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Good evening. Its 10 00 on the east coast and we begin with brooking news on the looming fiscal cliff. For the past few nights weve been telling you about the frustrating lack of progress to avert a deal on automatic tax hikes and spending cuts that kick in less than four weeks from now. Poll after poll shows the American People want compromise but there werent many signs that was going to happen, nothing was getting done. In a cnn crc poll, 67 said washington officials would behave like spoiled...

Potentially serious consequences for virtually every taxpayer in america. There has been zero progress on a deal, zero. Keeping them honest though, the American People clearly want some sort of a compromise. Polls show they want results but the two sides are still far apart on the issue at the heart of the debate, whether the wealthiest americans should pay more taxes than they do right now. The people you elected to get things done simply are not getting it done, not even close. But maybe we sh...

No. Celebration of Washington States brand new pot law. Yes, theyre smoking joints. I dare you, like double dare you. Obama administration bites and says, yeah, were prepared to go off the fiscal cliff. Roger goodell, the commissioner football fans love to hate. Theres a softer, gentler side of goodell. Seriously. The nfl commissioner you dont know. Newsroom starts now. Good morning. Thank you so much for joining me. Im carol costello. Smoke em if you got em. Recreational marijuana is officially...

We. We have breaking news coming in to us. According to the u. S. Geological survey, a magnitude 7. 3 magnitude earthquake strug off the coast of japan. A tsunami warning has been issued. I know it was felt very strongly there, alex. What can you tell us . Well, atika, you mentioned some of the details. We were sitting in the office here in our bureau in tokyo, up on the ninth floor of this building. Its hard to describe, you cant really describe the feeling until youre into it. The one thing th...

There has been zero progress on a deal, zero. Keeping them honest though, the American People clearly want a compromise, polls show they want results. But the two sides are still far apart on the issue at the heart of the debate, whether the wealthiest americans should pay more taxes than they do right now. The people you elected to get things done, theyre not getting them done, not even close. In a cnn orc poll taken a few weeks ago, 67 said washington officials would behave like spoiled childr...

It gets stranger and stranger. Stay with me. It is basically weird. On tuesday, the senate rejected a u. S. Treaty aimed at protecting the rights of disabled people around the world. It is modeled on the americans for disability act. 125 other countries ratified it but in the full senate 38 republicans voted no leaving it 5 votes short of ratification. What we learned today is that some of the very same senators actually supported the treaty before they voted against it. Some even pledged their ...

Film makers had access to. An outfront investigation. Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone, im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, let there be light. Finally, some bulbs turned on in washington this evening. Well, on the congressional christmas tree, that is. Pretty beautiful. Lights, love, camaraderie, song. But while our lawmakers took some time to celebrate together, they still werent showing any spark when it came to negotiating a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff, which is the Christmas Prese...

Around the world. 125 other countries ratified this, but in the full senate 38 republicans voted no leaving the treaty five votes short of ratification. What we learned today thats interesting is some of these same senators actually supported the treaty before they voted against it. Some even pledged their support very publicly. Senator roy blunt of missouri was a flipflopper and Kay Bailey Hutchinson of texas and senator jerry moran of kansas. We asked them all to come on the program and they d...

Are still missing. The misery not yet over. The storm is expected to continue to dump heavy rain in philippines until tomorrow. To iran where officials claim they have gotten some damning information from that u. S. Drone they say they captured. The information that the iranians say now proves that the u. S. Was spying on irans military sites and its oil terminals. The u. S. Has been trying to block irans oil exports as part of an effort to get iran to give up its nuke program, but as for the dr...

Survival and tonight, shes outfront to talk about it. Lets go outfront. Tonight, gangnam style. Yep, this is how one man sees the fiscal cliff and its a pretty important man. This is alan simpson. Yep. That maybe the most action the fiscal cliff saw today. Heres the scene on capitol hill at noon. Yep, people leaving. Members of congress leaving washington, heading home on wednesday afternoon. One man left standing was the House Speaker and he says im not going anywhere. Ill be here and ill be av...