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Face-to-face negotiations on sunday. as the clock ticks down it appears some republicans may be softening their stance. nbcs brian moore has the very latest on this story. >> reporter: president obama and house speaker john boehner were behind closed doors trying to break the tax and spending stalemate that threatens to take the country over the fiscal cliff in just over three weeks. meanwhile, one by one republicans are bowing to the presidents demand that takes go up for the wealthy. >> will i...

Cards and that way we can live to cut another day and cutting spending. >> heres bob corker the republican from tennessee. >> a lot of people are putting forth a theory and i actually think it has merit. where you go ahead and give the president the 2% increase that hes talking about. the rate increase on the top 2%. and all of a sudden the shift goes back to entitlements. >> and so corker went on to say, the debt is growing, congress is going to have to vote early next year. perhaps in february...

Jump over the cliff together or fall back. whatever it might be, lets join hands. >> well, id like to see a little more working across the aisle, but right now were a little hobbled. were dealing with a lame duck as a representative which i believe is much worse than the one were gung to see coming in. theres 10 or 11 of the radical tea party types who arent coming back and i think speaker boehner has been trying to move a little bit back more toward a moderate position. the question is if you w...

Decision. it is a decision that we believe fully comports with existing constitutional law. >> the court made the point that we still have the right to present nativity scenes on private property. the court should tell the secular people, the atheists, that they can take their free speech and move it to private property too. >> reporter: the christian group, jon, is promising an appeal. back to you. jon: and the battle goes on. rick folbaum, thanks. jenna: as the clock ticks toward the so-called...

Construction. the environmental lobbying groups are saying well, that keystone pipeline, if it is developed it will undo the auto fuel efficiency standards in terms of pollution from the oil that it will basically transport. expected 900,000 barrels a day from the keystone pipeline. so this fight is now being waged in washington, d.c. on different fronts. youre also seeing the epa with emission standards and still talk after carbon tax as well, jenna. so well be watching this one closely. the oi...

Recovering from the first direct hit by the eye of the hurricane since gilbert back in 1988. authorities closed the international airports. police ordered 48-hour curfews in major towns to keep people off the streets and to deter looting. at least two people have died. an elderly man in jamaica whose home was crushed by a boulder. and a woman in hereby haiti. in other news this morning, security forces in egypt have killed a man believed to be involved in the deadly september 11th attack on th...

Pressure will be on. >>trace: and the clock ticks. some republican lawmakers are not too thrilled the way this is handles. >>reporter: that is right. the administration has told the defense contractors if they get sued for not sending outlay off notices, the government will pick up the tab. senator graham said this is typical president obama politics, being supportive of the warren act when convenient and against it when it creates political downside. this is the most outcome based white house i...

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>> for 20 tense minutes, police keep their distance, waiting for the bomb squad to arrive. in obvious distress, wells pleads with police as the clock ticks. >> why is no one trying to come get this thing off me? >> he seemed to be having a conversation with the police. just very, very eerie stuff. media crews are warned to move back. >> state police are urging us to move from our location because, if this bomb goes off and theres shrapnel, we could get hit. but i think were safe. >> just a few m...

I heard the thing ticking when he did it. its going to go off. >> for 20 tense minutes, police keep their distance, waiting for the bomb squad to arrive. in obvious distress, wells pleads with police as the clock ticks. >> why is no one trying to come get this thing off me? >> he seemed to be having a conversation with the police. just very, very eerie stuff. media crews are warned to move back. >> state police are urging us to move from our location because, if this bomb goes off and theres shr...