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Measure. But as many as 800,000 federal workers will be furloughed without pay. Thats right. We have it all covered this morning, the politics of it and the Economic Impact beginning with nbcs kelly odonnell. She is on capitol hill. Kelly, how did it all go down . Matt, what a night. Congress will be back to work today to try to fix this mess but aids in both parties, sources high up, say right now they think this could go on for days, maybe even weeks. And thats because that prediction is becau...

Reporting, trying to find the facts and the truth. Calling out hypocrisy. Tonight we are one day closer to the fiscal cliff and not one iota closer to a deal to avoid it. Now, on january 1st, four weeks from today, automatic tax hikes and spending cuts kick in with 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 resul...

Starbucks will wipe out your entire allowance for a day. Suffering caffeine withdrawal and hunger pains, he joins me. Plus tragedy after the prank call to Kate Middleton. Battleground america. Im encouraged that i think we have turned the corner. Good new job numbers but same old ways in washington. Is it too late to save you from paying higher taxes . Ill ask my allstar panel. And shes a fine girl. My old friend brandi back in the spotlight and speaking from the heart about her mentor, whitney ...

And theres no plan to keep us from going over the fiscal cliff. Broken record, broken record. Im Christine Romans in today for john berman. And im zoraida sambolin. Up first, president obama standing his ground over the fight in the fiscal cliff. Americans face crushing tax hikes and severe spending cuts in 27 days if democrats and republicans cannot come together on a deal. By the way, congress breaks for the holidays in ten days. Slash that number. In an interview with bloomberg news, the pres...

Hightech planes. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. With just 27 days to go until all of us are hit with tax increases, takes it across the board a cut of 55 billion. People have it in their power to avoid the socalled fiscal cliff arent negotiating, theyre not debating right now, so many of them simply leaving town. But theres more going on than meets the eye. Lets bring in our senior Congressional Correspondent dana basch, she has the latest. Reporter theres so much political theate...

Be escalating the civil war. There are new concerns the assad regime is preparing to use chemical weapons. Lets get to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Barbara, how does this change the u. S. Militarys syria plan . Are we talking u. S. Troops, boots on the ground . Well, not at this point, clearly, deb. But what we do know is that u. S. Officials tell us that they are updating some of the military options for action against syrias chemical weapons capability, why are they doing this . O...

Specific thing, how unusual was this scene . Across america from mainstreet to the smoky mountains, the Government Shutdown misery index is growing, but some iconic sites may be open for business soon. And the most and least affordable places in america to buy a house. Hello, everyone. Its high noon here in the east, 9 00 a. M. Out west. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. A rare saturday session for the house and senate as lawmakers try to reopen the government and raise the debt cerealing to a...

Times. Just 11 minutes right now on the east side from 95 all the way up to 83. The outer loop will remain clear over on the west side of the beltway. Youre looking at just 11 minute trip traveling from 795 down to 95. And no concerns this morning traveling through the fort mchenry tunnel. Its going to take you just eight minutes northbound from the beltway all the way to the toll plaza. Thats a look at your abc2 timesaver traffic. Megan and charlie, over to you. Hes only 59 years old and alread...

Hes a well known jihadist who was released from prison after the downfall of former president Hosni Mubaraks regime. Diotti i york. What do we know about the arrest of the aleng ledged terrorist suspect . He was picked up a couple weeks ago in ejimegyegypt. Joous authorities suspect he may have been involved in the consulate attack in benghazi on september 11th that killed Chris Stephens and three other americans with direct knowledge of the investigation. The u. S. Source tells me the fbi which...

Tuesday and avoided on the nonc spending. That will be restored. Were going to see 23 billion reduction in the deficit over 20 years. If you add those up the money has to come from somewhere. People who fly will see an increase in ticketing fees. It appears we are having problems with libby caseys live shot coming out of the nations capitol. Well try to reestablish that live shot for you and talk to libby on the back end. A stunner coming in from the federal reserve. Ben bernanke and the other p...