. >> welcome to sir frank jake. >> i got started back in 1976. graduated from high school in san francisco. >> happy holidays, i see you. good to see you. >> how you doing. nice to see you. >> i've been through 32 uniforms. >> hi, how are you guys doing. >> 37 years, that's a lot. >> yeah, pretty good, huh. >> good to see you guys. >> all right, guys. >> taxi, okay i will give you one in a moment. >> okay here's a taxi for you. >> and you hail a lot of taxies up to 200 a day. you carry 200 to 1,000 suitcases. >> here you go. >> okay,. >> you want this back here? >> you need a taxi today? i'll get you a taxi. >> tom is the bomb. >> he is excellent. and i just -- i love to look at him. he's just so cute and he's always johnny on the spot. >> how you doing, nice to see you. how's the season. >> look at his collar, look at his hat. he's a deck raeug. i would put him on my christmas tree any day. >> you get your photo taken up to 500 times a day so you have to look good every day on this job. >> thanks. >> let me get a picture with my puppy. good job.

though, now, jake, because behind you tonight, behind those white house doors, the president met with speaker boehner about the fiscal cliff. what happened? >> reporter: it was described as a frank and candid exchange of views with house speaker john boehner coming here, invited by the president to talk about this impasse they seem to have reached, with boehner saying that the president hasn't agreed to enough spending cuts, president obama still pushing on increasing tax rates on the wealthiest americans. we do not have any news to suggest that any decision or agreement has been reached. but at least they're still talking, diane. >> two and a half weeks away. thank you so much, jake. >>> and now, we go to syria. tinderbox tonight as even allies of the ruling regime are signaling the end may be near for president assad. and the powerful head of nato is also signaling change is coming. abc's senior foreign affairs correspondent martha raddatz on the end game and what danger it poses for the united states. >> reporter: it could all end soon here in damascus. with the startling word from nato and now even president assad's staunch ally russia, that the brutal dictator's days are nu