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But what's next? for all binge watchers. movie geeks. sports freaks. x1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. jon: a fox extreme weather alert now on a deadly storm in the plains in the midwest dumping snow, sleet and rain making for dangerous travel conditions and sparking flooding concerns in some places. meteorologist maria molina live in the fox extreme weather center with that. >> reporter: hi, jon, good to see you. hello, everybody at home. we're tracking in this large area of low pressure, and this comes just after this weekend where we saw some heavy snow and even some ic...

Protect the kitchen and then alienate another group of employees. >> reporter: but another restaurant in seattle has found success. customer count is up and so is revenue. and here in new york famous restaurant owner danny meyer recently announced he was also getting rid of tipping at 13 of his restaurants. it's an experiment many are watching closely, jenna, it'll be very interesting to see how it plays out. jenna: it certainly will, abby, thank you. jon: new next hour of "happening now," after five years of bars behind cuba, alan gross reveals what life was like there. we talk to the former ...

Jenna: lawmakers in congress back from thanksgiving break for a final year-end push. they're facing big budget decisions that could spark a political showdown and even a government shutdown right before christmas. rich edson is live in washington with the details for us now. >> reporter: well, jenna, congress returns with ten legislative days to authorize more than a trillion dollars in government spending. if lawmakers fail, a significant portion of the federal government shuts down. that's just one of a handful of looming congressional deadlines in december. congress is authorized through fr...

Tipping at this joe's crab shack in illinois. menu prices are up about 12%, and employees are earning higher, steadier wages. >> if it's successful and people see the benefits of it, it will catch on. >> i think we are seeing the reaction in a way that i think is going to mean less money for some employees. >> reporter: the employment policies institute questions whether employees will benefit but believes unions will. >> it's the self-interested decision. i mean, if servers are receiving all of their money in a paycheck instead of in cash at the end of each night, it makes it a lot easier for...

kevin corke is traveling with the president, he's live in paris with more. kevin? >> reporter: no surprise the security process here has been overwhelming, a very, very strong posture as we expected given the number of world leaders that are obviously in attendance at this u.n. climate summit, to say nothing of the fact that as you pointed out a couple of weeks ago, of course, this city was hit by a devastating attack as 130 people died at the hands of professed muslim terrorists. as you can also well imagine, the authorities here didn't want to have large scale gatherings out and ab...