Happen until the gop agrees on a tax hike. Senator dick durbin saying no deal on the debt without a tax hike of the wealthy. I cant tell you, i dont want to do it, the president doesnt want to do it, but we need to solve the problem been we cannot allow the reckless position to drive this economy into another recession. Some suggesting that it might be better to cave to the president now on taxes and keep up the fight on spending. If we were to pass, for instance, raising the top two rate and thats it, all of a sudden we do have the leverage of the debt ceiling and we havent given that up. Meantime, one influential voice says enough is enough. Thats like betting your country. Theres something terribly bizarre and juvenile about that is to think your party comes ahead of your country. I dont go for that at all. That, of course, was alan simpson, the other half of simpso simpsonbowles. Erskin bowles will join us this morning, as well. If you have the democrats quoting him, the republican
Ship not the aircraft. Officials have been scouring the java sea to look for wreckage and more bodies. Three bodies have been found today. The crucial piece of evidence is the black boxes, but no pings have been reported. Searchers have found several objects that they believed to be connected to the fuselage, but the discovery of one of them shows how arduous this process is. Lets turn to cnns anna coren in surabaya. Anna whats the latest . Reporter john as you say, another three bodies located late this afternoon and that takes the number that have been retrieved to 37. A total of 13 have been identified. We are talking about 162 passengers and crew who were on board airasia flight 8501 that left here surabaya on the 28th of december in the early morning. Lost contact with the control tower 42 minutes later. It is believed it hit bad weather and crashed into the java sea. We dont know the cause of the crash, obviously we are waiting to find the black boxes that have the vital informat
over a controversial call in the game against the cowboys. big d and little d. we have laura rutledge with the bleacher report. the lions were pretty much in control for the first three and a half quarters against the cowboys. then an odd sequence where a penalty was called on dallas and then taken away. it happened with about 8:00 in the fourth quarter. lions up three. matt stafford throws downfield and anthony hitchens was called for interference. then the refs pick up the flag and say no penalty. that resulted in a lions punt. toney romo here with the touchdown pass. cowboys win, 24-20. hard breaking win for the lions.
warm. a good 10-11 degrees above average. another gusty day. kind of like yesterday. yesterday turned out to be rather breezy and gusty. showers and thunderstorms tonight. a slow-moving line expected to move through. clearing out by thursday with a lot of sunshine and cooling as well. now for traffic information. we ll go straight to virginia because on route 1 at hassett street, which huts it on interstate 95, accident with poles and wires in the roadway. your alternative will be stick the interstate this morning where we ll give you the green light between richmond and baltimore, running at speed and quiet here on the beltway. that s it for traffic. thank you very much. we begin now with what could be a major break in the search for a killer. d.c. police found the missing car that belonged to a murdered american university professor. we have the newest details. courtney, what can you tell us about this? not only did they find sue marcum s stolen vehicle, they also hav