bunning: thank you, mr. president. ret me begin by addressing -- let me begin by addressing some of the arguments made by the other side of the aisle against my amendment. first, the senator from illinois said that this would cause a needless delay in extending these programs. potentially causing a protracted negotiation with the house. with all due respect, that's nonsense. we all know the house can act very quickly. in fact, they did so when they sent this bill, h.r. 4691, to us. and the house has already passed my black liquor offset. i want everybody to understand that we pay for the extension of unemployment benefits, cobra assistance, health care assistance, so everybody's covered. in the larger bill that we are dealing with on the floor, the one we took off the floor to address this amendment and this bill, also extends these provisions longer than just a month. the highway bill, the doc fix on medicare, the small business loans that we heard about that we are destroying with our objections, and the satellite --

bunning bunning: thank you. as the good senator from illinois knows, there is no need for a conference since the house has already passed this bill and has already passed the language in this amendment. i am very sure that they would be willing to accept their own bill back paid for. he mentioned the fact that i objected four times. i objected more than four but the majority leader objected four times to my request. that was nowhere in his statement. and talking about medicare part-d premiums and the cost of medicare part-d, the majority party in this senate has had three years to repeal medicare part-d. if it was a bad idea at the time we passed it, then certainly with 60 full votes in the u.s. senate, they could have repealed what they consider a bad bill. the fact that it was not paid for was not to my liking. the fact that we were going to take care of medicare senior citizens who couldn't afford their prescription drugs took precedent. he spoke about the letter from the governor of kentucky. i didn't receiv

bunning has already had two pretty tough races. that's sort of the underlying conflict sort of behind the scenes. it's very interesting today when a lot of this debate came up in the senate and everybody is talking about bunning's objection and both sides are talking about that. mcconnell got up at one point during the morning session and gave a speech on health care. not even acknowledging that any of this was going on around him. just feet away. >> ifill: does mean that jim bunning is basically standing aalone on this idea on stopping this bill. >> if not alone pretty close to alone. jim demint came on, another republican came on this afternoon and praised him for his courageous stand. but the fact of the matter is when you're dealing with unemployment benefits there's a lot of anxiety out there. the phones are ringing off the hook. i can tell you from experience i've been in washington a long time. my phone at the louisville journal washington bureau has been ringing off the hook. people are calling me because they can't reach o

and senator bunning says, no. let's take 10 billion from the stimulus law from last year that hasn't been spent yet, use that to offset the programs. >> as the objection continues, what is harry reid's strategy going forward? how is he going to work around it? >> he has two strategies. one keep making what they call unanimous consent requests and seeking to pass the bill quickly, forcing senator bunning to come to the floor and object to it. democrats believe this is politically great for them to see a republican objecting to really popular programs. then reid's second thing he is doing he has got a bigger bill on the floor, about $150 billion bill, that extends a lot of these programs for longer times. unemployment insurance and cobra subsidies through end of the year. it extends so-called doc fix for physician payments and medicare for seven months. he has short sort of a short term track he is using politically and they have got the longer term bill on the floor for most of the week. >> back to jobs for a secon

bunning isn't taking any questions. >> excuse me. this is a senator only elevator. >> devastation in chile. the death toll from saturday's quake passes 700. looters take to the streets. as aid slowly trickles in. the race to find survivors continues. all of the news and commentary now on "countdown." >>> good evening from los angeles. cobra, the health insurance benefits americans are allowed to keep even after they have lost a job passed by budget reconciliation. the program got its strange name, in fact, from the first letters of the title of the bill it was contained in. the consolidated omnibus budget reconciliation act of 1986. the children's health insurance program known as s-chip without which more than 7 million children would not be covered passed in a budget reconciliation bill. cancer screenings, hospice benefits, protections for patients in nursing homes all paid for by medicare all passed by budget reconciliation. an npr analysis has concluded that over the past three decades almost every major health financing measure

