself! i don t have time to complain! i expect all of you to march with me and press on! take off your bedroom slippers. put on your marching shoes. shake it off. stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. we are going to press on, we ve got work to do! cbc. do people still have bedroom slippers, alex? i mean, i sleep in a t-shirt.
embassy in afghanistan in kabul. two dead, one an american citizen. monitoring the situation from our bureau in abu dhabi. an apparent breach of security inside a heavily guarded complex in kabul. what do we know about it. reporter: bear in mind where this was. this was a part of the u.s. embassy compound and annex will many are working. one of the employees started shooting in various directions. he was later shot dead. his victims appeared to have been one u.s. citizen, also an embassy employee and another one injured, not life threatening and subsequently moved to hospital. has we don t know is why this happened. could it have been some kind of taliban plot? unclear. investigations are ongoing. or a personal dispute. how did this afghan get through security and carry this out? many questions but certainly a significant breach of security right in the heart of kabul s most secure area, ali. it s not the first time. we saw this attack a little while ago. hats going on wi
that the nation has been on brink of this kind of crisis. let s go straight to capitol hill, our congressional current kate bolduan baldwin is standing by. the ability to finally fand a way out of this impasse and to avoid this looming government shut down and how this could all come out has to do with the big focus on the fema funding. the additional funding for federal disaster relief that democrats and republicans wanted to put in this short term spending bill. fema came out today to confirm that different from their prior predictions, that fema may be able to stretch their disaster relief funds that are much depleted and could run out, but they said they could stretch the funds through the end of this week. this is different than prior predictions which many had said would be depleted by the beginning of this week. in a statement, i will read you just in part, wolf, quote, estimates from over the weekend indicate the disaster relief fund could be fully exhausted by the
while hiking. texas governor rick perry failed to live up to his front-runner s status this weekend. mitt romney won michigan straw poll by a 3-1 margin over perry. now, romney s father served as michigan governor in the 60s making the son somewhat of a home state favorite. in florida, herman cain took top billing. he drew twice as many votes as perry, with romney in third place. cain says he won because voters are beginning to notice his 999 tax plan. here s how he explains it. my plan is bold because it throws out the tax code and imposes a business flat tax of 9%, personal flat tax of 9%, national sales tax of 9%. it replaces all of the taxes that people are now having to grapple with and it provides search engine to the business community which is what they re looking for in order to grow this economy. governor perry jumped into the race for the gop nomination. that was just six weeks ago. instantly topped the polls but critics say that perry s debate performances
of our viewers. they were able to do this after all of this discussion and all of this fight over specifically inclusion of fema funding. additional fema funding of in the short-term resolution. what is happening right now, john, is there is going to be a series of two votes, actually. and it s a clean or simple and this basically is the measure that everyone basically agreed to. funding fema as well as not shutting down the government and it strips away all of the obstacles that had really been holding up the agreement to this point. the second measure that they will be voting on is actually here s the confusing part. a one-week extension. one-week short-term spending extension. and the purpose of this is simply the house is out this week, as you well know. if they can t get members back in time, or they can t get an agreement to pass it very quickly. they will need that one-week of funding to avert the government shutdown and get the house back in time to vote on this mea