jim jim you've been on a couple of programs about north korea nonproliferation iran so i'm going to ask a very broad question about two thousand and ten how did the american empire do is it losing ground can it continue to manage world's the world's problems i know a lot of americans hate the term empire but most of the world think thinks of it as an empire go ahead. of course of course they do well i think this was a year where america looked a lot inwardly because we had mid-term elections congressional elections that were a major political defeat for president obama and i think that's probably the big domestic political event this year look at across the globe certainly north korea and i know we're all most affected by most recent events but still you have to chalk up the last couple of weeks the last month or so the rising tensions in north korea and even the possibility of war between south korea north korea and i think that's going to spill over into the next year in europe and i will defer to my colleague in london but you have to think the near bankruptcy of greece and problems in our law and so around the globe it's been an eventful year not a great year for the u.s. we didn't make progress on the israeli peace talks we did get the start treaty that's going to pass did pass and so you know some pluses and minuses but not a great year all around i would say well if i go to you steve i'm looking at domestic politics. president obama after the midterm elections some people are already calling him a lame duck president is that premature because ok we got to start agreeing meant but he had to pay hugely for that hugely like a president has never had to pay before for arms control agreements that he in the past it's been bipartisan some differences of course but this was turned into a real test then to show how much obama's going to pay to get something that actually everybody really agrees with. well charles i think actually the president's in a very good spot right now i didn't think he was going to be if you'd asked me this a month ago i didn't think he was in a very good spot but let me just let me just say that the thing that strikes me most as i look back for instance at twenty twenty ten is what it dichotomous year really has been for democrats here in america i mean you have of course. the really severe electoral defeat that president obama the democrats experienced just about a month and a half ago but on the other hand it was an astounding year for policy victories for the democrats i mean you know he's already mentioned the start treaty was signed you know you had health care reform that was signed don't ask don't tell was repealed which really reenergize the democratic base so i think as you look back at two thousand and ten it's really a striking contrast for the democrats almost a bi polar year you could call and i think historians are going to a lot of fun with them but i think i think the last the last couple of weeks has really added some momentum to president obama and the democrats and has really it's really going to cause some problems for the republicans particularly that the tax compromise that was just in that really flies in the face of some of the things that the republicans and the tea party were talking about so it really sets the stage for an interesting two thousand and eleven coming up ok charlie if i can go to you are two first two guys talked about states and paul and their domestic and foreign policies but let's talk about maybe the new states it's called the internet and of course i'm talking about we keep leaks. this is really changed the way or at least confirm the way a lot of people believe politics is run in the world and making us all question about how we learn about it because i would say. traditional journalism took a major slap in the face this this year because you have other organizations that are not exactly journalistic and it's hard to define weiqi leaks i think everyone still finds it hard to define but. really the probably the biggest story of two thousand and ten in european union and if you say yes i want i want disagree because you are an expert in media. well it's certainly in the media bubble and wiki leaks was by far the most important story not just of this year but i would argue this is probably the most important development in journalism in the news media for about twenty years now i think this is an extraordinary challenge to people in power but it's also as you've hinted out there it's a real challenge to journalists in mainstream journalism and it is because it operates outside the rules it's difficult to get a hold of if you're a regulator or if you're a fellow journalist it tries to operate outside of normal jurisdiction so that people can leak to it so that it can become a platform to disclose extraordinary stories and extraordinary amounts of data and that's the difference that wiki leaks isn't just telling us about specific scandals it's telling us about how power operations and that is a real challenge now i don't think the wiki leaks story is by any means come to maturity as you said it's very difficult to define what it is and that's because it's changed and it started off as a simple website which documents could come to now it's much more proactive it has an agenda but interestingly it's also working now with other mainstream news organizations around the world and so it's changing the very nature of journalism of course or for if you just like that. we keep it exactly it's putting stuff out there and you can argue about it being irresponsible but it's certainly putting out stuff that they don't want us to know so in a sense i think that everybody mainstream media the mainstream politicians but also business we are all now living in a glass room everything is at least potentially going to be exposed doesn't mean. it will be just that potential makes everyone a lot more nervous i think jim if i'm going to you about speak about being nervous i mean they keep dripping out leaking out i mean i mean hillary clinton must be having a migraine every time something drips leaks because a lot is coming about how she's running the state department running obama's foreign policy but you know jim at the same time even though it's red face gate or cable gate it confirms a lot of things that we knew if you were paying attention if you really were paying attention. i agree peter absolutely i think the number of actual surprises is rather limited and you know in my world in the academic world you get to look at a lot of these documents but only about twenty years later so the great thing about this for scholars you're getting them in real time but a lot of us is what you would expect and you know you don't want to ever watch a sausage being made you just want to eat it after the fact and that's what you're seeing you're seeing the deals that are made the gossip you know and for people w

we will have much more later. >> all right, thank you, jim. jimargas covering our breaking news happening right now in jenner in regards to a vehicle that has been spotted there in the russian river and being pulled now to the surface. >>> in other news tonight, people hoping to get somewhere for the holidays are going nowhere fast, especially if they are travelling by air. bad weather on the east coast is causing all sorts of problems. rob roth is live for us now at sfo where the problems are being felt. rob. >> reporter: many flights are still experiencing delays here at sfo, some for up to an hour and a half. these folks are checking in at the american airlines counter. passengers can sum up the situation here today in just three words. what a mess. today is one of the busiest travel days of the year here at sfo, but the weather destroyed even the best laid itineraries. snow in chicago, wind gusts in new york, low ceilings in boston all caused delays of up to 90 minutes. in this line, the biggest fear was missing connect tion flights. for this

