so right now minneapolis, it feels like 3. but farther east where that moisture is, you can see, look at this big front with all this rain and severe weather. so we've got snow, severe weather and record heat

as far as the green bay area goes, minneapolis, just some light snow flurries this morning. we're not worried about that. further to the south, there is some rain out there pittsburgh south wrds. charleston, west virginia, you're dealing with rain. further to the south we have thunderstorms even to tennessee. we'll watch that. the east coast is not going to have problems like the midwest had where it's frigid. veronica, areas on the east coast the airports are my concern. you have to watch that when the front comes through. later today airport delays. >> temperatures in the 60s. >> fall to the 40s tomorrow. >> you know how much i like that? >> i no he, right. >> bill, thanks a lot. >>> getting around on some of those snow covered roads, might be presh rouse. at least drivers are getting a break on prices at the pump. the national average price has dropped by ten cents to $3.38 which is 46 cents than two months ago. the survey finds prices are expected to keep falling as refiners cut how much they're charging distributors and retailers. >>> president obama and john boehner ar

maybe a knew snow fleur eye ares in minneapolis.ara, the bottom line, we do have snow for the middle of country for a white christmas. >>> channing tatum is topping off the year with a big announcement. the "magic mike" star an his wife announced they're expecting a child. >>> kelly clarkson with big news herself. she's engaged. after tweeting fans she sent out a picture of her huge yellow canary engagement ring. >>> monday night, the actors vs. paid tribute to the victims of the shooting. ♪ hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah ♪ >>> and finally, celebrities from all over are wishing the world a happy holiday. >> hello everyone, i'm scarlett johansson. >> happy holidays. >> merry christmas, everyone. >> i'm wishing everyone out there a happy holiday. >> i'm san samuel l. jackson. >> happy holidays. >> merry christmas from matt damon. >> at least he hayes sens a sen humor. >> it's almost like a "saturday night live" skit. >> you know with their a-list, they still have sometime to wish happy holidays. >> that was for this gentleman, becau

minneapolis rapid city 0 degrees.ad of this system very mild across portions of the southeast. 71 high temperature in new orleans 60 in atlanta. 47 degrees temperatures will be warming up a little more as we head to the mid atlantic. 60 degrees for high temperature in new york city. behind this weren't ifs much colder. 37 in chicago. 34 for your high temperature in kansas city. we are seeing conditions a little more typical for the mor month of december now for parts of the midwest and the plains. the front will still be producing issues across the lower 48. today will be across parts of new york and accumulation about 3 inches. as we head southbound stronger storms heavy rain will be producing crowd delays from mississippi to indiana. you can actually produce severe weather. talk about isolated tornadoes possible today. >> we thought it was cold in the studio but zero degrees in rapid city yesterday. >> thanks. now to stories you can bank on, go across the state lines to fill your tank up. >> which states have the ch

minneapolis should top at 31.n florida, today, we should top out in the 70s and 80s. >> all right, so pack your umbrella. >> for sure. >> thank you so much. >>> during last night's tribute to the victims of the newtown shooting president obama held back tears as he named each of the victims starting with the principal. >> dawn hochsprung and mary her belak. vicki soto. lauren rousseau. rachel davino and anne marie murphy. charlotte. daniel. oliva. josephine. ana. dylan. madeleine. catherine. chase. jesse. james. grace. emilie. jack. noah. caroline. jessica. benjamin. avielle. allison. god has called them all home. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. rewards we put right back into our business. this is the only thing we've ever wanted to do and ink helps us do it. make your mark with ink from chase. with olay, here's how. new regenerist eye and lash duo the cream smooths the look of

light stuff and flurries minneapolis, green bay, light snow left for you. but the big story is the cold air that's behind this. if you're shoveling or snowplowing, it's miserable. the storm is heading east. instead of going due east or redeveloping off the coast, it's heading to quebec. it's dragging warm air up the eastern seaboard. it's only extreme northern portions of vermont, new hampshire, and all of the state of maine that we have to deal with ice and snow during the morning. i think maine especially around augusta, i-95, you'll have to deal with the possibility of a lot of sleet, too, mixed in. rain further to the south. we had strong thunderstorms along this front yesterday through the midwest. now we just got showers in pittsburgh southward. there are thunderstorms this morning down here. northern mississippi, northern alabama, across the heart of tennessee. that's where you'll get downpours on this front. even further south through louisiana and heading out of texas, just outside of houston, we've got thunderstorms, and now this has to slide thro

