kelly wright. kelly: you're so biased.ve yourself a merry little christmas, make the uletide gay. from now on our troubles will be miles away. ♪ ♪ jamie: bottom of the hour. homestretch for us. time for the top of your news. pope benedict addressing the faithful today calling for middle east in his christmas mess message while blasting the killing of defenseless people in syria. kelly: gunman behind a deadly ambush on firefighters left a note and saying he would like to burn down the neighborhood and do quote, what i like doing best, killing people. the gunman had served time for killing his grandmother. jamie: a police woman who killed an american contractor in kabul is identified as iranian. so far they have not found any links to terror groups. kelly: the countdown to the fiscal cliff not slowing down at all, even though congress is on break and the president is in hawaii on vacation with his family. we are now just a week away from the automatic tax hikes and spending cuts kicking in. they could be drastic. chief white

i'm kelly wright. welcome to a brand new hour inside america's news headquarters. >> heather: i'm heather childers. topping the news this hour, new york police say they now have a suspect in custody in the death of a man who was shoved in front of a speeding subway train. what police say she told them about the incident, including an apparent motive. will she be charged with a hate crime? details ahead. >> kelly: plus, a wounded warrior walking again inside an amazing new medical body suit. you got to see this, that would make ironman proud. >> heather: and 'tis the season to pop some corks and celebrate the new year. "consumer reports" is here with the best tasting sparkling wines that won't leave you starting out 2013 already in debt. >> kelly: good to see you. >> heather: good to see you. >> kelly: first, we begin with the latest developments in an 11th hour scramble to prevent serious tax hikes and spending cuts that would potentially send the u.s. into another recession. we don't want to see that

kelly? kelly: jamie, thanks. right now president obama is cutting his vacation short to head back to washington and jump-start the fiscal cliff negotiations with congress. talks fell apart before christmas. the deadline now is just days away and there is no deal in sight to avoid the tax hikes and spending cuts set to go into effect january 1st. our juan williams is a fox news political analyst and he joins us today and very quickly, juan, merry christmas to you. >> merry christmas, kelly. kelly: this is daunting task facing congress to avert the so-called fiscal cliff that will set into motion more than $600 billion in drastic and draconian allic tax hikes and spending cuts. that will cause a lot of pain for all americans and does congress have enough time to act on this? >> they do. you know it will be very close and it may in fact go beyond the deadline per se although people are thinking at the moment it is possible to get something done by the end of this week. the key here, kelly, is the senate. we have bee

good to see you. >> jamie: kelly. >> kelly: jamie, thank you. this next video, wait until you see it, shows the moment a police officer sees a baby in a shopping cart rolling straight into on coming traffic and that officer just happened to be at the right place at the right time, when a wisconsin mother noticed her baby rolling away as she put her other child in the car. the three year veteran cop, well, he's actually grabbed the young boy before he rolled into a nearby highway. no one was injured, thank god. >> jamie: what a story. >> kelly: yeah. >> jamie: kelly, some of the country music's brightest stars coming together as they do this holiday season and they're helping those less fortunate with a very special concert, making a huge difference, they're living, rather, beyond the dream and one family is getting an early christmas surprise, too, from a soldier, father and husband serving in afghanistan. their heart warming story is next. . >> once we got stateside, went crazy and sprinted across the airports and the flights were delayed told

kelly, over to you. >> kelly: thank you. down from her post. lisa jackson resigned yesterday in the midst of an investigation into her use of a secret alias e-mail account. >> eric: her e-mail is about to become public thanks to our next guest who sued to access her e-mails and says that, those e-mails, contributed to her resignation. christopher horner is a senior fellow and author of "the liberal war on transparency." chris, something strikes me. hillary clinton obtained a concussion the day before she was supposed to testify on the benghazi issue, the consulate and the deaths of the americans in benghazi. lisa jackson is stepping down couple of days, maybe weeks before her e-mails from this alias account will get exposed. any coincidence? >> another one, treasury department official of who they've admitted to me in court of having 7300 e-mails discuss ago carbon tax which they won't discuss with me quietly said he'll pursue other opportunities. scrutiny doesn't do the most transparent administration ever many favors. ther