jim says. jim knows about cars. >> is that your chevrolet fanta outside? >> yes. pretty, isn't she? >> oh, i say, there's two watches on the table exactly the same. >> oh, we've all got one of those. >> don't touch, old boy. >> keep good time, do they? >> they keep the best time in the world. [laughs] [upbeat music playing] >> oh, i can't dance to that. >> of course you can, freddie. [laughter] [women singing] [laughter] >> the first accident was that picture. i should think the painter might have set that when he finished it, don't you? anyway, it came down--crash--in the middle of the night. luckily for me i'd been sleeping badly lately and i'd got up to make myself a cup of tea. otherwise, it might have bashed my head in. >> and the other accidents? >> the brakes on my car went west as i was going down the hill into saint lou. and the next day a boulder detached itself from the cliff at the end of the garden while i was on the rocks underneath. it's jolly nice of you and all that, but why are you so interested? >> you do not understand, mademoiselle? you are in grave danger. >> oh, come off it. >> oh, no, no, no, no. i tell it to you, i. you do know who i am? >> no, i don't. >> i forget you are but a child. allors, my friend here, captain hastings, he will tell it to you. >> well, monsieur poirot is a detective. >> oh. >> uh, uh, a great detective. >> my friend, is that all you can find to say? mais dit-on, say that to mademoiselle that i am the detective unique, unsurpassed, the greatest that ever lived. >> well, there doesn't seem much point now. you've told her yourself. >> ah, yes, but it is more agreeable to preserve the modesty. >> no, but seriously, these were just accidents. >> you are as obstinate as the devil. >> aren't you clever? that's where i got my name. my grandfather was popularly supposed to have sold his soul to the devil. i lived here with him so they called us old nick and young nick. my real name's magdala. >> that's unusual. >> yes, it's a kind of family name. there's been a lot of magdalas in the buckley family. that's it. that's where i was standing. >> and the boulder only just missed you? could someone have pushed it from above? >> no, i tell you it was just another accident. >> do you have any enemies, mademoiselle? >> i'm afraid i don't. no, sorry. >> is there anyone who would profit by your death? >> no, that's why it all seems such nonsense. there's only the house, but it's mortgaged up to the hilt and the roof leaks. there's only the one bedroom that's usable, you know. my friends stay at the majestic. >> who is your nearest relation? >> my cousin, charles vyse. he's a local lawyer. he gives me good advice and tries to restrain my extravagances. he arranged the mortgage for me and made me let a large about a year ago. >> we saw someone gardening there. >> mr. croft. very australian. you know, hearty and that sort of thing. i mean, terribly kind, but--mrs. croft's a cripple, poor dear. >> have you ever made a will? >> yes, i did, about six months ago, the day before my op for appendicitis. >> and what were the terms of that will? >> i left end house to charles. i hadn't much else left to leave, but what there was i left to freddie. >> tell me about your friends. >> well, freddie rice is practically my greatest friend. she left her husband about a year or two ago. she just won't give her a divorce. >> and commander challenger? he wishes you to marry him, n'est-ce pas? >> he does mention it now and again, after the second glass of port. >> and you remain hard-hearted? >> well, what would be the use of george and i marrying one another? neither of us have got a bean. >> tres bien. apart from madame rice, is there any other friend you can trust, mademoiselle? >> there's maggie, i suppose. >> aha, who is maggie? >> she's a distant cousin, lives in yorkshire. i usually have her to stay sometime in the summer. she's no fun though. >> ah, the person ideal. telegraph her to come tomorrow. >> oh. >> ah. >> jim lazarus, mrs. rice's friend, has he anything to do with lazarus art galleries? >> that's the chap. >> oh, i was in there the other day. >> oh? >> the legander overheated just outside, so i went in to ask-- >> hastings, this morning somebody shot at mademoiselle buckley with a mauser pistol. >> mauser? >> why, do you know anyone who has a mauser? >> yes, i have. it was dad's. he brought it back from the war. it's gone. >> you know, poirot, that mrs. rice says that miss buckley's accident in her car was all my eye. she says miss buckley's a terrific liar. >> really? that is most interesting, hastings. it is interesting for itself, and it is interesting that madame rice has said it. but why should she say it, even if it were true? ah, these are curious things. i like to see them appear. they point the way. ah. >> this is all very well, poirot, but what we're trying to do is impossible. we're trying to detect a murderer before he's committed the crime. >> well said, hastings. >> i don't k

jim oberstar. i can't imagine that wouldn't happen. i know jim oberstar and i have a feeling that's not what he wants his legacy to be. i think jim wants his legacy to be the transformational transportation bill he fought to bring to this floor and brilliantly crafted for the 21st century. jim, it may not have been in your time, but it must happen in ours. this evening, jim, i pledge to you to do all i can to see to it that your prodigious work on that final, brilliant transportation authorization bill shall not have been in vain. farewell, friend. have pity on us. don't go far. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: i thank the gentlelady -- ms. mccollum: i thank the gentlelady. i would like to recognize the gentleman from illinois, mr. lipinski. mr. lipinski: i would like to thank -- again, i thank the gentlelady from minnesota, ms. mccollum for organizing tonight's special order. i said four years ago, no one in the history of congress became chairman of a committee who was better prepared than jim oberstar. from the time he started here working in 1963 for john blotnik, through all these years, it was not just jim's experienc

jim berry. jim is with the consumer electronics association and jim has brought us the big toys for big boys and big girls. he's talking about will you waste your money to buy a big tv or an e book? it is a tremendous information pack. you can also catch it at wjz.com. we're taking a break but coming right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, when my husband got sick and couldn't work anymore, it was up to me to support our family. [ male announcer ] karri danner went back to school, to become a nurse. my education made all the difference... [ male announcer ] but now some in washington want regulations restricting access to career colleges and universities, denying opportunity to millions of people like karri, letting government decide who can go to college. it's my education, and my job, it should be my choice. [ male announcer ] don't let washington get in the way. >>> hello again. it's 6:29. once again a cold day start is being combined with a fire in baltimore city, this time a fatal fire on homewood avenue. it's also affecting traffic. >> here's first warning doppler radar. there's a couple flurries mov

let's bring back in patrick, galina and jim. jimrnor, i don't know if you remember what the most is you ever spent on a campaign, but do you think it's getting out of hand? i mean, is the sky the limit here? >> you know, i've always believed that you ought to be permitted to participate financially in a political campaign without all of these limits. limits are making it difficult to level the playing field. the new guy on the block doesn't have all of those people that want to give him money and he's got to find money. to me the dischoice sure is the key. you take what you can get, you disclose it, everybody can see who's giving you money. >> the republican groups, ones founded by karl rove, those folks should have disclosed where the money's coming from? >> there should be a law that should say we should have maximum disclosure of donors to the press and citizens can see who's financing the campaign. the heart of the problem is it's so dog gone expensive to run for office. no tv stations are giving away ads so you've got to pay fo

