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>> going to be nice. >> thanks for watching cbs 5 "early edition." we'll see you back here tomorrow morning bright and early at 4:30. good morning. state of the union. president obama preparing to address the nation and congress tonight with a heavy emphasis on job creation. republicans are worried about how how the president plans to pay for it off. we are live from washington including a live interview with senator john mccain. terror on tape. a video captures the moment killing 35 people inside moscow's busiest airport. we will bring you the latest on who may be responsible for the deadly attack. and the nominees are? we will find out when we take you live to hollywood for the 83rd annual academy award nominations and find out who is getting the oscar nods and which
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films are vying for tinseltown's top prize "early" this tuesday morning, january 25th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good tuesday morning to you. i'm erica hill in washington. the sun is working on coming up this hour, chris. >> looks like a beautiful morning down there. good morning. i'm yan. all eyes of the nation are on our nation's capital ae as the president prepares for his state of the union address. >> tonight coming off the president's recent address to the nation when he was speaking at the memorial service following the tragedy in tucson, there has been renewed focus on not only what the president will say, but what we will see from the members of congress even where they will be sitting tonight as we talk about this renewed sense of bipartisanship in washington. we will see who is sitting with who and whether or not that can
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last beyond tonight's speech. that is one part we will get to tonight. the speech will focus on the economy and on jobs. there will also be on the minds of many people, thoughts of what did happen in tucson. joining us now is cbs news chief white house correspondent chip reid with a preview. nice to be with you. >> good to see you in person! well, i tell you, the white house is closely guarding a lot of the specifics of this speech. they want the president to have some surprises. but there is no mystery about one thing and that is that the chief focus will be the economy and jobs. >> you'll hear the president talk about a whole host of economic things, including getting our fiscal house in order. >> reporter: the president's spokesperson was short on specifics the focus tonight will be creating jobs and call for new spending on education, roads, bridges and the environment. the president will call them investments, but republicans say it's exactly the kind of government spending they were elected to cut. >> the president look for every
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opportunity to spend more money. >> reporter: while some republicans are attacking the speech, the white house is hoping mr. obama can win popular support for his plan. >> republicans rb cool to the president's calls for investment. they say it's just more rib lal spending. what the white house hopes they can use business who is calling for the same business in infrastructure and education and use that as a web for republicans. >> reporter: other topics the president is expected to address include deficit reduction and spending cuts and a renewed called for bipartisanship and drawing down troops in afghanistan and iraq. among those who will be joining mrs. obama to watch the speech is the family of 9-year-old christine yeah taylristina tayl and giffords's surgeon peter rhee. there are two differences between this speech and the typical state of the union
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speech. not a laundry list of policies and a somber tone because of that tucson mood that will p prevail in this room a long time. >> joining us from the white house is senior presidential adviser valerie jarrett. good morning to you, miss jarrett. >> good morning. >> the president will talk about investments. the republicans see that as more spending. now, we have seen one 787 billion dollar stimulus package. do these investments amount to yet another stimulus package? >> well, look. i think what you're focus tonight is how is america going to win and what we have to do is invest but we have to invest wisely, so we have to focus on innovation and sparking the creatity and genius of the american people. this is a country that invend the light bulb to the internet and we make sure we are creating that that will lead to the jobs of the future. we want to invest in education and make sure that our children are not you just competing in
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their community but the global marketplace. we have to invest in infrastructure smartly in order to induce companies to invest in america. they need to know that the infrastructure is in place so they can conduct their businesses and what our competitors are are doing. we also have to make sure that government is smart and that we are cutting programs that are not working and tightening our belt and streamlining processes and we have to tackle the deficit in a responsible way. so we have a robust agenda but we believe we can do targeted investment and also cut where the budget needs to be cut. >> let's talk specific to jobs. because we have seen at the polls this is what people really want to talk about. the unemployment rate right now still at 9.4%. if i'm home watching tonight, what will i hear tonight specifically from the president that will make me feel better if i'm currently unemployed? >> well, the entire message of the speech is about winning for america. and all of the pillars that we have to put in place that are going to create an environment where we can jump-start the economy.
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let's take a step back, chris, and let's think about the conditions the president walked in to two years ago. the stock market in a free fall and overall economy was really in a horrible slump. we lost 4 million jobs the last six months before he took office alone. >> i understand that. but i think people, they know the back history and want to look forward and what can people at home, what will they hear tonight that is now going to be different? >> that we are going to be investing in all kinds of ways that are going to create an incentive for jobs to be created right here. what i was going to say is over the last year, we have created over a million private sector jobs. so we're moving in the right direction. companies at the end of last year reported robust earnings and seeing profits come back and there is money on their balance sheets. so what the president wants to do is to create an environment where they will invest and grow. last week, he announced a new council on jobs and competitiveness chaired by ge, that is a company growing right
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now and exporting around the world and really a model for what we should be looking for the future. so we want the best ideas from around the country, from business, from labor, from academics. we want everybody engaged in the process and the entire speech tonight is winning for the future. i think that is going to give the right signal where the country is going, moving forward, as we come out of this extraordinarily devastating economy. so we're seeing good signs, but we still have a very long way to go. >> valerie jarrett, thank you so much for taking the time and speaking with us this morning. >> you're welcome, chris. >> good to see you. >> good to see you, too. we want to hear from a longtime republican on the state of the union, arizona senator mccain joins us in the studio. >> a long time. >> we went with long time. you were just listening as well as we were hearing from valerie jarrett. she talked about what we are going to hear from the president is targeted investments to spur innovation and then also the need for streamlining government.
