ground zero hero. it was donated by peter acton. his property is in how do you say that, guys? i m not sure where. it s about you guys have lived here a lot longer than i have. it s about 40 miles north of new york city. he was assigned to engine company 79 in the bronx and he s been a firefighter for 12 years. that s nice of him to donate that. look how big that tree is. i know. that s beautiful. and i think that is this morning right here in midtown manhattan. soon will be kindling. well, after christmas. right. you have to wait. the nightmare is over for thousands of passengers on board a carnival cruise ship. passengers are back on dry land after spending four days stranded in the pacific ocean without electricity. without toilets, and to flush and limited food. and one of those passengers, fellow by the name of monte robeson joins us from l.a. good morning to you. good morning. how are you all? doing ok.
1970 s. what s going on with that? is that a picture or oil pai painting? it s the same as the picture in your wallet. look at that. this is a house on wheels and look at how gorgeous it is. that s a camper? this is all the rage. people are paying $500,000 for campers. can t even go camping. glamorous camping. all right. ok. that s really so anyway, busy three hours. starting right now with some headlines. tell you what happened while you were sleeping. police may have found human remains of missing north carolina girl zahra baker. that s according to sources close to the investigation. officials will only say they found significant evidence at this point. they re not telling us more after that. last month, they found the 10-year-old s prosthetic leg as well as a bone. no one has been charged in this case but her stepmother and father are both behind bars now on other charges. a routine training flight in florida ends with three people dead. the florid
middle class tax cuts permanent, that we give certainty to the 98% of americans who are affected by those tax breaks. shannon: all right with more on the message mike emanuel is live at the white house. reporter: david axelrod is a political pro, he knows exactly what needs to happen here. there has to be a deal struck with the lame duck congress, if not everybody gets a tax hike in the new year. david axelrod told the liberal roughing ton post, quote, we don t want that tax increase to go forward for the middle class but plainly what we can t do is term lee permanently extend these high income taxes. that suggested perhaps a temporary extension of a year or two for people at higher income levels. even though president obama was in south korea it did not take long for questions to be fired at him and his aids. some asked if the white house had caved on the bush tax cuts, others suggested the president s team was signaling a deal. earlier today in seoul president obama wei