jim miklaszewski. jim, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. for the most part this pentagon report out supports the repeal of "don't ask don't tell" but it won't come easy. airport lieutenant, a decorated combat pilot was outed more than two years ago but his case is still pending and he's still on active duty, proof he says, gays can openly serve in the u.s. military. >> i've gotten so many messages that have literally said -- dude, this doesn't matter. i'll go to war with you and i'll fly in combat with you. >> reporter: at the pentagon, defense secretary robert gates said the time has come to repeal "don't ask don't tell." >> this can and should be done without posing a serious risk to military readiness. >> reporter: and a pentagon study released "today" shows a majority of u.s. forces, 70%, thought that serving with gays or lesbians would have a positive or at least, no negative effect on the force. but that opinion changes dramatically when it comes to those forces fighting the wars in iraq or afghanistan. 48% of army combat troops and 58% of combat marines strongly oppose serving with gays and 38% of marines say they'll think about leaving or would leave the military if forced to fight alongside gays. but gays made it clear that ultimately, those forces may have no choice. >> if the congress of the united states repeals this law, this is the will of the american people. and you are the american military and we will do this. and will do it right. >> reporter: gates claims that lifting "don't ask don't tell" would not be the wrenching dramatic change that many have feared but says it will take time and should not be implemented until the military is ready. >> there is a low risk from repealing "don't ask don't tell." >> reporter: general colin powell was joint chief's chairman and supported "don't ask don't tell" when it was enacted 17 years ago and today he told nbc news when it comes to repeal times have changed. >> and if that's who our military leaders think is appropriate for our armed forces i'm supportive of it. >> reporter: in seattle, the major looks forward to once more, openly serving in the air force. >> soon, i'll be known just as a flight nurse, again, instead of a lesbian flight nurse. >> reporter: in a white house statement tonight, president obama urged the senate to pass the repeal of "don't ask don't tell" and the current lame duck session. but it's not clear democrats have the vote. and prospects get even worse if it gets kicked over to the next congress, brian? >> all right, jim miklaszewski starting us off. thanks. >>> for the first time since the election it changed the balance of power in washington, president obama met today with the new republican leadership and with the democrats who are getting used to the idea of being the minority in the house. our chief white house correspondent chuck todd was there for today and he's with us to tell us how it went. chuck, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. that's right. it was nearly a month since voters sent the message of change to washington. and finally, washington's leaders got together in the same room here at the roosevelt room at the white house to sit down and have a nearly two-hour meeting, top of the agenda? how to break the bipartisan impasse on dealing with those bush-era tax rates. after the highly anticipated meeting, both sides hailed the session as productive with president obama and republican speaker to-be john boehner almost speaking from the same script. >> the american people want

jim. our team we have this vision of winning the state possible for jim's possible last cross-country season. >> reporter: jim tracy is reynolds' coach. after 17 years, it could be his last season because this past june he was diagnosed with als, or lou gehrig's disease. >> i'm hoping to make it through track season. but it's all up in the air. >> reporter: as his symptoms worsen, coach tracy experiences his own physical limitations. but he is still imparting life lessons to his runners. >> there is a resilience in all of us, children, adults. we've got to tap it as long as we can. >> reporter: it's a lesson not lost on reynolds, who after finishing the race in an ambulance, weak, beaming. >> i feel like it happened for a reason, and it made jim's last season kind of a heroic one, and a really memorable one. >> reporter: sometimes the student is the one who teaches. >> she says jim, you're a great coach and you're my friend too. she says this. i like the way you ocoach. you have done so much for me and our team. and i'm not going to forget you. and obviously i'm not going to forget her. >> reporter: in san fr

in the end, he was not as effective as jim wright. jim wright named for things were going to do, and he set about and did them. tom did not have that kind of easy successes everybody felt good about his leadership. >> what about newt gingrich? >> i give him credit for being good on his feet. he was able to pick up on a metaphor and squeeze meaning out of it, but i think superficially, his unrstanding -- >> dennis hastert. >> a really decent guy, a nice guy, but while a good speaker and a solid speaker, no flair, nothing special stands him out amongst the crowd. i think he served longer than any other republican as speaker of the house, but he does not leave much in his wake. >> you already spoke about nancy pelosi is legislative accomplishments. what are your viewof her as a leader? >> i remember when she first got to be majority leader -- no,he was speaker. the california delegation was meeting to pick a certain committee for people in that part of the country. i went by to ask her support for somebody else outside california. i said to

jim bernard. hi, jim. >> hey, ann. more wind and rain headed our way tonight adding to the soaking ground out there. as i get out of the way you can see just off the coast here, slug of moisture headed in our destruction. all day long we got a nice little break across the city as most of the rain remained to the north and south of us. that's going to change in the overnight hours. we will take a closeup look coming up in your complete forecast in just a few minutes. >> all right, jim. thank you very much. >>> despite a bit of the break in the storm this is still dumping lots of snow. in sierra tonight a winter storm warning above 5000 feet and areas above 7000 feet could see 6 to 8 feet of snow. the warning is in effect through the weekend. >>> in sacramento heavy rain caused flooding along rivers and streams. some homes also flooded but tonight the waters are receding. also a rough day for drivers. dozens of accidents were reported. mark sayer says the story was the same in the south bay. >> reporter: it has been a day of dangerous driving conditions across the summit on highway 17 with heavy fog and rain all day long. some drivers were just taking it too fast. >> slow down. take a little more time driving out there. >> reporter: tyler pugde was one of the chp investigators. the slick conditions mean there is little room for error. >> keep paying attention. try not to be distracted by your cell phone and stuff going on in the car. >> reporter: residents in filton

was mentioning, i'll send them up to you. >> we appreciate you, jim. jim much. >> reporter: merry christmas, guys. >> you, too. >>> larry king's final show on cnn after 6,000 shows over 25 years. >> you know final one was a big deal, a big show. a long list of newsmakers and stars showed up to say good-bye. his son was there, a turn on the mike and tony bennett. here's a preview if you missed a final show last night. ♪ the best is yet to come and babe won't that be fine ♪ ♪ you think you've seen the sun but you ain't seen it shine ♪ ♪ wait until the warm months wait until our lips have met ♪ ♪ wait until you see that sunshine day you ain't seen nothing yet ♪ >> where's shawn? get in the car. i'm too old for this. i done this for 50 years. >> larry: i am -- i don't know what to say except to you, my audience, thank you. and instead of good-bye, how about so long? >> he's not going too far. and this was the cool moment here as they faded out. with the microphone, very cool last night. the son was hilarious. can you believe larry king after 25 years here, 50

