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Index score of 71.5 and just 65.1 in december. that's the lowest number we have seen since august. matt mccall is the president of penn financial group. he jones us now live. how serious is this? >> it is extremely serious, gregg. we're seeing numbers backdating going back to november. what we haven't seen yet, we won't see until january the effect of the uncertainty of fiscal cliff and potential of falling off the fiscal cliff will have on the economy and have on consumers and potentially lead us back into as you mentioned what a lot of economists believe, another recession. gregg: what happe...

U.s. governm says it will fight to see that these cases come together. but the law is not clear at this point what is going to happen. heather: we hope that those cases can get through to those families. gregg: a last-ditch effort to avoid the fiscal cliff. as whether any progress is possible or whether this last-minute meeting is off it's just for show speak to the epa administrator announces her resignation at the end of the present term. we will debate the claim that she is doing so before a scandal involving some epa e-mails getting attention. gregg: and the secret life of norma jean. new ...

Cities and up to a foot and a half in some of the suburbs. some of that snow is likely to mix with freezing rain, so you know what that means. treacherous travel conditions will be tracking the storm. we'll keep you updated. heather: stay home and watch fox, right? gregg: stay in bed. heather: more on the fiscal cliff. president obama and top congressional leaders set to meet at the white house in about 30 minutes in a last-ditch effort to avoid tax increases on nearly all americans and a fiscal crisis, but what we've heard so far a is lot of fingerpointing. no solutions. no signs of progress ...

Disturbing headlines this year. put aside or aside from the fiscal cliff, monster storms and droughts, many of the stories came from the centers for disease control including a range of infections, diseases and outbreaks. elizabeth prann is live in atlanta with the look ater year in review. hi, elizabeth. >> reporter: heather, every year the agency works very hard to protect the public and promote healthy life-styles free of disease and viruses and 20 12th was no exception. >> it's been a busy year for cdc. >> reporter: thomas fridan lead the agency that investigates and solves many some of th...

>> so it's not just the local port area that would be affected by a strike but the entire region and the state, going nationally as well. >> reporter: that los angeles and long beach, california, port strike that happened earlier in december that only lasted about a week, only involved the clerks, that was estimated to have cost the economy a billion dollars a day. this would have been much more devastating, far more than a billion dollars a day and economists had really worried had we gone over the fiscal cliff and the strike also was in place, that would have been a one-two knockout punch fo...