abrams is known for his actions sci-fi tv shows such as loss, alias, and bridge.arry potter has been booted from the box office, the movie tangled with third place this week. some power watched the torras into second place, angelina chihli and johnny depp starred in the international thriller. the tourist walked away with $17 million. and winning in the we can build up horse in history, the latest chronicles of money up, the third installment. may 24th $0.5 billion. the first movie cleared 65 million in its opening weekend. this movie cost 150 million just to make. looking for the perfect cocktails to get into the holiday spirit, well i d.c. bar asserts the president and first lady now he is serving you. here's a step- by-step recipe for a traditional mall the drink. >> we're at the columbian room in washington d.c., we have the great ability to make plastic cocktails. what do the things that i like during the holidays, we start by putting a bottle of wine into a pan, the thing is that you don't have to use an alcoholic wines. then we get our spices together, you

abrams is the chief of oncology at san francisco's general hospital. >> so ironically studies have actually starts everybody when they hear this information that people who chronically smoke marijuana may actually have a decreased risk of developing lung cancer compared to people who don't smoke at all. >> abrams who has work on several studies on the effects of marijuana on the body says ingesting burned material through the lungs is probably never beneficial no matter what you are smoking. but technology is changing. patients can now inhale thc, the chemical compound in marijuana without many of the harmful effects of smoke by using a special vaporeyeser a technique that may peak the therapy more mainstream. >> you are vapourizing the active ingredients and inn veil ag vapor which is much cooler and exposes you to much less carbon monoxide. >> go to cbs 5.com. click on the icon to send me your good question. >> well, we have breaking news on the free agent front. when we come back, good news for the oakland athletics. clive lee is not coming to a stadium near you will. well, at least he i

abrams is known for his actions sci-fi tv shows such as loss, alias said in french. harry potter has finally been booted from the box office. the 3 d fairytale pulled in more than 14.6 billion for the box office this week in stockpot lodge the movie but taurus.but tourist walked away h $17 million and willinto winning the weekend the voyage of the don trotter $24.5 million. pushewin yourself on camera just isn't good enough, will coming up we regard to showing how to take pictures like a pro. the hottest holiday gifts are next. time now for tech talk with kids like. >> here's what's hot right now in the digital camera world. fuji film is a first camera maker to get a camera on the market that takes three the pictures. in is called the 56 real three d w one. it costs $400. it is cool and who to take three pitchers, but to view the pictures she needed three be laptop r three d t b which both cost over $1,000. or fuji does make it three d a gains eroded display frame, the cost $600. so little expensive right now you might want to wait till next year. this camera the sam

decreased risk of developing lung cancer compared to people who don't smoke at all. >> reporter: abrams, who has worked on several studies on the effects of cannabinoids in the body says ingesting burned materials through the lungs is probably never beneficial no matter what you're smoking but technology is changing. patients can now inhale thc, the chemical compound in marijuana, without many of the harmful effects of smoke by using a special vaporizer. a technique that he believes may make the therapy more mainstream. >> so instead of inhaling burnt plant product, you're vaporizing the active ingredients and inhaling a vapor which is much cooler and exposes you to much less carbon monoxide. >> reporter: go to cbs5.com, click on the icon to send me your good question. >>> as you well know, california is $28 billion in debt. but that is not stopping one lawmaker from asking for more money. why the assemblyman says california owes him millions of dollars in back pay. >>> san francisco's bid for the america's cup hitting some rough sailing lately. what the latest plan will cost and where

there was an actual military compounds in a huge military compound we pulled in there was an abrams tank that was parked at one of the entrances. and started asking me what was going on because there were some demonstrators down the road and. i asked him if any of them at any weapons and he said no. and so what do you think the. you know they're going to stage a coup against sister anything like that and he said no they they're just down there said and you know chant and yell and i go behind my home beat and tear open an m.r.e. and all a sudden i hear a gunshot i step out from behind mom be. as soon as i step out from behind mommy my marines are discharging their weapons and the demonstrators so on sling my weapon and i put the the stock up and. the butt of the rifle stock up on my shoulder and i start firing. and i'm hitting i'm hitting the demonstrators no i am. and of course i'm aiming at the head i mean we. center mass but i don't know who called cease fire all i know is it was colic simultaneously and we all just stopped firing. the lieutenant he comes up to me and he goes what the

