thank you, leland for filling. >> he is having more fun than we are. >> ben, our buddy, turning nine. have a great day with your dad. "happening now" starts right now. >> have a great weekend. thank you very much. heather: white house doubling down on aggressively pushing its agenda despite historic losses for democrats in the midterm elections. welcome to happening now, i'm heather nauert in for jenna lee. >> good good morning, everyone,m eric shawn in for jon scott. president obama is expected to announce the sweeping executive orders overhauling immigration laws and it could happen as early as next week. the president calling for more regulation of the internet and stricter environmental rules. we're also awaiting a vote in the house on the keystone oil pipeline today. after six years of delay the today's vote would mark the ninth attempt for republicans to approve. that senate expected to follow

suit with its own keystone vote next week. the president indicated he would veto that bill. the flashpoint of anticipation of support and also of outrage is his pending move on immigration. mercedes sclhapp media spokesman for president george w. bush. marjorie clifton forker spokesman for the obama campaign join me now. mercedes, is this political payoff to la raza and latino activists or humane way to legalize people already here? >> i think it is both. he made campaign promise to latino voters he would do something on immigration reform and he hasn't been able to act. quite frankly what wee seen though, if he does move forward on this, unilateral executive action on immigration, which 63% of americans disagree with, he really is creating a very dangerous scenario. we have a very fragile relationship with this new congress and the president.

and quite frankly he runs the risk of losing bipartisan support on other very important issues like tax reform and trade. this is not a good way to start his opening act with the new congress. jon: marjorie he is being defiant an arrogant in harry reid reportedly asked him not to do this? is he doing something as part of his principles to help people? >> 2008 when he made all of his campaign promises little did know he would walk into congressional environment led to not getting a lot of things done. politics won't change. but what has not changed he doesn't have to cover senate democrats he was protecting going into the midterms. he is able to stretch his legs and prove he is not a lame duck president and there are things like climate change and immigration reform. prior to he already made it to he was going to do this. i would say the challenge for a lot of republicans because there are a lot of republicans that want to see this done, i worked on this issue for a lot of

years. this is real challenge. this has to be done for whoever will take the white house, without immigration reform you're losing a critical bloc of voters. i don't think he has any choice to push this through. with the republican party split on it, there is nothing else to be done. jon: talk about stretching his legs, look what "investor's business daily" says about this what they predict is pretty astounding. the president could have passed any type of amnesty bill he wanted to when he had veto-proof majority in 2009 and 2010. he waited until now to use executive order for amnesty, why? not only poor immigrants likely voting democratic offsetting the gop enormous electoral gains and more likely to be on welfare. for democrats that two-fer and politics and largest expansions of the welfare state in our nation's history. mercedes, do you think that will happen? >> well, yeah, here we're looking at greatest expansion we're seeing on immigration. if he pushes forward on executive action he is not

addressing the root of the problems which include for example, employer verification eye december. which include for example, visa overstays of 45% of individual who come over here and stay is because they overstayed their visas. we're not dealing with root of the problem. quite frankly all those piecemeal approach legislations in the house, president actually approved most of them but he wants a comprehensive reform. which is not going to pass in the house. instead of going forward and trying to negotiate with congress making this get done the right way which is exactly what the voters asked for through these midterm elections, their mandate to make sure we break gridlock in washington and president and congress work together he is trying to do solo act with in the end incredibly jeopardizes this relationship between the president and congress and quite frankly he feels he is running out of time. that is why he will steam roll congress and voters. jon: marjorie, let me get you in. >> i would argue they have been trying to get comprehensive and

bipartisan support for six years. 25 if you look at historically. past years of his administration they made a lot of attempts. part of it was there were other pieces of legislation though chose to put for the before land like health care bill. now it is time he has gone to congress, multiple, multiple times to look for alternatives. the comprehensive bill is about solving all of the different pieces. it includes h1b visas which are temporary and high-tech visas are critical to our business community. but they also include all of the comprehensive pieces that include security as well as path to citizenship which have to be done in order to truly be effective instead of piecemealing it and he knows that. jon: jon: more jury, what do you think will happen? >> i think he will put through an executive order. republicans are put in a position if they try to shut down congress which is one approach some republicans are talking about, that will look really bad. when you go into the next presidential election and you say look, we purposely tried to block this comprehensive bill by

