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>> heather: i'm heather childers. topping the news a nasty winter storm slamming the pacific northwest. latest where it is going next from the fox news extreme weather center. >> gregg: millions of americans hitting the rails and skies this weekend. we'll go to one of the busiest airports in the country. >> heather: one father's fight to bring the word christmas into his son's school. >> gregg: we begin with so-called fiscal cliff, major concerns for the u.s. economy are not keeping lawmakers from heading home for the holidays. but with lawmakers from both parties still at odds over ...

Prison. jon hammar was arrested in august on what his family and attorney are calling trumped up gun charges. >> rick: new signs workers' paycheques may get smaller, a payroll tax break is scheduled to expire at the end of the year unless the president and congress decide to extend it, americans would see a 2% tax increase, on january 1st. >> jamie: and, threatening to take control over two christian towns in syria and say government forces are using them to attack neighboring areas. >> rick: they were some of hurricane sandy's most vulnerable vis ctims and now children hit hardest by the stor...

Thanks for sharing it with us. >> thank you. >> sean: appreciate it. this is a fox news alert. i'm marianne rafferty. the lawyer for former u.s. marine jon hammar says h his client has been released from a mexican prison and a u.s. lawmaker says he is back safely in the united states. he had been locked up since august when mexican police arrested him for crossing the border carrying a handgun. because mexico is very strict with firearms hammar had been facing 15 years behind bars. >> the head of the national rifle association calling for armed officers at all schools in america. the ceo spe...

Million people will pay more in payroll taxes and families making between 40 and $55,000 a year will have to pay an extra 2 grand to the government. >> jamie: an american marine veteran was jailed for months in mexico and may be back on u.s. soil today, just in time for christmas. jon hammar spent four years fighting in iraq and afghanistan to be locked up for trying to bring an antique shotgun into mexico, where he was taking a couple of days off and he said he declared it at the border and he was told it was a-o.k. to go in. dominic, i'm struck by that photograph when i see it, after learnin...

Eve in time for the holidays. good news for the family and 48 hours ago, things looked very different, like jon would be spending many more months in his cell as the mexican authorities were taking a strict stand against his case, and, he spent the night in texas and they released him, just across the border, where he was being held during those terrible living conditions, surrounded by violent drug cartel members and jon's mother said he picked up a bad bug in jail and is pretty sick with that. and bad cough apparently but is in the car getting sleep and his health being a wig worry, after th...