- or new york beat. this is a national issue and we need help with the federal government to rebuild the mta. thank you very much for this opportunity and i look forward to your questions. [inaudible] this thread sue our entire economy. thank you very much. you are the executive director of the port authority in new york and new jersey. we will hear from you about the port authority's efforts to recover damage to the authorities damage tunnels, trains and port. i take a moment to remind you that i was a commissioner of the port authority before i came here and actually, i was driven to my interest here as a result of the traffic co. i was running, a very large company, and we had vehicles crossing the river and they took longer and longer and longer to get to the destination and backed and were it not for the technology that now you see runs ran it through our lives, we never could have done it. the situation in the new york region is really miraculous in so many ways. i think the agency is a great agenc

this was the worst neighborhood in new york city 20 years ago when new york city was the worst city in the country and now they're doing much better. >> pies here? >> pies are here. steve's authentic key lime pie. fill and chill, please. >>sy can't turn that down. cheers. do you not like key lime pies? >> i don't eat them as much. >> what does the hurricane mean for you and the community? >> we've had -- it was an amazing outpour of volunteers. they were here in droves just lining up ready to do work that was not very pleasant work to do they did more in one day than it would have taken us six weeks to do. >> it's very humbling and it's very -- it's touching to feel that kind of outpouring of effort and not just me, it's every business here. two tarts? >> yeah, two tarts. >> so we're glad we're back up and running. >> on the whole >> i think it depends on you who you are, if it's the best or the worst but it didn't leave you the same. the french said tell me what you eat and i will tell you what you are. it became apparent today that where you eat and who you eat it with is just as imp

[talking over each othe >> a computer is taking over the iconic new york stock xchange. >> the new york stock exchange is primarily dealing with the market making of stocks. the buying and selling of eqties. it will bring derivatives, commodities, all of these other things, her securities that are sold by companies and traded in the market. it will bring that to a brand of the new york stock exchange, which is one of the premier brands. i think it's fair to say the new york stock exchange as the premier brand for the trading of stocks in the market. it is going to merge those two together, and that's a pretty powerful, nation. they teamed up with i.c.e. earlier in the year. we should point out that the deutsche banc teamed up as well and i created a massive and her global exchange. that was turned down by global regulators. i think it has a better shot. because it's not all the stocks in one place. gerri: you said that there is going to be a big announcement tomorrow morning. how is this going to be rolled out, do you tink? >> i think it will come out tomorrow. i don't know if there wil

dierdre bryant, abc news, new york. >>> and to our other major story, the looming fiscal cliff. lawmakers worked through the night to try to reach an agreement. >> without a deal, taxes are set to go up for just about every american. tahman bradley joins us from washington with more on the stalemate. tahman? >> reporter: john and paula, good morning. tension is growing here in washington, after weekend talks failed to lead to a deal. if there is no breakthrough today, the country will go over the cliff. talks continue but this morning, there is still no deal. >> we'll have further announcements, perhaps, at 11:00 in the morning. i certainly hope so. >> reporter: republicans and democrats negotiated all weekend, with the hope of passing legislation to protect most people from a massive tax hike. >> our top priority has to be to make sure that taxes on middle class families do not go up that would hurt our economy badly. >> reporter: there was optimism about deal over the weekend, when the republican leader in the senate, mitch mcconnell, made an offer. that ended when harry reid

live in new york, wendy gillette. >> wendy gillette in new york. thank you. >>> the country has lost one of its great warriors. tributes are pouring in this morning for retired general norman schwarzkopf. the general died yesterday in tampa after a battle with pneumonia. schwarzkopf commanded "operation desert storm" that drove iraqi forces from kuwait. in retirement, he championed causes. norman schwarzkopf was 78. >>> now, to former president george h.w. bush's condition. his chief of staff says he will be in the hospital for a while. the 41st president is recovering from a terrible case of bronchitis with a series of complications. she says that mr. bush is getting excellent medical treatment in houston. and she would ask that people put the heart back into the closet. interesting. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton is planning to return to work next week. she has not been seen in public for two weeks. she's been recuperating at home since suffering a concussion. it happened when she hit her head during a fainting spell that was brought on b