the way has republican supporters in congress it will be a hard thing to do. so i'm hoping it will go through. >> mercedes, your prediction. >> senator mitch mcconnell made it clear they will not go forward and shut down government on this particular issue if the president moves ahead but i believe it is in republican's advantage to move forward on immigration reform. this is beneficial for the economy. we need to find middle ground, bipartisan support where republicans and democrats work together. this is primarily from republicans looking at political standpoint to do outreach to at lino voters where immigration is incredibly important for that constituency. >> we're out of time. it is coming next week. man, has it caused a flashpoint. heather? heather: talking about a flashpoint this next one is real. the plot thickens again today after architect of obamacare is caught on video once again calling american voters stupid. now more video is your fasting of mit professor, jonathan uber

as democrats continue to try to distance themselves from this growing controversy. doug mckelway is live in washington with more on this story. dug as it comes it he was paid $400,000 by the government for his expertise, what are democrats saying about this now? >> reporter: not much because they want to be as far away from this guy as possible. heather, another really remarkable, stunning comment coming out of the mouth of jonathan gruber. he points out what he believed to be the passage of romneycare in massachusetts. listen up. >> the dirty secret in massachusetts is the feds pay for our bill. in massachusetts we had powerful senator named ted kennedy. ted kennedy basically figured out and smart people of massachusetts basically way to rip off the feds for $400 million a year. >> reporter: gruber on many occasions talked about that $400 million of federal money that helped pay for the massachusetts health care plan. he once called it ripping off the feds you heard in that

comment. on another occasion he called it a slush fund. listen up. >> ted kennedy, who had been delivering $400 million of slush funds to the safety-net hospitals that the bush administration was threatening to take away. romney administration to their credit went to washington and said, can we keep this money if we use it to cover unensured? the bush administration to their credit said yes. >> reporter: that money was the key to paying for the successful massachusetts plan or was it successful? just today in fact massachusetts is relaunching its health connector because of cost overruns and other problems. gruber sits on the board of the health connector. he was asked this station wbz up in boston how you move on from the problem-plagued connector? his response was quote, i think basically move exactly the way we've done it. massive outreach, end quote. meanwhile in washington democrats are distancing themselves from gruber while republicans are talking about bringing him in to testify. >> and i think a lot of democrats in the senate voted for it based upon,redicated

upon this guy's analysis because he was supposed to be so right. and now he comes out and basically tells them we were hoodwinking american people. >> reporter: gruber very least given new impetus to obama care repeal bills in both houses. we'll hear a lot about that coming in january. heather, back to you. >> doug mckelway, in washington. gets more and more interesting, doesn't it? thank you. >> reporter: sure does. heather: we'll look at media coverage or shall we say lack thereof of media networks. are some networks trying to cover up the obamacare controversy? the media panel will join us in a little bit. >> overseas, iraq says security forces says they scored a major victory over isis, taking over a town in baghdad home to the largest oil refinery. this victory seen as another step to try to take back their country. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot live in london with the very latest. greg, why is this victory over

isis so significant? >> reporter: well it is an important town, eric. being billed as the biggest gain yet by iraqi forces against isis. iraqi officials are saying that the town of beji, actually city, are free of terrorists. iraqi forces says last of them left today. it was seized by ices is as you know back in the summer, back in june. that's when the iraqi forces were not doing too well. today they did pretty well although it did take a month to the drive terrorists out and included u.s. coalition airstrikes. now the city is important because it sits right next to one of iraq's biggest oil refineries, and, more importantly perhaps, serves as a hub for the terrorist's lucrative oil smuggling business. also a very important jumping off place for biggest challenge face iraq and united states is taking back the second biggest city in iraq, mosul in the north part of that country, also from isis terrorists.

that could be happening as early as next spring. and there are a lot of reports coming out of washington that u.s. ground troops would be involved in that effort. eric. >> greg, abu bakr al-baghdadi, head of unite the state of isis has his own caliphate and trying to create their own currency? >> >> reporter: this is very strange one. it was announced leader of isis ordered this currency to be produced. they are coins of gold, silver and copper in denominations said to be anywhere from $700 to 7 cents. it is looked at a bit skeptically by economists while very well-funded it is says isis will have to get its hands on a whole bunch of precious metals to turn the coins out. there is growing problem they have providing services in cities they occupied. there are shortages of electricity and water in mosul. the local populace are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with

isis administrative abilities. one observer equipped, next to isis we will come up with its own postal service, terror mailmen. report. >> gregg, thank you so much. kt mcfarland says regional players need to step up to the plate. egypt and saudi arabia have more troops and britain and france they're not even deployed there? she says the u.s. should take a much different approach. she will come up later on. heather: meantime we're heading into one of the most wonderful times of year at least for retailers and for many of us. they are coming off a pretty strong october. retail sales rising half a percent last month beating expectations. it shows shoppers are opening their wallets just a bit more these days. that can only help wall street's run through record territory. right now the dow jones average checks in, we're down six points at 17,000. the dow hit yesterday its 25th record high of the

year. nice job. >> there has been a security scare at a u.s. navy base. two officers wounding, they were wounded after confronting a knife-wielding suspect. they say the suspect was trying to enter the facility that is the home to nuclear-armed submarines. we'll have the latest what happened there. plus a new report on a security breach at the white house. what is being called now, a quote comedy of errors bit secret service. that they say allowed an armed intruder to get all the way into the white house and through the east room. plus scary moments in a shoe store, a man with a knife punches a female store clerk in the face. it was all caught on video. so ally bank really has no hidden fees on savings accounts? that's right. it's just that i'm worried about you know "hidden things..." ok, why's that? no hidden fees, from the bank where no branches equals great rates.

eric: update on some crime stories we're following for you. in connecticut two navy civilian pleasers have been hurt with a knife-wielding man tried to enter the main gate at nuclear

submarine base in graten the suspect is in custody. they say there is no reason to believe this incident is linked in any way to terrorism. in san francisco a judge ordered a man who dresses assess me street character elmo. he awaits trial on news san charges, allegedly harassing tourists. shoe store clerk is punch in the face by a customer. they collared the 20-year-old suspect. he faces assault an concealed weapons charges. his bail set at $2,000. no word why he allegedly did that. heather: review by department of homeland security. details what one lawmaker calls a comedy of errors by the secret service. a series of blunders allowed a man with a knife to scale a white house fence, run across the lawn into the mansion. omar gonzalez was charged with

weapons possession and unlawfully entering a restricted building. this incident was considered the last straw after several agencies errors led to the resignation of secret service director julia pierson. with more on the investigation, molly henneberg live at white house. those are words you do not want in the same sentence, comedy and secret service. >> reporter: comedy of errors and secret service you don't want to hear that together, heather. republican congressman bob goodlatte the chairman of the house security committee he is one that says the report reads like comedy of errors due to lack of training, poor communication and lax physical security here in the white house. when omar gonzalez jumped the white house fence on september 19th, quote, the k-9 officer was on a call on his personal cell phone on speaker without his radio earpiece in his ear. and he had left his second tactical radio in his locker. several officers said in the report that they did not fire

their guns at gonzalez because he did not appear to be armed. they were chasing him down and report continues, quote, one officer followed gonzalez in the bushes but lost sight of him as gonzalez passed through the bushes to run up to the white house northport coen trans. they believed the bushes too thick to be passible. there is this report. the white house doors were closed and assumed they were locked and gonzalez would be cornered. by the time he realized the doors were not locked, gonzalez was inside of the white house. democratic congressman denny thompson said some problems may be due to lack of resources but others he contends are quote, systemic and indicative of secret service culture. heather? heather: molly henneberg at the white house. learning something from that. have a great weekend. eric: defense secretary chuck hagel taking a hard look at the nation's nuclear arsenal. why he wants to beef up and

modernize our decades-old weapons stockpile. iraqi forces scored a big victory against islamic terrorists of isis taking back that key city from their grip. this comes as they say continuing u.s.-led airstrikes have not slowed down the flow of foreign fighters joining the terrorist group. they're still coming. how do we stop them before they strike here?

