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Still recovering from deadly floods. What was Tropical Storm bill is now a tropical depression, but that distinction is little comfort to folks where rivers are in danger of overflowing and roads are submerged. Tonight, flood watches and warnings stretch more than 1,200 miles to illinois and ohio. Omar villafranca is in dallas. Reporter bill pounded the texas gulf coast before racing up north towards oklahoma. The heavy rain caused flash flooding in sealy outside of houston and shut down roads m...

Caused over 36 billion in damage in new jersey. Governor christie says he was assured by congressional leaders that the aid package would be put to a vote, but House Speaker boehner pulled the legislation and did not return christies phone calls. Disaster relief was something that you didnt play games with. Reporter do you feel betrayed right now, governor . Yes. If the people of new jersey feel betrayed today by those who did this in the house last night, then they have good company. Im with th...

Move they acknowledge is risky. House Speaker John Boehner met with House Republicans for an hour and a half today. He didnt share his opinion of the bill, but many other did. Licans, like alabamas ledncer bacchus, did. Cuttingenate bill failed miserably in cutting spending. Reporter Michael Conaway of texas. Ta im unwilling to gag down a deal that is unacceptable. Reporter even the number two house republican, virginias eric cantor, said he could not fopport the bill in its current form, despit...

The first woman u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york, white led prosecution teams that convicted mob boss john gotti, a vicious mob killer who had escaped prosecution by tampering with juries. White kept her jury anonymous and sequestered. She built the best set of terrorism prosecutors in america, convicting the blind sheik for conspiracy to bomb the United Nations and other new york landmarks. She also convicted ramsey youseff for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. And she wa...

Sources are using tonight to describe escaped prisoner david sweat. Police believe the nowlone fugitive is in a densely wooded area near malone, new york where its expected to rain overnight as temperatures drop into the 40s. 1200 Law Enforcement officers are trying to hunt down the convicted cop killer based on two sets of footprints found near a cabin that was broken into earlier this week, police think sweat was traveling with his escape partner richard matt before matt was gunned down in a c...

Reached, will not be the so called grand bargain with trillions of dollars of deficit lionction. In fact, jeff, its not even clear this deal again, if there is one would stop the acrosstheboard spending cuts ulr the Defense Department and peher government programs. It looks like those cuts will go forward. What the president said today is 24 hours from now the Senate Leaders have to have a plan that deals with income taxes at a rate to be determined later, the threshold of that income and some f...

One state over in missouri, salt trucks were busy preparing the roads for expected heavy snowfall. Transportation officials mark sheldon warned holiday travelers. Certainly, those roads are slick. If you dont have to get out, please dont get out. Reporter the storm system caused heavy snow in the midwest, brought heavy rains and wind to the south, and shrouded the city of atlanta in fog. At least two reported tornadoes touched down in the houston area. One man was killed when a toppled tree flat...

Agreement. Reporter Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell said his mcconntheclock negotiations with Vice President biden had t id off. I can report that weve reached an agreement on all of the tax the tax issues. Reporter first and foremost, the bush era tax cuts. Ohe two sides agreed to extend them permanently for all Household Income under 400,000 a year for individuals, 450,000 foear for families. Egotiators also agreed to prevent the alternative minimum tax on the wealthy from hitting and...

Axelrod good evening. Scotts off tonight. Im jim axelrod and this is our western edition. Were getting our first look at just what kind of boost Holiday Shopping provided to the u. S. Economy and it is not the kind of picture retailers were hoping to see. According to Mastercard Spendingpulse Retail Shopping was up 2. 3 this holiday season. Keep in mind, these are just the initial numbers, but the National Retail federation had projected a bigger 3. 9 increase in Holiday Shopping. So if this fir...

Then the real thing actually smashes into russia and it doesnt only smash into russia. It smashes as the biggest fall in 100 years and that last one in tunguska in 1908 was only 3,000 miles from this one. Thats the longest astronomical hole in one you can possibly imagine. The video was incredible. Reporter incredible. I want to ask you, like, how often does this sort of thing happen asteroids and meteorites . How often do they come this close to earth . Reporter welsh the one that happened this...