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>> thank you. >> mike: the frahm on the first day of the year. if your underage children drink at your home while are' not there, maybe you're out of town. should you be punished as parents? is that fair? we report, you decide. 2011 may have been a bad year for many people, but it's out with the negative and in with the positive on the first day. why optimism rules for 2012. a new survey, a new poll out today. ♪

Want want us to follow it and thanks for tipping us off. >> thank you. >> mike: the frahm on the first day of the year. if your underage children drink at your home while are' not there, maybe you're out of town. should you be punished as parents? is that fair? we report, you decide. 2011 may have been a bad year for many people, but it's out with the negative and in with the positive on the first day. why optimism rules for 2012. a new survey, a new poll out today. ♪

much more from and about the hawkeye caucuses later this hour. sears holdings is out with a partial list of the sears and k-mart stores it plans to close. earlier this week sears said it would close between 100 and 120 stores as a result of poor holiday sales. the firm has released a list of 79 that will be closed nationwide. sears said in a statement that it could not say how many jobs will be cut or when the stores will be closed. sears holdings has more than 4,000 stores in the u.s. and canada. a protest in syria turns deadly. hundreds of thoses of pro-democracy demonstrators ...

virtual tie for the lead. what happened to newt gingrich nice guy? he vowed not to go negative in response to the other candidates' attack ads, but that didn't stop gingrich from blasting ron paul. in an interview with cnn's wolf blitzer he said he wouldn't vote for paul. gingrich pointed to incendiary newsletters distributed under paul's name in the '80s and '90s. >> you look at his newsletters and then you look at his ads, his ads are about as accurate as his newsletters. >> now if he were to get the republican nomination. >> he won't. >> let's say he were. could you vote for him...

next year. but here's the thing, folks, both parties want this. they agree that there should be an extension of this tax holiday. the problem here is that house republicans refuse to settle for the two-month band aid, the two-month extension that has already been passed by the senate. listen. >> our house gop negotiators are here and ready to work with their counterparts in the senate. >> he's not lucy, i'm not charlie brown. we're not falling for that football stunt, again. okay, lucy and charlie brown. that's what we've come to now, kate. it can be silly season up there sometimes. ...