so i asked the author of the study what would it take to curb my craving for a big old big mac. >> you'diting and chewing and swallowing the big mac from start to finish. probably, for it to work. >> reporter: and so, diane, i tried it. >> and? >> reporter: and i sat there and i really imagined eating every single bite and i took it very seriously and by the time i got to the big mac, it was cold, so it only had about three-quarters of it. but then, i polished off the fries because it only works on one item at a time. so, you can't focus on the whole meal. >> what a mixed blessing or curse it was. but how long do you imagine in order to get the results? >> reporter: well, they say you really have to think about each step of eating it and it's really the imagining of it that makes you feel as maybe, if you've done it. but don't wait too long, your food gets cold. >> all right, i'll imagine a second one for you. >>> coming up, those good old quiet days together. don't we remember them? someone who took a vow to bring them back. our "persons of the week." and i need to run off to the bathro

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i see one sesame seed... [ male announcer totally irresistible and fully loaded with flavor -- the big macese and angus third pounder. oh, let me get a napkin. thank you. ♪ i'm in the back seat. ♪ it adds character. [ laughter [ male announcer the simple joy of giving in to flavor. >>> 2012 does barack obama get re-elected yes or no and why? >> if there's a republican that can speak to middle america unlike mccain and some of the other candidates he's going to lose the white house in 2012. >> if we have another ronald reagan he'll get ousted in four years like jimmy carter did. >> i'm really concerned. i see this sarah palin movement and i never thought it was serious enough, but i actually think that it's frightening actually, that sarah palin could be the nominee. if she's the nominee, president obama will win again. >> are there any black people on the horizon to be the next president or speaker? >> i would have love to see condi rice go after something, but i think she had too much of the bush au ba tras. she would have -- the same thing about president obama helping our international

. >>> we will take a look at the layoffs hitting the bay area this close to christmas. >>> a big mac attack. the latest on the mcdonald's security breech that means your personal information could be in the hans of hackers. . >> do christmas songs give you the chills? if so it could be a clue to your personality. >> be careful before you head out the door. mike will get you around the commute and we will see when the rain will end this tuesday december 14th, today in the bay.

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. >>> we will take a look at the layoffs hitting the bay area this close to christmas. >>> a big mac attack. the latest on the mcdonald's security breech that means your personal information could be in the hans of hackers. . >> do christmas songs give you the chills? if so it could be a clue to your personality. >> be careful before you head out the door. mike will get you around the commute and we will see when the rain will end this tuesday december 14th, today in the bay. >>> good morning to you. 6:01 right now. >> the hour by hour forecast and it's beginning to come down and spread throughout the bay area. >> most of the commute now being affected by the rain. let's show you the temperatures. with the clouds and the raindrops flying, heading through lunchtime at 2:00 and 3:00, 50s for highs and the numbers are not changing a lot. changing minute to minute. the rain we are seeing up to the sunol grade into the east bay hills. it's impacting the morning commute. mike will tell us about it. right about now. back to you. >> good morning. exactly where you are showing the maps with th

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washington lost big as were the only metro areas to post gains in the monthly prices. mortgage giant fannie mae and freddie mac announced a resuming the sale of foreclosed homes. the join a number of big- name lenders the bank of america, j.p. morgan chase that lifting for closure moratoriums. they were put in place in light of the rubble signing scandal. kron 4 talk was a hustler but what this means for people in the process of foreclosure. >> the and if they have the sale date, if they've already didn't reviewed by the lender and it's been determined that they can afford their house or they've been denied for a loan modification for either the federal or some program that the lender offered in the house and been denied on all lines the moratorium lifting will affect them. because they will now of the bay will have the right to actually take the property. >> she does say people were still working with the lender to try and get a loan modification will not be affected by the lifting of the foreclosure moratorium. california nearly elected attorney general is speaking out for the first time today since her oppo

