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Authorities are bracing for thousands of angry protesters planning to challenge the law, which could have an impact in other union heavy states across the nation. Elaine quijano is at the State Capitol in lansing, michigan. Elaine, good morning. Reporter good morning. The protests here in Michigan First popped up last week and only expected to get bigger. In fact, so many teachers took personal leave to be here today that two School Districts in the Detroit Metro area were forced to cancel classes. Hey, hey, ho, ho, right to work has got to go reporter at michigan State Capitol, theyre planning to return today in record numbers. Protesters determined to defend one of the Biggest Union strongholds in the country. I think that will be historical if 10,000 people do show up. Reporter at issue michigans right to work legislation which would make it illegal to force workers to join unions or pay dues. Republican lawmakers pushed the measure through last week without any debate, sparking widespread outbreak. Right to work has got to go reporter even president obama weighed in at a detroit truck factory monday. These right to work dont have anything to do with economics. They have everything to do with politics. What theyre really talking about is giving you the right to work for less money. Reporter advocates insist the measure is about attracting jobs and in a recent poll, 54 of michigan voters said they generally support right to work laws. It will create competition within the unions and give Better Customer Service to the union brothers. Reporter but opponents call it a deceptive attempt to chip away at organized labor. Its not about more jobs, this legislation is trying to reduce the middle class even further. Reporter 23 other stits already have right to work laws, mostly in the south and west. Michigan is one of the most heavily unionized states, 17. 5 of workers are members. Similar battles have boiled over in indiana and wisconsin. Republican Governor Rick Snyder is a reluctant supporter of the legislation. Im not happy about being in this situation but given its here im going to do whats best for the citizens of michigan my customers. Reporter the republicans will take final action on the bill today. Governor rick snyder pledged to sign the legislation. Back to you. Elaine quijano thank you. The president was in michigan to rally support for his plan to avoid the fiscal cliff and with just 21 days left until the deadline, a new gallup poll shows most americans Want Congress to compromise on spending and tax cuts. 70 say republicans and Democratic Leaders should make a deal now, up eight points since last week. Major garrett is at the white house covering the fiscal talks. Good morning. Reporter good morning and good morning to our viewers out west. One thing has been agreed upon in the fiscal cliff talks, not to discuss the details. Many look at this bipartisan silence and see an encouraging sign but white house and congressional sources tell me that while the atmosphere around these talks is positive between the president and speaker john boehner, when it gets to the underlying details, progress is maddeningly slow. President obama telephoned Senate Majority leader harry reid monday while rob nabors huddled for a second day in a row aide to speaker john boehner. No discernible progress toward breaking the fiscal cliff stalemate. Mr. Obama left that drama behind and told supporters in suburban detroit the fiscal cliff is serious business. If congress doesnt act soon, meaning in the next few weeks, starting on january 1st, everybodys going to see their income taxes go up. Reporter boehner and House Republicans want to preserve all the bush era tax rates due to expire at years end, shielding everyone from a tax increase. Mr. Obama wants to raise them for households earning more than 250,000 a year. He has so far resisted gop demands for spending cuts to health care or education. Im not going to have a situation where the wealthiest among us, including folks like me, get to keep all our tax breaks and then were asking students to pay higher student loans. Reporter even so, democrats worry mr. Obama might cave to republicans, their biggest fear, the president will do what he considered in 2011, raise the eligibility age for medicare, a top House Democrat monday warned the white house to tread lightly. Now that would save a lot of money for the federal government and look good on the Balance Sheet but hes not going to vote for it and im not going to vote for it. Reporter this is a big part of the story to come. If theres a deal thats a huge breakthrough but lawmakers still have to vote for it and democrats oppose large structural cuts to medicare and most republicans oppose income tax rates on the socalled wealthy. Thats why lawmakers were told not to make big fiscal travel plans because the crisis could go to new years eve. Political director John Dickerson joins us. How does a unionized state like michigan become a right to work state and what does it say about the politics of the country today . Well, it becomes a right to work state