gregg. leland vittert reporting live from jerusalem. thank you. the house just back in session as senator jon kyl says there may be progress on the senate side. the latest on the budget battle on capitol hill. gregg: and the price of milk, will it go over the cliff? we ll he will an update for you. a concussion delayed the secretary of state s testimony on benghazi. that minor health care taking a serious turn as hillary clinton is spending new year s eve in the hospital. blood clots are very common post-concussion. individuals with high stress that fly a lot, have immobility, sometimes weight is factor because it raise blood pressure and post-menopausal women can be most at risk for blood clots. are you flo? yes. is this the thing you gave my husband? well, yeah, yes. the name your price tool.
afghanistan military and their security services to be able to keep that country under control, to keep out the taliban and keep out al-qaeda considering how many sympathize sympathizers to those groups are currently inside the afghan security services and, clearly, already attacking members of the united states military. heather? heather: it is a concern. leland vittert reporting live for us from jerusalem. thank you. gregg: youing concerns that our growing concerns that our struggling u.s. economy could get another delaware stating blow sometime devastating blow sometime soon not from the fiscal cliff, but from a union strike that could shut down major ports from coast to coast. should the white house step in? we re going to be talking smoot holly in a second. heather: former president george h.w. bush has been hospitalized for more than a month. what doctors are now saying about the former president s health. gregg: and from twilight twists to secret e-mails to the cia, a
system has intercepted many of the incoming rounds but the protection is far from absolute. hamas says that israel opened the gates of hell with their attacks but the strike may have crippled the main trump card. rockets that can fly from here on the gaza strip up to tel aviv. tonight, the sound of f-16 fighter jets in the air as they continue to bomb gaza. it s 1:30 in the morning now. in 12 hours, hamas will bury their dead and we ll know if they decide to call at it day or the salvos are the opening of another war. chris? chris: leland vittert reporting from the israel-gaza border. thanks for that. israel s defense minister says syrian rebels control nearly all villages near the boarder with the golan heights. rebels along the boarder with turkey are being bombarded by the government aircraft and artillery.
any indication how big this thing was? the only thing we heard it was a significant military-like dronl. one of the problems you saw the video. hard to see a her tech tiff how big it is. when the missile hit it blew the drone up. the israeli military spent a long time collecting parts from the desert from the drone blown up in midair. it has them back in a lab putting them together. the israeli military is not excited at least right now to let the press see what they have on this drone. i m sure that is the case. leland vittert reporting live from jerusalem. thank you. jenna: a shocking announcement about a name we haven t heard a lot about recently, joran van der sloot. what the convicted murderer has been doing in peruvian prison. more fallout from the president s widely panned performance in the first debate. journalists and pundits are asking whether the president
right now, all of them, are putting their lives on the line because in the past the syrian government used snipers against them, big police roundups against these kind of protests but this is something that really gets under the skin of the assad government there in damascus. the question is going to be, are you going to return to the kind of crackdowns and begin the cycle of violence we had starting six months ago, or is president assad going to continue to hold back? this does not take a lot of time to get out of control. remember, a number about opposition groups, including people demonstrating right now say they re not going to leave streets, they re not going to stop until president assad leaves office. back to you. heather: thank you very much. leland vittert reporting live for us from jerusalem. thank you. gregg: president obama heavily pitching his buffett rule tax plan. critics say the rule is about redistributing wealth and will not make even a dent in the debt. the president