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>> also a little bit of blame it on bush, you snow. >> i noticed you perked up at that part. you enjoyed that part. when we look what the president will talk about in terms of investments which we have heard from your idea of tside of the aisle. there are certain things that will need to be spent on. there are certain cuts that need to be made. how do you balance those two needs? >> well, look. the president admitted that it was a shellacking that they took in the last election. i had to campaign for re-election in the last election and the message is clear. the message is clear that they want to stop the spending, it's out of control, that have mortgaged our children's future. $14 trillion debt and unimaginable and the consequences of our failure to get spending under control will be a bankrupt america. >> do you completely eliminate all spending? >> of course not. but the budget has grown by some
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trillions of dollars since -- well, the size of the government has doubled since 1999. the deficit has gone some 5 trillion dollars up. the debt has gone up, increased from $5 trillion in the last several years. there are so many things that we could really make significant cuts on. we have to convince the american people that we are serious because we have literally mortgaged our children's futures. >> what are three specifics you would like to see cut? >> agriculture subsidies is one. i hope it will be translated into savings. across the board, reductions in spending. whether no matter what it be. but agricultural subsidies is one of them. waste and mismanagement. medicare fraud. but we also have to look at the entitlements. we have to sit down. the biggest areas and the two elephants in the room are called social security and medicare and we have to address them and we
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have to reform them and we're going to have to make painful changes. >> they will be painful. a lot of american people waiting to see what the changes will be. let's talk about jobs. because we know the president is going to focus on jobs. now that so many companies have learned to do more with less, how do you convince companies to hire? how does this president or, frankly, any president in this situation spur job growth which companies are turning profitable again and doing more with less? >> let's assure them they are are not going to see another flood of regulations coming down from washington. let's cut -- when i campaigned for president i said let's cut the corporate tax rate from 35 to 25 and even lower. let's keep the research and development tax credit. let's give them incentives to invest and to hire. rather than create more government spending that has very temporary effects. look. we just tried a stimulus package of 787 billion dollars. the white house people said that maximum unemployment would be
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8%. and we would be on a road to recovery. we have seen this movie before, on, quote, investment. >> so there is going to need to be a lot of working together, no wha matter what the solutions are. >> absolutely. >> you started to make jokes where everybody is going to sit tonight. it's a prom night for the state of the union who is your date for the speech? it's a nice jo of bipartisanship to sit by someone from the other party. but does that continue after you all leave the room and how? >> i think so. but the fundamental difference you're going to see outlined tonight. the president will call for, more, quote, investment. we will call for reductions in spending and savings and efficiency in government and attacking some of the fundamental problems that have led to this out of control budget, which is, as i said, has mortgaged our children's futures. we can be more civil. but let's not lose our passion. some of my favorite debates were with a guy named ted kennedy who had passion like i haven't seen before or since.
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>> all right. senator mccain, appreciate your time this morning. a reminder cbs news will have complete live coverage of president obama's state of the union address tonight. it begins at 9:00 eastern time right here on cbs. we want to turn now to get you some more of the news of the day. jeff glor is standing by at the news desk with the day's headlines. good morning. >> good morning to everyone at home. we begin here with more on that terror bombing at moscow's busiest airport. a make-shift memorial is growing where yesterday's bombing killed 5 and injured more than a hundred. mark phillips has more on that in london. good morning. >> good morning, jeff. the blame game is under way in moscow following yesterday's airport bombing. the politicians are blaming the airport officials. the airport officials are saying the government's own transport police were at fault. this, while new video of the deadly explosion, was released. >> reporter: a closed circuit camera captured the moment when a normal airport scene as
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passengers move through the arrivals area of moscow's airport was turned into a scene of carnage. at first, people seemed stunned. then, as the smoke settles, the extent of the bomb's effect was revealed. >> at that moment, i saw people die on the floor. and people lying on the luggage strollers and was coming to me and was terrible. >> reporter: now the airport's lack security has led to deadly results in the past. two suicide bombingers boarded planes there and killed 90 people in 2004. and russian president medvedev has blamed airport managers for another major lapse. there were security officers on duty this morning. but they weren't there yesterday when the bomber simply walked into the area. speculation continues that islamic militants from the new york caucus region on russia's
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southern border were behind this latest attack. president medvedev ordered authorities to bring those behind the bombing to justice. but medvedev has talked tough before. so far, without results. jeff? >> mark phillips in london, this morning, thanks. lebanon what is called by some a day of rage. thousands poured into the streets. some attacked a satellite truck belonging to al jazeera. they are protesting that install the candidate as prime minister who received key support from lawmakers today. yesterday, they hinted at threats to cut off aid to lebanon. jared loughner charged in the massacre in tucson is in federal custody this morning. he pled not guilty yesterday to trying to assassinate gabby giffords. she was wounded and six others were killed in that attack. police chased in california a drunken driver through high speeds through several cities. the suspect stopped at one point but then drove off again. it lasted for an hour and a half.
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and finally it ended coming up right here when the suspect hit another car. horrible collision. we are told the driver of the other car was not badly hurt. this year's academy award award nominations are now out. oscar winner monique helped make the announcement this morning. "the king's speech" got 12 nominations and followed by "true grit" with ten. here is a list of the best picture. best actor nominees jeff bridges and jessie eisenberg and kcolin ferth. the oscars will be awarded february 27th. finally, a man in new york found his parked car was
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san francisco police have no ect information it's 7:25. time for news headlines from cbs 5. i'm elizabeth wenger. san francisco police have no suspect information after a deadly shooting in the bayview district. it happened about 1:30 this morning at a home on kirkwood avenue. one young man was killed. another has life-threatening injuries after he was shot multiple times. divers are getting ready to go back foster father delta mendota canal near patterson this morning. they are trying to find a car that may contain a 4-year-old boy who was kidnapped a week ago and the man accused of taking the boy from his grandmother. last week, five other cars were pulled out of that same canal. another arrest in san jose for aiming a laser beam at aircraft. someone shined a green laser at a small plane that was taking fruits and vegetables reid- hillview airport last night and then a -- that was taking off from reid-hillview airport last night and then a helicopter was hit. it was able to director officers on the ground to the suspect. traffic and weather around the bay area coming right up.
