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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 ...

Hickcock here to sarasota county that bone fragments removed from coffins yesterday will now finally either solve yet another unspeakable quadruple murder that happened 53 years ago. >> i can't describe it. it was horrible looking. >> don mccloud can't forget that horrible day in 1959 when he walked in cliff walker christine and two children all shot dead in florida home. it remains sarasota county's oldest unsolved major crime. but 53 years later, detective kim mcgaffe thinks the walker killers are the same infamous killers of the clutter family in kansas one month earlier. perry smith and di...

enough. no more discussion. time to actually do something about gun violence. >> this should be a wakeup call for all of us. >> shepard: he says this time words must lead to action. >> if there is even one thing that we can do to prevent any of these events, we have a deep obligation. all of us to try. >> shepard: now the president is setting a deadline and asking gun owners to help get this done. plus arnold -- armed and dangerous and on the run. two inmates tieing together bed sheets and sliding 20 stories to the ground tonight a daring escape from a skyscraper jail. but first from...

Merry christmas to you. >> merry christmas to you too. bill: thank you. martha: ferocious weather is pounding much of the country right now. it is so powerful that it did this. mud started to cascade down a mountain. took a train off the tracks there. those are not toy trains. that is a problem. bill: choo-choo. cold case with infamous pedigree involving two killers in truman capote's acclaimed book, "in cold blood". the dna link police are hoping to find some six decades later. >> agents of the kansas bureau of investigation executed a search warrant that was obtained locally in leavenworth c...

Witnesses spotted them in sarasota the day of and the day the walkers died. >> they testified hickock had a scratched face. >> reporter: whoever raped christine walker left semen at the scene. now that smith and hickock have been exhumed a kansas medical examiner will see if either's dna matches the walker scene it what could be unwritten epilogue to capote's famous book. in a predna science type of evidence, cliff walk ear's distinctly handled pocketknife was missing from the walker house and turns out when smith and hickock were arrested for the kansas murders in las vegas, one of them had o...