types of crimes anymore michael hudson you talked about the mortgage surprises what about fannie mae and freddie mac. what do you see there are still big problems and looks like the taxpayers are going to be on the hook for. lots and lots of money to to keep fannie and freddie. on life support. you know my reporting showed that fannie and freddie probably were less you know took less risk and were less reckless than some of the wall street bankrolled private lenders but still they took a lot of chances and especially the end as they were trying to catch up market share trying to regain some of their market clout you know they bankrolled a lot of risky loans and now the taxpayers are on the hook for and there are a lot of homeowners who are suffering because they ended up in bad deals bank of america they are now looking to be on the hook for these put backs of these mortgages people are talking about a multi-trillion dollar problem there is that we're seeing folks on wall street and in the mortgage industry you know set up this this machine where there wasn't a lot of accountability. a small lender or mortgages. ricker makes a loan and

big macs right here, man. you've got to come down!" man, the weather's getting rough out there. ere's a big snowstorm in the midwest that's coming up the east coast here, and everyone's getting ready. today i saw a hipster putting a snow tire on his unicycle. [ laughter ] i don't know if you guys saw this. yesterday at an elementary school, michelle obama said that childhood obesity is both an economic threat and a national security threat. yeah, it was pretty awkward, mainly because she said it all to one chubby kid. [ laughter ] she was like -- [ laughter ] looking at you, gary. sure you want to eat that lunchable? [ laughter ] this isn't good. a family in texas says that a thief broke into their house and stole their dog and all their christmas gifts. yeah, i'll bet that's exactly what the dog wants them to think. [ laughter ] finally, a man in illinois was arrested for throwing a dead squirrel at a hardee's employee -- [ laughter ] -- through a drive-through window. [ laughter ] yeah, the employee was like, "get as mad as you want, sir, but like i said, no returns." [ laughte

the feeling that you are actually doing it. what would it take to curb my craving for a big walbeck mac? >> in that -- for a big old big mac? imagine chewing it, tasting, and swallowing it. >>> we >>> it is good to be green. a recent study found 73% more green products on store shelves than last year. how does a customer know just how green they are? >> this is a a very savvy shopper. but figuring out -- this is a very savvy shopper. but figuring out what is green is hard to figure out. from that picture, can you tell if it is green? >> you cannot. >> her new year's resolution is that isgreen, but admits wha hard to figure out what to buy. >> what we see is a lack of proof in the stores. >> of their review of 5000 plus products claiming to be environmentally friendly found that 95% committed what they call green-washing. >> if you are making the environment green, you should provide some evidence or certification. >> take these diapers. it says pierre and natural. but how do you know it is pure and natural? you can read the label. here is the trademark. but you do not see any independent certification. we had to call them t

the country. more than 50,000 people were jailed and there were some big mac drivers anyway postman named william oore. now, why is it the ordinary people like this would be willing to put their body on the line? why is that they would expose themselves to so much physical danger, lethal danger. well, one of the major reasons and one of the major causes the civil rights movement's eventual success with the man named issa philip randolph,a philip randolph was the man who brought mass demonstrations into the civil rights movement and incidentally he is also the person who turned the march. it was his vision throughout this mass gathering before the lincoln memorial. now, around the time thata philip randolph got involved in politics in new york in 19 teams in the 1920, the civil rights movement basically had two different approaches to promoting the cause. one cause is what you might call the booker t. washington approach. booker t. washington was a major educator. he was the first black figure invited to sign at the white house with president theodore roosevelt. and booker t. washington essentially

the united states. >> he could give away $100 million and have some left over for retirement. >> still have room for a big macxactly. >> thank you, jason brooks from kcbs and cbsmoneywatch.com. >>> start making plans for the weekend because it's filled with musicals an movies. >> with more here's liam mayclem host of "eye on the bay." okay, so what's making news this week? >> well, hello. i want to begin by giving sydnie my life savings. there is a bucket. enjoy it. [ laughter ] >> "shrek" the musical continues its run at san francisco's orpheum theater. the big screen owinger making his way to the stage, a great supporting class to sing and dance through this delightful production with loads of laughs good old-fashioned family fun highly recommended. and also you can see the cast of "shrek" including the big green guy himself with the salvation army bell ringers in san francisco union square tomorrow from noon to 2 p.m. so meet the stars of the show, hang out, meet the cast and raise money for a great cause. i now love the movies. let's go to the movies of. and the king's speech opens tomorrow. it is as perf

