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Enough sanctions on to pressure them to implement the agreement, you dont want to take all of the sanctions off in the first few months, to me, that is a better deal for the United States than risking a confrontation in which we get involved in some kind of third big military conflict in the middle east which is the possibility. You have to weigh the pros and cons. I weigh them on the side of president obama. Richmond, texas, an independent color. Independent caller. The simple fact is that there are only two groups that can solve this. The sunni and the shiite. We have already lost the middle...

Thanks for watching. Im Christine Romans following fiscal cliff all day and night. Ashleigh banfield returning tomorrow. Newsroom with Suzanne Malveaux starts right now. Welcome back to cnn newsroom. Heres whats going on right now. 2013 hitting right now in bangkok, thailand. Were looking at live pictures there as the celebrations and the fireworks exploding there. Lots of picturetaking and a lot of excitement there. Right now Pope Benedict holding a new years eve mass at st. Peters basilica. They will celebrate the new year in six hours. A couple of hours ago folks toasted 2013 in new zealand...

Malveaux begins now. Happy new year. Stories were watching now. Hours by hour, inch by inch, the nation sliding closer to the fiscal cliff. Well have more on this mornings negotiations and what well lose if those talks fail. And workers in some states may see a pay raise but may not notice much of a difference. Guns are flying off the shelves after fears of a ban on assault rifles following the sandy hook massacre. Were live at the white house with the latest details. Plus this. Reporter im alina cho in times square, where just hours from now new york will host what is arguably the biggest new...

Of that. So within our own base we had to make sure all of the telephone cable and fiberoptic cable worked. It was a gigantic airbase midway between ramadi and fallujah on the alanbar province. It was like heading up construction crew and my marines were really hardworking. They were great. They would dig trenches and lay cable underground. We would get the entire Company Helping us out, 200 marines, pulling out cable under a airfield. They took out the old iraqi telephone wires and replaced them with 30 kilometers of cable throughout the base. Then we got mortaredded. The then the cable would...

Capitol, a twoyear, 60 million renovation is underway. Gaveling will be constructed around capitol dome but work continues with the house gaveling today at noon. They are expected to approve a resolution and limiting the need to hold sessions while on break. They do return on letter slated for it on tuesday, january 7. From the Labor Department this morning, reports that the number of unemployment benefit applications dropped by 42,000 last week. Planes had jumped by 75,000 over the two weeks ending december 14. Todays news is a sign of a decline in the improving job market. The issue of Unemp...