senate floor where lawmakers must pass at least a temporary funding bill in the next few hours. then a procedural vote on the trillion-dollar-plus bill at about 1:00 a.m. and likely final passage on monday unless there s a deal. the house passed a short-term measure through next wednesday to give the senate a little more time. it looked like the senate was heading for a weekend off until some key conservatives objected hoping to stop president obama s action on immigration. i certainly don t see any reason why we should agree to move forward then and not have any assurance that we would at least have an opportunity to vote on an amendment that would impose a spending limitation on the president s ability to implement his executive amnesty action. now, some gop colleagues are expressing their frustrations saying they want to fight the president on funding his immigration executive action, but they think it would be smarter to do so in the new year
how would you like to look out your passenger window and see that runway coming up? the cold extends throughout the midwest. check out this picture from nasa showing the ice forming over lake erie. it s like a giant rink. boston saw some of the worst of the storm, with anywhere from 10 to 18 inches of snow in parts and temperatures that could drop as low as six degrees by tonight. it s a town accustomed to the cold, of course, but the people there have to be pretty thankful that their patriots have this icy weekend off. margaret conley is standing by in boston. a lot of shovel work to be done there today. reporter: that s right, jake. there has been up to two feet of snow in parts of massachusetts. you can see all the way down the street, people are shoveling bit by bit, slowly, and it is also freezing cold. there s a wind chill factor, wind chill advisory until 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. we are with katie and jared. what a pain this is to have to keep doing this all day
will address the issue post verdict. now, jurors are taking the weekend off, and then deliberations will get started again on monday. shep? molly lions at the white house, thanks very much. some folks had assumed that the jurors would have reached a verdict by now, but as other high-profile mob cases show us, there s really no pattern. al capone was convicted of dodging taxes in eight hours, john gotti of murder, racketeering and a slew of other things in 13 hours, but his son john gotti jr. had four cases end in mistrials. deliberations in the fourth back in 2009 lasted 11 days. officials in switzerland are apologizing after oprah winfrey claimed a shop in zurich refused to show her a $38,000 handbag because the assistant assumed oprah winfrey could not afford it. in an interview with entertainment tonight oprah said it was clear that the shop assistant did not recognize her. a spokeswoman for the swiss tourism office said she was very
39 minutes past the hour. welcome back. we re expecting jurors will hear george zimmerman s police tapes. the jury has the weekend off. they have been hearing from witnesses all week long though about what they heard or saw the night zimmerman killed trayvon martin. witnesses included first responders, police, and neighbors like john good who said he saw trayvon martin on top during a tussle with george zimmerman. my question is, did you ever see the person on top pick the person from the bottom and actually slam them into the concrete? no. did you see the person on top slamming the person on the bottom s head on the concrete over and over? no. did you see at any time the person on the top grab the person on the bottom s head and slam it into the concrete? no. martin savidge is outside the courthouse. that s important system because
downton abbey? what s a weekend? can t she take a weekend off? i think she s starting already. i agree with what andrea says. it is service. this is her organization. and hillary was there giving an award to her help mate for 30 years. in that sense it was not political. by the way the women that they honor there every year are always so inspiring. their stories are amazing. i think it s the best event in washington every year. it s the most inspiring event. but there s the service part of it, but there s it, but there s inexorably the political part of it. i don t think i ve heard that word before there on this show. inexorably. i used to work in a news magazine. we got paid by the fancy word. sitting there in the audience, listening to the story of this organization and these women and how they learned to assert themselves and tap into power in the world, you had to say to yourself when you re watching hillary clinton, there s no way