the american people delivered last november. protect taxpayers by ending too big to fail and the administration's unlimited bailout of fannie mae and freddie mac. if congress ends the bailout, what are the cascading effect? guest: the really good question. when we talk about too big to fail, we got here because all the banks knew that when they engage in activities that hurt the banks, they contrast bernanke to fund. a different action -- acronym, trust bernanke to fund. this is not the first time would be about banks. in the 1980's the banks basically were insolvent because of latin american loans they imprudently made. it took the saudi money, instead of letting the saudis land to the black american countries the banks wanted to do very little more -- work for high fees. they got regulators to back off regulations with glass-steagall. in a mortgage market encouraging predatory and fraudulent lending again, doing very little work to extract high fees. and the banking system was more than twice over broke. if it is linked to what is going on with fannie mae and freddie mac. they helped disguise the problems on the bank's balance sheet. freddie

i mean we're at the point where if michelle obama says obesity is bad, some conservatives feel no, obesity is good. go out and get two big macs and triple fries, right. crazy. we got too get out of that i hope this is -- >> it does seem to be too petty for the problems we face. and maybe that's a call for maturity in this next year. >> brown: but you say what defines the year is that we can't even agree on -- >> indeed those two things are true. it was a great year of progressive achievements and it was a great year for conservative politics. >> maybe the two are linked. >> you wrote about that in your column yesterday. what about that notion. democrats had a lot of victories but you said they don't even seem to want to accept it. >> i think that you know there has been this dysfunctional relationship between the president and if you are the left, or whatever. we don't have a big left in america but the progressive side. you know, where the president gets really impatient with them where. as outside groups job is to push the president to test the limits of the possible. and then the left looks at the president, doesn't look a

big business reports this week. >> it's more expensive to finance a home this week. the average rate on a 30 year fixed mortgage is up to 4.83%, according to freddie mac, that is the fifth straight weekly increase. a month ago the rate was at a 40 year low, 4.17%. on wall street stocks got a lift on news that home construction rose slightly last month and fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week. the dow jones industrial average rose nearly 41 points. the nasdaq added 20. apple says it will launch it's new mac app store, it will feature paid and free apps for personal computers in education, games, graphics and design and lifestyles. 60% of companies plan to hand out year end bonuses despite the shaky economy, that's virtual lie unchanged from 2009. 16% of those company's say their bonuses will be smaller than last year. >>> and one-third of americans feel financially worse off this holiday season than last. the consumer reports survey showed holiday spending continues to decline as we move closer to christmas and the majority of shoppers who will spend on the last holiday shopping weekend plan to pay in cash. that's your money watch.

the environment and you will get exercise. how you feel about this? guest: there are not too many regulations in place about fast food to stop americans from enjoying their big macsam not aware of any studies tying space travel into global warming. the epa regulations are moving forward. we will start seeing them on power plants and big industrial facilities next year. automobile regulations moved forward this year. they will be contested by industry and republicans in congress and we will see court battles in the next couple of years. host: we appreciate your phone calls. you can also send us an e-mail, journal@cspan.org. you can also twitter us. "people are more worried about jobs, feeding a family, and plane surviving -- forget global warming." guest: absolutely the economic argument is one that brings the senate climate bill to a standstill. the democrats were pushing this as an economic driver for green jobs. they want to win the united states of fossil fuels. that bill passed as unemployment move that 10% or higher buried it ground to a halt in the senate because of moderate democrats. the president decided to switch its focus to health care rather than the

