Welcome to winter and the final weekend before Christmas!

Today's interview lineup:

At 6:53 hear Jamie Dupree describe how stunned GOP lawmakers learned they were going home for Christmas without a deal on the fiscal cliff.

At 7:40 hear Fox's Courtney Kealy describe how residents of Newtown, Connecticut are observing one week since the horrific shootings. 

At 8:23 hear Jamie Dupree explain what message is coming from the NRA and the White House today.

The Big Three Stories on Jacksonville's Morning News:

1.) It's feeling like winter with blustery conditions today, and a freeze warning tonight into Saturday. Accuweather Meteorologist Heather Zehr says temps this afternoon will only be in the 50's but feeling even colder with the windchill.

The same storm system that brought us the cold, dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of the Midwest. Airlines have canceled more than 1,000 flights. So far we are not seeing flight cancellations out of Jacksonville, but some flights are delayed.

2.) Plan B runs aground and we appear a lot closer to going over the fiscal cliff. As they walked out of a closed door meeting of Republicans in the basement of the U.S. Capitol Thursday night, lawmakers seemed somewhat stunned at the turn of events that had just occurred. Republican leaders were forced to yank a fallback fiscal cliff plan off the House floor because they did not have enough votes for victory. Speaker Boehner then declared they are going to go home for Christmas. At the White House, Press Secretary Jay Carney says Obama's main priority is to ensure that taxes don't go up on what he said would be 98 percent of Americans and 97 percent of small businesses.

3.) Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy is asking people across the state to observe a moment of silence at 9:30 this morning, which will mark a week since the school shooting massacre. Places of worship and buildings with bells are being asked to ring them 26 times, for the 20 children and 6 adults killed at the school.

Vice President Biden meeting with law enforcement leaders from across the country, saying they will take part in reforms in the effort to keep weapons away from criminals and the mentally ill. The President has said he would urge Congress to pass laws that would limit access to automatic weapons and big ammunition clips.

We are continuing to look in to how your schools have seen security funding change in the past few years. In St. Johns County, a continuously shrinking budget means an impossible give and take. Superintendent Joe Joyner says he hasn't cut any funding from security in the past but that's come at the expense of salary freezes and other budget cuts. Joyner says it's capital funding that they need to provide the fencing, cameras and other upgrades needed at some of the schools.

We'll find out during the Neal Boortz show how Florida's jobs picture is looking. The November unemployment rate is being released this morning. It follows an 8.5% rate reported for October, the lowest in nearly four years. That still left 790,000 people out of work, and the state's rate again topped the national figure.

The new year will bring a new discussion on the federal healthcare law in Florida. Governor Rick Scott will meet with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius January 7th. Scott had requested a meeting after the initial deadline to commit to a state healthcare exchange and renewed that request when last week's deadline passed. A key concern remains just how costly it would be to implement the changes in Florida.