thank you. >> thank you, kelly. >> kelly: thank you. >> to a fox news alert. details on the deadly plane crash out of russia. police now say that four crew members are dead, and four others have been injured after an airliner landing into one of moscow's international airports, overshot the runway and crashed into a nearby highway. take a look what happened. officials say the the plane, which has the capacity of carrying up to 210 passengers was empty, as it was on its way home from the czech republic. the cause of the crash is unknown, but officials are looking into whether a powerful snowstorm into the area may be to blame, we will keep you posted. >> hundreds of firefighters from across the united states and canada heading to webster, new york, for a second day, for the wake and funeral services of these two fallen heroes you're looking at. the two volunteer firefighters were killed in a christmas eve ambush when they responded to a house fire and gunned down by 62-year-old william spa spankler and police arrested a woman for purchasing the gun. and they're

>> hey there, kelly.s has been a three-day buildup, it started on wednesday and went overnight thursday and friday more rain and heavy rains at night and ten inches across the entire region and we saw some flooding earlier here at petaluma and the levels on the river is gone down a bit and there was heavy rain there and the home of michael jimenez was flooded pretty badly and we heard there was heavy rains overnight and that came in flooding a local park and rushed into the town and here is how he described what happened. take a listen. >> okay. (inaudible) >> okay, don't think we have the sound there. and we heard that a utility worker was killed yesterday working for pg and e when his truck hit a traffic signal light in sacramento and very heavy rain then. what happens now? well, there are still many power outages across the region and about 2,500 homes reported without power earlier. at one point 16,000 people without electricity and tonight's storm comes in, we're expecting that to develop so heavily

kelly. we report. kelly: you decide.laming the main-stream media in part for what happened in newtown, connecticut, is that a fair criticism? our media panel will weigh in, next. kelly: the head of the national rifle association taking aim at national media saying they are partly to blame nor mass murderers like the school shooting in newtown, connecticut. listen. >> how many more copy-cats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame? from a national media machine that rewards them with wall to wall attention and a sense of identity that they crave. while provoking others to try to make their mark. kelly: jim pinkerton is a contributing editor and writer for the conservative magazine. alan colmes is host of the alan colmes radio show and author of "thank the liberals for saving america." thank you for joining us. wayne louisiana m lapierre. weigh in on that for blaming those of us in the media for reporting on tragedies like what unfolded in newtown. >> he's out of touch. he uses that very same media to advance his

>> kelly: gave way?k goodness. >> clayton: you could manual if you're sitting this eating fish and suddenly a shark comes at you because it's mad that you're eating fish. >> juliet: that's why i don't like aquariums. i don't like to see the things swimming around when i'm about to eat them. >> kelly: when go into the large aquariums, i have that thought. what if that breaks? seeing that, i may think that even more. >> clayton: bring a life preserver with you. >> juliet: we make things well here in the united states. >> clayton: let's hope so. >> juliet: all right. we've got an extreme weather alert. another day of wild weather awaiting some areas across the northeast. so far, six people have died in the christmas storm system that spawned blizzards, sleet and rare winter tornadoes. lots here in the new york area. in illinois, heavy snow causing this plow's tires to spin out, making matters worse, gusty winds are redistributing air. over in ohio, kelly, dollar lot of drivers that are complaining of zero v

kelly says he immediately went to beth holloway with the offer. how hopeful was beth that this might develop into some sort of closure? >> she's always been hopeful. i mean, she can't be anything but hopeful as i mother. >> according to kelly, with beth holloway's blessing, he traveled to aruba to meet with van der sloot, who was expected to receive a down payment of $25,000. for kelly, it was a test run to see if van der sloot was for real. kelly didn't actually have the money. and what did he tell you during that meeting? >> he alluded to where natalee's body was and how she had died and you know, i asked him, well, what if i don't pay you the $25 grand? and he said, beth can wait another five years. >> another five years? >> yep, he was well aware of the five-year anniversary coming up and was sort of -- it was almost like he had a clock ticking with him. >> describe his demeanor during this initial interview. >> he was -- he was agitated, nervous, and desperate at that time. >> in van der sloot's september 2010 interview, he admitted to meetin

