Taxes. We dont have a lot of time. Secretary geithner is up on capitol hill to lead negotiations on the fiscal cliff talks. Youre not going to grow the economy if you raise taxes on the top two rates. Thats not the right approach. String of nasty storms barreling into the west coast. Powerful winds have started knocking out power. Just need to get to the other side of town. I dont have a choice. Picked a bad day to do it . Yeah. U. S. Embassy in cairo is closed. The entrance is blocked by protesters as clashes erupt nearby. Zebra and s hechlt tland pony ran wild through the streets of new york city. They apparently escaped from a petting zoo. Nypd says Actress Lindsay Lohan has been raefed and charged with assault. Three, two, one. Only nbc would make a Television Event out of plugging something in. All that oh, humphries and rondo get into it. Officials trying to get control here. Dont tell me what i think. When i said i didnt have a problem, i dont have a problem. Got it . And all that matters. President obama plans to play host to his old political rival, mitt romney. On cbs this morning. For lesss part of president afford to picko cut spending, invite someone to lunch who can actually afford to pick up the tab. You are probably waking up, wondering if you are a power ball multimillionaire. Theres good news and then theres bad news. Thats right. Good news, there were two Winning Tickets for that record 587 million jackpot. Re those ticketse dream lives on only if you live in missouri or anotherwhere those tickets were sold. Havet theres another drawing this saturday and well have re stillthe big jackpot in just a bit. T budget problems are still unresolved this morning and the same is true in washington. 33ats where we begin this morning. Fiscal cliff deadline, president obama sends his treasury secretary to capitol hill to negotiate with congre congressional leaders. Major garret is at the white house. Good morning. Charlie and norah, even as negotiations intensify, campaigning continues at the white house. President obama is adamant about protecting existing income tax rates for middle income earners and raising them on the wealthy. For the president the politics of this is very simple. He he ran on that issue and against republican obstructionism and won. If republicans dont relent on his issue, other fiscal cliff matters wont be discussed in the president s campaign to end the stalemate will continue. Election pond time since winning reelection, president obama welcomed the applause of handpicked supporters and wa his calls tolicans not to ignore is calls to protect middle class households. Its time for us to work on reportel agreed to, which is allow eep middle class tax cuts for tax cuts for households that earn more than 250,000 to in a expire. Increase. Complicity and tax rate theyease. Sted. Heyre not interested. Youre not going to grow the ou raiseif you raise tax rates on the top two rates. Smalll hurt small businesses. Econill hurt our economy. Approach. Y this is not the right r toach. Anythis impasse is one of many geithnerreasury secretary tim geithner, mr. Obamas lead with t negotiator, will have meetings e bowlesth top congressional thisrs. Othpson bowles met with all the ue. Yers at both ends of mnnsylvania avenue. Im not more optimistic or less optimistic. Puthopeful but dont put me e nearnywhere near the optimistic category. Tove got a long way to go and a likefew days to get it done. Lindsey graham from South Carolina have offered to break a revenueax increase pledge and ntise revenue as part of a deal but graham now is pulling back until the president offers ntitlement reform. A ive not seen one deal from country downouse that deal with medicare, medicaid and Social Security which are all going to fail and take this country down the road of grief. And until i hear something from the white house on that, im not going to say another thing on revenue. Mr. Obama will meet with his v vanquished republican rival, mitt romney. Its been several weeks, after all, since the Election Night when president obama vowed to ph. T with mitt romney. Ga major garret, thank you. John dickerson is with us. At , good morning. There is a lunch at the white ofse. Ossiblethe courtesy of it all, is it possible that something might come out of this like romney helpingy helping the president in some way . Some something could come out of it. White house officials ive alked to say theres no agenda. Ng todont want to prejudge what eovernor romney might be innedsted in. The president in his press conference said there were some confer good ideas that governor romney had. You could get a Little Something out of this. Wellt this in the category of a formality and well look how ugh their picture is, and if they get through their lunch. Look thes right. Cult, the fiscal cliff is the ng er difficult situation facing washington. And we just heard senator gndsey graham, a republican say the whiok, weve given a little bit. Ho now were waiting for the white ayed. To give a little bit on ectitlements is the game thats being played. What do whoa expect next . Well go back and forth. Key thing to keep an eye on, is this tax rates going up. Republicans, including lindsey graham, have talked about revenue. Taxhe said i dont ever want to see tax rates go up. Thats thats the key thing to watch. Ortedjor reported, the president is saying tax rates must go up. We only way youre going to buy ans to get tans to get tax rates