around illinois. so katie, what are you seeing and hearing from travelers? reporter: well, the chaos hasn t struck washington, d.c. just yet. most of the passengers we have seen today have walked up to the departure board and felt some reloaf most of those flights are on time. very few are cancelled or delayed at this point. will that last, probably not. the storm is now making its way into the midwest and that s going to cause those airports to really clamp down on flights from hubs like d.c. and atlanta. they are expecting to have millions of people delayed as a result of this massive storm that s hitting on the two biggest travel days of the holiday season, which are today and tomorrow. so far here, some folks have been heeding the warning to book early and get out ahead of the storm. we did speak to some folks who moved their flights up to try to beat the holiday headaches. were you nervous this morning? we already changed our flight
sigh of reloaf that it didn t hit japan and trigger world war 3. i think the fundamentals are here though. i mean gdp is strong although the hurricanes will hurt a little bit. median household income hit an all-time high, although even there we re just barely above inflation and adjusted where we were 15 years ago and housing prices are okay. they re pretty strong right now and then finally, my daughter got a job which says the econom- [laughter] dagen: [laughter] the economy is good. dagen: gary b., your celebration alone because of that will add at least one whole percentage point to our national economic growth. lee, investors telling us not to worry about everything that we ve seen even in the last week yeah, i mean there s a lot of things that are going well right now. we re seeing earnings going really well, consumer confidence is increasing and i ve agreed that whole collective sigh of relief that things could have
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officers were injured whatsoever in this takedown. is that right? reporter: absolutely. and again, we re being told by law enforcement sources here at cnn that david sweat was not armed. we know that richard matt was armed. that he had a shotgun. that he had taken from a cabin burglarized. when the unite surrounded him, he did not put his hands on. richard matt never got a shot off at police officers. now we learn that david sweat didn t either. this was the main priority throughout the course of this very intense manhunt. that the 1,300 law enforcement officers on the ground would be safe, protected and that those in this community would be, as well. they re expressing reloaf and gratitude to law enforcement officers. we have been seeing this in the weeks up here, poppy. a number of local restaurants, hotels putting out food for law enforcement officers. doing the things they can to accommodate the people here to keep them safe. you have done an
reelected speaker of the house bone bone. congress approved a deal to avert the fiscal cliff. will the media actul what it does. no spending cuts until later. the house of representative delays the vote to give more reloaf to victims of super storm sandy and causing a reaction almost as violent as the storm itself. last night politics was placed before the serving of our citizens it was disgusting to watch. did nbc s meet the press host take the anti-gun agenda too fall. the names and addresses of legal gun owners. there is a gun ban colume and advocating deadly violence against the nra and republican leaderships. war in afghanistan going on