elaine quijano, cbs news, roxbury new york. >> jeff: this is the "cbs evening news" tonight. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm jeff glor, cbs news in new york. scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org spared... plus, a crash on a slick hiy sends several emergency wors to the hospital. what happed as they tried to assist acct victims. ad lib... cbs 5 eyewitness news is next. good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. for over 60,000 california foster children, the holidays can be an especially difficult time. everything's different now. sometimes i feel all alone. christmas used to be my favorite. i just don't expect anything. what if santa can't find me? to help, sleep train is holding a secret santa toy drive. bring your gift to any sleep train, and help keep the spirit of the holidays alive. not everyone can be a foster parent, but anyone can help a foster child.

for fiction and nonfiction have appeared in "the new yorker," the new york review books, "the new york times," the paris review, the yale review and elsewhere. she's been the recipient that the irish times prize for international fiction, the rea award for a short story, the pen malamud award, the o'henry award and the land and fellowship. she is a member of the american academy of arts and letters and it gives me great pressure to introduce lori moore. [applause] ♪ >> the other members of this year's jury for the national book award in fiction are stacy dur as moe, didn't i'll and janet perry. [applause] why would these otherwise sane, reasonable and brilliant people consent to this juror cracks one where you make a thousand enemies and maybe only one friend? while your front porch fills up of packages and your neighbors think you have a terrible late-night on line shopping habit through the entire spring and summer. when does it for the champagne of course ,-com,-com ma even if the champagne turns out to be with a lot of peach stuff in it. but one does it also to be part of a celeb

-we specialize in new york or london. we will sell you services to another telecom or anyone who meets high-capacity bandwidth. >> what about this pacific? >> the pacific is -- i get a similar combination of players -- again, a similar combination of players. google funds a vast global network. they operate almost like a telecom of their own. they put out the effort and the money into building a new cable about three years ago now. it speaks of the importance of infrastructure and the need for art internet companies to have as much control as possible with their links. that ends up with interesting consequences for the way the network operators talk about geography. another important cable across the pacific is owned by tata. what i like about them is that they are very big on marketing around the world. they say we have a belt around the world. if something happened to our cable in the this is fake, -- in the pacific, we could send things to the east rather than the west. that imagination was something that fascinated me

and relocated to new york state. (cheers and applause) i feel i've learned my stripes when it comes to the issue of dogs. >> stephen: so you're soft on dog crime? >> yes. >> stephen: what is it about dogs that makes intelligent men, gifted women, great minds, look at them and say "who's a good boy?" is this that something evolutionary inn us that makes us good (speaks gibberish) (laughter) because you can't help but do it. >> well, dogs were evolved to pay attention to us. >> stephen: or made by god perfectly to pay attention to us. >> they're an extraordinary example of a species that we have bread on the basis of their -- of how much attention they pay to us and how closely they look a us in the eye and how attentive they hang on our every word. it's the most narcissistic thing we've ever done as human beings. (laughter) >> stephen: so it's the best thing we've ever done. as far as we're concerned, because we are the ones who are the subject of the narcissism. >> yes. i dog pays more attention to your face than a h

there are very few sold in new york from manufacturers in new york. new york city actually, new york state has a very stringent gun laurx three and a half mandatory years in jail if you carry an illegal loaded gun. we have in new york city very aggressive policing. we have worked very hard with kids to explain to them they just can't have guns but if they do carry guns and we catch them there will be real penalties. we've done things in new york city to make sure-- we have closed the gun show look loophole in new york city. but we can't do it for the whole country. >> david brooks, as you know, suggested that you are the wrong person to be out front on this issue because, he said t is an urban rule issue. and for you to be out front. >> what's wrong with me being an urban rule. i live urban guy, i grew up in a causei rural area what did i miss here? you know, i-- i read david brooks all the time. i think he's brilliant but i don't know where he came up with that. shame on me if i'm, as an american with the wherewithal to do something. i have the bully