the private lenders. so that you see big private lending in subprime in 2003 and 2004 and the come in for fannie mae and freddie mac. if there is a notion that the gse's set this in motion, it's not true. it is not true this crisis was caused by a v gse's. they have existed since the new deal and we only have this kind of situation in our mortgage markets in the last five-seven years. what does that tell us? does it tell us there is something fundamentally problematic about a financial institution intermediating for mortgages? it tells us there is something fundamentally problematic about the institution having its executives compensated and having them play catch up to a completely unregulated private system. the conclusion -- the whole narrative out there about them being a central cause here, a second cause, simply has no fat for support. second, there's a great political irony. the major wall street institutions spent a lot of money over the last 20 years and therethe gse's was plenty to attack them for. they spent a lot of time attacking them because they wanted to be able to operate in that space without comp

the chili cook-off. you know, i'm a big believer in chili cook-offs, but i'm very honest about it. myhili is excellent, but my macy: i love both. you guys should make ts. >> very good. so the girls decided they were going to cheat, and went to bobby flay's. and they talked to the chef and said, "would you mind making us this cli because we're going to have a chili cook-off?" so the guy called management, and manageme came down with a camera. i mean, our management came down to shoot the girls getting the chili from the chef. >> jimmy: uh-oh. >> you know? >> jimmy: like "undercover boss." >> "undercover boss." and then ding the meal, we showed the video. "we have something to show you all." and we are the harlettes with their pile of chili with a boa on top, walking through the casino -- >> jimmy: sted. >> totally busted. hilarious. hilarious. >> jimmy: the show debuts -- it's genius, i think -- new year's eve. >> yes, it's new year's eve, yes. >> jimmy: whose idea was this? >> i think it was their idea. >> jimmy: it's brilliant! >> oh, thankou. >> jimmy: new year's eve to spend with your entertnment, bette midler

big macs, we don't force feed them tofu. this war has to end, and eventually it will, it will bankrupt us. as a byproduct, and so far 23,000 mexicans have been slaughtered. the general now running the war says don't worry, i will wrap it up in five to ten years. they are going to kill more people than we lost soldiers in vietnam and i guarantee you the day the ec peace has broken out in the war there will be just as many drugs in this country into will be just as cheap and just as available. why can't this penetrate the heads of political secures? if i were drug policy were a ship they would call it the titanic for god sake. it's time to have a piece moment. it's a war against poor people in mexico and chemically dependent people in my own country. [applause] >> charles, thank you so much. he's been to be signing books outside, so please join us. >> thank you for tolerating me. [applause] >> charles bowden spoke as part of the los angeles public library's evin nseries. for more information, visit lfla.org/aloud. >>> up next, robert shogan explores franklin and eleanor roosevelt's decision not to intercede on the part of europe's jewish population during the

big probls. even though we didn't see nything like what we saw, we're still pickg up aouple of inches. >> already well ozen ground has alowed the snow to completely fit. we we able to mac mize it. we didn't have to wasteany te. the ground was already frozen for sure. snowfall amoun, we continueto get tm pouring in into saint ry's county. 2 1/2 inches ere. two a a third ines i staffd and it still coming down. an inch and a half at reagan national, making our first official nch of the wint season. 4.5 inches towa the bl ridge andhree inches winchester, three inchesn dickerson, maryland. along t western parts of montgomercounty. if you've got a picture ofou or your friends enjoyinghe ow, se the pictures to eather@nbcwashgton.com. and snowfall amounts as usual ce directly to me. we'll get a many phot and snow reports ons we can. >> w are going to continue to watch that. yo can follow u on facebook an on twier as well. temperatures have been well beow freezing. that's why we saw this sno stick on the roads. this willet out of here over the next couple hours but then we've been talking about a coastal system for suay. i've bee telling you it woul move off the coast. tha may

the too-big-to-fail banks to get smaller. it gave them special status. the bill ignored the role of housing finance and left fannie mae and freddie mac alone. the housing crisis could not have happened without fannie mae and freddie mac. the senate failed to act on a bill to reform fannie and freddie passed by the banking committee in 2006 and that failure is going to end up costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. congress has to do something soon to get them off the taxpayers' life support they have been on since 2008. but, unfortunately, that did not happen in the financial reform bill. the bill also ignores the federal reserve's failures as a regulator and instead gave them more power. and worst of all, the bill did nothing to rein in the largest single cause of the current financial crisis and most other financial crisis in the past: flawed monetary policy by the federal reserve. nothing congress has done will stop the next bubble or collapse if the fed continues with its easy money policies. cheap money will always distort prices and lead to dangerous behavior no matter -- no matter -- no amount of regulation can contain it.

