medicaid, medicare, social security. and, of course, the interest on your debt. our jim acosta is live in washington this morning with more on it. so it s a hard thing to win, you know. oh, yeah. when the cuts came out, a lot of people were unhappy. on the flip side, a lot of criticism saying we re not going far enough. seems like it s hard for him to win on this one. that s right, kiran, but remember the president created a deficit commission but not setting up the recommendeddations from the bipartisan panel. and now if you look closely at the numbers, a bipartisan budget is nowhere in sight. if you spend more than you earn, you lose your butt. leave it to the famously plain spoken simpson of president obama s deficit commission to boil it all down. he says the president s budget is still drowning in red ink for one reason. politics, as usual. it ain t going away. this is a stink bomb in the garden party. yes, the $3.7 trillion budget
fast-tracked this case. the prime minister, as you say, has effectively been indicted on these charges. there are a lot of other things that could happen that could derail this trial before we get to the conclusion. the berlusconi defense team has been fighting all the way with this. he has angrily denied the charges, saying they re politically motivated. they re trying to bring in the legislature down in rome, saying that they have already voted in his favor on a related issue. so there s a lot of things that could go wrong in all of this. but the big picture, this is bad news for silvio berlusconi, another strep step to the trial going ahead and it will be sensational. we have already heard a lot of evidence, wiretap evidence of burr loss cony s friends and guests, painted lured picture of sex stories, all of which
experiencing some sticker shock at the grocery store, at the mall, pretty much everywhere you shop. in a matter of months, you will be paying more at the cash register for just about everything. who is raising their prices, and why? on this american morning. and good morning to you, thanks so much for being with us. it s tuesday, february 15th, glad you re with us on this american morning i m kiran chetry. and i m t.j. holmes. also coming up this morning, a lot of people talking about charlie sheen. he says he s ready to go back to work. but he also says crack is okay if you can manage it. just one of the strange things he said in an interview that a lot of people are talking about this morning. we re also going to meet a man who plans to run, literally, from the top of the planet to the bottom. north pole to south. two marathons a day for almost a year. we re going to find out how the heck he plans to do it, and most of all, why.
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so a brief warmup and now snapped with ael cooldown. the warm-up will return fairly quickly tomorrow with this stuff trying to build its way towards the northeast. but a chilly day today. a lot of these spots that saw temperatures last week in the single numbers, even below zero, with a couple of feet of snow are seeing temperatures rebound really nicely. north little rock yesterday, 73 degrees for a record high temperature. they saw about 6 inches of snow yesterday, northwestern parts of the state saw 2 feet. salt lake city, montana, connecticut. so there are a number of areas that are trying to warm up. trying to get back into that spring fever. but mother nature keeps throwing down these pulses of cold air across the northeast. new york and boston u in a delay because of the wind. and those areas will be suspect throughout the day today. also, san francisco maybe a little bit of rain and wind will slow you down there. 60 degrees expected for a high temperature. 60 in atlanta, a good