back down, to agree to a two-month extension or risk ruining the brand. tonight looking pretty grim he did. doing the right thing for the right reasons is always the right thing to do. while everyone asked for a full year extension of these programs, a lot of people weren t willing to put the effort in as the holidays were approaching to get it done. our members were. so i m proud of the efforts that they put into this. dana is going to join us to explain the mechanics of the deal, the spaks. president obama was quick to praise the outcome. the statement read thg is the real money that will make a real difference in people s lives and i want to thank every american who raised your voice to remind folks in this town what this debate was all about. and to give you an idea of some of the pressure, intense pressure lawmakers were feeling, take a look at these two entries from rick crawford s web page. the first one is december 20th. the headline reads, quote, crawford rejects
you re watching an experiment right now and how few people can put on a primetime cable news hour. it s practically just me and the pisa delivery guy. we had to eat. the few of us who stayed in town are surrounded by all this. and because of all this, tens of thousands of travelers including most of the staff, are stranded all across the country. and even though as we mentioned, new york airports are back opened tonight, the ripple effect means that some people might not get wherever they re going until friday. before turning to chad myers for some truly amazing facts and figures, look at this piece of video. i-reporter michael black sent it in. time lapse photography as the snow started falling and falling and falling. you see that yard stick pop up in the background. nearly three feet of snow by the time it stopped in some parts of new jersey. forecasters predicted a monster and what they got was a mother of a monster and more. let s go to chad myers for the
you might not know it but you re watching an experiment right now and how few people can put on a primetime cable news hour. it s practically just me and the pisa delivery guy. we had to eat. the few of us who stayed in town are surrounded by all this. and because of all this, tens of thousands of travelers including most of the staff, are stranded all across the country. and even though as we mentioned, new york airports are back opened tonight, the ripple effect means that some people might not get wherever they re going until friday. before turning to chad myers for some truly amazing facts and figures, look at this piece of video. i-reporter michael black sent it in. time lapse photography as the snow started falling and falling and falling. you see that yard stick pop up in the background. nearly three feet of snow by the time it stopped in some parts of new jersey. forecasters predicted a monster
and so the list can go on. and it s really your individual list of people you want to say you appreciate them. so we have this list up, a few that you named here. some of these you normally do tip. like a hairstylist. you go in, or somebody that cuts your hair, you pay them and you tip them. but some of these you don t normally tip, like the newspaper delivery guy. how do you help people differentiate when the people you should and shouldn t because i thought it was the people you normally tip but that s not the case. if word should is the thing. if you re pleased with how they deliver your paper. and they are your paper person every day, then that s someone you might want to put on your list and most people will do that. some mail carriers, also, do such a great job, most of them do, and that particular case, the u.s. postal service recommends that their employees do not accept gifts over $20.
plus here is one dedicated delivery guy. he gets attacked by two men, fights them off and still delivers the pizza in 30 minutes or less. happy birthday to merle haggard, country legend. 73 today.