>> hot off the press press, newt gingrich with a major endorsement from a new hampshire paper. mitt romney was hoping to snag that support. so how big a blow is this? battle over amnesty, gingrich is for it, but his campaign says they're twisting the facts. we will hash it out. stranded at the border, pakistan blames nato for the killing of dozens of troops. and tensions rise. and how utah is the latest state locked in the legal fight over immigration with the department of justice. i'm shannon bream. electric headquarter live from the nation's capitol starts right now. we begin with the welcome news, all three netsch students

detained in cairo, egypt, are home. egyptian authorities arrested the three for allegedly throwing firebombs at egyptian security forces. the students say they were hit and left for hours and locked up in the dark and threatened at gunpoint. this morning, derrick weeny and his mother spoke exclusively with fox and friends about the ordeal. >> we were threatened with force-feeding gasoline. we were hit in the face, in the back of the neck. we had our jackets and shirts pulled over our heads so we couldn't see where we were going and we spent 7 hours in a fetal position with handcuffs behind our backs while people with guns said behind us said if we moved, we would be shot. >> a court ordered the students' released on thursday. they took separate connecting flights yesterday, the same day that a fresh set o flash clashes between security forces and demonstrators began.

elections are due to start in hours. hundreds of trucks carrying nato supplies are stuck, now that pakistan has closed important supply routes as the country blames u.s.-led nato troops for a deadly attack that kill the at least 24 pakistani soldiers. hi, peter. >> reporter: hi, shannon. the investigation is ongoing. but the latest word from the international security assistance force is that their isafer forces and afghan national security troops saw something sinister along the border corks so, so they called in an airstrike and that led to the massive loss of life and an isaf brig dare general told me that the communication ground lines are closed and that's bad. >> this is exactly where the terrorists are operating, operating on either side of the border, use it for a safe haven and migrating across the border and for firing at us as well as

at the pakistani forces. so it's a very dangerous area. and anything that leads to complications or lack of communication in this part of the world certainly serves one side and that's the insurgency. >> eric: if long liance of supply trucks start forming at the border, insurgents might attack them. so to attack them, re-establishing contact with pakistan is critical. they have told us, we need to get out of a base along the border that we have been using to coordinate droarn strikes against al qaeda and that kind of reaction from pakistan is not going over well here in washington. >> there is a lot of diplomacy that has to occur and be tough in the sense that they need to understand that our support for them officially is dependent upon their cooperation with us. but it's not the kind of situation where you can cut off all assistance because we do need their support in the region. >> eric: in a joint statement last night, secretary of state

clinton and secretary of defense panetta offered their condolences to the pakistani troop who is were killed. but things are really icy right now. >> all right. thank you, peter. in the wake of the deadly nato strike, pakistan is giving the u.s. two weeks to get out of a base that was reportedly used as a hub for drones. general, thank you for coming. >> good to see you. >> what do you make of our relationship? already strained when we crossed the borders to get bin laden. >> this is aggravating an already deteriorating relationship. that's the fact of it. the relationship has soured because they have been supporting the safe havens for the taliban and the hacanny network inside of pakistan, where they attack us daily. the bin laden attack and raid. we broke the sovereignty of that country. we didn't ask them for permission and we should not have. and also, that raid was conducted in a place that was in

the suburbs of the capitol city of pakistan, near a military base. everyone knows for a fact that the senior military leaders in pakistan knew that bin laden was there for five years. so the relationship has suffered. >> it is tough. several g.o.p. contenders talked in the debate on foreign policy, there is a lot of debate. do we cut off foreign aid? do we keep them close? do we try to maintain a relationship? it is clear there are stressors? >> we absolutely maintain a relationship. but we change the conditions. we have had soft diplomacy with them for a long time, given them aid with no conditions whatsoever. we have to stop that. that's the reality of t. maintain the relationship and change the conditions so that when we provide them support, there are conditions that go along with that. we want certain things back for that. that's the way we are going to have to be. we are going to have to be a lot

tougher than we have been in the past. i think our government officials are very frustrated because the pakistani leadership, particularly their military leadership has been lying to us for years about the safe havens and the sanctuaries. we know that they are there. they are providing money, intelligence, logistics and training. from those safe haven, they shoot at us every day. >> they have given us two weeks to clear out from the shamsi airbase, where the drones are apparently operating from that base. how bad is that for us, along with the closed-down spry route snitches the supply routes will be temporary. they have done this in the past. this incident we have had is devastating to us and to them. when have you friendly fire and you hurt people unnecessarily like this, everybody is so demoralized by it. it's a very tragic situation. but the fact of the matter is that the supply routes won't last until we complete an investigation and put the facts on the table and show them the

results of that investigation. i think they will probably open the supply routes again. if they don't, we will have to use the european supply route and an air bridge. we will continue to provide supplies to our troops, regardless. in terms of the base, if we lose the base, and i think we probably will, we can compensate by operating from within afghanistan. we have to go longer and further. >> this doesn't help that already very strained relationship. general keane, thank you very much. >> good seeing you. >> you too. newt gingrich's surge to the top of the g.o.p. presidential field has gotten a boost. he has landed the endorsement of new hampshire's largest paper. we pick up the story. i imagine this has bad news for the romney camp. >> reporter: and a snub to mitt romney. this endorsement from the influential man chester union leader, a big boost for gingrich, whose spokesman says

the timing is just right as more and more voters are paying attentions to the race, six weeks away from the new hampshire's first primary. a lot of candidates say they're going to improve washington. newt gingrich has actually done that. and in this race, he offers the besthot of doing it again n. new hampshire, gingrich is far behind. in a recent poll, 18%, compared to mitt romney's 36.8%. gingrich's team is hopeful, saying 80% of the voters don't focus on the race until christmastime. the former house speaker has been surging to at or near the top in many national polls of g.o.p. voters. the campaign spokesman says that the man chester union leader was among the first to champion ronald reagan. newt gingrich has solidified his hold as the conservative frontrunner in the 2012 race. another g.o.p. candidate, explained gingrich's sudden

popularity this way. >> it proves, chris, how fluid and unpredictable new hampshire is. people are just beginning to pay attention and coalesce around the candidates. >> reporter: gingrich has come under fire for an immigration policy. candidate herman cain has a very different approach on that. >> the way i would deal with those who are already here, which has been my stated position, empower the states to deal with the illegals that are already here, not some big, grandiose, national one-size-fit-all. >> reporter: the gingrich campaign, very act 95 new hampshire, with a paid staff, contacting 1,000 voters every day. >> thank you, steve. and it is your turn to weigh in. is it fair or unfair to call gingrich's immigration rer reform plan amnesty? tweet your answers.

