good morning. u.s. war games that are usually military practice also serve as a warning of military might. meanwhile, the wikileaks website is set to release more high profile military secrets. the warning they're getting from the president. and we now know more about the ugly plan to blow up a beautiful holiday tradition, how it was snuffed. this is today in the bay. good morning. take a live look at a beautiful

sunrise over san francisco. we can see that old glory flapping around. it's a windy day. let's get a look at your weekend forecast with jen. >> yesterday it was all about the rain and today, well, it's all about the very cold weather. our forecast high today running below average, so even though we'll see sunshine, you need to bundle up. this afternoon it will be sunny, but temperatures will be below normal. and then tonight very cold temperatures, once that sunsets, we'll see the temperatures beginning to plummet. we will see a warm-up, though, coming later this week, but today it's all about bundling up even with all the sunshine. >> at least nine people are dead after a cargo plane crashed into a residential area in pakistan's capital city. witnesses say one of the plane and he wings and an engine caught fire before it slammed in to a housing complex. rescue crews pulled one body

from the rubble and another person on the ground is in the hospital with severe burns. all eight on the plane were killed on impact. this is the same kind of plane that is used to deliver humanitarian aid. and we're also watching developing news where this morning china is trying to diffuse tension as the u.s. and south korea launch naval war games in a united show of force. beijing called for an emergency meeting to calm tempers over north korea's artillery shelling which kaled four. china is calling for a meeting of chief negotiators to resume disarmament talks. south korea has rejected china's call. ships are in position in the yellow sea this morning for a series of drills. the military insists that the drills are routine and that no live fire will be used, but experts say the united states is using some old fashioned gun boat diplomacy to remind north korea that the south has

powerful friends. >> this is the kind of thing we do often. it's just frustrating because it's getting us nowhere and meanwhile they're getting ready to build more nuclear weapons. >> north may still use this as a pretext for responding with another conventional act whether another artillery shelling or some other action that's even more provocative. >> north korean leaders say the drills are war games and vow to create a sea of fire if its territory is violated bites south korea or the united states. by the way, this is one of the topics on this morning's "meet the press" coming up following this newscast. tomorrow another painful day for a nevada man who lost his daughter in a dui crash and the family of a homeless man who was bludgeoned to death. the man on the left of your screen will face a judge for stabbing the man on the right in the prison yard in late july. he's already serving a sentence

for murdering a home last man three years ago. the inmate he's accused of killing was sat is an gwenn tip awaiting trance ter to another jail to serve a sentence in connection with a dui crash that killed a nevada girl and injured her father. also heading to court tomorrow, seven suss pekts in the brutal gang rape case. a hearing will allow a judge to determine whether there is enough evidence to eventually go to trial. police say more a dozen people stood by and watched as a 16-year-old girl was beaten and raped outside the homecoming dance in 2009. at least one of the suspects told police that the sex was con consensual. a warning for woman. police want you to be extra careful as you head out today because they are on the look squout for a man they say tried to sexually assault a young woman. that attack happened about 12:30

thursday morning. the young woman told me she was walking to meet her mother after spend night with friends when a man pushed her down from behind. fortunately she was able to get away, but so was he. >> a new study is targeting bay area hot spots for water contamination. water quality experts say that many bay area cities have high levels of a poe tent carcinogen. they contaminate the bay and have prompted a health warning for fish caught in the bay. several bay area cities will split up a $5 million federal grant to study this problem. whole foods is pulling seven different kinds of cheese off the shelves, they were made by a california company. it is a national recall. central valley based bravo farms put a recall out on their cheeses after dozens of people got sick from samples they ate at costco stores.

testing of the cheeses found strains of wllisteria and e. co. stid ahead, a warn to stid to wikileaks. and a plan to bomb a christmas tree lighting and how he was busted without putting the public this danger. plus the plan to turn fisherman's wharf to a place we night want to go even when we're not playing tour guide. and take a live look at the golden gate fridge. looking cryer today, but very cold. we'll get a look at your full forecast coming up. lightning fast. lightning strong.

