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Welcome to cbs this morning from washington it is the first day of winter and it looks like it in much of the midwest the first major snowstorm of the season is being blamed for at least eight deaths so far and things could get worse. This morning at least 18 states are dealing with snow rain and high winds. More than 100 miles of interstate highways had to be closed at the height of the storm. Airlines have canceled more than 1,000 flights yesterday and today, and that storm is pushing into the northeast, complicating plans for millions of americans on the busiest travel day of the season. Dean reynolds is at chicagos Ohare Airport. Dean, good morning. Good morning, charlie and norah. It appears most of the flights arriving at chicagos Ohare Airport from the west are on schedule and that the airlines and their passengers are getting back on track. For four days now the storm has kept up its punishing strike, state after state feeling the sting. The system is moving toward the east coast after blasting the rockies with snow and wind spawning tornadoes down south and giving the midwest its first real taste of winter this season. I hope this stops soon. Reporter nearly 20 inches of snow fell in wisconsin thursday while parts of iowa saw more than a foot. 50mileanhour wind gusts quickly whipped into whiteout conditions blinding some drivers. In iowa a 25vehicle pileup claimed the lives of two people. The storm knocked out power to thousands as the temperatures dipped into the teens. The nasty weather of course didnt stop the u. S. Postal service but it did bring some air travel to a halt. Airlines were forced to cancel roughly 1,000 flights thursday most of them at chicagos Ohare Airport. Thats where the oday family had been hoping to catch a plane to miami in time for a cruise. They told us they cant fly us out of here until monday which is two days after our ship leaves. Reporter now they have to make the 1,400 mile trek another way. My wife checked all other airlines, theres nothing out there. The only option we have is to drive. Reporter now driving is still pretty good option actually, as the colder temperatures and the high winds continue to persist, as the storm moves east and that could cause more delays. Ch d norah . Dean reynolds thank you. Lets get the latest from meteorologist Mike Augustyniak in charlotte. Good morning the storm dropped a lot of snow in the midwest. Highest i could find was the town just north of des moines iowa, almost 14 inches of snow. Rochester, minnesota, six inches and here in the twin cities just 0. 6 of an inch of snow. Now the storm is a problem for the great lakes and for the northeast, with that snow and wind battling areas that are from say around toronto to detroit, down to cincinnati its heavy rain this morning in the northeast, and then that will change over to some snow showers with more wind coming up this afternoon. Speaking of snowfall totals it doesnt look like well have blockbuster amounts in most areas, an inch to three inches in the white shaded areas but some of the higher terrain areas in parts of with of wf 8 to 14 inches of snow and near blizzard conditions with snows downwind of the great lakes as well. Major travel disruptions in philly, in new york city back to chicago, both ohare and midway and a lot of flight delays likely from detroit to cleveland to cincinnati down to charlotte. This storm is going to be with us for the next couple of days. Charlie, back to you. Thanks. Last night may have been one of the worst moments of John Boehners political career. It may have brought the country one step closer to the fiscal cliff. Boehner is speaking to reporters at this hour. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Reporter what a mess. This maneuver was meant to strengthen boehners hand in negotiations with the president but it backfired and now Debt Reduction talks may be falling apart as they have several times before. With no democratic support for his go it alone plan boehner needed almost all republicans to hang together but they didnt. Dont have the votes. Got to have the votes. Reporter dejected republicans streamed out of an emergency meeting last night where Speaker Boehner told them he was canceling the vote on his plan b bill because too many conservatives had vowed to vote no. Louisianas john fleming was one of them. I would just say we have different thoughts and ideas and approaches to this problem, and we just couldnt get enough consensus. Reporter boehners strategy to introduce his own bill despite ongoing talks with the president was a risky one from the beginning. The White House Press secretary described it as a multiday exercise in futility. Reporter boehners bill would have extended the low bushera tax rates for households making up to 1 million a year far higher than the president s proposed cutoff of 400,000 but boehner ran afoul of his own right flank, members who opposed letting taxes rise for anyone. Democrats said the setbacks showed