suzette says bah hum bug. they can't read scriptures they are leaving him out. >> beth says neither the parents who don't want to go stay home those who would like to go should be able to go. >> christopher says this it seems silly to deny kids possibility of a field trip. some don't understand or see the religious theme of the christmas but only see their families are being scrooges. >> 47 after the top of the hour. the country is ready to go green president obama says. why are so many solar company unable to find qualified workers. >> plus preparing to hit the road or hid to the airport for thanksgiving what you need to know to navigate the busiest travel day of the year. let's check in with brian kilmeade. >> we are going to have the latest from gaza as you see the iron dome performing unbelievably knocking out 90 percent of the missiles in israel. will it be enough? we give into your demands. we will find out if the peace talks work or if an invasion will take place. live in a matter of moments colonel all

. ♪ i said are you going to be my girl ♪ >> bah bah, bah, bah, bah -- >> stephanie: um um um um.do i can poke here -- what ya doing? >> working. i don't have producers that do work for me. >> stephanie: oh. either do i. [ laughter ] >> i do have help. that's not true. lisa ferguson who does the news cut ins on bill press. she is fabulous and wonderful, and i love her dearly. >> stephanie: of course. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> now she is writing evil -- >> stephanie: now she is writing all of the wrong news for you to read. >> a bunch of four-letter words. >> i love you lisa. >> is sarah palin a game changer? [ laughter ] >> stephanie: yeah, we were saying she is getting very very thin. i think irrelevancy is very taxing on the body. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: president obama's lead has expanded to eight points in wisconsin. >> of course it hasn't. >> stephanie: yeah, it has. mitt romney trailed in three new polls in virginia, florida, and ohio. i think as we have said along with the ohio results the wisconsin poll presents a dim picture from romney's

. >> if i hadn't been in the hospital o or in ridology, i radiology i would have been in a bah tal i don't know aid station which would be on the front line. >> the war was still a difficult time for him, he left his pleaded guilty wife behind to serve his country. >> your wife is not there, you're half living, you're existing venlt that's what we did, we existed day by day until we could get home. >> war is hell. you never know from one second to the next herman is shapiro survived early inly two years in the war, got out and got married and has been with his wife 66 years. as for dr. leland, his wife passed away six years ago. he said veteran's day is another day, the past is his present. >> and both men will be honored tomorrow morning. >> wild fire season officially ended tomorrow. it will end at 8:00 tomorrow morning. cooler temperatures and rain this past week have reduced wild fire danger. >> for the first time in more than a quarter century, marine county has a winter skating center. it's believed to be be the first ice rink set up since the indoor one closed in 1985. it's be

this time heading over to 270 coming in from gaithersburg to the point where the lanes divide in bah these today, potomac, river road, great seneca highway. everything is nice and quiet. we'll end with a live look if you're planning to head in from friend rick to clarks burke -- frederick to clarksburg, i think today will be just fine. >> thank you, monika. >>> the green eyed monster jealousy may turn out to be what caused the downfall of c.i.a. director david petraeus. >> we now know the f.b.i. learned about petraeus' affair with his biographer while they were investigating some harassing e-mails from another person. 9 news reporter is live on capitol hill and has what we're looking ahead to today. >> reporter: good morning. there continues to be plenty of drama and plenty of questions surrounding general petraeus' affair. we're learning more about the investigation and the woman on the receiving end of the e- mails of her name is jill kel yi. she received -- kelley. she and her family have been friends with the petraeuses for several years. broadwell saw kelley as a rival. as more