every journalist in new york knows duncan. it seems that his oneness combined company is not so hot. >> half-and-half. duncan has been there for a while. what better way to do the exit of the transformational deal and make sure that there is a lot of money. not a bad way to leave. given the way that some people with wall street. he's not an old guy, he's about 55 years old. he is a very ambitious guy in a good way. and i think you would like to run something. you know, maybe he can -- maybe he can go back. i don't know. but this is the guy we're going to be talking about for a while in terms of jurors someplace else. it will be interesting to see the management. we are all focused on duncan. he is being acquired by the dude in atlanta -- what is his name? i don't talk to him. the guy that runs i.c.e. by the way, a multi-gazillion her. gerri: that's right, he's a very important dude. >> he doesn't get a lot of play, he likes staying under the radar for the last time he was out of the radar was when he teamed up in new york. ger

york and new jersey. i had the opportunity to be in new jersey with senator menendez and to see firsthand also with senator landrieu and senator tester, and it's very, very clear that this is a horrific situation and deserves our attention and support. what we are doing with this amendment, as modified -- i want to thank senator blunt for working with us in cosponsoring the amendment stk-rbs to basically -- is to basically take what we have done and passed in the farm bill and putting it into this very, very important disaster assistance bill. in the spring we experienced late freezes that wiped out many fruit crops in a number of states, including michigan, new york and pennsylvania. in my home state we had a 98% loss of cherry crops. and they don't have access to any crop insurance. we're talking about those who don't have that option to be able to help mitigate their losses. in the summer we saw the worst drought since 1956. it left crops withering in the field all across our country, over 80% of the c

new york. >> good for tina cohen. she took the dog to the vet to be scanned for a microchip and the vet tracked down the owner. she's one happy little owner. >> we're a few days until we ring in the new year. fox news is all america new year's eve starting at 11:00 p.m. eastern on new year's eve. megyn kelly and bill hemmer will bring it to you live from sometime square -- times square in new york city this coming monday. >> that's does it for us, thanks for watching. "studio b" with shepard"studio r starts now. >> the news begins anew on "studio b." the major winter storms that unleashed heavy snow and tornadoes on christmas now barreling towards the northeast. the travel delays are racking up fast. details on that ahead. the tornado threat still in effect for parts of the south after a record number of twisters rocked that region. we'll have much more on that in a moment. >>> plus, the president cutting his holiday vacation short to try to hammer out a deal on the fiscal cliff. where do we stand with six days to go?

only 60% of positions in new york accept medicaid. -- physicians in new york accept medicaid. that is not access. just to clear of the record a little bit. now that we know that the one thing that has been shown to lower costs will not be allowed in the lmr unless it is spent -- the health savings account -- we are now encouraging insurance companies not to sell them or to encourage the person to sell it -- what data do you have on the effect of the increase premium costs on some who say 200% of federal poverty level who is currently employed with sponsored insurance and dumped into the exchange of mackenzie quarterly that says what 30% of these employers will do have a value of 60%? what do you project will happen to that person? >> we have been modeling the path to premiums in wisconsin medicates as the first of july. -- medicaid since the first of july. >> this is not a computer model. you actually have real live data. >> yes, sir. this is the actual experience. wisconsin has already expanded medicaid coverage. some of our eligibility groups transition to -- 300% above pove

and upstate, new york. sunday morning the only place dealing with additional snowfall will be the state of maine. that's where you are going to be looking at higher snowfall amounts. windy conditions behind the system expecting gusts over 30 miles per hour for your sunday. temperatures will be cold. get ready for blustery second half of your weekend. if you have to go back to work on monday like some of us do. but for new year's eve monday across the northeast it looks like a dry day but it is going to be very chilly out there. keep that in mind if you are headed out doors for any celebrations. you guys back to you in the studio. >> alisyn: thank you, maria. >> dave: inside for me. in to bed early. >> clayton: wearing your snugy with hot cup of cocoa. >> juliet: we can wear them in the morning. >> clayton: would you mind? >> dave: from my couch. >> juliet: we can't go out. >> clayton: put another log on the fire. >> juliet: some of your other headlines today. help is one step closer for victims of super sto