. >>> remember jack abram y? he is free and on -- on probation. he was released in june and on home confinement until june and worked at a baltimore pizzeria. he served part of his sentence. >>> michelle rhee has had two feature add appearances on oprah and today she's speaking in denver on education reform. she stepped down from d.c. schools in october after three years on the job. hundreds of principals and teachers were fired. she now heads a group called student first that aims to raise a billion dollars for reform. >>> there are indication that some house democrats are warming slightly to the tax cut deal president obama struck with the republicans. >> i have said repeatedly and what the president has said and what president clinton said, is that i think the president believes and i believe that increasing the tax load on working americans at this point in time, on january 1st, would not be helpful to continue to grow the economy. as a result, we don't want to see that happen. >> the measure won overwhelming support in a accept at test vote t

that could have turned out very badly for him. >> stephanie abrams in for al this morning. thank you for joining us out in the cold there. that was nice. >> you're welcome. and let's have a look at our forecast here. in the northeast, our temperatures will be into the mid-30s as we head through the day today. sunshine all the way down the i-95 corrid >> matt, over to you. >> all right, steph. thanks very much. >>> still ahead, what happened to baby gabriel who vanished nearly a year ago? police have now released a chilling phone call made by the boy's mother. we'll have the latest and we'll talk to that woman's grandfather. but first, this is "today" on nbc. ding dong ding, dong ♪ hark how the bells, sweet silver bells, all seem to say, ♪ ♪ throw care away, christmas is here, bringing good cheer, ♪ ♪ to young and old, meek and the bold, ding dong ding, dong, ♪ ♪ that is their song, with joyful ring, all caroling, ♪ ♪ one seems to hear, words of good cheer, from everywhere, ♪ ♪ filling the air, oh how they pound, raising the sound, ♪ ♪ o'er hill and dale, telling their tale,

abrams, where he said, at a certain point, whether or not i agree with you on your selection or what your values are, at a certain point, we need to be putting forward a vision for san francisco and -- [applause] -- and again, having been here long enough, i know that my vision for san francisco is probably not shared by every member of this board of supervisors, but until we put our visions out there and i'm comfortable putting my vision out there, although i think i've tried a few times over the course of this process -- until we put out our competing or tangential or collaborative visions for san francisco out on this floor and start discussing, until we start comparing those visions of actual names of san francisco electors that we could consider, we are not going to make progress and if we come here on january 4th, is it? if we come here on january 4th and who knows if gavin newsome is sworn in on january 3, or not, are we going to do the same thing? are we going to take our charge to appoint a successor mayor if the mayor has sworn in the lieutenant governor the previous day? a

office scandals, -- abram office scandals, senator feingold pushed through a tough ethics and lob which aring reform bill, which had closure requirements and a crackdown on abusive practices by lobbyists. as chair of the judiciary committee's constitution subcommittee, senator feingold cast the senate's lone vote agait the u.s.a. patriot a. mr. president, for nearly two decades in this body senator feingold has been an outspoken champion of working americans fighting for safer workplaces, right to organize, better public schools, better access to higher education and health care. he has always stood up for wisconsin's

abrams, where he said, at a certain point, whether or not i agree with you on your selection or whatour values are, at a certain point, we need to be putting forward a vision for san francisco and --

