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politics in washington could push america over a fiscal cliff and quite possibly into a recession if congress doesn't act. economists now say that the so-called fiscal cliff has now overtaken europe as the biggest threat to the u.s. economy. in other words, our homegrown storm has a bigger chance of causing a hurricane here than the actual hurricane that's blowing our way from europe. now i've been bee rat berating on this show to head off a series of tax increases and spending cuts mandated to take effect on january 1st. congress couldn't come up with a better deal to raise the nati...

Break records with temperatures close to 100. phoenix cooler than usual at 97. phoenix and other cities in arizona and new mexico are bracing for the annual monsoon season. outside albuquerque, they placed sandbags in and around homes as a precaution. and the national guard is there as well. just in case. there is a big risk of flash floods after recent wildfires burned off all of the vegetation. and now we turn to some holiday outings that turned to tragic freak accidents. a 10-year-old boy swimming in an eastern tennessee marina was electrocuted in the water, and another boy, he nearly d...

Attending physician of e.r., emergency medicine in st. barnabas hospital in new york. this is something you see. coming into the e.r. with batteris. >> both children and adults sometimes ingest these accidentally. i actually brought some along to show you the different sizes of some of these batteries. there are small disk or button batteries and they're in practically everything we have today. car keys. one of the remote controls from our kitchen. you know and you can see it is easy to open the battery partment and see the some disk battery. jenna: how can it burn a hole in the esophagus? is ...

Jenna: let me ask you the big picture. look in 2008. there was electricity around the campaign. there was that current for hope and change. the president played on that and here he was elected. in 2010, we saw electric current as well, the tea party. bringing america back to what it really was all about. i'm curious as we look at 2012 where is the electric current? we don't feel it yet. someone who seen the campaigns what do you make of that? >> people are still waiting to see who the nominee in the republican party is and then we'll see what the dynamic is. i think right now all bets are off....

Reprieve. a pentagon investigation clearing him of any wrongdoing of an alleged drunken episode in paris where he freely criticized the u.s. it cost him as job as top commander in afghanistan. >> thank you. amazing rescue at an atlanta area subway station. take a look. the man in the red shirt lying flat on his back is being repeatedly shocked by the electric current from the third rail. he couldn't get up until that man, a complete stranger risked his own life and pulled him out into safety before a train came through. that hero joins us live in the beautiful city of atlanta, georgia. good mo...