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My mom, bless her heart, would pack in the lunch box container twinkies. I remember that vividly. I also remember vividly my open heart surgery several years later. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. Im charlie rose in new york. Norah odonnell is in washington. The United States is stepping in to try to prevent a wider war between israel and hamas. Thats right. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton is now on her way to the middle east this morning to meet with leaders from both sides. Bill plante is in cambodia the last stop in president obamas asian tour, where the white housemaid that surprise announcement just this morning. Reporter good morning. The president has spent much of his time on this trip on the phone with mideast leaders, looking for a way to end the rocket fire and to avoid an Israeli Ground offensive. Now, after Early Morning calls today to the leaders of israel and egypt, he has deepened u. S. Involvement, sending secretary of state clinton to the region. The goal throughout that trip is for everybody to use their influence and their voices to encourage a peaceful outcome. Our bottom line is that peace has to include an end of rocket fire that threatens israel. Reporter clinton will first go to israel to meet with Prime Minister netanyahu and then to pals esestine but will not meet with hamas. Very aware of the increasing pressure from congress to cut the more than 1 billion in military aid which the u. S. Gives to egypt if they dont cooperate. Clintons message, an escalation of the violence will hurt everyone israeli and palestinians. Calm is in everyones best interest. For sbscbs this morning, bill plante in phnom penh. The Obama Administration is warning against making any ground attacks. Air attacks continue at this hour. Allan pizzey is in tel aviv. Good morning. Reporter good morning. There are sign that is both sides of the conflict are looking for a way out. Neither seems willing to make the first concessions on the ground. The iz ralsraelis carried out more than 100 air strikes in gaza overnight and the death toll has now topped 100. More than half the victims have been civilians. Among them 27 children. This distraught man lost his wife and four children when his house was hit. Some targeting mistakes may have been made to point out they are retaliating for indiscriminate rocket fire. Barrage tapered off significantly. Some managed to slam into the town of beer sheva. Parked vehicles were destroyed but there were no casualties. Israeli troops paused along the border went about the vigil ongoing diplomacy is on the side of restraint. A deal would have to allow both sides to claim some sort of victory. From an israeli point of view that means, first and foremost an end to rocket attacks. Hamas wants an end to targeted killing of its leaders. Residents of towns which have been hit from rockets of gaza on an almost daily basis translator for all to remain quiet. If they return after three months again, then what truce can we have . Reporter israelis are especially concerned that the main broker for any peace deal will be egypt, first arab country to sign a peace treaty with the jewish state now has alliance with hamas. Clarissa ward is following the peace talks. Any progress to report . Reporter good morning, norah and charlie. Cbs news has spoken to those very close to the hamas delegation here in cairo. They told us they are nearing an agreement, that that agreement might actually take place within the next few hours. He said that the cease fire will be implemented in two parts but he didnt get any details to exactly what the cease fire will look like and as to which of hamas demands, if any, that the israelis will agree to. Thats very significant. I know clarissa you had a chance to question the leader of hamas yesterday. Lets play that tape. Cbs news in america, please. Does hamas want peace with israel . Reporter god willing the American People will wake up he said and realize its better to stand with 350 million americans than continue to support israel. Quite an answer clarissa. I have to ask you, what was it like being a female american journalist in that room and what about his response . Reporter well it was certainly intimidating norah. I was the only american in the room and, as you can see, had to shout to be heard. His aides pointed at me and said you are a hunter. So i would take that as a compliment, but make no mistake, it is not the palestinians responsibility, he said, to instigate peace but israel as the aggressor to take the first step. Great original reporting. Clarissa ward thank you very much. When the president returns to washington, he will have to focus on the economy and the looming fiscal cliff. Wall street is already focused on those talks. Ce ceo of goldman sachs, Lloyd Blankfein said that a budget deal would be a challenge to average americans. Were going to have to undoubtedly do something to lower peoples expectations, the entitlements and what people think they are going to get, because theyre not going to get it. Social Security Medicare medicaid . You could go back and look at the history of these things. Social security wasnt devised to be a system that supported you for a 30year retirement after a 25year career. There will be things that the retirement age has to be changed, maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised but in general entitlements have to be slowed down and contained. Because we cant afford them Going Forward . Because we cant afford them. With us now, National JournalWhite House Correspondent major garrett. Good morning. Congratulations as well. Welcome to cbs. Thank you. Let me ask you, theres some indication of some progress on this. What progress have they made . First of all, they are talking and exploring ideas. Right now this week on capitol hill its sort of like you would prepare for thanksgiving meal. Staff on the finance Committee Budget committee on the house ways and means are preparing the recipe, the numbers behind them things you can tax, how they add up in various different ways to put together a deal. The data will all be the same for everyone to look at once the lawmakers, Decision Makers reengage after the thanksgiving holiday. Everyone is in the kitchen, looking at their recipes but we have to wait for the cooks to see what the meal will look like. Thats an interesting metaphor, because a lot of people can get recipes but a lot of people cant cook very well. What ends up in this final meal if you will in the fiscal cliff . How are they going to do . . I hear they will do it in two stages. The middle class tax cuts under the bush code passed in 2001. No tax increase there. Thats the politically popular thing to do. Then you take that and maybe throw in a debt ceiling there. You have the other issues. Defense spending cuts domestic discretionary cuts tax reform entitlement reforms and put that off until later next year. The idea of having a bridge over the cliff to something thats a bigger resolution. Thats one way of doing it. I will