she will be hospitalized for a few more days. >>> a minneapolis hospital is apologizing for a maternityp that horrified two new moms. a baby boy was mistakenly taken to the wrong mother and breast fed by that mom. northwestern hospital acknowledged the error after the woman noticed the i.d. badge did not match up. and realized the newborn was not hers. >> how could this happen? what do you mean you went to somebody else's room? what do you mean, somebody else breast fed my son? what? >> the hospital has launched an official investigation now. meanwhile, both moms and the baby are undergoing tests to make sure nothing was passed on to the child. >>> also, a tennessee jewelry store will be open for business today, even though it's mostly in shambles. that's because an suv plowed through the front glass, nearly taking out a clerk and smashing several showcases before it finally came to a stop. amazingly, that clerk was not injured, although she was a little shaken up, obviously. saying, she felt the air of the suv as it rushed right past her. >> frightening. >>> well, a parking lot in east

that snow begins in minneapolis and milwaukee. pacific northwest. >>> and finally, when a california man launched a message in a bottle, he had no idea it would soon have some far-reaching results. >> our station kgo reports on what happened next. >> here is a coat to keep you warmer. >> reporter: dan jones is spending the day after christmas continuing to give. a brand-new coat and a warm lunch to a homeless man. we will call him jed. >> i really appreciate this. i really do. it's a god send. >> reporter: it came from one little idea dan had on december 2nd. he wanted to give someone and their family a christmas gift. free tickets to the oakland zoo. he put a message in a bottle, with a note to whoever found it to text him. >> i put it in the creek. >> reporter: the bottle traveled a few miles. eventually landing in this creek behind sports authority on concord avenue. jay was back here looking for recycling bottles to trade for money. he said he never found such a valuable bottle. >> it has a note in it. and it says -- >> report

. >> if you're flying, airport delays are possible in denver, minneapolis, chicago, kansas city, memphis, houston and new orleans. >>> republicans are offering something of a backup plan in case no deal to avert the fiscal cliff can be reached by the end of the year. house speaker john boehner's so-called plan "b" would extend bush-era tax cuts for everyone making under $1 million a year. democrats have already rejected that, though, even as president obama is decreasing his demands for new tax revenue. >>> a northern california college campus has reopened after a security threat. san jose city college was on lockdown, as police conducted room-to-room searches after a report of a gunman on campus. but after an hour's-long search, nothing was found and the all-clear was sounded. >>> and more than a dozen fraternity members surrendered to police to face hazing charges, following the drinking-related death of a

it's a great city, 44 is top weather in minneapolis.er believe it. >> rip the clothes off. >> sure is hot up there. i love minneapolis. >> we're losing him, barnicle. >> robert griffin on hand to watch the wizards take on the heat. crowd welcomed rg3 with a standing o. we pick it up with a jumper, wizards with a four point lead under three minutes to go. la brok lebron james gridrives to the hoop. six seconds left, a bad look off the inbounds pass, throws up a three well off the mark. and unbelievably the wizards hang on to get the win. 105-101. despite a triple double from lebron, rg3 may need to show up for every game. maybe he should show up in congress. >>> more news from the nba and this is a real story. yahoo! sports reporting the hornets basketball team may be renamed the new orleans pelicans as soon as the 2013 season. tom benson is seeking a name is that more appropriate for the team's louisiana home. he also reportedly considered the crew. and the brass. before settling on louisiana state bird. the way too early graphics team

across the nation, we can see so we are talking about the snow back in minneapolis. well, let's look at it because that's what's coming down and it's starting to taper off a bit but they were dealing with blowing snow and when you have that you are dealing with blizzard conditions across the area. closer to home, we are going to be dealing with the liquid form of precipitation that's going to be moving in here as we go into the afternoon. be prepared for that as well. we zoom in and we can see what's happening right now. we have a lot of cloud cover out there this morning. and megan was talking about the fog yes, that's there as well. basically fog and clouds at the ground. that's what we are seeing for a while this morning. dense widespread fog across the area. now, this is what's going on in terms of temperatures. this is the one thing i can tell you is good news if you don't want to put the big bulky coat on you don't have to. we can see temperatures at 51 in blattensburg and chesapeake beach 54 degrees above the high temperatures and that's at 47 where we should