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as they're not headed into the sier sierra. this morning the obama administration is taking a highly unusual step to crack down on and online whistle blower set to release classified military paperses again today. overnight a state department legal adviser september a letter to the founder of wikileaks telling him that the publication of classified military documents is illegal and would put countless lives at risk. they command to stop saying despite your stated desire as to protect the live, you've done the opposite. you have undermined your stated objective by disseminating this material widely without redaction and without regard to the security and sanctity of the lives your actions endanger. wikileaks is expected to post the documents online later today. we are watching for those. and the state department says that the "new york times," the british newspaper and a german newspaper has prior access to

those. this morning we are learning more about the sting that took down a would-be bomber in a holiday terror scare. the public was never in danger, because the pretty of tlor terror is rattling nerves. >> reporter: the alleged take your get was portland square. investigators say for the suspect it was the perfect place for the plot. >> the individual that was arrested said in the affidavit that he chose portland because it's exactly the kind of place where this stuff doesn't happen. >> federal officials say hoe ma'am head was bent on carrying out an attack of mass destruction. >> at every turn he demonstrated his determination even after the test bomb, even after he was cautioned by the undercover agents, undercover officers that

there would be women and children involved. >> investigators say mohammed parked a van just across the street concealing what believed was a powerful bomb. with you when he allegedly tried to use a cell phone to set it off, federal agents swooped in. >> the device was fake. it looked real. it was meant to be so the sus petal believed it was a real device. >> reporter: mohammed exchankd e-mails with someone he believed was tied to terrorists this pakistan who was in fact an undercover fbi agent. mohammed told investigators he'd been interested in jihad since i was 15. >> that it's really scary. at least they caught him. >> reporter: he's due to make his first court appearance on monday. this morning the search is on for three young brothers who have been missing since friday. police in michigan issued an amber alert for the 9 id, 7, a

5-year-old who have been missing since the day after thanksgiving. the boy's father asked a woman to take the boys back to their mother, but police say they're not sure that that woman ever exists. the father who has not been named an official suspect is now in a mental health facility while the police search for those little boys. this morning a teenager and clothing store worker are in critical condition after a shooting in a crowded mall. police say a group of teenagers fired four or five gunshots last night. police say bullets struck the group's intended target, an 18-year-old man, as well as a mall employee who happened to be standing outside a clothing store. officers are still looking for the two gunmen. this is at least the second shooting in three months and that mall in detroit in that. coming up next, plans to revamp fisherman's wharf.

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take a live look at the bay. a beautiful sunrise. it's going to be chilly, though not as chilly as it's been. people are melting over a unique christmas display that puts the nativity scene on ice. hundreds of people are gathering in austria to get a glimpse of a massive sculpture that features life sized figures of the virgin mary and the baby jesus. they worked on the scene for five days carving about 50 tons of ice by hand.

in recent years, the nativity scene has melted earlier than expected, but this year they're expecting a pre-cold winter and that should keep the ice figures intact much longer. things aren't quite that cold here in the bay area, but there is definitely a winter chill in the air. jen has a look at your weekend forecast. we're saying good-bye to all the clouds that we saw yesterday and hello to high pressure. so clear high pressure building in today, we're looking for clearer skies, but a very brisk wind coming in and our forecast highs are looking to run well below average. even with blue sky in the forecast. and once the sunset, remember to bundle up tonight because it's going to be another cold night. this is a look at our 12:00 temperatures. only in the fourth. mid-40s for san jose, upper 40s for santa cruz. 49 for san francisco and 42, that's it, for santa rose. again, that's with the sun

shining. looking at our forecast highs for today, reaching 54 degrees in pleasanton, 55 for forecast high today in morgan hill and 58 the forecast high for gilroy. 54 for livermore, 57 for evergreen. 52 in pacifica and 53 in red root city. redwood city. high pressure is building in and eventually our temperatures will start to warm up just for a little bit before we see more fronts coming in. will is a look the a you are on seven day forecast. the highs just in the mid-50s. very chili again for tomorrow morning. might see some areas starting at the freezing mark, then on tuesday still a bit chilly in the morning, but the forecast highs reaching the zik in some of the inland areas. wednesday will be warmer, but then more clouds are coming in

and we'll see a return on showers especially north of the bay. then on thursday, we'll see a front passing across the area. that will bring us some unsettled weather and i'm keeping rain chances in starting late wednesday, keeping them in for thursday, friday and saturday. so it looks like a few days of sunshine are only going to be here for a couple days and then we're back to clouds and some rather cool temperatures. it's no secret that the only time most of us go to fisherman's wharf is when we're showing visit trs around town. but there is a new plan in the works to make one of the most popular tourist spots a better hangout for locals. what do business owners think it will take? >> reporter: it is the mass appeal of fisherman's wharf to tourists which in many ways has kept city dwellers way. the acting planning director says many san francisco caps consider the wharf tacky and overrun with shops that indicator only to tourists.

