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Treasury for those facing furloughs. he makes about $400,000 a area. so a pay cut for the president amounts to 5% to $20,000 is 5% of his salary. chuck hagel announcing this similar giveback as have several other members of congress in the obama administration. the democratic members of congress that are included in this are mark begich, eleanor holmes norton and also tammy duckworth. what does your gut tell you about this? do you think it will spur more members of congress to give up a portion of their pay? to go facebook.com/newsnation to vote there. we ll have an update on yesterday s gut check. new jersey lawmakers planning to investigate why rutgers didn t firemen s basketball coach mike rice earlier in a group of faculty members is calling on the state university of the members to resign. rice was fired yesterday after videotape surfaced that showed him roughing up players during ....
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covering today, critical talks on the debt that happening right now at the white house. and the horrifying terror attacks in norway, a bombing and a shooting rampage at a youth camp. we ll have details on the assaults and the suspect in custody. let s begin at the white house where president obama and congressional leaders are holding debt talks at this hour. president obama called the meeting after deficit negotiations came to a screeching halt yesterday. we have live team coverage. cnn s brianna keilar is at the white house. and kate bolduan is on capitol hill. let s begin with you, kate. what s going on on capitol hill where apparently a lot of the staff members are meeting. reporter: at this moment, they re meeting in the white house, congressional leaders and the president. as far as we know, the meeting is still ongoing. started just after 11:00 eastern time, of course. here on capitol hill, we re told that ever since this announcement really happened yester ....
time, right now what they are calling an emergency meeting. the president is demanding an explanation from lawmakers as to why republicans walk wied away m talks yesterday. we ll take you there live in just a moment. and also still developing this morning, the death toll from two terror attacks in norway continues to live. a suspect is under arrest. more information is emerging as well about who exactly he is and what his intelligences may have been. also, this triple-digit heat in the u.s. millions of people are trying to deal with this deadly heat wave. we ll tell you which states are suffering the most and when we can ever expect some relief. but, again, i need to go back to that still-developing story in norway. the death toll is now up to 92 after a pair of terrifying attacks have sent this entire nation of norway into shock. people are questioning, or, rather, police are questioning a man accused of planting a bomb in downtown oslo, and then opening fire at a ....
with only youth and killing them and they have no way to escape, that s a cowardless act. live to norway in a moment. and from britain, word that pop singer amy winehouse according to published reports there, was found dead in her apartment in london. no word yet on the cause of her death. her struggles with drug and alcohol abuse and mental health issues often made headlines and were the premise of her hit song rehab. the grammy award-winning singer was just 27. back in this country, u.s. house speaker john boehner says he will try to reach a debt deal with lawmakers instead of with president barack obama. boehner ended talks with the white house yesterday over tax hikes which republicans are refusing to consider in any deficit reduction plan. he and other congressional leaders then met with the president at the white house this morning. we ll have more on those talks in a live report straight ahead. about 4,000 faa workers could be furloughed today. congress ....