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our guests will include robert bixy and senator mike craig beapo. latest o discussed the late i unemployment numbers. "washington journal" is like every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> the houses voted to keep the lower tax rates for those who earn less than two and a $50,000 a year. it is to enter 41 to 148. a group continues to work on a compromise that could extend all tax rate on the short term basis. this is 1.5 hours. quite the time has come. this is the moment prevent this is the moment to be counted. the republicans want to continue to keep middle income tax cuts hostage, hostage until it's combined with upper income tax cuts. it's in part because they don't want to have to vote separately on tax cuts for the very wealthy. but as i have said, the time has come, we must not let middle income taxpayers remain hostage to a partisan agenda. indeed i was goi back over comments that have been made these last months and i refer to one from my colleague from michigan, the ranking member. he's here. he said just a few months ago in talking to a.p. that

mike. if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. that's true for buyers using craigs list.e trying to buy cars are being robbed. today in the bay's christie smith with a live look at what's going on. christie? >> the scammers are offering nice cars at low prices. they lured people here to oakland pretty much from all over northern california. they come to neighborhoods like this one. the rock ridge neighborhood. instead of that nice car that was caused, the robberies usually occur in east and north oakland in afternoon or early evening after they exchanged e-mails with the seller. in two cases, they were attacked. a man from lodi responded to an online ad. he was robbed and beaten. police say the scammers may have actually last struck in skprl went quiet and started up in december. the victims coming from places like sacramento, stockton and san jose. they had thousands stolen out from under them. offering this advice to people who are buying online. first don't meet in a is you cluded area or a residential area. you want to go to a more public place. don't carry large roll