Jack klugman has passed away. He is best known for playing the odd couple. Chuck pagano returned to his team as he continues to battle leukemia. I asked bruce to take over. You had to win nine games . All that matters. First Lady Michelle obama answers calls on the santa tracking program. On the third day of christmas my true love gave to me. That stupid hat. Merry christmas and welcome to Merry Christmas, welcome to cbs this morning. Merry christmas to you and you. Our first christmas together. Our first christmas together. Yeah. Great place to be. Looking forward to a healthy and happy new year as well. So am i. Santa was good to you . Well, im going to see when i get home. He wasnt there when i left. Since we get here so early, ill check in when i get home. Exactly. All right. Before we get started though, lets go to Rebecca Jarvis for a quick check of the headlines. Thanks im Rebecca Jarvis. From the midwest to the southeast, millions of americans are bracing for a Christmas Day st
And welfare programs. The dreaded fiscal cliff can potentially affect a wide range of health programs. Cbs news Wyatt Andrews explains. Reporter professor mallen like hundreds of medical researchers has already fallen off the fiscal cliff. Her budget which relies on federal grants is being cut by 10 now. As the nih, the National Institutes of health, prepares for the possibility of budget cuts later. Its as much bigger than just my lab. Its affecting allacademic labs across the country. Reporter mallen understands the nih decision but calls it a setback. My lab will have to shut down Research Projects that we know would could have profound impacts on curing human disease. We may have to get rid of some staff members. Reporter the nih tells us because of uncertainty in the budget awards at 90 of what was perhapsed to researchers promised to researchers will be the standard at least for now and the threat of the cut raised alarms. Some of the cuts reporter at Johns Hopkins the doctor is
Demonstrations in recent weeks. They say the document favors islamists and doesnt do enough to protect minorities. The United States has urged president morsi to build trust across egypts political divides. Given the Muslim Brotherhoods domination of the political scene, i asked our correspondent whether there are fears jipt may become a oneparty state. That is what some of the people in the opposition are saying. It is not what other people in terms of the Muslim Brotherhood are saying and also what a number of egyptians who dont particularly sornte with one associate with one side or the more. What i think we are looking at is a very deeply split egypt and one that is about to launch into a parliamentary election campaign. Now the opposition faces an uphill struggle. It has not been terribly unified. It has to manage to unify itself more over the problems that broke out with this referendum. The question is whether they can sustain that unity for the Muslim Brotherhood and for presid
Arkansas and into the midwest. Within those warning areas, blizzard conditions are expected over the next 24 hours or so. Reporter tomorrow, there could be up to a foot of snow in many parts of new england. Edward lawrence for cbs news, washington. Airlines have already canceled 5,000 flights this week because of the weather. Even more cancellations are expected over the next couple of days. There are already significant delays this morning at indianapolis and dayton, ohio. The nations airports are expected to be busy once again today as people start heading home after their christmas gatherings. Its wise to check your Airline First to check flight status. Heavy rain meant worries for people on the peninsula preparing for more flooding along the san fransesquito creek. Crews from the city and california conservation corps spent a lot of christmas stacking sandbags on the levee to keep the creek out of gardens neighborhood. Theres already been some flooding from ver buena verbena drive
Doing a story. The Governors Office said they will notify the 79 who were pardoned in the next week or so. We reached one of the former inmates paroled right here in the bay area. He had not heard the news yet. He said he was grateful to hear the news on Christmas Eve and looks forward to spending the evening with his family. It may be Christmas Eve but the fiscal cliff is not far from the minds of lawmakers. The president and Congress Left washington on friday for the holidays with a promise to return later this week. There is only a week left to avoid tax hikes and spending cuts that will impact almost every american. Tonight it appears Democrat Senate leader harry reid may take the lead in crafting a comp mice to prevent tax hikes on at least the middle class. The president was in hawaii for the funeral of senator daniel minoli. One of the president s last acts before leaving washington caught some holiday travelers offguard today. Grace lee on how an unexpected federal holiday scut