but a $15 million reenvisioning of five blocks of jefferson street aims to change that perception. >> if you look at it, it has given over to the tourists. and i think there's a lot of effort to make it more more vital by getting people back to the city. >> reporter: the plan which was recently agreed upon by business owners at the wharf would create an esplanade and create more space for pedestrian. >> i think people would go down there more if there was an ability to park easier. that's basically why a lot of people don't really like going down there. >> reporter: butroviding more parking is not part of the plan. instead the idea is to transform the wharf from a place dominated by tourist shops to one with more outdoor cafes and places to sit down, where people could relax and gaze out on to the water. >> i just think that would be nice, get rid of some of those silly little stores there that sell to luggage, et cetera, and put in little cafes with outside

seating. that would be great. >> reporter: it's like what happened to the ferry building if 2003 when it was transformed into a place attracted to tourists and people who call the bay area home. >> i think once people realize how wonderful it is to be down there, i can see the city turning back to it and sort of thinking of it as bar echltheir waterfront. >> can you ever really have too much alcatraz it t-shirts? if all goes as planned, the changes could start to take shape within the next six months or so. still ahead, santa is not the only one makes his list an checking it twice. we found a new shopping pattern and we want our bay area teams to win, but at what cost? we now know about a so-called football injury that could cost quite a bit. coming up in sports, it was a night of records and routs for

the stanford football team, plus cal tries to become bowl eligible. the sharks try to win on the road. and spy gate? it's involving the 9ers.

one football coach will have to do some serious laundry. here are the highlights in your sports. >> good morning. when it costs to the bcs, a win is not just a win. a double playoff in place, the cardinals couldn't just beat oregon state in their regular season finale yesterday, they had to make a statement in the process. and wouldn't you know as it would turn out, the card nams prepared to do just that as jim harbaugh's crew tried to prove it is the best one loss team in the land. second quarter, 17-0.

baldwin makes a nice move here. 29 yards on the pass and catch. going in the end zone, third td toss of the game. second catch for baldwin. fourth quarter, this last score is important because that's a screen pass goes in 52 yards for the tk. that breaks the stanford record. the cardinal roll 38-0. s set a school record with their 11th win of the season. as for coal, the bears had a chance to control their own desti destiny. all they had to do is beat washington. to the third quarter, washington has the ball, but in trouble. goes down and he fumbles. 10-7 co 1 10-7 on the cal. still up by three, but the huskies are on the doorstep. le poll being punches it in.

that mean ns no bowl game this year. after an emotional win over the defending champion blackhawks on wednesday, san jose followed it up with a 6-1 loose to v loss to vancouver on friday. second period, we're tied. sharks on the power play. the 2-1 lead. he'd add another two goals in the game. this proved to be the game winner. the oilers were out and the sharks hang on for the win. and not on the court, but in the starting lineup. david lee in his first fame since two surgeries for that elbow, but then the forward was

hot. career-high 30 points. nine three-pointers. 104-94 snaps a five game losing streak. sgloot ra sglo the raiders had to work extra hard this week. they put on a pretty good though make everybody believe jason campbell would be the starting quarterback. according to report, however, that job will go to bruce later today. and spy gate is back this time involving jo involving josh mcdaniels for videotaping the 9ers pregame walk through in london

scarnecchia has been fired and mcdaniels has apologized. cal football coach suspended after telling a player to fake an injury during a game. you can google the play in question. the gist is this. he foes on the ground moments later grabbing his left leg. cal athletic director says the queps sif line coach admits that he told the player to fake the injury in the 15-13 defeat. much more ahead on today in the bay. coming up next, black friday, cyber monday and sensible shopping? what could an new holiday tradition this season. plus an nbc bay area investigation, a flaw in the baby monitors that give so many of us peace of mind could keep us awake at night.