to go up would be to show some ewhere whereon somewhere where democrats would feel some pain thethat would be in the entitlement area. Curity,sident doesnt want to ments Social Security and really republicansng to do something n ultimatws republicans to save ace in an ultimate deal where hey can say, look, this is what we got. We didnt just totally get rolled by the president. F front page of the wall street journal this morning suggests blet obama might be flexible on e topng those top rates, but goingnot going all the way back to clinton era rates, like 39 thataybe 37 or 38 . Compromise be a sign of compromise. Said, has always said the president has said rates must go up. Up, much they go up, whether its a combination of closing loopholes and getting rid of plustions plus raising the anys a little, he will take any mix. Dos very skeptical that you can do much most of the work has o be done by raising the rates. Intoou get that revenue into new deal. John, maybe they need a new definition of entitlement and tax rates and spending. Right. Well, thats one of the things, when you cant get the numbers to add up, you definitely go to the dictionary to make up some. Ew words. Let me turn to susan rice. Th this is what the president said yesterday. Susan rice is extraordinary. Donednt be prouder of the job she has done. , so what does that mean . The president is going to insist his nomination go forward if she akehis choice or he simply wants upmake sure nobody is beating . P on his u. N. Ambassador . This is the problem. Bain, we should probably go back to the dictionary. Shes not a nominee. Dictiona shes a nominee kind of in waiting. This is the problem the president cant defend her as a nominee for a job he hasnt hasnt nominated her for. This is kind of a loose shirttail out there. Shes going around the hill, talking to senators. Meetings arent going well. In n part because senators, if nothing else, are reserving their leverage for if she actually does become the t onnee, theyll have a process, hearings. They dont want to prejudge that process. Pr pro process hasnt begun. So the president has to say these limited things. When he says only a limited thing about her success at the u. N. , he is not defending her on t theuestion thats before him. I the white house is in a tricky spot here. Of course, then hanging overall of this is republicans anger hey are note still not getting the questions answered on enghazi and feel that the onesrs theyre getting are as s whatal as the original ones in the heard. You. s whats upsetting them in the first place. John dickerson, thank you. Losttewart stevenson, getting a lot of attention in washington mois morning. Well talk to him about that and where he thinks the campaign went wrong. As we mentioned earlier, there are two Winning Tickets in the second biggest lottery in history. Hey will share a 587 million jackpot. Power ball officials confirmed vernight that tickets sold in arizona and missouri had all six numbers. 5, 16, 22, 23, 29 and the powerball, 6. Anna werner is at powerball headquarters in tallahassee, florida, where those numbers were drawn last night. Good morning. Reporter good morning, norah and charlie. One of those two Winning Tickets was sold in the kansas city, missouri area. The winner has yet to come forward. They have plenty of time to do so. 180 days, in fact. There are now two winning unidens for two unknown buyers. I hope you got those tickets. Tickets. It tookook at tonights numbers. In the end it took less than a minute to make lucky ticket alders millionaires. It is the number 6. Repornight the jackpot had town to more than 587 million. When its this high, you would be crazy not to. Youve got to play. Thats the winner. Wi 20 on the line. All in his powerball in history ntryplayers across the country dreaming big. I would probably buy a host of ferraris. More thanans purchased more than 280 million powerball tickets drathe drawing with 130,000 utekets sold every minute on alone. Day alone. Ew york led the way in sales, followed by florida and texas. I need 36 powerball tickets. Sorry about the qurs. Chances of winning were less than miniscule, just less than 175 million to one. You had a better chance of being rlected president or winning an aademy award than winning the lottery. Not everyone was willing to r ing to fr 2 for a ticket. I just got off work now. Im just like, i all the money i need. You never know. However long it is couple of days, couple of hours thinking just what if . Reporter as we said one of those two Winning Tickets was sold in the kansas, missouri, area. It could be one person or a group of people who would have to share n this jackpot, theres plenty to go around. So, anna, when will we learn more about who those winners are . Reporter it could take some time to determine the identities of the winners here. They actually have 180 days to go ahead and turn their ticket in. Donteyve been known to do that, to get all their inangements in order ahead of thee. Back to you. You. Ts a little unclear. F do know that arizona will hold a News Conference later today to talk about at least the location of where that winning icket was sold and in missouri we dont have a lot of cart information yet. But i imagine well hear omething in the coming couple evadays. Anna westerner, thank you. Rainest is bracing for another er td of torrential rain today. It is the second of three storms his week that could cause ld turn over widespread