a showdown vote may come as early as today to repeal the nation's healthcare reform law.nth republicans in the house where they do have the majority voted to repeal the expansion of healthcare coverage. president obama halls threatened to veto. republicans argue the law will explode healthcare spending and hurt our economic recovery. senator jordan -- majority leader says it won't go anywhere. >> a popular drug may pose health risks of its own. avastin, patients that take it may face death. scientists say they study 10,000 people from 1966 to 2010. they found 2.5% chance of death among patients who took avastin and chemotherapy drugs at the same time and a 1.5% rate for people who took chemotherapy alone. >> a new report grades the nations' states on the job they're doing providing healthcare for children. next on abc 7 news at 5:00, we'll complain how california has a long way to go. >> more news out of pg&e. the utility now found some gas leaks. find out where coming up. >> and leaders plead for more money for education. next whyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhy ♪ leftover desse

i'm really, really excited about national healthcare reform, but i also feel that it's wrought with pitfalls because i believe we're going to interject a whole new set of language into the conversation, if you will. did a lot of organizing around the parity act and making sure that substance abuse was included in the language and the wellstone... substance abuse? yes, because it was the wellstone mental health parity act, so...substance abuse? am i hearing, substance abuse? yes ma'am, yes ma'am, yes ma'am. and, and you know daphne has, has quoted bill white quite a bit and, and he's truly prolific writer and agree with the title that folks had given him, the dean of recovery. but he was saying that three ways to deal with social stigma, stigmatations stigma, stigma if you will. one is to protest stigma and discrimination are illegal and you need to protest, protest that and bring it to the forefront and hold the folks that are doing it, accountable. but there also is an educational component he talks about. and then there's a contact component. and this this is not new. i got this from a 200

. >> a showdown vote may come as early as today to repeal the nation's healthcare reform law.o force a vote in the democratically controlled senate. president obama has threatened to veto. republicans argue the law will explode healthcare spending and hurt our economic recovery. democratic senator majority hairy reid says it won't go anywhere. >> a popular cancer-fighting drug may cause a serious health risk of its own. avastin suggests the patients who take it run an increased risk of death. it slows the growth of certain types of tumors. scientists study 10,000 people from 1966 to 2010. they found 2.5% of them had a chance of death among patients who took avastin and had chemotherapy drugs at the same time. there's a 1.5% rate of death for people who just took the chemotherapy drugs. the difference is not really big but you'll see more of that. >> just ahead on abc 7 news at 6:00, we'll continue to bring you up to the minute updates on reports of violent clashes between protestors and government reports from cairo breaking out this morning. >> i'm terry mcsweeney live at san

a showdown vote may come as early as today to repeal the nation's healthcare reform law.tor republicans will try to force the vote. last month republicans in the house where they have the majority voted to expand the healthcare coverage. president obama threatened a veto. argued the law will explode healthcare spending and our economic recovery. >> 6:46 now. president obama's state of the union pledge about electric cars is not likely to happen. >> bloomberg reporter jane king joins us live for the morning's "moneyscope" report. good morning, jane. >> good morning. you know president obama's goal on putting a million plug-in electric cars on the road within four years. report out today says probably not gonna happen. a study from indiana university says the number will be closer to 800,000 because interest in plug-in vehicles is pretty much limited to affluent car buyers. ford announcing auto production at some point assembly plant in march, ohio, chicago coming to a screeching halt because of all the severe weather there and making for a quieter day here at the exchange.

healthcare reform behind us. hopefully the next question that our nation grapples with is how do we tell you the constitutional and civil rights that all individuals must have. hopefully we will be able to some they put as an outdated statement the fact that there is some consideration to the concept that certain human beings are illegal. on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, i want to welcome you for taking part in this important conversation. obviously, the next person i would like to introduce is someone who has been a tremendous champion for many segments of our society, especially individuals and communities that have been marginalized. he has been fighting for immigrants for your entire life. certainly at every step during his political career. we have had a really empowered immigrants rights movement here. we are trying to extend that statewide. tom has been trying to put out the message that as we can do here in san francisco, living among tolerance, we can hopefully do around the country. i apologize. i need to leave. i have to go to another commission to talk about some legislation. i know y

it would ban all funding to implement healthcare reform and ban all funding for planned parenthood and cut spending for the national institutes of health by $1.6 billion and job training by $2 billion. senator mccasskill does the house bill stand a chance in the senate or is it dead on arrival? >> well, i wouldn't call it dead. i think the democrats in the senate and i think the white house are committed to making cuts. i think cuts have to happen. the question is what are the priorities here. are we going to take a weed whacker to education funding in this country while we let millionaires continue to deduct interest on their second home? that doesn't seem to be the right priority. i hope everyone is willing to compromise. i think -- i hope everyone is going to sit down and work this out. i'm a little worried that the republicans in the house are so anxious to threaten shutting down the government. >> chris: if you say that you are willing to cut, all right, and there is certainly an argument to be made about what you are going to cut. they want $61 billion from current spending. how much are you willing to cut fr