that's too bad. 28 minutes before the top of the hour. pessimism for patriotism? a school principal who required students get signed permission slips from their parents to say pledge of allegiance is now backing down on that idea. >> at the devotion school in brookline, massachusetts, allowing its students to cite the pledge of allegiance without a permission slip. the school's principal says the permission slips were meant to facilitate conversation between parents and their students and it's history, ok. start talking. >> they talked a lot about it and now they don't. meanwhile, on this day before christmas eve, let's take a look because we know a lot of people are traveling today. it's temporarily stopped raining a bit which is thankful news. as you can see, some widely scattered snow flurries in portions of the northeast and in