good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, ooh-la-la. france s most powerful woman sticking her nose in america s business. it is sort of her job to do that. christine lagarde, head of the imf, had a doom and gloom message for washington today. economic recovery remains tepid, and downside risks have intensified. what we see is clearly a risk that confidence be eroded. and she didn t stop there. she took on president obama, too. in fact, she called his $3.8 trillion budget, which he says will reduce the deficit from 8.5% to 5.5% of our economy by next year as too rapid. among her suggestions, more infrastructure spending, housing initiatives and further extension of the emergency unemployment benefits. now, hey, we re all for ideas from anyone, but this did seem to be a pretty naked endorsement of the spend, spend, spend idea which is in vogue in lagarde s home country of france right now, where they plan to cut the retirement age from 62 to 60. here s
has the ruling put jet blew on the hook for allowing him to fly that plane? let s go out front. good evening every one. out front tonight, ooh, la, la, france s most porful woman sticking her knows in america s business. a doom and gloom message for washington today. economic recovery remains p tepid and down size risks have identified. what we see is clearly a risk that confidence be eroded. and she didn t stop there. she took on president obama, too. she called his $3.8 trillion budget which he says will reduce the deficit by next year as too rapid. among her suggestions, more infrastructure spending, housing initiatives and further extension of the emergency unemployment benefits. hey, we re all for ideas from anyone, but this did seem to be a naked endorsement of the spend, spend, spend idea which is envogue in france right now. well, here s how some of that has seemed to be working for france. the country s debt is now 90% of the size of the economy. many economis
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the house of representatives has already scheduled a vote to repeal health care reform next week. and senate republicans have pledged to repeal it if they take back the senate this fall. the conservative base is firmly aligned against the health care law. mitt romney is campaigning on a pledge to repeal and replace. just look at the sign on his podium. over the weekend, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell was dismissive when he was asked, what happens after repeal? what would his party do about the 30 million uninsured americans? that is not the issue. the question is how can you go step by step to improve the american health care system? it s already the finest health care system in the world. you don t think that 30 million what our friends you don t think that s an issue? let me tell you what we re not going to do. we re not going to turn the american health care system into a western european system. we get it. we know what you re not going to do. we kn
410,000 customers in west virginia didn t have power as of last night. ohio, 400,000 folks in ohio without. 340,000 in virginia, same deal there. power authorities and local governments say many of those people might be in the dark until this weekend. those people are going to have to deal with more soaring temperatures, 12 states under heat advisories this morning and the heat wave is forecast to last all week long. sandra endo is live in arlington, virginia, looks a bit of a mess behind you there. do people there have electricity? i m guessing not. reporter: not in this neighborhood, brook, it s been four days since the violent storm swept through this region. you can still see the devastation left behind. the power lines have downed because these toppled trees ripped the power lines from the tell phone poles and crushing car and struing debris about. this violent storm swept through this neighborhood. this area is without power as are tens of thousands of people sufferin