Prime minister, tony blair. As they await a new heir to the throne, the british consider changing the rules about who can become king or queen. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with president obamas latest ideas for getting past the standoff with House Republicans. He now says there isnt enough time left to do a comprehensive deal, including tax reform, fixing medicare. So he wants congress to raise tax rates for the wealthy right now and putting off the hard work to next year. They have 28 days left to make a deal before the country hits whats called the fiscal cliff. Thats a combination of across the board tax increases for everyone, coupled with cuts in spending like defense, education, health care, and housing assistance. Lets go live to our chief White House Correspondent Jessica Yellin with the very latest. Jessica . Reporter president obama has now personally turned down Speaker Boehners opening offer to avert the fiscal cliff. He did it in a tv interview.
Just hours, hours away. Lets go to tel aviv. Sara sidner is standing by. Tell our viewers what happened just a few hours ago. Reporter around noon, tel aviv time, there was an explosion on the number 61 bus. It was very close to the military headquarters here, very close to the courts here, along a street that was eventually block off by police. At least 22 people were injured, some of those people were on the bus, some outside the bus. They suffered everything from panic attacks to a couple teenagers who have the worst of the injuries. We talked to the e. R. Doctor who told us one of the teenagers may lose a limb, perhaps an arm because of the soft tissue thats been blasted away. Also a lot of shrapnel wounds in the face. Both may face a lifetime of disability. Those are his words. We talked to the police, more still looking for a suspect, trying to find out who was responsible. We saw the bus before testify driven away. All the windows had been blasted out. We know that here at the h
Consequences, there will be consequences if the assad regime makes a terrible mistake by using these chemical weapons on their own people. Earlier today, leon panetta. Well have a report from the pentagon on syria in a moment. First, shock waves in washington. A powerful republican senator suddenly calling it quits. South carolina senator jim demint will step down december 31st to lead the heritage foundation. Its a powerful conservative think tank in washington. Demint says he can be more effective outside the senate. A lot of my role in the senate has been stopping bad things and saying no to bad things. But we need to do more than that and tell americans what were for. One of the mistakes i think the Republican Party made the last two years is trying to make obama the issue without sharing with america bold reform ideas that get people inspired to get behind us. Senator demint, huge tea party supporter. Sometimes clashes with his own partys leadership. He is leaving with four years
And i certainly have a feeling that a lot of those debates will transition to something slightly less controversial. The full interview straight ahead. So you dont read runway . No. Before today you never heard of me. No. You have no style or sense of fashion. I think that depends on what your no, no, that wasnt a question. The devils diplomacy. Vogue editor anna wintour, u. S. Ambassador . Maybe. Newsroom starts now. Good morning. Thank you so much for joining me. Im carol costello. This morning iran is bragging. It claims it capture d an american drone. The u. S. Is denying it. Iran has made that drone a star on state tv. According to irans staterun news agency, the drone was captured immediately after entering iranian air space. The drone, now being shown on iranian television. On tv behind the aircraft is a map of the persian gulf with the words, quote we shall trample on the u. S. The United States says all of its drones in the middle east have been accounted for. The drone iran s
Protests against political moves by the president , Mohamed Morsi, have turned deadly. Tanks, armored personnel vehicles, all stationed outside the president ial analysis cairo. Not only are they guarding the palace, theyre also keeping apart supporters and opponents of morsi. Hundreds of his islamist supporters already taking to the streets in cairo this morning. Opponents are gathering not very far away. Last night the two sides clashed right outside the palace. The violence killed at least five people. Hundreds of other people were injured. Opponents are demanding that morsi dial back on those sweeping powers that he has granted himself. Cnns reza sayah is live for us in cairo this morning. Whats the latest . Reporter soledad, were getting the first signs that maybe, just maybe, cooler heads are prevailing and peace could be extraordinary in front of the president ial palace. Within the past 20 minutes, weve seen about a few thousand of president morsis supporters move away from the