Hightech planes. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. With just 27 days to go until all of us are hit with tax increases, takes it across the board a cut of 55 billion. People have it in their power to avoid the socalled fiscal cliff arent negotiating, theyre not debating right now, so many of them simply leaving town. But theres more going on than meets the eye. Lets bring in our senior Congressional Correspondent dana basch, she has the latest. Reporter theres so much political theater around here right now, you could say tickets. One of todays acts was the house leaving. Lawmakers streaming out of the capitol hill, racing to their cars to get to the airport and go home. Its a scene you usually see on a thursday afternoon or friday morning, not wednesday at noon. Good morning. House Republican Leaders told members theyre free to leave, because they have nothing to vote on. I understand that you are saying legislation has been put on the floor. When it comes to just pure opti
Are still missing. The misery not yet over. The storm is expected to continue to dump heavy rain in philippines until tomorrow. To iran where officials claim they have gotten some damning information from that u. S. Drone they say they captured. The information that the iranians say now proves that the u. S. Was spying on irans military sites and its oil terminals. The u. S. Has been trying to block irans oil exports as part of an effort to get iran to give up its nuke program, but as for the drone, a defense official says no u. S. Navy drone is missing. Were about to take you live to cairo. That is where riot police are bracing now for another night of violent street fighting, tear gas all over the city today. This week crowds of egyptians have now stormed the president ial palace, breaking through fences, fighting with Security Forces, trying to keep them back. Now, the protesters, they are furious about several things. First of all, all concerning president Mohammed Morsi and this g
Germany is mulling over whether to try to outlaw a far right party accused of stirring up antiimmigrant sentiment. Minister to go formal step toward banning the National Democratic party, ministers took a formal step toward banning the National Democratic party, the npd. Some worry that prohibiting the party could backfire. It could drum up sympathy for the far right. The ministers are united in their call for a ban on meat npd. They reviewed extensive on the npd. They reviewed extensive documentation before making up their mind. I never would have thought they were so antidemocratic or antisemitic. Or so oriented towards violence and so unconstitutional. We have been discussing a ban for 12 years. Now we have a lot of material to go on, much more than ever before. The ministers will seek to the governments support for the ban. One federal interior minister said they have a good case, but he admits there are risks. The danger is that these proceedings could give new life to a party tha
Up 125 points. After two days of selling we are seeing some Market Action to the upside. We are above the 13,000 mark, well above that. 13,076. The nasdaq squeezing it out. Concern for apple, but financials are doing well. Lets take a look at the group. Laying off 11,000 workers, that is the plan. A new ceo in place and he wants to make his mark. Up 6. 5 . It is under pressure, nowhere near 700 for the alltime high in september. The latest findings other actually going to use the market share for the ipad to the android in some microsoft folks, theyre facing intense competition. With the findings you see stocks down 4 . Back to you. Melissa interesting. Lori thank you. Melissa a battle for a deal inn the fiscal cliff continues, democrats cannot seem to find a compromise on top earners. Rich edson is back in the white house with more. President obama said look, if republicans agree to my tax plan, we can get this deal done in a week. 3 john boehner is waiting on the president , he says
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