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>> and those revised numbers, shep, mean that the housing crash was had 0% from the peek in 2005 instead of just 30%. shepard? >> shepard: big numbers. bankbank of america today a blok butter said to pay a huge fine related to country wide. some of its practice is on lending. >> that's right. the justice department announced a 335-million-dollar settlement with country wide which is now owned by bank of america and the largest fair lending case in history. >> these allegations represent alarming conduct by one of the largest mortgage lenders in the country during the height of the housing mark...

Do. >> vote on it, pass it, and we can move on to discussing and figuring out a solution for the year-long extension. >> shepard: the wows also says that earlier today president obama called the house speaker john boehner and the senate majority leader harry reid asking them to end this standoff but so far there is no evidence of any progress at all. time is clearly running out once again on capitol hill. and mike emanuel is tracking developments for us. as the republicans in the house are well aware, not many people in washington left to deal with this and they knew it when they started this ...

Apparently going to be involved in this sharing of power situation? >> we know, shep, they are very skilled political operators who were very close indeed to kim jong il. the two we are talking about in particular kim jong il's sister. take a look at her in this picture. spot shadowed in the front row there. always been very close to her brother and her husband jang song tek. they will probably be the powers behind the throne. he will be nominally in charge but these two are certainly in the short-term according to all the experts going to have a great deal of power. listen. >> they are the pe...

Persons is really a normal political tactic he claims. the case does echo a similar investigation now ongoing in indiana. that's where prosecutors are investigating allegations that signatures that put then candidates barack obama and hillary clinton on the democratic primary ballot in 2008, well a lot of those signatures allegedly forged like the new york voters those in indiana told us they never signed those petitions either. shep? >> shepard: eric shawn live tonight in new york. thank you. an explosion at a meth lab has injured a man and forced four families from their homes. and that tops...

Do the feasibility studies. president obama didn't put any in his 2012 budget. south korea republic senator lindsey gram did manage to cut a deal to put a little more than $4 million into the omnibus spending bill to keep that study going it should also be pointed out, shep, that senator graham says south h carolina is a red state, no surprise to him that the money didn't put any money in his budget to fix his harbor. >> shepard: john, thanks. i guess the kids have the christmas list made out, right? some probably want bikes, some want dolls. we know of one who just wanted to look like everybo...