here's bunning on the floor today.isten. >> if we can't find $10 billion to pay for something that we all support, we will never pay for anything on the floor of this u.s. senate. i have offered several ways to do this, including trying to negotiate with the majority leader staff. none have been successful. >> jay, what's the problem here? this guy, jim bunning, i've always rooted for him, a great philly pitcher and hall of famer in both leagues. what is this guy trying to do? by basically trying to threaten a filibuster, a one-man filibuster? >> he's trying to underline the democrats haven't paid for this $10 billion -- >> so they're borrowing from the chinese, right? >> it's hypocritical. he voted for all kinds of -- he voted against pay-go, but voted for all kinds of unpaid things like the bush tax cuts. so now he's drawing a line arbitrarily. where it really makes a difference is people are losing unemployment benefits, health insurance, jobs. >> he's being particular about what he finds offensive in terms of defic

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senate. >> reporter: bunning suggested using $10 billion in unspent stimulus funds. democrats said no. >> mr. president, i object. >> reporter: many of bunning's colleague as grew with him how congress will explain how it will spay for the spending. >> virtually everyone approves of extending those benefits, including bunning but a deal expected to be worked out. in the meantime those who see the benefits run out will simply have to wait. >> as we saw, thanks, jon. we head to capitol hill to pennsylvania avenue. when the president gets a physical, the whole country compares the numbers. for instance, blood pressure, great. cholesterol -- jake tapper hat the white house with the first physical. >> reporter: the president appears to be in great shape, but his doctor is concerned about this ldl, so-called bad cholesterol, level at 138, up 42 points since 2007 and rated "borderline high" by the american heart association. the national average is 114.8. the white house blamed it on a white house chef at his beck and call. >> you guys think he eats car r rots and celery, a

the longer bunning holds out.ction also forced the furlough of 2,000 department of transportation workers. he brought millions of dollars worth of highway and bridge projects to a screeching halt. he cut medicare reimbursements to doctors by more than 20% and he even threatened the tv signals of 500,000 people living in rural areas who receive broadcast channels through a special government deal with satellite tv companies. and even though furloughed federal transportation workers and doctors who treat senior citizens on medicare and americans who will lose their local tv signals and their unemployment benefits have reasons to be peeved with senator bunning, it is senator bunning who is angry. he's angry about all the media attention he's getting for doing this and he's angry about his right to ride alone in a very special elevator. >> excuse me. this is a senator-only elevator. >> can i come on the elevator? >> no you may not. >> can you tell us why you're blocking this vote? >> i already did explain it. >> well,

bunning was on the floor talking about his views.rity leader harry reid with some latitude how he might procedurally get around this. vice president biden among those who have been critical of bunning, a republican of kentucky. he's not seeking re-election. his basic beef, he says the extension of unemployment benefits, the highway money and other things that are in this package should be paid for not adding to the deficit. well, harry reid countered saying where was bunning when, for example, wars in afghanistan were put forward without being paid for. this is an example of how one senator can slow things down. it's politics, a bit of procedure and a lot of attention on this. it's likely it will be worked out, a permanent fix will be voted through. that can happen in a matter of days. bunning has gotten a lot of people's attention and brought some curiosity to this issue as well as a lot of fire from critics, even from some republicans who have been frustrated by this as well. tamron. >> kelly, that you very much. greatly appreciate

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bunning held up the bill because democrats hadn't come up with a way to pay the $10 billion price tag. >> we cannot keep adding to the debt. >> but where was my friend from kentucky when we had two wars that were unpaid for during the bushed a men vags? >> reporter: under senate rule, any member can object to moving forward on legislation. just last month, another republican, richard shelby, employed a similar tactic. but that only held up a few dozen presidential appointments. >> when the victims in the middle of the debate are unemployed people, i don't think that's fair. >> reporter: and republicans blame democrats for not bringing up the bell much sooner. both sides are working together to try to restore benefits over the next two weeks, and by the way, michelle, bunning is not running for re-election. back to you. >> tara mergener in washington. thanks. >>> just ahead on the "morning news," the u.s. postal service proposes some big changes. >>> plus, jay leno gets back in the saddle as host of the tonight show. but first, katie couric has a preview of the "cbs evening news." >>>

