. >> joining us now is nhk world's yasushi kudo. who covers the middle east for us. they finally have a government in place but it already has a long to-do list, doesn't it? >> that's right. it is a most pressing challenge is to improve their country's infrastructure. rena pointed out a couple of problems, water quality, electricity and & other issues. this is increasing public anger. this past summer was one of the hottest in recent years in iraq. thousands of people took to the streets of the second largest city basra to protest against electricity shortages. they fought with security forces who shot and killed one of the demonstrators. rebuilding infrastructure creates jobs, and that will improve security in iraq. this should be a top priority for the new coalition government. >> it seems iraq's politicians are facing many difficulties. is there any good news in all of this? >> there is. and it has to do with the country's oil reserves. they are the third largest in the world. iraq's oil production is expected to increase gradually as the country rebuilds itself.

and for them to come back with the commission on where they were, cuda's to them -- kudos to them. >> any public comment regarding the chief's report? getting quicker, clyde. >> i would like to clarify the murders. [unintelligible] >> dr. marshal wants to pu tyou ot you on the payroll . >> this in the afternoon chasing around drought santa clauses. -- drunk santa clauses. [laughter] >> it wasn't me. >> anit was quite the scene, i tell you. item number 4. >> routine administrative business. >> just a reminder that next week closing commission meeting will be a medal of valor ceremony. it will be at 5:00 p.m. december 15 at the mission bay conference center. 1675 owens street. >> that is part of the new mission bay complex. i strongly urge the public to be present havre the award of these metals of valor to the officers. there are several gold medals and bronze medals. their heroism is just incredible and there will be a full presentation. i encourage everybody to attend. >> are we also dark on of the twenty second at 29? in-house-- 22nd and 29th? i just wanted to let everybody know. an

kudos to my research team.ar reads 2010, here is the amazing part, october to be exact, 2010, and you are still with columbia records. >> isn't that amazing? tavis: that is unheard of. nobody in this business stays with the same record company from 1956 until 2010. how was that possible? >> i don't know. the company has changed. i must have gone through 16 or 20 different presidents. tavis: at least. >> and of course all of the other people who support their artists. it is -- i don't know. i am lucky. tavis: why from 1956 until 2010 did it take you this long to figure out that you are good enough to record some country- western? >> i think most people are of a mind that the really big country hits, not the performances by these iconic people -- the performances by these iconic people, you cannot really do any better. but i had recorded some music, country music, over the years, but never gone to national and sat in with all of the other guitar players and what have you. it was a great experience for me, i loved

receiving kudos from those farmers and brides. more than anything else, it endures as a piece of our past and strives to live up to its motto. >> subscribe and endeavor to be useful with a pleasant degree of human with every issue. >> reporter: it sounds like a weather forecast. being an u weather says there's going to be snow in about 50% of the country on christmas day. do you agree? >> that's entirely possible. >> reporter: way to hedge your bets there. this is vicki mabrey for "nightline" in dublin, new hampshire. >> well, let's hope so. the old farmer's almanac. thanks to victory mabry for that report. and when we come back, look out, madison avenue. online advertisers are changing the game and the economics of reeling in an audience. /ç/ç/ç/ç/ç/ç/ç/ç/ç/ç/ç/ç/ç/ç/ç/ç ooh, a brainteaser. how can expedia now save me even more on my hotel? well, hotels know they can't fill every room every day. like this one. and this one. and oops, my bad. so, they give expedia ginormous discounts with these: unpublished rates. which means i ge

the willingness to serve on these commissions -- that is a major kudo. the public should only go to the planning commission meetings to understand that. rodney fong is a small business leader. i sat with him at the business bureau, and he succeeded me as the chairman. he did a much better job than i did. he has contributed continually to the city through the better business bureau, and now the port commission. it would be a loss to the port commission, but a tremendous game for the planning commission. i look forward very much to working with a great professional like rodney fong. i support his appointment tremendously. thank you for your time. supervisor campos: thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good morning, supervisors. i am the acting director of the san francisco bicycle coalition on behalf of our members, urging you to support rodney fong and his appointment to the planning commission. i have had the good fortune to work with him both as a planning commissioner and as his role leading the fisherman's wharf cbd. i have been impressed with

beyond recognition in some instances if those prisoners refuse to work on the prisoners are getting kudos with this protest for several reasons first of all incarcerated individuals were using contraband of cell phones to call prisoners and other jails to encourage them to join in the peaceful protest another important note here as of this protest spans across all prisoners despite race or gang affiliations which is really different considering racism has always been a major problem in jails now those who staged the protests are getting props in the cyber world for using illegal means to stage a grassroots movement a movement to ask for better treatment all in hopes of being able to rejoin society once they're out of jail now currently no changes have been made to prisoners living standards but if the movement continues to gain momentum through cell phones and word of mouth prisoners are hopeful that will it will encourage change that brings us to our next story. according to a new report by human rights watch thousands of people arrested on low level crimes in new york city spend days in