kelly. >> kelly: i used to live in raleigh.s are smoking pot than ever before and a new study shows that teens views on the dangers of the drug fell to a 20-year low. here is the fact, only about 41% of 8th graders believe that occasional pot use is harmful and 12th graders around 21%, are concerned should we be about our teens smoking pot. ahead the faith-based coalition, and a former drug addict himself now in the active campaign against legalizing marijuana, good morning to you. >> good morning, kelly, glad to be here this morning. >> kelly: i'm glad to have you. let's get to this. a lot of people have not talked about it since the passage of or at least making smoking pot legal in colorado as well as the state of washington. so, is that a sign that perhaps our future use of pot is actually becoming more accepted? >> well, the ones that are taking the brunt of this blow and are being devastated are our teens. this is a very serious epidemic that the obama administration cannot ignore. when you have numbers coming out that te

. >> kelly: and i'm kelly wright and we begin a special edition of america's news headquarters which begins right now and we'll go right to newtown, connecticut. state police there wrapping up a press conference just a short time ago. our molly line is standing by live near sandy hook elementary school with the latest on the investigation, molly. >> there's a broad expectation of grief and at some point the names of victims will be released today. we do know that all of the victims' bodies have been identified and removed from the school and offering comfort throughout the day as well. you mentioned that police have said that this the shooter did not -- was not buzzed into the building willingly and in other words, forced his way in and quick to say in regards to broken windows across the school. that may have been done by the law enforcement community and people that arrived there and wanted to get into the school as quickly as possible to respond to the emergency underway and meanwhile, investigators are peeling back an onion here, looking at the layers of this and every crevasse o

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it's great to have kelly with us.ly, at this point school shooting and violence have reached epidemic proportions. and we have to figure out what to do, enough talking and obviously the grief is so strong we need to figure out and what's interesting, it happens more in the united states than anywhere else. we're doing something wrong. >> dave: yeah, of course there was a time when these things were not heard of, uncommon. now they're common and going back to columbine that's unfortunately where it started and geraldo rivera takes a look back at how this unfortunate and as unfortunate has become a trend. >> it was really kind of mayhem in the room, trying to find your kids and making sure they're safe and the situation and making sure everybody else is safe. >> friday's massacre in connecticut is among the the worst school shootings. >> it does not seem real, like it's even possible. you read it in the paper and see it in the news, oh, my gothed, that poor family and then you have something happen so close to home, i t

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>> that's right, kelly. it's already pretty loud here at the fedex express center in the bronx, new york, where the employees are gearing up for what would be the busiest day in the shipping country's history. >> we publicly forecast a couple weeks ago that on the 10th we would move 19 million shipments through our networks. that's up about 11% year over year. e commerce is causing a significant amount of growth. retails sales will be up somewhere in the 375% to 4%. >> as fedex fill necessary for santa claus, its 300,000 plus workers will move 200,000 packages per second today. there are still 14 days until christmas eve, but if he fedex sees today as its busiest day of the year because of the record number of orders in the stm at any time. so that includes the millions of packages from cyber monday shopping that are being shipped today as well as the new orders that come into the system from today's green monday shopping event. now, in about 45 minutes, you'll see the biggest sort of the day come through he

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harlan kelly is responsible for all of that. [applause] >> good afternoon. first, i would like to thank spur and mfac for this prestigious award. also, ed harrington for nominating me. also, a special thanks to my family. mason, kelly, tray, my wife, naomi, my sister joy, and my mother-in-law. they have been supporting me for a long time. behind this individual all board, there's a team of people that are responsible for making things happen. just for a moment, i want the puc to raise their hand and give a shout. we have a lot of folks who really committed in making the systems wwork.