. >> caller: this is mike in the windy city giving you a chicago bears bah bah buoy. >> bears are constant. >> caller: if i have a short stock how long do i have to cover that short? >> forever. that's one of the great things about shorting. stay short for however you want. if the stocks goes up they may ask you to put more money up, though. that's where people get squeezed. you got to dig deep if you want big margins. gross margins will guide you in figuring out the direction of the stock. some things you'll only find in the conference call, not the headlines. gross margins, that's on the call. stay with cramer. >> jim cramer looking out for you. >> thank you, sir, for helping us average joes on the road to financial freedom. >> thanks for all you do for us small investors. >> thanks for helping all us home gape gamers. >> thanks for sharing your knowledge with the every man. >> anywhere, anytime, any place. answering the call of america weeknights 6:00 and 11:00 eastern on nbc. >>> you're hearing tonight for the first time not how to figure out what's the better or worse expected earning

i thought we had heavy rain fall in the north bah bay. oh this isn't our radar. this is our high def radar. you can see anybody north of the golden gate, there's no reason to watch any other station except cbs5 we can show you exactly where it's raining . >> rain is now moving into the san francisco peninsula. alamo, almost to dan vil also. and a few showers are impacting the south. so the rain is on the increase is and will be increasing overnight. snow levels are pretty high but by tomorrow afternoon, two to three feet of new snow at the high elevation, by sunday, 7 or 8 feet of new snow. great for skiers not so great for flooding situations. there is a huge strong area of low pressure that's not moving. it is sitting and spinning right here. that's taking all of this tropical moisture, banging up against the low pressure area and turning east toward the west coast. this is a big rain problem from the bay area to the border of canada. we're going see most of the rain fall. something's got to change and by sunday, this low pressure area will move out. it will be

tracy: the bah humbug tracy byrnes.'m ashley webster. 34 days and counting until that fiscal cliff. white house and congress will appear no closer to reaching a deal or even talking about one for that matter. how long will it take to get some action? tracy: if only. a dire warning on housing. despite new signs of recovery, fiscal risk expert chris whalen will tell us why he says housing is going to drag the economy back into recession next year. ashley: talk about bah humbug? would you like to win half a billion dollars? that is a stupid question. of course you would. just before the holidays as well. the record powerball jock pot is getting bigger. we'll take you, we'll tell you actually your chances of winning the prize and it is not very good but you can't win if you don't play as the lottery says. i know you hate it. tracy: i do. i absolutely clearly opposed to it. ashley: i went hate it when i win but i will remember you. tracy: thank you. ashley: first time for look at stocks at this hour as we do every 15 minutes

whatever the number outstanding is -- >> i think it will be less than that, but we have provisional bah ba ballots and the combination could be around 200,000 votes. >> just to make everyone understand, president obama's margin of victory in 2008, which everyone says including robert gibbs, he thinks that is going to be much bigger than the margin they get if they win this time around. 262,000 votes. it could happen. >> let's hope for good things and that we'll have a clear winner tomorrow night. >> all right, so i've got this provisional bah ballot. a yellow sheet of paper. got to fill it out, then on the outside, some information as well. including the last four digit of your social security number and you have to check a box on what type of i.d. you put out. now, you're saying it should be by the voter themselves. >> the sixth circuit court last week, said that the voters should fill out section one and three. didn't address section three. we're saying let the voter fill this out. don't put the, put this decision in the hands of the poll worker that they fill it out right. if i was a

. >> caller: this is mike in the windy city giving you a chicago bears bah bah buoy. >> bears are constantow long do i have to cover that short? >> forever. that's one of the great things about shorting. stay short for however you want. if the stocks goes up they may ask you to put more money up, though. that's where people get squeezed. you do the to dig deep if you want big margins. gross margins will guide you in figuring out the direction of the stock. some things you'll only find in the conference call, not the headlines. gross margins, that's on the call. stay with cramer. >> jim cramer looking out for you. >> thank you, sir, for helping us average joes on the road to financial freedom. >> thanks for all you do for us small investors. >> thanks for helping all us home gamers. >> thanks for sharing your knowledge with the every man. >> anywhere, anytime, any place. answering the call of america weeknights 6:00 and 11:00 eastern on nbc. >>> you're hearing tonight for the first time not how to figure out what's the better or worse expected earnings report to a good trade, seems to be a

