1st, 160 million american workers will see their paychecks shrink. an average of $1,000 over the course of a whole year and no politician wants to take the blame for that. here s where the debate is. the senate wants to punt the ball. they want to do a 60-day extension. house republicans, frankly, this is one of the few times we agree with the president. we want to extend it for a full year. that s what the american people ask for, it s what the president agreed for. kate bolduan is on capitol hill. kate, the question for most americans, right now, will my paycheck be smaller in two weeks than it is today? it is a very good question. a couple points on that. there is still time this tax cut does not lapse or expire until the end of the year, but i ll tell you for the first time there s beginning to be a question if they re going to reach agreement, if they re going to reach agreement in time. both sides, kyra, seem pretty dug in at this time. house republicans will not
a number of people. this was after a football game in texas. you see the effort going on there to try to stop this runaway cart. they finally did. questions this morning about why it was going on its own in the first place. also, many of you need to be prepping for a major winter storm that s expected to drop up to 15 inches of snow. our reynolds wolf is all over this. he ll be along in a moment. it started as shock and awe nearly nine years ago. it s ended with sand and dust on a desert highway headed into kuwait. the last convoy of u.s. troops has left iraq. watch. [ horn ] a much different scene from the shock and awe that we saw of nine years ago almost. the pictures from overnight, cover of darkness going through the middle of the desert. about 500 u.s. service members from ft. hood, texas, traveling. about 110 military vehicles made a five-hour nighttime trip from camp adder into kuwait. the route was cleared of any roadside bombs by the first elements of the conv
reiterated his pledge saying, please, republicans should all be nice. here s mr. gingrich, in his own words. i only have one opponent, that s barack obama. i have a number of friends running and one opponent. and i m going to run this campaign on a positive basis because i believe the people of iowa are smart enough that they can see the difference between somebody trying to help the country and somebody who simply is running a negative campaign. can he stay positive is the big question because speaker gingrich make no mistake, is feeling the heat. let s bring in cnn s jim acosta. here in iowa tracking the republican candidates, jim, that is the big question. the speaker s the front-runner. he says let s be nice. describe to our viewers the kind of heat he s getting. reporter: well, you know, it s almost impossible to figure out a direction where he s not being attacked from right now. keep in mind he s has three other candidates in this field attack him with either web
other arabs and other people in the world are finding it easy these days to marshall support, using the internet to organize protests and rallies at a moment s notice. these two kinds of different technologies are something that will confront israel to the point that president obama is making, if some kind of permanent peace agreement is not reached. matthew chance in jerusalem, thanks so much. other international top stories right now we re following the u.s. ambassador to yemen is save today, but it was a bit dicey, a little bit ago, when an armed group surrounded that embassy where he, the ambassador, was meeting with other diplomats. people in the crowd were supporter of yemen s embattled president under increasing public and political pressure to leave office. 15 bombs went off over baghdad today killing at least 18 people. they were car bombs, roadside explosions and suicide attacks. one bomb went off near a u.s.
have mended fences today, offered reassurances to the american israel public affairs committee or aipac which describes itself as america s leading pro-israel lobby group. obama stressed his fundamental support for the jewish state. no country can be expected to negotiate with a terrorist organization sworn to its destruction. we will continue to demand that hamas accept the basic responsibilities of peace, including recognizing israel s right to exist and recognizing rejecting ri violence and adhering to all existing agreements. cnn s senior u.s. state department producer elise is in washington. elise, before we get to obama s verbal messages this was a confident president. did a rather warm interaction between president obama and the aipac president, lee rosenberg, set a tone. i think, fred, president obama knew he had to do a certain amount of cleanup from that speech the other day and lee rosenberg is rosy as president obama called him, really helped kind of set t