a stadium implosion, take a look, the west grand stand at texas christian university in fort worth, texas imploded this morning. there it goes. the upper deck collapsed like a loaf of bread falling in slices, one after another. the grand stand was demolished as part of a $105 million renovation. the project will be completed in 2012. probably won't cover it like we just covered the implosion. that's fun to watch. >>> fair assessment to say one of our teams is imploding? >> the niners are! however, they play in the worst division, one of the worst divisions in football history. in fact, the niners were hoping they would win today tied for first place in the nfc west. and the raiders, they have to dot impossible to keep their playoff hopes alive. that would be to beat san diego on home turf, next. right now, buy a samsung intensity ii for $29.99 and get one free. or, buy a blackberry curve 3g for $49.99 and get one free. >>> raiders were given virtually no chance to beat the chargers in san diego, where they had lost seven straight. meanwhile, chargers had won 18 straight games in the month

. >> also joining us from the federal penitentiary in fort worth, texas, where she is serving time for refusing to testimony against bill clinton isusan mcdougle. >> hi larry. >> and john wong. also joining us from arkansas, jim guy tucker, william beginsburg joining us, the attorney representing ms. lewinsky. leon panetta, also vernon jordan. >> thanks, larry. >> larry, i am so glad to have this opportunity to discuss -- >> also joining us is marshall lewis, the mother of monica lewinsky and charlie tree is with us. in additoin, jning us from washington as always brent perry, the attorney for paula jones defense fund. and maria, a democratic fundraiser. donovan campbell, the attorney for paula jones, katherine willie is with us. danny ferguson, the state trooper, and finally bruce lindsay. everyone, thank you for joining us. >> good to be here. chris: when we come back, "time magazine" is out with their top 10's of the year. what were the top 10 political gaffes. plus "scoops and predictions." be right back. chris: welcome back. "time magazine" is out with a raft of top 10 list this i

fort worth, texas. next on the republican line. gerry, on medicare and will survive the baby boomers. caller: i think it could very well survive, it would just be very difficult. capping one of the things you are really missing -- they are all talking about medicare. but if you look at all of the unfunded liabilities we have for our public employee ease, that make huge amounts of retirements and benefits, i think it well exceeds what social security liability is. that is one of the things that i have not seen addressed here lately, they put the numbers where they say, ok, here is what the unfunded liabilities for the city and federal and please that get enormous benefits, enormous benefits -- you get so little. host: cut those to save medicare? caller: yes, that's right. exactly right. talking about people that retire with such enormous amounts of money. i have friends that worked all of their lives. their benefits are so great. the salaries are so enormous. it is completely unbelievable that a republican can stand up there and say

been called the first information war the first serious information war and it is being fried to a fort worth new weapons in a new arena but it's still weapons and it's still a battle but it's still a battlefield and. the prosecution thought in sweden have been has been attacked visa has been a tight master card has been paper twitter every basically everybody who has somehow been seen as politically opposing wiki leaks have been attacked in the past few days and so have. been supporting wiki leaks by supposedly other people it's very very intense on the net right now. this cyber war is unlikely to prevent getting the songes extradition as there is an ulterior motive that's if you have civil rights activists in hand and just go look at the fact that how often does interpol go off to people on sex related charges it's just it's on hold be chasing people for your it's own charges that are related to sexual offenses so i think it's completely politically motivated the swedish prosecutors dropped just this case two months ago and now they've just picked it back up again up to the israelis so i wo

>> mason: don teague at dallas/fort worth airport. thanks. and then there's that other holiday rush-- the stampede for last-minute gifts. the stores were ready, many were open round-the-clock the past few days, but time is just about up. elaine quijano is in new york's times square tonight. elaine? >> reporter: good evening, anthony, for those shoppers still racing around stores tonight, the finish line is almost here. and this holiday season looks like retailers are turning out to be the big winners. in the home stretch of holiday shopping, the strategies are all the same. >> everybody's coming in and just grabbing whatever it is that they need. whatever they can get their hands on. >> reporter: at 1:00 a.m. this morning, shoppers in new york were out in force and paying for procrastination. >> everybody's drinking starbucks to stay awake and keep going. >> reporter: it's turning out to be a very merry christmas for retailers this year, with total holiday sales expected to top $451 billion, just short of the record total of $452 billion set