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heather: returning to one of our top stories this morning, iraqi security forces making some headway against isis terrorists, retaking the country's largest oil refining town, baiji. that is the name of the town north of baghdad. centcom says there are 900 strikes in iraq and syria since the start of the u.s.-led

campaign. are we making progress against terrorist who is say they have western targets in their sites? kt mcfarland, former deputy assistant secretary of defense in the reagan administration. kt, is this good news? >> it is good news today but it is going back and forth. i think we're seeing a beginning after 30-year war in the middle east. you have shiites on one side, that is iran, allied with the iraqi, baghdad, iraqi military which is shiite. on the other hand you have isis and the sunnis. and they're making alliances with al qaeda, with sunni, they're not moderate rebels anymore. they used to be moderate. they're not anymore. you're really seeing a fight between shiites and sunnis, a fight to the finish fueled by arab oil money and i think they keep fighting. >> we have a lot of stuff to cover here. one of the big stories came out al qaeda and also some of the, al nusra front, they're working

together along with isis in syria. that spells some real trouble for us. what do we do with that piece of information? >> this is like the mafia has a lot of different families. the families gotten together and they will be one big mafia family, fighting with isis. isis, al qaeda, al nusra front, all different alphabet soups of radical jihad and they have one goal, which is to establish a caliphate through the entire region and kill everybody. heather: how do we fight that? a lot of our partners, we have some partners helping through airstrikes and other means but we're still not getting to the root of the problem. >> you got it, and that is the real key to all of this. we can't do this for them. sunni-arab states, moderates in the region need to step up to do the fighting. i'm a hawk but i disagree with a lot of other hawks who think we should send in more and more american forces. we will train them, help them, stiffen their spines, they will fight isis. we tried. that we've done that for 10 years and it hasn't worked. right back where we were 10 years ago and yet we've spent a

lot of american lives and materiel and money and we've really gotten not much for it. instead of holding their coats, we need to have them do the fighting. we'll help them and give them what they need but shouldn't be our people there. heather: one of the things dempsey was talking on the hill yesterday, the possibility of putting small numbers of american troops on the ground going on certain missions with u.s. forces. what do you think of that idea? that is the exact opposite of what president obama talked about. >> you're right. president obama said at the very beginning of this campaign back in beginning summer, no boots on the ground, no american combat forces, but we have centcom bat forces in. heather: are they being good cop, bad cop? >> they don't want to identify ground forces because that triggers a lot of things like war nowers act. the president says they're not dueing fighting. >> like obamacare they're -- >> they're trying to smooth it around. president of joint chiefs of staff went on the hill, we may need to send it no more combat

forces. he has been given a mission to defeat and destroy al qaeda but you can't do it with a handful of forces particularly with our allies in the region not stepping up to the plate. heather: kt, we haven't talked about who is paying the administration asking congress more than $5 billion now. do you think he could ask iraqis to put the bill or coalition partners? any signs anybody is willing to chip in? >> no. iron think of bush administration at beginning of iraq war said it will not cost us anything, the wealthy arab countries will pay for it. here we are 2 doll trillion later. we're asking more money to pay a corrupt incompetent military we spent $30 billion training and equiping not been up to the job. heather: correct me if i'm not wrong we're not giving weapons directly to the kurd, the people fighting that still goes through the iraqi government. >> the one group to fight is the kurd and we're not arming them.

heather: kt mcfarland, thank you so much. always appreciate your expertise. eric? >> thank you, kt. defense secretary chuck hagel is ordering drastic changes to the management of our nuclear weapons arsenal. it protected us through the cold war. now the secretary said billions of dollars are needed to keep it safe and fix what he calls a nuclear force that suffers from security flaws, leadership problems and sagging morale. this comes after recent reports of numerous problems over the past two years including lapses in training and even cheatings on nuclear exams. heather? heather: unwith of the architects of obamacare is igniting a major firestorm with simply outrageous comments like this about american voters. >> you know call it the stupidity of the american voter. american voter is too stupid to understand. basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the american voter. heather: not just once but twice, the guy keeps going and going. lawmakers on the hill demanding accountability. why has the mainstream media

basically ignored this story? plus there is this. [siren] dramatic dash-cam video shows cops bringing down a suspected drunk driver but the woman who was behind the wheel, who admits that she was at fault, is now suing the officer who fired at her. does she have a case? >> there was no reason to fire that weapon. he was trying to kill this woman. and there was no reason to do it. >> i'm hurt that he shot me but, the bottom line is that i am sorry for my actions, that caused this.