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good morning from the traffic center. better news off the skyway of the bay bridge this morning. we have some earlier emergency roadwork that had a couple of lanes shut down near ninth. but you can see in our live shot here, traffic looking better. they managed to get over to the right shoulder so no delays through that portion. bay bridge itself still backed up to the maze. slow and go on the approaches from the eastshore freeway.
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here's a live look at 880, seeing delays northbound into oakland. southbound slow and go into hayward. east 80 past carleton, couple of cars tangled up. we have activity there in lanes. westbound side is busy. here's robert with your forecast. >> we're starting this tuesday a little mild in some areas, a bit chilly in others. the dominant sun will control our weather and make temperatures anywhere from 8 to 15 degrees above average. 57 the normal high in santa rosa expected to get to 72 today. 59 normally in san jose, they will see 70 degrees and 11 degrees higher than average. mostly sunny skies will hold on through the close of the week. by the weekend, however, we satisfy more clouds moving in mostly -- we see more clouds moving in mostly cloudy by sunday. temperatures return to seasonal averages. ,, ,,
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good morning once again. welcome back to "the early show." erica, i know you don't have that crowd with you, but we have boisterous folks braving what is now a balmy morning compared it to yesterday here if new york. >> how high did the mercury go? >> we're in the low 30s.nf new . >> how high did the mercury go? >> we're in the low 30s. new yo. >> how high did the mercury go? >> we're in the low 30s. this is like miami here. yesterday oprah winfrey introduced a sister she didn't know she had until a few months ago. her name is patricia. oprah's mother gave her up for adoption nearly 50 years ago and coming up we'll show you more of that emotional reunion.
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>> can you imagine finding out you're oprah's sister in what a moment. also ahead this morning, we're of course in washington here for tonight's state of the union address. we know it will focus heavily on the economy and on jobs. president obama expected to layout a new plan to help will americans get back to work, but what does that plan really mean for you at home? rebecca jarvis is here in washington, as well, to explain what he and congress need to do to make that happen. and also where you can find some jobs even right now. but first i'll turn it back to you. >> here the story of a new disaster at a famous california surfing beach and a daring rescue that saves a man's life. we'll talk to the rescuer exclusively, but first, jeff glor is here with the story. i still can't believe the pictures. >> yeah, pretty incredible stuff. this drama took place 40 miles south of san francisco on saturday. a surfer nearly drowned after being hit by a surprise wave. and then the rescue.
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>> reporter: known around the world as a surfer's paradise and for its giant waves, mavericks in northern california was relatively calm over the weekend. more than a dozen surfers were riding waves of 12 to 18 feet. when they suddenly found themselves fighting a wall of water up to 30 feet. >> this wave just came barreling through like a freight train and everybody was trying to get out of the way. >> reporter: many were wiped out, including 30-year-old jacob trette. in the moments after the wave hit, only his green board was visible. >> he was probably in the water for about 12 to 15 minutes. maybe a little bit longer. but that whole time, he was being run through like a giant washing machine. >> reporter: on will this, his first trip to mavericks, trette, who is an experienced surfer, found himself pinned uncan der, unable to escape. >> sounds like he got held under for two waves and popped up face up. >> reporter: when trette did finally surface, he was unconscious. he was pulled from the
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treacherous surf in a daring rescue by russell ord, who was near by on his jet ski. ord, a freelance photographer and firefighter from australia, brought trette to shore where he helped revive him. trette was flown to stanford university medical center where he remains in critical condition. trette's brother told us he has been more responsive now that he's even been talking, which is very good news. still a long way to recovery here. >> we'll be charting his progress. let's talk now, though, for the man responsible for that rescue. joining us from los angeles russell ord. thanks for taking the time and joining us this morning. how are you doing? >> i'm doing well. >> take me through this. the pictures that we're looking at here, these massive waves, you're taking photos of the s surfers. did the waves just catch the surfers off guard?