. >> doctor donald abram's, chief of oncology at san francisco hospital. >> ironically studies have actuallyound, startle everybody that hear this information, that those who smoke marijuana may have a decreased risk of developing lung cancer compared to those who don't at all. >> he has done studies on the effects of cannabinoids, he says ingesting burnt items to the lungs is never beneficial no matter what you're smoking but technology is changing. people can now inhale thc without many of the harmful effects of smoke by using a special vip riser, a technique that he believes may make the therapy more mainstream. >> so instead of inhealing products you're vacation pay rising the active ingredients and inhealing a vapor which is much cooler and exposes you to much less carbon monoxide. >>> 0 go to cbs5.com and click on icon to send me your good question. >>> the warriors fast start has gone up in smoke. i'm dennis o'donnell. >>> and cliff lee picks his suitor. the new team might surprise you next. i think there are eggnog people and non-eggnog people. and which are you? i'm a fish. on a tre

host: floyd abrams, first amendment lawyer, is with us from new york city.lking about the legal issues surrounding the wikileaks documents. next phone call. caller: thank you for taking my call. the lastç person talking about home foreclosure, we citizens have a right to know far more of the information that is being hidden away. the last person from alaska, homeowners, not everyone can afford to, we need help the buyers, there is no free lunch -- host: get us back on track here. caller: if we had a wikileaks thing going on to show what is going on behind the scenes, which people, they can go buy these homes any time. çthe thing is, we have a need o know in this world. host: floyd abrams, can you make that case? guest: i think he will try to. i think the theme of the caller is correct. that is to say, there is the need for more information made available to more people, more often by their governments. çone of the problems here, a problem that we have had for significant over classification of documents in washington, that too many secrets are not secret,

finally passed university fees will triple to a back some nine thousand pounds a year position the abrams germy corben says the move will effectively bar the poor for. higher education. what we're seeing is the end of access to higher education for people of average and below average incomes it's going to really preserve the wealthier in the future the trend will be we'll have a less well educated less skilled less qualified population i see education as an investment for the future will vested in young people revestive in skills we're investing in knowledge we're investing in our future that where is the economic growth of the future where the advantages of to morrow where the writers and the artists and the musicians of tomorrow this is cutting at the core of society those that created this economic mess that we're in are the ones who should pay for it's a transaction tax a wealth tax a tax on the very wealthiest people in our society would help to close the gap there is no need to basically hit the poorest people in our society in order to pay off this debt in march in time we need a m

we have got stephanie abrams doing the foirg. >> i found a football crowd.recast. santa, pay attention. historically speaking, in new york city, a 10% chancef a white christmas. minneapolis, a 73% chance of a white christmas. and right now new york city is right on the edge of a white christmas. we have a storm system tracking across the country, so it's a little iffy. >>> there's the an mateo bridge looking dry. the clouds are filling in of king out the sun andll the lightning and rain you see on the north coast will be edging closer to the bay area. as we head towards 4:00 tonight we'll likely see a chance of rain picking up especially into the overnight, breezy with showers through the day. slight chance of a thundershower before things calm down thursday and friday. >>> and it's time to find out who celebrates birthdays. >> it's christmas time and holiday times, beginning to look like it. what a classic. happy birthday from smucker's. emily weil, from cincinnati, ohio. good chili in that town. 111 years old. and we have helen carr of jacksonville, florid

host: floyd abrams, first amendment lawyer, is with us from new york city.rrounding the wikileaks documents. next phone call. caller: thank you for taking my call. the lastç person talking about home foreclosure, we citizens have a right to know far more of the information that is being hidden away. the last person from alaska, homeowners, not everyone can afford to, we need help the buyers, there is no free lunch -- host: get us back on track here. caller: if we had a wikileaks thing going on to show what is going on behind the scenes, which people, they can go buy these homes any time. çthe thing is, we have a need o know in this world. host: floyd abrams, can you make that case? guest: i think he will try to. i think the theme of the caller is correct. that is to say, there is the need for more information made available to more people, more often by their governments. çone of the problems here, a problem that we have had for significant over classification of documents in washington, that too many secrets are not secret, too much that is classified ha

host: floyd abrams, first amendment lawyer, is with us from new york city.lng about the legal issues surrounding the wikileaks documents. next phone call. caller: thank you for taking my call. the lastç person talking about home foreclosure, we citizens have a right to know far more of the information that is being hidden away. the last person from alaska, homeowners, not everyone can afford to, we need help the buyers, there is no free lunch -- host: get us back on track here. caller: if we had a wikileaks thing going on to show what is going on behind the scenes, which people, they can go buy these homes any time. çthe thing is, we have a need o know in this world. host: floyd abrams, can you make that case? guest: i think he will try to. i think the theme of the caller is correct. that is to say, there is the need for more information made available to more people, more often by their governments. çone of the problems here, a problem that we have had for significant over classification of documents in washington, that too many secrets are not secret, t