she is co-host of the show "live with kelly & michael."lly ripa. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how are you? >> oh, my gosh. first of all, look at your brooklyn audience! they are incredible. [ cheers and applause ] second of all, where did you get that footage of when guillermo and i first met and made our baby? >> jimmy: how did you get so tan in this hurricane, by the way? >> it's all bronzer. it could be dirt, too, because i've been without water. >> jimmy: you have? you've been without water? >> we just found out and for those of you still suffering, i apologize, i feel guilty, we found out our building has power again, so -- >> jimmy: today? >> just on the way in here, into this building, so, we're happy about that. >> jimmy: in a way, i healed your building. >> you did. you fixed. also, in a way, you brought the hurricane. >> jimmy: yeah, i did bring the hurricane, you're right. >> but i feel like you should do the show here always. >> jimmy: i would like to. >> i really do. >> jimmy: it been a lot of fun. [ cheers and applause ]

started in 1946 by bill kelly and william e. moore, the goal was simple: make a quality paint that professionals would be proud to use. and second, understand that those professionals are not only your customers but your partners. what a concept! quality and loyalty trump chasing the market down. >> what we stay focused on was number one what we're known for, which is quality. we know who our customers are and we never took our eyes off that. we became a real strong partner with them over the couple years that the downturn hurt us all. >> reporter: kelly moore even set up classes, tutorials for small business owners, customers, to teach them how to survive tough times and it looked for bigger markets. a western regional player in the u.s., kelly moore now ships paint to china, japan, cambodia, vietnam. the driver? >> quality product for one and the second factor is that it's made if the u.s. that's what they seek. that's what they want. it's that quality. >> mike: what kelly moore seeks is the next great break through in paint.

as kelly o. mentioned, at one point the president said he would be willing to move to $400,000 and some talk as going to $500,000 and now back to $250,000. why the change? >> well, the president has said he would be willing to look at the $400,000 level in the context of a much larger agreement that resolved lots of issues. first of all, that agreement would have had $1.2 trillion in additional revenue coming in. whatever agreement is reached, if one is reached on a smaller package, you wouldn't get that amount of revenue and so the president says, you know, let's go back to the original provision. the president wanted to deal with the debt ceiling which is a major new issue that we're going to confront in a couple of weeks. republicans have said they don't want to deal with that in the context of this agreement so there are lots of things republicans said they don't want to do and would have been part of the earlier agreement. and so i think the president is saying, let's go back to a smaller sc

>> kelly o'donnell on capitol hill. thanks so much, kelly. for more now, we go to our chief white house correspondent and political director, chuck todd. chuck, is it all but inevitable now? are we going over the cliff? >> reporter: well, we're probably going over the cliff, but even when we go over, it's going to be temporary. but listen to that last point that kelly made. that adds to the silliness of what we are in right now, which is the last throes of these congressional shenanigans. we may get a deal. i talked to some folks on the senate side who think they can get a deal together in the next 48 hours, that there will probably be some meet nth white house in the next 24 to 367 hours. and it's possible they could cobble together something. but i did have others who said to me, particularly those on the house said that said you know what, it's almost easy irat this pointing to over the cliff. next week they get to be cutting taxes, where this week they're raising them, even though they may be passing the exact same piece of legislation, n

joining me now from the hill is nbc's kelly o'donnell. kelly, i have heard a lot today about the house bill going to one, to the senate and getting amended, and is this some kind of smoke screen for the house republicans or some kind of legislative need to use the vehicle that has already been passed? >> well, at the risk of this being the eyes glazed over moment, one of the big issues here is that you are are dealing with something that is about essentially taxes, and the constitutional and the laws make it a requirement that that originate in the house of representatives. they have the power of the purse. so one of the challenges beyond the political arguments and the handshake-style deal making we hope will happen over the next few days, there are the mechanics of getting it done and getting it done in time. now, i'm always surprised be by procedure that there is a way to pull a rabbit out of the hat when they have agreement, but there are steps to be taken. will they allow for much debate, or will the house take a look at what the sen