it was different by new york pull ought 99-97 against the suns. next to the lakers, lakers dwight howard lays on a vicious flagrant foul and was tossed from the game. lakers won it. >>> and to a team that no team can be proud of, the charlotte bobcats are so bad, they managed to lose 16 games all in the same calendar year. finally, the only football game in action, little caesars pizza bowl, central michigan beating western kentucky 24-21. just ahead, kate winslet and leonardo dicaprio walk down the aisle together. and a tradition that might be right up your alley. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning and welcome back. we are still seeing the airport it's recovering from the big storm that's been affecting the eastern third of the country for several days now. notice how the temperatures across the east coast are close to 40 degrees. that indicates that we are seeing that snow already having changed over to rain. and it will be mostly rain from boston right down to new york city and it will wind down through the day. it is still going t

will steven move to new york? >> to find out those answers as well as what else we have in store, hang around for the second part of our makeover coming up. >>> like it or not, facebook's new timeline format is almost here. on march 30th, the new platform will be rolled out across the super popular media site. the changes are significant and will impact how brands talk to customers and leverage content. so what does this mean for your small business facebook page? >> jason keith is the founder and ceo of social media company facial fresh. >> thank you for having me. >> the last thing you want to do is go on to facebook on march 30th and say, what happened to my page? >> you have no idea. your website went down. >> this is great. everyone should know, it is not that hard to change, at least to do some little changes. >> it is going to look very different right away. there are some easy steps that you can do to get you where you need to be. >> i have looked at some of the people that have changed their sites. photo.

take a look at the new york post's cover. that's a man terrified, desperately scrambling to get back to the plat foamplet the headline tells you what happened next. months earlier this new york city subway surveillance video showed how to happened. he and another man are seen arguing before the other man pushes him to the tracks. watching it happen, this photographer, rather than help, he snapped nearly 50 photos on his camera. he said it was his way of trying to get the subway conductor's attention. >> took mow a second to figure out what was happening. i sought lights in the distance of the approaching train. the only thing i could think of at that time was to alert the driver with my camera flash. >> reporter: that didn't get the motor man to flash and the post was criticized. twitter is calling the decision horrifying, despicable. imagine how this man's family feels. we spoke to the pr company that represents the new york post. so far, no statement has been pished -- issued. as for the suspect, he has been arrested and ch

new york, new jersey, and portions of pennsylvania. the author recalls the importance of the region during the war and visits several sites to document their historical significance and it plans date today. from washington's crossing of the dollar to the battle of brooklyn, it is about an hour and 15. [applause] >> this subtitle of this book is old irishman. it is a great honor to introduce the author and my friend, robert sullivan. i have known to geniuses in my life. one is dead, and the other, robert sullivan, is alive. although that reversal in is not the robber solomon he was receiving. not exactly, but more but then the moment. first, brazil and is the author of seven extra hour bucks. meadowlands, will hunt, how not to get rich, rats, cross-country , the throw you don't know, and the one that brings us here, my american revolution. in mine and humble opinion each of these books is its own line and masterpiece. wonderfully idiosyncratic, uniquely incisive. each is an investigation of the american my state and song skate into rela

new york. >> good for tina cohen. she took the dog to the vet to be scanned for a microchip and the vet tracked down the owner. she's one happy little owner. >> we're a few days until we ring in the new year. fox news is all america new year's eve starting at 11:00 p.m. eastern on new year's eve. megyn kelly and bill hemmer will bring it to you live from sometime square -- times square in new york city this coming monday. >> that's does it for us, thanks for watching. "studio b" with shepard"studio r starts now. >> the news begins anew on "studio b." the major winter storms that unleashed heavy snow and tornadoes on christmas now barreling towards the northeast. the travel delays are racking up fast. details on that ahead. the tornado threat still in

>> guest: that is his funeral service back in new york. the body was sent back to new york. and in april of 1913, the funeral was held at st. george's church in manhattan, and then the burial took place in hartford, connecticut, where he was born and he was buried near his father and mother. c-span: you talk about the will. who got the money? >> guest: everything was left to his son, and when his father died in 1890, the father--the tradition in this family was very patriarchal. his father, junius, left several million--you know, a few million dollars each to his daughters. his wife--junius' wife had predeceased him, and junius left everything else to pierpont, the bank, the houses, whatever art collections junius had. and pierpont did exactly the same thing. he gave $3 million each to his daughters. his wife got the houses and a trust fund that had been set up by pierpont's own father and additional money from pierpont. but everything else was left to his son. and his will was--it opened with a resounding declaration of his episcopal faith that christ had died for his sins.

