cautionary notes this is the system of seattle system, not your system. you have to look that principals and see if they apply to the same work the planning side, the modeling side, the adaptive side and i'll talk briefly for a few seconds on mayors initiative on climate control because it gives an as political environment to work in and then the seattle system. the mayor of seattle nickels started the protocols for the city and started process with a lot of other mayors to start aggressively dealing with climate change if your interested at the bottom we have the website where there was an advisory commission made up of a number of corporate entities including starbucks and boeing and they came up with a plan for seattle the materials are there and if your interested i encourage you to go ahead and look at those and see the things being done with other mayors across the country. >> our system, we have two water supply systems the cedar system and toll system that supplies one third and we own the entire head waters on 90 thousand acres and we control tha

in seattle, dan springer, fox news. >> bret: we're getting breaking news in. next you will see a manhunt for three men suspected in being involved with the murder of the border agency last night. >> bret: additional border patrol agents are being brought in the search for suspects in the death of an agent tuesday night. union representative says 40-year-old brian perry was trying to catch bandits who target illegal immigrants for robbery when he was fatally shot. it happened north of the arizona-mexico border. four suspects are now in custody, but we're just hearing in the last few minutes agents at this hour or involved in a chase, going after three other men. believed to be involved. we'll keep you updated. south koreans staged the largest evacuation drill since training began 45 years ago. sirens blared as they headed for shelter. last month, artillery from the north killed four people on south korean island. the violence in greece today was very real. in massive protests over the budget-cutting moves. correspondent greg burke has the story. >> tens of thou

there's about 30 landslides in the seattle area alone. and more are expected over the next few days. >>> our weather team will have more on this big winter blast coming up later today on "good morning america." >>> there's a new setback in the u.s. works to end the war in afghanistan. richard holbrooke, the president's representative to the region has died. the aaccomplished diplomat, known as a brilliant negotiator, passed away last night. >> he is one of the giants in foreign policy. >> the president praised him last night and called him a tough son of a gun. christiane amanpour explains what this means for the war strategy. >> reporter: holbrooke's death comes just days before the obama administration rolls outs its review of the war in afghanistan. a war in a holbrooke was working to turn around. in part, through a so-called civilian surge. using not just american troops. but american expertise to rebuild the country. >> we're not abandoning afghanistan. nor are we going to have an open-ended troop commitment because no war can go on

wet on i-5, from seattle to san francisco.-covered on parts of i-15, 84 and 90 in the northern rockies. >> if you're flying today, you can expect airport delays in seattle, san francisco, salt lake city, minneapolis and chicago. >>> this morning, a major break in the murder of publicist to the stars, ronni chasen. >> police now believe they have solved that shooting and that a person of interest they tried to talk to last week was, in fact, the killer. >> we believe mrs. chasen was going to be the victim of a robbery. >> reporter: beverly hills police now believe that ronni chasen's murder was a random act of violence, committed by this man, harold smith. the 43-year-old transient with a criminal past shot himself to death in the lobby of a hollywood apartment building last week. now, tests reveal a match between the gun he used on himself and the murder weapon. >> the purpose of this was to tell you that it was a match. again, the firearm used to commit suicide in harold martin smith, is the same firearm that was used to kill

. >> a wet 43 in seattle. teens in fargo and the twin cities. 20s from omaha to detroit and the northeast. 36 degrees in atlanta. and 66 degrees in new orleans. >>> and when we come back on this wednesday morning, one megabank's new dress code. right down to the correct underwear. >>> and police on a lookout for a bandit that stole more than $1 million in casino chips. a real-life "ocean's eleven" heist. >>> welcome back, everybody. time, now, for a check of market activities, starting overseas. tokyo's nikkei average fell less than 0.1% today. meanwhile, hong kong's hang seng is sharply lower. and in london, the ftse opened lower. on wall street, the dow climbed 48 points yesterday. the nasdaq inched up almost three points. >>> president obama will be looking for new ideas to jump-start job growth today. he's hosting a summit with chief executives from 20 companies, including american express, general electric, and google. education, trade, taxes and the deficit are also expected to top the agenda. >>> the fe