area. Concerninns is in auburn, krz, near the sierra, nevada mountains. Good morning. God morning, norah. There is a lull in the rain. This area could look completely ifferent. Rmsvy downpours could turn roads into rivers very quickly, toga, cali to california bigdents up and down the coast. Experts say the rain that fell thealifornia on wednesday is just a small taste of whats to dome. Ext first in a triple threat of ftorms thats already caused ower outages in saratoga, california, downing trees and reporter ng to a big rig accident in sacramento. A jet stream that starts near tory ineapple growing territory a the hawaiian islands. Some call it a rain train with a fina final and potentially devastating destination in the western u. S. It can cause a lot of damage. A warm sto warm storm that brings a lot of it. Er along with it. Tut on top of that, it could highernow to the higher elevations, but it will turn aroundand it will melt that snow right away and, in turn, that will turn into additional flooding. Ding. Porter previous pineapple pineappleorms brought as many s 14 of rain. M couldters say this system fould bring as much as 12 of ns n to the coastal mountains, increasing the threat of fldespread floods. Coneporter theres a big concern for People Living in last that were burned by last summers wildfires in northern rnlifornia. The ground in those areas can verye saturated with water very quickly. And can cause flooding and mudslides. Norah and charlie . Morsiter evans, thank you. Mohamed morsi will speak to the people of egypt today, grantedng why he granted elf almost ast absolute power as the Egyptian Assembly works on new constitution. Holly williams is in cairo this morning where demonstrators have blocked access to the united block embase. Reporter this is now a battle of wills between mohamed orsi, egypts first democratically elected president and his opponents. Tahrir square in central cairo, pres rotesters have accused the president of behaving like a areator are camped out. Onstrationlanning a demonstration there on saturday. There are fears that could spark spark mlent clashes after an lready tumultuous week. Address tmorsi will address the later later on today. So far he is showing no signs of backing do backing down from the expanded new powers he gave himself last week. Week. He says he needs those powers to guide guide egypt to a new constitution. The constitution is being drafted by an assembly dominated by president morsis islamist allies. Two more liberal members quit because they said their ideas eme constitugnored. He Supreme Constitutional Court says it will rule sunday whether or not to resolve the assembly. Remaining members are now rushing to finish the final draft of the constitution before that happens. Hollybs this morning, holly williams, cairo. Some ome now to show you some of the mornings headlines. Rts novembt journal reports cted to hauto sales are expected to hit a fouryear high. Hese figures are due out next stsk. Gest onalysts predict it to be the strongest month showing since 2008. David petraeus says, quote, i screwed up royally, according to the new york post. He spoke he wrote to an Old Army Buddy in heing the blame for the scandal aat forced him to resign and to he and his wife are not ready to end their 37year merriage. Los Angeles Times reports on millintic black hole in a h. Laxy 220 million light years hol earth. Average black hole takes up one s mass. A percent of the galaxys mass. This one takes up nearly 60 . Coolsa today says more parents are choosing cool names for their baby centers. Baby center. Com released a list ne this years top names. Number one name for boys, aiden for the eighth Straight Year and ophia for the third straight. Ear. Ava, lily and jack are now on the top ten list. J no charlie. Tenharlie is usually at the op. F New York Times says a indnessf an act of kindness is now an internet sensation that new ynew York City Police officer with a barefooted nightss man on a cold night two inks ago in times square. The officer brought the man a new pair of boots at a nearby store then knelt down to help the man put them on. The cell phone picture was taken by tourists from arizona, posted arizona. Ypds Facebook Page tuesday. 1. 6has been viewed more than 1. 6 times. N times. It has attracted more than li5,000 likes. What a story. What a great police officer. Lawrence deprimo, doing a wonderful thing for a homeless inn. Sense of compassion, one person for another leads to an makthat somehow makes everybody feels better about themselves and about each other. Very good story. And now to this story. You see a will the of unusual things here in new york, all right. Nora, a lot of clouds around the bay area this morning if you are heading out we have seen light scattered showers but things quiet now but thats likely going to change especially in the latter half of the day. Cloudy skies over the bay bridge as we speak. Hidef Doppler Radar being quiet so far for the most part just some light showers showing up in the north bay but that storm system still on approach. That will be moving in later today and tonight. We are expecting some heavy rain. Temperatures expected to be in the 60s today. Stormy weather continuing right through the weekend. This National Weather report sponsored by kay jewellers. Every kiss begins with kay. Announcer this National Weather report sponsored by kay jewelers. 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