by having a legislature thats dominated by republicans, and this is, its extraordinary. We just had an election which both candidates on both sides talked about the big themes in this country and so you might think that politics might have stopped and settled for a moment or maybe that politics is around the fiscal cliff but the right to work question has been a central part of the conservative movement that has been pushing regardless of president ial elections and this is a big victory for conservative forces who have been pushing for this in michigan right at the heart of the union movement. But the president won michigan in the general election. Doesnt matter. President won michigan and not only that, union forces tried to put a measure on the ballot which the president is bringing all votes to forestall just whats happening right now and that measure lost at the ballot box. What were seeing is forces that are basically totally delinked from the president ial race, from the president ial forces and you know, conservatives took a pounding at the president ial level, but here theyve been pushing and theyre about to get a victory here at the state level. Lets turn to the fiscal cliff. We heard Major Garrett report that progress is maddeningly slow. Theres been so much attention on republicans and whether john boehner will go for tax revenues but getting the democrats to agree to entitlement cuts may be harder as you heard some of the democrats say. Well, it depends. The big prize is still finding some way to get conservative republicans to vote with john boehner but youre right. This is the reason that all the details are in secret is because negotiators are kind of suggesting and hinting at ways they may bend and flex but the reason they never want any details to get public is that if one side is going to bend, theyre going to expect the other side to bend, too, and only until everybody get their bending sort of alined can they present them to their sides because the minute democrats hear entitlements will be touched theyll want to know what theyre getting in return. Same with republicans. So youre right the same dynamic is in play. Republicans say if were going to raise tax rates what are we going to get in return. Democrats say raising tax rates isnt much of a prize. We won the election. If youre asking us to do these big cuts what would happen if the president said to john boehner, this is where i will cut education and entitlements and medicare, what would the republicans do then . Well, hes saying that in a way in these negotiations. What they need is basically enough to give john boehner something he can go back and sell to his republicans and boehner cant go too far on tax rates because he knows the further he goes on raising tax rates, the bigger a prize hell need on entitlements and democrats say wait a minute, this isnt a prize. This is peoples benefits that go to people, real americans and thats the question here. John boehner needs Something Big that he can take back to republicans that he can say look, yes, i know you dont want to raise tax rates. What is big enough . Two things, one, size, numbers, dollars. He needs a big number that he can say this is a huge amount of savings were getting here. The other thing is symbolic and thats whats interesting about raising the eligibility age. That has taken on a big, symbolic value and so Something Like that might be something cosell. John boehner wants 600 billion in health savings, the president wants 350 billion, well end up somewhere in between. John dickerson thank you. A navy s. E. A. L. Is making his final journey home. Petty officer first class Nicolas Checque was killed saturday trying to rescue a doctor in afghanistan. David martin is at the pentagon. Reporter petty officer first class Nicolas Checque came home for the final time last night, his flagdraped casket arriving at Dover Air Force base in delaware. Nicolas checque had been a navy s. E. A. L. For eight years, ever since he was 20 years old. Single and from monroeville, pennsylvania, just outside pittsburgh he had served in iraq and afghanistan and risen to the peak of his warrior profession as a member of s. E. A. L. Team six, but his life ended last saturday night when he was shot in the head as s. E. A. L. Team six rescued an american medical worker, dilip joseph, from taliban kidnappers. Joseph and two afghan Staff Members of Morningstar Development were seized wednesday on the mountains east of kabul. The taliban released the two afghans but were demanding a 100,000 ransom for joseph, a price Morningstar Development could not afford to pay. The two afghans told the American Military joseph was being abused by his captors with slaps to the head. That convinced general john allen, the Top Commander in afghanistan, to order the rescue mission before the taliban could transport joseph into pakistan beyond the reach of u. S. Forces. On saturday night checque and other members of the s. E. A. L. Team six squad ron conducted a Helicopter Assault on a mountain hideout 50 miles from the pakistani border. Checque was killed in the firefight. Seven seven talibans