more beautiful seen iry scenery for our friends and family hitting the road today. it was nice to have you. let's take a look at our forecast. >> today's forecast highs, i think they look more like our typical lows. take a look at oakland. the forecast high today just 57 degrees. 56 in concord. 53 degrees in livermore. we'll be up to 58 in gilroy. and 54 degrees in san francisco and 54 in santa rose. all this behind yesterday's really rainy weather. high pressure building in and right now we're on the cold side. skies forecast to be clear today but the cold air continues to

come in. and the temperatures will drop rapidly. if you're heading out tonight, make sure you're dressed in mayors because we're look at very cold temperatures. our forecast is still running well below average. so for today, make sure you're bundling up when you leave the house. cool sunshine, temperatures below normal, and then tonight we'll see the p temperatures dropping rapidly. this morning the deal to bail out ireland is nearly done. the "wall street journal" reports bailout talks between the eu and international monetary fund will wrap up today. the country expected to get $112.5 billion a day. the country announced austerity measures earlier this week and the government deals about the cost of saving it banks. here the in states, all eyes will be on the labor department's november jobs report this friday and the news may be good at least for a little while. seasonal al hiring as has given work to millions of unemployed americans are 41 states

reporting their jobless numbers. meantime federal employees are set to expire for millions unless the lame duck congress extends help. we'll have to see if it that happens. carmakers are expected to release their november sales figures this weekend a the numbers are expected to be revving a bit higher. edmonds.com predicts light truck sales will be up about 17% from about a year ago. that number is still down from sales in october. detroit's big three also expected to post sales gains. and is new york city tourism higher ahead of the holidays? midwest factories, are they pumping out more goods? cold weather boosting sales of clothing? we'll find out when the federal reserve releases it so-called beige book survey of the economic conditions in it a region by region basis. it's a compilation of current economic conditions and regional

economic activity. there is no fun in holiday shopping this year, that is the verdict from american research group which said that 08% of last friday's shoppers use shopping lists and that means that they are less likely to make impulse poois. this year black friday saw a 2.2% jump in the number of shoppers. tomorrow is cyber monday. today in the bay, scott mcgrew has a look at what we night expect. >> good morning. if you decided to stay home instead of braving the lines on black friday, not too late to get some holiday deals. some of the best bargains will an mouse click away tomorrow markses fifth annual cyber monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year says the national retail foundation. in fact the website shop.org says 9 in 10 retailers will offer some sort of special promotion tomorrow.

to take advantage, experts say should you sign up for e-mail alert, follow retailers on facebook or twitter and find out items in stores today and purchase them online tomorrow. also should you try to start shopping early. after all, stores could have limited supplies and seals start at midnight, which gives east coast shopper as three hour advantage. if you're planning on giving gift card this is season, there is a scam you want to be aware of. experts say scammers can steal money right off the gift card. so thieves go to the store ahead of you, they pull the card off the rack, scratch the number on the back, put it back and then wait for you to repurchase it. >> check and see what the value is. if the card comes back zero, then it hasn't been activated yet. if it comes back and says $50, they now it's active so they go

immediately on line and charge up $50 worth of goods. >> so if there's any tampering on the back of the card, don't buy it. you also want to be careful if you buy cards over the internet. the better business bureau says its see even a lot of websites with counterfeit cards up for sale. they could have one value claim on them in fact the value is actually much less. w50e8 we' >> that's why i'm only giving the gift of my company this year. coming up next on today in the bay, you know the saying give to get? how lawmakers use earmarks now and why they may not use them in the future. most of us love to watch the babies in our lives doze off, but who else is watch something an nbc bay area investigation coming up on today in the bay.

blue sky lingering over san jose, but clear blue sky means cooler temperatures, so bundle up as you go bed tonight. we all know central networking helps a lot of us keep in touch with friends and family and now the social networking sites turning out to be a good way for police to catch criminals. recent statistics show that almost 900 police and sheriff's offices around the country have facebook pages and an estimated 500 law enforcement officers use twitter. >> we have to go where the community goes and community is online in the hundreds of millions before. >> cyber sleuthing has turned up some real world results. federal authorities in washington tracked down a fugitive last year, posted an update on his social networking page saying that he was living in paradise in cancun. now he's living it up behind bars. an i will know convicted burglar posted i'm on the run shortly after he broke out of a halfway house. now he's behind bar, too.

and on black friday people posting they were shopping when sthee have been at work. baby monitors are a convenient way to keep an eye on the kid, but an nbc investigation reveals that they can also let training strangers look right into your house. an nbc news crew powered a baby monitor and drove through a neighborhood and from the moment they turned it on, they could peek into crib after crib after crib and even listen in on private conversations. sdwr is that your baby? >> yes, it is. >> what do you think about that? >> a little scary. don't know what to say at the moment. >> police say that many baby monitors transmit sound and video in a very simple frequency which anyone can easily access. and many of the more affordable monitorses don't have a digital lock, so if it's organization it's transmitting hundreds of feet outside your home. police say that if you are not using your baby monitor, turn off both the audio and video

component so thieves won't be able to see into your home. untold numbers of sex offenders are on the run living in secret tent cities. often they hide in homeless tents because it is impossible for police to track them there. statewide sting last week revealed how a law designed to protect children is part of the problem. vicky shows us the solution may be a verse that will change to jessica's law. railroad just steps away from the daily sights and sounds of life in the bay area, another world emerges. >> this is where they live. >> reporter: deep in the brush hidden, tent cities teaming with a different kind of life. >> a little early to be drinking. >> reporter: they've cut their straps and they're hiding. andrea is a state parole agency.

