in today's "closing bell" exchange, former chief economist of the vice president joe biden, oliver perch from gary goldberg and matt cheslock and rick santelli, thank you very much. jarred, you wrote an article

so if jim demint decides to use this perch -- by the way, he's also making a million dollars in thisew job. if he decides to punish thousand republicans who stray by compromising, the tea party still stays in -- >> he thought he could be nor effect outside the senate than inside senate. is there something going on in the senate that makes him a logical move? >> of that whole generation that came in this 2010 , these were the outsiders, they were going to change washington. they didn't want to be here but they had to come to shake things up. most of them stayed around and what was interesting in how hard they fought to hold on to their seats for someone who was just going to come here and do their time and leave. these folks are getting comfortable in it. he's leaving a pretty impressive legacy behind. marco rubio. i don't know that he loved it all that much in the first place. this seems like a much better fit. >> republicans who are feeling pressured by the possible primary challenge. >> senator lindsay graham is one. how does this impact his prospects? >> lindsay graham has been a

speak to you about the lessons that we have learned as law enforcement had to come off of the high perch, in los angeles, law enforcement learned, to their great fortune, that collaboration is the answer. i am going to talk to you about some of the lessons that were learned. i can tell you first that the people -- we have learned lessons from have been gang members themselves my research is engaged with talking to those current, active gang members and former gang members. i work to collect their life histories. we have over 300 life histories. and still the stories do not stop. what did we learn about people in gangs? i recall early on, sitting down with someone whose gang name was smiley. he is written about in my book. smiley was a young man of 19, when i first sat down with him at home when industries. one thing he said to me was -- why was no one there for me. why does no one speak to me and why did nobody tried to stop this. he was arrested when he was 16 years old. he was told to lie about his age and say he was 18, so they could be together in jail. and from there his story unfol

people we lost in 2012. ,,,,,,,,,,,, tarantino and "les miz" co't knock "the hobbit" off its x office perch. the fantasy epic was number one for a third weeka row. "the hobbit: an unexpected journey" took >>> even kwint tarrantino, the hobbit took in almost $33 million. jiang oh and change and musical les miserables. >> 2012 was the year we say good-bye to legendary entertainers, sports star writers and heroes and her ions oines. >> ♪ [ music ] ♪ ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, vikings beat the green bay packers today... ...that met if the 49ers could close out arizona...they would not on win the nfc west but also g first round bye.... jim harbaugh a >>> the minnesota viekkings beat the packers today. jim is looking for the division. cardinals jump out to 6 out. mike trade a 49-yard. 9ers took the lead. 2 76 yards. it was 17-6. san francisco, no. 51 for his career, an all time king. 9ers win 27-13. >> it's a 24 to 7 lead. raiders brought them back. it was less that 2 minutes left. the raiders are down 24-2 1. no time outs left. san diego recovers and they win. 4-12. back to 49ers. playoff tickets go on sa

as the volunteer firefightrs were arriving on scene.police say 62-year- old william spangler was perched like a sniper.firing off rounds towards the unsuspecting first responders. two were killed. 43 year old mike chiapperini - who also served as the town's police department public information officer. and 19-year-old tomasz kachoofka. ka-choofka and chiapperini's son were best friends. >> people get up in the middle of the night to put out fires that they do not expect to be shot and killed. >> reporter: two other firefighters who were shot are expected to recover. police say before dawn.the suspect, william spengler set a house and car on fire to lure the firefighters. as soon as they arrived, police say he started shooting. while police were looking for the shooter.the fire spread.engulfing 7 homes. the suspect was eventually found dead near the fire scene.after apparently shooting himself. and he was not even allowed to have a gun. spangler is a convicted felon.he was convicted of beating his 92-year-old grandmother to death with a hammer back in 19-80. spangler served 17 years - and