tell you this youll never get more attentiveness, more public hisysteria than in december and never get a time where there will be more ability than cut a deal and have everyone celebrate the fact that we didnt have to go over the cliff. If youre a politician who wants to generate a sense of unease and capitalize on it now is the time to cut the deal. One other thing is every other Interest Group in this town, if you wait six months, will have six months to pick that deal apart. Yep. If you do a big deal now, you can do it now before they can mobilize against you. Thats another political incentive to act now and bigger now than later. Major, are there different mindsets today than there were in previous times that they had a debt ceiling negotiation, more inclined to want to make concession, more inclined to want to reach out to the other side and reach out to business and labor leaders . Look, business has been contacting the president. Rahm emanual, mayor of chicago, former chief of staff, has been very helpful. Deal with the white house on this to improve those sort of torn relationships from the first term. Labor and progressives are ten telling the president you dont have to go down the lloyd blankfe. Ns entitlements. You can do this another way. However, the president s polling for a moderate Democrat Group came out with polling numbers this morning that the majority of the president s coalition is open to the concept, at least theoretically, of entitlement reforms, make them less generous. That polling data from his own pollster saying there might be a path there. What its going to require is what its always required people willing to take tough votes, look at each other and trust each other. Maybe there will be a spirit of giving on both sides this holiday season. Well see. Major garrett, thank you so much. Charlie . Who edited the talking points given to the United Nations ambassador susan rice before she spoke about the attack that killed the ambassador to libya . Margaret brennan has the details in washington. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you, charlie. Specific references of al qaeda and terrorism were cut by the director of National Intelligence the agreement of the cia and the fbi. The white house and state department did not make those changes. Rice used the talking points in tv appearances shortly after the attack and republicans accused her of making misleading statement business referring to the assault as a spontaneous demonstration by extremists, suggesting she did it for political reasons. The intelligence source says that the links to al qaeda were deemed too tenuous to make public. However, cia director David Petraeus told congress he had agreed to release that information in early draft. It was passed along to dni. Then the fbi, which made more. Head of dni is james clapford who did reopen the case but who suggested the final edit which were then signed off on again, by all intelligence agencies is not known. Charlie . New hope for some of americas most beloved snacks. Rebecca jarvis is here with that story. So the story is not over . Its not over. If you ran out and bought a 30 box of twinkies hopefully you didnt throw way the reseat. Hostess has been trying to liquidate. They start this had process in court yesterday. But then the judge came out and said why dont you try one last ditch effort to make a deal with the bakers union . This is the union that has been on strike since november 9th. The judge came out and said lets go behind closed doors and see if we can work something out so that hostess can continue to exist as the company it is today. What might that something look like . It will very likely if they come to any kind of concession they will very likely look similar to what was on the table leading into this. The bakers union was asked to take an 8 pay cut. In order to move forward as a company, hostess management is saying the only way that we can continue to exist and be financially viable is if your union takes some kind of cut in pay. So they more than likely will have to do something along those lines. The company has now said look, weve lost million of business for every day youve been on strike. We may not be able to continue to exist as the company we were and may have to shut some other plants. What do you say to the cynics that this company intended this result all along . Very likely. Theres a huge chance. Ive talked to a number of attorneys and say strategically speaking, that would be the right thing to do for hostess. Good to see you, thank you. Norah . The Pacific Northwest is getting a taste of extreme weather with two days till thanksgiving. One meteorologist calls the amount of rainfall there truly extraordinary. Reporter we are drying out in seattle for now. Heavy rain and high winds more than 100 miles an hour in some places. Rain was the big story, though. You have to go back more than two years to find a wetter day in seattle. Wild weather pummeled the Pacific Northwest on monday as 70mileperhour winds, heavy rain and downed trees knocked out power to thousands, already making this holiday week a travelers nightmare. This is horrible. Chuck jones works in a northwest Washington Office now surrounded by rushing water. All of a sudden you slam into a horrible lake in the road. Dangerous. Go slow. Stay home. Reporter further south a mudslide thrust a tree straight into a state troopers car, causing it and another vehicle to burst into flames. Miraculously, no one was hurt. Lot of wind. I hope it calms down. Reporter having to lend a hand in seaside, oregon. A fire crew clearing a fallen tree leading to major traffic delays. Hopefully well have our thanksgiving. Reporter a Property Owner in port orchard, washington. I understand when the weather is bad and theres a high tide this is going to happen. Im not sure what else to do. Reporter other local residents are bracing for more heavy weather, which could mean major flight delays for air travelers. Were just a couple of hours away from round two. Not expecting nearly as much rain today as we had yesterday. You can bet a lot of people are making alternate plans for thanksgiving with the threat of more flooding and power outages. For cbs this morning, im jeff dubois, seattle. Time to show you some of this mornings headlines from around the globe. Indianapolis star says officials now believe a deadly explosion was now intentional. No suspects have been named. Officials are looking for a white van that was seen in the neighborhood. L. A. Times reports four california men are being held in an alleged terror plot. Officials say the men arranged to join al qaeda and the taliban when they allegedly planned to use explosives to kill americans in afghanistan. Mcafee says he is still in belize but will not say where and denies he is mentally unstable. Police consider him a person of interest in the murder. Government health panel is recommending hiv testing for all americans age 15 to 65. An estimated 200,000 people in the u. S. Are infected with hiv and dont realize it. 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