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the too-big-to-fail banks to get smaller. it gave them special status. the bill ignored the role of housing finance and left fannie mae and freddie mac alone. the housing crisis could not have happened without fannie mae and freddie mac. the senate failed to act on a bill to reform fannie and freddie passed by the banking committee in 2006 and that failure is going to end up costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. congress has to do something soon to get them off the taxpayers' life support they have been on since 2008. but, unfortunately, that did not happen in the financial reform bill. the bill also ignores the federal reserve's failures as a regulator and instead gave them more power. and worst of all, the bill did nothing to rein in the largest single cause of the current financial crisis and most other financial crisis in the past: flawed monetary policy by the federal reserve. nothing congress has done will stop the next bubble or collapse if the fed continues with its easy money policies. cheap money will always distort prices and lead to dangerous behavior no matter -- no matter -- no amount of regulation can contain it.

big circle where everyone was trying to make money. if you look at the guarantees from a.i.g., fannie mae, freddie mac, from buying all the mortgages, and people in the investment world that said, if we can do this, we can find a way to sell these and make money. the whole thing mushrooms. the government got what they !wm'>u(uy home ownership, but a lot of people cann afford a home. guest: very good analysis. the one thingç i would disagree with is the community reinvestment act. that has been in place since the 1970's. to suddenly say that only during this decade it caused a problem , and more of the study is coming from think tanks, academics, say that the community reinvestment act was not necessarily because of the bubble. i will sympathize with your view that some government policies -- there was a mandate to buy mortgages from low income neighborhoods. therefore, fannie and freddie were chasing mortgages where buyers were not necessarily apply credit quality. another reason whyç is because fannie and freddie became arrogant, created this hedge fund portfolio, having good times while the home owner can suffer. that cannot continu

the big wet rebound for the first day of december. >> wells fargo will donate $5,000 to the school where a equipment was stolen more than $50,000 worth of apple macd ipod were swiped from this high school from a classroom over the weekend so wells fargo giving 5000 to help to replace equipment officers are looking for the robbers. >> the city of oakland is building a new ballpark for the a's in an area called victory court the city's moving forward with an environmental impact review the public will have a chance to weigh in on the proposed stadium tonight at city hall. they wanted to move the team to san jose but they may reconsider if oakland builds a new ballpark. >> the windows for the surf contest is now open. so it could happen any time from today until the end of february if the waves are big enough f and when it does happen this won't happen again one of the waves crashed down on the spectators that 13 people were hurt. washed up by a big wave. they will close the beach to the public for this year's event if it happens juliet 24-hour notice was surfers from around the world have to hop on an airplane to get to the mavericks'. >> robert gi

big circle where everyone was trying to make money. if you look at the guarantees from a.i.g., fannie mae, freddie mac, from buying all the mortgages, andpeople in the investment world that said, if we can do this, we can find a way to sell these and make money. the whole thing mushrooms. the government got what they !wm'>u(uy home ownership, but a lot of people cannot afford a home. guest: very good analysis. the one thingç i would disagree with is the community reinvestment act. that has been in place since the 1970's. to suddenly say that only during this decade it caused a problem , and more of the study is coming from think tanks, academics, say that the community reinvestment act was not necessarily because of the bubble. i will sympathize with your view that some government policies -- there was a mandate to buy mortgages from low income neighborhoods. therefore, fannie and freddie were chasing mortgages where buyers were not necessarily apply credit quality. another reason whyç is because fannie and freddie became arrogant, created this hedge fund portfolio, having good times while the home owner can suffer. that cannot contin

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