hadley heath and ron myers and michael linden are here now. ron, you say that the spending is other people's money. >> that's right, they are spending all of our money. they prayed that the country has a funnel, so all that money is falling down to them. it has become a boomtown. they are the wealthiest counties in america. the top three countries in america for wealth are right here around the district. the fact of the matter it is exactly that. many need to be creating jobs. the fact of the matter is that politicians are taking our money, our hard-earned dollars, and we are spending a record pace. we just had another tax hike. >> i just don't see it in the numbers. federal spending is actually down over the last three years. the number of federal employees are down over the last three years. in that time, the budget has gone from the rest of the black and it's not about the federal government. funneling money into the district. it's about this district rates of taxes. it also cut spending and a lot of people are moving into the district. tha

a bone fragment found in a well in linden does not match michaele garecht's dna. the well is believed to be a dumping ground for the so-called speed freak killers. in a blog post, garecht says she's disappointed there's still no answer what happened to michaela but goes on to say, quote, the feeling i felt was a sense of relief. >>> san francisco police are hoping surveillance video will help them catch a suspected killer. police say this video right here shows a clean-shaven man with long hair walking with 46-year-old alia cruz back in october. that man was seen answering cruz's apartment in the tenderloin district. later that night, officers responded to a report of a disturbance at that same apartment and found cruz stabbed to death. as of now, investigators say there is no motive for this killing. anyone with information regarding the suspect is asked to call police. >>> a bizarre ending to a home invasion in pittsburg. police say the woman, her boyfriend and two others staged a burglary to intimidate the husband and force him to move out. the husband called p

. >> ask any family in linden hurst, rockaways, and staten island if the delay bothers them and then step back after you ask the question. >> reporter: mayor michael bloomberg was more tempered in his reaction. cuomo and christy showed they could flex considerable political muscle and pressure republicans to hold a vote this friday. the empire and garden states vote democratic but the regions' vast well offers coffers of politics from both parties. >> in real term as what does this money mean. >> to be able to help small businesses on the shore and elsewhere on the shore up and running. huge difference. help people get back in their homes, huge difference. to know if we can replenish the beaches and rebuild the beaches. >> reporter: fema says the national flood insurance program will run out of the money next week. it's already paid out $1.7 billion in sandy-related claims. repairs to the path trains which link beeoth states and cost ove $700 billion may be put on hold. it took the federal government just ten days to get a relief package to the gulf coast. it has now been 67 days since sandy made landfall and people here in the northeast are still