Boehner has asked Democratic Leaders to step aside so he and the president can negotiate a deal one on one, and no one is objecting. The crisis in egypt remains volatile, with massive antigovernment rallies planned today. Heartbreaking survival story for a woman stranded in the snow in the california Sierra Nevada mountains. Shoppers at a seattle macys had to be hospitalized when an escalator they were riding malfunctioned. Fire to the end zone. Touchdown. Broncos with their eighth straight win. All that three, two, one my 50th birthday, she gives everybody a car and then shes all, thank you for coming to gayles birthday were talking about oprah, right . No, of course not. And all that matters. South Carolina Tea Party says jim demint is resigning. Leaving the senate a lot better than i found it. Jim demint leaves some big shoes to fill. Jim demint leaves some big shoes to fill. Then again captioning funded by cbs en again welcome to cbs this morning. Im charlie rose in new york. Norah odonnell is in washington. The northeastern coast of japan is still recovering from a devastating tsunami, less than two years ago. This morning, history threatened to repeat itself. Thats right. A major earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean overnight, setting off tsunami warnings in that same area that was hit so hard back in march 2011. Lucy craft is in tokyo. Lucy, good morning. Reporter good morning. This latest quake is just another reminder of how terribly vulnerable japan is to an assortment of natural disasters. Memories of that triple tragedy in 2011 are vivid for all of us, but especially up in the northeastern coast of japan, which has yet to rebuild since last years tragedy. Here in tokyo, the 7. 3 magnitude earthquake rattled windows and shook walls for several minutes. Buildings swayed but there were no immediate reports of damage or death. There were ten injuries. Off the northeast coast. Sirens blaired as officials issued immediate warnings for residents to escape to higher ground. Translator im all right now. Reporter japans northeast coast was devastated by the march 2011 quake and tsunami that took 20,000 lives, set off the worlds Worst Nuclear Meltdown since chernobyl. Workers at the Fukushima Nuclear plant were ordered to evacuate. They reported no irregularities. All tsunami warnings have since been lifted. In the wake of the march 2011 disaster, the state of japans nearly 50 Nuclear Power plants remains very much unresolved. On december 16th, well have an election. The conservatives are likely to take power. And support Nuclear Power once again. Thats likely to cause gridlock in the parliament, send demonstrators in the streets. Back to you, charlie and norah. Lucy craft, thank you. Back here in washington there is Little Movement toward a compromise to avoid the fiscal cliff. There are just 25 days until the deadline. Officials are saying the negotiations are now in the had hands of two men, president obama and House Speaker eer jo boehner. Bill plante is at the white house. Good morning. Reporter good morning. And good morning in the west. The president has stepped up his rhetoric, warning failure to fix the fiscal crisis could sour the christmas season. As another day passed without any real progress, president obama ventured out to push his claim that the middle class will suffer. You better watch out you better not cry at the National Christmas tree lighting, president obama joined the holiday mood. But earlier, visiting a middle class virginia family, he threatened that congress could ruin the christmas season. If it doesnt act, the administration says, middle class tax bills will increase by 2,000. Were in the midst of the christmas season. I think the American People are counting on this getting solved. The closer it gets to the brink, the more stress there is going to be. Reporter what may raise the stress level even further is the promise that both the president and treasury secretary geithner has made. That is, if tax rates dont rise for top earners, there will be no deal. Im not going to sign any taxes that somehow prevents the top rates from going up for folks at the top 2 . If that happens, if theres no agreement, economist mark zandi told a congressional hearing it would be bad news. If we go over the cliff and theres no change after that, we hit the gdp in 2013 will be 3. 5 percentage points. The economy is growing two percentage point. Subtract 3 1 2 and that is a severe recession. Reporter republicans will be blamed if there is no agreement say the president is acting in bad faith. I think its fair to say that the president is not interested in a balanced agreement, is he not particularly interested in avoiding the fiscal cliff and hes clearly not interested at all in cutting any spending. Reporter but behind all the public posturing, there is still contact between the president s office and the speakers people. And between the two men themselves. But everyone else is out of the loop. And there is some confidence, at least here at the white house, that they can find a solution. Norah, charlie . Bill plante, thanks. November jobs report is out. Rebecca jarvis is here. Good morning. What do the numbers tell us . Things are looking a lot better than we were anticipating. 