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. >> name something everyone knows about abram what lincoln. >> [ bleep ] the slaves. >> the slaves. >> woo, yeah, i love it. yeah! >> i just write personal poems. >> jimmy: is that right? >> i don't give gifts anymore. >> jimmy: terrible news for your friends. diddy dirty money. ♪ >> jimmy: "jimmy kimmel live" back in two minutes with sean "d "diddy" combs, diddy dirty money "d "diddy" combs, diddy dirty money and music from jeff bridges. exa so i bought k-y kissable sensations for the body. jeff bridges. chocolate for her. mdiddy dirty money and jeff bridges. uhjsdidd money and jeff bridges. diddy di money and jeff bridges. diddy di money and jeff bridges. diddy di money and jeff bridges. new k-y brand yours and mine kissable sensations for the body. [ male announcer ] got a cold? [ sniffles ] [ male announcer ] not sure what to take? now click on the robitussin relief finder at robitussin.com. click on your symptoms. get the right relief. ♪ makes the cold aisle easy. ♪ the robitussin relief finder. it's that simple. >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live!" tonight -- fr

. >> acting governor abram maldnado has declared emergencies.mergencies were claimed in six other counties and with more rain expected people are bracing for the worst. eileen is there with our story. >> family and friends helped salvage what they can from christy jones' garage in laguna beach. her place sits right next to a riverbed. heavy rain turned it into a raging river strong enough to carry a huge container. >> it could have taken the roof off. all the water. it was just a wave coming over. >> down the creek sits a porsche. further down a minivan. an eyewitness news viewer shot this video during the worst of the flooding. downtown laguna beach submerged in water. what a difference a day makes. but the damage is done. officials report nearly 50 businesses flooded. 20 homes with moderate damage. another casuality, the boardwalk at the main beach. >> you are looking at millions of dollars worth of damage. >> cleanup also needed in dove canyon where mud buried cars and severely damaged five homes. in san juan capistrano, repairing damage alon

abram how far. oil or cream? cream. some use hydrogenated oil. reddi-wip uses real dairy cream. nothing's more real than reddi-wip. [ male announcer ] you know her. we know diamonds. together we'll make her holiday. that's why only zales is the diamond store. where you can get up to $1,000 off now through sunday. >>> now that the house overwhelming pass aid stand-alone repeal of don't ask, don't tell, the senate got more than 60 votes in support of the appeal. the end of our grown government's blatant discrimination and federally mandated lying on that score is near. but only if certain senate republicans are unsuccessful at running ow out the clock. at first blush it looks good. it may not get slowed down by the mammoth authorization bill you and proceeds to the senate. meaning it has to get through one cloture vote, not two. four gop senators said they would support that. that makes enough to overcome the filibuster. tonight, word that harry reid will file for cloture on don't ask, don't tell and the dream act. meaning votes for both could come as early as saturday. dream act

stephanie abrams is in for al this morning. stephanie, good morning. >> good morning.re you hoping for a white christmas? >> yes. >> what do you want for christmas? >> him. >> just your husband? >> just my husband. >> that's easy. let's have a look where we'll see the snow falling through the day. that is through the upper midwest. otherwise, it's rain throughout the southern plains. we could see about one to three inches of snow on the ground. some of you maybe a little bit more, three to six inches. otherwise, sunshine along the i-95 corridor and throughout the sout >> good christmas eve morning, bay area. we have a beautiful sunrise over the area. take a look at the san francisco live shot. a few high, thin, whispy clouds and sunshine for the first part of the day. the clouds will be back and winnie conditions into this evening. 55 degrees and rainy throughout the day christmas day. clearing by early sunday. hope you have a great, safe christmas eve, everybody. >>> lots of glitter on christmas day on the plaza this morning. amy, over to you. >> thank you. holiday pr