the governor of rhode island pulling a bah hum bug this year and ditching christmas. lincoln chaffey is removing the christmas tree display in the white house. this will after the governor's decision to change the tree name from a christmas tree to a holiday tree. it happened last year and it ignite add real firestorm. jessie waters visited providence rhode island to get to the bottom of it and this is what he found. >> christmas tree or holiday tree? >> holiday tree gets everyone in the spirit for any holiday. it's typical of the holiday season. if they want to call it a holiday tree that includes more people. >> what's the agenda. why would you call it a holiday dre do you think? >> i think to be politically correct he doesn't want to offend any people. everybody for their holiday has their thing. just like jewish they have menorah christians have a christmas tree. >> called a christmas tree. always call it had a christmas tree. >> christmas is christmas. he's a nut. >> do you think it should be call add christmas tree or a holiday tree? >> please send us your comme

bah humbug. >> but you're going to have money at the end.going to have a savings account. >> those retail sales come in, oh, my god. what happened? we didn't spend like we should spend. we going to play that game. >> ahead on "starting point" a major prescription drug is being recalled. glass was found in some bottles. >>> a crucial piece of evidence in the casey anthony case was missed. would it have changed the investigation? we'll talk about that. >>> plus, he's just 5'10". the college basketball phenom is already in the history books. we'll talk to jack taylor about his record setting 138 points in just one game. on, diarrhea, gas, bloating? yeah. one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. approved! [ female announcer ] live the regular life. phillips'. a new way to save on your prescriptions. it's the aarp medicarerx saver plus plan from unitedhealthcare. with this plan, you can get copays as low as a dollar through a preferred network pharmacy like

and karen finney, who will be guest hosting for martin bah sheer tomorrow afternoon. i'm looking forward to it. this is really down in the gutter. dr. dyson, are republicans using code words to attack the ambassador? >> very clearly so. this woman is an undergraduate of stanford, as you said. a doctor of philosophy besides a scholar at oxford at the age of 26. so clearly she is an intellectually brilliant woman who is quite capable. it's ironic and tragic that john mccain, who nominated or at least put sarah palin on the ticket as vice president would dare call into question anybody's intelligence. sarah palin's intelligence could fit into the left fingernail of dr. susan rice. but beyond intelligence, there's a racial hostility that's unchecked here. and the aggression toward people of color here has been unleashed as a kind of compensatory aggression against obama's win. you see all this stuff going on. this is racial code words and we know the manipulation of racial feeling and sentiment here. >> nobody in the intelligence community has come out and said these thin

can you say bah hum bug? you have cooked the bird but do you know how to carve it?ur next guest says he can do it in under a minute. we are going to put him to the test. >> happy thanksgiving i am not buying that under a minute. john stossel says what he is thankful for. bass pro shop starting early this year. stores are hope today. plus turkey emergency are you having one? a butterball turkey talk line expert to answer your questions. i mail us at fox friends it starts at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. join us then. ine revs ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] the mercedes-benz winter event is back, with the perfect vehicle that's just right for you, no matter which list you're on. [ santa ] ho, ho, ho, ho! [ male announcer ] lease a 2013 c250 for $349 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. >> nine minutes to the top of the hour. thieves don't want to steal your toyota prius. only one in 206 priuses have been stole insince june. officials say it's because thieves can't use the parts. they are specifically made for prius priuses. according to farm sanctuary over 1500 turkeys hav

enough republican senators have signal they're going to play bah ball. this is about the house of representatives and really for john boehner, everything changes in a good way for him. if we go off the curb or the cliff on january 1st, he won't be dealing with that tea party caucus and that's the bee in his bonnet that doesn't want to make a deal and by the way, a lot of them are are out the door. so greg's reporting is interesting because it signals that the white house has a public posture in which they say no, we dare not go off the cliff but we're going to get those tax rates increased and the reporting i've done tonight is that there's going to be additional meetings. this was the private version of the public meetings they did last week. now, they've been doing them in private and these are white house economic staff. people who do the policy piece. briefing folks on what they plan to do, so i think if somebody from that meeting who should have talked, but did, was saying they were feeling a sagal that the white house is ready to play chicken with

