steve hartman, "on the road" in tallahassee, florida. >> and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonightl around the world, i'm scott pelley. i'll see you sunday on "60 minutes." good night. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. >>> good evening, i'm dana king. >> i'm allen martin. the bay area gets a wallop from a super soaker drenching everyone from the north bay to the santa cruz mountains. there was flooding just about everywhere. this is the raley's parking lot in pleasanton which accumulated up to a half foot of water because of clogged drains. >> a tree fell on a mercedes on pine street in the lower pacific heights neighborhood in safe san francisco no injuries. >> a tree landed in a van in the berkeley hill. two people were in the van. the windows were blown out the roof bent. the two people in the van weren't hurt. >>> fast water flows are causing worries on the santa cruz river in santa cruz county. clean-up crews had their hands full clearing downed trees from roads and restoring power. >> we have reporter

and there's heavy fog from tallahassee to atlanta.. sacramento, portland, seattle, in the 40s, a >>> and in suburban rochester, about 100 people attended an impromptu memorial vigil for two firefighters that were killed. police say an ex-con, william spengler, set a car and a house on fire as an ambush. he then killed himself. his sister who lived in the house remains unaccounted for. >>> and the entertainment world is mourning jack klugman. he played medical examiner "quincy." >>> charles durning has passed away. you may not recognize the name. but you'll recognize that face from dozens of films, plays and tv shows. he won a tony for "cat on a hot, tin roof." >>> pope benedict concentrated on the middle east in his christmas day message. he said the slaughter of civilians must end. and negotiations between israel and palestinians must begin. merry christmas. that's the news. back to you. >>> merry christmas morning. we're here with mario batali, our special christmas co-host. he kicked off the 12 days of christmas countdown. why not

tonight the moscow plane crash claims another fake tallahassee five people have now died after the passenger jet they were on slammed into a busy highway after overshooting the runway three survivors from a in a critical condition. an eyewitness described how he helped rescue a wounded woman from the crash airliner as he drove past that accident site. i did i look at the week's other main news president putin signs into law a ban on americans adopting russian children but it's dividing public opinion here in russia even both the authorities insisted that the flawed adoption system in the u.s. . egypt's new constitution weeks of protest is officially adopted but that is a far from settled with opposition leaders now under investigation for allegedly plotting to topple the islamist president. when you're watching a roundup of the big stories of the last seven days here on r.t. and first five people have now died as a result of a plane crash when a passenger jet overshot the runway at one of russia's busiest airports one of the wounded flight attendants died of injuries in hospital sunday the t

they could have a rough few hours ahead and heavy snow in oklahoma and morning fog in atlanta and tallahassee need to bundle up if you're in the upper midwest. fargo will be like 35 below. yeah, maybe even put on an extra little christmas log there. omaha in the mid-teens and mid-40s in baltimore and new york. pleasant 80 and flip-flops in miami. >> always jealous of miami this time of year. >>> if you can't believe this, there really actually is a santa claus. he looks the part, acts the part and now living the part year round. the former frank pazuzzi has changed his name. it is even printed on his driver's license. >> he is officially santa claus. the rest of the year, 54-year-old construction worker and barbecue joint proprietor with a wife and four children. very unusual, but very well known name. >> i want to get his shirt. the shirt he had on underneath, every christmas sweater. >> more people have the christmas spirit all year around like that guy, the world would be a nicer place. congratulations to you, mr. santa claus. >> one has barbecue. >>> all right, coming up next, a special v

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. >> tallahassee that bye week. what do you think of the big collar there? >> yeah. >> i might able to pull that off. >> tony romo couldn't pull off anything last night. he had three picks, the first one there by richard crawford, again, another rookie, the shanahan draft class last year, just sensational. here is the second pick. josh wilson going to get this one. you throw it up there for grabs. anybody has a shot to get it. rob jackson with the third pick later in the game which proved to be the dagger. a qbr last night for tony romo, 26.7. that won't get it done. rg iii by comparison, only is00 yard through the air but he rushed for almost 60 in the big touch downwe showed there. it was about alfred morris and that defense. they have done a magnificent job. people were calling for jim has left tt's head early in the season. to get this done somehow on the biggest stage last night, prime time, tip your cap if you're wearing00 today to him and that defense. we'll try to track down lorenzo alexander tomorrow. we'll let the guys sleep in a little bit tonight

heavy rain from tallahassee.e storms in south florida. >> upper 70s in miami. 50s in colorado springs and 15 in fargo. when our time is up, we want to rest in peace one day. but who said anything about resting quietly? >> that's going to bring us to our favorite story of the day. a swedish company is selling hi-fi coffins for $30,000. the sound system is designed to pipe non-stop music six feet under. surviving friends and family can update your play list at any time. i think they're going to sabotage this. >> i love this story. the coffin comes with delux speakers and a screen displaying which song is playing at the time. i love that story. people like to enjoy their music, why not for eternity? not bad. >> they're probably going to be pipe in some songs that should be playing in hell, though. >>> new questions about reality tv and whether one popular show is actually rigged. >> shock and awe. >>> today's magic number for brides and grooms. they want to get married today on 12-12-12. you're watching "world news

you're going to blue cross-blue shield up in tallahassee. you won't get that there. all the best to you, sir. congratulations on your service in congress. wish awe happy new year. >> happy new year, thank you. adam: so we'll get the republican take from senator john barrasso just a lit later in the program. he is kook discussing right now with other members of the republican caucus in the senate. they're talking about all of this. obviously the final physical cliff deal affects everybody, every aspect of our money, the markets, the economy. some say no matter what the damage has been done. we have money panel with wisdom to help us get through all of this. scott martin, is also a spewed baker fan. kill holme, and stephen hayes, writer at weekly standard and fox news contributor. i want to start with kim. from a small business perspective, this deal to only tax people who make 400,000, the, does that spare small business that might look at their funds as a pass-through when it comes tax time or will this still be horrendous for them. >> it is horrendous and horrendous

he joins me live from tallahassee.ilmmaker who chronicled kyle's story is with me from tallahassee. gentlemen, thank you, both, for being with me. benjamin, let me begin with you. you have no idea who you are, no one in your past has come forward to find you, how do you wrestle with this every day? >> mostly i don't think about it because it is just -- it gets too frustrating. and besides, i have to get along with my day to day living. i can't concentrate on that because i have to make a living. >> you have to live day to day. >> yes. >> and in that day to day living, until you got help from john and this documentary, some media coverage, you had no i.d. for those of us who take our i.d.s for granted, what are the challenges of living in this world without one? >> well, you know, you can't even get into a homeless shelter without a social security number. can't rent an apartment, can't get a driver's license. it's like i'm a ghost walking through the country. >> john, you stumbled upon this ghost, he's not at all a gho

windchill advisories. 20s and 30s, from orlando, jacksonville, tallahassee, as well. >> an area i haven't been able to talk about too much, the sierras. i have a picture to share with you. you can find me on facebook and twitter. we got this one, beautiful, from northern california. they were continuing to get more snow. and they will, with more storms. there's that colorful sky. thanks so much for sending them. we send it back in the studio now. >> thanks, ginger. i love the people in the security line behind you. hate being in line. but nice to have ginger there. >>> now, to what may be a huge, medical breakthrough. a bionic suit, a sort of wearable robot, that can help paralyzed patients, people that never thought they would walk again. here's abc's muhammad lila. >> gentlemen, we can rebuild him. >> reporter: for years, we dreamed of the impossible. >> better than he was before. >> reporter: dreamed of building a bionic man. >> better, stronger, faster. >> reporter: today, those big dreams start with these tiny steps. >> mentally, it's a wonderful mealing to be upright and moving. >>

and all the southern governors, meeks in north florida outside of tallahassee at a governors conference that's what whole thing starts. and right was the hard line when. and thurmond, worked out by his close advisers said no, they said what we need is a 40 day cooling off period where we can figure out what we're going to do in that kind of thing. thurmond offered a resolution for cooling off period, and that's what got adopted. but then as he was asking people what they could do you realize that can people interested in cooling off. they wanted to stay fired up. and thurmond then kind of double down and said i need to keep involved in this. the reason, many people in south carolina recognized this at the time, is that thurmond was looking ahead to 1950. his gubernatorial term would be up in 1950. he couldn't succeed himself in after our politics and you want to run for the senate, the next rung on the latter. and to do that he had to get to the right of johnson. so in some ways it's ironic, thurmond runs for president so he can run for the senate. he runs for the presidency in 48 to re

so did you like that job in tallahassee as governor of florida?, it's a great job, absolutely. you know, i talked to bob graham about it. he said, charlie, when you're governor of the state, it's like being the quarterback of the football team. you have the opportunity to call a lot more plays than you do when you're serving in the u.s. senate. you're more of a speck taker of what's going on. >> where was he when i needed him? where was he when you needed him? >> he's right there. >> because if he had advised you to do that, you would still be governor. >> yeah. well, maybe so. i had the wonderful opportunity and my wife did to have dinner with governor graham and adelle, and they are lovely people, and he is a great floridian and a great friend. >> if you had to advise somebody young deciding which political party, what would be your main knocks against the republican party 2012, right now? >> well, i just don't think they're very toll lant anymore and not very compassionate. at least the leadership. and i make that distinction because my mom and