tom holden joins us from minneapolis. good morning. >> good morning ainsley. snow is falling once again. not a lot of accumulation expected hear in any part of minnesota. even though we haven't had a lot of snow for the past 24-hours mdot crews part of the transportation crews are still on the road in full force trying to get up the ice. we had over 1,000 spinouts yesterday sunday night and yesterday morning. almost 700 crashes. there were people every where that were spinning off the road. even one fatality in the state of minnesota. that was about half of the state that was hit really hard with the snowfall. the crews are out snow is still every where. we have not had a storm of this magnitude in december in winter since february 2011. the third biggest snowstorm for december on record in the state of minnesota p. we have had quiet twirns over the past couple twirns. this one is hitting everybody hard. some of the commute times were doubled or tripled for people. some have a good coating of ice and still on them the department of transportation is telling ev

a couple of spotty snow showers from minneapolis over into chicago. for tomorrow, the rain that we're seeing across louisiana today is going to turn into that coastal storm, it looks like it's going to stay mostly to the southeast of texas. >> all right, thank you so much. and thank you for the help on that sports story. >>> coming up -- the late hear larry hagman in reality show. entertainment is straight ahead. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. m even more. i earn 1% cash back everywhere, every time. 2% on groceries. 3% on gas. automatically. no hoops to jump through. that's 1% back on... [ toy robot sounds ] 2% on pumpkin pie. and apple. 3% back on 4 trips to the airport. it's as easy as... -[ man ] 1... -[ woman ] 2... [ woman ] 3. [ male announcer ] the bankamericard cash rewards card. apply online or at a bank of america near you. neural speeds increasing to 4g lte. brain upgrading to a quad-core processor. predictive intelligence with google now complete. introducing droid dna by htc. it's not an upgrade to your phone. it's an upgrade to y

minneapolis got a report ten inches. that didn't stop the party for the bears-vikings game. some fans drove into the storm all the way from chicago. too bad their team lost. >> day look like they had fun, though. >>> time now for the weather from across the nation. snow in the northern rockies. rain and snow in norng new england. heavy rain around boston, new york, philly, and d.c. thunderstorms from cincinnati to the gulf coast. >> 60s from new orleans to the northeast. 12 in the twin cities. mostly 40s in the rockies. >>> coming up, we'll hear from the deejays who posed as british royals and are being blamed for the suicide of a surs. >>> falling gas prices. >>> josh brent of the cowboys, out of jail and struggling with the death of teammate and a friend. >>> there could be a christmas gift for you at the gas pump. lower prices. the average price may be close to $3 a gallon for the holidays. wholesale prices are falling fast as supplied rise and demand drops. a top analyst says the plunge is not even over yet. this morning, the average price is $3.35 gallon. >>> some disap

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minneapolis got a report ten inches. that didn't stop the party for the bears-vikings game. some fans drove into the storm all the way from chicago. too bad their team lost. >> day look like they had fun, though. >>> time now for the weather from across the nation. snow in the northern rockies. rain and snow in norng new england. heavy rain around boston, new york, philly, and d.c. thunderstorms from cincinnati to the gulf coast. >> 60s from new orleans to the northeast. 12 in the twin cities. mostly 40s in the rockies. >>> coming up, we'll hear from the deejays who posed as british royals and are being blamed for the suicide of a surs. >>> falling gas prices. >>> josh brent of the cowboys, out of jail and struggling with the death of teammate and a friend. >>> there could be a christmas gift for you at the gas pump. lower prices. the average price may be close to $3 a gallon for the and "the twilight saga, breaks dawn part 2" was third. >> sadly, i have seen all of them. >> i've seen none. >>> when we come back, the australian deejays saying sorry for the royal prank that w