she's's heading a sweep through 12 of the encampments. this one where convicted sex predators live among the outcast, mostly felons out of work, out of homes and out of luck. ironically, the law designed to flush out these predators and protect children is in part the reason for these hideouts. jessica's law bans sex offender prs living within 2,000 feet of a school, park or daycare center. in 2007, just after the law was passed, 88 paroled sex offenders were listed as homeless. today more than 2100 sex offend did ters are on the streets off the grid. >> not knowing the terrain, in the set up, we can look at it on a map all we want, but you don't really see up you get in here. >> agents think there were at least 20 or 30 more people living in encampments like this, but they took off. >> reporter: right now 145 convicted sex offenders are on the run from parole agents in

the bay area. >> one of the biggest challenges is the homeless rate. >> reporter: robert heads the parole division of the state department of corrections. he says the way parolees are monitored is not as effective as it could be and now the sex offender task force has issued nine recommendations to improve tracking. among them, a major change to jessica's law to remove the 2000 foot rule and allow individual agents to decide whether their parole es can or can't live. >> i think it goes back to empowering the person who is you willy supervising the offender, knows and understands the offender better than anybody else. and makes the daily decision about how we supervise people and he or she is the one that says i know specifically that you shouldn't be allowed to live near a school while somebody else can. >> reporter: so the agents would have sole discretion over whether the sex offenders live based on their prior

convictions? >> i think that's the spirit of the recommending days. >> reporter: he says he expects push back, but he believes the recommendations will allow agents to do their jobs more effectively and reduce the number of sex offenders who are unaccounted for. >> you're going into custody for not reporting. >> reporter: it's a change that can't come soon enough. they say the first step in tracking paroled sex offenders is getting them out of the dark and back on the grid. still ahead on today in the bay, how do our lawmakers get what we need in our communities? often the answer is earmarks. what's the harm? and who wants those earmarks gone? our political analysts give us the scoop p.

tomorrow republicans will introduce a bill banning earmarks. these are the appropriations which on which go without

hearings usually tailored for a special state or congressional district, but are the earmarks as sin sister as their opponents claim? let's bring in our political analyst. how was your hangs give something. >> fabulous. my son was in the peace core, he came in thanksgiving day, so we were happy. >> from happy times to maybe not so happy times. >> not for everybody, yeah. >> let's talk about the earmarks. you say they're on bridge to nowhere, right? >> they can be. but i think it's really important to take a big step back and put earmarks into context. for this current fiscal year, 2010, earmarks amounted to $15.9 billion. that's 0.3% of the national budget. let me put to you it this way. if a $10 bill is the entire federal budget, earmarks would constitute three cents of that amount. so there you have it, this year as a matter of fact we spent

nine times as much money on the wars in iraq and afghanistan, $139 billion, as we did on all the earmarks all of them put together. >> so then let's talk about why this is a big deal then. somebody is making a big deal about it. >> somebody does. and the bridge to nowhere type of thing is a great reason. no doubt about they're an easy appropriation to attack. that bridge to nowhere got everybody's attention during the election. a classic case in point. but sometimes what really seems like pork to one person is really vital to another. and that's the hard thing for us to understand. earmarks like bee hive researches or astronomy museums may be viewed as sildly by some, but they're considered important by researchers and scientists. >> we've heard all the stories about the collapse and what not, so it might seem lie honeybee, but it's a big deal. >> absolutely. >> let 00's talk about what the

eefr marearmarks have bought us pup. >> a local congressman and a ebb mft appropria member of the roeappropriations of xhtity, he authored 39 projects, $183 million. believe it or not, it's absolutely more than the cost of one new v-22 osprey plane. how does it break down some look at the first thing, the largest, $20 billion to stepped b.a.r.t. what else? $16 million plus for a san francisco bay recycling program. but you look at these continuings, you say, well, you know, what's sin sister here? i don't know. the rest of the categories, they will youed things such as