boehner needs to craft a plan with the president that can win over centrists from both parties. But boehner released a statement that made it sound like he was walking away from the talks all together, saying now it is up to the president to work with senator reid on legislation to avert the fiscal cliff. He told house members to go home for the christmas holiday, because theres nothing more they can do right now. Its unbelievable. This is horrible. I mean im angry. Im sad for my friend the speaker, and im sad for the country. Reporter Many Republican this is morning are blaming the president , saying he didnt give enough on spending cuts and put the speaker in an impossible negotiating position on taxes. The white house will say they put forward 850 billion worth of cuts something thats very difficult for democrats to do. Speaker boehner is holding a press conference at this hour where well hear if he truly is walking away from these negotiations with just 11 days to go before the deadline. Nancy cordes thank you very much. Former Governor Haley barbourileyley barbour is with us. Welcome. Thank you. Does that mean were going over the fiscal cliff . Theyll have to. The house previously passed legislation to continue the tax cuts. The house yesterday passed legislation to avert the sequestration. Now the question is will the democrats in the senate or the president accept that or come back with some other offer. The house has already done two things necessary to avert the fiscal cliff and the sequestration. I wish they had passed what they did last night. You were saying to the republicans i would have voted with him. I would have voted with him and ill tell you why. What they voted on or what they considered yesterday would have never become law but it would have put the ball at the other end of the court and shown the American People look the republicans have bent over backwards, they think raising taxes is terrible, that its going to hurt the economy and going to cost jobs but they held their nose and compromised. There have been no compromises on the other side none zero zip. Well it is quite true. Hold on here we had last night the republican conference turn their back on their speaker, and he got up and gave the serenity prayer, almost cried in front of the conference and everybody is going home for christmas without getting their job done. What happened . Why has the Republican Party turned their back on Speaker Boehner . Look they may have been five votes short out of 233, okay so lets dont say that all the conference turned their back. He might have had 200 votes. Takes 218. If you know something i dont know say it but i dont think they were very short, very far short, but again, remember the house has already passed legislation to avert the fiscal cliff and the senate has refused to take it up. You essentially had the speaker do this plan b which didnt have any spending cuts in it, it was a plan that would essentially only raise taxes on millionaires and he couldnt get his own party to agree with that. Essentially it looks like the Republican Party is on record of protecting millionaires from tax cuts. Politically was it a huge blunder . For the republicans, what we need to get to focus on is spending. Several of these republicans said this does nothing with b spending. An example cbo last week put out these numbers, charlie, i think its important for your viewers to know this october november, the first two months of the fiscal year taxes went up 30 billion. That is a 10 increase over taxes in the previous october november but the deficit increased 57 billion because spending went up 87 billion. Taxes up 30 spending up 87 spending is the problem here and theres nothing that these republicans, i dont agree with them but i can imagine them saying theres nothing in here about the real problem. Two points its also eric cantor was in favor of this as well and supported it enthusiastically. The democrats say we put spending cuts on the table number one and number two, the question is what else could the president have done to give john boehner the ability to convince his own party . Well the president toward the end of the negotiations has been serious about spending. At one point in the negotiation what do you mean when you say serious about spending. Charlie at one point in the negotiations the vehicle was his budget from this year. Not one democrat in congress voted to are that budget. It got zero votes in the house or senate and they thought that should be some of what they should have started with. Come on now. The senate hasnt passed a budget in three years. The House Republican have passed a budget the last two years that theyve controlled congress. We need to get serious about spending because spending is the problem. It seems to me we need to trust each other, and theres a level of nobodys trusting the other to come forward to do what they say they might do. I noticed a quote in one of the papers some businessmen says it looks like everybodys posturing and thats a