be for the rest of my life. there s too much to learn in a lifetime. there s something beautiful and challenging and humbling about that that i don t want to let go of. i m always seeking out new sounds and new technique. i could be hung upside down and play guitar. all sorts of tricks out there. they re not artistic, beautiful or moving. so, so talented. check out brooke s blog for her music monday reports at cnn.com/brooke captions by vitac www.vitac.com right to it. this is reporter roulette where in iraq it s another deadly day with threats of more violence. back here in the states somebody out there is a lottery multimillionaire, but haven t claimed the money yet. will the weather hold up today across the country as millions of people head home from their holiday travels? first to washington and our own correspondent barbara starr. the army and air force are dealing with a possible serious online security breach today. tell us about this case of cyber hacking.
between house hard liners and the gop establishment. by yesterday leading republican voices were openly calling on house speaker john boehner to back down, to agree to a two-month extension or risk ruining the brand. tonight looking pretty grim he did. doing the right thing for the right reasons is always the right thing to do. while everyone asked for a full year extension of these programs, a lot of people weren t willing to put the effort in as the holidays were approaching to get it done. our members were. so i m proud of the efforts that they put into this. dana is going to join us to explain the mechanics of the deal, the spaks. president obama was quick to praise the outcome. the statement read thg is the real money that will make a real difference in people s lives and i want to thank every american who raised your voice to remind folks in this town what this debate was all about. and to give you an idea of some of the pressure, intense pressure lawmakers were fee
extension that was passed by the senate. today neither side shows any signs of giving in. i told the president there s one big reason why we need to do a full year, and that s jobs. a one-year bill like the president requested and like the house produced is simply better for jobs and better for our economy. let s enact this bipartisan compromise, however, to eliminate uncertainty for american families and then get right to work on a one-year version. not wait until february. not walk away and hold off until the last minute. got more encouraging news about the job market. the number of people filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level since april of 2008. labor department says initial claims dropped to 364,000. that is down 4,000 from a week before. many economists say a level below 400,000 means enough job growth to lower the unemployment rate. a wave of explosions rocks baghdad. car bombs, six roadside bombs, and a mortar ro
newsletters written in his name from the past. questions coming up again as he rises in the polls on this american morning. good morning. good to see you. you too. thursday, december 22nd. i m ali velshi with christine romans. it could all be unraveling this morning. a wave of coordinating and deadly blasts rocking baghdad. four car bombs and nine roadside bombs went off within two hours of each other, killing at least 63 people and wounding close to 200. this a few days after the last u.s. troops left iraq. it s the worst violence to hit that country siz a political crisis erupted between iraq s sunni and shiite factions. ar wadamon is live. what s the latest on the ground there, ar wa? reporter: christine, this is iraqi s worst nightmare coming true. some blasts were so powerful, they shook our building and we re not that close to any of the specific locations. these explosions, happening exactly at rush hour, between 7:00 and 9:00 a.m. one taking place close to
next year. but here s the thing, folks, both parties want this. they agree that there should be an extension of this tax holiday. the problem here is that house republicans refuse to settle for the two-month band aid, the two-month extension that has already been passed by the senate. listen. our house gop negotiators are here and ready to work with their counterparts in the senate. he s not lucy, i m not charlie brown. we re not falling for that football stunt, again. okay, lucy and charlie brown. that s what we ve come to now, kate. it can be silly season up there sometimes. but just getting more and more silly, it seems. so, is this just all for show and eventually what people want to know, whether or not this is going to get done, is it? well, it s a good question. right now there s no clear answer, to be quite honest, as it seems both sides at the moment are more dug in than ever before. as you said, the house rejected the senate compromise that two-month extension