jim cantore has been watching it blow through at new york's laguardia airport all day. jim, good evening. >> good evening. it whipped up the hudson in quite a way. the ferries heading over to ellis island had to be postponed as a result of that wind. that happened at about 2:00 this afternoon. back to the airport situation. here's how we got here. take a look at this 12-hour radar loop. all this green area, rain with winds, 30, 40, 50, even 60 miles an hour as you mentioned here. that created a tremendous backlog. delays at times up to six hours here at laguardia. we're cutting that rate in half tonight. what this storm is going to do is unleash us from these 60-degree highs we had today here in new york, back to more seasonable conditions and open up the snow gates, especially for the great lakes. so everybody getting a dose of reality coming back. the first day of climatology winter went off with a big bang here in new york. >> jim cantore at laguardia tonight. jim, thanks. >>> when our broadcast continues tonight, a scary holiday season for families losing something big they count on for this time of year. >>> later, how needles, and thread and word of mouth are making a difference in the lives of children. needles, and threat and word of mouth are making a difference in the lives of children. on the wings of lunesta. eep is here, and if you wake up often in the middle of the night... rest is here, on the wings of lunesta. lunesta helps you fall asleep and stay asleep, so you can wake up feeling rested. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving, or engaging in other activities while asleep, without remembering it the next day, have been reported. abnormal behaviors may include aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations or confusion. in depressed patients, worsening of depression, including risk of suicide, may occur. alcohol may increase these risk

jim and my team. >>reporter: jim is holland coach jim tracy diagnosed with lou gehrig disease last summer and knows what it is like when the leg don't cooperate. holland says he was her inspiration and she's fine. a little dehigh created. she'll be at gma. >> what a story. something to watch. >> the late jim don't get up. never give up. don't give up. >> monte ellis didn't give up scoring at will tonight for the warriors but the suns scoring at will against golden state also. shoot save $523! 16 minutes could save you 16%! come on... isn't it time an auto insurer gave it to you straight? that's why you should talk to state farm. but not yet. first, talk to any one of the 40 million drivers who already have state farm. 40 million. yeah, that's more than geico and progressive combined. by a lot. 40 million drivers. more savings. and discounts up to 40%. where else you gonna get discounts like that? call an agent at 1-800-state-farm or go online. against really good teams tonight. basically ellis against the world. nash and son come in for a visit. monte a one man gang spinning in the lane past 3 defender

jim. we have this mission of winning the state title for jim's possible last cross country season. >> jim oach. after 17 years, it could be his last season because this past june he was diagnosed with als or lou gehrig's disease. >> i'm hoping to make it through the season. it's up in the air. >> as his symptoms worsen, he experiences physical limitations, but imparting life les ones to his runners. >> there is a resilience in all of us. children and adults. we have to tap it as long as we can. >> the lesson is not lost on reynolds. reynolds is in an ambulance, weak, but beaming. >> i feel like it happened for a reason and made jim's last season a heroic one and memorable one. >> sometimes the student is the one who teaches. >> she said jim, you are a great coach and you are my friend too. she said this. i like the way you coach. you have done so much for me and our team and i'm not going to forget you. obviously i'm not going to forget her. >> monty francis today in the bay. >> she finished 37th in the race. >> and made me cry. >> they're needed her to cross. if she didn't cross, they can

jim: 1:30 to go. down the middle and incomplete. that is day real revis. phil: well, the fans might not like it, jim, but it is excellent coverage. darrelle revis in a good spot. comes up, got his hand. that's everything. that is perfectly played. jim they have to put off touchdown on this drive after that taylor safety. a field goal does no good. second down and the ball is out. roethlisberger picks it up. he's going to suffer a huge loss. coleman has been in that backfield a couple of times in this quarter. stripped him once. the steelers have to call their last time-out. phil: they didn't get fooled by the little move they did earlier in the game. drew coleman gets through, reaches out and knocks it away. jim: that's twice he's done that in this quarter. phil: they just lined up in a simple defense and cents the fourth rusher from way outside and the steeler offensive line was not ready for it. this is the fourth guy. that should not be difficult to pick up. quite honestly, you never know where the extra rusher is going to come with the new york jets. jim: that was a 14-yard loss. phil: what it does now -- because you have no time-outs. ben roethlisberger, of course, two downs, has to gamble. jim: third and 24. have to get just

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bush, george shultz, jim baker, jim schlesinger, henry kissinger, colin powell, condoleezza rice, stephen hadley, howard baker, lawrence eagleburger and frank lucy. many of these officials serve at a time when states were related to russian nuclear arms were even higher than they are today. during the cold war, uncertainty over russia's intentions and weapons advances, this cost us 10s if not hundreds of billions of dollars. and industry developed devoted to parching soviet military capabilities. this is one of the biggest if not the biggest expense of our intelligence budget each year. the fact that we could not judge soviet military capabilities lead us to elevate our spending on weaponry. called of a sense of caution. these times predominated by contradictory risk assessments and rumors about dangerous new soviet weapons systems. we were constantly worried about missile gaps destabilizing arms deployment or soviet technology--all of this came at tremendous cost to the american taxpayer. and the psyche of the nation which lived under the threat of mutual assured destruction. i firmly be

in the end, he was not as effective as jim wright. jim wright named for things were going to do, and he set about and did them. tom did not have that kind of easy successes. everybody felt good about his leadership. >> what about newt gingrich? >> i give him credit for being good on his feet. he was able to pick up on a metaphor and squeeze meaning out of it, but i think superficially, his understanding -- >> dennis hastert. >> a really decent guy, a nice guy, but while a good speaker and a solid speaker, no flair, nothing special stands him out amongst the crowd. i think he served longer than any other republican as speaker of the house, but he does not leave much in his wake. >> you already spoke about nancy pelosi is legislative accomplishments. what are your views of her as a leader? >> i remember when she first got to be majority leader -- no, she was speaker. the california delegation was meeting to pick a certain committee for people in that part of the country. i went by to ask her support for somebody else outside california. i s

