american voters where they stand. are tla they going to be a reforming government or raise tacks to continue more of the same? reporter: norquist s threat, he will help fund republican campaign challenges against any member of congress that violates the pledge. so what i think i hear you saying, we won t go over the cliff? i think we will continue the tax cuts. not raise taxes $500 billion. reporter: while norquist tries to keep republicans in line, major unions have already spent $300,000, targeting democrats, hoping to stop any cuts to entitlement programs. congressional staffers met over the holiday week, congressional leaders hope to meet with the president in the coming week. there are predictions this could be wrapped up by christmas. we ll see. david kerley, abc news, the white house. that s a big we ll see. christmas seems optimistic as
the shopping weekend took a deadly turn outside a walmart in suburban atlanta. a shoplifter died after being caught by employees and a security guard early sunday morning. detectives say the guard may have used a choke hold on the suspected thief, he is no longer working for the store. a walmart spokesperson says no amount of merchandise is worth someone s life. let s all second that motion, huh? that s right. well, overseas now. new details in the deadly fire inside a bangladesh garment factory that made clothes for walmart among other stores. many of the workers who died were trapped by the flame because the eight-story building lacked emergency exits. at least 112 people were killed in the blaze saturday night. that death toll is expected to go higher we are just learning overnight that a fire has broken out in another garment factory in bangladesh. so so far over 700 workers making clothes for u.s. consumers have died in factory fires in the last five years. unbelievable. and
half a century ago the stones started as a blues cover band. they found their voice as a kind of anti-beatles. good guys and bad guys. the rolling stones were the bad guys. i can t get no reporter: the same year, the photographer, just 18 years old, flew with the band right as they got huge. we had hordes of screaming teenage girls outside the hotel mobbing us and climbing on the limo. i mean it was fabulous. reporter: he took these photos of what must have been one of the great recording sessions of all time for the album after. it was an extraordinary session. out of the session came painted black and under my thumb. reporter: as seen in the book, one on one, he snapped the stones most iconic early covers. this is how the rolling stones are supposed to look, shaggy, slightly bedraggled, worn out, stoned.
deplorable conditions. right now, 700 workers over the last five years have been killed due to situations just like this. i was out on black friday shopping. got sweaters, for winter. started looking at labels. none of them made in america. it s kind of after seeing the story having that experience over the weekend. clothes in this country, they re like sausage. you love them, but you don t want to see how they re made. you look at stores overseas. they lack labor protocols and safeguard we have here. hard to imagine. 4,000 factories in bangladesh. many lack certain safety measures too. it s difficult. it s hard to see kind of where all this stuff comes from, how it really gets made. it s hard to fathom if walmart was issued that warning last year and yet did nothing about it. you have to imagine there s going to be a pretty hefty lawsuit. yeah. you can imagine. to their credit they did break ties with 49 factories last year because of safety issues. see if they continue to pha
never lose hope, i guess, is the moral of that story. wow. and the frightening situation for superstar halle berry over the weekend that forced her to take legal action. we ll get the scoop later this half hour in the skinny. we talked about the story at the end of last week. new developments over the weekend. it s pratt sad story, especially considering there s a little 4-year-old girl in the middle of that, but we ll get to that. first, investigators say, far fewer workers might have died in the massive garment factory fire if there had been emergency exits. this morning there s word of a fire at a second factory in bangladesh. abc s chief investigative correspondent brian ross has been tracking these overseas factories as well as their safety records. reporter: the fire broke out at night as hundreds of garment workers were on overtime shifts, producing clothes bound for some major american retailers, including walmart, according to workers rights groups. officials in b