Good morning, everyone, welcome to a special edition of weekends with alex witt. Congress pushed the country closer to a Government Shutdown. It happened as House Republicans passed a spending measure, which delays president obamas Health Care Law for a year. Heres a breakdown of the vote. It passed 231192. 190 democrats and two republicans voted against it. The house took two more critical votes, well have more on that in just a moment. First, heres nbcs brian mooar with how the debate transpired. Tonight, the republican majority will vote to shut the government down. Reporter saturday night fireworks on the floor of the u. S. House. With the Government Shutdown looming on tuesday, republicans passed a spending package doomed to fail because it mandates a oneyear delay in obama care. Why are we doing this . Number one, this is a program that is too expensive to afford. Were going to give a stark choice to the president of the United States and the senate. Reporter democrats say its no
Square. About a billion more watched on tv. It is tuesday, january 1st, 2013. Happy new year, everyone. It is hard to believe we are starting a new one. Lets hope this one is great. Were off to a good start already. Im sarah simmons. Im wisdom martin. Lets say hello to Tucker Barnes. Happy new year to both of you and to everybody at home. This is how we do it here on the early show. Lets take a look at the radar. There we go. Weve got a mix of clouds and parts of the area getting some clearing at this hour. A few light sprinkles off to the west. We have a lot of clouds around. It is possible that we could get a couple of light sprinkles or maybe a snow flurry particularly out to the west. Most of your day will be cloudy. Currently, it is 39 in washington but much of the area including dulles below freezing. Dulles is 29 degrees. We are off to a cold start. Dim want a jack the here as you head out the door. Definitely want a jacket here as you head out the door. More on the weather in a
Chances of taking a risk. Then 10 minutes later comes the oxytocin for the bonning moment. Take a few minutes to ask is this love or lust . That explains why nobody liked me in college. Why . Clearly none of this was working for me. Nobody liked me. Air so likeable. That is now. Maybe you needed to maybe it was my hair . I needed the gray hair. Whatever, tucker. Take a deep breath, a step back and think about it. Fox 5 morning news continues right now. Right now. All right. There it is, the countdown to 2013 at perhaps the most famous new year appear celebration of them all. More than a Million People braved the chilly temperatures to watch the ball drop in times square. About a billion more watched on television. And the rest of us slept. Good morning. We are take ago i live look at the u. S. Capitol dome where they were working throughout the night. The Senate Making a vote on the fiscal cliff deal. The house still has to vote on that so we are continuing to watch that. That just rol
Causing trouble at target tonight. Eporter brian webb long lines and frustrated customers. Another computer glitch causing trouble at target tonight. Kpix reporter spoke with a couple cashiers and what did they tell you . Reporter i went into the target store to find out what went on. The cashier says credit cards were not working but most people were. Reporter attention target shoppers. Expect troubles at the Cash Register again. Long lines, a lot of people. A little frustrating. Reporter issues began ringing up this afternoon at target Stores Across the country. Payment problems with debt cards, gift cards and ebt cards. With little explanation why. I think it is terrible. Especially in a Big Corporation like this, they can not get a handel on it. It is scary. Especially with debt cards. Reporter customers were told to pay with cash and credit card or cash. They changed my card. Because of the problems at target . Yes. Reporter the confusion led to slightly longer lines and fairly fr
4,000. Where this afternoon, president obama has been meeting with congressional leaders the president has been briefing him on his plan to dismantling the state group, the plan he said would be methodical and would take time to execute going into the president s meetings and his prime time speech, the public sin creasingly hawkish about military attacks on the Islamic State. The Washington Post finds that seth 1 of americans support air strikes against i. S. In iraq, and 65 support air strikes against i. S. In syria. Libby casey is now at the white house, libby, first of all, give office read out on the meeting and what are the expectations about the white house and members of congress . The white house is doing its briefing tomorrow night, they see it as a high security priority. And we do have some sense of what mr. Obama will be talking about. Now, some of this we have already heard. For example, seeing iraq government form, is serving who that the u. S. Can do. It does not plan to