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Susie a parade of Business Leaders in washington today to persuade president obama and congress to avoid the fiscal cliff. With just 33 days left to nail down a deal, c. E. O. S made the rounds to explain to lawmakers that because of cliff gridlock, theyre holding back on hiring and spending. As darren gersh reports, c. E. O. S werent the only ones campaigning hard today. Reporter the president and republicans focused today on staging events designed to pressure the other side. The president cal...

The negotiations to avoid huge tax increases and spending cuts at a stalemate. The race to solve the fiscal cliff triggered another round of dramatic sound bites from republicans and president obama. Darren gersh has the latest. Reporter the president is still pushing to wrap up a deal on the fiscal cliff before christmas and just in case anyone missed that point, he visited a toy factory to urge congress to avoid raising taxes on the middle class. Thats sort of like the lump of coal you get for...

Tom im tom hudson. Businesses arent waiting for a deal, theyre rewarding shareholds with special dividends ahead of higher taxes in 2013. Susie investors sour on yum brands, after the parent of k. F. C. And pizza hut says sales are slowing in china. Tom that and more tonight on n. B. R. Susie the fiscal cliff talks are going nowhere. Thats the word from john boehner today. The House Speaker characterized the negotiations to avoid huge tax increases and spending cuts at a stalemate. The race to s...

Depot employee. Ktvus jade hernandez is live outside the store to tell us what led up to the gunfire. Jade . Reporter it appears that a thief was trying to get away with tools and it happened right here at this home depot this afternoon. Look at this video. Police say this happened around 12 30 p. M. At home depot. Two Security Officers tried to take the man into custody. Police say the thief pulled out a gun and shot wan of the officers in the arm one of the officers on the arm. The shooter ran...

Antigay comments. About ten years can ago garrison hurst made comments about sharing a locker room with gay players. He, too, apologized as did the 49ers. And earlier this week it became known former 49ers lineman harris is gay. He was arrested for allegedly beating up an exboyfriend. They claim harris and hurst were on the 49ers roster together in 2003. Tonight harris released a statement exclusively to nbc bay area. It reads, its surprising that in 2013 Chris Culliver would use his 15 minutes ...

Everybody all set up . Obviously im grateful to have my fellow president s here as well as the Vice President. Before i begin, i want to say a few words about the situation in syria. As you have seen, today we released our unclassified assessment detailing with high confidence that the Syrian Regime carried out a chemical weapons attack that killed well over a thousand people, including hundreds of children. This follows horrific images that shocked us all. This kind of attack is a challenge to ...

We will get to storm march coverage with jacqui jeras. Where is the snow . It already moved through here. It went through hagerstown and martinsburg and they got a good testing. One or two inches in the panhandle of west virginia. The system fizzled around a d. C. , so we came up with a lot of nothing. Weak clippers sometimes fizzle as they move over the mountains. We do have another one waiting in the wings, so we expect another light snow showers or riflerys late tonight. Most of that will sta...

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The president agreed to cut the spending by a significant amount. Now, would you like that negotiation had resulted from not having made that threat . Absolutely. But do you think it would have occurred . Theres the difference. I would never be one to advocate that congress should not increase the debt limit. They should. When this came up in the summer of 2011 i wrote that and they put that in the pages of the initial review. I was arguing against those who say lets look and creating a cash cru...

Michael buying that blue tote and the other is the sex video. The judge is bringing them into the courtroom to review the video. Up to this point we havent heard a peep out of the jury. Now jurors have a mountain of evidence to review including hundreds of text messages, and phone calls and trying to lay out the timeline. Most of the states case is circumstantial and lacks that key piece of evidence. That is the defense main point in this case. The state contends that sex tape depict phylicia, h...