Top Three News stories 12/20/11
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- House GOP to block payroll tax plan: Republicans in the House of Representatives are set to block a Senate proposal to extend a popular tax cut for working Americans for two months on Tuesday, setting up a showdown between House Speaker John Boehner and his own party in the Senate plus President Obama and the Democrats
- Deadly blizzard paralyzes Great Plains: Fierce winds and snow that caused fatal road accidents and shuttered highways in five states, crawled deeper into the Great Plains early Tuesday, with forecasters warning that pre-holiday travel would be difficult if not impossible across the region.
- Kim Jong Il's body laid out for mourners: PYONGYANG, North Korea - The body of North Korea's long-time ruler Kim Jong Il was laid out in a glass coffin Tuesday as weeping mourners filled public plazas and state media fed a budding personality cult around his third son, hailing him as "born of heaven."