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His case. Here we are at the eleventh hour, and the president still isnt serious about dealing with this issue right here. Its this issue spending. Reporter the president left his spokesman to respond that republicans were pushing a plan of fantasy economics that raised more revenues while also cutting taxes on the wealthy. What spending cuts have the republicans put forward . The proposal that weve seen is a twopage letter, and the much discussed second proposal is less than half a page. There is no specificity behind what the republicans have put forward. Reporter right now, the risk is rising that we will avoid the fiscal cliff, but end up with what some call a worst case outcome. We get some sort of hoaky deal thats put together with gimmicks and baseline adjustments and all that stuff. They get by the fiscal cliff without much damage. Wall street breathes a sigh of relief, but weve done nothing for the longer term debttogdp ratio. Worst of all, most of what they do will take effec ....
This evening. They wanted to secure this lobby. If they have more rain fall, or more in the coming days it will not be a problem for the homes. Total, seven homes had mandatory evacuations. And even the people in this neighborhood but there was a voluntary evacuation process. Everybody with the exception of one home is back. That is good news. No injuries. We spoke with the mayor. Shortterm solutions, what the levy problems and also Long Term Solutions in the works. Right now given the conditions you do not want to move the soil around that much. You want to reinforce certain areas, and let the water dry out. We will follow up with a more further, analysis. Out here live this evening you can deceive the mud. They have cleared out a lotyou can see reporter that. They are going to bring out some large lights. And sandbags. We also spoke with some people that lived in those homes that we spoke about earlier that are under evalua ....
Here we are at the eleventh hour, and the president still isnt serious about dealing with this issue right here. Its this issue spending. Reporter the president left his spokesman to respond that republicans were pushing a plan of fantasy economics that raised more revenues while also cutting taxes on the wealthy. What spending cuts have the republicans put forward . The proposal that weve seen is a twopage letter, and the much discussed second proposal is less than half a page. There is no specificity behind what the republicans have put forward. Reporter right now, the risk is rising that we will avoid the fiscal cliff, but end up with what some call a worst case outcome. We get some sort of hoaky deal thats put together with gimmicks and baseline adjustments and all that stuff. They get by the fiscal cliff without much damage. Wall street breathes a sigh of relief, but weve done nothing for the longer term debttogdp ratio. Worst of all, most of what they do will take effect immediat ....
This is nbr. Captioning sponsored by wpbt tom good evening. Im tom hudson. With the january 1 deadline to avoid the fiscal cliff about two weeks away, neither side appears to be giving any ground. Susie im susie gharb. The u. S. Stock markeis expeed to be the worlds best performer in 2013. Thats the prediction of john rogers of the c. F. A. Institute. He joins us tonight. Tom and new rules for health care also are around the corner. Tonight, we look at how Small Businesses are preparing for the changes. Susie that and more tonight on nbr tom theres no deal, but the two sides are still talking. House Speaker John Boehner and president obama met earlier this evening at the white house in an effort to move forward the stalled fiscal cliff talks. There are now just 18 days before the tax hikes and spending cuts thatake up the clf take efft, and today, there were few signs ....
U. S. Government check yourself veesa or it becomes entirely possible that you may wreck yourself. Before they begin the review let me just get out my clipboard and my bleep pencil. [ laughter ] [laughter] [laughter] bleep . All right. Lets begin. Its really just a prop. Well begin with the Internal Revenue service. Irs if you are nasty. Some good news. Remember when we suspected the irs of unfairly targeting conserve active groups. Turns out they were targeting progressive groups as well. Oops. Keep up the targeting. Theres one area where the irs might want to improve. A reported 1 of the irs work force owes back taxes to the irs. [ laughter ] jon its like rain on your wedding its a free ride when you on dont like rides. [ laughter ] by the way you were saying, the people at the pay us your taxes place dont pay their taxes. Its quite low when you consider that 8 of general public owes back taxes to the federal government. Jon y ....