been called the first information war the first serious information war and it is being fried were fort worth new weapons and a new arena but it's still weapons and it's still a battle of it's still a battlefield so. the prosecution authority in sweden have been has been attacked visa has been attacked master card has been attacked. twitter every basically everybody who has somehow been seen as politically opposing wiki leaks have been attacked in the past few days and so have. been supporting wiki leaks by supposedly other people it's very very intense on the net right now that's turning our attention away from the issue of these cyber attacks let's talk about the wiki leaks founder julian assange rape charges have resurfaced against him and after being dropped in the first place and there's talk of america wanting extradited eventually from sweden to the u.s. tell me this why is why sweden bowing to u.s. pressure here if this is the case. so we don't hurt a very poor record unfortunately of being independent from the us. the politicians claim that we have quite an independent justice system

been called the first information war the first serious information war and it is being tried were fort worth new weapons and a new arena but it's still weapons and it's still a battle it's still a battlefield so. the prosecution thought. has been attacked visa has been attacked master card has been attacked hate twitter every basically everybody who has somehow been seen as politically opposing wiki leaks have been attacked in the past few days. who have been supporting wiki leaks by supposedly other people it's very very intense on the net right now traffic jams are as prominent a feature of the russian capital as red square and moscow's right to not just choked by cars at russia the congestion continues throughout the rest of the day and this is led to some motorist coming up with some rather creative ways to pass the time in the gridlock as are found out. terrified of traffic. most schools miles of jam snaking back as far as the eye can see and in the midst of a lot of angry drivers fighting off road rage if you want to get anywhere better plan and early start. to the half hours that's an

think of a line between here in fort worth. basically that is where the frontiers that for 40 years, well, 35 years. in other words, they said that enough is enough. there are 4,000 of these guys. we have 51,000 casualties at gettysburg alone. so this final will to go get them was the beginning of the end of the comanches. that was double, of course, with the slaughter of the buffalo where they took their food away. 1871. the guy that they sent was a guy named randall mackenzie. so many people that nobody has ever heard of including jack hayes, we will mackenzie, the great indian fighter, but he was grant's favorite officer in the civil war. and so you have these and graeme warriors unleashing their guy against parker and the fall of 1871. it is one of those great kind of moments. it is the will to destroy them finally. but it also, i guess, in retrospect shows you just how powerful the plains indians were. >> that scope of time that they were able to exert that kind of influence for so long and be so dominant. >> right. and i

and we saw some skidding and fort worths but nothing serious. and i heard you talking about more snow. maybe this was our warm-up run. next time let's do better. this morning was a difficult ride with the salt and sand trucks getting out at 3:00 a.m. and they were behind the curve and it's ust caught up now to where everybody can drive smoothly. i'm stacy cohan, back to you. >>> a winter storm is keeping a tight grip on several midwest earn states. >> high wind and deep snow making for deadly road conditions as fox's steve brown reports now. officials are struggling to reach many stranded motorists. >> reporter: icy, slippery, snow-covered roads leaving indiana drivers stuck in the ditch. the cause was a giant blast of arctic air bringing snow and plenty of headaches to states across the midwest. hear from one indiana motorist who had a tough time driving on the slippery roads. >> when i was coming in, i didn't see the snow. it was kind of shiny. but when i realized, i was already in. >> i got stuck. >> reporter: an illinois driver frustrated by

in fort worth, texas, landry, a republican. obviously for adults of homeland security efforts? caller: whe-- are we safer becf homeland security efforts? caller: wheeler at first. but that position has been weakened. host: independent line, or are we safer? ofler: i think's catullus being safer, but there are so many things happening in our country right now. we need a better immigration -- we need better laws to help immigration. we need jobs. we need to improve the economy. there are so many problems out there. terrorism, people are not really thinking straight. they are not thinking in a civil manner. they are starting to accuse people again. starting to accuse all of these different factors that really are not giving us any more safety than before. it is just causing more fear. if we are safer or not, at the beginning maybe yes, but now because of everything happening and the economy, and i don't know if we are safer because a lot of people do racial profiling and it causes more confusion. host: there's a comment from twitter. looking at collaborative efforts going on betwe