. >> it's a tremendous settlement, kudos to the u.s.orney and the trustee. >>> $7.2 billion settlement means about half of the $20 billion worth of fraud has been recovered. heather ishimaru, "abc 7 news." >> u.s. attorney says $2.6 billion already recovered combined with this settlement is half of the $20 billion that was lost. >> a san francisco federal appeals court law are is suing the u.s. government for refusing to extend healthcare coverage to her same-sex partner. she has been trying for two years to get her on plan. they got married when same-sex marriages were briefly legal in california. but they say the defense of marriage act bars it from recognizing it. >> we have developing news, the senate has just voted down the dream act following short of the two-thirds majority needed. with a vote of 55 in favor to 47 against. the so-called lame duck senate is meeting right now in a rare saturday session. we have a live picture from the senate floor from washington, d.c. it would have given tentative legal status for illegal immigran

>> i do give them kudos.interesting, what law enforcement is looking at is not only the truth out there but they're going to start looking at some of the lies. if they can find a lie from any one potential suspect or theories, that's where they're going to start hitting home. just just like dana had mentioned, this is the first type of case is follow the money situation. what police are going to look at, their going to look at ronni chasen's will, but not only her will but her mother's will. >> we know that ronni chasen's will is worth in excess of $6 million. robin sax, thanks very much. >> thank you. >>> we'll turn to other stories developing right now, juju chang is over at the news desk. good morning. >> good morning, robin. intriguing details. >>> but we're going to turn now to what could be the most damaging revelation from wikileaks. this morning a public site has made a list of securities around the world that the u.s. considers vital. >> reporter: good morning. it raises real questions about what pur

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the president gets a lot of deserved kudos for the willingness to sound today unlike the past two years. maybe he is getting the message. >>neil: you knew bill clinton very well. >>governor huckabee: very well. >>neil: did he mean in the same way of of bill clinton when he got a drubbing, is he moderating? >>governor huckabee: bill clinton got it quickly because he is one of the most brilliant political minds that ever has existed in our country. and president obama has not yet shown that but he has never been in a position where he had to work with a body working against him. he had two years and he got a shellacking and if he is quick enough he will govern differently in the next two years than the first two because he knows there are consequences that ar irreversible. >>neil: but there arer revirsible what he does. i found it interesting that nancy pelosi was not there, she voted against it, and hoyer, number two, voted for this but he was not there and john boehner the incoming speaker, not there. we read who accepts and who declines, should we make a big deal? >>governor huckabee:

it is $14, a lovely little wine and kudo the same thing. wine in every single state. >> it makes kind of a talking piece. >> it's fun. >> i'll try this one. talk about this one for a fun friend, you say. >> everybody has a friend who is like, you're at home and suddenly get a call and you're like, hey, where are you, what's going on? let's go out. that kind of thing. i think getting them something quirky and wild and bizarre is great. xante is peear cognac liqueur. it is quickie and fun, like 35 buck as bottle, i think, or 40 buck as bottle. you could probably find it cheaper depending on the market but get them something they will, you know, if they end up doing shots late at night out somewhere they'll have fun with it. >> that quirky fun friend. >> i love this one. also this one, i'll turn these on because that's what they require. >> there you go. >> they are very cool. >> i actually haven't had this vodka but i love the presentation, medea, with this programmable digital billboard. >> this one actually says "hi rebecca". >> this says "

kudos to them.f you're traveling through the north bay here, you can see heavier showers right along right south of napa and another one between napa. these are stretching to the west near sonoma and fairfield and dixon and up towards winters. these are all sliding off to the east-northeast. you can see more starting to develop but not as intense around bodega bay. those are the waves of showers we're talking about we'll continue to deal with today. as far as temperatures, still in the upper 40s to low 50s in most neighborhoods. 54 half moon bay. around this time yesterday we were a little bit warmer. so it will be cooler this morning but that's pretty mild when you think about 40s and 50s. this afternoon, don't see much of an uptick in temperatures. that puts us in the mid to upper 50s. the forecast, a little lull tonight through tomorrow. tomorrow evening into wednesday morning, that second round of heavy rain, even thunder and gusty winds that could cause more problems. that moves in, get a break

