Transcripts For MSNBCW First Look 20121226 : vimarsana.com

0 if you get 80% of what you want, that s a pretty good day. reporter: tough decisions ahead, six days left. lawmakers will likely take on spending reform and tax cuts when the debate heats up. looks like they will be working over the new year. a note was left by a suspected shooter that killed two firefighters christmas eve in new york. more details on the person already convicted of murder. reporter: police say the christmas eve ambush of four volunteer firefighters happened as they fought a massive fire in new york was spilled out in typewritten detail. quote i still have to get ready to see how much of the neighborhood i can burn down and do what i like doing best, killing people. reporter: authorities say 62-year-old william spangler, who served prison time killing his grandmother more than 30 years ago shot at first responders who arrived at his burning house, spreading this six other homes. we are being shot at multiple firing. i am shot. i think he s using an assault rifle. he was equipped to go to war to killed innocent people. reporter: the gunman was well fortified with a . .38 caliber handgun, 12 gauge shotgun and bushmaster, the same as in the connecticut shooting. two firefighters were killed and two others hospitalized. spangler, police say, killed himself. they revealed human remains were found in spangler s burned house and authorities suspect they belong to his missing sister. motive is always the burning question and we will never know what was going through his mind. reporter: police are investigating whether the death of his 91-year-old mother in october and donation she made to the fire department could help explain the motive for his christmas eve shootings. former president w.h. bush remains in the hospital this morning where he spent christmas wes his wife, barbara bush as well as family members. the former first president suffered setbacks and why they could not release him as hoped to do originally. the former 88-year-old president was hospitalized for what was initially described as a bronchitis type cough. in the weeks since, he s become weak and developed a fever and cautiously are optimistic he will fully recover. as always, when we talk about tornadoes, they re surprising. yes. especially with the type of storm we re seeing because it is bringing blizzard conditions to other parts of the country. we re talking about reports of 19 tornadoes yesterday and that whole set of severe storms continue toe spread east today. you see the rotation through eastern tennessee, the area of low pressure, a big one, strong storm bringing significant snowfall to southern illinois and southern indiana. here s your chance of severe weather through southeastern georgia and will eventually move into the carolinas especially the coast where we would see more tornadoes develop today. heavy rain from western north carolina and to south carolina and into the albany-georgia area continues to spread eastward but we have heavy snow falling through northern indiana and will bring blizzard like conditions to portions of ohio, especially lakeshore of lake ontario as well. here s the best chance of seeing the tornadoes develop today. eastern north carolina and eastern south carolina and severe thunderstorms where we could get wind gusts up to 70 miles an hour. we are looking for perhaps a foot of snow through ohio and northwestern pennsylvania and western new york state. on top of that, we could see wind gusts up to 45 miles an hour and blizzard conditions are felt through the great lakes region. good thing in terms of snow on the trees in many spots. that s a good point because snow on many trees and winds, we could be talking about more damage. that s not the case. holiday woes everywhere and instagram in legal troubles. plus, she s the face of weight watchers. now jessica simpson is about to put the pounds back on. we ll tell you why. hing. and you really don t want to pay more than you have to. only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. and if it finds one, you get refunded the difference. just use your citi card and register your purchase online. have a super sparkly day! ok. [ male announcer ] now all you need is a magic carriage. citi price rewind. start saving at citi.com/pricerewind.