we'll read some of your responses later in the show. texas governor and presidential candidate rick perry will reportedly score a coveted endorsement of his own. the maricopa, arizona, sheriff will support him. arpaio could help perry rebound from criticism he took over comments he made about -- against educating illegal immigrants, saying, quote don't have a heart. first arizona, then alabama and south carolina, now the justice department is suing utah over the immigration law, saying it's in clear violation of the cons constitution because it attempts to establish state-dependent immigration policy and that's a federal issue. utah representative steven sandstrom is here. i understand you are

interrupting your vacation to be here on the show. i have to ask you about the fact that i know that g.o.j. attorneys met with you before the lawsuit was filed. had you hoped you could avoid a lawsuit because your law is different from the other states? >> yeah. utah law is very much different from other states. in fact, i have met face to face with the department of justice. they indicated to me that this law was something that was more reasonable and much better balanced approach than other states have done. so it was quite surprising, quite frankly, that they decided to sue over house bill 497, which is simply enforcing current federal immigration law. it just allows us to be a partnership with the federal government in enforcing the law. >> i have read comments and you believe there is internal pressure within the administration, within the department of justice to file lawsuits in response to these state laws, each though huhoped it wouldn't happen in this case?

>> yeah. i certainly think there were pressures put on by the obama administration to enter into a lawsuit because once again, the department of justice officials i met with and spoke with told me that this was a different bill, this was a different spirit to the way that utah approached its solution to working competitively -- and in a way with the federal government that alloweditous enforce the law, but not usurp federal authority. >> i know some of the sections, so people understand, that are challenged are a couple of things, the requirement that law enforcement verify legal status for those arrested for class-a misdemeanors or follows to allow warrantless arrest of those who are here illegally and to make it a crime to harbor or transport undocumented immigrants. janet knop -- janet napolitano says that will hurt relations. >> i don't agree.

this will allow the local and state law enforcement agencies to have wide discretion. warrantless arrests happen every day in the course of law enforcement. i do not believe that people truly realize that. many other states have passed laws tributing transporting and harboring illegal immigrants here in the state of utah. what i think it really shows right now is that there is a lack of courageous leadership in washington, d.c., both in thees and republicans in finding a solution to the issue. and in fact, that's frankly why i would like to see the state and the federal government to find a solution that works for everybody. >> both your state attorney general and governor feel confident that you will be victorious when this does go to court. what do you think your chance of success in the law being uphel is? >> i feel very hopeful that we can be victorious with this lawsuit because, once again, it's a mainstream approach.

we did things differently in this bill. if gave the tools to law enforcement to work with -- the federal government, enforcing laws already on the books. we didn't create a single new law. we do realize that dealing with illegal immigrants here in the united states is a very complex issue. we need to work together as a federal government and as a state to get this program solved. that's why, once again, we need courageous leadership in washington, d.c. quite frankly, that's why i am running for the united states congress so i can work on this and many other huge problems facing our nation in a way that we can work bipartisanship into this issue. >> i'm sure it will be a topic to talk a lot about on the campaign trail. utah representative steven sandstrom, thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me. i appreciate the opportunity to come on the show.

>> new developments in the case of michelle parker. last night, orlando police raided a home in their search for parker who went missing a week and-a-half ago after an appearance on "the people's court." julie banderas is in new york with the latest. we understand police are keeping tight lipped. but do we know anything about the house or who it belonged to? >> reporter: they are being tight lipped. but the property records state that dale smith sr. is the owner of that house, that would be dale smith's father, dale smith, here, the father of the two 3-year-old twins, the ex-fiance of michelle parker and the last person to have seen michelle alive. we also know that the father of michelle parker hasn't been name aid suspect or ather are sayingo search his father's home. however we do know between 10 to 16 detectives showed up last night and raided the home after knocking on the door, saying

they had a search warrant. neighbors saw police lead dale sr. out of the home in handcuffs, although he wasn't arrested. two other adults and two children were home at the time. they were asked to wait on the front lawn. they were joined by the fbi and an audience of neighbors. here's what they saw. >> i heard the bang, i came outside and i see... police and the s.w.a.t. team. >> just fire extinguishers, a flash grenade and broke the door in. >> reporter: i should remind everybody what led them to question anybody in dale smith's family. it was this appearance on "the people's court," where dale smith and there's michelle parker. this aired 10 days ago. and the two were arguing over a $5,000 engagement ring that she apparently tossed out after they got into a fight. he wanted her to pay him the $5,000. the judge ruled they would split

it. moments later, she dropped her twins off at his home and that's the last time she has been seen. >> julie, can you update the situation with the reward money here? >> reporter: yeah. a $50,000 reward has been offered for information leading to michelle parker, but in an unusual twist, that reward is only good until today. sunday. so it's a two-day award. a weekend reward. her mother said, if you know something, you know it. and parker's mother wanted a time limit on that reward money to encourage people with tips to come forward immediately, not to wave -- to waste any time. she says, she's worth millions of dollars to me and my family, but i think $50,000 is an awesome amount. and the police chief has told the parents that bringing home michelle parker safely is his agency's top priority and he is hopeful that she will be found alive and is asking the public to remain vigilant.

i should mention, one other key piece of evidence here, it was a surveillance video that apparently caught a hummer leaving the residence of dale smith jr. and that was the sticker that appeared on michelle's car. she ran a mobile airbushing, nning business, called glow. so that sticker was there. but surveillance showed, when that car drove away, the sticker was missing. we are not connect anything dots here. the police are not commenting. but that's a very interesting additional fact to this case, leaving a lot of questions today. >> very unusual. julie banderas, thank you very much for the latest on the case. >> reporter: sure. >> with millions heading home after the thanksgiving holiday, let's see how the weather could affect this busy travel day. hi, maria. >> good to see you. unofficial, we do have storms to talk about.

big travel day after the thanksgiving hol day. take a look at storm system, bringing the rain from the great lakes, down to the southeast and the pacific north wft. only the immediate coast so seattle's getting heavier batches of showers. otherwise, areas to the south, staying dry. we have the heavy rain, east of detroit. and a new batch of rain that is developing over the state of michigan and will continue to affect that area, over the next 24 hours, as the system will be a very slow mover, pushing eastward and you can see the avenue rain, coming across the state of alabama and this system will push eastward, affecting the city of atlanta, where we are expecting to see some very heavy delays. cleveland, if you are flying there or seattle, you will see delays. new york city, big airport hubs, not too bad. >> thank you so much. the buffett rule with a new tax on millionaires, proposed by president obama.

