john berman. and i m zoraida sambolin. nice to have you with us this morning. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east. up first, 63 days and counting until we head to the fiscal cliff. if these two men cannot find a way to compromise the impact on the economy could be catastrophic. president obama delivers a big economic speech in about eight hours, and he wants tax cuts for the wealthy to extire. house speaker john boehner drawing this line in the sand. raising tax rates is unacceptable. and, frankly, it couldn t even pass the house. i m not sure it can pass the senate. white house correspondent brianna keilar is live from washington, d.c. for us this morning. brianna, speaker boehner seemed to be offering the president on olive branch earlier this week when he talked about the possibility of increasing revenue. but here he s taking a hard stance against tax increases. what does that say about the chances of a compromise? well, it may actually sound kind of like it s splitting ha
tonight, a parent s plea to find her killer. days after a terrible accident, family members share some of their most precious moments of a d.c. teacher. i m maureen umeh. i m will will. we begin tonight in virginia. a search for a suspected killer. police say tommy wong was killed during an armed robbery at his jewelry store. police have surveillance photos of the suspect. john henrehan talks with his family, who say he was a hard worker. reporter: the jewelry store remained an active crime scene for much of saturday. some customers were horrified to learn the owner, 52-year-old tommy wong, was murdered in the store around 4:00 friday afternoon. one customer said wong what buzz customers in through a set of locked double doors. i would open the door and get inside the middle, and he d bus in again. that s for insurance reasons, to be careful who came in. reporter: police have released photos from cameras that showed this man wearing a high visibility safety vest e
midst. i call this boss obama care. repeal obama care. let s get rid of the boss once and for all. all right. let s bring in dana bash live on capitol hill. we know it s going to fail in the senate. the house republicans, what do we think they re accomplishing with what they re trying to do here and, dana, why all the crazy boil the bunny language going on? i don t know if somebody just had some 1980s movie trivia and tv trivia running inside the cloak rooms. a little bit odd. fatal attraction and the dukes of hazard for people who don t know. in any event in all seriousness what we are seeing here today are republicans trying to explain why they are doing this. actually let s just play a sound bite from one of those republicans marsha blackburn. okay. how many times are we going to do this? we re going to keep at it until we get this legislation off the books. it was a bad bill. it has become a bad law. and, quite frankly, if you are satisfied with a tax based govern
a statement today on the health of congressman jesse jackson jr. of illinois. one of his top aids says that jackson s condition is not life threatening. last week jackson s office issued a statement saying he is struggling with physical and emotional problems that will require extensive medical treatment. the 47-year-old took a medical leave of absence last month which his office attributed to exhaustion. he has been under growing pressure to explain his disappearance from capitol hill. we ll have more details and a live report from chicago in just 30 minutes. a man charged with planning to bomb the pentagon and u.s. capital. he is going to plead guilty. this is rezwan farduz a u.s. citizen accused of plotting to fly airplanes loaded with explosives into federal buildings in washington. federal prosecutors say ferdaus was radicalized by internet videos and it appears he was working alone. we re told he will plead guilty to 2 of 6 charges and face the possibility of 17 years
lovers, after telling a cnn producer that he never intended to compare people to animals, he goes on to say, quote i don t know, what happens? bauer goes on to tell on you producer that he wants you to know that, quote, he s not against animals. his proof? he s raised money for the groups that protect animals. wow. rudolph andreas bauer the first, the only, number one on today s list that you don t want to be on. here s wolf blitzer and the situation room. happening now, a full and unprecedented account of $787 billion of your money. all this week cnn s stimulus desk is trashing every penny, so you know which projects put americans to work, which ones fell flat and whether the economy is better off today. president obama says he wants to give many parents a bigger tax break. this hour the raw politics behind his new pitch to the middle class, just days before his state of the union address. haiti starts looking toward rebuilding, crushed homes, broken bodies, and shatte