right there means everything to me, man. >>> katie ellis has not seen or spoken to her husband, chad whitee months. both have been serving time in the hillsborough county jail. but chad recently had a court date and expected to be released on probation. >> i don't know if he's been released. i put him down for visitation. he told me to put him down for 2:00 today. i'm so excited. i'm excited. i'm so excited. i know i'll be so crushed if he doesn't come. i'll probably cry if he doesn't show up. just because i didn't know what happened. you know? >> waiting for you right now. i'm nervous for you. i'm excited. >> the visit is even more important than katie knows. chad plans on breaking some life altering news. >> i want to tell her face to face that i came up positive for hepatitis "b" and "c" and she needs to go to the clinic in jail. >> both know any number of factors could prevent their visit from happening today. >> it could mean he's not released yet or couldn't make it here. i mean, he doesn't have a car, so i mean, if he doesn't show up it's probably just he's not released. that's abou

white flags. a complete debacle. >> bret: unnamed republicans telling our chad pergram we won the policy, lost the politics.publican said speaker boehner will have a hard time holding on to his speakership after this. that seemed a bit bold. but obviously a lot of concern in the republican caucus. >> well, that is the complicated issue. speaker boehner style through leading this caucus. to threat senior conservative members joining them to create the flock and let them see the writing on the wall. his critics say he let them -- he often let the vote fail. to show them that the tea party does not control the senate. that they don't have enough votes. in the house or the senate to get to muscle through what they want. they have not changed washington. not cut enough spending. that is a difficult process for them. the style is lay back and let them conclude they are powerless for the reality they don't have the vote. people have issue with that. there has been differences in the leadership table in the last few days. there is concern when it was passed in the senate. speaker boehner knew there would be concern

chad has some weather news for you. jessica yellin, the senior white house correspondent. we heard from you, the president putting the pressure on house leadership as he is really making this personal, personifying this ill pass to the american people. >> reporter: think about the stalemate the president faced earlier this summer where he was fighting with congress over a vague and confusing issue. the debt ceiling that didn't hit americans in any direct way. contrast that with this issue which hits americans directly in their wallet. if this isn't resolved by january 1, your average american family will see $40 less in their paycheck. it couldn't be more simple and a more clear argument for the president to be making, that congress should get its act together and resolve this one way or another. a very clear fight for the president to be having. not only that, he has both republicans and democrats in the senate on his side. and it is just republicans in the house who are in opposition to him. so he couldn't be in a sweeter spot for himself. it is a very easy fight for him

chad. is it going to be tough? >> it's more wet than white surprisingly.wet christmas in a lot of the northeastern states, even here in georgia. could pick up a couple inches of rain. tornado watches and warnings are in effect. tornado warnings. doppler indicated potential tornadoes. another one that was just issued for parts of mississippi. you say how can there be tornadoes, it's wintertime, the first day of winter? well, because it's so warm down here. birmingham, montgomery, temperatures almost 70 degrees. the sun popping out. big storms are back off to the west. it's part of the next system because there are cold, cold parts of the country and warm parts of the country separated by a significant jet stream. the jet stream does this, that allows the cold air to come down from the north. as the jet stream goes up over here, that allows the warm air to infiltrate the southeastern part of the u.s. it's very warm. very wet outside. the humidity is very high. even airports are getting a little bit slow. not seeing any airport slowdowns in the southeast yet.

chad myers, people in other parts of the kourmt trcountry ag a white christmas, yes?santa is putting the skateboards on the bottom of his sleds. he's going to be roller blading. >> new mexico is bad. people are trying to go up and down i-25 and i-10. they are both closed. you do need to watch and el paso. that's the northern border right there of mexico. it should be warm there. >> they should get rain but they are getting snow. >> yes. it allowed the cold air to get sucked down to el paso let's go forward a couple of days for your monday travel home. it's going to be raining across the deep south. the only area that we'll have a white christmas, this is going to be a wet christmas rather than a white christmas. 102 across parts of ontario, quebec, we should be in a great shape. and the planes are not that big. don't worry about missing your departure. >> knocking on this glass desk that it doesn't get too bad for people traveling. chad myers. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> some media in syria are describing two suicide car bombs that killed at least 30 people there