AP 2011-12-08(在线收听

 1. President Barack Obama says Congress needs to extend a payroll tax cut. Since the economical recovery is still fragile, he says, and middle-class families need the money. But tax cut will expire at the year's end.

 
 
 
2. The Postal Service says it's slowing down delivery of the first-class mail, meaning no next-day delivery in many nearby communities. Mail volume is expected to drop by half by 2020.
 
 
 
3. Leaders of France and Germany called for changes to the European Union Treaty, looking to restore confidence in the euro. Countries of high deficits could face automatic penalties.
 
 
 
4. This elderly woman says she was strip searched by the TSA before a flight from New York to Florida. Lenore Zimmerman says a defibrillator means she cannot go through a scanner, so TSA agents took her into a separate room.
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