Coming at you Friday:
• Deja vu in the rear view: The House Financial Services Committee holds a repeat hearing on how Detroit's auto leaders plan to stabilize their industry with $34 billion in taxpayer funds.
• More bad economic data on the way. The Labor Department delivers the unemployment figures for November and the Federal Reserve updates consumer credit for October.
• Neel Kashkari, the Treasury's man behind the TARP, delivers an update on the big bank bailout and comments on the state of the financial markets.
• Washington and Moscow are expected to begin the next round of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expires next December.
• O.J. Simpson and Clarence Stewart will be sentenced in Las Vegas for kidnapping and armed robbery involving two sports-memorabilia dealers. The judge is known for stern lectures and stiff sentences.
• This evening President Bush speaks at the Saban Forum on the Middle East.
• In Austria, it's the night of the living Krampus. Recreating a pagan ritual, young men dress up in elaborate, furry, demon garb and roam the streets with rusty chains and bells, scaring the Santa Claus out of children and adults alike.