chris garth and his colleagues watch helplessly from their perch high above. their reactions recorded as the camera rolls. >> is someone under the vehicle? >> the biker's under. >> oh, my gosh. >> there's no time to wait for police or firefighters. >> the guy next to me said we need to lift this car. >> to reach the rider, alder and a handful of bystanders attempt to lift the car, which weighs almost 4,000 pounds. but they can't get it more than a few inches off the ground. >> it was scary. not because the flame. we could feel we didn't get anywhere. and you're lifting but nothing was coming out of it. you know, it was somebody's life in your hands, and you can't do anything about it. >> alder gets back down to check on the rider. >> i said, hey, can you hear me? and he didn't respond. >> but she can see his chest moving. back on her feet, she points to the rider letting the others know he's still alive. by this time, more bystanders have converged on the wreckage, including graduate student james o'day who comes rushing in to help lift the car a second time.

>> if an agreement is not made soon between which mcconnell and house speaker, john boehner i will perchto bring in agreement that will protect the middle-class. >> reporter: with a high- stakes meeting they seem poised to work towards a solution. >> we are going to work hard to see if we can get there in the next 24 hours. i am hopeful. >> i am going to do everything i can in my power. what ever we come up with is not going to be perfect. some people are not going to like it. >> reporter: senate majority leader reed says that there were hoping not to have to meet on saturday and house speaker, john boehner will not bring anything until it is passed by the senate. however, if nothing is done unemployment benefits will expire payroll deduction will not be continued. >> if there are disagreements they will sort through them. the notion that our elected leadership cannot do the same thing is mind-boggling. it needs to stop. >> catherine: banks racked up a record 10-point-seven- billion dollars in fines in 20-12. that includes what the banks paid to u-s and state authorities-- but it doesn't

that one i believe is perched on pennsylvania avenue and we have another camera which is perched facing the side entrance. those are the suvs that likely boehner, mcconnell, pelosi and reid will come out of. let's talk about the deal. what if there's a deal, craig, for, i don't know, say 4 hr $500,000 the threshold of who gets taxes and who keeps -- everybody under that number keeps their tax cuts. everyone over pays more and there's spending cuts. is that a bad deal? >> yeah. i think it is. let me tell you why. because you can't get everything out of this deal that you want and frankly, all we're doing is kicking the can down the road. you know as well as i do this does nothing to deal with the $1 trillion plus deficits we have yearly. this is the fifth year in a row, we're going to have $20 trillion worth of debt on top of $48 trillion worth a long-term liabilities by the time mr. obama leaves office. this is the time to deal with this issue. we've been kicking it down the road ten years. we promised the nation in 2011 under the budget deal with the sequesters we would not let this ge

when and where you can see it. ,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, miz" couldn't knock "the ho" off its box office perchfantasy epic was number for a third week in a row. "the hobbit: an unexpected journey" took in almost 33 million dollars. tarantino's "django unchained" opened ia strong second place, with ny >>> the "the hobbit" could not be taken off of the top list. "unchained" opened in 2nd place. les miserables was in 3rd place. >>> secissity software maker macafee expects it to expand. the company is concerned about so-called ransom -- mcafee expects it toebgs pand. the company is concerned about cocalled ransomware. the hacking of digital wallets. back back ,,,,,, s ,,,,,,,,,,,, the document aimed at freei slaves-- was signed by abram lincoln 150 years ago this . it went into effect january, >>> finally tonight, a rare look at the document aimed at freeing slaves was signed by abraham lincoln 150 years ago this week. it went into effect january 1st, 1863. it will go on display at the national archives in washington, d.c. new year's day. in michigan last year people waited up to 8 hours to see it