the only spot has tops that, seattle at seven inches. shows how rare an event it is. very rare to see l.a. with as high rainfall totals inry spots. salem, oregon, 45. spokane not bad at 33 and partly cloudy. >>> lynn, we'll take a close are look at the forecast, any concerns we have, still potential for nuding and snowfall total was amazing in the mountains. >> absolutely. bill, thanks so much. >>> well, wall street's new year's optimism. wikileaks next target is confirmed, and the unemployed millionaire. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. plus a new police investigation into allegations against lindsay lohan. >>> a record setting night for the lady huskies. the mavericks right florida and shaquille o'neal like you've never seen him before. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning, and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry. here are some of your top headlines this morning -- a federal judge has ordered the government to pay more than $2.5 million to a suspected terrorist organization, ruling that investigators wiretapped the group

five years ago, that extended to seattle washington as we were growing our exposure and our use at seattleat that time, we referred to before to add shore power facilities, and seattle has expanded that to two facilities. in the last few years, we also were able to create a facility with the help of the port and electrical company and everybody in vancouver, canada, so it is with great pride that we are able to continue that road and come to san francisco, it would we have been able to come to for over 40 years, so we are thrilled to be here and be part of this today. the future of shore power again, there are facilities now being developed by a los angeles, long beach, san diego. we are working with ford's from the world, including new york. it is really a process that is extending around the world as more and more for its become familiar with what this can do for the community. for us, it is part of us working with community for us to be able to grow the marine commerce -- this is a for after all, so it is nice to be able to grow that commerce and do it while minimizing the impact on the

and north of seattle. some of those land slides not making it safe for amtrak to operate. the train service they're hoping to have it up and running by tomorrow. in the meantime, they will probably put people on buses. just a major headache for people. luckily, no reports of injuries or deaths so far. so good luck here, people were able to be rescued in time. some will be going back to their houses today and probably find a lot of cleanup to do. >> patrick, good to see you. thank you. >>> we are getting images of the wintry storm system through your why i reports. you can see some of them displayed here over my shoulders. lots of snowy scenes from your perspective. thanks for sending us your pictures and stories of the storm as it makes its way across the northeast. we'll get them on the air here. >>> big stories we're following for you today, the president's tax cut compromise with republicans is expected to survive a test vote in the senate today. democratic open ziks seems to be softening a bit. one sen

supply during the summer and if we're in a situation where we have a longer drought period we like seattle have annual refills with reservoirs and a summer draw down where we're serving from our reservoirs if that presents challenges for us. increase in wild fires. it's a huge concern for us and i'm sure for like san francisco we're an unfiltered drinking source and our watershed is in the mountains where there's lots of reck rauks and eventhough it's protected and there's no entry allowed our watershed we're are neighbors of an intensely utilized effort. water rights issue is only issues with our ground source but we do share that series of,aquafo r's and we have the city of vancouver on the other side that also taps that water reservoir. and fish flows we're currently in the process of pursuing habitat conservation plan to come in compliance in the clean water act so we're very concerned about any impact that could impact our ability to maintain fish flows we're currently agreeing to. next slide. so, in terms of what we've done to study climate change effects on our system. in 2002 throu

you see the rain out there from oh olympia to seattle to bellingham and the bisque will see the worstf it. temperatures not bad. we'll deal with a lot of rainy conditions. tha that cold air holding on in spokane and a chance of some snow. >>> wednesday's forecast coming up, lynn. >> also coming up, big ben crashes wall street's party. a play for barnes & noble and the giant $100 bill headache. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, what's in a name? for one fan of nbc's "chuck," just about everything. >>> another nfl coach is fired. miami heating up and the patriots pull out all the stops. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning, and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry. here are some of your top headlines this morning -- the supreme court says it will decide whether the largest employment discrimination case in the nation's history can continue against walmart. more than 1 million current and former female employees are seeking billions of dollars in damages through a class action lawsuit, because they say they were paid less than men and

wet on i-5 from seattle to portland.ow on i-15. 84 and 90 in the northern rockies. >> if you are flying today expect airport in seattle, detroit, boston, new york, philly and d.c. >> there's also been some harsh weather across the middle east region. powerful waves pounded red sea beach resorts and powerful winds whipped through coastal areas from egypt to lebanon leaving behind some damage. >> but the pors of it may have been felt by passengers in a royal crib yang cruise liner in the eastern mediterranean. the brilliant of the seas" was battered by heavy waves sunday that it actually tilted 30 degrees. >> everything sort of fell off their shelves in my state room. but i heard people with more damage. television sets falling on the ground and breaking and telephone lines coming out of the wall. >> dozens of passengers were treated on board after suffering some minor injuries. we're told most of those on the ship are americans. >>> and there are fears that 22 sailors are dead after their fishing boat went down in some of

