melissa ryan and her kids-- greg and hailey-- were driving cross-country in august. they labradors-- thor and zeus. hailey was chauffering the dogs. but as the family caravan left grayson, kentucky- disaster struck on the highway. hailey's car was hit by a semi. 3 melissa ryan: "and by the time i got back zeus was gone. and he was pinned between two seats" seats."hailey ryan: "i didn't know how to go on-without zeus." zeus." they put out fliers... made multiple calls-- and months passed.then on october 28th... a miracle.ryan received word that a man in kentucky tracked the ryans down through zeus' dog tags. the family says the man found him within a mile of the accident site. 3 3 3 anchor reaction... stay close...we'll be back after this. 3 we'll leave you with a live look outside on this bitterly cold thursday morning!you're watching the cbs 58 morning now at 5:30--- a wind chilll advisory is in affect for ?all? counties in our area. area.with the wind... it's the kind of cold that stings your face! it's brutal out there. the coldest day of the season so far is upon

melissa: oh. connell: more shocking than that, the dentist hasn't been fired. speaker ryanf bureaucratic impunity. wow, not fired. melissa: that is horrible. connell: i don't know how you explain that. melissa: all right, you make it, they spend it like that. years of overspending by the federal government causing the national debt to near $20 trillion mark. what that means for you and your money. connell: just when you thought there is drama of the general election was over, the bad blood between the campaigns reaching i guess new heights. >> i understand that they're angry. i understand some of them are bitter but they made it very personal last night. melissa: the election is over but the fighting is not. thank goodness. top clinton and trump campaign aides butted heads at harvard. >> providing a platform for white supremacists, makes me a brilliant tactician i would have love to have lost. give my a minute, david, i'm more proud of hillary clinton's all right speech. she had courage to stand up. i would rather lose than the way you guys did. >> no you wouldn't. that is

melissa: house speaker paul ryan out with a statement on the passing of john glenn saying quote, on behalf of the house i extend my deepest sympathies to annie and the entire glenn family. may his memory live on every time we look up at the stars. david: that's nice. john glenn, aviation icon, former u.s. senator from ohio, has died at the age of 95. he really made history as the first person in the world to orbit the earth. the last survivor, remember, the group that started it all, of the original mercury seven crew. >> john her shell glenn, jr., will be remembered for many roles in american history. he was a warrior in battle, our first astronaut to orbit the earth and one of our most successful political leaders on keep toll hill. in 1998 he added oldest person in space to his roster of achievements. >> i can't help but stand here today with a real sense of deja vu. some 40-year-old almost sense of deja vu. >> he was born july 11th, 1921, in cambridge ohio, and attended new concord. after japanese attacked pearl harbor he signed up to be a marine corps aviation pilot. he served in worl

melissa: house speaker paul ryan meeting with president-elect trump right now at trump tower. a few moments ago. listen. >> very exciting meeting, i really enjoy coming here meeting with president elect, we had a great meeting talking about transition and excited to hitting the ground running in 2017 to put the country back on track. thanks, guys. melissa: lots of comings and going from trump tower as you can imagine. we are still waiting on a few positions including secretary of state. >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. roger. the clock is operating. we are underway. loud and clear. roger. bill: perhaps no one had more the right stuff than john glenn. american hero that we remember who -- who we remember today. former nasa astronaut and engineering professor at colombia back with us. how are you doing? >> thanks, bill. bill: you have a lot of information about senator glenn. >> tell us what you want the audience to understand about this american hero. >> i think he's the real deal. we admire people and sometimes we get a chance to meet them. in the case of senator glenn he exceeded that. he w

sandra: leader ryan tried to make that point and got shot down. melissa: who emerges in the vacuum.r next leader to step up. harris: asking, take me to your leader? democrats, take me to your leader! sound like they're on another planet. when it comes to the voters feel like they are. meghan: depressing their young talent. tim ryan, tulsi gabbard, cory booker, they are not given platforms. she should have stepped down. great for republicans. you have to let new blood n they're strangling up-and-coming bench which is fascinating to watch politically and bad long term for democrats. harris: not just let them in. the definition of success when bringing young people into the fold mentor them in. share the space. i don't know nancy pelosi other than what she said to the american public about waiting for one of the biggest pieces of legislation in our lifetimes to pass, we had to wait for it to pass to know what's in it. imagine what she says to those that compete against her. meghan: sitting on a the "game of thrones," the iron thrown, not giving up power. stay there forever. meghan: wee

