Of being responsible for saving daylight. Its time for daylight to learn to save itself. Thats right. [ cheers and applause ] yes, we got an extra hour of sleep, but we also got an extra hour of donald trump being president of the united states. Id like to set my calendar ahead a year. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] as of today were one day short of a year from the next president ial election. Interesting fact. At this point in 2015 a year ahead of the election you know who the republican frontrunner was . For real. Dr. Ben carson. [ laughter ] and then he woke up and it was all just a dream and then he went back to sleep. But at the white house today the president played host to the world series champion washington nationals. It was a little bit confusing. He was under the impression he was hosting white nationalists, not the nationals. [ laughter ] oh, its a baseball team. Thats nice. As players have been known to odo the nationals brought the president a jerzy. But not the usu
9 00. I knew that there would be trouble this morning. I got myself seated good. Well squeeze you for everything youre worth. We needed a big name. Big name. We got one. It day after for december 26. Youre too kind. Then here you are. Here he is. What did you get . Anything good . I have switch, lump of coal . Hes a hanukkah guy. A lump of coal yes, but a lump of coal at some point probably worth something. Tet rate were going. Thats right. Youre no tree . I want a tree, my wife says theyre too messy. The trees are messy. The needs needles you have the festivus pole. Grievances you better go, sorry. Lets do the main headlines this morning. Of course, theres only one main story this morning. Its a familiar one. The looming fiscal cliff. Aides for both parties now saying a partial agreement or patch probably the most that we can be expecting before january 1. I think were dealing now with whether or not we can put off the the increase in tax rates. Thats really all we can deal with now.
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Westbound interstate 40 was temporarily shut down for two miles in a suburb of Oklahoma City this morning. They say freezing rain is probably to blame for a Chain Reaction crash involving 20 vehicles. You see it there. Including three big rigs. Alexandra steele is the storm. Take a look at this. Severe weather is just beginning to ramp up today. Were looking at a whole day with Severe Weather. Tornado watches you can see. Look at this. I10 right along the gulf coast, houston to new orleans. And this is just really the beginning of it. Were looking at incredibly Severe Weather. Tornado watches and tornado warnings. Tornado warnings meaning these storms have produced rotation and have been detected. You can see right there. So right now its eastern texas moving into louisiana. Kind of to give you a perspective, south of i20 here is tyler, texas. Heres shreveport, louisiana. All of these moving northeast and this is just the beginning of really what could be an inundation of Severe Weathe
Thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by the Election Commission in egypt confirmed today the new constitution won nearly 64 of the vote in a referendum. The panel also reported turnout was just a third of the countrys 52 million registered voters. President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood backed the draft constitution. Opponents warned it paves the way for islamic rule and curbs on civil liberties. The six persian gulf arab nations demanded an end to what they called iranian interference. They issued a Statement Today at the end of the Gulf Cooperation Councils annual summit. The statement gave no details. The six u. S. Allied countries, also called for Swift International action to end the bloodshed in syria. In central asia, a military plane crashed early this morning in kazakhstan killing 27 people including the countrys head of border security. The russianmade aircraft went down near a southern city. The dead also incl