jim and i came into the house of representatives at the same time as part of the 100th class. i've enjoyed being with him as well in the u.s. senate. jim and mary are counted as among the best friends that my wife carol and i have. i agree with senator mcconnell, that while people may disagree with jim bunning, no one has ever doubted his courage, his sincerity, his love for this country, his desire to do what's right, and his commitment to all of those things. and so i will greatly miss jim when he's no longer part of the u.s. senate. but i think it's probably time for jim and mary to have a little bit of time to spend with all of those children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and obviously we all wish them both well. madam president, i'd like to speak for a few moments about the matter that senator mcconnell brought to our attention, namely, this almost 2,000-page oil omnibus appropriations bill. i know that the majority leader has turned to the start treaty. i think it's fairly obvious why. the american people are focused like a laser beam on this spending bill. i can't turn on the tv without hearing comments by both the commentators as well as people in public life about what this spending bill will do for this country's future. and i think that it's time that we devote

jim sciutto followed it all from the courtroom. jim? >> reporter: well, george, he came and went in an armor's van, giving a thumb's up sign after he was granted bail. and inside court, as he sat surrounded by three guards, assange was calm, attentive, even smiling. the judge awarding bail of $300,000, but requiring it be deposited in cash, and that, his lawyers, say will take a few days the prosecutors appealed that decision, sending assange back to prison for at least one more night. what's next for him is what he lawyer jokingly call eed him mansion arrest. he'll be staying on the 600-acre estate of a friend north of london with a curfew and electronic tag. tonight, i'm told assange feels vindicated, though he will have to fight extradition to sweden, and that could take months. the first hearing in february. >> okay, jim, thank you. and julian assange's troubles could go far beyond those courtrooms. brian ross has learned that assange is facing a mutiny in the wikileaks ranks, with some of his colleagues questioning tonight what he's done with the website's money. >> my name is daniel schmitt, this is julian assange. >> reporter: that was just one year ago. but now, daniel, whose real name is domscheit bert, has split with assange after raising questions about assange's handling of the group's money and his newfound celebrity status. >> he certainly is different today from the way that i met him. >> reporter: ironically, his former colleague says assange became enraged over leaks about him he thought were coming from inside wikileaks. was this you? assange wrote in an online chat to domscheit-berg. i didn't speak to "news week" or other media, he responded. i am investigating a serious security breach, assange replied. are you refusing to answer? >> he's not the best person to deal with criticism, i w

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jim. and leave him in his last cross-country season with something to remember. but i think before the race, we did our regular cheer. and we also did a cheer for jim. and just -- we just really wanted to do well for jima really great last season. >> coach, can you imagine a better gift? >> well, it was my 17th season. and i was incredibly, you know -- felt incredibly lucky to bring such a great team to the state meet. and then, for them to overcome so much adversity. and for holland, to just get across that line. to show that, you know, something must be done, she said. and she did it. the parents, everyone, we were incredibly happy at the award celebration. >> holland, it's clear how much you value coach tracy. but he's not a softy. he's kind of tough. >> he is pretty tough. and extremely honest. that's the reason i think why our team does so well because he's so honest. and straightforward. and also fair. he will tell you if you didn't have a good race. he'll flatout say, you had a bad race. and i want you to try harder the next time. and because of that, when you finally receive a compliment from jim, you feel really good. and want to keep on performing well. so, i mean, definitely his honesty and

. >> reporter: jim followed luke' going to go after her. >> reporter: jim followed luke's car. >> sirensblaring and the lights were going and he was spread out on the snow. >> she kept saying he had nothing to do with it, and i'm sorry, luke. >> reporter: that's luke being hauled off to jail, despite the pleas of the tenant, san a, pictured here after her own arrest. in her bag, police found $3,700 in cash, a small hammer, some rubber gloves, and the free 2011 bank calendar she picked up in the lobby. she remains in jail, while luke was released after a few hours, less angry at her a week later than he is concerned about clearing his name. >> i'm not saying i'm a perfect person in the world, but you know, i'll be damned if i rob a bank. >> reporter: a kind of robbery where the victims still have heart. >> hopefully she doesn't fall too far through the system and they're able to get her help. >> reporter: and everyone in town now has a story to share. >>> and one more story that has come currency today. britain's royal mint has issued a new coin. on one side, queen elizabeth, on the other

we'll start our coverage with jim sciutto in london. jim? >> reporter: the arrest involving police, intelligence, and counterterrorism forces. the plan to bomb unspes fied targets. three cities across britain are where the people were arrested. this is not directly timed to the holidays. but they felt it necessary to act right away. the terror threat here is at the second highest level, severe. an attack is highly likely. dealing with dozens of terror cases at once. privately, they say, they've never been busier. >> we're joined by brian ross with more. a real scare in newark this morning. terminal "a" closed. >> right after the arrests in england. concerns there was a bomb there. screeners saw something. turns out it was a computer monitor of some kind that was leaking radiation. authorities felt they had a real situation on their hands. they emptied out the terminal, stopped all flights. the bomb squad went in, it was determined to be all clear. it is an example of the enhanced screening abilities. >> woucould this have gone thro without t

bush, george shultz, jim baker, jim schlesinger, henry kissinger, brent scowcroft, colin powell, condoleezza rice, stephen hadley, howard baker, laurence eagleburger and frank carlucci. many of these officials served at a time when the stakes related to russian nuclear arms were even higher than they are today. during the cold war uncertainty over russia's intentions and weapons advanced, and this cost us tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars. an academic industry developed that was devoted to parsing soviet military capabilities. this was one of the biggest, if not the biggest expenses of our intelligence budget each year, and the fact that we could not accurately judge soviet military capabilities led us to elevate our spending on weaponry out of a sense of caution. these times were dominated by contradictory risk assessments and rumors about dangerous new soviet weapons systems. we were constantly worried about missile gaps, destabilizing arms deployments or soviet technology breakthroughs. and all of this came at a tremendous cost to the american taxpayer and the psyche of the nati