louis and seattle, with 3 games left. they will play at san diego.naround on thursday night. >>> anyone dreaming of a white christmas in chicago may get their wish. temperatures in the 20s insole gear field covered in snow. burr not even mother nature could slow the explosive patriots. tom brady threw a wide open deion branch 59-yard touchdown right before the half. brady throws for a season-high 369 yards. new evening loaned blows out chicago, 36-7. metrodome anytime soon. the >>> there will be no football at the metro dome any time soon. the teflon roof collapsed under the weight of the snow in minneapolis. they had 17 inches of snow. today's vikings-giants game will be postponed. it will be played tomorrow in detroit. it's the first monday night game in detroit since 2001. >>> college hoops, cal hosting southern miss at home today. second half, kemp was the bears', baseline jumper, team high 20 points. bears couldn't stop gary flowers. he scored southern miss' last 12 points, with 3 seconds left. flowers nails the jumper to seal the win. he had a

when seattle decides to turn on the turnover machine. matt hasslebeck tries to hit 49er robinson but lawson jams things up. and spikes with the interception. he was picked off four times and the 49ers convert this one into a field goal. alex smith was not electric but efficient. tied his career best with three td passes. smith to josh morgan. 49ers scored 20 points in the second quarter. now with frank gore out for the season running-back ryan westbrook is able to shake off the rust and show why he was so valuable with the eagles. look at westbrook take the short pass and keep away from seattle. san francisco led 30-7 at half- time. hard to believe seattle is still a first-place time but commit five turnovers. he takes it back 39 yards for six. 49ers avenge their first week blow-out loss to seattle with a 40-21 victory today. san francisco scores a season high 40 points. 49ers are 5-8 but sit just one game out of first place in that weak nfc west. >> you know, we are a young team that today was big for us. but at the same time, today mea

niners may go back to the other smith alec against seattle.♪ [ female announcer ] keurig has over 200 varieties of gourmet coffee and tea to choose from. ♪ keurig is the way to brew fresh, delicious coffee in under a minute. way to brew. [ female announcer ] so with keurig, every cup tastes like it's brewed just forou. ♪ because it is. choose. brew. enjoy. keurig. >> looks like mike is going back to smith as the quarterback sunday against seattle. just to stir it up or knee jerk reaction to take attention away from his job status or the position. they have an identity crisis. starts with the quarterback then they can't decide if they are a run oriented or passing team. they have too many weapons for them not to be an explosive offense. but the coach doesn't seem to weren't to cut them loose. on defense they can't stop anyone. packers ran up 4 10 total yard yards. get some of the poorest tackling i have seen this year. today coach addressed the constant speculation that he will be fired. >> i think one of the saddest things about our society to

mostly 40s from seattle to salt lake city. and nearly 70 out in phoenix. >>> and when we come back, those students held hostage by an armed classmate talk about their five hours of fear. >>> and a landmark defaced. ancient indian artwork covered now in graffiti. ["knock on wood" playing] every five minutes, chase pays for someone's eligible credit or debit card purchase. [beep] chase picks up the tab. it could be you. chase picks up the tab. it's another great reason to bank with chase. chase what matters. sign up at a branch today. >>> overseas stock markets are mostly rising this morning. tokyo's nikkei average climbed 0.5% today. meanwhile, hong kong's hang seng is higher. and in london, the ftse opened higher. on wall street, the dow fell 46 points yesterday. and on nasdaq, a drop of 27 points. >>> president obama's bipartisan deficit commission publicly unveiled its final proposal today, to slash the nation's deficit. the revised plan still contains many politically explosive ideas. those include raising the social securi

they will probably have to bus you around seattle. not just rain but terrific landslides that covered up tracks, took out some homes but no injuries reported so far. and the best news of all is there's real concern that some weakened dams that deteriorated over the years could have been affected. the army corps of engineers saying the dams have not been affected so far by this heavy rainfall. >> patrick, fingers crossed that they get a break in the weather. thanks so much. >> new this morning a large chunk of your 2011 take-home pay on the line. the senate is scheduled to take a test vote on president obama's tax cut compromise. the obama administration is predicting passage. house democrats say a fight involving the president with the republicans is going to happen. 60 votes are needed for the senate to start debate today. >> sarah palin says conditions in haiti are worse than she expected. she paid a visit to the earthquake-ravaged country this weekend. the former governor of alaska toured a shelter and a cholera treatment center. s