let's look what joe biden had to say about senator bunning today.eagues is standing on the floor of the united states senate as we speak. he's standing there and he's preventing the senate from being able to move forward on doing the kind of thing we're doing here today. what's that mean? 400,000 people will be kicked off the roles this month if he has his way. >> big, fat target. not running for re-election, fighting with his own party, fighting with his own fellow kentucky senator, the leader of the senate, mitch mcconnell. >> well, look, this is a disaster for 400,000 people that are going to lose their benefits, also a potential political disaster for the republican party. they know it. that's why they're going to stand up this week and try to do something about it. although the fact that they ever let him get way with this in the first place is unbelievable. number two, pat, i used to represent a number of blue dog democrats and they won. the way they won -- i tell you, chuck robb won in 1994 when everybody, including you, thought he was going

i say, god bless senator bunning.when you take into account the unfunded mandates that we have due to these so-called entitlement programs, we are more than $78 trillion in debt. we can't afford this and non stop spending, whether it comes from the republican side, democrat side. we've got to stop this. we are flushing ourselves down the toilet. our nation is in trouble physically and anyone who stands up, no matter what their party affiliation, and says no more spending, i am holding these up, blocking it in the senate or the house, is a hero. host: of texas, brady on the independent line. caller: i would like to agree with the last caller. the spending has got to stop. we have gotten so far out of control that it is unreal. i am with him. anybody who will stand up and stop it -- and i thank you for your time. host: savannah, georgia, steve on the democratic line. caller: these republicans are the worst hypocrites, i mean, in the world. i am talking about in the world. they say one thing when the situation favors the

bunning: and were granted. mr. schumer: that was granted and then we go back and everyone get their full allocation of morning business, and that was granted. there was no intention that the quorum call take against either side. mr. bunning: but that's the normal procedure, isn't it? mr. schumer: i understand. the presiding officer: is there objection? without the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: i ask unanimous consent to use time from morning business on our side. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: madam president, right now families across my home state and the entire country want nothing more than to see us come together and pass meaningful help for the people that they see struggling every day. they want to see help for people like their neighbors and friends and family members who, through no fault of their own, have found themselves out of a job and de

but was senator jim bunning's stand a principled one or just political hypocrisy? chile, picking up the pieces in a town devastated by three successive tsunami waves. a levee rural route from the ground. and with so much attention being paid to seaworld and the killer whales, tonight we look at the big money world of exotic animals, held captive, trained to perform for humans, but is it really humane? passionate arguments on both sides, we'll take you up close. those stories and much more tonight on "a.c. 360." >> larry: that's "a.c. 360" at 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific. back to glynn martin with our exhibit, and our panel assembled here in l.a. we'll move to the marilyn monroe exhibit. why that exhibit, glynn? she was not murdered. >> no, she was not. nonetheless, this was a case where somebody lost their life in los angeles. it is a case of enduring public interest and we thought it important to display a photograph. >> do you -- do you have any link between her and robert kennedy, as has been so often written about? >> i'm sorry, larry, i missed that part? >> lar

senator bunning under fire for this unemployment benefit issue.arlier we showed you with jonathan karl from abc news and him closing the elevator door on him. but i've got to tell you, it just seems, meacham, it just seems like now's not a good time for people to be cut off from their benefits. and can't they agree on just this? isn't this the kind of thing that keeps people from the brink? and aren't we at a time in this country where so many people are? >> absolutely. and i think that this is -- i think the reports of washington's dysfunctionality are overdone. i think there's often a reflection of what we want in our own conflicted view of public life. however, if you want a case against the easy man's filibuster -- >> yeah. >> -- this is it. this ain't mr. smith goes to washington. he's not standing there and making some noble point. he's done a technical thing. and then he goes about his business. and so i think that if you're going to take the stand on principle, then filibuster it the way they meant for filibusters to be. >> i think a reall