this is 14 miles east of minneapolis. maplewood.icking up about 10.5 inches of snow, so certainly good news for them, but in the big picture, this is incredibly dynamic. here's the radar. there's minneapolis. all the rain from the snow that pushed eastward. it's now just rain. the arctic air was in place in minneapolis. right now, it feels like 3 and it's 13 degrees. arctic air still there. not here in the northeast. new york, 40 degrees, no snow with that. but the only snow we'll see here is in northern maine. about 8 to 10 inches. through the hudson valley, very warm temperatures. new york, washington, flirting with record highs today, so record snow to the northwest, record highs in the south and east and also, very dynamic here. potentially, we have a tornado watch. these are posteded, meaning the atmosphere right for developing. we have tornado warnings and one posted for another 30 minutes or so. we have had cells that have rotation detected, but look at all this. incre incredibly stormy there this morning, all pushing eastwar

from noon on, minneapolis, just a couple more inches to go tonight. and mostly, it will move to wisconsin and northern michigan. 3 to 6 inches as a base, some places higher. and it's not just the snow. it's the wind too. blizzard warnings and gusts up to 40 could be give cult. if you are traveling, call ahead. >> now it's starting to sound a little like winder, thank you. >>> to the fiscal storm in washington now. and a wouldn't one meeting at the white house today between john bane interthe president. with just 23 days to go until the fiscal cliff r they close center david kerley at the white house tonight. >> reporter: for the first time in more than three weeks a face to face meeting at the white house. today no cameras as the president sat down with john boner. no details are announced tonight. they see progress. >> any time you two guys in that tangoing, you have a change to get done. >> reporter: before the talk, some republicans were admitting the president will get a lot of what he wants. >> let's face it, he has the upper hand on taxing. >> r

minneapolis is in the mid-30s. denver warms up to almost 60. pleasant in the southwest, with phoenix at 69. honolulu and miami are tied for the hot spot, as always, both today at 82 degrees. >> we can always dream. >>> when we come back, problems for a couple of the biggest names on the internet. >>> then, also this morning, fresh fallout for those two deejays who pulled off the prank call that turned tragic when kate middleton was in the hospital. >>> and how's this for protective padding? bubble soccer. it's all coming up in "the pulse." >> safety first. d@ñ >>> welcome back, everyone. and there are some major deals in the works this morning. overnight, hsbc confirmed a record $1.9 billion settlement with the u.s. in return, the british-based banking company won't be charged with money laundering. a criminal prosecution of europe's largest bank might destablize the global system. >>> that closes the books on the biggest bailout. the government's 16% stake is worth almost $8 billion. >> made a profit off of that deal. >>> thanks to the surge

minneapolis goes from 35 down into teens tomorrow.t's going to be very cold, around 12 for a high. chicago, hovers around the freezing mark. then, denver here, will eventually get back up close to 50. mild in the southeast. but not so much there in the northern plains. that's the big picture. let's get a check now a little closer to home. >> this weather report has been brought to you by planet fitness. dan and bianna. >> ginger, thank you. >>> some good news to report to you. he's a super bowl winning quarterback with a supermodel wife. >> gisele bundchen gave birth to the couple's second child on thursday, brady's third, and posted this first picture on friday. brady is getting ready for monday night's showdown between the new england patriots and the houston texans, however he did slow down long enough to talk about balancing the game and his family. >> i love coming to work every day. also being at home and giving those boys my attention and my affection and my discipline and being a good parent is so important. i grew up in a hou

up to three inches of snow is going to be falling around minneapolis, milwaukee and green bay. a dusting in chicago and detroit. meantime, rain showers and thunderstorms from new orleans to nashville and the carolinas. rain and mountain snow in the pacific northwest. >> meanwhile, 40s from seattle to san francisco. 20s from the twin cities right down to kansas city. and 30s for much of the midwest and the northeast. >>> coming up next, built for the road ahead. ford makes a major investment in creating jobs. >>> and also ahead, the surprising impact the fiscal cliff will have on a staple of the american diet. >>> also, later, it is back to the sidelines for an nfl coach whose medical battle has inspired his team and his community. we're going to hear from colts' coach chuck pagano, about his fight with cancer. stay with us. >>> welcome back. you could call it the dairy cliff. there could be some serious sticker shock starting new year's day. you heard wendy mention a little bit about this moments ago. here's more information. the price of milk could double, hitting as much as $