recycling, public safety, higher education, energy. and a half dozen experimental research and science projects. so i'm sure there's something in there that may be a little squishy for some people, but on balance, these things seem to show overwhelming commitments p public funds designateded for the public good. >> okay. so when we talk about the fact that the earmarks discussion will happen, what do you think will be the outcome? >> everybody's talking about, everybody's complaining about it, it's an easy target, but the fact is it's very unlikely that in the end congress will ban it. the democrats took a big step ready to making this thing more transparent when they became the majority in 2007 because they made sure that every earmark was posted ahead of time, 2000 congress to say no to earmarks especially when they're going to go back home, not likely. >> they won't get a lot of christmas cards that way. thank you so much. you can find his blog on our

website. just type in prop 0. and let's take a live look outside at the waters of the bay. we always see the sea birds floating around out there, maybe it's a little too chilly for them p. we'll get a look at your forecast coming up. and also check out this fantastic holiday light show and find out how you can check it out for yourself and it can help field the hungry.

you're look again at that live picture of of the waters across the bay. take a look at the seagull checking things out. what a lucky bird. let's talk about our forecast. it is chilly, very cold, and all those clee skies we know means dipping temperatures when it

comes time to go to bed. here's jen with a look at the full forecast. >> we're saying good-bye to all the clouds that we saw yesterday and hello to high pressure. so clear high pressure building in today. we're looking for clear skies, but a very brisk wind coming in and our forecast highs are looking to run well below average even with blue sky in the forecast. and once the sunset, remember to bundle up tonight because it's going to be another cold night. this is a look at our 12:00 temperatures. only in the 40s. 44 degrees at 12:00 today in fairfield, 47 in livermore. just the mid-40s for san jose. 42 for santa rose. that's with the sun shining, so good to find a place a little bit out of the wind. looking for your forecast eyes. 55 that's it for a forecast high

today in morgan hill. 58 for gilroy. 55 for dublin. 52 in pacifica and 53 in redwood city. so you get the idea. forecast eyes only reaching the mid-50s. high pressure is building in and eventually our temperatures will start to warm up just for a little bit this week before we see more fronts coming in. this is a look at our seven day forecast. the highs today just in the mid-50s. very chilly again for tomorrow morning. might see some areas starting at the freezing mark, then on tuesday, still a bit chilly in the morning, but the forecast eyes reaching. more clouds coming in. thursday a front passing across the area. that will bring us some unsettled weather and i'm keeping rain chances in starting late wednesday, keeping them if in for thursday, friday and

saturday. so it looks like a new days of sunshine are only going to be here for a kim days and then we're back to clouds and some rather cool temperatures. >> christmas lights display is not only delighting on lookers, but also raising money for a good cause. take a look at this dual between two neighbors. two homes are hit up with more than 88,000 individual lights that are computer controlled and also synchronized to music. while the homeowners don't charge to see the display, they are asking to donations to the second harvest food bank. last year they were able to raise $54,000 and they want to beat that this year and want to raise $80,000. >> it's used for us to help contribute, but also so gratifying to see other people do the same thing. you come out here, you see the

li light, they inspire people and get a very happy feeling and they're more willing to donate. >> here's what he and his neighbor are trying to make that $80,000 mark. that's because that will push them into the million pound club at the food bank and it's an honor only available to the folks who raise that kind money. he's been at that goal for years. you can help him get those bragging rights by checking out the display any night between 5:30, so after dark, and 11:00 at night. by the way, the display is solar powered, so you can also feel good about helping feed the hungry and also about being kind to the environment. and all new meet the express just moments away. here's david gregory. >> coming up, the latest on the escalating tensions with north core repap plus it is back it work for the president and congress, but what will get done during the lame duck session? will debate begin on the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty and who will win the fight over tax cuts and

intending? joining me two leaders of the senator, dick durbin, and john kyle. then it's the post-election battles heat up, battleground 2012 is already taking shape. our political round table weighs in. all coming up this morning on "meet the press." and finally this morning, how is this for a parting shot? half-court mark to hit a shot during halftime. and he nails it. the crowd goes wild. he also gets a brand new car for making that one. that is awesome. we want to thank you for making us part of your morning. the chargers take on the colts for football night in america, so our next news cast is at 11:00. you can get all of your day's news on nbcbayarea.com. "meet the press" is coming up next.

we hope you have a great sunday. and if you have chance to swing by that home in sunnyvale, 1100 tangerine way is the address.