bunning: mr.dent? the presiding officer: under a previous order, the leadership time is served. there will now be a period of morning business until 3:00 p.m. with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. mr. bunning: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from kentucky. mr. bunning: thank you. just a brief explanation of why we are where we're at with this extension bill, the brief extension of 30 days. there was an agreement between the majority leader of the finance committee and the minority leader in the finance committee, senators baucus and grassley, on a three-month extension of these very same provisions. there were more provisions in the bill also. it cost a little more than the the $10 billion that is asked for because it was a three-month extension. senator reid pulled that bill from the floor of the u.s. senate. he did it. the leader of the democrats pulled that bill from the floor. i support extending unemployment benefits, cobra benefits, flood insu

that's exactly what jim bunning of kentucky has done. right now, he's virtually standing alone. >> i hope the american people understand my serious objections. >> republin jim bunning is blocking a $10 million 0-day spending bill because it isn't paid for. >> we cannot keep adding to the debt. >> we don't need lectures here on debt. what we need to recognize is there are poor people all over america who are desperate today. >> 400,000 people are suddenly in danger of losing unemployment insurance extensions. funding has been frozen, 2,000 transportation workers furloughed. and now the state transportation departments are bracing for trouble. >> without those reimbursements we have no tax flow. without a timely reimbursement, we have serious cash flow problems. >> vice president biden lashed out. >> at a time when so many families are in so much pain, we shouldn't be shutting off the few valves of relief that are out there for people. >> democrats are working on a way around senator bunning's roadblock. unlike this funding crisis, though,

senator bunning refused to yield to that. so as of this morning we have a standoff, 1 million unemployed workers, temporarily without unemployment and health insurance benefits, and vice president biden, bill, stepped up the pressure on senator bunning's actions. >> exceeds 1 million people, 1 million people next month will be thrown off the unemployment rolls, 1 million people will be thrown into -- with nothing but what i would call despair. >> reporter: republican senator jon kyl of arizona tells fox news his fellow republican colleague senator bunning is correct in saying the bill should be paid for. kyl says, and he points to congress just passing the so-called pay-go legislation, which is supposed to require that congress find offsets or other savings if it's going to spend any money in the future. bill: kelly, just to be clear, bunning is not opposed to paying out the money to americans that need it but he is asking where it should come from and his suggestion is there's unspent hundreds of millions of dollars if not b

bunning is, undoubtedly, right. they should be able to find what a $10 billion offset to finance this. but you're raising more important points. i want people to hear this. you're saying stimulus is raise, unemployment and i think you're saying longer we have for unemployment, the compensation benefits with worse the unemployment rate. do i have that right? >> absolutely. i quote the federal reserve, the latest minutes, they say they probably added tryst a percentage point. they punched it up. larry summers himself said unemployment is 1.5 percentage points higher than we can explain by the usual gdp figures. and alan kruger in the treasury department did research on the subject and the oecd says the evidence is clear. if you subsidize something, we're subsidizing long, extended periods of unemployment and we're getting what we pay for. >> alan, let me get through this. we used to -- we used to have unemployment benefits for six months. now it's grown to, what, 18 months or longer? >> it was 18 months until november

almost $200 million is being held up all by senator jim bunning. moments ago bunning got into this exchange with majority leader harry reid. >>> i hope republicans will reconsider and think about their constituents standing in the unemployment line as we speak. >> if we can't find $10 billion to pay for something that we all support, we will never pay for anything on the floor of this u.s. senate. i have offered several ways to do this, including trying to negotiate with the majority leader staff. none have been successful. >>> again, bunning is mad that the unemployment benefits the senate wants to pass will not be paid for. so what he's done is put a hold on some government spending starting with the department of transportation that's affecting a lot of infrastructure projects, even a drunk driving program and causing the d.o.t. to start furloughing workers. the battle between bunning and the white house is intensifying with real consequences. >>> president obama is meeting with defense secretary robert gates to discuss a major reversal of the b