146,000 new jobs created in the month of november. Unemployment rate dips to 7. 7 and theres two big reasons to why the report came out better than most people were expecting. First of all, the impact from Superstorm Sandy. It wasnt there. Thats what the bureau of labor sta stisks told us. We thought it might have a significant impact. It didnt. Second of all, a number of people gave up on looking for work. Thats why you see the significant decline in the Unemployment Rate. Where were the jobs gained . Primarily retail, which added 53,000 jobs. Business services have been strong throughout this recovery. We saw those add 43,000 jobs and lastly health care, which has been one of those fields that most people would say is untouchable because theres a growing need for health care as the boomer population ages and because there are consistently jobs in the health care. Also Computer Services were strong. Retail, one thing to note, its november, people hire for the holidays. Rebecca jarvis, thank you. Now to the crisis in the middle east. Rejecting president Mohamed Morsis call for reconciliation, refusing to compromise last night as he spoke to the nation. Earlier, morsi got a call from president obama after a deadly confrontation between morsis supporters and his opponents. Holly williams is outside the president ial palace in cairo. Reporter some people here hope that after days of protests and blood shed, president morsi would make a major concession last night when he addressed the nation in an effort to restore balance. We are expecting large protests here today outside the palace here in cairo. In the city of alexandria, there have been more violent clashes between president morseis opponents and his supporters. The president s opponents are demanding that he immediately gives up all of the sweeping new powers that he gave himself two weeks ago. They also want him to postpone a referendum on egypts new constitution, due to take place in just over a week. Critics say that constitution doesnt protect the rights of all egyptians. But president morsi didnt do either of those things last night. Instead he offered to give up just one of his new powers, vaguely worded right to take all necessary measures to affect the country. He said he would give up the other powers once the referendum had taken place. Also yesterday, president obama telephoned president morsi to express his deep concern over the violence and deaths that have occurred. He also urged president morsi to have a dialogue with the opposition without any preconditions. For cbs this morning, holly williams, cairo. In syria this morning, rebel troops declared the airport in damascus to be a fair target, warning civilians to stay away. Growing concern that syrias government to use chemical weapons. Hillary clinton joined her russian counterpart. This morning, Elizabeth Palmer reports, Hillary Clinton says there are no easy answers. Meetings yesterday were important but just the beginning and added nobody should believe it represented a breakthrough. Clinton was more frank on president Bashar Al Assads lack of a place in searys polityria future. Every syrian must be included in this process for a new and better future. A future of this kind cannot possibly include assad. We go into these discussions with a clear sense of what we want to see accomplished, but a realistic understanding of how difficult it still is. Second clinton said there would be another meeting in the coming days to discuss the way forward. For ccbs this morning, Elizabeth Palmer, london. James baker, secretary of state under president george h. W. Bush and second under president reagan, Public Policy at Wright University in houston, joining us now from houston. Good morning. Good morning, charlie. Secretary baker, what do you think the government of assad, president assad might do with these chemical weapons . Is he capable, likely to use them . Well, i have no idea, charlie. But if theres evidence, if our Intelligence Community has evidence that theyre beginning to mix the chemicals, that would be quite disturbing. If he did use them, it would not be the first time that a sect leader used them against his own people. That happened in 1980 when Saddam Hussein used them against the kurds. Hopefully that will not happen. What should trigger the United States to act to stop him from using them . Well, i think what the administration has done and is doing is the right course to follow. I think its fine to put a marker down there and tell the government of Bashar Al Assad that they better not use them. That does raise a credibility problem. Any time the president of the United States threatens something, he better damn well be prepared to follow through with it. And theyve never said what the consequences would be. Of course, consequences could range from anything including further