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>> it was a pretty small day for mavericks really and then two big deep rogue waves come through and just cleaned up the whole pack. >> you've seen a lot of he's waves. i know you photograph a lot of surfers. like you said, it was kind of a mild day. then all of a sudden these massive waves come. so then what happens? you've got this group of surfers. how did you know that there were surfers in trouble? >> the first wave cleaned up about five guys. and then they got caught in the inside. and the second wave was not more than 20 seconds later. and then a surfer was waving out for a bit of help. alex from portugal, i think. and so i just zoomed in there and got him. and then that's when we thought we saw jacob in the water. but it was really hard to tell. there was a lot of white water. and so we had to get out of will. and by the time we got back, he was gone. so we went around the rocks and
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we found him there. >> when you did finally find jacob and get him loaded on to the board there, and what kind of condition was he in? >> he was in a real bad way. i actually thought he was dead for sure. i was really surprised when we got him to shore that he had a pulse. i was pretty happy about that. >> you're a firefighter. first response is kind of your way of life. what were you able to do to revive him at that point and when did you know that we've got him to a point where we can now get him to the hospital and hopefully he'll be okay? >> we pretty much just put him straight in the recovery position and just cleared the airways and then because he had a pulse, we didn't really need to do too much. but try to get some of that water out of his lungs and his stomach. he was full of water. >> a little bit of irony here. you were not even supposed to be in the area, you were supposed to be at another destination. and jet skis are actually not
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and economics correspondent rebecca jarvis. we've heard a little bit from valerie jarrett about the investments that there will be, that for the republicans translates to another stimulus and more spending. how do you make these things work and how are we actually going see job growth when as we've discussed a number of times companies now know how to do more with less? >> companies have cut costs and that basically means cutting back on jobs. and this is just a politically and economically difficult argument to make. we've seen the first stimulus go through, $787 billion. according to the cbo, that created about 3.6 million job, but a lot of people are saying we don't have the money. we don't have the ability to create jobs without either borrowing, taxing people more, or on top of that, potentially cutting back on other entitlements. so it is a very difficult path going forward and for one expects that it will be a quick one. >> that's the tough part because you know the president will talk
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about jobs, going to talk about the economy, and creating jobs. is there anything that we're going to see in the immediate, we'll wake up this morning and say that's what the president meant? >> in the immediate future, the types of jobs that they're really going after here are construction jobs. on infrastructure, things like our buildings, our streets, our roads, our bridges. the things that you see around you that need help. on top of that, the export job, the manufacturing jobs. that's why president hu from china was here in washington, d.c. last week meeting with president obama to talk about increasing those exports. but beyond that, it's technology and it's education. and those are longer term objectives. and as they're pushing for those investments in the things that you mentioned in technology and education, the infrastructure which people see on a daily basisthat you mentioned in techy and education, the infrastructure which people see on a daily basis is crumbling, there has to be a ripple effect. >> it can be a positive outcome,
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but, again, we're going back to longer term. as you mentioned, unemployment right now is 9.4%. most economists in their models don't expect unemployment to go below 9% this year. and the reality in business hand is that people just expect that we're going to see hopefully slow and steady momentum. we have yet to find a silver bullet. >> but there is a silver lining because construction and also the about medical field growing. >> health care definitely. >> thanks. just ahead, a truly emotional reunion. oprah winfrey introduces her long lost sister to america. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. ?nñu ♪
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literally shook me to my core. >> reporter: for days the queen of daytime talk held america captive with the tantalizing secret. good >> my mother had never told any one of thaws sheed given a baby up for adoption. >> reporter: on monday she revealed she discovered a honk most sister about three months ago. >> they have money this secret since 2007. she never once thought to go to the press. she never once thought to sell the story. >> reporter: oprah says that alone sealed the bond with her only surviving sister. >> she would call me and say are you hrt? i know this is hard for you to process. >> reporter: patricia was born and left in a milwaukee hospital in 1963. she was in foster care for seven years before being adopted. >> when you grow up, you don't have anybody who is a part of you.
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it's hard. >> reporter: with the help of her children, patricia made numerous attempts over the years to find her birth mother. then in 2007, she saw a local news story about oprah's mother. >> and the theirs on the back of my neck stood up. >> reporter: based on the the information patricia had from birth records, it all lined up to a perfect match that oprah is her biological sister. after reconnecting, they later sat down with their mother. >> i made the decision to give her up because i wasn't able to take care of her. >> how does this make you feel to hear this? >> i always had a feeling that she didn't mean to give me up. >> reporter: for 25 year, oprah has shared countless stories of family reunions. now she's enjoying her own. michelle miller, cbs news, new
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york. >> and it was a nice heart pelt reunion. >> and the work that she also went through to try to find out. >> how many people do you think exist in the world where you don't know your roots and then suddenly one day you wake up and you realize you belong to someone? >> they've known for a couple of year, too. oprah brought it to attention that she didn't sell her story, didn't try 00 make life difficult because oprah has had other relatives that have surfaced and done just that and that says a lot, too. so nice reunion. we'll see how it unfolds. >> absolutely. we'll be right back. this is "the early show" here on cbs.
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. ♪ good morning. you're looking at a beautiful shot of washington d.c. on this tuesday morning. our thanks to the law office of jones day for this gorgeous view that we can bring you here on ""the early show". i'm erica hill in washington. my colleagues are holding down the fort. it sounds like you have a few friends throughout on the plaza with you. >> yes. we have so many people here in new york that are excited about the state of the union. >> or people from the american red cross. >> i was a little off when i told you about the temperature earlier, as you can probably see. it's snowing here on the plaza, so it's a little below the mid 30s today. >> 20s today. feels like 22.
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it's a clipper dropping flurries, making for a gorgeous scene. >> we miss you out here. >> it's a great shot. 22 is so much better than the 2 degrees that we all had yesterday morning in new york. i'm happy for you that it's a little bit warmer there. >> the state of the union is tonight. president obama is expected to focus on getting people back to work. a message many americans want to hear. some of his ideas, like more infrastructure and education spend, however, are already meeting with strong republican resistance. we'll check in with a pair of political strategists this morning. one from each party, to see what they think the president needs to do to fix this economy. chris. >> also coming out this morning, nutrition it'ses say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. you have to get that furnace going. some people who want to lose weight try to kick start their metabolism with a little -- well, it's a big breakfast, but for all the wrong reasons because some big breakfasts are not a good idea. we're going to find out what we should have for breakfast so we don't get heavier by mistake. in theory it's good, but you got to have the right breakfast. >> right.
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that danish, probably not. >> all that bacon? >> oh, but i do like bacon. i'm sure jeff glor likes bacon too. >> bacon can go with anything. >> good point. >> bacon is the best. good morning, everyone at home. there's dramatic new video this morning of the incident when a suicide bomber set off a powerful explosion in moscow's busiest airport. travellers, you can see, are seen high pressurying through that terminal when a fiery blast rips through a doorway. 35 people were killed, and more than 100 were injured. the dead include eight foreign citizens, plus nine more wounded, but apparently no americans. russia's president today blamed poor security at the airport which had no metal detectors at the entrance. apparently they've now been installed after. in florida two st. petersburg police officers were shot and killed yesterday and an agent with the u.s. marshal's service was wounded. they were trying to serve a warrant on a career criminal who was barricaded in an attic. it added a grim toll.