eric: we're stupid and oh, yeah, we hid the obamacare tax. you think those stunning comments from obama care architect jonathan gruber would cause a media firestorm. after more videos were uncovered of the mit professor revealing obamacare was written to mislead about its real cost he said this now-infamous remark about american voters. >> you know, call it stupidity of the american voter. the american voter is too stupid to understand the difference. basic exploitation of the lack of the economic understanding of the american voter. eric: the professor's comments raising new questions about obamacare that could hand him in the hot seat testifying before congress. despite all of this, many big three television networks chosen to ignore the story. take a look. cbs covering the gruber story two times. it was a complete blackout on

abc and nbc. why? joining us now, judith miller, pulitzer-prize-winning investigative reporter. fox news contributor and lynn sweet, washington bureau chief for "the chicago sun-times." he admits they lied. he admits they hid the tax. they pulled the covers over the supreme court. they played us for chumps. and the media ising thoring this? >> yeah, it's truly amazing. even mica brezniski, said my gosh, extraordinarily double-standard of media. can you imagine if a george bush official said this about the war in iraq, what americans would be saying and what the media would be doing? in this case, professor gruber is like no where to be seen, until yesterday, even "the wall street journal" didn't cover this story. i really think there's no excuse for not covering this story

because what professor gruber said was actually what a lot of people in the administration think. and he has become now the poster-child for problems in communicating the benefits of this program just as the rollout was kind of the poster child for incompetence when this program was initially unveiled. eric: so do you think, as you say, what the administration officials think, you actually think they think that we're stupid? >> they said they didn't. they said they didn't believe. that and what he said did not represent their views but the fact of the matter is, he said it not once but three times and he never said, he said he regretted saying it but he didn't say that it was wrong. eric: lynn, i mean, you know, this smoke, there is fire. what about these comments and how come it hasn't made more of an impact in mainstream media? >> i predict it will. let me say it is never the right thing, no matter what your political views to call the american people stupid.

that i might say is what is stupid here. what an arrogant elitist. okay, yes, the bill is very technical. yes it is hard to understand as our are a lot of things that are written in the legalese, even in stuff not as controversial as obamacare and i'm sorry, not all of us are phds in economics from mit. and probably at the moment a lot of people are confusing gruber and uber but, i think this story will pick up storm, will pick up legs because the new enrollment period for obamacare starts saturday. when republicans take over the senate, they're going to use the gruber comments and probably call him before a committee to reinforce the more substantive argument there are problems in the law. eric: if he is called before the committee, lynn, man, oh, man, the story can't be ignored then. >> no, i don't think so but i also do think that, this is a conservative news success story. you know, it was the these

comments were found and being pushed out and sometimes it just take a while for the arc of a story to reach its peak. eric: judy, last comment, do you think it will be a while before january or february if he is called. >> it will be picked up. agree with lynn. it took six days to the got amount of publicity we see now. once the mime catches on, professor gruber will be have a lot to account for and will be asked to do before hearings are called. we may be on to another disaster by then but this is surely a public relations challenge for the administration. eric: and by then the professor may be taught some lessons. >> and the debacle that all those wise people, defending obamacare should have seen coming. they should have been monitoring this too. >> absolutely. eric: lynn, that you so much. heather? heather: the man accused of abducting uva student hannah graham is in court on unrelated

case. jesse matthew pleading not guilty to the attempted murder and rape after woman in fairfax, virginia, back in 2005. that trial date is set for march of next year. officials say forensic evidence links him to the fairfax rape and also, to the murder of the virginia tech student, morgan harrington. let's bring in our legal panel. fred tecce, former federal prosecutor and esther panitche, criminal defense attorney. there are still cases of other missing women out there right now. let's focus on these few cases. why are prosecutors choosing, fred i want to start with you, choosing to start with the case of this rape and abduction that took place in 2005 and not what is perhaps considered more serious case, the murder case? >> because i think, what they're doing is, that there is a death penalty in the commonwealth of virginia i think what they're trying to do, this is a capital case he is charged with attempted murder, the case against him is very strong, there is no statute of limitations i think the commonwealth is doing, try to get him convicted for this case,

