High school looking at the aftermath which much cleanup to be done. Everywhere here you see expensive damage especially in front of the high school. After toppling to large trees. People been coming here all day to tak photos. The rifle came with a vengeance in Cleveland Heights things were going everywhere. Winds gusting up to 80 about 10 00 p. M. Tuesday night. The microburst knocking down a tree branches a brooding trees. S. It crashed into this house. It felt like someone lived i treelined streets, is cleaning up branches, as went into her car . Trees are the answer. The storm cutting power to Traffic Signals at about 10,000 homes. A downed power lines, it was a common theme the fire chief reminds everybody to keep a safe distance away. You do not want to get wires because there are tangled around it t in a can charge the entire area. There is debris blocking several roads. I try to get down very streets and not able to gett anywhere. Despite all the damage, no injuries reported. C
Countrys Credit Rating in the new year. Each day toward the fiscal cliff is also another day closer to the country maxing out on its borrowing limit. President obama talked to Business Leaders today. The only thing that the debt ceiling is good for as a weapon is to destroy your Credit Rating. Reporter hes worried republicans may re newsto raise the countrys debt ceiling to get their way on spending cuts and risk defaulting on the countrys loans. That is a bad strategy for america. Its a bad strategy for your businesses. And it is not a game that i will play. Reporter republicans are pushing back. Hes the president , not the emperorer. Reporter fiscal cliff negotiations have been at a stand still since monday when republicans proposed raising revenue by closing tax loopholes, not by raising rates on the rich as the president has insisted. Were not insisting rates just out of spite, but rather because we need to raise a certain amount of revenue. We cant just keep borrowing money, raisi
son s living in northern virginia bob barnard has details. reporter: he came to the u.s. from his native egypt 11 years ago and worked as a master planner and start heads second tour in afghanistan. we spoke to his widow angela from her home in philadelphia via skype. we knew going in this was a high-risk situation. certainly that this was something that could happen and, you know, we had talked about it to some extent several times. they were hard three years ago while both were working for the prince georges county planning department. she said her 43-year-old husband born and raised in egypt, went to work in afghanistan a little more than a year ago, eager to help build schools, hospitals, and highways. i know he was particularly interested in the issue of electricity. i was very surprised to hear how little electricity there is in kabul. reporter: a u.s. citizens, he was a senior development officer with u.s. si on aid, killed in a suicide bomb attack two days a