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11 officers in five states were shot in the space of 24 hours. so far this month 14 police officers from coast-to-coast have been killed in the line of duty, and in 2010 police deaths around the country spiked to 162. that's an increase of more than 38% from the year before. jared loughner remains in custody this morning after pleading not guilty to trying to assassinate arizona representative gabby giffords. in houston giffords' recovery continues to go well. cbs news correspondent don teague has more. hey, don, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. well, gabrielle giffords continues on that long road to recovery here in houston. her accused shooter remains in arizona where he says he is not guilty. >> wearing an orange jumpsuit and an erie smile, 22-year-old jared loughner did not say a word, but through his attorney he pleaded not guilty to the attempted assassination of representative gabrielle giffords and the attempted murder of two of her aides.
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which district judge larry burns asked if there was any question about loughner's ability to understand the case against him, defense attorney judy clark answered, "we're not raising any issues at this time." clarke specializes in getting life sentences for clients with questionable mental health backgrounds, like the uni-bomber and olympic bomber eric rudolph. judge burns gave the government 45 days to file additional indictments that may carry the death penalty. gabrielle giffords remains in an intensive care unit, unable to move to a nearby rehabilitation facility because of excess fluid still draining from her brain. giffords is still unable to speak, but her actions have clearly touched those around her. >> she reached up, and she was holding my arm and rubbing my arm, and she reached in to pull me forward to hug me, and i said, gabby, you're going to make me cry, and she patted my back like it's okay, it's okay.
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>> reporter: well, giffords' husband, astronaut mark kelly, says is he hopeful his wife can finally leave the icu sometime between wednesday and friday. he told the houston chronicle there's more stuff she can do every day and that doctors are "very impressed." jeff. >> such great news. don, thank you. one person with special concern for gabby giffords is her brother-in-law, scott kelly. like his twin brother, mark, scott is an astronaut working right now aboard the international space station. i spoke with commander kelly just a few minutes ago. >> i think is he doing probably as well as you can expectç anyoe to do in this type of situation. he is very, you know, focused on doing the best job he can to, you know, make sure gabby gets the best recovery she can and the best long-term outcome. >> he did say he is nott sure in mark will be able to command his
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thank you so much. that's your latest weather. now let's go to the nation's capital check in with erica. >> good morning to you. thanks. the state of the union address may be the ultimate political bully pulpit. every year the president goes to congress with all eyes on him to push his agenda for the next year. cbs news white house correspondent chip reid joins us again. this time from the white house. chip, good morning again. >> reporter: well, good morning, erica.
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the white house says the top topic tonight is going to be jobs and the economy and now other own chris wragge got a preview of the speech in an interview earlier this morning with senior white house advisor valerie jarrett. >> we have to invest wisely, so we have to focus on invasion . d we invented the light bulb to the internet, and we want to make sure we are creating that ingenuity that is going to lead to jobs of the future. we want to invest in education. we need to make sure that our children are not just competing in their community, but in the global marketplace. >> reporter: now, the interesting thing about that is that in 22 seconds she used the word invest three times. republicans say, wait a minute, the president says he wants to approach this jobs and economy issue on a bipartisan basis, but invest, they say, is just code word for stimulus spending. they say that is what the republicans were elected to do away with, so while it's going to be a respectful tone in
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there, partly because there are going to be some people associated with the tucson shooting sitting with the first lady, you're going to see republicans kind of burning down there as the president talks of bipartisanship at the same time he is talking about stimulus spending. erica. >> and all eyes will be on that. chip reid at the white house for us this morning. chip, thanks. for a closer look at what we can expect and what it means heading forward joining us are republicaning strategist kevin madden and democratic strategist jim. it's good to have both of you in here in one place this morning. as we look at this, there's been a lot of talk, and jammal, i want to direct this to you first, about how the president is moving more towards the center. some republicans taking credit for that. is he hurting his standing with his own party? >> i don't think he is hurting his standing with his own party at all because if you look at where barack obama is, the administration will tell you they started off the first two years dealing with crisis. the economic crisis, the auto crisis. then they went to health care, which is something that he campaigned on. now they're coming back to some of the issues that barack obama campaigned on, but the white
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house would say they weren't able to get done in the first couple of years because of the crisis, but they're talking about education and invasion investment. those are things democrats will be better to see. >> you are saying this is status quo. >> the republicans shouldn't take credit for it. i think the economy has gotten stabilized, and the american people have certainly sent a signal to the white house that the white house needs to be back to the business that they elected barack obama to do. i think that's where the bhous thinks they are. they're going back to the business that americans elected them to do two years ago. >> what are the things that the white house looks at that as creating jobs, kevin. we heard from valerie jarrett that told chris that the speech is going to be about targeted investments. she did also mention trimming government spending. can you have both? how do you balance that? >> well, look, i think the first you have to remember that the last state of the union he said he was going to focus on jobs, and i think he was largely rejected by the polls by the american people because he didn't. he focused instead on health care. i think if you look at the word targeted investment, that's a code language for spending.