he took an opportunity to use his perch in a way that is not what he's paid to do. >> and he also tookl position on this. he took a very pro gun control position. apparently an nbc spokesman said that costas is in favor of common sense gun control, whatever that means. >> he has since done an interview with the "new york times" where he said he's absolutely not, you know, against the second amendment, that he just believes that the gun culture is too pervasive. >> so he was not saying well, this is going to ignite a debate inside sports. he was actually taking a position on the extremely hot issue. >> greta: if nothing else, even if he has now done that, he's essentially put the spotlight on it whether he takes heat or not. panel, thank you. >>> straight ahead, is fema ignoring victims of superstorm sandy? hundreds left homeless by sandy say yes and they let fema know is. you'll hear from one of the outragededededed >> you think it's a joke? you want to switch houses for christmas? you sit there and laugh. you think it's a joke? you really think it's a joke? you go home for the holiday

it's perched atop a jar and the view from the kremlin stretches as far as the eye can see. for a city to all of siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed by the chance siberian railway but the a spiritual center. things like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of worshippers implicity water to commemorate the baptismal jesus. or the model it doesn't matter if it's minus thirty it's a siberian tradition i do it myself every year for everyone to overcome their worst fears it is desirable to take the plunge. but that's picture postcard churches the story of a city built by opportunist explorers political exiles and crafty fur traders. in the fifteen eighties the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslims. surrounded by enemies to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic hub siberian fire was the oil of its time bringing in a third of the state revenue but the location head of the says for the russians. to moscow's one of the most popular places to send politica

despite being precariously perched on the edge of the rig, the truck driver was able to get out. >>> today bears bears shutdown service system-wide twice. it's unclear whether the weather was a factor. b.a.r.t. said the snarl system went down. b.a.r.t. says due to safety concerns it shut down all service for an hour just after nine this morning. then a similar delay happened at 2:00 this afternoon. that outage lasted 20 minutes. passengers did their best to cope. >> two hours i been trying to get to oakland. not cool. not cool. >> ama: b.a.r.t. technicians continue to investigate the cause of the power system failure. >>> home owners in the east bay are assessing the damage tonight, and you can see why. ahead, why one family is getting a little too used to dealing with this kind of mess. >>> and sky 7hd shows us a calmer end to our day. taking a live look outside. you can see the sun going down. looks great. meteorologist leigh glaser says there is more wet weather during the week ahead. her forecast is after he should take somebody dancing. oh my god, him dance? have you seen his sh

there's you know we haven't seen or heard one all day i'm just going to build where and smoke us to perch out in search of safer territory. randy find something he's anxious to show us. the british anti-tank. this is just one section this seems like five sections each searching has two of these things right here in a cool boom boom boom. that's right there that's all i got no whoever can dump this was still under gas still gotta live on a little highly explosive some track off a tank it's like i look for and all that good balances and i'm also still kobolds oh i got thought oh look the roof it's a. mold i mean it's i don't touch that it's randy wants nothing to do with live explosives yet we can't help but think that other scrappers would. mean he. got a couple it's about us on the vine. the larger. you know that's what causes the earthquakes. a bomb went off and then the earthquake started. to fill the bottom of the just keep going. just as were said to that it seems to some looking vehicle comes into view randy's pretend it's time to hold. system. above is your goal nobody knew you were

right as the volunteer firefightrs were 62-year-old william spangler was perched like a sniper.firing off rounds first responders. two were killed. 43 year old mike chiapperini who also served as the town's police department public information officer. and 19- year-old tomas kachoofka. kachoofka and chiapperini's son were best friends. two other firefighters who were shot are expected to recover. police say before dawn.the suspect, william spengler set a house and car on fire to lure the firefighters. police say he started shooting. while police were looking for the shooter.the fire spread.engulfing 7 homes. the suspect was eventually found dead near the fire scene.after apparently shooting himself. and he was not even allowed felon.he was convicted of beating his 92-year-old hammer back in 19-80. spangler served 17 years - and police say it's unclear today's shooting. the town of webster, new york is now mourning. sot resident - it's just him.and is unaccounnted for. there is a vigil being held firefigters. >> being taken to jail. san jose police have released the name of the man who

