And is that going to help you have a better christmas . Yes, definitely. This is the cbs weekend news. Make it, and maybe can even make it more generous. Reporter the bill nearly doubles the standard deduction for individuals and married couples. State and local taxes can still be written off but are now capped at 10,000. And it delivers on another g. O. P. Promise eliminating the Obamacare Mandate penalty tax. I wasnt ewasnt going to vote for a bill that ignored working people. Reporter floridas republican senator marco rubio only backed the bill after securing an increase in the refundable portion of its child tax credit, now up to 1400. Fellow holdout, bob corker, is also supporting the bill saying it is far from perfect, but an opportunity to make u. S. Businesses more competitive. Democrats, without enough votes to stop the legislation, insist it wont benefit the middle class. In every iteration, the g. O. P. Tax scam becomes even more cowardly, outrageous, dishonest, brazen theft
What she thought she would be doing when she was 80. She told vanity fair, quote, i thought that i could maybe take up gardening. Well, instead, shes still protesting, still acting, and still fighting the good fight for all the ladies out there. Nischelle. I love to see shes still in her groove. So are these guys, henry winkler, terry bradshaw, william shatner, and george foreman. They were back on primetime this week ready to kick offseason 2 of their nbc show. I found out their globetrotting hi jinx get even more extreme, for them. Welcome to germany. This is what im talking about. Five people. Five cameras. No script. And all these cities. Holy mackerel. In season 2, the guys don leader hosen to visit a german beer garden. This foursome may seem like an od a blast. Sometimes i think we have so much chemistry that we even like listening to ourselves. You find terry talking to himself, and i join him and talk to myself. But its a lot of fun. Can you go anywhere without people knowing
But it hurts you. At this point in the season all those hurt u plays start to add up. I think its a great thunderstorm. I was hangry like you watching this gim. Especially watching the deif he. As hours went on i started to say to myself, you know what, let me look at this game as part of pack am of three. Its a three back. Trill only jury right you look at the game in seattle and la and this one. And if you i dont like what you felt out of seattle. Two out of three is achievement. In the last three weeks you won the division and also got home field advantage. And first round buy not home field advantage. Hopefully home field add van tooth come. If you look at it that way you could feel better about things and now a couple games left to finish out and you better do it well and you get a bye i dont think jim schwartz will be happy when they look at that tape it will be a difficult week of practice for these guys theyll be drilling fundamentals and its good to refresh your idea that this
For take off. An adorable danceoff at the airport. Welcome. Im elaine quijano. We begin with an update on senator john mccain. The former president ial canned date and vietnam war hero headed back to arizona sunday to spend the holidays with his family. On face the nation sunday, mccains soninlaw conservative commentator, ben dominic said the senator is doing well in good spirits. Mccain had been at the water Reid Medical Center in maryland since wednesday. Treated for side effects of chemotherapy for his brain cancer. A source tells cbs news the republican senator will not vote this week on a Major Overhaul of the tax system. More on that in a moment. We turn now to the monster wildfire raging in Southern California. The thomas fire northwest of los angeles started two weeks ago. And is now one of the largest in states history. It has destroyed more than 700 homes. On thursday, it killed a fire fighter. Carter evans is there. Windwhipped flames reignited the thomas fire, illuminating
On the west coat will becoast we this afternoon. Reporter omar jimenez reporting. While the ntsb works to determine this crash it brings back memories of the crash that happened here in that Port Richmond just two years ago. Amtrak train 188 derailed in may 2015. Eight people were killed and more than 200 others were injured in that incident. The train was traveling 106 miles an hour in a 50 Miles Per Hour speed zone. Investigators determined that the engineer was distracted by an incident with a nearby train. In september, a judge dismissed charges against that engineer. You can follow the latest developments of the fatal amtrak derailment on 6abc. Com. You can watch video from the scene in washington state. Pennsylvania state senator day lon leach released a new statement. John rawlins live in Center City Philadelphia this afternoon with the very latest including john some reaction from the governor. Reporter thats correct. Leach is a state senator who has ambitions his goal in 2018