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we could see records in phoenix, tallahassee, milwaukee and even washington, d.c. will be close to breaking a record high. a lot going on across the country. it's rather bizarre. >> thank you very much. >>> new today tom cole is responding to criticism from members of his own party. the politician suggested the gop should accept president obama's plan to extend tax cuts and debate the tax hikes for the wealthy. >> i do believe we should take things where we agree with the president and take them off the table one at a time. this would strengthen our position in the course of the negotiations. >> joining me e is former governor howard dean and congressman tom davis. hello, you guys. good to have you both. so representative davis, i will begin with you. congressman kohl says this move would strengthen the gop position. do you agree or do you think it's a risky approach? >> well, it's a little of both frankly. when you give that up, there's nothing left for the president to agree to. he's won the day. the problem with that is everybody goes off the cliff at this point

slowly down into florida some of the cold air has made it as far south as northern florida, in tallahasseeentral florida, 40 degrees for you in tampa and orlando is cold for a floridian. so it's going to be a cold start to your day today. and you're rebounding nicely into the 60's with some sunshine today. it's a very quiet day in terms of precipitation today across most of the country in the plains in the west and also the southeast and we do have clouds right here and that's basically where the system is farming and producing wet weather across places in the mississippi valley as we head into your new year's eve around midnight. keep that in mind. otherwise the nor'easter brought snow across massachusetts and the northeast and slowly winding down and eastern parts of maine at this hour. >> thanks very much, maria. >> let's get to headlines, the moment the plane misses the runway in moscow, watch this, it's all caught on video. see if you look closely, that's a wheel from the plane knocking the car almost off the road and that car really lucky. four crew members were killed after the plan

host: tallahassee, florida, democratic caller. caller: i am from fort lauderdale.ould like to make a statement. hadre world war oi, we reinsurance treaties. when we had allies, after a certain period of time we renegotiated those treaties. i am talking about nato. i am talking but the mediterranean in particular. in the mediterranean, the italians have two aircraft carriers. the french have one, the spanish have one. that is four aircraft carriers. i do not understand why we have to ship ships from other parts to go to the mediterranean to solve a problem. libya, tunisia, egypt, israel, syria are mediterranean problems such belong to the mediterranean. if we enforce our treaties with our allies, we could cut our costs substantially. this goes all the other lines as we have. host: dan goure? guest: the problem is that nato is an alliance that is only committed to defense of its members. in the libyan campaign, major nato players did not play. what really turned out to be the case is absent the united states for anything but very small, almost counterinsurgency opera

. >> host: carl, tallahassee, florida. democratic caller. carl. you point with us? >> caller: i am from fort lauderdale. would like to make a statement and i like their comments. before world war one, we have reinsurance treaties. when we analyze after a certain amount of time we renegotiated the streets, and i am talking about. i am particularly talk about the mediterranean. in the mediterranean the italians have two aircraft carriers. the french have one, the spanish have one. as for. i do not understand why we have to ship -- we have to ship -- ships from other ports to go to the mediterranean to solve the problem. libya, tunisia, egypt, israel, syria, mediterranean problems that belong to the mediterranean . if we enforce our treaties with our allies we could cut our costs substantially, and this goes through all the other lines is that we have. thank you. >> the problem is that nato is an alliance that is only committed to the defense of its members. what happened in the libyan campaign was it was a coalition of the will. major nato players such as germany did

don in tallahassee, florida, democratic caller. your call is first. what do you think of the role of mental health? caller: i believe that the government has to play a role and getting back to chapter 17, which meant if someone murders somebody, he said execute them, send them to me, a rapist and a murder should be executed on tv and this too, will stop. this will continue on because we put them in prison, feed them for years. so if the government gets back to what he said, let them kill someone and show it on youtube. execute them. send them to me because a murder and rapist cannot have salvation. host: all right. dre, compton, california, republican, california. good morning. guest: i think like your record should cause the federal government to step in whether you like it or not. if you're getting in trouble, if you have a record of anger, if you have a record of social vines, i think that's when the -- violence, i think that's when the government should step in. if you're not in jail and you need help and the federal government, if you're going to

prior to that, he was with the journal in florida as a reporter based in tallahassee. thanks for talking with us. >> and on tomorrow morning's "washington journal", tom cole discusses the latest in the fiscal of negotiations. and then georgetown university law professor john buckley looks of the history of the alternative minimum tax and how it is being dealt with in negotiations. plus, your tweets, phone calls and e-mails. that is live tomorrow morning on "washington journal" on c-span. a closed-door briefing earlier today to outline the proposal of president obama for the so- called fiscal cliff. what is the proposal? >> the top line #would be about $2.20 trillion in the budget control act. and they say compared to what the white house put out, the white house says it offers $4 trillion when using the same accounting as the white house, it would be about $4.60 trillion over 10 years. republicans say it would come from tax reform, but not to increasing tax rates. that has been a sticking point thus far in negotiations. >> you are talking about the bush tax rates? >> a

