JURY STILL DEADLOCKED ON WHETHER CONVICTED MURDERER JODI ARIAS SHOULD GET THE DEATH PENALTY, PROMPTING A RETRIAL *

THE JUDGE SCHEDULED THE RETRIAL FOR JULY 18 IN THE SENTENCING PHASE OF THE 32-YR-OLD'S TRIAL *

ARIAS WAS FOUND GUILTY OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER IN THE 2008 DEATH OF HER EX-BOYFRIEND *

REP JO BONNER (R-AL) IS RESIGNING FROM CONGRESS TO TAKE A JOB WITH THE UNIV OF ALABAMA *

BONNER IS SIX-TERM MEMBER OF THE HOUSE AND A MEMBER OF THE APPROPRIATIONS CMTE *

HE REPRESENTS A SOUTHWESTERN PORTION OF THE STATE THAT INCLUDES MOBILE *

5.7 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE STRIKES NEAR CANYONDAM, CA *

THE AREA IS SURROUNDED BY VAST PARK SPACE, AND THE NEAREST MAJOR CITIES ARE RENO AND CARSON CITY, NV *

THERE ARE NO REPORTS OF INJURIES OR DAMAGE *

BRIDGE COLLAPSE IN NW WASHINGTON SENDS VEHICLES AND PEOPLE INTO THE WATER *

THE FOUR LANE I-5 BRIDGE OVER THE SKAGIT RIVER AT MOUNT VERNON REPORTEDLY CRUMBLED AROUND 7 PM *

WA STATE AUTHORITIES SAY THERE ARE NO FATALITIES *

DEADLY PARKING GARAGE COLLAPSE AT MALL OUTSIDE D.C. *

ONE CONSTRUCTION WORKER KILLED, ANOTHER SERIOUSLY INJURED *

THE SURVIVING WORKER WAS TRAPPED FOR NEARLY FOUR HOURS BENEATH A 40-FOOT SECTION OF CONCRETE *

NO WORD ON WHAT CAUSED THE COLLAPSE *

TWO MORE ARRESTS IN CONNECTION WITH HACKING DEATH OF BRITISH SOLDIER *

COUNTERTERRORISM OFFICERS TAKING INTO CUSTODY A MAN AND A WOMAN, BOTH 29-YRS-OLD, ON SUSPICION OF CONSPIRACY TO MURDER *

MEANWHILE, THE TWO MEN WHO WERE SHOT AND ARRESTED AT THE SCENE REMAIN HOSPITALIZED IN STABLE CONDITION *

THEY'RE BELIEVED TO HAVE HACKED A BRITISH SOLDIER TO DEATH ON A SOUTH LONDON STREET WHILE SHOUTING JIHADIST RHETORIC *

THE MURDERED SOLDIER HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS 25-YR-OLD LEE RIGBY *

BRITAIN'S MILITARY SAYS RIGBY WAS A POPULAR DRUMMER AND MACHINE GUNNER, AS WELL AS THE FATHER OF A 2-YR-OLD BOY *

PRES OBAMA TO TOUR JERSEY SHORE WITH GOV CHRIS CHRISTIE (R) NEXT WK *

THE TRIP WILL HIGHLIGHT THE STATE'S ONGOING RECOVERY FROM SUPERSTORM SANDY *

THE FED GOVT HAS SPENT $1.3 BIL TO HELP FAMILIES HIT HARD BY THE STORM *

OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE CORRECT TORNADO DAMAGE ESTIMATE TO 12,000 HOMES *

A POLICE SPOX MISSPOKE THURS WHEN HE SAID 1,200 HOMES WERE HIT BY MONDAY'S STORM *

TOTAL DAMAGE FROM THE MASSIVE TORNADO MAY TOP $2 BIL DOLLARS *

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES GETTING AN UNPAID DAY OFF FRI *

THE IRS AND EPA ARE AMONG THE AGENCIES SHUTTING THEIR DOORS *

THE FURLOUGHS ARE PART OF AN EFFORT TO MEET SEQUESTER SPENDING CUTS *

POWERFUL 8.2 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE HITS RUSSIA'S FAR EAST *

THE QUAKE'S EPICENTER WAS LOCATED EAST OF THE RUSSIAN COAST AND NORTH OF JAPAN *

THE SHAKING WAS FELT 4,400 MILES AWAY IN MOSCOW *

THE LAST RECORDED TREMOR IN THE RUSSIAN CAPITAL WAS IN 1977 *

BRITAIN BRACING FOR POSSIBLE COPYCAT TERROR ATTACKS *

SOME 1,200 POLICE HAVE BEEN ADDED TO POTENTIAL TROUBLE SPOTS *

ANALYSTS SAY THERE'S BEEN AN INCREASE IN CHATTER ON EXTREMIST SITES SINCE WEDNESDAY'S BRUTAL KILLING OF A BRITISH SOLDIER *

HOWEVER, A GOVT OFFICIAL SAYS NO SPECIFIC OR CREDIBLE THREATS HAVE BEEN DETECTED *

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Latest about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid [from FNC's Chad Pergram]

Below are notes from FNC’s Chad Pergram:

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Urgent: Reid when asked if he will accept the House GOP debt limit bill as is: “Yes.”

Per Pergram-Capitol Hill

 

Extraordinary press conference by Senate Democratic leaders as they essentially call the bluff of House GOPers and agree to take the pending House Republican-crafted plan to suspend the debt limit and agree to no budget/no pay.

 

Fed back live.

 

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) when asked if he will accept the House GOP debt limit bill “as is”:

Yes

 

Reid:

I’m pleased Speaker Bohener changed course and will allow a vote today.

 

Reid:

In substance, this is a clearn debt limit increase.

 

Reid on GOP saying the Senate hasn’t approved a budget:

Understand that is not true. Republicans voted on the Budget Control Act (the measure to increase the debt limit in August, 2011 which created the supercommittee and the sequester).

 

Reid:

The Senate will return to the regular order (of passing budgets).

 

Reid:

I thank Speaker Boehner for his leadership in defusing the debt ceiling fights. See, not everything here has to be a big fight.

 

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on the GOP retreat in Williamsburg, VA last week where the debt limit plan was hatched:

The retreat had a mellowing effect on their memebrs. Deep breathing exercises. Perhaps smooth jazz Muzak.

 

Schumer:

Republicans are in full-on retreat.

 

Schumer:

The president stared the Republcians down and they blinked.

 

Schumer:

This gives us something we can work with in the Senate.

 

Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-WA) on the no pay provision:

They may have needed to throw some red meat to their tea party to move the bill through the House. Whatever.

 

· I assk Reid by th good cop, bad cop. House Democrats excoriated the Republicans earlier for this approach:

 

Reid:

We believe this is a way forward….that’s why I sent bouquets in my remarks to the Speaker.

 

Reid:

Anything we do will be based on a budget.

 

Reid on reporters asking about the Senate not passing a budget:

Stop taking that bait.

 

· At the end, a reporter asks Reid if they will still go through the “vote-a-rama,” a tradition when tackling the budget resolution…which usually requires an entire day, consumed by nothing but around-the-clock votes.

 

Reid:

Unless you can find a way out of it…

 

The Senate

Chad Pergram

Senior Producer for Capitol Hill









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