at the white house, tara mergner, wjz eyewitness news. >> the final troops are supposed to be out of iraq by december 31st but it appears military officials wills will have to pull out ahead of schedule. >> not a bad day. a live look outside. it has been mostly cloudy but the sun has broken through and may do so gain. we have first warning weather coverage now with marty bass in the outback and meteorologist tim williams in the weather good afternoon. good afternoon. >> reporter: good afternoon. i have often said the first barometer is how marty is dressed. keep in mind the average high for today is 45. take a look at first warning weather live doppler radar. we are on the edge of a front. we will see showers but that is not the highlight. take a look at the temperatures, 45, remember that is the normal high. we are already at this noon hour at 56 degrees. here we are one week from the holiday we are at 56 in central maryland and we do have cooler air moving in but it will not impact us at least in the short run so it is not too late to look ahead to the week ahead and more to talk a

tara mergner, wjz 13 eyewitness news. >> it is home to the airborne. >>> a milder start continues but not much sun but plenty of clouds and we have got first warning weather coverage with you with marty bass in the outback and meteorologist tim williams over in the first warning weather center. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. a mild day coming, well -- shaping up i should say here in this early afternoon on this wednesday. temperatures already above our average. our average high is 46. here at noon we are at 49, cool spot 40 degrees in oakland. 50 degrees on the shore and in easton, so another day with mild temperatures in play. radar tells the story, moisture to our west that we will talk about later. right now over most of the area we are looking for another afternoon with temperatures staying in the pleasant zone. so how is that going to play out in the next few days? for more on that we send it to marty bass. >> hello, good afternoon, everybody. we are going to go back to first warning doppler weather radar. what you have to understand is those returns you see that appear to be

tara mergner is in washington this morning. good morning, tara. >> good morning to you, drew.oth sides continue to insist they want to extend this initiative. but with just 11 days left in the year now, hope is fading fast. house republicans won't settle for the senate's short-term fix. >> i think it's time to do the right thing for the american people. let's solve the problem now. >> reporter: they emerged from a closed door meeting last night ready to shoot down a twoo-month extension of payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits later today. >> we believe that a much better path the forward is uncertainty. and that is a year's extension of the payroll tax holiday. >> the bill breezed through the senate over the weekend, even gaining the support of house speaker mitch mcconnell. house speaker boehner seemed on board until he discussed it with fellow republicans. >> it is the radical tea party republicans who are holding up this tax cut for the american people and jeopardizing our economic growth. >> gop leaders now want the senate, which has gone home for the holidays to com