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Heather: plus, one story thats really for the birds. [laughter] an 80-year-old woman possibly facing jail time, is this possible, for bringing her bag of crackers to the local park. rick: no. heather: yes. while a town is crying foul. rick: also steal ago kiss under the mistletoe is harder to do this year. well tell you why, dont go away. just one phillips colon health probiotic cap a day helps defends against occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas and bloating. with the strains of good bacteria...

Doing for 45 years, feeding the ducks. she is facing a hefty fine for helping her fine feather friends. more on the bird dade leave. how is this possible. >> reporter: i know youre from north carolina. massachusetts calls it the city of sin. whatever you do, heather do not feed the ducks, as this grandmother is finding out. >> i know they know me, and they know that i love them, and im trying to take care of them. >> reporter: to this woman ducks are one of glad opens most endearing creatures. y...

Heather: they say that is not their policy. i think they should rethink that policy. new reports of airlines cutting back on flights during one of the busiest travel days of the year. bad weather isnt making it any easier at denver international airport today. take a look at this. travel experts, they say that holiday travelers should expect packed planes. great. we have the senior editor for orbitz.com and she joins us now on the phone with more. thanks for joining us. are you there? >> im here...

Before social media existed, even before the internet and these military members that are overseas have no way to stay in such close contact with their families. specifically your experience, what does something like this mean to you? >> this is incredible. i served from 1998 through 2003, and being away from home for the holidays was rile, really challenging. we didnt have social media at the time. we really relied being able to get on email periodically or once on every few mosque able to get ...

Lieutenants. heather: so, bob, what is he doing? what is his strategy behind this? why is it not moving forward? >> well, his conference does not agree. i mean, a week ago there was a lot of speculation that john boehner agreed to the senate deal. now, he has adamantly said that is not the case, but in a conference call with his house republicans, one member of congress told me that boehner said you have to pick your fights suggesting he did support the senate deal. and then the republicans said...

8.54 cents8.54 cents. heather: thank you. rick: with the iowa caucus less than two weeks ahead. there is a candidate that could make history, ron paul placing second in the rasmussen poll of iowa caucus goers. 20% saying they would prefer him to him. the editor of the national review writing a column saying if paul does win in iowa the hawk-eye state should never be taken seriously again when it comes to their caucuses. rich lowry is editor of the column. never be taken seriously? >> yes. hes a ...

Tehran peaked. did we miss an opportunity? can sanctions work alone, and what does it mean to you when you hear, um, defense secretary leon panetta say all options on the table? >> well, all options on the table if we can use those options. well, there are some options that we had not just on the table, in the battlefields, and we wasted the opportunity. you just mentioned it. june of 2009, 1.5 million iranians -- these are not american or europeans or arabs, these are iranians -- were marching ...

Tell us that the speaker asked the president to send his economic team to the hill to negotiate this full-year request. he says, boehners office, that the president declined the offer. but then we hear from the president, and he seems to be saying the exact opposite. >> yes. i mean, youre getting different takes on that phone call. they also talked yesterday. but theyre talking past one another. they dont agree. they have their own positions. speaker boehners saying, listen, the president agrees...

Massachusetts is 95% coverage. heather: i dont think that we can argue though that it will go up. dr. london ill stay with you. talk to me a little bit more about the second point that we made. on october 14th the department of health and human services completed this lee view of th review of the class act, and it was thrown ou out. >> it was doomed from the start. senator kennedy had passed away and it was really his baby. we had senator dodd in his place putting it in thinking he didnt have th...

I think the plan inspired by senator kennedy as she says, hes kind of the inspiration behind all of obamacare. the problem with obamacare is this huge behemoth that wasnt thought out in each of the particulars. class is supposed to help people when they get very sick, long-term care. it wasnt thought out in advance. that is the problem with the bill in general. of course it doesnt work. many, many parts of obamacare are going to fall away in just the same fashion. heather: thank you for joining ...