were killed. Joseph was unharmed. He is a most celebrated war but comes at a price. Since 9 1165 s. E. A. L. S have been killed, most in afghanistan. We have new information this morning on the condition of former South African president nelson mandela, spent the last three days, three nights in a Military Hospital. Mark phillips is pretoria, south afri africa. Reporter the latest medical bulletin is brief and reassuring. Mandela is suffering from a chest infection, hes being treated to are that here at this Military Hospital in pretoria and were told hes responding to that treatment. Hes exactly the kind of infection he had almost precisely two years ago when he was hospitalized in johannesburg and then allowed to return home to recover. The medical bulletin today has not said how long mandela will stay in this hospital, or where hell go afterwards, either back to johannesburg or back to his homeville nlg village at kunu,s known to preferred to live. For cbs this morning im Mark Phillips in pretoria. In this country federal agents arrested 25 people monday along the Pacific Coast near los angeles. They were coming ashore in a type of fishing boat often used tokers smuggle drugs. Were told not to make in the war on drugs has shifted from land to blea nrats. With the coast guard to see the new front line. Reporter when a coast guard helicopter spotted this mexican fishing boat loaded with marijuana, the drug smugglers started tossing bales of pot into the ocean. These waters off the california coast are now one of the prime drug routes from mexico to the u. S. This is challenging for us, as this increase goes up, were trying to step up our game. Reporter admiral carl schultz says intercepting drugs has always been part of the coast guards mission but never this widespread or this dangerous. Last week one of his guardsmen was killed when a mexican drug boat rammed an inflatable Coast Guard Boat off the coast of santa barbara. Theyre dangerous folks working for dangerous organizations looking to conduct illegal activity in our waters. Reporter better security at the land border between the u. S. And mexico has pushed the cartels to the water. They often hire mexican fisherman who load their boats known as pangas with up to 8,000 pounds of pot. Theyre doing the work of the drug cartel which controls this smuggling car for and so theyre being offered a large amount of money to smuggle drugs. Reporter in the past year, authorities seized 102,000 pounds of marijuana off the california coast. Thats nearly five times as much as the year before. Roger, 99, clear. Reporter the coast guard is having to quickly adapt to larger drug boats that are able to travel greater distances. There could be two people on board, there could be eight to ten people on board, just depending on what operation that theyre carrying out at that particular time. Reporter you have to respond to almost anything. Absolutely. Reporter in 2008, drug runners were landing in san diego. By 2010 as far north as los angeles and this year they have moved nearly 400 miles up the coast to beach town no one ever thought would be on a drug route. Because the drug smugglers are heading further north and further offshore theyre often sending two boats, one for the drugs and one for fuel. Sometimes they offload the drugs on the pleasure boats hoping to get to shore undetected. Its a cat and mouse game but you know, we dont give up. Reporter because every day there are more boats headed north filled with drugs. For cbs this morning ben tracy, los angeles. And tornadoes are causing trouble down south. Look at this. Funnel cloud caught on tape in edgewater, florida, east of orlando, earlier yesterday another tornado hit birmingham, alabama. This homeowner was describing that storm when his roof fell in. I could see the funnel cloud coming toward the house. We were just terrified. We had dogs, she was in the cage oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. Yall okay . Yall okay . Oh my goodness. There were no injuries reported in birmingham. Meanwhile in the midwest, the story is snow, and lots of it. The first major storm of the season dumped up to 16 inches from minnesota to oklahoma. At least two people were killed in stormrelated road accidents. Of this mornings headlines. The Washington Post says the british bank will pay 1. 9 billion to settle a Money Laundering case. In the United States federal investigators claim hsbc transferred billions of dollars for countries like iran and did business with mexican drug cartels. Company Officials Say they accept responsibility for past mistakes. The New York Times says top officials in Afghan Government was shot on her way to work. Her predecessor also murdered less than six months ago. The wall street journal reports Delta Airlines is close to a deal to buy 49 of Virgin Atlantic airways, that would give delta a Wider Network of flights and more space at heath row, londons main airport. Delta would pay Singapore Airlines 300 million to 500 million for the stake. Google avoided paying about 2 billion worldwide income taxes last year. 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