wet on i-5 from seattle to portland. slick and icy on i-15 and i-90 in the northern rockies. >> and as you're flying today, expect airport delays in seattle, boston, philly, new york and washington, d.c. >> the blizzard could bring up to 2 feet in some places before it tapers often finally this afternoon. this is what it looks like at the george washington bridge, crossing from new jersey into new york. >> right now, the storm is moving away from the new york area toward massachusetts and maine. jeremy hubbard has a look at the conditions in boston. >> reporter: rob, mike, good morning from a very snowy boston. it's bad now and this isn't even the worst of it. the snow's been falling at a rate of 1 to 2 inches every hour in that in the overnight hours that is expected to double, 2 to 4 inches of snow falling here in boston overnight. it's going to be a mess. forecasters are calling this a blockbuster storm. road crews are trying to get a leg up but it's a futile exercise, overnight, the northeast is going to bear the bru

i'm neal karlinsky, in seattle. >>> that's what's making news in america this morning. >> have a great

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meanwhile, 40s from seattle to billings. a wet 50 in portland. and 64 in colorado springs. >>> the 12-year-old virginia girl kidnapped after her mother was killed is reunited with her dad and the rest of her family. britney smith was escorted back to virginia last night three days after she was found unharmed in san francisco with her mother's boyfriend. jeffrey eastly is a prime suspect in the mother's death. his extradition hearing is set for today. >>> hundreds of people could be laid off from internet giant yahoo! as soon as today. the "new york times" reports that 600 employees could be let go. that's about 5% of yahoo!'s total workforce. the california-based company has been struggling to increase revenue as it competes with giants google and facebook. no comment from yahoo! on that report. >>> the tax cut deal between president obama and republicans could get final approval in the senate as early as today. it sailed through a test vote in the senate monday. the $858 billion measure preserves bush-era tax rates and extends some unemployment

that was sabra gertsch reporting from our seattle affiliate.significant criminal histories, mostly for assaults and theft. >>> julian assange is free on bail this morning, but the wikileaks founder says a secret u.s. grand jury is considering espionage charges against him. assange spent nine day this is a british jail on allegations of sex crimes in sweden. he said being jailed was a good experience for a journalist but that his current situation may be more of a problem. >> while i am free, i am under house arrest in a way that seriously interferes with my privacy. as investigative journalists dealing with the most sensitive materials in the world and sensitive sources. >> assange is staying at a supporter's ten-bedroom mansion. he has a curfew and will wear an electronic tag and must report to the police every day but has unlimited use of the internet. julian assange will be live on "good morning america" later this morning. be sure to stay tuned for that. >>> a 77-year-old man is said to be fine after his car plunged into miami biscayne bay.

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. >> rain gauge wise no body probably cares about the city of seattle but we could do some things. other than quality control and we're going to spend more money and time but i think it's easily transferable to others. >> let's go back to the floor. yes? >> i want to go back to the point of the technical and public engage meant. it's one piece of the puzzle but provide as lot of opportunity. water efficiency provides most of the savings on the consumer side. the numbers we heard about 18 percent, almost all of that is not water agency and waist water treatment but keeping the water in the homes using the washing machines and so on. saving that can save humans money which then energy games people into, well, maybe we should listen to the engineers and people trying create the model. >> thank you. >> yes? yes? >> i want to tie into the first speaker and segway the opportunity for public, private partnerships and collaboration. i have an exand pl in california that's local to the san francisco, puc, the california commission has listed grant under their renewable fuels program and the

he'll go in this must win against seattle.hey'll be eliminated from any possible hope. if you want to play, they're probably eliminated. on paper they're officially out if they lose to seattle. >>> for the second year in a row, stanford will have a hayesen trophy finalist in new york. last year it was gerhart. now they're going to send andrew luck to applaud this guy cam newton. stiff armtrophy.com is the website saying he's top. andrew luck could finish third or fourth according to the website. this morning luck was talking about his chances. he's going to new york and hey, just being there on the scene. >> i guess if i win the award, i hope it's because i deserve it and because of the merits and nothing regarding anybody else's off the field or anything like that. i think it speaks volumes about where this program is headed. what a great job coach harbaugh has done. what great players are at stanford right now. i'm excited to be part of the discussion. >>> all right. around our time 5:00 on saturday night they will announce

