neighbors like diane harris and her family knew how to get the i'm not going to put a price tag on the health and safety and well being of my family and there is no amount of money that will convince me that we should have this in the middle of our neighborhoods. it's similar to my mind to how we found out about cigarette smoking and cancer it wasn't that we did a study and found out oh no look cigarettes cause cancer it was forty fifty years of of exposure. the process that so worries the doctor is high old by the industry is the key to energy independence. the drill holes can go three kilometers down and then push out horizontally for kilometers as will a cocktail of more than five hundred chemicals millions of liters of water and truckloads of sand is then used to break up the child and release gas and oil. the process has transformed the energy business in a few short years. but the jury's out on its impact on the environment and people's health. really this is a new frontier nobody has done nobody's done drilling an urban setting and studied the long term effects of what's going t

abc's dan harris now on this huge controversy, the big decision and the breaking news tonight. dan? >> reporter: diane, good evening. as you know, the mayor really wanted this race to be run. he hoped it would be a sign of resilience and unity in this crippled city, but he admitted tonight it had instead become a source of controversy beyond an division. it was scenes like this -- this is your house right here? >> yeah. yeah, this is my house. it used to be over there. >> reporter: juxtaposed against scenes like this -- fancy port-a-potties -- that forced the mayor to cancel the marathon. today, we saw them loading in cases of vodka. private party going on in here. and pallets of water and food. this is a lot of provisions. can't go in this area? but the pictures that truly did not sit well with many in this city where hundreds of thousands still don't have power, four large diesel generators, guarded by security. how many homes could these things power? >> i don't know. >> reporter: how do you think your neighbors without power would like this thing? >> they'd love it. >> there's children out there w

now harry reid says it's the republicans turn to put out their own plan. with me now tennessee republican congresswoman dianelack who is a member of both the budget and ways and means committees. congresswoman, thank you for joining me. we had some reporting earlier that said don't expect any public counter prproposal from republicans. can i ask you why not? >> well, i think, chris, that you can just look at what we did before the election. actually the medicare is what we put the plan out for and we also have a plan out there to avert the fiscal cliff and sequestration. our plans are already there. and we're just waiting for the president to come out with a plan. everything we're hearing is so one-sided. it's all about taxes and now he's telling us he wants to spend $1.6 trillion more than what he had in his budget plans before. >> i want to play something, tom cole, a colleague was yours had to say on this show yesterday. why he thinks the republicans should make a deal. >> if we can give the american people an early christmas present, if they can list en to the debate instead of be worried that their own