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jim o'day. pretty nice. good job, jim.ld you like to share, send it to us at mypix@cbs5.com. that's a look at your weather, for your traffic this morning here's liz. >> thank you, tracy. let's go towards pleasanton. we have several hot spots already developing. this one is as you approach the dublin interchange. westbound 580 an overturned jeep is blocking one lane of traffic. chp issued a traffic alert for this because they assumed that it's going to get backed up in the area and as you can see it already is in those westbound lanes of 580. they hope to have all lanes cleared by 6:15. they hope to have all lanes clear. and again can sell that traffic traffic is stacking up on the altamont pass. 20 minutes from 580 to the dublin interchange. it is still slow on 880 through oakland, as well. this is another hotspot. northbound 880 before 29th we had an earlier accident. it is now completely clear from lanes. unfortunately, we're still seeing it pretty backed up from at least high street. so watch out for those delays north

jim vargas live now in oakland with more, jim. >> reporter: gasia, this story came to a sad end about mid- morning. it was about 9:45 this morning when the body of 90-year-old dr. robert lichenstein . >> he takes walks three, four times a day. walks sometimes four miles even more. >> reporter: markings on the muddy trail behind the shopping center look like he may have fallen from the trail. they often saw him getting some exercise by the aid of his walker. the shopping center manager told us he saw dr. lichenstein walking by the shopper center with his walker. a short time ago, the family told us that they advised the coroner that they will not need an autopsy. the dr. apparently died of a heart attack. >>> a nine-year-old girl told police she and her little brother were followed by two men in a grey van while walking home from school. once the children were inside their house, one of the men rang their doorbell. the girl did not open the door and the men left. but the school is sending out alerts to parents. >> i feel very uneasy, i want my kids to be safe. so we would like to know

jim a legion of admirers not only on the baseball diamond but off it as well. in particular, jim's passion and personal perspective helped shed light on the dangers of steroid at the professional level and the growing use of young athletes at all levels. jim has been a staunch supporter of clean coal technologies as an efficient way to use coal, improve our environment and bring jobs to kentucky. another issue that was extremely important to all kentuckians was the failed cleanup of radioactive contamination that was found in the drinking water wells near residences at the department of energy's aourpl enrichment -- uranium enrichment plant in paducah, kentucky. jim criticized the d.o.e.'s cleanup efforts. in every issue he's taken on, whether national, statewide or local, jim has been a man of principle from start to finish. he stayed true to himself. and in a truly remarkable life, he's got a lot to be proud of. but if you were to ask jim to list his greatest achievement, i don't think he'd say it was his election to the u.s. senate or his induction to the hall of fame. they both come at a distant second and third to the day he married his high school sweetheart mary. jim and mary still live in northern kentucky where they grew up. they

jim bernard has the pinpoint forecast next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, leave three former warriors with >>> jim is with us here. >> a break in the rain. the deluge. much advertised. moved off to the south. more to come tonight and on and off through the week. we will see some pauses in the rain shower activity. right now we are looking at light rain around the bay. bit of fog lurking out of there as well. that's going to pick up through the overnight hours with the periods of moderate to heavy rain expected. even some isolated storm activity possible here through the wee hours of the morning. but as you can see scattered radar returns now throughout the bay area. most of the activities has been in the north bay today and well to our south as that pineapple connection i spoke of kind of split apart today and started to sag to the south. the state radar shows the picture here. san luis ipisbo is where they got the most of the storm. cold air to the north. centered around this center of circulation right here. and the subtropical connection here which is moving to our south. so here is the cold air, here is the warm air. by wednesday the two are expected to come together across the bay area. between now and then showers on and off much like we saw today. we are expecting another surge of moisture which will bring moderate precipitation into the region but that should wind down through tomorrow morning leaving us with scatter showers through the afternoon. for tonight, increasing wind and gusting winds across the area. 20 to 30-mile-an-hour winds. high country, they are looking at 100-mile-an-hour winds tonight at ridge top levels. serious winter weather for the high country, the sierra. rain potential through the week. most going by to our north and south through mid-week at least. the moisture is expected to creep back to the north bringing with it more rain and i'm sure in the form of moderate precipitation for most locations which we will see on and off through the early morning hours tomorrow before this system winds down. this whole pattern is basically stationary off the west coast. things are driving out. the stationary nature of this system won't change much. we will stay in the mid to low 50s and overnight we are looking for rainfall amounts in the 1 to 3 inches range for the mountains. half an inch to an inch across the urban areas. could be some ponding on the roads and some stream flooding but the rivers look okay at this point. and not looking for any flooding in the major river systems here. as mentioned we will look to those temperatures to hover in the mid to upper 50s once again for tomorrow. not much change expected through the week and as we get a look at our seven-day forecast here you see we are keeping a chance of showers in the picture basically every day but it turns to showers monday and tuesday. another round of rain moving up from the south on wednesday and it even takes us into christmas day with rain on and off for the next seven days. so plan accordingly because that's your forecast update for now. right now here's kim with sports. >> thanks, jim>>> two nba trades leave three former warriors with a new address. an butler proves to sanford that last year's title run wasn't a fluke. sports is next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> eyewitness news is brought to you by kiaser permanente. we want you to be well and thrive. >> back in 2001 the warriors drafted richardson and gilbert arenas and hoped they would one day become the faces of the franchise. >> you were a freshman when he got in your face at college. he just powered over you and got in your face. what would happen now? >> probably do the same thing. >> i love his hair. two years later arenas left for washington and richardson was traded to charlotte before being dealt to phoenix. now the two are reunited in orlando after the magic completed two trades with the suns and wizards to acquire four players. here is a look at the rest of the deal. suns get vince cart, mickael pietrus and the wizards pick up rashard lewis. butler stunned everyone last year by making it all the way to the

jim and jeff bader to beijing for high-level meetings to get the relationship back on the right track. and i understand that president obama and president who yesterday decided jim should come back to china next week to try to deal with north korea and others as a testimony to the high regard that jimningful coming from you. at that enormous respect and admiration for sandy who taught me so much and was an extraordinary collie. it is quite special to be here with so many friends and colleagues who worked so closely together at a very important time in building the u.s. china relationship and i think if we reflect back on to the long road we have traveled is important to keep that perspective and something i'm going to try to touch on in my remarks, which now come just a little over a here since i last had a chance to talk to cap about china. i want to congratulate john and nina and everyone involved in this effort. the exchange that you envy foundation had convened as important under any set of circumstances but especially timely to look at the questions of strategic trust in u.s.-china relations and you have the kind of people here who could have a meaningful dialogue, who understand the opportunities as well as the challenges in this relationship. and it is befitting that brought

i really took this time because i find this amazing that jim coe coe -- jim kohl has not been confirmed. i've had experience of working with jim kohl in my official capacity as members of congress. he wasn't selected by me. at the time porter goss was the chairman of our committee, a republican from florida. and he worked with six of us in a very difficult investigation, and he brought the six of us together because of the professional manner in which jim kohl attacks any of the problems he's confronted w. he's not a partisan. he's a professional. he's a professional who understands what it is in the department of justice and public service. he has worked for both democratic and republican administrations. he's been recommended by both democrats and republicans. he's not at all a partisan. he's the person that you would want to have in the department of justice, and that's why porter goss said that he found the work of jim kohl a brilliant prosecutor and extraordinarily talented. quoting from the republican from florida who, along with the democrats, were very proud of the professional work that jim kohl brought to a very part