the three world airline will fly to fort worth. starting with four flights of.o the owners if you might want to use the extra cash after new crash tests found that even minor from under benders of suvs can lead to big repair bills. the insurance institute found repairing damages to suvs involved in low-speed crashes could cost anywhere from 3 to $10,000. in tests of toyota corolla hitting the rear of what to wear red for incurred more than $6,000 for the damages to the fore, when the four for august at the back of a ford of state this year tallied more than $2,200 in damages. the main problem is different bumper heights but automakers are reluctant to changing their designs. bart is encouraging people to use public transportation to go shopping during the holiday season by giving away free tickets on thursday, a spokesperson said.bart employees will be giving out a pair of free tickets to some 60,000 bart customers between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. on thursday.each ticket is good for one trip anywhere on the bart system during the next three weekends before christmas. b

lee harvey oswald was buried in this pine box in fort worth texas the same day as the president's funeral. his body was exhumed in 1981 reburied in a different coffin this coffin is expected to sell for $100,000 at the auction in los angeles today. >>> let's check with sal. we got several things happening now. >> big one is the bridge approach westbound 84 past the newark boulevard exit an accident blocking all the lanes. the traffic, let me move back there. i hit the button a little bit too quickly. westbound 84 past newark. the traffic is slow. this is an un welcomed surprise. you may want to consider the san ma san mateo bridge or 237. live pictures let's take a look at northbound 880 on the right. it's slow on the way up to downtown oakland. at the toll plaza, 15 minute delay. >>> clear skies except for the fog which can be thick and lots of reports of frost coming in from san bruno, winters, yes, winters, tweet me if you have information. spweather for frost information. frost, cold, 29 fairfield. that's cold. 35 freemont. low 30s for many. it is sunny. it will be mostly sunny today

the figure has been reprinted and now they're in storage in fort worth. the travel market "u.s.a." says advance hotel bookings and u.s.'s biggest launching markets for december 25th are down. hit the slopes or land on the beach more flexible with christmas day rates this year. i'm jane king bloomberg news. >> thanks a lot. >> it's now 6:48. a major new study shows that low dose aspirin one of them per day, could significantly cut the risk of death from some of the most common forms of cancer. the finding came while researchers were studying 25000 people taking daily aspirin to prevent heart disease. >> where people had taken aspirin five, six, seven years on average the risk of dying of cancer was reduced by about 25%. >> the daily dose of aspirin was found to reduce the death rate for an array of cancers. they include colon lung esophageal and gastrointestinal cancers. but there are risks. possible side effects include bleeding and stroke. >> the grinch has spoiled christmas for the santa at the macy's. john has been chris crinkle for some 20 years was fired friday night for tell

joseph weber writes -- fort worth, texas, on our line for democrats. i need you to turn down your television. it will make the process a lot easier. caller: yes. host: go-ahead. caller: the gentleman on the phone earlier talking about the trains and how few police officers on the trains. on the other hand you have guys -- about the screeners at airports saying there is too much security. i cannot figure out for the life of me why should people feel like one thing is better than the other? we have to do this thing and we are going to have to do it however we have to do it. host: what do you think is the best solution to the problem? caller: let the people who know what they are doing, get it done. get out of the way. we have a constitution. if it gets out of hand, we know what to do. but right now, there is nothing wrong did go through the machine and get it done. host: ct in rhode island on the line for independents. caller: thank you very much. i think what we need to do is exercise our constitutional rights the way the founding fathers intended. as f

host: fort worth, texas. thanks for waiting. independent line. caller: good morning.'m a vietnam veteran. i served special forces in vietnam and i came to the conclusion a long time ago that the government really isn't going to do that much to help us out long term. short term they may do a little bit, but long term they really aren't. the only president that really went out of his way to help the veteran was president franklin dell nor roosevelt who did the g.i. bill. so i came to the conclusion that we have to use the american free enterprise system to help ourselves. and i came up with an idea, a vision, if you will, some time back. i just can't seem to get it off the ground. i'm not well connected. i really don't know that many people would help. but it's an idea that i've run past several knowledgeable people. host: sorry i accidentally cut him off. guest: well, sir, if you're still watching, certainly we have numerous contact numbers and e-mails on our website. again it's hire heroes u.s.a..org. contact us. i am very fortunate, my team is very fortunate that we

