the surge just in time for an election year. and scientists find earth s evil twin far, far away. the size is right, but strange life might sizzle on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com all right. good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, december 21st. i m christine romans along with my friend ali velshi. i have to tell you. i m excited of the news of the new planet. it s different. not a political log jam. not pay rolle troll tax plan. new planets! we ll tell you all about it this morning. love it. other space cases. washington first. washington s dysfunction could mean less money in your pay cze paycheck yesterday. rejecting the payroll tax cut. and president obama during a surprise visit to the briefing room raled against this. the house republicans referred to what they re doing as high stakes poker. he s right about the stakes, but this is not poker. this is not a game. this shouldn t be politics as usual. kate bolduan live in w
wednesday, october 19th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m christine romans joining you live from new york. all right. the presidential candidates, the republican hopefuls declaring victory or licking their wounds this morning. all except jon huntsman took the gloves off last night at the debate in las vegas hosted by cnn. this was perhaps the most heated of the five debates held in the past six weeks. much of the focus on the three front-runners, romney, perry and cain. a heated exchange between romney and a very assertive perry. they re coming here because there s a magnet, and the magnet is called jobs. and those people that hire illegals ought to be penalized. and mitt, you lose all of your standing from my perspective because you hired illegals in your home, and you knew about it for a year. and the idea that you stand here before us and talk about that you re strong on immigration is on its face the height of hypocrisy. governor romney? rick, i don t think i v
massachusetts. and they nursed him back to health and got him out of the ambulance and carried him back to the shore and back into the atlantic ocean, and all is good, you know. because temperatures were nice and mild yesterday, at least in the air, that porpoise didn t seem too bothered by the human handling. how often do you see that, guys? they work so hard to help these animals and send them back in and they re gone. i know you did that with the pelicans, right? all that time in the gulf and then send them on their way and hope for the best. it won t be too long before folks will be hanging out on that beach because summer time will be here. but until then, cold air coming. you can t jump in the water until august. let s be real. unless you re a really brave soul. you re right. thanks, rob. an extraordinary look at congresswoman gabrielle gifford s rehab. our dr. sanjay gupta shows us exactly what she s going
spike found within the soil would suggest there s a very low probability. so to give you an idea there, they take it that seriously. it s that serious for them, folks. police believe that he did act alone. he s facing up to ten years in prison now. unbelievable. eight minutes past the hour. let s get a check of this morning s weather headlines. rob marciano s in atlanta. we re warming up. the west coast continues to get hammered. check out these snow totals in california. in some cases, up to 4 feet. most of these spots are around the tahoe area, you know, so ramping up on a holiday weekend here. they re loving life. but rainfall continues to sag across the i-5 corridor. getting into the inner mountain west. it s kind of scooting up towards the north. so that means that where it s been heating up, it will heat up