. >> and he was born in seattle area.ol, college and even it is an after the the bottom place in downtown seattle. let us take a look at this listing. he paid 1.7 $5 million. it is over 2400 sq. ft. and the deck is 500 square feet which is nearly as big as my department. this is what the view might look like. he is on a 284, 3/2 0.5. he is on third 24--and with his earnings were 8 million last season, and 13 million next year. >> new tonight at 5:00 p.m., tracking the storm what are hitting the bay area, heart. how it could effect your christmas. flooding affect come off across the west, the mood madness, the only total lunar eclipse how you can see it, and how your iphone can help coming up. amon >> mill valley, oakland, the santa cruz mountains kron 4 has a team of reporters tracking the storm. and thousands of southern california not evacuated from their homes as flood waters continued to rise. >> first, doubled in news with an officer involved shooting in oakland. and developing news. east 33rd ave. and haaziq madyun

she moved to seattle and is now the executive director of the deaf-blind service center. she manages an office and conducts business meetings using tactile communication. translator: i run the everyday operation and make sure the staff are doing their jobs. i am responsible for making budget decisions. also, i coordinate with executive directors of other organizations. because we are small and specialized, we can't do everything, so we divide the responsibilities and avoid duplication of services. narrator: using her cane and public transportation, jelica travels independently to a meeting across town. she uses a vibrotactile crossing signal to make her way across the street. she signals the bus driver about her special needs with color-coded cards. the driver knows to stop and traces the route number on her hand, indicating she is boarding the correct bus. translator: i know people are shocked at seeing a cane, and they're shocked at seeing tactile communication, and it's true--it is shocking-- but it's so much better than pretense or denial because then you end up looki

rain in seattle, portland and san francisco. and snowshowers around upstate new york and northern new england. >> meanwhile, 29 in boston. 34 in the big apple. 74 in miami. 37 in chicago. 27 in the twin cities. and just 15 degrees in fargo. 40s from seattle to salt lake city. phoenix warms up to 75. >>> when we come back, another recall from johnson & johnson this morning. and it is one of their most popular products. >>> then, was it murder? inside one of manhattan's trendiest hotels. a successful fashion designer found dead. >>> and the president's nicotine habit. has he finally gone cold turkey? icic m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m

>> we heard from seattle that they went down to sort of a regional type model. what's the status of that, some of us have regional or coastal, not snow back. when can we expect possible help for modeling of that? >> right now. it exists. that's what we used in this california assessment. for the scenarios they were all down scaled to twelve kilometers covering california and nevada. it's not totally adequate and i'm not saying this is a solved problem. the premium grape growers want to know what's going on in napa, valley but for a lot of water related problems i think we're okay. [inaudible] >> what's the long-term climate - >> hopefully, we get on to that green emissions trajectory which would have co2 levels leveling off and declining. there's a lot of inertia in the system. we all have cars and you can't change power plants overnight and et cetera, et cetera. but in fact the earth response to climate is not going to make too much difference until about the middle part of the century between all those scenarios. through 2050 a climate model is sort of a clima

today, medford, portland and seattle, going to deal with wet conditions. l.a.o phoenix, you are dry and you'll be looking okay. call it partly cloud any l.a. today. tomorrow looks nice from vegas to l.a. to phoenix to tucson. notice a split forecast. that plume of moisture continuing into sunday in northwest while much of southern california, nevada and ars will look nice. >>> if you're watching us on kgw news channel 8, portland, oregon, make this holiday season merry an musical. a cappella quartet, the dickens carollers performs at pioneer place. that's your pick event of the day, lynn. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> now here's a look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. at the box office this weekend, a new release will be the sure fire number one. the chronicles of narnia, "the voyage of the dawn treader" is the third film adapted from the fantasy level. if you want more, you better turn out. disney gave up on the series after the second film cost more to make than it made in north america. so fox gave the series a new life with a drastically reduced

seattle may have done that and port land may have integrated it into management. temperature is going up, demand for water is going up. how many of our water agencies include in their demand forecast for the year 3020, 3050, climate effects on demand. the last california water plant did a much better job of acknowledging the issue of climate change but not yet adequately took action. we're beginning to work now on the next one and the intention i believe, is there will be a more deeper analysis and i look forward to that. next slide. this is a graph, and i want to say couple of things. this is from a study that a coleague of mine did on impacts of changes on colorado river. we looked at climate general circulation models from hypo thetic there's a lot of information and this is a small piece of that. this shows frequency and volume of uncontrolled spills which is basically meaning floods. these are percent changes of flow on,x factors. 10, five, ten, twenty percent changes on flows. those are plausible in colorado. the,y axis is number of years in which we get plu