killed the keystone pipeline and we had 20 year contracts signed. this has been going on since 2008. we had anywhere between 40 and 50 contractors at one time in our small community. the latest census data shows there is just under 500 people. 40 to 50 people in here building, good jobs. that is good. they re patronizing your grocery stores, your bars, your restaurants. they re going to church. it is a lot of money that went out of the community and, that is a small portion of what happened. you know, you mentioned, $18 million lost revenue to us, locally, annually, but on the bigger picture for the state of south dakota, that is $66 million a year in gross revenue just own the electric side. you have 2:00 1/2 million
that actual deadline. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live for us on capitol hill. what is the latest move and the latest committee, jon? reporter: moments ago, chris van hollen, democrat from maryland, who is a super-committee member, said as you get near the midnight hour tensions go up. there is a great deal of tension on capitol hill. late last night after a 2:00 1/2 hour bipartisan meeting that produced no results we caught up with massachusetts senator john kerry. take a listen to his tone. we re going to keep working. i ll talk and work till, you know, the last dog dies as they say. reporter: now today we know that super-committee republicans have scheduled two meetings. presumably democrats will be doing similar. there may be a little bit of back and forth from republicans to democrats and vice versa but there have been many, many meetings day and night in recent days and