because of those checkpoints, people have to expect long lines to enclose the security checkpoints right before the fireworks to make sure people can get in. i can tell you even though there aren t too many people out on the mall right now, plenty of officers walking around and checking the situation out. it will be full later today. that s for sure. diane gallagher thank you so much. public beaches in new jersey are back open today, just in time for the holiday. governor chris christie ordering all state beaches and parks to reopen this morning, after an 11th hour budget deal was reached ending a government shutdown. governor christie s reputation is sure getting tarnished after pictures showed him and his family relaxing an a beach he ordered closed to the public. the governor is defending his actions and slamming the media s reaction. sitting there with a baseball hat and shorts and a t-shirt, talking to my wife. if they had flown the plane over
no, just kidding. he was tired yesterday. we start with this. he was bent on jihad and he is no dummy. that s what the feds are saying after they arrested a man in an alleged plot to dive bomb the pentagon with remote controlled planes like these. the planes would be packed with explosi explosives. the suspect is an american muslim with a physics degree. brian todd with more on how his plot was foiled. federal authorities arrest ad 26-year-old man from ashland, massachusetts. in an affidavit he started his plot last year by buying cell phones, modifying them to act as electrical switches for ieds and giving them to people he believed to be members of al qaeda and hoped they would be used to kill u.s. soldiers overseas according to that document. but the people he was give thing equipment to were actually undercover agents from the fbi. authorities say that he then expanded his plot to use these. model planes. they say that he planned to use them like drones operated by remo
republicans have to deal with a $14 trillion question about raising the debt ceiling. that s the amount of money the country can legally borrow and we re about to hit our limit. brianna keilar live in washington for us. just when you thought everyone is holding hands and getting along after friday s big deal, we have a whole week of fighting ahead. i know. it seemed like a crazy week, but if you re a runner, that was the stretch, kind of the warmup, and here we go, kiran. take a look at week ahead of us. of course we have to tie up some of the loose ends from last week. we re going to be seeing that budget, the deal that was struck on friday night, filed tonight. what does that mean? we re going to see what the cuts are. something we haven t seen yet. then, members of congress will have the chance to read the bill through today, through tuesday, wednesday we ll see the vote on this in the house. we expect the senate to follow suit. on thursday, and then, if you can believe it, we ll
what you need to know is that the last couple weeks of april, congress is on recess, so this is really something that they re going to have a couple weeks in may to deal with. you have conservative republicans, michelle balkmchma not going to vote to raise the debt ceiling, because it gives congress the license to spend. but congress has obligations to make some payments and they re going to hit the debt ceiling no matter what. if the debt ceiling was not to be raised you re looking at the u.s. defaulting on loans, something that would affect all of us, increase interest rates, it would be, really, a bit of a financial disaster. it s a batter that has to battle that has to pull through congress but not going to be pretty. brianna keilar, in washington, thank you. moammar gadhafi reportedly ready for a cease-fire. the libyan government and the african union saying they have a deal on a road map to peace, their words, that ends fighting, allows humanitarian aid to be delivered and
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