diplomatic, political and military action to the idea that once the regime falls and it is going to fall. Once the regime falls, then the people responsible would be held accountable in the proper jurisdiction. Are you suggesting that the president should make clear what the consequences are rather than just simply saying there will be consequences . Well, i dont know whether you do that publicly now or not. But i think it wouldnt be at all bad for the syrians to understand what the extent of the consequences are. I mean, its fine to threaten undefined consequences, but it might be more meaningful to the syrians if they knew specifically what the consequences were. I happen to be one who doesnt think we ought to be involved militarily in that country. I think the American People are tired of military involvement in that part of the world. Our forces are stretched pretty thin. We dont have the money. Were broke. Were a broke country. And so anything we can do politically, diplomatically and economically, we should do, to pbring about a regime change there. We ought to be quite weary and leery, i think, of military involvement, which has a way of becoming a slippery slope. And that is the policy that i think the administration is following. And so far, at least, i agree with that policy. Secretary, Norah Odonnell here. You mentioned the plobs here at home in the United States and the fiscal cliff, which youve written an oped about that. Are you concerned about the negotiations and how theyre going at this point . Well, im plenty concerned. Ill tell you what, norah, im encouraged to hear overnight that president obama and Speaker Boehner have decided they are going to sit down and try to negotiate this out quietly and confidentially. Thats the way we used to do it. Thats the way Ronald Reagan did it with tip onewneilwe oneil. Back in 1982 or 83. We had private meetings actually in the basement of my home in washington. Nobody knew about them. We were free to give and take and put things on the table without fear that would be used politically against us. Same thing for the democrats. Thats what we need to get back to. We need something in the nature, norah, of a grand bargain, along the lines of the Simpson Bowles proposal, something that has everything on the table and that cuts spending and increases revenue. And weve got to do it. The country is in extraordinarily bad shape economically. Secretary baker, do you believe that the republicans should be willing to concede on the question of raising the rates on the wealthy . I dont think they should be willing to concede on that any more than the democrats should be willing to concede before the discussions began on cutting entitlements. But all of that has got to be on the table. Thats what ought to be part of the bargain. And there ought to be a rule when they start negotiating that nothing is decided until everything is decided. You dont have piecemeal concessions. It all ought to be part of one big package. By the way, the debt limit ought to be part of that negotiation as well. We need one big, grand bargain. The American People are so tired of the political posturing and the negotiating in public to score political points. Its time to get serious. The election is over. Its time to do what the country needs badly to have done. Secretary baker, thank you very much. Breaking news from london now. A hospital worker who answered that controversial prank call about the duchess of cambridge has died, apparently in a suicide. In london with the story is monica villamizar. Morning, norah. Emergency services found the womans body near the private hospital that treated the duchess and where three days ago the hospital worker was tricked by australian radio hosts who called, pretending to be the queen and Prince Charles asking, of course, for confidential information about the duchess condition. British media are reporting she committed suicide but British Police refuse to confirm whether this is the case. Theyre saying for now they are treating this death as unexplained. Of course, we will have more details as they come, norah. This is a very sad development out of london this morning for that hospital worker, who took that call from the radio d. J. Monica, thank you for that repo report. It is time now to show you this mornings headlines from around the globe. Apple ceo plans to build some Mac Computers in the United States. Tim cook says apple plans to invest 1 h00 million in the project. It is unclear how the money will be spent or what kind of jobs will b outside right now, we have some patchy dense fog for you today. Theres the sun coming up in the bay area. We have patchy dense fog down below. Watch out for that if some of the vees. The valleys. Temperatures are running on the chilly side. Temperatures by the afternoon under mostly sunny skies up into the 50s and 60s. Nice weekend, too. Lots of sunshine coming our way. Norah odonnell. National Weather Report sponsored by toys r us. Chicago police earn a badge of dishonor. 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