chaos. causing traffic to absolutely stall to a stand still. shepard: now families stranded. hotels filling up. looks like we ll be hanging out in vegas a little bit. shepard: rescuers on the move. we will take you to the white-out in the great plains. plus, a suspect brings his 4-year-old daughter on a nighttime police chase. did you kidnap your kid? tonight, a custody crisis goes way too far. shepard: but first from fox this tuesday night. gridlock. dead lock. stalemate on capitol hill. if it s possible for congress to get more unpoplar, this might do the trick. president obama telling house republicans to do the right thing and prevents a new years tax hike for every american who gets a paycheck. the president interrupted the white house briefing today to send a message to the house speaker john boehner. remember, the senate overwhelmly passed a bill on saturday to extend the payroll tax cut. 80% of senate republicans voted for it. but today house republic le
deadly blizzard creates travel chaos. causing traffic to absolutely stall to a stand still. shepard: now families stranded. hotels filling up. looks like we ll be hanging out in vegas a little bit. shepard: rescuers on the move. we will take you to the white-out in the great plains. plus, a suspect brings his 4-year-old daughter on a nighttime police chase. did you kidnap your kid? tonight, a custody crisis goes way too far. shepard: but first from fox this tuesday night. gridlock. dead lock. stalemate on capitol hill. if it s possible for congress to get more unpoplar, this might do the trick. president obama telling house republicans to do the right thing and prevents a new years tax hike for every american who gets a paycheck. the president interrupted the white house briefing today to send a message to the house speaker john boehner. remember, the senate overwhelmly passed a bill on saturday to extend the payroll tax cut. 80% of senate republicans voted for
just a little bit up towards the northwest. i think my mouth is freezing as it melts and freezes a little bit. i want to bring in ivan clark here. you re the public works director here. you guys have your hands full today to clear all this out. we have a mess on our hands. that s for sure. i know you guys get storms like this but a storm that stays this windy this long, does that make it more difficult? it s pretty wide open country in this area. we re accustomed to working with these kinds of conditions. the wind doesn t help matters much. i know the state department and the highway department has been out all night and we met with them last night at 6:00 and it s been an ongoing process. they brought other trucks from down state in here to help us, also. we ve got some video out of texas from around amarillo that shows people trying to drive through there in almost white-out conditions. amarillo, not that far from here, all part of the same region on the panhandle. we re talk
senators have left town. why? because they passed a two month extension of the payroll tax cut. they passed unemployment benefits coming to people in the new year. but now the g.o.p. in the house say they re going to kill this thing this morning. 9:00 a.m. is when the showdown will happen today. they re looking for this long-term fix. i get that. is this the right time and place to be doing that? i have a scary suspicion that this is going to fall real hard on the house republicans and the general public isn t going to be happy about it. bottom line is the premise of their argument is correct. you re going to draw the entire political system, for two months, you re going to have a tax cut. we ve gotten this far and we ve agreed on the pipeline. can we at least get a year out of this so we don t have this intramural fight again? what they re going to do is take it up. we told you yesterday at this time, 24 hours ago, they were going to kill it yesterday. that didn t happen
what the heck is going on there? senators have left town. why? because they passed a two month extension of the payroll tax cut. they passed unemployment benefits coming to people in the new year. but now the g.o.p. in the house say they re going to kill this thing this morning. 9:00 a.m. is when the showdown will happen today. they re looking for this long-term fix. i get that. is this the right time and place to be doing that? i have a scary suspicion that this is going to fall real hard on the house republicans and the general public isn t going to be happy about it. bottom line is the premise of their argument is correct. you re going to draw the entire political system, for two months, you re going to have a tax cut. we ve gotten this far and we ve agreed on the pipeline. can we at least get a year out of this so we don t have this intramural fight again? what they re going to do is take it up. we told you yesterday at this time, 24 hours ago, they were going to kill