. >> michelle malke nevment says the administration was dealt an embarrassing blow last week on its attempt to curtail oil and gas exploration. we'll have a fair and balanced debate on that claim. >>> a 16-year-old goes swiming in a lake and winds up dead, thanks to a brain eating ameba. dr. michael baden joins us live to tell us how that happens. see you top of the 1:00. jenna: america's asking about the economy and back with us, we now have economist mark zandi, chief of moody's analytics. mark, we certainly have a lot of questions, first to the extension of the payroll tax credit and also the extension of unemployment. a lot of our viewers have the question about where we get the money to do that if we're also in a time where we're cutting so many programs. is the money actually available to do that? >> yeah, that's a great question. we'll have to borrow the money, so that would add to the decifit in the near term. but i think we could and should pay for it in the longer run. so what we would do is marry those cuts, an increase in the e.i. benefits, with future cuts in government spendin