there is agreement between trump's plan and ryan's plan to bring it down to 33%, this is great news. melissait is not a mess because it is true but people talking about the fact some people's taxes go up in the new year as a result of anticipating making more money. you could pay more taxes but net net you will have more money to take home because that is built on the idea that income is growing but also talking about standard deduction increasing significantly. some people say wait a second, that sounds like we are giving everyone a free holiday but that is about eliminating a lot of loopholes. >> the hope is we get all the tax returns done, the promise being made, as a cpa i don't think i would want that but the standard deduction that we have the option of taking as opposed to itemizing a reductions, 12,600 for a married couple. making it bigger reduces the complexity, you will do your tax returns at the end of the year, piling up the itemized deductions and different things you can do. the standard deductions is one line, makes it easier. the reason they are proposing that is as much as

ryan site crest starting at 8:00 p.m. you don't want to miss mariah cary also said to perform. we'll get a check of the forecast warming up. melissas here. >>> as you wake up. temperatures will be quite balmy in some locations. we'll show you what's going on with storm tracker 6 double scan radar. a cold front is off to our west. that's going to sneak in here overnight tonight and into tuesday morning, but very little fanfare, not a lot of moisture associated with it. we'll show you the picture outside the action cam outside put a beautiful shot of rittenhouse square. the trees looking quite festive we're still in our holiday season, mostly cloudy sky across the area but the numbers starting to climb at that southerly wind it's 49 in the city. 47 in wilmington, 51 in dover. 50 in atlantic city. you had the cooler air to the north and west. reading, lancaster and the poconos in the upper 30's as you look at the 24-hour temperature change, it's about 16 degrees warmer in philadelphia and wilmington than it was 24 hours ago. 22 degrees warmer in atlantic city. 26 degrees warmer in beach haven end than yet. . it's all because of his f

ryan zeintke could be up for interior and veterans affairs. david: great to have a seal in the administration. john, thank you very much. melissa. melissa: tony sayegh, and julie roginsky, former political advisor to senator frank lautenberg. brad blakeman, former assistant to president george w. bush. ii want to jump to the tillerson thing. brad, i want to get to you. people don't understand when you're in the oil business you have to do deals with people all around the world. you can't get hosed by them. you can't get played by people in russia. you have to be strong and have to get business done. i'm not sure, they're not friends. they have been on both sides of a deal and come away, you know, doing business again another day. we don't want that? >> yeah we want that and here's why. we have an american businessman, one of the largest corporations in the world, playing for america. he is an american corporation. he is not only a businessman but he is a diplomat. you have to be a diplomat to work in 50 countries on six continents. the perfect marriage of state department if it is tillerson he will be secretary of state. guess w

melissa, transition officials quick to point out last two days saying they're running ahead of schedule, comparing themselves to president obama's first term putting a cabinet together. one official, that montana congressman, former navy seal, ryan sink key. what is notable what we did did not see. president-elect answering his questions about his business interests and transfer control of his business over to his children. supposed to happen today. it will happen in january, i was talking to transition officials they were telling me they need more time, talking about structure. there are internal considerations they say how the businesses will be structured, presumably with mr. trump's two oldest sons, don, jr., and eric running it. but there are questions about his daughter ivanka and her husband. watch this. >> inview can and jared will make their own decision in due cores. we're exciting about them. reporter: there is more to do there. team trump says they need extra time. they think it is important to take that time as they have told us to get it right. go back to you, melissa, leave you with the thought of the oracle ceo safra katz. i bring her up, we were talking about the tech roundtable. we were wondering why she was mo

. >> to underline what melissa was talking about, i don't want to go into the gop tax plan, but to say this very simple statement, if paul ryan were to get his way, on the way he wants to reform the corporate tax rate, the way i read it, what you export, your tax rate goes to zero. right? exporters, anything that leaves the country will be taxed at zero corporate tax rate. >> if our trading partners do not put up retaliatory tariffs. >> the easy way out of this, the easy way out of this -- >> switching to the same system that evebody else in europe uses, right? >> at 15%, 20% corporate tax rate has huge incentives. that's melmelissa's point on profit. always try to tear down barriers. don't raise them. tear down the other side. let's take mexico and nafta for a moment. mexico took its vat tax from 5 to 16%. they said they wouldn't on american imports. can they go back. let's re-adjust the art of the deal here, got a guy who knows about deals in the white house. >> let's make good on your promise 20 years ago and get those vat taxes on imports back to where we thought they were going to go or better yet eliminate them. mexico