amon jarvis has been following developments from washington. what's the senate going to do this week, if we know? and what happens after that? >> i'll tell you what the plan is. what they're going to do is anybody's guess but the plan is tomorrow on thursday, mitch mcconnell and senate republicans will bring to the senate floor a measure that would be a short-term funding measure that would fund the u.s. government through december 11th. that measure, though, is going to have a rider on it that would defund manned parenthood. republicans upset about the abortion issue. they'd like to take that funding out of federal spending. democrats are not going to go for that. what's going to happen is that bill's going to fail and then they're going to bring up what's called a clean spending bill without the planned parenthood rider. that will likely pass and be kicked to the house of representatives by early next week. there is where speaker of the house john boehner is going to have tough decisions to make in terms of his republican conference and how t