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Whos always along the parade route. Welcome to early start and happy thanksgiving. Im alina cho. Good morning, im Brooke Baldwin. Berman and zoraida both have the day off. Its 6 00 ones the east coast. Good to be with you. Well get back to the macys thanksgiving day parade in just a moment. But we want to begin with something that many people around the world are really thankful for this morning. The ceasefire is holding between israel and gaza this morning. In gaza city, where so much blood spilled over the last eight days, palestinians are celebrating in the street. You can hear the horns honking, mosques were blaring, all the last several hours, israel and hamas agreeing to halt all acts of aggression against each other. The ceasefire deal brokered largely by president obama and mohamed morsi, apparently making a real connection to stop the carnage. Well have our coverage of the ceasefire with arwa damon, whos live this morning ....
Ii. It comes as the eu is mired in the wor financist financial crie its founding. The next hour of the cnn newsroom begins right now. Top of the hour. Im don lemon. Were going to begin with breaking news on the fiscal cliff talks. President obama, House Speaker john boehner met facetoface at the white house today to try to prevent the fiscal cliff now just 23 days away. We dont have any details on their conversations, but reps for both sides say the lines of communication remain open. Meanwhile, at least four republican senators now support a tax hike on wealthy americans. Here is senator tom coburn of oklahoma. The fact is were spending money that we dont have on things we dont absolutely need, and theres no grownups in washington that will say timeout, stop the politics, lets have a compromise rather than continue to play the game through the press and hurt the country. More on this story in just a few minutes with our senior pol ....
Welcome to cnn news room, im miguel marquez, in for fredricka witfield. The National Rifle association is standing tough on its opposition to new gun laws in the aftermath of the newtown massacre. The groups ceo went on tv to defend his calls for armed guards in every u. S. School. Cnns Barbara Starr is with us, the nra has been criticized for not talking about any limitations on guns and calling for armed guards in schools and for not taking questions from reporters. Yeah, miguel and all of that they seem to be sticking to their line. On the sunday talk shows, wayne la pierre, the chief executive officer. The public face of the National Rifle association, made clear on nbcs meet the press, his organization will continue to oppose legislationed ed adding new revikss to those weapons or the highcapacity ammunition magazine ....
John boehner and House Democratic leader nancy pelosi met at the white house yesterday afternoon with the president and Vice President. Heres where things stand right now. The Senate Leaders are meeting aiming to avoid tax hikes. And they may vote on a deal sunday or perhaps on monday. Jessica yellin is our chief white house correspondent. Lisa day jar dayne is on capitol hill. The president used his bully pulpit to reinforce the idea that senators need to get busy. So lets listen. The American People are watching what we do here. Obviously, their patience is already thin. This is deja vu all over again. America wonders why it is that in this town for some reason, you cant get stuff done in an organized timetable, why everything always has to wait till the last m ....
The great jimmy fallon. Jimmy . Thank you so much. Thats it for us. Its been an extraordinary year, thank you for watching. Hello, everyone, im deborah fairic in for don lemon. Lets get you up to speed on the headlines. Hillary clinton is returning to work tomorrow morning. It will be his first day back since she was sidelined by a stomach virus followed by a concussion and blood clot in her brain. She was released wednesday from a new york hospital. According to her schedule clinton will meet with her assistant secretary tomorrow morning. That meeting is her only public event of the day. President obama plans to nominate chuck hagel as the next secretary of defense. Reaction is already pouring in, some positive, some not. Well have much more on the story in a moment. Pakistani intelligence Officials Say a suspected u. S. Drone strike killed 17 people today. Todays attack follows two suspected u. S. Drone strikes last week that kil ....