people say oh, bah, humbug.rt saying i don't get the retail hype. >> christine, come on. >> sure if you put money aside, go for it. >> thank you. still ahead a story that gives new meaning to all in the family. you won't believe what police in texas say this man and his two children pulled off. not once, but seven times. #jc@+u i gave birth to my daughter on may 18th, five days later, i had a massive heart attack. bayer aspirin was the first thing the emts gave me. now, i'm on a bayer aspirin regimen. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. [ woman ] learn from my story. ♪ you make me happy [ female announcer ] choose the same brand your mom trusted for you. children's tylenol, the #1 brand of pain and fever relief recommended by pediatricians and used by moms decade after decade. of pain and fever relief recommended by pediatricians playing sports is just my whole life. looking back, if it wasn't for shriners hospital, things would just be really, really different.

israel is still launching air strikes on bah virginia and some of the residents who live there saute afraid to two to sleep. hamas militants are sending a constant stream of rockets into israel. both israelis and palestinians say living in the middle of all of this is a nightmare. >> it's like rain. like it rains in new york state just rains water. it rains rockets here. every day, every hour. tens of rockets here in the city. st unbelievable. >> you cannot imagine how we feel now when you hear the rockets and missiles when the israeli raids the palestinian buildings. i have a daughter she always hugs me because she is frightened. >> more than 130 palestinians have been killed since the beginning of all this violence. a lot of them are women and children. at least five israelis have been killed. >>> back here at home this morning ten bay area hospitals are locking out nurses who went on strike yesterday. the nurses walked off the job at eight bay area sutter medical centers and two hca hospitals. they are protesting benefit cut backs as contract talks continue. that is legal but the

now gaza and the militants in bah virginia and israelis have been traded attacks.w been six days they have been firing back and forth. we just got these pictures in. we can tell you that u.n. secretary general is due to arrive in egypt hoping to develop peace talks. we'll keep you posted on what is happening as we look at the live pictures and get to you with more details. >>> back here at home a man hunt is happening right now in san jose. one of the men you see here is arrested. plus san francisco supervisors are due to vote tomorrow on whether to ban public nudity. scott say there is are too many complaints from business owners and homeowners about public nudity specifically in the castro district. >> others will see their homes torn down. the lucky ones were issued permits. houses with red tags are targeted for demolition. those homeowners are saving belongings before their homes are bulldozed. the building department is still trying to get ahold of many displaced homeowners. >>> vice president joe biden says he will make sure the jersey shore is restored telli

we know the investigation is ongoing bah what do the senators want specifically at this point from susan rice? >> reporter: well, you know, it's hard to tell what the president's intentions are with regard to any perspective nomination to replace hillary clinton as secretary of state. we haven't heard from him on since the spirited, forceful defense. the come after me defense of susan rice the week after the election. what the republicans want, well, many of them are very upset with the presentation, of course, that susan rice gave on the meet the press and the other sunday shows just six days after the september 11th attack on the american government facility in benghazi where she said that it was likely a spontaneous reaction to the anti-us lame video and references in classified events that said it was a terrorist act. many republican senators want to say why she went forward with the response. even if it was redakted by the intelligence agencies and confuse agent that yesterday. why she went ahead and gave that version of events that they said she should have known was not true. you

no bah, humbug, just lots of buying over the weekend.$247 million shoppers hit the stores, and the websites right after thanksgiving. the national retail federation saying they also spent more money, this is compared to last year. but will shoppers still be in a spending mood today? because you know today is cyber monday. >> huh. that's why i got out of bed. >> christine romans is here. >> i can't go on about being something else. cyber monday the made-up holiday to assure you spend more money. how did the holiday weekend look? well, friday had traffic up according to shopper track, but you had spending down on friday. it might be a sign that this push into thursday, and this push towards cyber monday is actually stretching out the buying a little bit. you're seeing pictures of what it looked like for people who went to physical stores. you had a record number of people shopping online. about 59.1 billion, up 13% from last year. not as strong of growth as the prior year when you saw sales up about 16%. $423 on average, what shoppers spen