stephanie abrams is filling in. >> hi. the dream job is to be on the "today" show.ave driern moving i tomorrow. we will get a brief break from this mess but still have rain in our forecast saturday. here's how much we will see today, looks like sudden shine and showers iethn santa cruz thmounance of the mo of the moisture moved on and clouds in san francisco and fog and mist. heavy rain moved on. showers ending today and a couple of dry days ahead with fog and rain and wind picking up into saturday and sunday. >> carl, back to you. >>> this morning on "today's" money 911, advice to help fix your financial problems. from should you by a new car or a used one, to getting back into the work force after taking time out to raise your kids. jean chatzky is author of "money 911." and author of finish rich.com and author of start over finish rich. everybody, good morning to you. want to get right to it. with amy in banner elk, north carolina. joining us on skype. amy, good morning, happy holidays. what's your question? >> i have always been advised to never buy a new car du

then first amendment lawyer floyd abrams examines the various legal issues surrounding the wikileaks case. later, erik milito talks about the american petroleum institute's opposition to the obama administration is a ban on offshore oil drilling. "washington journal" is next. "washington journal" is next.

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office scandals, -- abram office scandals, senator feingold pushed through a tough ethics and lob which aring reform bill, which had closure requirements and a crackdown on abusive practices by lobbyists. as chair of the judiciary committee's constitution subcommittee, senator feingold cast the senate's lone vote against the u.s.a. patriot act. mr. president, for nearly two decades in this body senator feingold has been an outspoken champion of working americans fighting for safer workplaces, right to organize, better public schools, better access to higher education and health care. he has always stood up for wisconsin's family farmers and rural communities. senator feingold has accomplished important and even historic things during his tenure as a united states senator. in my book the highest accolade is that russ feingold is a good and decent person with a passion for fairness, social justice and honest an open government. for me it has been an honor to be his friend and colleague for 18 years. our friendship will continue as will russ feingold's fight for progressive causes that he

. ♪ stephanie abrams is filling in for al. >>> are you excited about your white christmas? you trade in the steak for the lobster. we'll see a white christmas, our predicted white christmas all the way down to the south potentially, even the atl. here's our forecast, before we get to christmas, christmas eve, right? we will see sunshine anywhere from the >> thank you, stephanie. i'm meteorologist christina loren. take a look at the beautiful drive this morning over the golden gate. nice, mostly clear skies, shaping up for the second half of your day. the sun will return, but it won't be back for long. we've got another round of storms to deal with, as we head into your christmas holiday. temperaturewise today, mostly in the upper 50s. another round of storms as of saturday into sunday. have a great thursday, bay area. >>> you might not have a white christmas in florida but a beachy forecast. that's not a bad trade-off, amy. >>> thanks so much. coming up next, a big pur surprise with expectant military moms. first, "today" on nbc. set your pace to island time. rich chocolate

j j abrams is working on a new tv show sought in san francisco, alcatraz. will include the frame is still. the premise is that a group of the stapes disappear from creativity, they reappear risen day. a few actors will start including one from loss. he's known fraction sci-fi tv shows so we will see what happens with that. >> the latest chapter in the chronicles of 90 and has set out to the top of the box office. the voice and of the don trotter to again for a half-million.it took in 24 or vn comic tour is 17 million, a tank of 14 million.tangled 14 ml be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. five a m on the kron 4 morning news, monday december 13th top stories, the senate is expected to vote on the tax-cut bill. republicans will look at what's in store. >> 5:00 a.m. at teenagers arrested after girl is raped and stabbed along with her 18 year-old brother. details coming up. >> powerful storm across the midwest, blizzard conditions check out their roof coming down on the stadium. more on this amazing video coming

