of you. in chile, new fears for an already-frazled nation. residents run for their lives after a tsunami alarm. take your kid to work and let him direct air traffic? plus, al qaeda underground. our reporter gives you a tour of tunnels where terrorists lives. and suzanne malveaux tells us what the president wants from congress. students raising a ruckus about sharply rising tuition fees. the faa says children should be seen, not heard. our susan candiotti is covering the story. the debate over health care reform. there has been a whole lot of talk and very little action. now, president obama says it's time for lawmakers to simply vote. >> every argument has been made. everything there is to say about health care has been said. and just about everybody has said it. so now is the time to make a decision. about how to finally reform health care so that it works, not just for the insurance companies, but for america's families and america's businesses. >> president obama says he wants an up or down vote by the end of the month. that means a simple majority in the senate could create the biggest changes in health care in your lifetime. cnn white house correspondent, suzanne malveaux, joins us with a closer look. how is he urging members of congress to push this through? >> reporter: this is a put up or shut up moment, that's how white house aids see this. the president will travel next week and make his case directly to the american people, but what you will see in the next two weeks here is a push hear from the president as well as his aids, to make a push on congress, but members of his own party need to get together and pass the legislation with an up or down vote. what does that mean? it means reconciliation. the simple majority vote. it's not a word the president used yesterday, reconciliation, but it's a message he is delivering, for health care reform to be passed with or without republicans. >> it deserves the same up or down vote that was casted on welfare reform or the children's health insurance program, and that was -- that was used for cobra, health coverage for the unemployed, and, by the way, for both of bush tax cuts which had to pass congress with nothing more than a simple majority. >> reporter: something interesting the president said yes is what is at stake is whether or not washington can get anything done, or whether or not this president can get anything done. they want to move on here and pivot to creating jobs. aides know there is a politically risky move here, but that is why the president and his aides are trying to emphasize and say, look, you have the majority and have you to show the american people you can govern and push this thing through in the next two weeks. >> next week he will be traveling. he will go to philadelphia and st. louis, and taking the message to the american people. and the secretary of health and human services, kathleen sebelius, she is meeting with the heads of the big insurance companies. those are the companies they say they will get tough on. and those are the companies they say will ban some of the practices. that should be a very interesting meeting, what comes out of that here at the white house late krr this morning. >> thank you so much from the white house. tickets to a baseball game, that's at the center of a scandal with patterson. he accepted free yankee tickets for last year's world series. the case has been referred to authorities for a possible criminal investigation. they want to know whether he violated the gift ban and whether or not he lied about paying for the tickets. >> fed up with the rising cost of education. they are protesting higher tuition cuts in student services and reductions in funding for higher education. this is atlanta, georgia, where the university system plans a 35% tuition hike, and a possible $1,000 student fee. in colorado, lawmakers looking at cutting $1.3 billion in their budget, and higher education appears to be a key target. fees at california's community colleges are up 30% this year, and $1 billion plus is being cut from the state's university system. more nationwide demonstrations are expected today. an internet blog called studentactivi studentactivism.com said protests will happen in 30 different states. and there is so much stress on some teachers they say it's hard to teach. >> our teachers really work hard, because we have had such great success, and it's hard for them. they are staying here longer. they are in fear of what is next. >> it's too many students that will be without an efficient teacher, because you are stress the and you are thinking about the bills you have to pay and your mortgage, and your family. >> the california department of finance says funding for higher education is at its lowest level in at least 27 years. guess who will have to make up the difference? let's just say being you uc student gets more expensive this fall. one expert calls the rate hike remarkable and is putting students in the streets with protests signs. we will talk more about that this hour. nearly 100 teachers and staff were losing their jobs at a rhode island high school, and they could get their jobs back. the superintendent says she is willing to negotiate after the union for teachers promise to support reforms. >> this is a very hopeful moment for us, to be an indication that they understood the real models we are looking at. >> i don't think we were that far apart. in our proposal, we did say we were agreeable to a number of her six points, but it's really about the programs. >> 93 teachers and staff were fired after the district failed to reach an agreement with the teachers union on a plan to spend more time on test scores. the teachers's union filed a complaint with the labor relations board. we all heard of bring your child to workdays, right? one man took the idea a step further. an air-traffic controller in jfk in new york is under investigation for allegedly allowing his two young children to clear planes for takeoff. our susan candiotti joins us again from new york. >> both the supervisor and the controller are on paid administrative leave while the investigation goes on about the son and daughter taken into the control tower. he allowed his son and daughter to direct planes from that tower. it's fascinating to hear the tape. here, first the boy, talking to planes getting ready to take off. >> this is what you get, guys, when the kids are out of school. >> wish i could bring my kid to work. >> and the next day, the controller let his daughter get a crack at it. here is an audiotape of that. >> jetblue 57, contact new york departure. >> now, the faa is not amused, and in fact its administrator put out a statement yesterday in which he called the behavior totally unacceptable and said they don't condone it in any weigh, and the air traffic controllers association said they did not agree with it as well. >> what may be next in this case? 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