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lawyer from senate majority leader, harry reid, and senator bunning. >> every night, too many out of work nevadans and americans, people who want to work and need to their families, but can't find a job go to bed with at least the comfort of having unemployment insurance and health benefits. but last night, more than a million of them, people throughout america went to sleep lying on those benefits, woke up without the confidence they will be there now. early this morning, when they would rather be spending their mornings working, mothers and fathers in every state woke up at the unemployment office in a long line. news reports today said these lines are really long today all over the country. from virginia to nevada to kentucky. they are long because these people are worried about how they're going to put food on the table and pay bills. for far too many americans, those benefits were set to expire last night. so six times last week, democrats asked to one extend by working on an extension. six times, republicans said no. they didn't just say no to us, that is the members of the sen

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i urge my colleagues and defeat the bunning amendment.its these people have been waiting for and they are worried they may not receive. it will mean more and more people will fall out of coverage and health insurance and it will mean the medicare services won't be available to the seniors across the nation when the doctors decided they are not being reimbursed. those are the basics of this bill. revenue source senator bunning uses is included in the jobs bill before us as soon as this matter is over. if you believe helping to pay for unemployment benefits we should use this source as the finance committee suggested and i certainly agree with you will have ample opportunity to do that immediately after we pass this bill. in the meantime let's waste no time, no effort making sure these people across america get the helping hand they deserve and i yield the floor. >> the senator from kentucky. >> how much time do i have reserved? >> 70 minutes and 25 seconds. >> thank you. as the good senator from illinois knows there's no need for a confere

bunning says the bill would add $10 billion to the budget deficit. saturday mail delivery could soon be a thing of the past, as the post office struggles with $7 billion in red ink. the postmaster general told congress today he wants to cut back to just five days of delivery and hike postal rates to combat the agency's growing red ink. >> susie: on friday, lawmakers are expected to roll out a bill to reform the nation's financial system. a key element is a new agency to protect consumers against things like credit card and mortgage fraud. senator chris dodd is proposing to put the federal reserve in charge of that consumer protection unit. other democrats are opposed; they want it to be an independent agency or based at the treasury. i asked dallas fed bank president richard fisher about that: can the fed really be a watchdog for consumer interests? >> i think we can always do a better job at anything we dochl we're working hard to do a better job on this front we i think we're doing a better job, we're trying to do well. it will be up to the congres

bunning: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ken cefnlt. mr. bunning: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that pending amendments be set aside so i can call up my two amendments which are at the desk and that the reading of the amendments be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will report the amendments. mr. bunning: thank you. the clerk: the senator from kentucky, mr. bunking, proposes amendments numbered 3360 and 3361 to amendment number 3336 en bloc. mr. bunning: thank you, mr. president. anyone who has paid attention to the floor of the senate for the last week knows what my amendments are about. i am offering senators two ways to pay for this spending bill. first of all, i'd like to submit for the record the c.b.o. scoring of this current bill that is before us. both the scoring and the offsets offsets -- i ask unanimous consent that they be put into the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. bunning: the first amendment is with unspent stimulus funds, and the second is by shutting down unnecessary or duplicate

once again today, republican center jim bunning has broked an extension of the jobless benefits and health insurance subsi subsidies. he wants to make it clear his move is not a filibuster. >> a filibuster is when you stand on this floor and you talk and talk and talk. i have not done that. >> but he's made his stand. i think it's wrong, as does the american people, as does, i'm sure, the people of kentucky. >> senator bunning's office says his phones are ringing off the hook in washington and in kentucky. aides say constitch wuents are frustrated. bunning said the extension will add $10 billion to the federal debt and he wants it paid for. >>> montgory county executive ike leggett sports an increase in maryland's alcohol tax. on wednesday, leggett plans to join a board coalition of maryland citizenso push for an increase. maryland has not raised the tax on beer and wine since 1972 and the liquor on spirits hasn't gone up since 1965. >>> president obama is calling on congress to pass instant rebates for people who take steps to make their homes more energy efficient. he announced the new p

