Some NYC news: Strong health care debate...Climate agreement progress...NYC shooting

NYC

WASHINGTON (AP) There is growing unrest among Democrats about sweeping health care legislation party leaders and the White House are backing. Labor leader Richard Trumka, head of the AFL-CIO, says the bill has been hijacked by defenders of the insurance industry. That was an apparent reference to two senators, Conn. Independent Joe Lieberman and Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson.

COPENHAGEN (AP) Key portions of a climate deal are falling into place at the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S. would contribute $100 billion a year by 2020. And China has agreed to open its books on carbon emissions to international review.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Department of Energy and Utah Gov. Gary Herbert have reach a deal over thousands of drums of low-level radioactive waste from South Carolina. It won't be permanently buried in Utah until stricter state guidelines are put in place. Depleted uranium becomes more radioactive over time.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) A federal civil rights agency investigating possible gender discrimination in college admissions will subpoena data from more than a dozen mid-Atlantic universities. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights wants to determine if some colleges offered men more generous aid packages.

NEW YORK (AP) Police say a gunman shot a man, his son and grandson to death in their Manhattan apartment today. The gunman then fell off a fire escape to his death while fleeing the scene.