let's move on to linda from tallahassee, florida.aller: i have been very disappointed in the republicans myself, and i have been a republican for a long time. this pastime i could not even vote republican because i was so aggravated in what i felt was misinformation from them. i am in the top 5% of american wealth. we owed nobody -- we have no bills. we know plenty of baker's. we felt these people were taking advantage -- would you are in the banking business, it is a public trust issue. they do not to make these loans and they made them anyway. i said, you should not be making these loans, it is not a good loan. it made them. they are not going to jail for it. nobody on wall street is going to jail. as a republican and a christian, if we are not holding their feet to the fired to do better it acts like christians and try to come to the table and figure out how to fix the problem that we have here, i pay all of my bills. everybody that does business with me, she pays her bills. if it means she has to go without, as a goes without. ho

. >> next thing you know, i'm covering sports in tallahassee. >> there you go. in that polyester. >> it was a corduroy suit that i got. >> you were in florida. ooh. >> felt like sweatpants. >> i need freedom of movement. sherri wakes me up every morning. >> how does she wake you up? >> she has no morning breath. i'm actually kind of a gandhi-like figure these days. divided by ten, it's a 50 -- ah! it's a $58 stock for goodness sakes. i'm sick of this. give me my telestrator. what the heck. i'm going to go home and learn the no-pick circle draw. the circle draw. look at this. >> let me do a super-cal i straighter on r.i.m. >> did you get that? >> down here. >> i've got to go commando here. it's down here. that's where it is. all work and no play makes jack a very dull boy. >> there you go. it may be the 17 sued a feds i took before the show. >> oh, the memories. good times, right? >> when he's gone, you really miss him. >> he'll be back on wednesday, in time to trade the fiscal cliff. all right. the deadline, of course, just hours away. if lawmakers wind up kicki

. >> i come to work every day, my tallahassee paycheck, still in my wallet. i was a reporter. i made $137 a week. and if i had seen that go down to 127, i would have been angry. that was my subsistence. there are people who play for dinner in this country and their subsistence are on the line and they're going to be furious. but they're not going to get furious until they see their paycheck. >> it's going to impact gdp in the first quarter, and the second quarter. americans are feeling like they're protected from the democrats? because they're in lower income households? but they won't be. their paychecks will be less because the payroll tax cut will be gone. the amt, also gone. that will affect lots of people, not just high-income people, everybody. >> potentially 30 million people. >> you don't know until the end of the year. >> the likelihood we go into next year without a deal -- let's talk about the overall market and the sense. economy. you guys were mentioning, you ladies and gentlemen, were mentioning a number of the positives. it's funny, i've had conversations with p

places like nashville, tallahass tallahassee, charleston, could you see a couple of tornados. certainly heavy rain. could see another inch around atlanta and into south carolina. drought, huge story here. rain will be welcomed as long as we don't see the severe storm. into the northeast, winter on the map this morning. especially around the mass pike and heading northward. freezing rain across massachusetts. if you like the snow, higher elevations in northwest maine. new hampshire, 3 to 6 inches of snow. is a big storm in the northwest. lots of snow from the cascades over into the rockies. a week before christmas, and snow coming down. if you have a ski trip, looking better. >> thank you for that and he did it with his clothes done. we appreciate it. >> well done, eric. >> becky thought i was headed there. i was not. i had headed to how tight the division is. >> you're going to see naked football before they get into the playoffs this year. >> well, we did. >> are you still thinking how it could impact the jets? >> yes. >> that is sad. >> everybody was watching this game to se

host: tallahassee, florida, democratic caller. caller: i am from fort lauderdale.ould like to make a statement. before world war i, we had treaties. when we had allies, after a certain period of time we renegotiated those treaties. i am talking about nato. i am talking but the mediterranean in particular. in the mediterranean, the italians have two aircraft carriers. the french have one, the spanish have one. that is four aircraft carriers. i do not understand why we have to ship ships from other parts to go to the mediterranean to solve a problem. libya, tunisia, egypt, israel, syria are mediterranean problems such belong to the mediterranean. if we enforce our treaties with our allies, we could cut our costs substantially. this goes to all the other lines as we have. host: dan goure? guest: the problem is that nato is an alliance that is only committed to defense of its members. in the libyan campaign, major nato players did not play. what really turned out to be the case is absent the united states for anything but very small, almost counterinsurgency operations