it's how you get kudos in the industry, and it's hugely impressive, what they were doing. >> they werevery confident. they actually believed they were going to overtake exxon in terms of production. they'd found a lot of oil in the gulf and they were feeling on top of the world. >> narrator: bp is the leading operator here, producing 25% of all gulf oil from some of the deepest waters in the world. >> in fact, it was bp who had found the deepest ever, so everybody was actually pretty excited about is a peoe were just losing sight of the risks. >> the deep gulf was regarded as a very difficult place to drill. storms, hurricanes, just putting a deep well down through a lot of water. it's geologically a difficult place in which to operate. >> narrator: thunder horse, which towers 43 stories above water, was bp's showcase platform-- a symbol of the oil giant's ability to innovate, to push technology to the limit. but in july 2005, hurricane dennis swirled over the gulf of mexico. the rig's celebrity would be short lived. thunder horse toppled over. >> this was a state-of-the-art rig which

soaker kudos to the airline in getting the word out to the u.s. industry so to speak, to the challenges of the effort to get that done without disrupting commerce because there would have been significant delay if the airline hadn't screamed all those pieces and packages. we are certainly pleased that industry got past that gold in august of this year. 52% of the cargo on passenger aircraft is screened before it gets to the airlines. that is a significant change from where we were from a smaller percentage. that has been pretty successful. there are challenges that remain going forward, the challenges are on the area of technology. we have available any thing that can screen larger than 40 x 4865 inch high skid of homogenous cargo. there isn't anything out there that can screen anything rebuilt. canines are pretty effective overall and we are pleased to see that we are piloting the use of private canines in the industry to determine how much we can certify of those going forward because they may be an effective vehicle in the future but those chal

kudo it more on the inexpensive side. >> we talked about this earlier.th your family and have a gnoch, doesn't have to be this big expensive feast. >> linguini and clams doesn't have to cost you a lot. >> how long do you cook this shrimp. >> just a bit. i'll put fresh rosemary, it flavors the oil. >> looks delicious. >> not a batter, just nice and soft, nice and crispy, right on top. a little bit of -- oh, man, i dropped. >> let me have some of that sea salt. >> the five-second rule. it's been seven seconds we'll leave it down there. >> a bit of sea salt on top, you know, nice sliced lemon, you could fry the lemon, too. >> can i try one of these? >> absolutely. dig in. >> oh, my goodness. >> are you happy? >> aim very happy. >> happy is good. you see you get a bit of that rosemary, the punch of lemon, nice and crunchy on the outside and simple, simple, simple. >> awesome. one more time around the table, muscles, swordfish? >> the baked oysters, a bit of breading on top with fresh herbs and lemon, linguini and clam sauce. whole-roasted stharp. just, you k

kudos to you for putting your finger on a key issue. host: next call from florida. ron, republican. caller: the big, bad american military cannot be if you guerrilla fighters stuck in caves. you have not done anything of it except kill some women and children and spend a bunch of money. this war is all a bunch of bull shit spend money for the industrial complex and to keep feared going in this country so you can keep that industry going. host: to live. guest: -- host: thank you. guest: there were defeated in 2004 and 2005. they have been reconstituted in 2005 and 2006. second, unfortunately for u.s. industry, this war in afghanistan does not support the industrial complex in the way that a large industrial war like the second world war or the cold war did. the types of equipment they are using -- is a low-tech war. these dirty quillworts, and i have fought them and iraq, are not the kind used planes and equipment that may be appreciated by the industrial complex. i would push back on new little there. speaking frankly, i think it is a slur against the american fighting men does it a

. >> kudos to beverly hills police department. so often, many details are leaked to the press. and many details are out before close to an investigation can happen. here you have an investigation, where the harold character was being watched for over a week. and yet, no one knew about it. that's impressive. >> that is. and the way it should be. all right, robin sax, thanks so much. we appreciate your insight. >> thanks, robin. >>> let's get to sam, who has been tracking the tough situation in upstate new york. >>> good morning, robin. the best news here is that the new york state throughway says it is open. but the story is incredible. take a look at the pictures. folks, hundreds of motorists stuck behind, a tractor trailer accident. and the tractor-trailer is covered in snow. they used atvs. they used airport buses to try to get supplies to people, to get people out of their cars. they're towing cars off the road. but not before folks are spending an entire day stuck in the snow here. up to 40 inches of snow just south of buffalo. mike randall is there to tell us everything th

the rest of the money, kudos to the american public for returning the forms, which means we did not have to pay salaries to people to knock on as many doors as we were prepared to do. the other thing that happened was we hired people in this recession with job skills and experience and with desire to work that need the money that were so productive that they finished the work at very high quality levels faster than we thought. that yielded savings. i am worried about the cost of the census. i believe in these economic times we have to plan for the most cost-efficient sense as we can. we are working on that and try to be as cost-efficient as we can in 2020. tweet:here's a guest: i would guess new york or california. whenever you have 600,000 people on the streets, a lot of things happen. we had over 700 incidents when our folks knocked on the door, they were greeted with a gun in their face. 600,000 people on the streets. people knocking on 50 million households doors. out of 100 million knocks on the door, 700 times of guns in the face. we had one shooting death and another due to a traf

