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And theres no plan to keep us from going over the fiscal cliff. Broken record, broken record. Im Christine Romans in today for john berman. And im zoraida sambolin. Up first, president obama standing his ground over the fight in the fiscal cliff. Americans face crushing tax hikes and severe spending cuts in 27 days if democrats and republicans cannot come together on a deal. By the way, congress breaks for the holidays in ten days. Slash that number. In an interview with bloomberg news, the president made it Crystal Clear hes not about to blink on the issue of tax hikes for the wealthiest amer...

Hightech planes. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. With just 27 days to go until all of us are hit with tax increases, takes it across the board a cut of 55 billion. People have it in their power to avoid the socalled fiscal cliff arent negotiating, theyre not debating right now, so many of them simply leaving town. But theres more going on than meets the eye. Lets bring in our senior Congressional Correspondent dana basch, she has the latest. Reporter theres so much political theater around here right now, you could say tickets. One of todays acts was the house leaving. Lawmakers ...

Be escalating the civil war. There are new concerns the assad regime is preparing to use chemical weapons. Lets get to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Barbara, how does this change the u. S. Militarys syria plan . Are we talking u. S. Troops, boots on the ground . Well, not at this point, clearly, deb. But what we do know is that u. S. Officials tell us that they are updating some of the military options for action against syrias chemical weapons capability, why are they doing this . Of course, we chatted about this in the last several days. Officials say they do have the intelligenc...

Times. Just 11 minutes right now on the east side from 95 all the way up to 83. The outer loop will remain clear over on the west side of the beltway. Youre looking at just 11 minute trip traveling from 795 down to 95. And no concerns this morning traveling through the fort mchenry tunnel. Its going to take you just eight minutes northbound from the beltway all the way to the toll plaza. Thats a look at your abc2 timesaver traffic. Megan and charlie, over to you. Hes only 59 years old and already he has had four strokes. Now michael brandy is walking across the United States in honor of stroke...

Hes a well known jihadist who was released from prison after the downfall of former president Hosni Mubaraks regime. Diotti i york. What do we know about the arrest of the aleng ledged terrorist suspect . He was picked up a couple weeks ago in ejimegyegypt. Joous authorities suspect he may have been involved in the consulate attack in benghazi on september 11th that killed Chris Stephens and three other americans with direct knowledge of the investigation. The u. S. Source tells me the fbi which is conducting the investigation, has not had access to him yet. The source says following the attac...