when they charge him with the murder of either virginia tech student or hannah graham it will be easy for them to seek the death penalty, given this guy is horrific predator who preys upon young women and he deserves the death penalty and taking ultimate steps to effectuate that. heather: i'm not a lawyer. can they link all the cases together and go for the death penalty like that? >> if he can prove in the capital murder case he has a history of rape or sexual assault and possibly other murders they can use it as aggravators. that is what jury or judge will ultimately have to decide. aggravators versus mitigator. a mitigator could be he was very good person in the community aside from these horrible actions, if he is in fact guilty. but an aggravator like a conviction for rape certainly will help them push it over to a death penalty. heather: so they will try to try tie all of these things together. fred, you say his lawyers want

to do psychological examination. they determine if he is criminally insane and they do he is going to go away for life, right. >> no, they will not be able to prove he is criminally insane. the question is whether he knows right or wrong. remember this guy buried and hid his victims, during course of the rape in 2005, stopped when a passer-by came through. he can control the actions. he knows to hide and fled after these investigations got started. this guy clearly knows right from wrong which is the salient point that the prosecution has to show. i don't see this guy getting a psychological pass on this one. heather: we have second topic i want to ask you about, before we go there i want to get pack to the fact there are still missing women out there. what are investigators doing behind scenes to link these cases or solve these cases, esther? >> it is possible if they need the information they might strike a deal with this man if he in fact did i closes, if he was responsible and discloses where these other people are

buried or, probably buried, then then they may take the death penalty off the table. i don't know that at the would be so inclined but that is usually what happens when they want the information. they have to bargain with something. so what is the most important thing they can bargain with? whether they seek the death penalty or life in prison. heather: let's hope we get to the bottom of those cases. second topic to bring you, this is really something else, this is case out of utah. we have dramatic dash-cam video of a woman driving, led cops on 40-minute chase at night. police cars eventually cornered her in cul-de-sac. the police officer shot. take a look at this. [siren] [gunfire] you can see it right there. this happening in utah, the sergeant fire as single shot. it struck the woman in the left high eye. she says she has no memory of incident. in a news conference yesterday the woman says doctors believe either head trauma or alcohol use were to blame for this. but she is now suing the police

officer and the county, arguing that he used unnecessary force in the shooting that happened in 2012. fred, you can't make this stuff up. >> no, you can't. and you know, interestingly, tough to tell what her claim is. if it is civil rights claim that will fail as matter of law because it has to be really egregious. if it is negligence claim that means the officer did something he wasn't supposed to do. believe it or not in utah you can show she was at least 50% at fault, complete bar to recovery. called comparative negligence. so i've watched videotape. i mean do i think it may have been too much force, deadly force? don't like to second-guess police but that, car was rolling toward the police officer, i think she has a tough road to hoe here. >> esther, what our viewers did not see in the video, she applies the gas at some point. the car lurches forward to the officer. at some point she tries to back up. all of this after 40-minute

chase. they had thrown down the strips to stop her. she still didn't stop. hard to argue that the police officer did, used excessive force. >> right. well, you know my first reaction was, you know this woman has a lot of chutzpah to go after the police officer. >> exactly. >> for behavior she caused herself. but on the other hand would it have been okay if the officer shot her 30 times? no. there are limits to deadly force. and so, is it possible, he should have shot her in the legs to disable her? there were other things he could have done beside shoot her in the head. he obviously didn't init tend to aim for her eye. he probably intended to kill her. fortunately she is alive but, we need to examine how much deadly force is reasonable. heather: good question. we'll have to leave it there. fred tecce, esther panitche. >> enjoy your weekend, thank you. eric: heather, have you booked your holiday travel yet? our next guest says it is not too late to snag a good deal and