bah humbug. >> i'll go anywhere and do whatever it takes to get this done. >> i was born with the glass full. >> everybody who signed the pledge, including peter king. i hope his wife understands that commitments last a little longer than two years. >> he's never met my wife and he better hope he doesn't, she'll knock his head off. >> it's the spending that's owl of control. >> this is not a deal. it's called raising tacks on people who have been successful. we will still continue to raise our deficit beyond unbelievable numbers you can't even find on your calculator. >> my hope is to get this done before christmas. >> you might call this thelma and louise economics. >> our country doesn't need a victory lap. it needs photo-op. >> i don't think they're going to take pictures. >> extraordinary financial gifts. >> he did a terrific job running the olympics. >> worked agris sifly to turn them out to vote. >> if it was president bill clinton ideas might actually be exchanged. what percentage of people watching right now think proev is going to offer mitt romney secretary of commerce? >> pla

it wasn't a sis boom-bah rah-rah ra. we have a general idea y where e wants to take the country.itt romney not so much. >> saying you know me. you know what i'm about. you may not agree with everything i have done in the past four years, but you know me. and post sandy speaking with a renewed enthusiasm. david axelrod quoted yesterday in lima, ohio. this might be one of my favorite quotes of the campaign. says i've known him for 20 years. we've worked closely for ten years. i've never seen him more exhilarated than he is right now. you can see in this speech that he is delivering that this is coming from his loins. >> and loins isn't a word that gets into the public conversation. >> not enough. >> it's interesting. i've been interested to see the republicans, the sensible reasonable moderate republicans like david fromm yesterday who explained on the daily beast who explained why he is voting for romney the republican party is irrational, destructive, i don't want obama care repealed. he goes on and on this whole list of things. and that's why i'm voting for obama. to me, if inde

no bah lowny of that one. >> you go in girl. >> i'm particular for the most dramatic press release of times. if i may. the min i don't knows to do their bidding. washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. the fire fight started when the cowardly sense weakness. they fired timdly at first. then the sheep. not wanting to be dropped from the establishment's cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. now they're left exposed by their bilines and handles, su surely they had killed them off. this is the way it always worked. a lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. but out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won't be intimidated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges america faces. >> yeah! bravo! and scene. >> wow. >> i'm waiting a long time to do that. i'll be honest with you. >> that reminds me of jennifer granholm who was the gift that

. >> you have to remember the markets now understand they've got a massive discount on bah, you cannotcount on washington as the general philosophy. so they're not sitting there with baited breath saying are they going -- that doesn't mean it's not serious, but it just means they're not, their expectations like most americans' are pretty darn low at the moment. >> great. >> harvey -- [inaudible] based upon your experience in congress, do you see an opportunity for tax reform in the next congress in terms of lining up the ducks and getting everything in place to have something move during this very next, upcoming congress? >> well, it's a really good question. obviously, it could be part of a grand bargain because it could be the vehicle to provide some revenue as part of the overall solution. whatever ratio they're looking for in spending cuts as opposed to revenue. the worry i would have is that i said, as i said a minute ago, even when we did it in 1986 and it was revenue neutral, it was very hard to do. i mean, exceedingly hard to do. because you're taking on all the lobbies, all th