jim ayers. in a principal with cgr management consultants. my team members here are jim kennedy and keith kennedy. commissioner mirkarimi: i'm going to ask you to speak directly into the microphone. thank you. >> sorry. just to refresh your memory is about the three functional areas that you chartered in the audit, these are the three. they are important for a couple of reasons. one, we want to focus very much on the questions and issues that you presented to us. we have also had some differences with mta in terms of setting up meetings and perhaps trying to limit the scope of the meetings and the coverage we can do with any individual to a preselected items on this list. we do not consider these three areas -- they are interlinked. they're not stand alone. that is an artificial kind of separation. one of the first tasks that we had was to focus the audit on particular areas of interest. that cost us to make these items in scope. when we had our entrancts conference, we wanted to make sure we had but central subway project included. one of the other themes that we heard

jim sciutto is in london where assange has been in hiding. jim. >> reporter: diane, i'm told tonight that assange is confident he will beat these allegations and is still very much focused on releasing all those documents, even as his legal problems grow. he's lived and worked in secrecy but now the legal net is tightening around julian assange. today, a swedish court rejected his appeal against arrest on allegations of rape. as the court has pursued him, he's moved constantly. communicating with us by e-mail from changing e-mail addresses. but today we learned british police know how to contact him and probably where, at a location in southeastern england. the only question is when they will enforce the warrant. his lawyer told us he will fight any extradition to sweden aggressively, a process which could take weeks or months. >> the allegations that have been made against him he vehemently denies and they have been -- they are false and have been incredibly exaggerated in the press. >> reporter: back in the u.s., stunned by the release of once private diplomatic cables, the justice department is intensifying efforts to prosecute him for endangering american security and lives. they're reaching back to the rarely used 1917 espionage act, which criminalizes obtaining or communicating information used to the injury of the united states. as well as laws that bar transmitting national defense information, which normally apply only to government officials. some say free speech protections will make prosecution difficult, but others are confident the government will find a way. >> there are two ways that they can prosecute him, either for releasing information that they said would cause harm and, secondly, his failure to return it when demanded by u.s. government officials. these are enormously serious breaches. >> reporter: assange's supporters say sweden's rape prosecution is motivated in part by the documents release and they also say his safety is in danger, citing comments like this one on canadian television. >> well, i think assange should be assassinated actually -- >> reporter: those close to assange are telling me the timing of the arrest warrant for rape, the very same week as the documents release, is extremely suspect, and that even if he is prosecuted for rape or the releases, going after him as an individual, diane, will not stop the organization or the leaks. >> thank you, jim sciutto. standing watch tonight in london on this story. >>> and back in this country -- the topic, taxes. the clock is running out on those bush era tax cuts for all americans. and today the house voted to make them permanent for the middle class but let taxes rise for the wealthiest americans. however, that bill appears to be stuck and going nowhere. so as the debate continues, we asked john karl to tell us how much the tax break for the wealthy increases the deficit and what is the impact on small businesses. and he checked the facts. >> reporter: democrats say extending the top bush tax cuts means a big windfall for the rich. >> it's to give the millionaires a huge tax break. >> reporter: so will it help the super rich? the answer, yes, of course it will. because if the top tax cuts are allowed to expire, someone making $1 million would see their taxes go up about $43,000. for someone making $10 million, about $450,000. but republicans say this is really about job creation. >> the

jim would put a dent in that movement, and that's what was going on. >> jim was a nice guy. >> reporter: robert josephberg, one of morrison's attorneys, says there was conflicting accounts and no pictures of the alleged incident. >> if the police had seen him publicly exposing himself there should have been and would have been an arrest and no one arrested him. >> there should be complete freedom for the artist and performer. >> reporter: at trial he was convicted and sentenced to six months in jail, which he never served. a year later, while free on appeal, he died in paris at the age of 27. >> i respectfully ask my colleagues today to pardon jimrison. >> reporter: today, four decades later, the florida clemency board led by governor charlie crist, pardoned morrison, finally clearing one of the biggest names in rock history. mark potter, nbc news, miami. we learned today johnson &johnson has recalled 13 million packages of rolaids soft chews after receiving pieces of wood and metal shards in the products. the problem may have stemmed from a third party manufacturer and cautioned consumers. if you have some at home don't use them. >>> up next, newly released tapes of richard nixon and what he really thought about a man who became one of the most popular presidents in the modern era, ronald reagan. >>> we are learning more tonight about what went on behind closed doors at the nixon white house during two very busy months, february and march of 1973. there has been a new release of white house audiotapes and documents just out tonight from the nixon library in california. what you're about to hear is president nixon talking to th