once again, kate kelly broke the news. ackman called herbalife a pyramid scheme. well bring you more in a second. in the meantime, let's take a live look at the podium where speaker boehner is about to step up and speak in three or four minutes time. we will bring that to you as soon as it happens. >> i want it make sure and herb is right, i want make it clear, that herb is right to call this out, einhorn had concerns and so herb, i'm agreeing with you buddy. more after this. ♪ ♪ [ 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 ml350 for $599 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. >>> you are look at a live picture on capitol hill. house speaker john boehner is about to take the stand and he will be speaking to us. as brian a moment ago were discussing, kind of like a ping-pong news conference. one side stands up and gives their point of view. the other gives a rebuttal and we don't seem to move forward at any

kelly.nick, that is good advice and thank you for that, sir. >> sandy hook elementary shooting is the second mass shooting this year. and for those who experienced columbine shooting in 1999. these events are all too familiar from them. up next the perspective from the principal of columbine high school. >> it is close to home and just makes us realize how vulnerable we are as a society. note snote the ♪ >> the tragedy in connecticut hitting close to home for survivors of the columbine high school shooting in colorado. a reporter talked with school leaders there and parents who were there in 1999. >> just like to start off by just offering our condolences and prayers to the people in connecticut. >> kelly: doing his best to fight back tears, frank deangelus talked about shock and sadness. >> close to home and just making us realize how vulnerable we are as a society. >> kelly: it was almost 14 years ago when two gunman entered columbine and slaughtered 13 students and to deangelus, the conne

>> hi, kelly. investors were worried about news that eu regulators are getting ready to accuse samsung electronics of breaking competition rules when it filed its patent lawsuits against rival apple. now, the commission is saying samsung should have tried to license its patents on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms before launching any sales claims against apple and this may explain why apple dropped those claims earlier this week. now, the eu's probe has been underweight since january. many analysts say the eu's move had been spented. samsung's withdraw came on the heels of a california judge's refusal to block sales of dozens of samsung's mobile offerings. a u.s. jury back in august said those devices violated apple's numerous apple patents. in a court filing on thursday, apple said it's now asking a u.s. appeal escort to reconsider the lower court's decision to overturn the sales ban. back to you. >> great. sherry, thanks. >>> moody's says the unemployment rate should hit 24% by 2012 i

mason, kelly, tray, my wife, naomi, my sister joy, and my mother-in-law. they have been supporting me for a long time. behind this individual all board, there's a team of people that are responsible for making things happen. just for a moment, i want the puc to raise their hand and give a shout. we have a lot of folks who really committed in making the systems wwork. again, we have billions of dollars that we are entrusted with delivering in a timely way, which needs to be within budget. systems like this will really elevate and make it really transparent that we are delivering these programs in a very conscious and deliberate way so we can save the ratepayers' money. with that, i just want to thank you guys for this award. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> if you are a consultant or you work for a company that does work for the puc, raise your hand. that's about half the room. thank you, harlan kelly. >> it does not matter just where you're going to go. it matters how you're going to get there. our team came together in 2008 and we started looking at pr

>> not so far. >> glad to hear. >> my question is for kelly.i noticed that speak you want to move closer to the microphone? >> are you working with any cases right now? >> i haven't worked at the innocence project for over a year, so i'm not familiar with the cases, the you can contact the innocence project northwest. however, as part of getting to know damien i did volunteer to go work in prison, and sort of, i don't know, to see what i could do. and while i was in prison there were a couple of people i found out that washington has, since somebody to life without the possibility of parole when they were 13. he is still alive. so when he was 13 he committed crimes and the state basically has said that he will never get out. so i haven't worked with innocent case for a long time, but as damien said, there's a lot of stuff that goes on in prison that, or a lot of stuff that goes on the system that is pretty shady. i guess that's the only way. >> is it the kind of thing where folks who just presumably would like to help with this can call up, lik