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the american public rejected that policy that the federal government spending huge amounts of money is what's going to spur private job creation and spur the economic growth in this country. so i think right now that's probably where the canyon is going to remain between the president and capitol hill republicans. >> when you look at the republican response, which we will have, of course, after the address, there are actually going to be two. one from fiscal conservative paul ryan, and even some in his party and also michelle bachman. who is in charge on the right? >> i think the house leadership is. there were stories before the election that there was a scism with the tea party and the establishment. yet, we still won 50-plus seats in the house. i think that the robinson party is still unified on core messages, which is we need to cut spending well, need to reign in the size of government and focus on growing the economy, so whether it's michelle bachman giving it in one venue and paul
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ryan giving it in another, the message is still the same, and i think that's what the american people will take away from it. >> why have two different people do that? does that help the republicans moving forward? >> i think tonight there's going to be about 365 different messages from the folks up there on capitol hill. every single inbox has an e-mail from some congressman or some senator who wants to put their stamp on the state of the union. >> on the state of the union. jammal, when you look at this, what is the president needing to do? there are plenty of americans out there who will say, you know what, i still don't have a job. unemployment is 9.4%. i don't care if you may have gotten distracted by something. what does he have to do tonight to show that is he part of the solution, not part of the problem? >> i love the state of the union because the state of the union is one of these nights like inauguration night where the president and politics sort of takes center stage. finally they can compete with, you know, snooki and the real housewives because americans are finally paying attention. they're going to arrive as an audience. the president has to go out there tonight and sell vision and values. americans want to see this will to win, this ability to win in
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the future, and they want to know what he stands for, what are the big things he wants to get done in the last two years, and tonight is one of the nights where he gets to do it, and everybody pays attention. i'll be happy they can see michelle bachman fighting paul ryan in the after show. >> well, we will look for that. we'll have to look for a little bit of the pageantry during the speech and see who is sitting with whom on date night in congress. >> i'm sitting with kevin. >> the only good thing is the movie, i think. >> good to have you both here this morning. thanks. chris, back to you. >> erica, never underestimate snooki. tell the guys that, would you, please? >> i will. >> thanks. coming up next, a big breakfast may not be a healthy breakfast. we'll look at the risk of eating too much in the morning. this is "the early show" here on cbs. the morning. this is "the early show" on cbs. no artificial ingredients. no preservatives. and no added hormones. ♪ daisy, do-do a dollop
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breakfast is frances largeman-roth. so what does this new study actually say in because i think everybody has been told eat breakfast, start that furnace. >> well, the new study showed that people who eat a really big breakfast had about -- took this in about 400 extra calories per day. now, over the course of a year, that adds up to about 42 pounds. >> so some people automatically will think now i'm just going to skip breakfast. but we don't recommend that either. p. >> no, that is not a good why either. the right thing to do is have a smart breakfast because you do need a breakfast that gets you kick started, keeps you mentalry sharp, and also people who eat breakfast tend to be healthier overall. >> so let's start with the breakfast that is no good. >> a disaster. >> just by looking at it, that's a big breakbreakfast. >> you could eat this, but hen you couldn't eat anything else
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all day long. this is about 1300 calories plus and a lot of people are just getting the sodium message, but the bacon alone will kill you. and then the cheese danish, cheese on the omelette. no fiber, no fresh fruit. so you can do much better than this. this is not the kind of big breakfast that will get you healthy. >> and of course you have the syrup and the whole milk. so here are some healthier options for you. >> exactly. you still want your eggs. fine. scramble it, add some spinach to it. it adds four calories. on an english muffin. that keeps the portion in check. and a nice side of fruit. >> and only about 300 to 500 calories. move over here, we got a few more grains, some er cereal, oatmeal. >> keeps you feeling full longer. cereal, oatmeal. >> keeps you feeling full longer.
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>> agagoing for low fat milk. and also a little tea never hurt might be. >> antioxidants. >> green tea is also wonderful for you. now, this is what i thought was very interesting. i saw pizza and i'm like that can't be good. but you told me there are worse items out here. >> you could do much worse than a slice of pizza. grab it, take to go. you're getting calcium, fiber. and then what i love, whole wheat tortilla, almond butt errands cher and chopped up fruit. >> i think a lot of people complain that the taste is just so bad. but what are some things like a hot sauce that you can add that you recommend? >> hot sauce on the english muffin there, that would help. a little honey. if you're using plain fat trfre
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is dead and another has critical wounds... after a double shooting this morning in the strict in san it is 8:25. time for some news headlines. one young man is dead and another critically wounded after a double shooting in the bayview district in san francisco this morning. police say someone entered a home on kirkwood and shot the two men. investigators are considering the possibility that the incident was gang-related. san francisco police are also on the hunt for whoever shot a young man at a public housing property. police say the victim was standing in front of valencia gardens in the mission when a suspect opened fire. the man was grazed by the bullet and not taken to the hospital. this morning, divers are back out searching a canal near patterson for any signs of a 4- year-old boy missing now for a week. crews are in an area two miles downstream from where they look last week. a witness reported seeing a car
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richmond. once you hit the bay bridge, traffic still stacked up almost to the maze. not too bad though across the upper deck into san francisco. elsewhere, we have an accident westbound 580 at 98th clearing out of the number 2 lane. and if you are on 680 southbound at burnett we have a wreck on the right shoulder slow anyway in both directions. let's check your forecast. here's robert. >> we can't call this a heat wave but it's 8 to 15 degrees above average. live look at san francisco and the transamerica tower. mostly sunny skies on tap for today. and those mostly sunny skies are going to reveal temperatures that flirt with record temperatures. 72 in our warmest of areas, 69 degrees inside the bay. low 60s at the coastline and the warm temperatures hold on through friday. by saturday, a few clouds begin moving in, but by sunday it is mostly cloudy and temperatures drop back to seasonal averages: ,,,,,,,,
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♪ are you kidding me? more snow here in manhattan? >> the snow looks nice right now falling, but it sticks there and gets slushy. >> this was actually, as far as snowfalls go, this is a nice one in new york city. i'm chris wragge with jeff glor. things heating up in hollywood all morning. the nominations are out and "the king's speech" did well leading the way with 12 nominations and "true ygrit "with ten nominatios and "the fighter" which is a great film over the past couple of months, seven nominations. >> speaking of the fighter we will talk with melissa lee of
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"the foirt. >> whfighter. >> what a fantastic performance she put on. we will have it all for you coming up. >> geoffrey rush has run an academy award for "shine" and everyone is nominated now. so well-deserving. lets get another check of the weather with marysol castro. good morning. >> good morning. as those oscar nominations were announced it was under dark skies. later today, it will be sunny. take a look at the national picture with me. you can see there is a lull over much of the country. west coast is beautiful. the jet stream is clinging to the southeast and we see the majority of the weather. the west coast, in the pacific northwest, morning fog.