the caller mentioned senator bunning.ng up this legislation, and then we will come back and show you what senator harry reid had to say. >> i support extending unemployment benefits, cobra benefits, flood insurance, i will fix, small business loans, network television for satellite viewers. if we can't find $10 billion to pay for something that we all support, we will never pay for anything on the floor of this u.s. senate. i have offered several ways to do this, including trying to negotiate with the majority leader's staff. none have been successful. we cannot keep adding to the debt. it is over $14 trillion and going up fast. host: senator jim bunning, republican from kentucky, talking about why he has stopped this extension of tax provisions, including unemployment insurance, " or insurance, and other tax provisions from going forward in the senate. this is "the baltimore sun" on how can one senator do this. this is a side story. in a q&a on the side of the story, this is not truly a filibuster out of mr. smith goes t

. >> kentucky senator jim bunning k[7 refused to stop his one-man blockade of be spent in the bill.ds of transportation workers without pay, and nearly 4000 people close to losing unemployment >> the question i've been asking mostly is, why now? well, why not now? >> this public spectacle is not helping republicans. susan collins became the first gop lawmaker to publicly ask him to back down. >> on behalf of the numerous members of the republican caucus that have expressed concern to me -- >> democrats are trying to score points without appearing to be too political. >> the majority of the senate disagrees with you. >> is there an objection? >> there is, i object. >> objection is heard. >> both parties are trying to find a compromise that close -- that satisfy senator bunning. >> still to come, a massive fire destroys a dallas strip mall, keeping firefighters busy for hours. >> the cat in nat is reading to students at school and you know it has to be doctors use today. reading events are happening all over our area. >> and a >> a trash truck driver's mistake cost eight baltimore fam

host: what do you make of senator bunning's stand over the weekend? he did not want to move forward on what was a pretty pop the bill because he was concerned about paying for it. guest: what a radical notion inside the beltway that you should actually pay for something? we are not oblivious to the fact that we, unfortunately under the policies of this president and this democratic congress, we are still mired in roughly double digit unemployment. so many members of congress clearly want to continue to extend forms of unemployment insurance. but at the same time, one of the things hindering job growth today is a there is no path to fiscal sustainability. one of the reasons -- and i talked to small business people all over the fifth district of texas that i have the honor of representing -- and they have anxiety and uncertainty about how will this spending be paid for. are there going to be massive tax increases on my small business? are we going to have massive inflation, to where we look longingly and nostalgically on the carter era with double-digit

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the fact is that is senator jim bunning, republican of kentucky. i want people to keep it in mind what they're dealing with and what they're up against and who they're up against. so, the senate ended up passing the bill. voted 78-19 on tuesday night to pass legislation extending unemployment benefits, highway funding and other programs for one month, bringing the one-man crusade to filibuster the bill. the fact is, the filibuster resulted in thousands of federal workers being furloughed and interruption of unemployment benefits. it hurt people, people that are without money because of this. and that was incredibly unfortunate, but i think americans in this great democracy of ours, you can express yourself at the ballot box and let people know that and let people know what happened, how it happened and who did it. i just want to mention, mr. speaker, that over 200,000 jobless workers will lose unemployment benefits this week or are scheduled to lose unemployment benefits last week and it didn't happen because we narrowly avoided it. there was a bre

that's senator jim bunning, a republican from kentucky. he's blocking a $10 billion spending bill that would extend unemployment benefits among other things. he says he is not opposed to the bill itself but that he doesn't want the cost to add to the deficit. despite pleas from democrats and republicans today, bunning is holding firm in his position. >> let us either vote on that or withdraw your objection. >> is there objection? >> there is. i object. >> objection is heard. >> the block has forced 2,000 federal employees into furlough. it's stopped more than 40 highway projects. senator mitch mcconnell, the top republican in the senate, says he's working with democrats to set up a vote that would pass that legislation. >>> two years ago the supreme court struck down d.c.'s handgun ban. now the city of chicago may be next. chicago has outlawed guns since 1982, but the court's d.c. decision led to an immediate challenge of the law in chicago. the question is whether the earlier decision affects only the district or whether it can bepplied n

