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Running for president. Tonight the u. S. Government is among those mounting a major relief effort to help victims of typhoon haiyan in the central philippines. They fear the death toll could reach 10,000. Towns are in ruins but its difficult for relief workers to get in to the affected areas. U. S. Navy is deploying ships and aircraft carriers to help. Authorities are still trying to figure out the scope of the dam. Damage. Reporter typhoon haiyan reduced entire neighborhoods to rubble. The devastation, its horrific. A human tragedy. Reporter 150 mile per hour winds whipped through homes and s...

town for the holidays until both sides agree on payroll tax cuts. nbc's tracie potts joins us from washington on this. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. a couple of issues going on here. the budget and the payroll tax cuts. it looks like congress may have a solution to that can they've been kicking down the road month after month. health education among departments unfunded permanently. now it looks like they've worked out the details. aides say there are minor details to continue to work out but it looks like that will happen before the end of the month. now, the payroll tax ...

lisa is watching the roads for us but first meteorologist adam caskey. anything we ought to know? >> >> possibly again tonight and tomorrow morning. just that type of weather pattern now. that area right there you see on your screen, montgomery county between urbana and clarksburg, that is a little snowshower. that will leave a little coating of additional snow on the roadways so you exercise caution. you can drive through this. just be very slow. lisa will talk more about that. give yourself extra following distance. otherwise, it is windy and cold outside. you factor in the wind, i...

jobs. let me repeat, over the course of the last several months, we've seen over 1 million jobs added to the american economy. >> but the real surprise for everybody else is the fact that anyone is smiling. the unemployment rate remains a stubborn 9.6%, real unemployment around 17%, and time is running out for 5 million so-called 99ers. those are the people who are out of work and whose only lifeline is a monthly unemployment check from the government. uncle sam stops cutting those checks in just three weeks. so, yes, those numbers are better than expected, and you have to give the w...

>> right now on espnews, the latest from orlando. as the lakers try to take a 3-1 series lead. and the magic try to even it up at two games apiece. baseball, the red sox and yankees locking horns once again. david ortiz has gone yard. see if it will be enough for boston to get another victory over the yanks. phillies and mets in a rubber match. those two games going to take on the red sox and yankees in the weekend action. we've got all the baseball coverage, plus an emotional day for phil mickelson. but the golf was as good as you could expect it to be. [closed captioning provided b...