we're going to go out one last time and look at the doppler, perched at the highest point in sonoma countye look at the central bay, you can see that there's mostly clear skies around the north bay and also the peninsula, but down in the south bay, that's where the last shreds of showers are from this little departing system, low pressure south of the bay area is triggering that. that will be about it. out the door this morning we're going to be looking at some clouds, a little bit of drizzle especially around the coast and around the bay. inland, though, mostly cloudy skies and a temperature of 42 degrees. 48 around the bay, 47 for the coast, and right now the numbers around the bay are mostly in the 40s, as we see the sun beginning to come up, we'll get more breaks later in the day, so more sun as the day goes on, and as you say, not tow bad. >> sounds lovely. thanks, brian. >>> it is that time of year where everybody is flocking to traditions, especially at the year end. here is one from portugal. [ bell ringing ] >> they are not falling from the sky. the annual nut drop celebration, th

sky 7hd captured this video as he perched above officers on pier29.ruck one person with a skateboard and kicked another at 1 embarcadero before taking off. it disrupted traffic for about throw hours. >>> it is drugged driving, not just drunk driving you need to be aware of. the california highway patrol says there have been eight fatal collisions. five are involving drivers high on marijuana. you may recall we told you about an office of traffic safety survey that was released last month. it shows twice as many people were caught driving under the influence of drugs rather than alcohol in nine california cities on friday and saturday night last summer. >>> well, t minus 24 days and counting until the fiscal cliff deadline. no progress was made in washington. the main sticking point are about tax cuts that are set to expire and the president's demand that the wealthy pay more in taxes. the uncertainty of what is going to happen is starting to have an impact on donations to charity. abc7 news reporter ama dates dates is live in the newsroom. >> it is po

. >>> it will be a short merry christmas for members of congress with the country perched on the precipice of what some are calling fiscal disaster. lawmakers return to week to what looks like an impossible task of trying to prevent across the board tax hikes and spending cuts. jennifer johnson has details. >> reporter: a peaceful capitol hill for another few days. congress is expected to come back later this week as america gets closer to the fiscal cliff. some larrymakers are now calling for a small scale deal as a temporary fix. >> i think it's impossible to get any kind of grand bargain or comprehensive package. i think we're dealing right now with whether or not we can put off the increases in tax rates. that's really all we can deal with right now. >> the house will stand in recess subject to the call of the chair. >> reporter: congress recessed after republicans rejected john boehner's compromise. he proposed letting tax cuts expire for those making over $1 million a year. other republicans say it's time for a deal. >> i agree with him. i don't think we ought to increase taxes on an

sky 7hd captured this video as he perched above officers on pier29.kicked another at 1 embarcadero before taking off. it disrupted traffic for about throw hours. >>> it is drugged driving, not just drunk driving you need to be aware of. the california highway patrol says there have been eight fatal collisions. five are involving drivers high on marijuana. you may recall we told you about an office of traffic safety survey that was released last month. it shows twice as many people were caught driving under the influence of drugs rather than alcohol in nine california cities on friday and saturday night last summer. >>> well, t minus 24 days and counting until the fiscal cliff deadline. no progress was made in washington. the main sticking point are about tax cuts that are set to expire and the president's demand that the wealthy pay more in taxes. the uncertainty of what is going to happen is starting to have an impact on donations to charity. abc7 news reporter ama dates dates is live in the newsroom. >> it is possible the tax deduction for charitabl

but are they sort of cutting off their nose to spite their face from your perch there in miami?i'm in new york city today. >> oh, in new york. >> how about from new york? >> richard is in miami, we'll trade places. >> dana, i don't agree with f norqust. i want tthink we haven't elect aid bunch of lunatics to represent us but rather, people that got to message that we want them to work together. it'sier said than done as we've seen. and if this doesn't happen there's going to be plenty of blame to go around. but the american public are going to blame washington. whether it's the president, whether it's congress, whether it's republicans or whether it's democrats. i don't think anybody wants the uncertainty and the economic uncertainty is going to result from a fiscal cliff. so i hope that, you know what? i hope santa claus is bring bringing a lot of parachutes and putting them under the tree today because it's time to hope for the best but brace for the worst. >> i applaud your optimism. i really do. >> it's christmas, you have to be optimistic. >> i know. but i have to say that