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>> fourpeople are dead as a result of a plane crash outside of chicago.

an indianap police -- indianapolis businessman and two daughters were kill in the crash. officials do not know where the plane was headed. >> in an hour, woe will find out how well retailers did on black friday. but even if they are terrific number, can just one day on the stock market a boost? >> reporter, hey, shannon, after feasting on turkey, the real early birds gave thanks for deals offered hours before black friday begins. and the retail industry may well be offering gratitude as well because the early hours brought black friday sales to a record 6.6% gain, according to shopper track, the largest amount ever. buyers spent $11.4 billion. as many as 152 million people were expected to shop at stores and online.

up 10% from last year. so the national retail federation says. this is just one day. was the spike in shopping just buying that would have happened later anyway? or can consumers keep it up? this is especially a tough question when it comes at a time when unemployment remains stubbornly high and consumer centim, low. deep discounts drew buyers, good news for buyers, less so for retailers who must make up with volume for the low prices. as retailers were cheering the beginning of the holiday season, blue chips marked their worst thanksgiving week performance since markets started recording the holiday back in 1942. the dow down 4.8% for the week, falling 3% the federal year. but even if those on wall street do as those on main street are, looking for bargains, it will be hard for the markets to see beyond the debt mess in europe

next week. and the biggest number of the month will set the trend next week, on friday, november's unemployment rate is released. december usually delivers a santa claus rally, but analysts are are not expecting one, they think employment and europe will keep santa away, even though it's historically the second best month of the year for stocks. >> all right. we will watch for the numbers. thank you. >> reporter: thank you. >> newt gingrich in a war of words with michele bachmann over immigration. keep it right here for what could be a very feisty debate when their campaign communications directors join us live to hash it out. those first young men. the pioneers. the aviators. building superhighways in an unknown sky. their safety systems built of brain and heart, transforming strange names from tall tales

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>> the tense relationship between the u.s. and pakistan has plunged even deeper into crisis since yesterday's deadly nato airstrike. pakistan has shut down crucial

nato supply routes into afghanistan. hi, peter. >> reporter: pakistan is calling the airstrike the worst bombing that country has suffered in 10 years and in addition thotoshutting down a critical supply route, pakistani officials ordered the united states to vacate a drone base. but a senior u.s. official said that washington had received no such request and noted that pakistan had made similar eviction threats in the past. the three american students arrested in egypt say their detention was the scariest time of their lives. derrick sweeney told fox and friends that security forces threatened to force-feed them gasoline. he said they were hit and spent hours in a fetal position, handcuffed. police have released the woman suspected of showering black friday shoppers with pepper spray in a san fernando wal-mart. she is accused of firing the spray into the crowd at a crate of x-boxes were being unwrapped. she got away, but later

surrendered. it appears the nba will provide its annual christmas day treat, barring complications, they are looking to tip off the 66-game season, beginning with a christmas triple header, including the finals rematch between the mavericks and the heat. and those are the top stories right now. back to you. >> so chris humphreys will have something to do for christmas. >> reporter: i guess. >> we'll be watching, peter. >> though newt is on fire in a number of polls, he is also catching heat for his position on immigration. one of his rivals for the g.o.p. nomination, michele bachmann, says it's a matter of amnesty. but newt gingrich says it's a matter of finding a humane response to a complex problem. joe desantos for gingrich and allen stewart for bachmann are

here. >> i. to clarify so you can make clear what your candidate is all about. after 25 years here, someone would be able to go before a local board. if that board approved it, achieve some kind of legal status. what would or wouldn't that entitle the folks to? >> they wouldn't be able to vote. they wouldn't qualify for medicare or social security. it just would say that because you have deep ties here and it doesn't make sense to rip you away from your family, that you can stay here. i think it's important to step back for a second. what we are talking about here is after you secure the border, item number 6 in newt a 21st century contract is to secure the border by january 1, 2014. after you implement an electronic verification system that all employers are required to use, accompanied by stiff penalties so that it becomes impossible for businesses to hire illegals again.

once that happens, you will get a natural atrittion of a large number of illegal immigrants that are here in this country away because they don't have family here, they are just here for work. they are going to self deport, essentially. >> let's bring alice into this. newt's campaign says this is not amnesty. but congresswoman bachmann has called it that. what does it look like to you? >> it is what it is. this is nothing more than amnesty, pure and simple. peeker gingrich said this week in a debate, he said that while he outlines his plan in terms of creating a pathway to citizenship for those who have come into this country illegally he says he's prepared to take the heat for this. he is prepared to take the heat. but he does what he always does, he points the pirk finger to hose who hold his feet to the fire. he has called them liars and he has changed the subject. he understands himself that his position, as he called it, a

total comprehensive immigration reform, is amnesty. what he is proposing is a pathway for people who have come into this country, illegally and that's amnesty and that's a magnet for illegals to continue to come into this country this. opens the flood gates for more illegals to come to this country. we need to continue to enforce the existing laws, close -- see the the border. we suggested that a letter that the speaker signed in 2004, a total comprehensive immigration reform that was in essence amnesty. he has a long history of supporting amnesty and that's not what we need. that's not the answer for the immigration problems. >> you disagree that this is a magnet? that people believe if they stay here long enough, they will achieve some type of status. >> america is to secure the border by january 1, 2014.

at that point, once the border is secured, magnets don't matter. but let me back up and correct what alice said. she said that newt outlined a pathway to citizenship. that's explicitly not true. he specifically said at the debate, no citizenship. what we are talking about is some sort of legal status for those who doesn't make sense to deport. you have to imagine, someone who is essentially, you have american children here, who are now american citizens. are we going to take them away from their families? deprive them of a parent? and deport them back to where they came from and throw the children back into the social services system? they're going to be cases where, in judicial application of law enforcement, you have to exercise discretion. >> alice, i want to make sure we get alice in here. but i want to can ask you, does it make a difference whether we are talking about citizenship or

a type of legal status here? >> well, joe quite eloquently changes the subject. this is amnesty. what the speak or has done is he has outlined, he supports amnesty. what he is talking about and he mentions 1 to 25 and if someone's been here 25 years, if you don't support keeping them here, you are inhumane or you don't have a heart. that's completely wrong. he talks about thees citizen advisory panel, how does hawork? that's outside the realm of the judicial system. how is that going to work? he is creating another level of bureaucracy, that deals with immigration reform. what we need to do is to enforce the existing laws and secure the boarder. he is trying to distract from what he has acknowledged that he has to take the heat for this. his proposals are amnesty and that's not the way to deal with the illegal immigration. we have to secure the border and also deal with the one nas we have here. but creating amnesty is not the way to do it.

>> we accounted have this debate for a couple of hours. we thank you for joining us to give both sides. we wish you the best on the campaign trail. >> thanks for having me. >> thanks, shannon. >> reaction from the presidential field to newt gingrich's brand-new new hampshire endorsement. jon huntsman spent a lot of time there. >> the new hampshire unileader, perhaps the most influential, the biggest newspaper in the state of new hampshire, has this morning endorsed newt gingrich. isn't that a setback for you, sir in looking good! you lost some weight. you noticed!

