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South Africa will argue its case on Thursday and Israel is scheduled to respond on Friday.

Following u.s. and ukraine's remarkable show of unity. but first breaking news and this just in, senate negotiators have reached a deal on the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill which will keep the government running well into next year. cnn chief correspondent manu raju joins me now. manu, we thought we were there and then last night there were more hiccups which seems to happen with the senate but it does look like this is getting through. >> there is a dieseeal now or v. there will be about 17 amendment votes and moving to final passage of the bill. it is significant because it requires ...

Given california to kennedy and that gives him the election. that's putting up the v. >> there they are. in fact, they were right overall, but wrong about the state. >> msnbc called the election for kennedy hours before anyone else. and kennedy had him running way ahead in the electoral vote count all night. what happened was it was 7:00 and managers at nbc, somebody wanted to get "the today show" on the air so they could get the commercials. so california was very close. about 100,000-vote difference. but when the absentee ballots came in, nixon won that state. it didn't affect the outcome of...