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thanks so much. that is your latest weather. back inside now to chris, hooray for hollywood! >> thank you very much. great number out there and see if you can get a nomination for that next year. now the nominations for the 83rd academy awards was revealed this morning. making that announcement is the president of the motion pictures and sciences. let's hear what they said. also joining him is monique. >> hello, everybody. good morning. i'm tom sherek, president of the academy. welcome to our home. we have big announcements to announce this morning. to help me, i'm very proud to present to you academy award winner monique. >> thank you, tom! and good morning, everyone. >> the 2010 nominees for best performance by an actress in a
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"true grit." "went's bone." and "winter's bone." >> you're invited to join us on february 27th when we celebrate the very best that movies have to offer. we'll see you then. thank you. >> thank you. >> there you have it. "the king's speech" leads the pack with 12 nominations and next is "true grit" nominated for ten awards and "the social network" and "inception" picked up eight nominations. we are joined from melissa leo from park city, utah, on the tlelve. good morning and congratulations. >> thank you so much. jeremy irons is not right. my name is melissa leo! not lao! >> everyone knows your name now. >> thank you. >> the golden globe is one achievement. now to be able to say academy
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award award nominated actress, who knows? >> i have been nominated for an academy award once before. this is thrilling. marq mark wahlberg, i thank you very much so. >> it sounds like you were probably awake for this announcement? >> i got a heads-up from a lot of people and a lot of wishes. i said i can't listen. nobody knows. it's out of my hands! i happened to wake up and the clock happened to say about 6:30. i put the television on thinking that's how you find out. you watch the tv. somebody knows before anything came on the tv! i don't know how it works! i don't know, but i'm thrilled slam. >> you do sound thrilled. are you more excited this time around than the other time around? you appreciate it a little bit more? >> i can't say that, no, no. this is a singular experience in and of itself and i am totally thrilled this morning. "the fighter" is an incredible
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aplshment and begun by mark wahlberg and the eklund family living their lives and mark's love of them and david's insight to them and joining us together, amy adams and christian bale, the seven girls, the town of lowell and making magic happen to shine it up there on the screen for all of you. >> what are your thoughts on having so many of your colleagues nominated for this film? talk about a wonderful endorsement. >> it is an absolutely wonderful endorsement. i mean, i remember the first time i saw the film put together, basically, alone in a screening room with a couple of pals and just knew that, yes, indeed, we had put that lightning in a bottle and there it was on there to share with everyone. this is thrilling. this is thrilling to me the eklund family, all of the hard work of alice ward that the
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legacy will live on in a much brighter way because of the magic of hollywood. it is thrilling. >> let me ask you about the real life alice ward who suffered health issues, a heart attack a few weeks back. will you pick up the phone and give her a call and say look what we have done here? >> if y'all will give me a minute! i've been trying to shout-out to her on the tv. alice is going to be called this morning and i hope i can reach her. if not her, certainly one of her daughters i know. and, indeed, she is right here beside me. i'm in utah. she's in massachusetts. but she is right here beside me. i love that woman so much. >> congratulations to you. thank you for taking the time and talking with us. we wish you the very best. >> thank you, sweetheart. you have a wonderful day. >> melissa leo, thank you. also nominated for best actor is geoffrey rush. he is in sydney, australia.
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congratulations to you, geoffrey. >> looking kind of crazy. i've been sitting here thinking why do you guys do this in the god awful early hours of the winter morning in l.a.? it's not so bad here in sydney because it's only half past midnight so this is my time of night, you know? >> this is one of the things we want to cater to the ocean and that is why. let me ask you about "the king's speech" which was a brilliant film. when you first approached about this project you knew it was a wonderful project but didn't think it would work. what exactly did you mean by that and how wrong were you? >> that was slightly a misquote. i was always very passionate about the project. the questions i had about it were that if you looked at it on paper you looked at it as a script, you sort of thought there is a lot of obstacles and challenges to overcome here as actors and crew working on this sort of story about two middle-aged men who become
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friends. that is not an easy biline to put on a poster, you know? but i liked it very much. and i was very intrigued by the character of being an australian in this forgotten international scenario. so i got on to my agent and said, you know, if they can develop this as a screen play, i think we might have something pretty amazing here. >> and, boy, do you ever. can i ask to just take you about the performances of some are of your costars nominated as well? helen carter and colin firth? >> when we looked at the script, colin and i went five scenes and two pages long and two men sitting in chairs and talking to each other. that is not necessarily the most interesting cinematic duo but tom hooper, who is such a wonderful asstate, very
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collaborative and very questioning and very provocative director kind of guy that goes through that. i did sit opposite colin for those scenes off camera and was kind of in awe of where he was going, because tom threw the camera very close to him very early on in the shoot and just said, "i want you to feel the pressure." and i was astonished by his playfulness and his skill and slight audacity in playing a very repressed english figure but giving it this great dynamic. it was a wonderful thing to watch. >> it is a wonderful film and 12 nominations leading the way here. best of luck, geoffrey. good luck trying to get to sleep tonight. i'm sure the phone will be ringing off the hook. thank you for taking our call and we wish um the best. >> thank you, chris. >> all right. be well. joining us to talk about the nominees and the surprises,
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dalton ross, assistant managing editor for "entertainment weekly" magazine. thank you for joining us on this busy morning. >> that's all right. >> we just talked with geoffrey rush. "the king's speech" leads the way with 12 nominations. >> we got a good old-fashioned oscar battle on our hands now. it looked like the social network would run away with things and running every single critics prize for best picture. "the king's speech" won the producer of the gouuild's award last week. >> how about colin firth in the best actor category? i think for all intents and purposes, it looks like he is the runaway favorite here. >> he's a lock. i think he has that one nailed down. he is fabulous in that film. james franco, other great people in that category as well, but i really think colin firth carries this film. they are all great performanced.