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in the running to capture the man chester union leader endorsement would have been unthinkable. i think it reflects more than anything else, the fluidity, and the unpredictability of the race. >> jon huntsman says he doesn't think gingrich's endorsement by a new hampshire means much and insists he will continue to run as a republican, despite questions of running as a third-party candidate. >> you continued a conversation with 2012 contenders with jon huntsman. you asked him about new hampshire, where a lot of people say he has all of his eggs in one basket. >> he gave an evasive answer. i said, don't you have to win? he said, i have to exceed market expectations. so continuing this metaphor, i said didn't the huntsman stock take a hit because the new hampshire union leader endorsed gingrich. and he said, that shows how wide-open the race is because

you would expect to go for mitt romney. he's in trouble. nationally, way back in 2%. in new hampshire, where he has held 100 events, he is 9% in fourth place. i do agree that things can change dramatically. kiremember on both sides, between the iowa caucus and the new hampshire primary, which was one week, dramatic changes both in the republican race and the democratic race in 2008. so, sure, things can change. and he's -- he is working-- the one problem he has is he says he's not doing this, but i think it's fair to say on a lot of issues, he has positioned himself as the centrist candidate. i think the party is looking for the truest, bluest, reddest conservative they can find. i am not -- we will see whether that's jon huntsman. >> here in washington, in the wake of the super committee failure, you have two key senators. they have a lot of unfinished business. >> they do.

they have 13 months to worry about the budget. they have one month to decide what to do about the payroll tax cuts, whether to extend it. very interesting discussion between the number 2 men in the senate on the republican and democratic said, dick durbin and jon kyl, jon kyl saying he has real problems with the payroll tax cut and think its will jeopardize the social security system because that's obviously where the payroll taxes go and he says he won't support any increase on taxes, which is how the democrats want to pay for it, or the job creators, the wealthy, would only hurt our recovery. but it's a tough political spogz. you can see dick durbin really powbs -- he really pounce on that, the party of tax cuts is saying they are willing to see a $1500 increase for a family making $50,000 a year, that's a tough political stand for republicans to take. >> a great panel and also a

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>> as the the eviction deadline looms over up on l.a., police are not saying much about tactics they may use if protesters refuse to leave their encampment by midnight. many of them are publicly vowing they are going to stay put. the mayor says despite his sympathy, it's time for the tent of nearly 500 tents needs to leave for public health and safety. >> there is no question that the super committee failed last week. both the dow and s&p 500 with their worst week since they started recognizing the holiday in 1942. economist and university of maryland professor and the chief

and economic writer for the economic times are both live. thanks for coming in today. >> good afternoon. >> did the markets expect the super committee to get anything done or was there an expectation of failure built in anyway? >> i wouldn't put too much emphasis on the market reaction. the market is probably going down for a variety of reasons, including the situation in europe. i think there was a general recognition that the super committee didn't have much of a chance for success. so it went down, i don't think we could pin the market reaction it that. i think it was pretty much expected. >> peter, there are so many things left unresolved, tax breaks that are going to expire, all kinds of things that washington has to get done. >> whether or not we get a payroll tax deduction, a holiday continued will have a big impact on the markets. the general belief that we will have as much as a half percent impact on gdp. i don't buy that. next time, they will pay for it

with a millionaire's tax or tax cut. but that's not getting picked up in the press. >> we heard so much when we had the credit downgrade about the fact that the credit rating agencies are sensitive to the gridlock here in washington. it doesn't seem like we are getting off that path. are we risk future credit downgrades if they don't agree on something? >> we have two more credit rating agencies that need to downgrade to meet with s&p. i think if there isn't a long-term budget plan that, we could risk downgrades and a fiscal crisis in this country. but i think we are a year away from having to figure all of that out. i think the super committee failure told us that both the in thees and the republicans figure they can kick this can down the road and in fact, they wanted to kick the can down the road. and maybe there is a lodgic to kicking the can down the road until the election. because the american peopleville

a chance to weigh in and on most of the immediate effects of the failure of the super committee committee -- don't go gointo effect until after the next election. there will be $1.2 tril trillion in so-called sequestration budget cuts, half of that in military spending, that may be too much, that needs to be adjusted. but it doesn't go into effect until january 2013. there is an election in november. there will be a lame-duck congress after that. there is a lot of time and a whole year of public debate. so there is a lot of time to really air the issues issues any where do we want to go as a country? i i think after the election, the political situation will be clarified and then the choices that the people made, really, will get enacted. >> peter, there was a lot of talk about the so-called tax cuts, that the two sides couldn't agree because democrats and republicans refuse to budge. republicans say the democrats refused to move much on

entitlements if at all. which do you coo as a bigger issue for the markets? >> entitlement spending. that's the core of the budget problem. the trouble with the center committee was it was fed up if it didn't reach a conclusion, the republicans were the losers because the democrats could spin it that they were rigid on taxes. and the big cuts -- if they were to happen, come out of defense. it's penitentiary to remember, we are talking about the base budget. the winding down of the war's built into t. the base budget was cut in august, when they passed the bill by $50 billion a year, the fleet is smaller, we have much larger defense requirements in the pacific because of china. those defense cuts really aren't possible. and so something's going to have to be done about entitlements, period. >> do you think there is an appetite for getting that done in washington? anyone who dips a toe into the discussion draws back a nub at times. it's brutal? >> there are two ways to cut entitlement spend, make the

individual who is receive the entitlements pay the bill. and the other one is to have the people who sort of receive on the -- paying end, when we are talking about health care, have you to remember that there are hospitals and doctors and drug companies and device company who is receive all of these entitlement payments, and also when people consume health care. so are we going to stick more of this on individuals and or more of this on the providers of health care? that's a debate really that we need to have as a country about how to go about cutting entitlements that we will get there is obviously going to be the case because we can't have this rate of spending in the future. >> we are out of time. gentlemen, thank you both for joining us. have a great weekend. >> a former democratic president has kind words for an old foe and the scoop on that, next. [ male announcer ] if you think tylenol

