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Tonight. T the last minute panic begin of the president obama is set to fly back to washington in the next few urs to tr to scrape out a fiscal cliff deal but hope is fading fast. If that werent bad enough, the treasury now says the u. S. Will hit the debt ceiling on new years eve. Will this be a gamechanger for reaching a deal . Plus as if the fiscal cliff wasnt bad enough, now critical ports across the u. S. Could be brought to a standstill starting this weekend. Well explain how a looming uni...

Tonight. Let the last minute panic begin of the president obama is set to fly back to washington in the next few hours to try to scrape out a fiscal cliff deal but hope is fading fast. If that werent bad enough, the treasury now says the u. S. Will hit the debt ceiling on new years eve. Will this be a gamechanger for reaching a deal . Plus as if the fiscal cliff wasnt bad enough, now critical ports across the u. S. Could be brought to a standstill starting this weekend. Well explain how a loomin...

House with congressional leaders to try to prevent the fiscal cliff from happening. But with just four days left until everybodys taxes go up, theres not a lot of optimism that it can be cone in time. Jonathan karl, abc news, new york. Tributes are pouring in for retired general norman schwartzcopf. The general, nicknamed Stormin Norman, died yesterday in tampa from pneumonia. He commanded a coalition of some 30 countries that drove iraqi forces from kuwait back in 1991. In retirement, he suppor...

Video. Look at this. The incredible moments three people were pulled from icy waters. How did they end up trapped in the first place . Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. John berman, he has the morning off. It is wednesday, february 18th. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. Breaking overnight, isis fighters launching a major attack in iraq near the kurdish city of erbil. Kurdish Officials Say peshmerga troops have succeeded in pushing isis forces back far enough to let airstrik...

Video before attacking a free speech event. Jenna amy kellogg in denmark but we begin with conor powell on new strikes against isis in libya. Talk to us about these strikes. Were these airstrikes a surprise to those in libya . Reporter airstrikes according to libyan and egyptian officials were coordinated between two countries. Not only coordinated but libyan officials said they were welcome. They had been requesting help and working with egyptians to help battle isis. Now the airstrikes were fo...

Generating controversy and huge demand. Some people are so outraged they need to see it again and again. Hey there everyone. High noon here in the east. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Police are investigating a shooting in copenhagen attended by a controversial artist. What do we know . Alex we dont know a lot officially. The danish or Copenhagen Police are not releasing a lot of information at this point. One civilian has been reported kills. Nbc news hasnt independently verified that. One...

Im christine romans. John has the morning off. It is wednesday, february 18th. Its 4 00 a. M. In the east. Overnight, isis fighters launching a major attack near erbil. Kurdish Officials Say peshmerga troops have succeeded in pushing isis forces back far enough to let airstrikes begin. I want to bring in cnns tim lister joining us from erbil for the very latest. And isis forces for some weeks now, have really been probing those lines, but the peshmerga have been able to hold them back. Tell us w...

This is our western edition. Were beginning with an ending and were doing this to give you a better idea of whats been lost. There was a car wreck in manhattan last night nothing remarkable, except the one person killed was bob simon. Simon was in his 19th season on 60 minutes, and before that, hed spent nearly 30 years on this program. He was among the most courageous and gifted reporters of our time, and he reminded us just how Good Journalism can be. Reporter im from the bronx. And in fact, i...

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