he moved to new york city in 1948, where benny goodman hire him and he became very famous in new york at the time and he died in new york in 2001. one of the pieces of my ticket to ride is how many cubans of irish ancestry are there. because this connected to my family, that's why i wanted to read it to you. in the 40's, my father moved to new york in search of his destiny. he learned to make brillantine in red, blue and golden colors to give a beautiful sheen to the hair. in his spare time, when he could break free from his alchemist's captive vit, he would go listen to cuban music at the park plaza hotel in manhattan. those were happy times and years later became a happy tomic with me, convinced early on that my father inhabited a magic world. a few years ago, while listening to a recording of cuban blues by chico, i remembered in new york in those stories of the 40's that chico and my father met at club cuba in manhattan and again in havana in the mid-50's. the sessions of chico's house in our neighborhood became so famous that even my father, not particularly fond of cuban jazz, c

new york city is putting the final touches on the festivity with a special tribute. the iconic new year's ball in times square has been installed with 288 new waterford crystal triangles, including in the crystal a special triangle engraved with the name dick clark. clark passed away this past april. for more than 40 years on new year's eve, clark counted down the new year with countless celebrities. his wife was on hand for the tribute. >>> in singapore, people are getting ready for the new year by floating 20,000 spheres down the singapore river. each one represents a wish. organizers say the floating display aims to connect people through a collective expression of their dreams. that's beautiful. the spheres will be lit in different colors on new year's eve and be part of a fireworks display as well. >>> delays on the metro happen. but here's a new reason why some riders were late for dinner. a woman went into labor on the red line. she didn't give birth on the train. metro stopped the train to wait for an ambulance. medics got there in time and got her to gw hosp

york state, northern vermont and new hampshire as well. then as we go into tomorrow, a couple lighter snow showers into minneapolis and chicago with temperatures right around 30 degrees, but by tomorrow, that big storm system will move out of the northeast. >> much-needed good news. >> oh, yeah. >> thanks so much, dylan. >>> kate winslet and leonardo dicaprio walked down the aisle together. entertainment headlines are just ahead. >>> first, take a look at this. one yearly festival in peru lets people duke out their differences in a hand-to-hand face-off. a crowd watches as duos throw punches over everything from legal battles to stolen lovers. while refs are on watch, the fights usually end cordially with handshakes or hugs. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso. i just finished a bowl of your new light chicken pot pie soup and it's so rich and creamy... is it really 100 calories? let me put you on webcan... ...lean roasted chicken... and a creamy broth mmm i can still see you. [ male announcer ] progresso.

a new york newspaper says yes. it posted the gun permits in new york counties. each red dot represents a person who has a gun permit. police -- people whose names were posted on this site they're not very happy. we did reach out for a statement from the newspaper, it sent us one "the massacre in newtown, connecticut, remains at top-of-mind for many of our readers. our readers are understandably and keenly interested to know about who owns guns in their neighborhoods." joining me to talk about this is job than lowey, legal director for the brady center to prevent gun violence. good morning, jonathan, how are you? >> good morning, carol. >> thanks for joining us. to be clear you are for gun control so everybody knows. so this newspaper who decided to publish the names of people who own gun permits, do you think it should have? >> i don't think they should have. i think this shows a lack of judgment by the newspaper, and i think that we should not be stigmatizing every law-abiding gun owner out there and i think particularly after newtown, let's engage in a convers

i'm bob woodruff for "nightline" in new york. >> our thanks to bob woodruff. "the impossible" opens december 21st, and just today, watts was nominated for a screen actors guild award. the buzz begins. >>> still ahead, are you feeling as lucky as they are? today just may be your day. 12-12-12. ♪ [ engine revs ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] the mercedes-benz winter event is back, with the perfect vehicle that's just right for you, no matter which list you're on. [ santa ] ho, ho, ho, ho! [ male announcer ] lease a 2013 c250 for $349 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. >>> are you superstitious? then 12-12-12 -- today, that is -- will mean a lot to you. countless people around the globe chose today to buy lotto tickets, schedule c-sections or get hitched. we asked abc's lucky guy, nick watt, to visit the mecca of good fortune, las vegas. >> reporter: we're counting down to midnight to december 12th, 2012. we're in vegas. >> welcome to the world famous little white chapel. in about five minutes, it will be 12-12-12 and all these couples will be married and

