A
Rick Bowmer/AP

There's still time, Sen. Levin says.

There's still time to get in on the "cash for clunkers" program, a leading Democratic senator says.

The Associated Press writes that Carl Levin of auto-centric Michigan:

Says he's been assured by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood that the financially strapped "cash for clunkers" program will be good at least through Friday.

But it's still not known how the program, which has quickly run out of cash, will be kept alive after today.

Update at 11 a.m. ET: The House is pushing to put together legislation to add $2 billion to the program, the AP says. The original funding — $1 billion — was designed to cover 250,000 cash-for-clunkers sales and it was hoped to last into the fall. Instead, it took less than a week to go through the funding.