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but this is colin's first film. i think he is going to run home with that trophy. >> so advantage "the king's speech" leads the best actor role. how about natalie portman in the best actress role? >> i think between her and annette bening who always seems to be beaten out but this time she has another good shot against natalie portman. i give the edge to portman but annette bening could come in. or jennifer lawrence who did a great job in "winter's bone." we knew she would get nominated but john hawk in the supporting category and picture nomination and screen play. they have to be doing cartwheels right now. a great independent film and get a lot of great recognition. >> "the social network" eight nominations and some think that is shorter than what it maybe merited? >> it lost out on some of the
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technical categories we figured it would. i guess if you look for a surprise the fact that andrew garfield was not nominated in a supporting actor category and surprised me. "the king's speech" is coming up close on its heels but the biggest front-runner i think is still "the social network." it's a battle and waged in the press the next couple of weeks leading up to february 27th. "true grit" is a movie i loved and they were recognized big time. >> i'm with you. should have been high-fiving here! >> fist pump, high-five. >> it was good. it got a doughnut at the golden globes and completely shut out and ten nominations here. you got jeff bridges. you see there haley steinfield just turned 14 and got nominated in a best supporting actress. it got into best picture and screen play and had a great day. >> thanks for the cohen brothers because it looked like they could be on the outside looking in but they slid in. >> i thought they would be on the outside for director. they did squeak in and they have
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to be ecstatic. >> jeff bridges two years in a row dressed in a tux and walking down the red carpet. haley was here with us on "the early show" a few weeks back. she is darling. >> like kate winslet in the reader you didn't know if she was going supporting actress or actress. we saw in lease a leo and amy adams in "the fighter" stiff competition. >> you mentioned annette bening you think possibly she could take the best actress award. "the kids are all right." also nominated. this movie is doing as well. >> it's the only film from the globes in that musical comedy category that got nominated for best picture and annette bening is their best chance to bring home some hardware. annette bening has been waiting for this a while and maybe this is her year if she can just get that dancing black swan out of her way. >> she has been hillary swanked a few times! >> she has been swanked!
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>> "the fighter" we spoke with ma lease a leo a couple moments ago. >> everybody but mark wallberg. >> the producer of this film he will be ek at that timic. we thought he might get nominated for best actor. probably not. christian bale has a shot at supporting actor. >> "inception" do they take away any oscars? nominated a bunch of times. >> they will get a couple categories but snubbed in the technical cat core. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all. those who look only to the past or the present, are certain to miss the future. do not pray for easy lives.
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nice job. way to bring the weather in to us. >> fun to watch the nominations. >> what do you think? "the social network" everybody thought would wipe out. >> i think it was the best movie and and think it will win best picture but still more of a competition. i'm surprised that "the town" wasn't nominated. it was a good movimovie. >> i saw that a couple times. i like it. i'm going against the grain and say "the spinning's speeking's " >> i loved "the fighter." i love melissa leo. melissa, there you go. >> congratulations, ma is a. >> christian bale, one of the finest performances. >> "batman." have a great day. see you tomorrow here on "the early show." ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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headlines... homicide investigators say a double shooting in good morning. it is 8:55. i'm sydnie kohara with your cbs 5 news headlines. homicide investigators say a double shooting in san francisco this morning may be gang-related. police say about 1:30, someone entered a house on kirkwood avenue in the bayview district and opened fire. one young man was killed, another has life-threatening injuries. pg&e facing more demands about the construction of the san bruno pipeline that exploded in september. lawmakers want to know the names of the workers who installed that pipe in 1956 and the names of the inspectors on the project. the utility says the ntsb would have to release the data. and spider dan's trial wrapping up in san francisco today. that man, dan goodwin, is facing misdemeanor charges for climbing the 58-story millennium tower on labor day. closing arguments are expected
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reported northbound 101 near peninsula avenue speeds around 39 miles per hour. otherwise, we have a couple of new fog advisories issued, one for the benicia bridge and one for the carquinez bridge so some areas of low visibility up there. at the bay bridge toll plaza, things are improved a bit. a smidge. backed up to the 880 overcrossing now. so a good 15-minute wait to get you on to the bridge and then we are seeing a few slow speeds on the upper deck, as well. robert has your forecast. >> thank you. you talked about that fog particularly around the carquinez bridge. well, as we take live look from mount vaca, we see it. it is tule fog that's pushed in from the central valley and it's beginning to make its insidious approach into places like concord and into the delta. we expect some burnoff today revealing mostly sunny skies and temperatures flirting with record highs. 72 in our warmest of areas. 69 at the bay and the warmup continues through the close of the week.
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