jim acosta has more. jim? >> suzanne, remember all of the tea party leaders who got behind republicans in the last election in the hopes of ending wasteful spending in washington? well, that ri already talking about another revolt in 2012 over earmarks. >> reporter: it was the battle cry of the tea party, cut government spending. and now some of the same tea party leaders smell hyporkracs as in hypocrisy in the government spending bills. >> if they vote for this bill, watch out. >> oh, we will go after them, yes. i mean, we are not going to accept it. we are absolutely not going to accept it. i mean, there is all kinds of pork in there. >> reporter: and earmarks in the bill top $8 million and more than the 165,000 for maple research in vermont. according toing to the spendin watchdog common sense, they have said that both parties have requested earmarks worth hundreds of millions of dollars. and they say that mitch mcconnell's add up to over $86 billion. tea party express chairman amy cramer say she's has fire comes out of her ears over waste. >> bovine waste and they need to focus on bovine waste coming out of washington, d.c. >> reporter: as texan john cornyn went to the podium, he said he would vow to vote against them, but a reporter reminded him that he voted for them, too. >> the bill contains many earmarks that you requested and why are you opposing for bill that you called for? >> well, i intend to vote against the earmarks, because the american people sent a message november 2nd saying they want a new way to operate. >> reporter: but the old ways are hard to break like the bush tax cuts that were crafted by some in the white house which include giveaways to some special interests. mike pence wants to put that vote off until january when the gop controls the white house. for those who have buyers' remorse? >> well, the new congress is not here, and -- >> you are saying be patient? >> well, the democrats are still in control. >> reporter: they say there is more earmarks in this year than in the past, but that does not stop john mccain from tweeting out egregious earmarks which includes a special earmark for john murtha who was once dubbed the king of pork. >>> and now over to john king who hosts "john king usa" beginning at the top of the hour, and candy crowley who is host of "state of the union" sunday morning at 9:00, and cnn political analyst gloria borger. and we will discuss what is going on at the hill or what is not going on at the hill. >> you got it. >> we have tea party folks looking at the spending bill say we don't like it and it is full of pork and then established republicans who want the proekt js done and get them done and squeezed in before the new congress. is that going to be a split? are we seeing a standoff here in the republican party? >> no, you will see this play out in coming up and go back down again over the course of next year and the year after. the problem is whether it will have resonance in the way it did in the past election year. i'm not sure it will. i mean n the end, you know, politics is the art of the do-able, and if there is one thing that republicans took away from this pass election, it was not just stop spending, but it was also get something done, and sometimes you have to --s the president is learning, you have to give a little on stuff you don't particularly like, a flnd the end that is what the tea party folks will find out as well. >> we will find out just how seriously the republicans who were here before the election, and who were not tea party favorites, but the older establishment, we will find out in the next few months how much they fear the tea party, and how much they fear a challenge in the next cycle. was it a one-campaign wonder and by 2012 they won't have as much legs for the tea party. and now, one guy saying i was for them before they were against them. we have heard it before. we don't know how it will play out until as the new congress gets here. >> well, there is conflicted messages here as you point out. well, i put my earmarks in, but that was before i was told not to put my earmarks in. okay. what do you believe? do you want the earmarks or don't you want the earmarks? this is starting to play out in the presidential, already, too, because on the tax cut bill, there is a question of, okay, $858 billion and you have a lot of republican presidential wannabes out there, and mitt romney and sarah palin and to name two saying, okay, we're against this bill, and then you have john thune who is a member of the united states senate saying, you know what, we had to deal and we had to get it. that is going to be set up for 2012. >> well, remember, what looks potent now might not necessarily be potent two years from now. i bring you the iraq debate in hillary clinton who, we all said, she is positioning to run for the presidency, and she is going to vote for this war and by the time she got to the primaries, it was like an anvil around her. i mean, so it is just politics is pretty fleeting in terms of what has potency. >> and all of the groups tshg liberals are mad now, because it is a compromise, and the tea party people are mad because it is a compromise, and divided government forces compromise and leaves the groups on the extreme unhappy, and the question is does it boil or bubble? >> when you talk about the divided government, what about the house and the senate, and that is divided government because the folks in the house don't trust the people in the senate, and that is within the democratic party, and that is part of what is driving all of this is the crazy warfare going on, because these people have not trusted each other for two years. >> and senate majority leader harry reid is threatening that it is business through perhaps not only christmas holiday, but new year's and going into january 5th. how is this going to play out in the next couple of days or weeks? >> ooh. >> who knows. >> well, that is a question that not any of us should answer. they went to christmas eve last year on health care. if they can find -- and sometimes it is a ploy, let's get together or we are all going to sit here. none of them want to stay here through the holidays and i suspect they won't. but you know, at the moment, they are dealing with a lame duck congress that has to do some stuff. and so, you never know how far they will push it. hon honestly, i'm surprised at the continuing animosity here, because it seemed like it went down, but now the bad blood is terrible. >> and the issues of the arms control and s.t.a.r.t. treaty and "don't ask, don't tell" is hanging out there, and the republicans saying we won't do anything of that until we get the spending bill done, and jim sacrilgious to keep us here, but i will read the whole bill to keep us here. >> and washington is like third grade sometimes because we went through a raw election, and to candy's point, we will figure it out and here is a list of ten and we will do six and go home for christmas, but it is raw. >> and do they think it will be improved in the next congress? any signs of change? >> well, they have to pass a budget and raise the debt ceiling which will force the republicans to do things they don't want to do and force the president to do things he does not want to d and that is why it is so hard, because the house has the gavel and they are being forced to do things they don't like. >> well, it is up to obama and we will see what he says in the state of the union and what is going to be done here by the end of the lame duck session, and the state of the union is going to be a big message. >> and the message is do something. neither side can come in next year and sit around like this and

jim vargas live now in sacramento with more. jim. >> reporter: the short answer is probably not. even as goff goff was inside -- governor schwarzenegger was inside the state capitol here telling reporters he had called the special session of the new legislature, the assembly adjourned until january. the governor is proposing $6 billion in cuts, now another 3 billion for the next fiscal year, on the chopping block on food stamp, child care and welfare programs. the total elimination of cal works by next summer and eliminating the majority of money for county health mental services. >> we know there are no low hanging fruit. >> reporter: on this first day of the new legislature there were pledges to work together. >> the time has picked us, members, to help california through one of the most daunting chapters in its history. >> you cannot sustain the type of benefits and programs and the help that we would like to give to all california if we cannot get the private sector back into good shape. >> reporter: but behind the scenes, the feeling especially among democrats is to wait for jerry brown to take office next month. >> i voted against the initial budget because of those cuts to children and to education, to the poor people so it's more of the same, then i'm not interested. >> reporter: but every day lawmakers don't act, the governor says puts the state deeper in the hole and future cuts harsher. >> it is extremely important to start with it right now, that's the fiscally responsible thing to do. >> reporter: the governor can call the lawmakers back into session but with democrat governor elect jerry brown spending more time in sacramento these days, he was at the republican breakfast today, arnold schwarzenegger is looking more like a lame duck who not many people are paying attention to. live in sacramento, jim vargas, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the oakland police department is getting smaller fast. that's according to a report in today's "san francisco chronicle." it says in addition to 80 police officers being laid off, 21 have retired, 12 moved onto other departments, five have quit and one has been fired. dozens more are also undergoing background checks by other departments or are eligible to retire. as a result, some patrol beats are not being covered and investigative units are down to the bare minimum number of detectives. >>> in oakland the baby was rushed to children's hospital shortly after 1:00 yesterday morning and later pronounced dead. the oakland tribune reports the arrested of the 26-year-old father on suspicious of child endiameter -- endangerment. >>> hurricane katrina liz -- hector liz -- hercules police say a girl is making a rapid recovery in a hospital in oakland. the girl was not the intended target. >>> the u.s. justice department has sent a stern warning to the city o