Imagine that, what would you do if Stevie Wonder walked into your recording session. C en newsroom starts right now. Good morning, everyone, from washington, im don lemon. Carol is off today. We begin this hour with spiraling concerns over syria and a desperate regime trying to hold on to power. This morning, washington announces its deploying two Patriot Missile batteries and 400 troops to our nato ally turkey. It will bolster defenses to syria against its scud missiles and possible chemical weapons. Its a challenging time. Its a challenging time. Its a critical time. We Just Announced, Just Announced this morning that we are deploying two patriot batteries here to turkey, along with the troops that are necessary to man those batteries so that we can help turkey have the kind of Missile Defense it may very well need in dealing with threats that come out of syria. To cnns Nick Paton Walsh in beirut following the latest developments. Nick is on the phone, what can you tell us . We dont
Auckland, new zealand monday, december 31ss ,3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 thh clock issticking. For prommgoing over the socalled fiscal cliff. Cliff. If nothing ii resolled by midnight tonight. Tax rates for all americans will increase. Democrats want higher taxes on familles earning 250thousanddollars a year and over. Republlcans want tax rates to stay where they arr. utaaes seem to bbe compromise. Others want to see Government Spending put in check. Presiddnt obama says. Hes willing toodo that. I offereddover a trilliin dollars in additional spending cuts ss hht we would have two dollars of spending cuts for every one dollar of increased revenue. The senate ssands in recess the senate is scheduled to reconvene at 11am. Even if lawmakers dont come to angreement tooight. You probably wont see a drastic change in your next paycheck. Thats because businesses pikely used 2012 withholdingg would happennrtain about what happen. If you want to see how much your taxes would go upp pgreement. Go to foxbalt
Cowboys. The prize, a first class ticket to the playoffs. Thank you for joining us. Im maureen umeh. The redskins are neck and neck with the cowboys. The score is 77 at half time. Fans are hoping the skins will come into the second half dominating. We are out live covering the game. Audrey barnes is live in northwest with fans who are hailing their team hopefully to victory. Audrey . Reporter this place is packed with redskins fans. When Alfred Morris scored a touchdown to tie the score, the noise in here, the fans were so excited. Over at the field before the game there were plenty of people there getting in one more tailgate. Theyre all hoping this will not be the last game they get to cheer on their team. Rg3, rg3 reporter you would be hard pressed to find a more Exciting Group of fans. They flew home from germany to spend the holiday with us. Reporter and tomorrow is colbys 27th birthday. Whats it like to celebrate your birthday at a playoff game like this . Surreal feeling. Its gr
Tonight. Im maureen umeh. The deal would delay harsh spending cut for two months, but it appears the house will not vote before tonights midnight deadline. Well continue to work on finding smarter ways to cut spending, but lets not let that hold up protecting americans from the tax hike that will take place. We can do this. We must do this. Reporter though it is down to the wire. Its december the 31st january 1st is tomorrow, 2013, taxes go up. Reporter a frustrated senator john kuhn said the senate should have acted months ago to keep the economy from going off the fiscal cliff. I just find it really hard to sit and listen to people come up now and wring their hands and talk about gee whiz, you know, i really hope we can get something done here in the last day as we put two people together basically to resolve this. Reporter the two people were Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell and Vice President joe biden who worked the phones late last night and early this morning after talks
Carry firearms . Virginia governor bob mcdon gnu weighs in for us and a National Retailer yanks rifles. Police are investigating a High School Student after reports he made threatening comments. Im shawn yancy. Im will thomas in for brian. The people of newtown are continuing the agonizing task of laying to rest the victims. Were learning more about what happened in the moments following the attack. Jennifer davis is in newtown with the latest. Reporter it does not feel like christmas is days away in newtown where the community buried two more 6yearolds today and a man that lived near the school shared his memories helping students. Christmas stockings carefully hung bearing the name of each child. These women decking out a tree, a simple reminder of the season marred by funerals. James mattioli and jessica rekos. He didnt know why they were there but took them into his home hearing about the attack firsthand. This boy said we cant go back. We cant go back to the school. We cant go bac