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>> shannon: newt gingrich got a powerful political boost. the coveted endorsement of new hampshire's largest paper. steve centanni is live there for us. i imagine this is disappointing for the other camps out there. >> we'll see what happens. a major endorsement for newt gingrich. he picked up the endorsement of the largest and most influencial newspaper. here is what the front page

endorsement said today. it is not enough to merely replace barack obama. we are in need of the forward looking strategy and positive leadership that newt gingrich has shown he is capable of providing. mitt romney is far out ahead of the other contenders among gop voters in new hampshire where the primary is only a few weeks away. the gingrich campaign is hailing this as a major step forward. a campaign spokesman saying in a statement with today's endorsement newt gingrich has solidified his hold as the conservative frontrunner in the 2012 presidential race. on "fox news sunday" today another gop candidate explained what he thinks is happening here. >> a month ago, for newt gingrich to have been in the running to capture the manchester union leader endorsement would have been unthinkable. i think it reflects more than anything else the fluidity and

unpredictability of the race right now. >> gingrich has come under fire over his position on immigration. he favors a path of citizenship for those that have been in the country for awhile and established a path to citizenry. >> legal immigration issue is four problems. secure the border for real. enforce the laws that are there. i don't believe we need another path. we he don't need any special exceptions. we need to clean up the bureaucracy that is already there. >> cain says the states should be empowered to deal with the millions of immigrants already here illegally. >> shannon: once they were on opposite ends of pennsylvania avenue but now former president bill clinton is praising former house speaker newt gingrich during an exclusive interview with news max. >> he is articulate and tries to think of a conservative version of an idea that will solve a legitimate problem. for example, last night i

watched the national security debate last night and newt said two things that would make an independent voter say well, i got to consider that. he said okay, i don't want to legitimize immigrants who came here undocumented, illegally. on the other hand, a lot of those people have been here for years and worked hard and paid taxes and have kids in the schools. they are not criminals, we will have a hard time sending them all home, there are millions of them. i would like to have a process where they could be here legally but not have a path to citizenship. that sort of splits the difference between the immigration reforms proposed by president bush and president obama which would give a path to citizenship and would be a version of what president regan did. >> shannon: while clinton had many good things to say about gingrich he would not make a prediction about whether or not he would win the immigration.

newt is making gains in the polls including iowa and new hampshire. can he keep up the momentum or are could his recent comments on immigration hurt him? joining us to talk about it former dccc communications director doug and former rnc spokesperson. newt was endorsed by the union leader nuce pape newspaper is w hampshire. how big of a deal is that for him? >> that is a big deal. what he needs to do is prove that he is an electable candidate against obama because that is really the only thing that is keeping mitt romney on the surface of the water right now. he is dominating on the core questions of issues on trustworthiness, newt is beating mitt on all those questions. he needs to do a little better with the money. and another question is whether or not he has the organization to win in iowa, win in new hampshire, win in south carolina. it was a huge deal and i think the union leader will be

campaigning for him for the next 45 days. >> we saw what happened to rick perry in florida after he stood up on the debate stage and talked about having a heart when it comes to immigration issues. is newt immune from that kind of backlash or do you think we will see a dip for him in the polls as well? >> i think the difference is how it will be handled. newt is a smart man. he has been articulating policies for a long time. it is the experience factor which i think will make a big difference. if he can withstand the backlash i think he will be a candidate that will be right there to the very end. >> shannon: could be a good time for him to peak. when you said 30 days, hard to believe we are that close to the first votes for the average american to weigh in. vice president joe biden is going to be focused on key states we are told. the strategy is to have him in ohio, pennsylvania and florida. states that president obama won last time around but where some are speculating that maybe joe

biden would have a better connection with white collar workers and jewish voters, those kinds of things. will he be a surrogate or will we see the president in those states as well? >> the president is going to scranton on wednesday to talk about extending the payroll tax holiday. he will be in pennsylvania and ohio and florida. also nice to have joe biden right next to you or on his own because he is a very popular person with seniors. >> scranton guy. >> takes the amtrak home back up to delaware all the time. he demonstrated he is a good surrogate in 2008 and i think that they like what he brings to the table in '12 with key he voting groups. >> shannon: do they want to keep the president out of those states? is he a negative for them that the point given what is going on with the economy? >> given what has happened in 2010 we saw major states elect republican governors. the major, the states with the big electoral votes, florida, ohio, pennsylvania.

these are states that in '08 voted for obama. and then just two years later completely turned and it was those independent voters. given the fact that we have a foreign policy that is inconsistent at best, a failed stimulus, rising unemployment, well, i think maybe it is high but it is some what stabilized but what is the plan of the president? i mean he had an opportunity to exercise leadership during the super committee. we are looking for an lbj here, a president clinton, a welfare reform. we have a failure of leadership. what does the president run on? the director of that right now i mean one of his big hallmark legislation has been healthcare. well, now the supreme court is going to hear it. what is the campaign slogan, well, the judges are all in the back pockets of the republicans? that is not a campaign slogan that is going to work if you tout that healthcare was the big legislation and now the legal merits are being

questioned. i think he has a tough reelection battle ahead of him. >> shannon: we will have a decision from the court before the election. >> just barely, though. >> shannon: unless they do something way out of protocol. doug, if he does win at the supreme court how much of a boost would that be going into the fall? >> it would be a boost but going back to what cherylyn was saying. he is going to extend the payroll tax holiday and unemployment benefits. we shouldn't be raising taxes on middle class americans when the economy isn't right where it needs to be. interesting to see if the republicans go along with them. it was their idea to pass the payroll tax holiday and so we will see if they are going to go along it w. it or block it. i think the president did wait on the deficit reform. it was interesting that the largest deficit cuts, the plans out there were all put out there by democrats and by the president. the debt reduction bill by the

republicans they were all much smaller than what the president put forward. so, you know, i think the idea that eeo he hasn't -- >> on the super committee. >> he wasn't on it. >> he is the president. he presides. the republican members of the super committee he called the white house for proactive action from the president and all they got was crickets from the white house. >> shannon: presiding is the key word in the president of the united states president we will let you continue this during the commercial. we are out of time on air right now. thanks for coming in. >> thanks a lot. >> shannon: right now hundreds of nato trucks carrying supplies to troops in afghanistan are stuck. now, that pakistan has closed down important supply routes. thpeter doocy is live with the latest on the situation. >> i spoke with a general in

afghanistan. here is his best most updated explanation about what led to the cross border attack. >> in an operation of afghan national security forces and isa forces in the board arer area of one of the eastern provinces close to the pakistan border a tactical situation developed on the ground that caused the coalition to -- the coalition force to call in for an air strike for close air support. this is what happened and high lie likely caused the casualties on the pakistan side. >> the general also told me that the key ground communication lines are main supply routes into afghanistan are closed that the time and that if long lines of trucks start forming at the check points those vehicles are going to be sitting ducks for insurgents. to avoid that he says it is important to re-establish contact with pakistan as soon as possible. right now they want us out of