he moved to new york city in 1948, where benny goodman hire him and he became very famous in new york at the time and he died in new york in 2001. one of the pieces of my ticket to ride is how many cubans of irish ancestry are there. because this connected to my family, that's why i wanted to read it to you. in the 40's, my father moved to new york in search of his destiny. he learned to make brillantine in red, blue and golden colors to give a beautiful sheen to the hair. in his spare time, when he could break free from his alchemist's captive vit, he would go listen to cuban music at the park plaza hotel in manhattan.

showers tapering off across new york city. heavier batches of rain in the city of boston, and the wind gusts 30 to 40 miles per hour and that's really what has produced white out conditions. you can see in the imaging in cleveland, ohio, and across indiana as the form moved through those areas. the storm producing delays, nothing too major laguardia you are looking at delays averaging 30 minutes. a little more than 20 minutes in philly international. we should see the delays improving as the storm continues to pull out of the area and by tomorrow it should be gone and you'll have a bit of a quieter day. winter state warnings in place in upstate new york, vermont, new hampshire and the state of maine not so much because of the snowfall even though it will be impressive in areas it's because of the wind. when you get wind gusts in excess of 30 miles an hour that will be picking up that snowfall blowing it around and producing white out conditions. as far as additional snowfall goes across the state of maine that's where you're l

new york man hit by vandals. tree serves were splashed and fueled. >> finally time for the awesomely bad christmas card and photos. here is some of the ones that we received. first one from jay and joe and their soon to be 15 year old . back to 1948 from old orchard beach, maine. >> 1948. >> that is awesome. >> and gen from tennessee. check out his little girl all the way to the right of the screenhard to miss. no one noticed his daughter was making all of the funny faces until the film was developed. >> it is hard to get them to look good in the pic

and rockland counties, just north of new york city. the paper's editor said while they knew the database would be controversial, "sharing as much information as we could about gun ownership in our area was important in the aftermath of the newtown shootings." >>> and now that senator john kerry has been nominated for secretary of state, the focus is shifting to his potential replacement in massachusetts. senator scott brown, who was defeated last month by elizabeth warren, appears to be the clear choice for republicans. a poll conducted before the selection of kerry found brown dominating the field. the wbur poll also shows the senator topping any democrat by eight points. brown is yet to say whether he plans to run in the special election. as for the democrats, it's only clear who's not running right now. ted kennedy jr. was floated as a possible contender, but he says he's not interested. kennedy said he was grateful for the offers of support, but he considers connecticut to be his home, leaving the door open for a potential future r

live in new york, wendy gillette, abc news. muhammad and brandi, back to you. >> thanks, wendy. >>> here's a look ahead at the nation's weather. winter watches and warnings are in effect for almost half of the country. the northeast could see a rain/snow mix for the even commute before it turns all winter rain. wet from san francisco all the way to seattle. >> it is extremely cold in the middle of the nation. dallas is 38 degrees instead of the usual 55. minneapolis doesn't even get out of the teens. in the meantime, honolulu and miami, you're in the 80s. but there could be rain in both of those cities. chicago, detroit and indianapolis are in the 30s. >>> to our other top story this morning. president obama is cutting his vacation short and heading back to the white house. >> he's hoping to make a last-ditch compromise with lawmakers to try to avoid that fiscal cliff. reena ninan is traveling with the president. she joins us from honolulu, hawaii. reena, has there been any movement to reach a compromise here? >> reporter: it d

new york governor andrew cuomo and new york city mayor michael bloomberg also made similar trips to d.c. recently to push for more federal support. >>> after a delay noted by none other than "the new york times's" maureen dowd, secretary of state hillary clinton is coming to the defense of u.n. ambassador susan rice, calling her a stalwart colleague. rice is seen as a top pick to succeed clinton in the state department, but is under attack by republicans who accuse her of misleading the public in the aftermath of the september 11th attacks at the u.s. consulate in benghazi. >> and it's important to remember what susan said was based on the information that had been given to every senior official in our administration, and she made very clear in her appearances that the information was subject to change as more facts were gathered and analyzed by the intelligence community. and look, as is often the case, our understanding evolved over time. and we've done our best to keep the american people and the congress informed. that was her goal, that was her mission and she should not be critici

