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Good morning, everyone. Hi to robin at home. Great to have Elizabeth Vargas right here. And there is lara, standing by in london with all the latest on the big baby news. We have a lot to go to on that. Also at home, new developments in the tax showdown in washington. A deal has to get done by january 1st or everyones taxes will go up. Well talk about what it will take to get negotiations back on track. Republicans had their proposal yesterday. Well see what the reaction is. Also, take a look at this video. Is this the reallife grinch who stole christmas. The man caught on camera stealing Chri...

Kept billions upon billions of dollars in cargo from getting to warehouses nationwide. Crucial merchandise in these days before christmas. They estimated it was about 1 billion a day that this strike was going on. Its over now. Thats the good news out of l. A. This morning. Now, we turn to the battle over how to keep the nation from going over that socalled fiscal cliff. The clock is ticking now. 27 days to go. And president obama and Congressional Republicans are making plenty of sound bytes about it all. But very little progress. Abcs Tahman Bradley has the details from washington. Reporter ...

Battle and you all stood with us and were here today to break ground on this great library, big hand for all of those who put that effort in. [ applause ] this project is the 24th library that our agency has been involved in. We have renovated 16 libraries, and we have built 6 new ones. The 23rd is in the bayview in my neighborhood and that will be ready for groundbreaking in january and for completion and opening in january and now were groundbreaking on this project. As part of this project, you will be getting a twostory library. It will be designed for led silver or greater and sustainable...

As our librarian just said, the very first meeting i took, even before he was swornin, after i was elected was about this library. And i got to tell you, that was only four years of a tenyear struggle. There have been hundreds of meetings coming together. There are High School Students today who were preschool students when we started this conversation. And i have to tell you as we all know, it takes a village to raise our kids, but it has taken many villages to build this library. I want to start first and foremost by thanking three mothers, who helped to lead friends of joe dimaggio, julie c...

Capstone, julie christiansen. Thank you can i get my team up here . I have been fielding all the thanks, but it doesnt really belong to me. It belongs to all of these people. Who else is here from our group . Come on up. Who am i missing . The whole village, come on up. So we have a couple of city folks. Where is greg scott . Gret get up here. Greg, get up here. I want to point out jill, karen. Jill is the deputy chief librarian and karen, these two women are the fairy godmothers of this project. We would not be here without all the people that you heard from, but we would not be here without ...