an air base we have been using to launch drone strikes. experts say it wouldn't necessarily be wise for us to simply cut ties with them. >> while it is tempting for many people to say we ought to throw the pakistanis over the side and stop giving them aid and all of the rest of it, as long as that country has nuclear weapons that could fall into the hands of radicals and be a threat worldwide they have incredible leverage. >> on "fox news sunday" republican senator jon kyl from arizona said something similar. he said pakistan needs to underand it that our support for them is dependent on their cooperation with us. but for those reasons that ambassador bolton just laid out we can't cut them off all together. all three american students detained in cairo egypt are home this afternoon. they were arrested for are allegedly throwing fire bombs at egyptian security forces. the students say they were hit,

forced to be locked down for hours in the dark and threatened with guns. this morning, derek sweeney and his mother spoke exclusively to fox and friends about the or deal. >> we were threatened with force feeding gasoline. we were hit in the face and the back of the neck. we had our jackets and shirts pulled over our heads so we couldn't see where we were going and then we ultimately spent about 7 hours in the fetal position with our hands handcuffed behind our backs while people with guns stood behind us and said that if we moved that we would be shot. >> a court ordered the stew you released last thursday. just thundershowers before parliamentary -- just hours before parliamentary elections were to begin in egypt, protests underway. >> rain has put a bit of a damper on the protests behind me in the square but thousands

of activists are still coming out on the eve of the crucial vote here in egypt tomorrow. this is a little bit of what we saw and we heard on the ground earlier today. >> it has been about ten months since i was last here in the square. in some ways things haven't changed. banners, logos and anger. president mubarak is gone, landmark elections set for tomorrow and population divided between the old guard and islamists set to do well in the polls and the liberals who say military officials have hijacked the reforms. they say the revolution is unfinished. many people look at the situation and they say there is more trouble to come. >> we have seen some ambulances tonight but no sign of real violence around here but no one is sure about tomorrow. there will be extra security laid on the polling stations. various parties have their own

observer there's as well. over 40 people have been killed maybe as many as 3,000 injured in clashes just in the past week alone. military chief today said that he would not allow any troublemakers to meddle with this process. he also, by the way, said he would not step down. by the way, tomorrow is just the first day in a week's long complex process to vote in a new parliament here. it is just the beginning of a long and difficult and dangerous road to democracy which started as we noted and as we witnessed earlier this year. back to you, shannon. >> shannon: greg palkot live in cairo. thank you very much, greg. millions of you are heading home after the thanksgiving holiday so let's check in with our expert to see how the weather could affect you today. meteorologist maria mo malina.

>> heavy rain with a system and the potential we could be looking at travel delays from the great lakes down into the southeast. behind the system a quiet day across the center of the nation. a lot of sunshine out here. relatively cool temperatures because there is cooler air moving in behind the system and we do have one brief shot of rain and even high elevations across portions of the afghanistan northwest. pacific northwest. snow starting to mix in with the rainfall and that is something we will start see across portions of the interior southeast. the state of tennessee, northern parts of mississippi, alabama and georgia could even start to see some snowfall, shannon as we head into monday and also tuesday. not a lot of it but still none theless kind of a shocker to see snowfall out there. here is a look at the cities where we have bigger airport hubs and the possibility of travel delays. >> shannon: thank you very much for the update. new developments in the case of missing momma shell parker.

last night police raided a home in their search for parker who went missing after an appearance on the people's court. there is also new word about the reward being offered. julie banderas joins live with the latest. >> first to the house raid. according to property records the house belongs to dale smith senior the father of michelle parker's ex-fiancee. police aren't saying what led them to search there. between 10 to 16 detectives showed up with a search warrant and neighbors saw police lead dale senior out of the home in handcuffs although he wasn't arrested. two other adults and children were home at the time and they were asked to wait outside on the front lawn. police are not saying whether they are skeltering an questio. meantime, michelle parker's parents e offering a $50,000 reward for any information leading to their daughter. in an unusual tst the reward is good only until today. her mother wanted a time limit on the reward money tone

courage people with tips to come forward immediately. in fact, she is quoted assaying as saying she is worth millions of dollars to me and my family but i think $50,000 is an awesome amount. she was last scene dropping off her three-year-old twins and disappeared on that day ten days ago. they appeared on a tape edition of the people's court over a dispute over a $5,000 engagement ring and on the show michelle described a tumultuous relationship with smith that at times she said became violent. they said bringing the her home safely is the top priority and they are hopeful she will be found alive and are asking the public to remain vigilant in reporting tips. at this point, no signs of michelle parker's whereabouts. >> thank you very much for bringing us the latest. >> sure. >> shannon: new video in of a frantic rescue effort in the

irish sea involving prince william. he is a royal air force helicopter pilot. he piloted this helicopter. gale-force winds were to blame for the ship's trouble. five people are still miss. this is the royal's first extended deployment since his marriage earlier this year. >> the super committee super failure could mean big cuts for our military. what could it mean? >> what do the hard numbers tell us? that's next.

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san francisco residents breathing a sigh of relief. the water main made a huge mess. it ended up flooding neighborhood streets and forced the evacuation of several homes. it looks like a hurricane. no one was injured and the cause of of the break is still under investigation. texas governor and presidential candidate rick perry will reportedly score a coveted endorsement. foabc news reports sheriff joe arpaio of maricopa county arizona will endorse perry and campaign with him next week in new hampshire. arpaio could help perry rebound from criticism he took over

comments he made that those who were against educating illegal immigrants "don't have a heart." newt gingrich is taking the lead in several key presidential polls this week in battleground state. here to break it down with us, adam geller and bernard whitman, former democratic pollster for the clinton administration. adam, i will start with you. look at an overall poll that we have that does a look at the gop presidential nomination. gingrich at 26%. romney 22 and cain at 14. gingrich wasn't there a few weeks ago. can he stay there? >> well, he wasn't there a couple of weeks ago. you got to give him credit because he really hung tight and obviously a lot of it has to do with his terrific debate performances. can he stay there is the big question. it is going to take a lot of money and a lot of organization. he has gotten there on the strength of his intelligence and his grasp on the issues. now, the challenge is going to be turning that into dollars

and turning that into organization. and that is really the name of the game. i mean we can't predict what it is going to be. let's face it, mitt romney isn't going anywhere. he has a grasp on the issues as well but also a lot of money and a lot of organization. >> shannon: bernard, wayne to bring you in here and -- i want to bring you in here and look at a new hampshire poll. romney at 35% and gingrich at 18%. ron paul in third with 11%. but, of course, we know today that gingrich got that all important endorsement from the new hampshire union leader. are those numbers going to change in the next 45 days or so ahead of that first primary? >> i think it is absolutely going to tighten up. the truth is, shannon, the republican primary is in absolute disarray. they have been pursuing an abr strategy, anybody but romney strategy and they he have been doing the same thing for the last five years that he has been running for president.