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republican senator jim bunning blocked a bill. >>> well, copper prices are surging as a result of that massive earthquake in chile. chile is the world's biggest copper scomborter. exporter. there are concern that supplies ardisrupted temporarily and that sent prices jumping more than 5%. >>> investors will try to figure out where the economy is headed. the biggest hit may come friday with the monthly jobs report. the companies have slashed another 20,000 jobs from their payrolls february. stocks have had no clear direction in recent weeks. the dow fell 77 points last week. >>> at the movies, another win for "shutter island." the psychological thriller with leonardo dicaprio took on $22 million. the movie "cop out" in second place. and "crazies" third. >>> and the president would probably rather keep a secret. and the skwak zone. >>> and close call. a police officer in the path of an out-of-co >>> now, for a look at morning road conditions. windy with snow-covered highways in the northeast. rain on i-10 from texas, louisiana, mississippi and alabama. and snowy roads in the southern rock

>> senator bunning said the $10 billion extensions will be paid for by cutting spending errors rather than acrewing new debt. was he right or wrong? >> well, we moved on to a new bill. we had that vote yesterday. everybody vote indeed our final passage. as well as you can the you been in the public is still so much against this, why are they pushing this bill? >> it's a stunning thing. i am hard-pressed to answer that question. i remember how difficult it was just taking the medicare cuts alone. just part of the unpopularity of this bill. i can remember how challenging it was for us to explain in 2006 don't hold me to the exact number but 10-20 billion reduction in the rate of increase of medicare over five years. explain that. we're talking here, ladies and gentlemen, about a half a trillion dollars over the next 10 years takeover objections of hospitals, of hospice. of med this is politically toxic in the extreme. and it's not being used to make medicare solven't, which is going under in seven years anyway,but to use it as a piggy bank for something else, look -- and i'm not suggest

did last month in the end, however, democrats passed the extension despite bunning's objections.ell, the weather over an active volcano clearing up another for scientists to get a closeup look at the eruption. it's our top story as we go around the world in 80 seconds. iceland. research crews discovering the volcano's opening is more than 500 yards in length. that's where all the action is taking place. authorities have allowed nearly all the 600 people who live nearby to go back to their homes. but they are still concerned this eruption could trigger another larger volcano nearby to blow. with all the ice in the region that could cause major flooding. peru. heavy rains forcing hundreds of people from their homes in central and eastern parts of the country. many of the families stuck on hill s dz right above a swollen river. flooding washing away nearly 20 miles from a highway. contaminating drinking water and ruining crops. norway. more than a dozen railway cars breaking loose from a cargo train and crashing into a port terminal in oz low. the wreck killed three dock workers. on

bun passenger snapped this shot of the massive plume of smoke and ash. the exmroegs shot the cloud into the air. >> i guess they thought there was some nuclear bomb going off. well. >>> a bizarre chase yesterday through the streets of southern california. >> yeah. this is strange. about a dozen wild horses broke free from their corral. they galloped across parking lots and intersections for nearly two hours before border patrol officers managed to round them up. the horses were eventually coaxed back into their pens. no one was hurt. but what a show. >>> and another wild sighting yesterday. this one in new york. >> police in manhattan cornered a coyote that's an eluding them for weeks. just when it looked like they had things under control, the coyote vanished in the crowd. >> we've been hearing about the coyote sightings in new york city. there's the little guy. scared it looks like. >>> up next, we'll update the breaking story from capitol hill overnight. a new delay in passing the health care bill. >>> and dangerous times for support of the bill. the