the cold air is sitting back into billings, montana, minneapolis and areas across the northern plains dealing with temperatures in the single digits right now. topping out only in the teens and 20s. we will see rain from boston down into new york city, although it will improve through the day. winds remain fairly strong all across the eastern seaboard, but the heaviest of the snow with perhaps another foot of snow possible in northern new york state, northern vermont and new hampshire as well. then as we go into tomorrow, a couple lighter snow showers into minneapolis and chicago with temperatures right around 30 degrees, but by tomorrow, that big storm system will move out of the northeast. >> much-needed good news. >> oh, yeah. >> thanks so much, dylan. >>> kate winslet and leonardo dicaprio walked down the aisle together. entertainment headlines are just ahead. >>> first, take a look at this. one yearly festival in peru lets people duke out their differences in a hand-to-hand face-off. a crowd watches as duos throw punches over everything from legal battles to stolen lovers. while

so right now minneapolis, it feels like 3.is, you can see, look at this big front with all this rain and severe weather. so we've got snow, severe weather and record heat potentially from new york down to washington and florida. so here's what's happening in the northeast. albany right now, it's 40. no snow for you. it's really northern maine that will get eight to ten inches of snow. farther south along the front, tennessee, one to two inches of rain potentially for you. and that's where kithe greatest convection s look at all the lightning strikes. we actually have a tornado warning already this morning. it expired two minutes before 5:00. record heat, believe it or not today, new york city could get to 60, 61. jfk, 57. the old report just one degree north of that. washington, potentially 66. pensacola, florida, it's a quick hitter. one day warmth then that big front we were watching moves in and cools you off dramatically. temperatures tomorrow about 10 to 15 degrees colder than today. there's the severe weather potentially

forecast wise, the only areas that will look like winter soon towards minneapolis, you're one of the only spots could i find that has a chance for some snow. so today's forecast, again, still very warm out there. even above average after the cold front. denver at 68. for the eastern seaboard, this upcoming weekend, a little more unsettled, but not chilly. >> all right, bill, thanks so much. >>> well, a business which is judge orders a man to stop having children. and bob costa speaking out about his controversial gun control comments in the wake of the javon bell chur murder-suicide. [ male announcer ] it's that time of year again. time for citi price rewind. because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. and you really don't want to pay more than you have to. only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. and if it finds one, you get refunded the difference. just use your citi card and register your purchase online. have a super sparkly day! ok. [ male announcer ] now all you need is a magic carriage. citi price rewind. start saving at citi.com/price

then as we go into the weekend, again, a couple of rain and snow showers mixed in in minneapolis, butst will start off the day especially with heavier pockets of rain. washington, d.c., though, starting the weekend with partly cloudy skies, temperatures in the 60s, so not too bad in the nation's capital. >> all right, dylan, thanks so much. >>> just ahead, it's good to be a baldwin, and we have the mug shot to prove it. >>> plus, america's beloved golden girl is honored in whoville. we'll tell you why. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. ♪ the weather outside is frightful ♪ ♪ but the fire is so delightful ♪ nothing melts away the cold like a hot, delicious bowl of chicken noodle soup from campbell's. ♪ let it snow, let it snow music is a universal language. but when i was in an accident... i was worried the health care system spoke a language all its own with unitedhealthcare, i got help that fit my life. information on my phone. connection to doctors who get where i'm from. and tools to estimate what my care may cost. so i never missed a beat. we're more than 78,000 people looking

minneapolis is at an 11-inch deficit. they'll get five to eight. then the cold blast of air comes in. in the teens by monday. starting the workweek this chicago in the teens. dallas could see flakes of snow as well. >> 14 in minneapolis. >>> we turn to a headline that caught our attention here. many americans driving new cars are now being watched by a device right in their own car. tracking the turns and the speed. and it is igniting a new debate tonight about who gets that information. here's abc's mark greenblatt now. >> reporter: you're probably used to hearing about black boxes helping solve airplane crashes. but lieutenant governor timothy murray found out the hard way they're in some cars t when he crashed this one, he said he had a seat belt on and claimed hewas the data recorder said he was driving unbelted and faster than 100 miles an hour. but there's a larger controversy >> there are important safety thhol' but there a who will access the information and how long will it be collected? >> reporter: the boxes tap into the electronics to t