why? the conservatives do not trust him. the evangelicals don't consider him one of their own. they are are desperately searching for someone to come in from the outside. you saw people jumping on the trump band wagon and mitch daniels is wagon. they went to bachmann and cain and perry and now the latest is gingrich. the conservatives are desperate to have someone else other than mitt romney. they don't like him and they don't trust him. he is a flip flopper. the problem is the far right candidates cannot win a general election. i got to say this delays the coronation of mitt romney. >> bernard, great spin, terrible analysis. here is the fact of the matter. primaries are healthy. you are looking for the best candidate because everybody can agree on one thing, barack obama has been an epic failure and you want to defeat him. look at the numbers, bernard, you are a pollster. mitt romney has plenty of

conservative support. newt gingrich leading in conservatives by a little bit. mitt romney has conservative and moderate support. the fact is, it is very, very healthy to go through the primary process unlike democrats who will change rules, have party leaders, you know, cheat for other people. and we saw how the democrats did it last time. remember barack obama and hillary clinton going at each other and splitting your party. primaries happen on both sides. stop with the spin. the reality is that the conservatives and the moderates are united in one quest. barack obama has got to go. >> shannon: bernard, i want to ask you a question. staying in new hampshire and looking at another poll there on the issue of romney and whether or not he has support within the gop. head-to-head, mitt romney against president obama, romney in new hampshire the last poll shows he is up 47% to 44%. when you go to the next popular candidate at this point versus the president, president obama shoots to 52%.

if as you predict republicans aren't crazy about romney and don't end up nominating him do they he do say at their own peril? >> they absolutely do. i have to beg to differ. we had a debate over personality. barack obama and hillary clinton had the same positions a little difference here and there but it was on the margins. >> look at -- that is not what they are saying. >> let pe me finish, please. >> let's see what happened the last newt gingrich rose to power in the republican power. that was 1994. he overreached. he tried to shut down the government. bill clinton was reelected in a landslide. >> bill clinton has nothing to do with newt gingrich. >> let me finish. >> the american people will not support a far right candidate like newt gingrich particularly when it starts to come out he is a show for -- >> we are a centrist country. >> he took $1.6 million from

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>> shannon: pakistan has shut down crucial nato he supply routes into afghanistan following a nato air strike that killed more than two dozen pakistani soldiers. it is the bottom of the hour. peter is standing by with your top stories. hi, pete. hi, shannon. pakistani officials ordered the united states to vacate a drone base in the country. a senior u.s. official says washington has received no such request and that pakistan has made similar eviction threats in the past. three american students arrested in egypt say their detention was the scariest time of their lives. derek sweeney says security

forces threatened to force feed them gasoline. police released the woman suspected of showering black friday shoppers with pepper spray. she is accused of spraying the crowd as a crate of x boxes was being unwrapped. she got away in the confusion but later turned herself in. this season dancing with the stars champ is about to shimmy h his way to the the pentagon. leon panetta invited him this week. he told martinez he demonstrated the strength and resilience of wounded veterans. that is what is going on, shannon. back to you. >> shannon: he was a big fan favorite. would you do dancing with the stars, peter? i think we could mobilize the fox viewers to vote for you if you are willing to take it on. >> i'm not quick enough on the feet. i will stick to the news. >> shannon: thank you, peter.

>> thank you. >> shannon: the arab league approved a broad array of economic sanctions against the syrian government in an attempt to increase pressure on the president to stop a violent crackdown on civilians in that country. leland is live in jerusalem with the latest details. >> it is really unlikely that these are going to make a difference on the ground in syria. youngsters might equate it to the arab league giving the syrian regime a stern talking to. doesn't even rise to the level of a slap on the wrist. number one, it bans arab league countries from giving money to the syrian central bank and turns off the picket for projects funded by arab league countries inside syria and president asad in syria lashing out at the arab league. so far he has killed 3500 citizens. the protests began back in march and now nearing an almost civil war where he is shelling cities, lining people up, torturing then and then, of

course, killing them. where do we go from here? military intervention seems unlikely. the west and certainly the arab leaguing which is behind u.n. and nato intervention inside of libya has said nothing of the sort right now. the other thing to remember is this, the united states and the eu have already put much, much stronger sanctions on the syrian regime but have yet to tighten the noose and since they have both russia and iran in its quarter it seems unlikely the international commune sit going to do anything that has enough teeth to make a difference for these people on the ground every day risking their lives trying to ask for democracy there inside syria. shannon, back to you. >> shannon: thank you very much for the update. a redistricting battle heating up in the lonestar state could at the nation's highest court. the texas state attorney general will file an appeal to the supreme court over what he deems redistricting maps.

a federal panel drew up the maps after minority groups sued claiming growth in the hispanic and black populations was not represented. the candidate filing period begins monday but the court ordered map will remain in place until the legal issues are settled. the state of california could be a test case for whether president obama's proposed buffett rule which would raise taxes on millionaires would work. that state already has an extra tax bracket for top earners. could t wind up having effects on the middle class? william la jeunesse to explain. >> the president says the resch don't pay their fair share. the buffett rule would tax capital gains at the same rate as income. california already does that with largely disasterrous budgetary results. look here to see why. those earning over $5 million pay a state tax of almost 10%. over 1 million, 8.4%. those earning $80,000 pay just

1.4%. make under 50 grand and you will pay 0.2%. the tax system here already relies heavily on the super rich. in 2007 before the crash just 1% of state taxpayers paid almost 50% of all p. state income taxes. those earning more than 100 grand paid 90%. the reliance on the 1%, about 150,000 taxpayers looks great to the 6 million californians who paid nothing but when the stock market crashed and investment income disappeared so did state revenues, falling by 25%. well, that volatility left, california billions of dollars in debt. >> what is wrong with volatility is that government tends to base their spending decisions on their current revenue when times are good so revenues go up and the

governments spend it. they have short time horizon. >> the one tenth of one percent get half of all capital gains. they get a huge amount of the dividends and rolling back those capital gains and dividends is accounts, though, that ordinary people are not paying more as a percentage of their income than rich people is absolutely the right thing to do. >> so that is the crux of the debate. is it fair for 1% of the people to pay half of the tax and half of the taxpayers pay nothing? most people would say no. but is it also naries warren buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. the lesson from california is that soaking the rich will probably not balance your budgetnd taxing investment income is highly unstable that rises and falls like a roler rollercoaster and that is the dilemma that congress faces right now. back to you. >> shannon: thank you. the 31 days that changed