the rest of the money, kudos to the american public for returning the forms, which means we did not have to pay salaries to people to knock on as many doors as we were prepared to do. the other thing that happened was we hired people in this recession with job skills and experience and with desire to work that need the money that were so productive that they finished the work at very high quality levels faster than we thought. that yielded savings. i am worried about the cost of the census. i believe in these economic times we have to plan for the most cost-efficient sense as we can. we are working on that and try to be as cost-efficient as we can in 2020. tweet:here's a guest: i would guess new york or california. whenever you have 600,000 people on the streets, a lot of things happen. we had over 700 incidents when our folks knocked on the door, they were greeted with a gun in their face. 600,000 people on the streets. people knocking on 50 million households doors. out of 100 million knocks on the door, 700 times of guns in the face. we had one shooting death and another due to a traf

the rest of the money, kudos to the american public for returning the forms, which means we did not have to pay salaries to people to knock on as many doors as we were prepared to do. the other thing that happened was we hired people in this recession with job skills and experience and with desire to work that need the money that were so productive that they finished the work at very high quality levels faster than we thought. that yielded savings. i am worried about the cost of the census. i believe in these economic times we have to plan for the most cost-efficient sense as we can. we are working on that and try to be as cost-efficient as we can in 2020. tweet:here's a guest: i would guess new york or california. whenever you have 600,000 people on the streets, a lot of things happen. we had over 700 incidents when our folks knocked on the door, they were greeted with a gun in their face. 600,000 people on the streets. people knocking on 50 million households doors. out of 100 million knocks on the door, 700 times of guns in the face. we had one shooting death and another due to a traf

new start's serial flaws, meantime an unidentified john mccain admirer says the maverick deserves kudos into pressuring obama into talking up missile defense. mr. mccasualtyy goes on, whoopey, don't you feel good about the g.o.p. now? this is is the nonsense. he says these senators are trying to rationalize their inexcuseable approval of a bad treaty they lack the backbone to vote down. holding debates, it's as mmona general assembly as a debating society because the term says how inconsequential its exertions are. as for ratification, i defer to john bolton and john he one, they explained that the obama attention from the treaty itself. attention would be focused on the rament fix resolution, which they predicted would be loaded with, quote, a package of paper promises unquote, called conditions, understandings and declarations that would purport to address concerns about of our nuclear arsenal, treaty other weapons. professor bolton continued and said senators cannot take these warpties seriously and not part of the text itself. former under secretary of state put it, such reservation

kudos to those leading the charge to bring about higher standards and the second element i think of great changes that have taken place in the last year is this notion that has been part of our history, as a nation, which is -- for innovation and reform. and in the last year, there have been tremendous reforms across the united states and my guess is with 80% of the populous in our country today having a new governor and many of them having new state school leaders in their states, there will be a burst of energy as it relates to reform for this year as well. spurred on by a race to the top, more states have focused on reform than ever before. dozens of states are not waiting for race to the top to bring about even more reform. last year, we challenged all the lawmakers and folks involved in policy to take one good idea from this conference and to steal it and implement it in their home states. it appears that a lot of people took that idea to heart. families are allowed to choose the k-12 school that best meets the special needs of their child. florida created this program in 1999 and si

kudos to you for putting your finger on a key issue. host: next call from florida. ron, republican. caller: the big, bad american military cannot be if you guerrilla fighters stuck in caves. you have not done anything of it except kill some women and children and spend a bunch of money. this war is all a bunch of bull shit spend money for the industrial complex and to keep feared going in this country so you can keep that industry going. host: to live. guest: -- host: thank you. guest: there were defeated in 2004 and 2005. they have been reconstituted in 2005 and 2006. second, unfortunately for u.s. industry, this war in afghanistan does not support the industrial complex in the way that a large industrial war like the second world war or the cold war did. the types of equipment they are using -- is a low-tech war. these dirty quillworts, and i have fought them and iraq, are not the kind used planes and equipment that may be appreciated by the industrial complex. i would push back on new little there. speaking frankly, i think it is a slur against the american fighting men does it a

allow reformers to take the lead in proposing solutions to the great challenge nu in our count so kudos to those here that are committed bringing higher standards and the second thing, is this notion which is part of our history that states are laboratories for innovation and reform in the last year there's been tremendous reforms across the united states and with 80 percent of the populus having a new governor and many of them having new state school leaders in the state there will be a burst of energy as it relates to reform for this years well. spurred on by race to the top more states focus on reform than ever before and equally and perhaps more important dozens of states aren't waiting for bringing about even more reform. last year we challenged all the lawmakers to take one good idea from the conference and to steel it, and to implement it in their home states and an appears a whole lot of people took that to heart. oklahoma and louisiana allows students with disabilities choose the school that best meets the needs of their childs. florida created this program in 1999 and several