pelley: good evening, in just 12 days 160 million work could see a tax increase in their paychecks and nearly two million others are struggling to get by without a paycheck could lose their unemployment. the house today said the clock ticking toward that new year s day punch in the pocketbook when it turned down a bill that has been passed by the senate. that bill would have extended the 2% cut in the social security payroll tax and kept job benefits flowing. what happens now? congressional correspondent nancy cordes is on capitol hill, nancy? reporter: scott, we are now official in a total stalemate and tonight most lawmakers are heading home for the holidays. reporter: the motion is adopted. reporter: house republicans doubled down on their risky strategy today voting to reject a two-month tax cut and to establish negotiations with a resistant senate. come back to washington! do your work! give the american people a year, not two months. reporter: democrats said
last night. early this tuesday morning, december 20th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs it sort of looked like that last night at the game. very, very tough to control your offense with no lights on. it definitely is. good morning, let s begin this morning with a deadly blizzard. it s terrible. it s causing a major problem for travelers in the southern plains because of high winds and more than a foot of snow in some areas. new mexico had to shut down highways. hundreds of drivers are stranded there and one driver said he hasn t seen a storm like this since the 1970s. cynthia, good morning. reporter: good morning, chris. i m in salina, kansas, where smart people are hunkered down. half a foot of snow is forecast for this city and that may end by the end of the day. blizzard like conditions were brought to places that don t normally get it like new mexico and the texas panel handle. fast-falling snow whipped by furious. 40-mile-per-hour winds made a dangerous situa
before the first votes are cast in the iowa caucus, which is 23 days out. dean reynolds in des moines has more on the high-stakes free-for-all. as the latest king of the republican hill, newt gingrich came under attack, but mitt romney took a lot of punch, including some of the self-inflicted variety, for example, when he challenged the truth of an attack by rick perry, romney offered to put money on the table. rick, i ll tell you what, $10,000, $10,000 bet? i m not in the betting business. critics scoffed that it was a sign of romney s wealth and elitism, noting that few iowans could pony up $10,000 to move a point. those type of elitist tactics may work. then there was romney s repeated assertion he s an outsider, a businessman, not tied to the culture of washington. gingrich, a creature of washington for decades, reminded romney of his failed senate race. let s be candid, the only reason you didn t become a career politician is you lost to teddy kennedy in 19
the state highway administration has completely closed as bill is showing you there, three lanes of the outer loop of 695, on the southwest side. only one lane is getting by at this time. they have also closed one lane of southbound i-95, as the overpass that goes over top of 695 for state highway officials to continue work on the bridge and the sign. now, they are in the process of repairing the sign. we do know that bridge inspectors are on the scene, looking at the girder. they have deemed it safe for travel. we have highway traffic running over it at this time. southbound 95, but day tuned throughout the afternoon and evening drive time. it s causing a mess of delays. and our traffic reporter will keep you updated. complete coverage continues with kristy breslin with with more on these backups. well, as captain mike had told you, the three right lanes are blocked. the delay right now is back to wilkens avenue. it s definitely going to stretch. right now, you re lookin
continues. it is a long line of traffic backups on 695. problems on 95 as well. meanwhile, that bridge inspection is going to continue into the night. a lot of these cars finally getting through some of this traffic now. that inspection continues into the night. the driver of that truck, likely going to be facing charges when this is all over. derek valcourt, wjz eyewitness news. derek, thank you. our complete coverage continues now with wjz traffic control. kristy breslin as a closer look at those backups. we saw all of those lights stretching for a long way, kristy. unfortunately, yes, mary. and that s already a difficult spot on the outer loop of the beltway, at the 95 southbound overpass. the two right-hand lanes are blocked. the delay, as you can see, stretches back to almost 795. if you re going in that direction, you can expect at least 30 minutes to get through the delay. now, as far as the other side, it s also impacting traffic on the inner loop. things are slow