. >> bah humbug.oad with little ones, a lit of helpful items you want to pack if you dare go. adventure with children. >> good luck. >>> first, a strange situation. one of "sesame street's" most beloved characters caught up in a big scandal. what is next for the character elmo? you're watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by lifestyle lift. ought to you by lifestyle lift. hd 3 you're watching "world news you're watching "world news ♪ this is the ♪ this is the song elmo's song ♪ la-la-la-la la-la-la-la elmo's song ♪ >> i like that song. >>> oh, it is a sad day on "sesame street." the man who has been the lifeblood of elmo since the mid-1980s has resigned. >> for the second time in a week a man has come forward to accuse puppeteer kevin clash of inappropriate sexual behavior. >> reporter: cecil singleton, a 24-year-old college student suing kevin clash for $5 million. singleton says he met clash on a gay chat line when he was 15 and forte -- for a two-week peri

yesterday i had muslim dean oh bah doll la and today i have a guy who works with dean, scott blakemanank you for calling happy thanksgiving welcome to the "bill press show." >> happy thanksgiving, john. >> john: you are a jewish comedian who is also liberal, so why do you hate the people of israel? >> ask the people on facebook. >> john: by the way it's amazing your material is so brilliant, and dean is a liberal muslim and i'm a liberal christian, which i sort of the is redundant, but tell us about your take and perspective. >> we just did a stand up for peace show and for about nine years now we go to college campuses. and even before the show we bring together different groups to come together and this is a topic as you know you can't have a civil discussion about it. they call me names just for saying i stand for israel but i also stand for peace and compassion for israelis and palestinians who are going through this horror right now. and college campuses you have speakers who incite people people walk out, and we bring people together, do your humor and talk about the conflict, a

grew more come plated wednesday when a democrat of louisiana joined senate finance commit te chair max bah cuss in saying she wouldn't support the white house proposal. with the tax taking effect after the first $10 million is transferred and she described the issue as make or break for me. currently the estate tax aplease only to estates worth at least 5.12 trillion. richard in sioux falls, north dakota -- caller: probably just the people like obama and buffet are fools. after 1410 days, people are still blaming george bush. come on, get a life. what's going to happen is they're going to kick this down the road like they do, eventually we'll become like europe. all these lazy people, like that gentleman who deals with section 8 housing and all that, want to sit around andly like a pig, live off government food. more and more people like that and more people at c nbc, msnbc, and even c-span, which 20 years ago was a great, great organization. right now you have so many worth less programs. why don't you have programs where you're having live debate on real people, it stead of having people

. >> pat, i want to get your take bah united states you are leaving us first. i want to make good use of you. the -- many polling experts said that mitt romney needed to get at least, bare minimum, 35% of the latino vote, what did he get? 29? if he selected marco rubio -- >> i think, first of all, he wouldn't have had to spend all of this time in florida and he would have gotten, maybe he might have gotten the extra 5% of that vote. i want to get back to the economy. you know, people who said -- the 38% of people said unemployment was the most important economic problem. you know that he beat -- and according to the exit polls -- and these aren't perfect. he won that -- he got 54% of the vote of those -- excuse me, 54-44 over romney on people who said unemployment. >> that wasn't the polling data before the election day. >> no. but what has happened -- firstly, you get -- again, you have a sample that is more democratic -- this almost looks like the '08 electorate. that's a function of the turnout and the machinery. but what it tells you is how they dropped the

so let me ask you, you are the grand pooh-bah of all things fair. you put your charts up.mendation, sir? >> look, you need a balanced approach of both revenues and spending. >> specifically, what would you do? >> i would do something like -- the president's proposed $1.6 trillion of new revenue. boehner had agreed to $800 billion. it's not hard to find $1.2 trillion as a kind of middle ground to that. then you want to have $4 trillion of total deficit reduction, so that leaves $2.8 trillion of spending reductions that have to happen. here's what people miss. we can avoid going over the cliff with the stroke of a pen. they can just extend all this stuff and kick the can down the road. the real question is are we going to have a big deal? are we going to agree on the major spending restraints that we need as well as the tax stuff in order to actually get the deficit under control? and i think the betting on that is less than 50%. i think we have a great shot at it. but it's going to be really, really hard. >> is that the view from wall street, too? they're not totally confid