We begin this morning with dozens of raging wildfires that are wreaking havoc out west. Three firefighters in Central California were hospitalized for injuries as crews rushed to rescue people trapped by flames. Officials are urging thousands in oregon to evacuate as unprecedented wildfires rip through the state. In fact, its getting so intense, firefighters are even being urged to leave some areas. Hurricaneforce winds are making it hard to combat the outofcontrol wildfires in washington state. So far at least 330,000 acres have been scorched. That is more than what burned in each of the last 12 fire seasons. Danya bacchus is in tollhouse, california. Tell me fire crews are working to get an upper hand here. How are they dealing with the fires . Reporter good morning to you, annemarie. They are working around the clock, nonstop to try to get these fires contained. Unfortunately, it doesnt seem to be happening yet. In fact, firefighters saying that they do not expect to have this creek
strong winds and freezing temperatures. at least 19 people have died. more than one and a half million american households and businesses are without electricity, and thousands of flights have been cancelled. the us state of montana registered a record breaking low of minus 45 celsius. nomia iqbal reports. for much of america, this is the coldest christmas eve. millions of them had plans to get away for the holidays. but the powerful bomb cyclone has thrown everything into chaos, causing car accidents, destroying power lines, leaving millions without electricity. the warning is, don t travel unless you need to. don t travel under these conditions unless you have to. because anything can happen at any moment, and you ve got to be on your toes. some places like new york have gone further and banned driving due to low visibility. across the region there is a state of emergency. we ve had ice, flooding, snow, freezing temperatures, and everything that mother nature could wallop a
Well get into that with senator round in just a second in order to advance the ball a little bit on tax cuts. Separately we have been following this other scenario from janet yellen kind of single hand he hadly propelled this market forward. If you think about it, the fed brought us a long bull market. Given added boom by donald trump. She seems to give indication in capitol hill testimony, the rate hikes people are fearing, might not be that much more of them if any. Maybe dovish Federal Reserve conducive to keeping rates where they are, not a sharp spike in those rates. They could be wrong. In and out of record territory as we speak. Meantime we were telling you a little bit yesterday how the house seems to be swallowing a little bit what the senate is cooking up when its comes to the health care rework, one that will keep some key taxes in place. Want you to take peek at this. One of the plans senate is cooking up, keeping 3. 8 surtax on upper income and 9. 5 1 2 surtax for upper in
When you go around, and this is a reality in delaware as well as rhode island. You ask about the state department. Its trillions of dollars a year when in fact its a very small fraction. Now theyre beginning thoint that no, this is about something more fundamental. This is about the basic social contract that people have worked all their lives, paid into Social Security, will get Social Security benefits. This is about the social contract that if youve worked, youve paid into the medicare system, youll get medicare benefits. So now the storys shifted totally and now its all about negotiations, that we have not negotiated. Thats why they have to shut the government down and default on the debt of the United States. And the irony, of course, is that we have been indeed trying to go to serious negotiations about a budget for many, many months. Indeed, months ago, in march, as i recall, the senate, after taking 47 roll call votes, passed a solid, passed and sensible budget and asked to neg
We just want to get on the ground and have somebody look at i, but everybody is fine. A new round of steve storms. This is the scene in the south from eastern arkansas to memphis, torrential rain turns streets into rivers. I just couldnt believe it. Its like a dam broke. Today president obama will ask congress for more than 2 million in emergency funding to deal with the surge of unaccompanied children crossing the 9 welcome to cbs this morning. Norah odonnell is on assignment so Margaret Brennan is here. Good morning. Good to be with you, charlie. We start with this. Nearly 100 United Airlines passengers are waking up in kansas and are supposed to be in Southern California but an evacuation slide on their boeing 747 opened inside the plane during flight, and that forced the airplane to make an Emergency Landing. The flight from chicago to santa ana, california, landed in wichita. No one was hurt and as carter evans reports, passengers and crew members say they have never seen anything