republican jim bunning of kentucky. he says he's all for extending the benefits but as long as the $10 billion package is paid for. and he's vowing to keep fighting as long as it adds to the deficit. >> reporter: i'm ed henry at the white house. this week president obama will be in don lemon's neck of the woods, georgia. he's having a town hall meeting in savannah on tuesday. this is all about the president trying to get out into middle america, keep the focus on jobs and the economy. but that's a tricky balancing act as the president also pushes this week for a health reform deal. democrats on capitol hill are getting very nervous that the focus is getting too heavy on health care. they're warning the president privately, i'm told, that unless he gets a health deal done by the end of march they're going to have to move on to other issues in this midterm election year. >> reporter: i'm poppy harlow in new york. here's what we'll be tracking this week on cnn money. the all-important jobs report is friday. investors are g

the boys were o corralled at bun and restrained. >> reporter: late monday police arrested a 56-year-old and 53- year-old after one of the longest missing person's cases ever in new jersey. at the time of the crime, evans told police he dropped the boys office at a street corner near an ice cream parlor. >> i have always felt that he was responsible. >> reporter: helen collected every newspaper article since her nephew michael disappeared. >> it doesn't change anything. that's the sadness of it. >> reporter: the abandoned house was detried in the blaze. five bodies were never found. >> the motive was a result from marijuana being stolen from the boys a few days earlier. >> reporter: the break in the case came when a witness with direct knowledge of the murders came forward. police said they never looked at the matter as a homicide but always treated it as a missing person's case. lindsay davis new york. >>> a new york man has been sentenced to life in prison for a 1999 rape in maryland that was found after dna evidence. investigators noticed dna from the victim had not been added to the

>> bunning later explained he favors the bill but wants to pay for it using unspent stimulus money. the debate could last until next week. >>> a new study out this morning finds alcohol and marijuana use among teenagers are on the rise. for the first time in a decade. 39%, that's more than 6 million teens admit drinking in the last month. up 4% from 2008. and 25% admit smoking marijuana. that's up 6% from 2008. >>> finally, researchers say children across the country are snacking too much. new findings show american kids are eating an average of three snacks a day, in addition to their regular meals. those snacks account for 27% of their daily calories. that's the news at 7:08. my kids are guilty of that. they snack at school. they snack after school. the snacks are less nutritious. parents are guilty of allowing that. >> i love how you said, my kids do that. no. you do that to your kids. >> guilty as charged. >> snacks. >> they're reaching into the cabinet. >> one healthy snack my kids like are fruit rollups. you can pretend that's healthy, i guess. >> we like to ensure ourselves o

host: what do you make of senator bunning's stand over the weekend?not want to move forward on what was a pretty pop the bill because he was concerned about paying for it. guest: what a radical notion inside the beltway that you should actually pay for something? we are not oblivious to the fact that we, unfortunately under the policies of this president and this democratic congress, we are still mired in roughly double digit unemployment. so many members of congress clearly want to continue to extend forms of unemployment insurance. but at the same time, one of the things hindering job growth today is a there is no path to fiscal sustainability. one of the reasons -- and i talked to small business people all over the fifth district of texas that i have the honor of representing -- and they have anxiety and uncertainty about how will this spending be paid for. are there going to be massive tax increases on my small business? are we going to have massive inflation, to where we look longingly and nostalgically on the carter era with double-digit interes

christy finally is going to have a true bun. >> and you watch the award season at all, you saw that bunsand this look is really a classic look, but we'll put a fashion twist on it. what i first did is i just fenkfenk finger combed her hair to give it texture. so you just run your fingers rough it, you braid it. you secure it after it's braided. i'll braid pretty fast here. >> and then you just wrap it around. >> and then similar to what we did with the feishtail, you wan to add volume to it so it doesn't look too tight. you don't want it too tight. so all you have to do is wrap, tuck. >> beautiful. >> and christy is good to go. let's see what joss thinks. thumbs up? >> lovely. i like this one in the middle. >> you could have fun with joss' hair. >> always been a fan of your had. >> what about the hippie trend, the one on the side? >> there's no limits. >> see, she did it. all right. thank you, joss, thank you, ladies. and now back to harry. >> looks lovely, thank you. >>> kensington palace, the last home of princess diana, has been a london landmark for four centuries. tomorrow it become