scott joining us from fort worth, texas. good morning, republican line.ler: thank you for taking my call but i went to respond to a lot of the pessimism from the callers, one say we needed to start knocking off politicians and another guy saying he was very concerned about his grandchildren. if you all keep voting for republicans -- democrats or commonness, this will continue. if we went with ron paul for 2012 i will assure you, return to constitutional government will lead to amazing wealth and prosperity very soon. host: thank you f the call. on our twitter page a lot of people waiting in. it is going to take some serious cuts to start getting this debt mess under control. ro was right again. he told the nation in 1992. referring to ross perot. an e-mail from us. constantly amused people are worried about the future of the children and grandchildren but finding no one step to the plate saying raise my taxes to pay off the nation's credit cards so my children and grandchildren to not have to pay for our excesses'. trash is joining us from lubbock, texas.

scott joining us from fort worth, texas. good morning, republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call but i went to respond to a lot of the pessimism from the callers, one say we needed to start knocking off politicians and another guy saying he was very concerned about his grandchildren. if you all keep voting for republicans -- democrats or commonness, this will continue. if we went with ron paul for 2012 i will assure you, return to constitutional government will lead to amazing wealth and prosperity very soon. host: thank you for the call. on our twitter page a lot of people waiting in. it is going to take some serious cuts to start getting this debt mess under control. ross was right again. he told the nation in 1992. referring to ross perot. an e-mail from us. constantly amused people are worried about the future of the children and grandchildren but finding no one step to the plate saying raise my taxes to pay off the nation's credit cards so my children and grandchildren to not have to pay for our excesses'. trash is joining us from lubbock

i have businesses in my district, floyd mcneily in my district in fort worth, runs a diesel rebushing be -- refurbishing plant puts new life into them and because of constraints can't sell them in this country but is able to sell them to countries in central and south america. they continue to perform good works both in trucks and boats and other mechanical applications. because of the long life of diesel engines, this program is indeed a reasonable one because it does reduce the diesel emissions from those engines that have been in use and provided gainful employment for a long period of time. i am pleased the authorization was reduced. i am pleased that section 3 of this legislation before us authorizes a general accounting office study as to whether or not the law or authorization is necessary even going forward into the next period of authorization. it's important to make certain that this legislation stays on the right track. of course as with many things in washington, this legislation is supported by a broad coalition of environmental, science based public health industry and s

host: fort worth, texas. thanks for waiting. independent line. caller: good morning. and i'm a vietnam veteran. i served special forces in vietnam and i came to the conclusion a long time ago that the government really isn't going to do that much to help us out long term. short term they may do a little bit, but long term they really aren't. the only president that really went out of his way to help the veteran was president franklin dell nor roosevelt who did the g.i. bill. so i came to the conclusion that we have to use the american free enterprise system to help ourselves. and i came up with an idea, a vision, if you will, some time back. i just can't seem to get it off the ground. i'm not well connected. i really don't know that many people would help. but it's an idea that i've run past several knowledgeable people. host: sorry i accidentally cut him off. guest: well, sir, if you're still watching, certainly we have numerous contact numbers and e-mails on our website. again it's hire heroes u.s.a..org. contact us. i am very fortunate, my team is very fortunate th

fort worth, texas. rebecca, democrats' line. caller: i have a comment and solution. when i became 65 years old,, texas retirement system, i paid into retirement and when i became 65 our trs picked a program with aetna and when i became 65 a nicely told me i needed to join medicare because they no longer were going to carry me. they were only going to pay 20% that medicare didn't pay, because medicare pays 80% and aetna was only going to pay 80% of the 20% i was a state employee. we did not put into social security, only our teacher retirement. congress let the insurance companies make senior citizens, especially from a wealthy state like texas that prides itself on having a lot of resources, hear the teachers are taking off of the insurance -- state insurance and are told to -- that you have to join medicare. host: all that said. what would you change to make it sustainable? caller: congress needs to make the insurance continue to pay senior citizens full coverage. a high premium for aetna is higher -- i have to pay for medicare in addition to paying it at now premiu

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