in a new york hospital. but first, we'll take a look at some of the other stories we are following this morning. it is the 11th hour for lawmakers and the nation and still no deal to avoid that fiscal cliff. senators will try to reach a compromise today. but if not, starting tomorrow we'll all be paying more in taxes. >> i believe they're talking right now, not watching "world news now." they're actually trying to get something done. considering what they've been doing a last couple of months not going to put my money on that. just sing "kumbaya." just get it done, ladies and gentlemen. >>> and the cliff of a different kind. one by one, sledders tumbling into an icy lake. but most trying to rescue one another. we'll explain what this is all about. >>> and in "the skinny" this morning, kanye west addresses rumors of a kim kardashian pregnant. we'll talk about that. >> and we're going to have to tell rob she's cheating on him. >> is that sfligt >> right is a huge fan. >> she's a sexy woman. rob is right about

right now she is in a new york hospital with a blood clot. a spokesman says it was found in a follow up exam for her concussion. >> parts of southern new england buried in snow after a storm over the weekend. some places getting up to a foot of snow and this was the second storm to hit in two weeks. >>> weight loss is a top new year's resolution. yet 80 percent of all dieters failed to lose weight. how can you be sure to succeed this year? personal fitness trainer and fitness expert nikki fitness has tips for us. thank you for joining us. happy new year. >> happy new year as well. >> you should set goals and be specific, right? >> exactly. specific and realistic such as i want to run a mile by april 1st and maybe lose 15 pounds. whatever it may be. make it something that is doable. if you have never run before you are not going to run a mare-a-thon. do something you can accomplish. make better goals after that. >> i am one of those people all or nothing. in month. >> many people are. if you set something you can accomplish and sick to it and

they registered in new york city as domestic partners as soon as they could in 1993. but they wanted much more. >> "we want to do the vows and we want to exchange rings." >> spayer had been stricken with multiple sclerosis, and her health was failing. but that did not keep her and edie from hopping a plane to toronto, canada, where in 2007 they were wed. >> "i thea spayer, choose you...until death do us part." >> two years later thea passed away, leaving the bulk of her estate to edie, now 83, which resulted in an estate tax bill of $363,000. even though new york recognized their marriage, edie did not qualify for the marital deduction allowed heterosexual marriages because of the defense of marriage act. a federal appeals court in new york found that also violated the guarantee to equal protection, but went much further. after noting a long history of discrimination against gays and lesbians, the court concluded any law that makes distinctions based on sexual orientation must be subjected to "heightened scrutiny," and the government must present "exceedingly persuasi

york times op ed today that just said you know shame on the new york times essentially for not sending a reporter out to really report on this why and this is just one example i mean of course all across the corporate media this is such a case not just because it was over but the implications and also his treatment why do you think the more news isn't isn't there reporting on this looks because they can get away with it i've had conversations with major reporters in the press that the first couple of days of the article thirteen and they talk about objectivity i mean there's good people in the press room i'm not saying that they're all bad they talk about objectivity but they have you know very pejorative characterizations of assignment in the press the press room they talk about bradley manning being manipulated i talked to one major broadcast reporter outside about the ten stories you could get from this trial that are important for the public and they're like the public doesn't care so there's this kind of apathetic demoralized view about the role of journalism and how important it

back to john berman in new york. >>> new york mets exporting cy young award winner r.a. dickey. dickey traded to the toronto blue jays in a seven-player deal and sending one of baseball's top catching procks back to new york. dickey, a great story, went from baseball's scrap heap to the king of the hill last year, winning the cy young, going 20-6 for the new york mets. >>> how about this as the subject of martin scorsese's next film. bill clinton. he will direct a documentary on clinton for hbo clinton is said to be cooperating fully with the scorsese project. >>> stormy weather in the west and midwest could affect travel plans today. want to get to ckaren mcginnis. nasty weather up here too. >> yeah, both east and west, we have some storm systems that will make difficult travel as we go toward the big travel weekend. take a look at video out of des moines, washington this is just south of seattle. they saw crashing waves, high winds, the storm system is aimed at the west coast. we'll see snow levels in seattle down to around 400 feet. traveling to the midwest, look out. are you