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eric: hotels, you talk thanks giving to christmas. fascinating. business travelers are not traveling. makes an opening for rest of us? >> exactly. really depend on market. some markets are popular over thanksgiving. europe is great destination over thanksgiving holiday. they have most airlines discount business class to less than $2,000 round-trip. which isn't so bad considering coach can be 12 or 1300. especially check over the holidays how much first class is. eric: you're right. they don't celebrate thanksgiving in france. >> first class is empty. time to go to europe. eric: how do you find out about these sales? >> sites like air fare watchdog and flight deal tweet out constantly. deals come and go in minutes. eric: one thing you want to think about, plan way ahead because you think you will get a deal if you do but you say that is not necessarily true? >> the airlines take advantage of nervous nellies. for christmas and new year's,

best time first week of december. for international pays to work in advance. as time goes on fares rise dramatically. thanksgiving, early november is generally good time frame. always double-check using frequent flyer miles especially last minute. they open up tons of low level frequent flyer mile tickets. >> last minute, a few days. >> a lot of airlines if there is open seats they want people to use miles. you would be blown away how much availability there is. most people think you have to book in advance but it is exact opposite. eric: what is your advice to have a trip, go away for long weekend few days before, what should you do? >> like i said, check social media. be flexible with your destination. like i said, europe in the fall is still beautiful. less tourists. a lot of airlines have off-peak award tickets which can be great value. i say try to be flexible and go where everyone else isn't going. eric: christmas go up to alaska maybe? >> yeah, maybe. >> when you say check social

media. who do you mean? you have your site. >> points.com. we right about all top airline deals and maximize credit cards for frequent flyer miles. a bunch blogs delve into deals whether it is worth it. flight deal.com. air fare watchdog. >> because you weren't here three weeks ago i'm working through the holidays. that's okay. interesting. heather? heather: we'll find another time for you to go away, eric. what goes through your mind if you're dangling 69 stories above the streets of new york city? now two window watchers are saying what they were thinking about as their frightening ordeal above the world trade center. when it comes to medicare, everyone talks

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obamacare architect, gruber who called the american people stupid. could this undermine the president's credibility and set stage for repeal of health care law? >> nancy pelosi, former house speaker accusing the speaker of sexism if she might step down as house minority leader after democrats got steamrolled in the midterm election? does the lady protest too much or is there double-standard. more stars talking about their faith is hollywood finally safe for religion. our hashtag one lucky guy quart cameron knows better than most. >> we're excited. almost as excited as when we see eric shawn. eric: excited to see you six minutes from now. >> have a great friday. eric: you too. heather: two men are speaking out about their ordeal earlier this week. they dangled helplessly high up

on the side of america's tallist building. the window washers were trapped more than an hour on 69th floor of one world trade center in new york city right after their rig malfunctioned. laura engle has the details. >> reporter: hi, heather. happy to be alive at least how one of the veteran window washers describes how he is feeling today after his terrifying ordeal which he and his partner were danglinghundred feet in the for hours wednesday afternoon the life and death situation unfold at newly opened one world trade center. something happened to one of the two cable lines attached to the scaffold fold to cause it to uncoil and send the rig into near vertical position. we heard from 41-year-old juan lizama and 31-year-old yawn lopez. they spoke to reporters for a half hour what its like to be dangling outside of the nation's tallest skyscraper. lizama called his wife and said

it might be last opportunity to speak to each other and lopez the two din say much to each other in effort to remain calm. >> in beginning it was panic and pretty much survival instinct for a few minutes. after that, kind of clear your mind and try to get ahold of the situation. >> reporter: firefighters used diamond cutters to saw through a double layer window to pull them into safety. the port authority and federal occupational and safety administration, osha, both announced investigations. scaffold rig was investigate the wednesday morning as required before the window washers worked. juan lopez joked he might look into a ground floor window washing job for the time-being. heather: i can't say i blame him. laura engle. thank you. eric: sound like a good idea. here are stories we're following for you in the second hour of "happening now" an hour from now. government officials collecting information from your cell phone? we'll fill you in. police testing out a new system to respond to active school

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eric: we'll see you back in a hour. heather: outnumbered starts now. >> right now we are awaiting a vote to approve the coestone -- keystone oil pipeline. so this is setting the stage potentially for something big to happen, because for the first time in the six-year fight over the pipeline, there will be a bicameral vote. today is the ninth attempt by the house to get approval for the pipeline which has been repeatedly delayed, as you know, by environmental reviews, legal challenges and politics, as we've opinion reporting to you. but this week senate democrats dropped their opposition in hopes of helping out one of their own, louisiana senator mary landrieu. but note this: the white house has just hinted at a possible presidential veto. so even if it got