but the alliance was perched on the cliff several times. host: what would he have been like to be around? guest: if you worked for him you would get a mercurial, sometimes generous, sometimes overbearing, sometimes almost cruel boss who, he didn't know how to apologize, which men of his age and class, they are not going to apologize to a young private secretary or typist. and he had a way of sort of turning the tables and his version of a apology would be to say i'm a very kind man and you are doing a very good job today but the issue was never settled. he always had to get the last word in. one night going through white hall a german bomb fell. he should not have been out at all. his bodyguard pushed him into a doorway and a couple of thompson's men were actually slightly wounded. churchill didn't like to be touched and he said thompson, don't do that. thompson said sir, you should not be out here, this is dangerous. churchill said i'm only doing there because i know you love to, which was completely untrue. thompson would rather be down i

sky 7hd captured this video as he perched above officers on pier29. he struck one person with a skateboard and kicked another at 1 embarcadero before taking off. it disrupted traffic for about throw hours. >>> it is drugged driving, not just drunk driving you need to be aware of. the california highway patrol says there have been eight fatal collisions. five are involving drivers high on marijuana. you may recall we told you about an office of traffic safety survey that was released last month. it shows twice as many people were caught driving under the influence of drugs rather than alcohol in nine california cities on friday and saturday night last summer. >>> well, t minus 24 days and counting until the fiscal cliff deadline. no progress was made in washington. the main sticking point are about tax cuts that are set to expire and the president's demand that the wealthy pay more in taxes. the uncertainty of what is going to happen is starting to have an impact on donations to charity. abc7 news reporter ama dates dates is live in the newsroom. >> it

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a rod.raw ifto arrive he was waig for the volunteer firefighters 62-year-old william spangler was perched like a sniper.firing off rounds towards the unsuspecting first responders. two were killed. 43 year old mike chiapperini who also served as the town's police department public information officer. and 19-year-old tomas kachoofka. kachoofka and chiapperini's son were best friends. two other firefighters who were shot are expected to recover. police say before dawn.the suspect, william spengler set a house and car on fire to lure the firefighters. as soon as they arrived, police say he started shooting. while police were looking for the shooter.the fire spread.engulfing 7 homes. the suspect was eventually found dead near the fire scene.after apparently shooting himself. and he was not even allowed to have a gun. spangler is a convicted felon.he was convicted of beating his 92-year-old grandmother to death with a hammer back in 19-80. spangler served 17 years - and police say it's unclear what his motive was for today's shooting. the town of webster, new york is now mourning. the joy of

from towns on the valley floor, a train takes tourists and adventurers alike to the region's ultimate perchhe jungfraujoch. this breathtaking station sits like a fairy castle at 11,000 feet between two of the region's highest peaks. the weather's usually better in the early morning. we're on the first train. towering high above are the jungfrau, monch, and eiger peaks, named for the legend of the young maiden -- jungfrau -- being protected by the monk, or monch, from the mean ogre, or eiger. continuing on, we change trains at kleine scheidegg, a rail junction at the base of these peaks. it has shops, rustic beds, and hearty food for hikers. this is the jumping-off point for rock climbers attempting to scale the foreboding north face of the eiger. this train incredibly tunnels through the inside of the eiger on its slow yet exhilarating climb to the literal high point of any trip to the swiss alps, the jungfraujoch. swiss engineers dug this tunnel and built this railway over 100 years ago. why? because they could, and for the viewing pleasure of those 19th century romantic age visitors. half