york's times square to ring in the new year. as with any high-profile gathering of this size security is on high alert to make sure tonight's massive event goes off without a hitch. we go live to times square with more on the preparations. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. still very quiet here in times square. the traffic is flowing. we're at 48th street and 7th avenue standing next to one of many barricades that will be used to control the crowds that will start showing up in a couple of hours. more than 2,000 pounds of confetti are in place. ready to be thrown out by hand from buildings in times square at midnight. >> i've seen it on tv. it looks like so much fun. >> it's magic. everybody in the world wants to come to new york for new year's. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands will usher in the new year from all over the world. they will see the waterford crystal ball drop down the flagpole high above times square lighting up the 2013 sign. this year's ball will have 288 new panels engraved with doves befitting of the

a man gets pushed to his death in a new york city subway. the final moments captured on camera then printed in the paper. is the outrage warranted? and the world media go gaga over big royal news. >> duchess kate has got a crumpet in the oven, i cannot wait for the next six months, and every bloody detail. ooh, she's got morning sickness, ooh, starting to show, ooh, she's broken her water. >> on the panel, writer and fox news contributor, judy miller. and radio talk show host, and jim pinkerton conservative magazine and ellen ratner, bureau chief of talk radio news service, i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. if you want to know how broken, our partisan our congress and government has become, all you need to look at is this one day in washington where tonight we're no closer to compromise on a deal to avoid that show called fiscal cliff. >> it was also warm in the nation's capital despite the chill between democrats and republicans. >> president obama dug in his heels insisting on tax increase or higher earners. >> and they both a

ines in syracuse, new york, it was 20 years. the colder air will filter in and temperatures will plummet down across much of the regions you see here. wind and rain impacting airports. likely to see more delays in philadelphia and washington, and heavy accumulation, a foot or more, all the way across new england. so this is going to impact vermont, maine, new hampshire, upstate new york, mixing in with sleet as time as the low pulls this energy up to the east. you'll be watching for heavy snow in the burlington area. many people might be vacationing and enjoying some skiing at this time in vermont so that's good news. but temperature plummetted in the south. it's only 32 in charlotte and 27 in memphis. so ali, unseasonably cold here in the southeast. this is more like what you'd be experiencing in new york than we would here in atlanta. >> just above freezing in atlanta and in alabama freezing and lower. bonnie, we'll check in with you through the course of the morning. this dangerous storm and it's devastating winds have severa

and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the longest tunnel in the world. at hillview reservoir... the water is partitioned into another giant tunnel system. where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built u

the gentlelady from new york. mrs. maloney: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. maloney: mr. speaker, as a member of the committee on oversight and government reform, i am pleased to join my colleagues in a bipartisan way in the consideration of h.r. 6379, to designate the facility of the united states postal service located at 6239 savannah, highway, in ravenel, south carolina, as the representative curtis b. inabinett sr. post office. i am pleased to yield five minutes to the distinguished assistant democratic leader, congressman clyburn, from the great state of south carolina for as much time as he may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from south carolina is recognized for five minutes. mr. clyburn: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i thank the gentlelady from new york for yielding me the time. mr. speaker, i rise today in support of h.r. 6379, naming the post office in ravenel, south carolina, after representative curtis b. inabinett s

york and northern new england. then our attention turns to the next storm, that is right now in the west. that will continue to develop and pull that moisture out of the gulf of mexico. so that means more showers and thunderstorms. places like little rock, down towards new orleans, mobile, alabama, and to the north, we're going to have just enough cold air in place as we get into the weekend. you will likely see snow this time for places like new york city, pittsburgh, 34 degrees for you. cincinnati, looking at 32. looks like mainly rain though across the southeast. but it looks like, natalie, we are ending 2012 on a very busy note, that's for sure, as people try to head home from the holidays or just try to get in place for the new year. >> all right, kelly cass at the weather channel, thanks. >>> we got a clearer picture today of the forecast for the holiday shopping season. new numbers are in, and for many retailers, it is not good news. and they're hoping you hit the stores in the days ahead to make up for it.