us. the problem that many experts forecasted for the months or even years following u.s. troop withdrawal has instead begun in days. what is this latest attack killing nearly 70 people in one day in iraq confirm to you? i think it confirms, julie that president sunni militants will not peacefully accept a power grab by prime minister nouri al-maliki. he has done a number of power plays against sunni politicians. by insight his own vice president who was the senior sunni politician in iraq who has now fled and other moves that will bring shiite back into complete power and push aside any sunni power presence in the country you have basically an unacceptable position to sunni, the militants stirring things up. it s important to remember back in the insurgency before our 2007 surge that was a proximate see fight between saudi arabia
senate actual gavel into session. the thinking they won t give the president the opportunity to make these kind of appointments. even one republican strategist thinks that the president will be tough to stop on this. i can t see any reason or any leverage that the congress would have to that would prevent the president from exercising his executive capacity to make recess appointments. so i think he is going to do it. there isn t any reason politically were he shouldn t. reporter: take a look at the reasons. there are potentially legal conflicts here. a lot of this has to do with the definition of a recess. if the senate leaves for two or three days, is that considered a recess? or do you need something more like two weeks or so? and that is something that folks have to delve into their history books to find out and it could get awfully ugly before it is all set and done. julie: doug, thank you so much. jon: and here s something else the obama administration has decided to do, gran
now under the obama administration it is going to be allowed to do that. it s not like a subsequent president is going to be able to dismantle the union, is it? well probably not and under bush this was a i about partisan vote when they created the tsa. it was bipartisan decision that they couldn t collectively bargain. they tried to make them in the form of the cia, the fbi. they tried to make it so that, you know, this is a security agency. you know, historically unions only benefit the union members. it is not going to benefit the taxpayers. it is no the going to benefit the flying public. the only thing that this is going to benefit are president obama because he is going to be getting more union votes and the union workers themselves. that is the only people that are going to benefit from this. jon: we ll have to leave it at that. duane and nicole, good discussion. thank you both. thanks, jon. thanks. julie: now that many of our
rain will be factor in the northeast. maybe snow heading for new york, pennsylvania and other parts of the northeast. maria molina will be taking a look at the that from the fox weather center. julie: jon jon, that s right. we have a little rainmaker in the northeast. a little snow possible as we head into the dinner hour across portions of the northeast but primarily not a lot of snow. this will be a rain event and wind event. winds sustained 20 to 30 miles per hour later on tonight and wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour. this is not good news anyone trying to head into the northeast for to see the ball drop in new york city. trying to make it in time before new year s eve. we re not looking good today. we ll look at some travel delays. on the backside of the system we re seeing snow coming down across portions of the city of detroit. along portions of indiana as colder air push the rain into snow. that is what is happening in the northeast. you will see the
out. the mother of the girls who is also the daughter of the older couple killed and someone who is described as her male acquaintance. there is a sad irony also regarding the grandfather who died, lomar johnson. he spent his entire career as safety and security chief for a big liquor company in kentucky. it was his job to plan fire drills and make sure everyone at the company knew what to do in case of an imagine emergency. the terrible fate for this family. you mentioned new developments. we re getting word from the mayor and fire officials in stamford, connecticut, that a problem with the fireplace in the house led to the deadly flames. foul play has been ruled out. that house, by the way, as you can see from these pictures, has been torn down. the mayor says, with all the people coming to the site, to pay their respects the house because considered to be too dangerous to be allowed to remain standing. back to you. julie: such a sad story. rick folbaum. thank you so much. jon? jon: