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that going to come from obama's hell's kitchen is going to be a lot hotter. >> a shock, twist in the death of an army private reported to have committed suicide in afghanistan today. eight of his fellow soldiers are facing charges in connection with his death. >> good day, i'm chris in for andrea today in washington. in the daily fix, what else but stalemate on capitol hill. president obama called house speaker, john boehner today, urging him to take up the two-month payroll tax extension passed by the senate. the president also put in a call to senate majority leader, harry reid. ho...

captions paid for by nbc-universal television from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and ann curry. live, from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and welcome to "today" on this wednesday morning, i'm ann curry. >> and i'm carl quintanilla, matt has the morning off. and time is quickly running out for congress to extend the payroll tax cut. >> that's right, house speaker john boehner is demanding senators return to washington after a two-month extension was rejected. but he was saying it's the only way to avoid a tax hike january 1st. we're expecting a lot of americans. >> ...

boehner urged the president to call on harry reid to appoint negotiators to this conference that we now are talking with so much about to try to hash out the differences between the house and senate. as you well know, senate majority reid has no intention of negotiating and as he read in a letter to speaker boehner, along with speaker boehner and all congressional leaders and the white house, they want that deal and senator reid says not until they have the assurance that the tax cut will not lapse come january 1. so they are pushing -- he is again pushing as well as the white house,...

>> ifill: margaret warner looks at egyptian women on the front lines of protest, some of them brutally attacked. >> brown: and we close with poet mark doty on a community coming together to sing a christmas tradition, handel's messiah. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> intelligent computing technology is making its way into everything from cars to retail signs to hospitals; creating new enriching experiences. through intel's philosophy of investing for the future, we're helping to bring these new capabiliti...

good evening. it was a terrible night three years ago. the first word of a plane crash just outside buffalo in some bad weather. then we learned 50 people had died. but much later during the investigation we learned the crash really didn't have to happen. we learned a lot about the crew flying that aircraft. they flew for cogan, a regional carrier carrying people under the continental logo. it was a tragic combination of errors, lack of experience and suspected exhaustion. it was bad enough that now the f.a.a. has stepped in to change some old rules governing pilots and affecting the...