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new video from pakistan where thousands of protesters converged in front of the u.s. consultate there. 24 pakistani troops killed in the air atrack which nato called a tragic unintended incident. the crowd is chanting down with america. not everyone gets a second chance but some former inmates in tennessee are getting a helping hand from students to land a job on stay out of trouble. elizabeth is live in atlanta to tell us more about the story. hi, elizabeth. >> the unemployment raid for ex-cons is five times higher

than the national average which is why students at belmont university as well as employers in nashville, tennessee are trying to change that. restaurant cook keith wilson and salesman denver shimming have something in common. >> i went to prison for a host of charges. >> i was convicted of bank robbery in 1991 and received a 46 month federal prison sentence. >> today, both say there is one reason they will never go back to a life of crime. all because they were given a second chance. >> when you find a job it is like unbelievable. >> wilson works at burger up, a gourmet joint in nashville, tennessee. his boss, miranda has made it her mission to give ex-cons a new lease on life. more than half of her staff have a criminal background. >> they are not at home. they are not on the streets. they have a responsibility.

they have some where to show up. >> professor stepnick teaches inmates and college students inside prison walls covering topics from literature to interview skills. she believes it is the community's responsibility to put convicts back to work. >> once people are in prison they are going to get out of prison and so are are we going to as members of the community help facilitate them becoming full and productive members of our communities? >> now, shannon, there are also financial incentives for employers. the federal government not only offers tax breaks but they also ensure certain inmates to go back to work. nearly 70 years ago, japan bombed pearl harbor. it changed the fabric of our country socially, economically and politically. craig shirley is the author of december 1941, 31 days that

changed america and saved the world. craig, thank you so much for coming in. >> thank you. >> shannon: and you have some interesting facts in the research for the book. just for example something i didn't know was about in listment rates before pearl harbor and after. >> before pearl harbor the navy was not making its recruitment rates. they considered a draft for the first time in the history of the united states navy. 50% of the enlistees were turned away because they were malnourished or they had bad teeth. december 7 changed everything. the navy actually the recruitment offices nationwide had to go on 24/7 they he had such an outpouring of people wanting to sign up and that was true for the army and marine corps and coast guard. >> shannon: and we were struggling with unemployment issues as well. how did the war and what

happened at pearl harbor change that. >> what happened is president roosevelt instituted to help the british fight nazi germany by lending them battleships and guns and arm aments helped some what to bring america out of war because we were engaged in production which we hadn't been engaged in during the 1930s. we were producing things that were being consumed. that helped slowly lift america out of the great depression. it wasn't until december 7 that we become an arsenal of democracy where detroit is turning out airplanes instead of cars and nash which is the precursor to american motors turning out airplane propellers instead of cars and household appliances. >> shannon: anything that surprised you in your research? >> yeah, it is just how far that people went in not only with the japanese internment but also german american internments and italian american internments and how eck issuesive people went in

this country. there was a woman in kansas sentenced to two years in prison because her sons failed to recite the pledge of allegiance in school. a woman in new jersey was sentenced to two years in prison because she tore up a flag at a parade. a man in chicago stood up and yelled at the image of franklin roosevelt. there was a lot of things that happened in terms of the unity that came forward but a there are also examples of excesses, too. >> shannon: congratulations and best of luck with the book. thanks for coming in. holiday travel. still any deals out there to find? how to avoid breaking the bank this holiday season and when a. splurge might actually be wort. it. while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually se arthritis symptoms.

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>> shannon: brand new numbers just in for black friday 2011 and it is a record breaker. according to the national retail federation a whopping 226 million americans shopped over black friday weekend. up from 212 million last year. the average shopper spent about $398. mostly on clothing and electronics. the sur sa survey shows consumk

advantage of early store hours with nearly a quarter hitting stores at midnight on friday injuries the momentum from the weekend expected to overflow into cyber monday. now, that the who wil the holis upon us many people will be heading to visit friends and family. are there still deals left? chris mcgin nice is here to help us sort it all out. chris i note that you say a deal is not always a deal. what do you mean? >> well, you know, you got to be careful that you don't end up getting what you pay for this year. a lot of people are looking for great deals but like let's look at nonstop flights for example. a nonstop flight i'm looking at flying from here to atlanta for the holiday. a nonstop flight is about $700. if i want to take a one stop flight it is $640. very expensive. but if i take the one stop flight i will save $60. however, i save $60 but i double my chances of getting stuck in a weather related

delay when i stop in dallas or denver on the way home. i think it is important to pay a little bit more and reduce the hassles this holiday season. >> shannon: let me ask you about another place that people are being asked to pay more in the coach cab bin. there are certain seats if you want to sit a certain place or a teeny bit more room. are those kinds of things worth it? >> i think paying more for a coach seat does make a lot of sense during the peak holiday travel season. you will pay anywhere from 15 up to $100 more for the seat and you get a little more space but the important thing during the holiday travel season is that you will get early boarding access and get on the plane earlier which gives you access to overhead bin space is a lot more important when planes are really full. >> they are. for folks who say it is about the bottom line, if they want to travel they have got to shave off the dollars some where are there ways for them still to do that now? >> well, one thing that i think

that you need to do is look what you are packing in your wallet. for example, a lot of the credit cards that business travelers are carrying now are really packing a lot more punch these days. for example, the american express platinum card is offering access to 600 lounges around the world. they offer credit on your card for up to $200 for obnoxious things like baggage fees or inflight food or beverages. another thing is staying at a hotel over the holidays. a lot of people think mom and dad really want me to stay at the house. do they really and do you really want to stay on that lumpy mattress? hotels in suburban office parks, those that are frequented by business travelers are very, very slow this time of year so they really roll out the discounts of 50% or 60%. stay at a nearby hotel and i think everybody will be a little bit happier. >> shannon: sometimes people need their space. >> exactly. now, if you really got to get a

great deal you have to travel outside the typical travel peak season this year which is coact. christmas on a sunday this year. the following weekend is new years and it is on a sunday. very expensive. you can go a week before or after that. that is where the savings come. if you you want to travel in that peak week it is very expensive. >> shannon: have to be flexible. thanks as all for the tips and safe travels. >> thank you. >> shannon: an update on how you at home helped out a charity that connects military families. and your twitter comments, next. looking good! you lost some weight.

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>> shannon: an update on a wonderful charity we told you about earlier this month that helps fly families of wounded soldiers to be with loved ones in the hospital. thanks to you at home they have raised more than $46,000. enough to help them purchase pore than 100 airline tickets for families of wounded warriors. thank you so much. the holiday campaign is called no soldier spends christmas alone. if you would like to donate as well go to lukes wing.org. we love hearing from you at home. we have been asking you is it fair or unfair to call newt gingrich's immigration stance amnesty. sharon says it is definitely amnesty and for me i would not consider gingrich for dog catcher. bob tells us it is more like facing reality. jackie says it is