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The biggest gain in three months for big-ticket items like aircraft where the key barometer is business spending. if youre hoping for a pair of nike air jordan concords, youre likely to be out of luck. the highly priced shoes went on sale for $180 and quickly sold out. nike.com was cleaned out in about an hour. thats it from cnbc first in business worldwide, have a happy holiday, everybody, now back to "hardball." welcome back to "hardball." in less than a week, ill be in iowa with the rest ...

>> communities were hit by tropical storm and declared a state of national calamity. entire villages were washed away. at least 900 were killed and hundreds more missing. the iraqi government issued an arrest warrant for the vice president there. some of his bodyguards confessed to carrying out bombing attacks under his orders. those other top stories on cnn. "world business today" starts right now. hello. welcome to "world business today." im charles hodson in london. >> and im pa...

speaker john boehner accuses the senate of kicking the can down the road and says hes holding out for a full year extension. the house takes up the senate bill tomorrow. a major snowstorm is brewing in the southwest. travel will become dangerous if not impossible across much of the region tomorrow. texas and oklahoma are expecting up to 15 inches of snow. so we begin our political hour with some key endorsements for republican presidential candidate mitt romney. the latest comes fr...

Barometer to figure out what is real. >> one means of integrating narcotics traffic is through illegal immigrants. because they are often the ones packing the cocaine, heroin and cannabis for large-scale suppliers, they know who is moving the dope before it even reaches the street gangs. [ speaking spanish ] >> my spanish is not proper book spanish. i learned it on the streets of mexico. i was there three years. i prefer dealing with immigrants. they are looking for somebody to trust them a litt...

Places. bob casey in pennsylvania doesnt need barack obamas coattails. remember, what motivates people generally in elections, six, eight and ten is negative. if theres a negative feeling, thats the thing that motivates down the line. positives dont necessarily motivate. i got reelected by 22% of the vote. i barely added any democrats in harrisburg. >> we had a quinnipeac poll that showed newt gingrich and president obama tied in the state of ohio that jumped out at us. what does that tell you? ...

megachurch pastor eddie long faced his congregation to announce hes taking time off to work on his family. this comes three days after his wife filed for divorce. the atlanta-based pastor gained national attention last spring after he settled a lawsuit with four young men who said he pressured them into sexual relationships with him. and celebrations get out of hand after a big college game in oklahoma. 13 people were hurt. the chaos broke out when fans stormed the field after oklaho...

Public figure, and im now doing it as a presidential candidate. >> this is a campaign. i want to stay focused, positive, focused on the president. >> give us your assessment of how each candidate is handling the closest rival to them zoom before i do that, i want to comment how ironic is it, thomas, that jim vandehei said that social conservatives are now more upset about this 14-year affair than they were about the harassment charges. >> right. >> at the same time, social conservatives seem to ...

People like bachmann, santorum, even perry conceivably anything could happen over the course of the next 30 days in iowa. >> all right. lets get to politico. >> the executive editor is mr. jim vandehy. good morning, jim. >> how are you? >> youre reporting democrats hopes for retaking the house in 2012 diminishing as more congressmen like barney frank choose not to seek re-election. whats going on here? >> well, remember, democrats need about 25 seats to win back the majority which is a big task ...

family and said he would decide whether fund-raising is strong enough to stay in the race at least through the iowa caucuses 35 days from now. steve grubs is cains chairman, on the conference call this morning and is with us live to start the program from davenport, iowa. tell me your gut. does your gut tell you yes or no youll have a candidate come saturday or sunday? >> i think well definitely have a campaign and a candidate come this weekend and all the way to january 3rd. the real ...

Circumstances is a testament to both exchanges, even in the face of uncertainty and a multiyear campaign, this could be, and the markets still advance. >> the market as you know very well, the market is a great barometer of what is to come. >> how much would the united states pay? >> well, we all have to contribute to afghanistans reconstruction but construction not first instance. this is a broken country. >> we just want to prevent another tragedy from happening in a country or to our interest...