kelly, how is it looking?it's more of a reaction in the ur % the dow is poised at about 44 points in the open. 13-11 is the level there. over here, the s&p 500 is adding about four points, similar magnitude, 1422 is the number at the moment. we can take a look at the ftse cnbc 300 trade. and we're up about .2%, gain something traction in the numbers. a lot of this has to do with the boundback from yesterday's sell off. it was most concentrated across the periphery in europe. taking a closer look at those bourses today, we are seeing a rebound. the ftse 100 adding better than .11%. the xetra dax better, the cac 40 about .6% better. the ibex, up almost a percent. >> let's show you what's happening with yields. they've been swinging around a little bit in italy and spain. they are lower right now. two-year spanish yields, 3.11. we did close at 3.05%. ten-year spanish yield, 5.53%, below the 5.54% that we closed at yesterday. they raised a maximum nearly 3.9 billion. yields to t-bill auctions lower than they were

again, the update, the highlight there from kelly o'donnell.a major setback at this point in negotiations. according to democratic sources telling some democrats they are in a worse place in the negotiations now than they have been in some time. we're keeping a close eye on capitol hill. all the fiscal cliff business, maybe we put it aside at some point. we are not going to talk about that. by all accounts, 2013 should be a year of economic recovery. it should be. in a new article in the washington post, the next guest out lines how washington could find a way to mess the whole thing up. let's bring in neil irwin. i have to start by getting your reaction to the news maybe they are in a worse place for a major setback. doesn't sound good. >> it affects what way washington might mess up the recovery. there's a whole menu of options. if the negotiations break down like it's looking like they are, it pushes toward one option. >> this is what you write. the first is obvious, going off the cliff. a timely warning to say the least here. so, what happe

mismegyn kelly with the story. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly, thanks for watching us tonight. power, that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. if you are fortunate enough to acquire money in this life, you will also get power. money in america can buy you protection education, doctors accountants make you more money and lawyers if anything goes wrong. money is power. if you don't have much money, life is much harder because you can't protect yourself as well as a wealthy person. that is why what is happening in america right now effects every single person who lives here. president obama and the democrats want to take power from the people and give it to the federal government. every time you pay taxes, you make the government stronger and your own situation weaker. so a tax increase empowers the government at the expense, pardon the pun, of the taxpayer. of course, taxes are needed for the military, transportation, saf

thank you, kelly. >> reporter: good to see you. >> with the hours ticking down, and as kelly said, no deal still done, the blame game, of course, is already under way. one thing is clear, the 112th congress wins the very dubious distinction of being the least productive congress in modern american history. i don't know if there's a ribbon of some sort for that. nbc's deputy political editor domenico montanaro is here with this morning's "first read." thank you for taking time and for crunching these numbers. let's go through the numbers that you guys in "first read," that let me put a plug in, i always read, got about bills and productivity in this congress. >> yeah, so, only 219 bills passed into law in this congress, the lowest number that we've seen. and you know, but the thing that you have to understand, i think there's a lot of republicans who don't necessarily think that that's a bad thing. they think shrinking the government, making the government do less are actually good things. >> right, i don't think there's any question about that. we know there's an element of the republ

i'm kelly evans. these are your headlines from around the world. moving closer to a deal, reports say president obama makes a new fiscal cliff offer to house speaker john boehner, giving in a little on taxes, but standing his ground on the debt ceiling. >>> general electric is reportedly on the verge of buying italian space firm avi oi. >>> and india's central bank stands pat despite consistent calls for a rate cut. but the rbi is saying its focus is now normally on boosting growth. >>> well, it's been a rel ofly good year for stocks in europe. adding about .3%. advancers mostly outpacing decliners on the index this morning. if we can zero in on the bourses, it's largely green behind me. the fits fits mib is atting .6%. the ibex in spain, up 0.8%. and the ftse up about 0.3%. now, some company-specific news this morning, fin mechanica saying shares up 2.4%. this on news they're set to buy sge-avio. safran is also a company considering that change. let's take a quick look at the bond space. we'll get a

