now it s become a dangerous situation. they ve not even running the city buses. this is a busy thoroughfare in atlanta. on any given day, this would have tens of cars going by it in a minute s notice. it s starting to get a little choppy, but it s still very, very icy. and there are no doubt other roads that are beginning to glaze over. you can see this light mist of rain that s falling into subfreezing temperatures and that s causing obviously problems on roadways and we had issues with folks being stranded last night. and there are still a handful of spots that are deemed impassable. and one of the reasons is that they re just not prepared for this, although they re giving it a go. the georgia department of transportation, they have about 50 dump trucks that have been retrofitted to have salt and sand spreaders in the back and plowers in the plows in the front. and but we haven t seen much
and another storm system will be bringing in rain for the state of california. chris? chris: maria, thanks for that. president obama says he will veto a compromise deal on the bush tax cuts if an extension of unemployment benefits is not included. a white house aide tells fox the president made that remark during a conversation with majority leader harry reid and speaker nancy pelosi. meanwhile, millions of unemployed americans are bracing for the end of unemployment benefits this holiday. tracy burns has that story. it wakeup call for washington and a harsh reality foss americans. the november jobs report fell far below estimates indicating the recovery will continue to be slow. u.s. emplowers added only 39,000 jobs to payrolls in november. a stark contrast from october s report when 172,000 jobs were created. the nation s unemployment rate is now at 9.8%. private businesses created 50,000 jobs but that is far short of the 175,000 jobs