this one comes from brent abrams. host: back to the phones. our discussion on canceled compromise. caller: good morning. this is the real ronald from lynchburg. it occurs to me that bernie sanders was amazing in that he has called attention to his ideas but what he did. looking at what the president did and it is distressing to me. the president has two roles. it would appear that he just abandoned or abdicated the role of leader as the democrats, caucused with republicans, came up with a plan that was the republican plan, brought it back and pushed it on the democratic party. he has now spread his public lobbying to lambaste and get the democrats to come over to a compromise and take or leave the republican plan to be presented. what is amazing, what would a true leader of the democratic party use that other than educating the american people excoriating republicans to go along with tax cuts for every one up to $250,000, saying to them that you have got to change. he would be lambasting republicans, making the country see that they were the ones that were holding up the rest of th

from minnesota, and i'm a little too young to be in any position of authority or knowing when jack abram off, you know, sort of ran the town -- >> he didn't run the town, by the way. he had some influence, yeah. >> but i'd be willing to met that members go to fewer basketball games, or if they do, they pay for the tickets. and a lot of sort of the perks that came along have probably been cut down pretty dramatically. >> there's been change there, right? >> in thatceps, you know, at the end of this lecture, i'll buy it, there's been some change. >> right. so there's been change in the form of gifts, gifts in the form of going to concerts, but also games. and also the trips are way, way down, and they're scrutinized by the ethics committees very carefully, and you're given permission or not to go on a flight. but, you know, the big loophole is they campaign. you can still go on a jet to go out to a campaign event paid by the campaign or political action committee. you cannot have -- even then federal registered lobbyists cannot be on the flight, but you can do this. so lots of people in th

floyd abrams, not known as a radical, arguably the leading first amendment and practitioner in the country said, quote, in responding to senator lieberman's precipitous urging for holder to indict assange said, quote, i would say the potential risks of we the benefit of the prosecution. i think the instinct of prosecution is rational and i don't mean to criticize the government for giving serious consideration, but at the end of the day, i think it could do more harm to the national security properly understood than letting it go. jefferson and madison had it right, information as a currency democracy, freedom of speech is inviable, and i would add that secrecy is the cancer, the destroyer of democracy. we have overwhelming it samples some of which were in your statement, mr. chairman, of what happens when information paid for by the taxpayers reflective of the public right to know is kept secret. if you take all of the present and probable future disclosures under the wikileaks initiative, the vast majority should never have been classified, the vast majority are reprehensible use of peop

from minnesota, and i'm a little too young to be in any position of authority or knowing when jack abram off, you know, sort of ran the town -- >> he didn't run the town, by the way. he had some influence, yeah. >> but i'd be willing to met that members go to fewer basketball games, or if they do, they pay for the tickets. and a lot of sort of the perks that came along have probably been cut down pretty dramatically. >> there's been change there, right? >> in thatceps, you know, at the end of this lecture, i'll buy it, there's been some change. >> right. so there's been change in the form of gifts, gifts in the form of going to concerts, but also games. and also the trips are way, way down, and they're scrutinized by the ethics committees very carefully, and you're given permission or not to go on a flight. but, you know, the big loophole is they campaign. you can still go on a jet to go out to a campaign event paid by the campaign or political action committee. you cannot have -- even then federal registered lobbyists cannot be on the flight, but you can do this. so lots of people in th

floyd abrams, not known as a radical, arguably the leading first amendment and practitioner in the country said, quote, in responding to senator lieberman's precipitous urging for holder to indict assange said, quote, i would say the potential risks of we the benefit of the prosecution. i think the instinct of prosecution is rational and i don't mean to criticize the government for giving serious consideration, but at the end of the day, i think it could do more harm to the national security properly understood than letting it go. jefferson and madison had it right, information as a currency democracy, freedom of speech is inviable, and i would add that secrecy is the cancer, the destroyer of democracy. we have overwhelming it samples some of which were in your statement, mr. chairman, of what happens when information paid for by the taxpayers reflective of the public right to know is kept secret. if you take all of the present and probable future disclosures under the wikileaks initiative, the vast majority should never have been classified, the vast majority are reprehensible use of peop