farcus in kelly's court.tay tuned. ♪ megyn: welt, we are getting new details today on the challenge to free a marine held in a dangerous mexican prison. john hammer's family had hoped to see him for christmas, but we are just learning the specific concerns raised in a recent letter from the mexican ambassador to officials here in the united states, the mexican ambassador to america, and why mexico is refusing to budge on the imprisonment of this 27-year-old veteran of iraq and afghanistan. here's a picture of john in prison. you've seen it here on fox news over the past couple of days. he's been held in this sort of solitary confinement area since august. originally, he was in gen pop, but then there were threats of him being killed unless the participants paid all sorts -- parents paid all sorts of money, and this is the upgrade to a room by himself chained to the bed, and then we called and complained about that, so apparently there's no chain anymore. anyway, he and another marine were arrested in mexico o

kelly? >> reporter: good evening, kate. well, congress is out of time, and frustrations are really running over. and while democrats and republicans say they want to find a solution and they are working toward that, they don't have a deal yet, and that means for now there is nothing to vote on before tonight's deadline. with your money on the line, tonight washington can only claim progress. but not success. >> it appears that an agreement to prevent this new year's tax hike is within sight. but it's not done. >> we're very, very close. >> reporter: close comes after intense, closed-door negotiations that kept even most members of congress in the dark. the white house and senate leaders have been trying to beat a deadline they created to stop massive tax increases and automatic spending cuts that could trigger another recession. but one breakthrough did come today. >> i can report that we've reached an agreement on all of the tax -- the tax issues. >> reporter: a genuine compromise on taxes. most notable, rates would go up

joining me now is the weather channel's kelly cass. kelly, i'm here in washington, d.c.e hearing warnings from d.c. to maine. don't drive on saturday. you know, hunker down. what's going to hit the east coast over the weekend? >> it will get messy, that's for sure. a lot of people are still trying to travel, get home from christmas or try to get to their new year's eve destination. right now it is looking good for travel along the new york state thruway. right down towards the beltway, washington, d.c. the snow that's falling right now in chicago and in parts of michigan and wisconsin, that's one storm system that's going to merge with another one developing along the gulf coast. you can see all of the heavy rain that's bringing -- being brought down in louisiana and portions of mississippi as well. there is a chance we could see isolated severe storms. moving into portions of ohio down towards evans i will have and pittsburgh by later on tonight. cold enough to support snow. temperatures just below the freezing mark. we have the cold their place here comes the snow into

kitty kelly has put together a mag enough sent new book called "capturing camelot."kennedy family taken by photographer -- white house photographer stanley tresic. kitty will be here in the next segment, next half hour to talk with us about this and some of the other great stuff she has done, the war on labor unions in michigan peter, what's going on? >> on twitter at bpshow where you can follow us and rick snyder and send him a message on twitter at onetough nerd. >> weibull that twitter handle republican swine says of course you were betrayed. snyder is a g.o.p.er. you can never trust him. what do you think would happen? we have a couple of tweets, bill, about your reading choices mark says please tell mr. press -- please tell me mr. press is joking about "fifty shades of great." it says, uph-oh, bill this is the first time i have disagreed with you since watching the show. don't make it a habit. "fifty shades of gray" is amazing. tammica loved it. >> you did not. >> she disagrees with you. >> pure porn and bad porn. if you like bad porn, you will like "50 shades o

he is jimmy kelly the subway gang man and he sang about the dutch ship that jamie kelly will now be appointed brooklyn borough historian the first ever by jimmy walker and then he will take it -- it becomes his cause to promote brooklyn as the center of the world but definitely the battle of brooklyn, nobody gets this and he really goes about trying to say that these guys, these were buried en masse graves here in brooklyn. we have notes on where they are. >> there was testimony that some of the graves are still there. >> they are still there and they dug there and recently when i was writing this book they were taking a couple of new condo developments in that song. i was calling every archaeologist. can we just look around? anyway i couldn't get anybody to come down. jamie kelly tries to get this spot marked at the federal government and he gets the federal government to come in the federal government brings archaeologist. they find some stuff but in the end, and historian in team of archaeologists writes his this paper. they write the official congressional report and they say that the mar

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