legitimate complaint. Posturing is not trusting. That is legitimate. Governor barbour, thank you. Well hear about gun control on face the nation Bob Schieffer interviewed nras president david keene. It is one week since the newtown, connecticut, School Shooting which changed the gun control debate. Short time ago americans paused to honor the 20 children and 6 women who were killed in that massacre. Bell toll [ bell tolling ] Church Bells Rang 26 times as newtown officials and residents stood with Connecticut Governor dan malloy. Churches also rang their bells in washington and other cities. On thursday services were held for six of the People Killed inside Sandy Hook Elementary School. There was also a funeral in New Hampshire for nancy lanza, the mother and first victim of gunman adam lanza. Seth doane is in newtown where more funerals for the victims will be held this morning. Reporter good morning, norah and charlie and good morning to our viewers in the west. Across the country, governors and mayors have called for a special day of mourning and a moment of silence to mark one week since this tragedy. It sucks. Theres no reason for us to be here tonight. Reporter expressions of disbelief and grief echoed across the country. Robbie parker father of first grader Emilie Parker spoke at her Memorial Service held thursday night, where pink ribbons line roadways. You slowly begin to realize even though this is such a personal and internal thing for us, i started to really feel how much it touched everybody everywhere. Reporter in newtown, motorcades and funeral processions continue to jam its small streets. Everywhere every hour it seems another Group Salutes yet another victim. [ bell tolling ] memorials grow as expressions of sympathy pour onto streets, and into mailboxes. The local post office has been inundated inundated. Were getting cards, were getting letters, were getting packages maybe teddy bears or some sort of something they want to provide to the family for comfort. Reporter Christine Dugas has been with the Postal Service for 20 years. She says theyre getting more condolence letters than they can store in the facility. Thousands a day. Reporter thousands a day . Thousands a day from as far away from england, sicily australia and every part of this country, north south, east and west. Reporter virtual messages of sympathy fill the website evergrant in a section called our broken hearts users have posted comments and videos from around the world. I just want to express my deepest, deepest sympathies for the people of newtown, connecticut. Words just are even inadequate at this point but i wanted to send you this video so you know how much love and support is coming from florida to you. Reporter there is also a special moment of silence that is being asked for online. Organizers are asking people not to post to facebook or to tweet for five minutes starting at 9 30 this morning. All right, seth doane, thank you. We have new information on the two bank robbers who escaped from a highrise chicago prison. Jose banks was captured last night in chicago without incident. He and Kenneth Conley escaped tuesday morning, broke through a window and climbed down nearly 20 stories using a robe made from bed sheets. Conley remains at large. Some of the headlines from around the globe, the New York Stock Exchange is being sold in Intercontinental Exchange an Electronic Company based in atlanta agreed to pay 8. 2 billion for the 220yearold exchange. The New York Stock ExchangeTrading Floor will remain on wall street. Bernard madoffs brother has been sentenced to ten years in prison. Peter madoff had been helping his brother run a ponzi scheme that swindled investors out of billions of dollars. Peter madoff pleaded guilty to falsifying documents and lying to securities regulators. At thursdays sentencing he said hes deeply ashamed. Usa today reporting instagram is backtracking from a new Privacy Policy as we reported there was a huge backlash when the website suggested it would use customer photos in ads. Instagram says it has no intention of selling photos for ads and it never did. The l. A. Times says facebook is testing a new user fee to allow customers to send messages to the regular inboxes of people who are not their friends. Right now the messages go to a box for other which is also known as spam. Queen elizabeths Christmas Speech will be broadcast in 3d for the first time. Spokeswoman says they want to do Something Big and special in the jubilee year. The queen calls the 3d message a strong storm now sliding into the bay area. We are seeing gusty winds and heavy rainfall overnight. Some amounts in the north bay over 4 of rain already. That continuing to slide to the south throughout the day today so with periods of heavy rainfall, the temperatures are going to stay cool, highs only into the 50s outside, storming too. Next couple of days including the weekend the rain is going to be on and off, maybe even a couple of thunderstorms. 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