blizzard warnings throughout the day and in effect for the city of minneapolis.eeling under the weather, chances are you're headed straight to the doctor's office, but overall medical diagnosis is easier said than done. especially when it comes to your mental health. >> clayton: saying that about mike for years. could medical doctors even tell exactly what's going on inside of your head? our next guest says he has a break through technique and he's here to share it. >> and it's helped thousands of people reclaim the individual wellness and the doctor joins us now to explain. great to have you. >> thank you, doctor. >> so you have a very newfangled nutrition plan and you have to sort of see into people's brains and their brain chemistry where you can figure out how to fix their fatigue and nutrition problems, how do you that that? >> it's like an x-ray for a broken bone and we're able to take a map or what i kind a mind map of the brain chemistry in action. >> how do you do that a year in the brain. >> from a urine sample and measures the dopamine and seratonin an

i can't imagine the unspeakable grief in suburban minneapolis when the somali kids are told, you have to go home, you terrorists, get out of our community. they were born here, this is their community. i can't imagine the unspeakable fear in the aftermath of that horrible incident involving the murder outside of milwaukee, wisconsin, and you read the data showing here in the bay area the number of siekh american kids who reported they had been harassed in 2010. so we have a lot of work to do in sioux falls, south dakota, in buffalo, new york, in the bay area, across the country. we're doing just that. and the extent to which the profile of this issue has been raised in recent years i think is a remarkable trib bought to all of you in this room. it's a trib bought to this president. i had the privilege of going to the summit that the president held. he has put his skin in the game. he has used the bully pulpit of the presidency, he has used the good offices of secretary duncan and the attorney general to make sure we send a very clear message as a federal government that we are all in

teens, minneapolis, only 15 degrees now. here in the east, 50, 60, 61. the warm air right along on the eastern coast there. that will be changing. the front coming through. there goes the mild air. it's going to get cooler, but not super cold. temperatures actually running still above average this week. but it will be dry for the rest of the week. northwest wind, drying things out. at 10 to 15 nots -- knot, small craft advisory. bay temp, still stuck in the upper 40s. tonight, then, showers and cooler air down much later, then, to 42. clouds early. and sunshine coming through. temperatures back up, upper 40s to about 50, which is still slightly above average. but you know, about 10 to 15 degrees cool colder than today. >> but still, in december. >> not too bad. >> thank you, bob. >>> well, don't miss tonight's cbs primetime lineup. we have hawaii five-0, at 10:00, followed immediately by eyewitness news at 11:00. >>> more ahead on wjz at 4:30. >>> still trying to come up with ways to keep a massive round of spending cuts from kicking in at the end of the

let's begin right in minnesota, right outside minneapolis, bloomington.t was a slippery, slidey mess on friday. a lot of accidents happening there. it's what happens when you have only a half-inch. they're about to get five to eight inches of snow before this weekend is done. this is a snow-starved area, meaning they usually have a lot more. omaha and lincoln, nebraska, on their longest stretch of days without snow ever in recorded history. a lot of people looking forward to the half-foot-plus in the pink area. here's what we can expect with the snow, it would be that bitter cold. look at the numbers drop off in places like denver. the temperature, 48 today. 22 by the time we reach our sunday. minneapolis is going to tumble down to around 14. one place that isn't so cold, the southeast. places there, 10 to 20 degrees above average. look at houston. should be 66. today, 80. >> so, i absolutely love ski season. it's started in utah. we have this great picture to start it off. getting me pumped up. going to take the first runs in a month or so. looking to th

most of the heavier snow is falling across minneapolis and duluth and wisconsin. we should pick up around six to nine inches in the minneapolis area, also in duluth, minnesota and wisconsin should pick up about three to six inches. that's a look at the >> areas of showers you have to watch for today, maybe even fog. temperatures holding instead in the upper 40's to low 50's. the seven-day forecast shows warming up to the 60's tomorrow the 50's the rest of the week. >> and that's your latest forecast. willie? >> dylan, thank you. >>> we are 23 days away from the miss fiscal cliff deadline. can congress and the white house reach a deal? david gregory is moderator of "meet the press." good morning. >> willie, good morning. >> we've heard a lot of tough talk, pes sichl surrousimism su negotiations. you spent time on capitol hill and came away optimistic. why? >> what's changed from the last debacle speaker boehner has more room within his own ranks. the republicans have done away with the feeling they have to oppose the president because the election is coming and the