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the september 11th attacks nine years ago. a bay area man recalls a boyhood christmas in is the 41 as america entered world war ii. for the people of watsonville, 1989 was the year that they celebrated christmas amid the rubble of the loma prieta earthquake. >> we present the bob hop show! and we'll remember two men who have inspires generations of the americans. >> isn't this would you have? i'm going to jail. merry christmas. >> it's all straight ahead on sc. >> hello everyone, i'm frank somerville. we often talk about this as a season of joy, but sometimes history conspires to force us to focus on the hope that we find in the holidays. back in 2001, christmas came a little over three months after the terrorist attacks in new york and washington. it wasn't long until u.s. troops were on the ground in the afghanistan, fighting for root out the taliban and for them, christmas was a brief pause in a fearful time. reporter tollban was with the marines. >> reporter: the threat of terrorism is ever present, higher command felt it was too important for them to remain vigilant, guarding the base. some small celebratation

the differential and the gaining of weight in america in the last 20 years. ssue in america is only 20 years. in 1991 america was an entirely different country in terms of its makeup and physique. how do we motivate america to get in shape? we are stealing resources from medical research, for insurance for the uninsured, for the education of our children, for investment in plants, roads, bridges, et cetera. because we are diverting it to a substantial increase in diabetes, cancer. >> i'm really concerned about it. right now, 10% of the health care costs in the united states are secondary to obesity and by 2020 it's projected that 20% of the health care costs in the united states are going to be secondary to obesity. we have to do something about this. we will never bend the health care cost curve unless we do something about obesity. this was not part of the dialogue three, four years ago. >> you're right. >> it is now politically acceptable to talk about it where it wasn't previously. it has come to the consciousness of the leaders of the country and graduall

the city working very hard to make this a reality. i also have been a rules adviser and lead attorney for three america's cup teams for the last 10 yearscluding two times where i spent months in auckland, as well as most recently in valencia. i have seen what has happened to the port areas with the development of an america's cup. it is an extraordinary event. it would be amazing to

the giants winning, after that having been america's cup coming here could give us that low for months and years. unlike the super bowl and world series, this is not just about who is best in america, is about who is best in the world. like the olympics and the world cup, this is a tremendous opportunity. we know that visitors spend a lot of money. and we know that they stay in hotels. i'd like to extrapolate and say that 65% of every dollar spent is spent on restaurants, entertainment, shopping, transportation, etc. this money will move throughout the community. when you think of hotel spending, you think of hotel taxes. bringing the america's cup to san francisco is going to give us the economic impact that will not just benefit the port, it will actually benefit across seven cisco. just an interesting fact lloyd, 30% of our visitors come from outside the united states. when they do they tend to spend twice as many nights here as domestic visitors. this will have another long term affect. it has an impact in terms of the future generation of international tourism. thank you. [applause] >> one

the city working very hard to make this a reality. i also have been a rules adviser and lead attorney for three america's cup teams for the last 10 yearscluding two times where i spent months in auckland, as well as most recently in valencia. i have seen what has happened to the port areas with the development of an america's cup. it is an extraordinary event. it would be amazing to see in san francisco. we have not been through and america's cup. i know you have walked races on tv. the months of planning that goes through it -- it will be quite an event from the time that you first see the 90 foot america's cup logo to the final races. even if the golden gate yacht club loses, you will have a venue here. you will have fully occupied tenants there. you will have port facilities that have been rehabilitated. time is of the essence. i am in intimate contact with my former colleagues. the teams need to know where this thing you is going to be. that puts immense pressure on ellis's groups now. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speakers. next speakers. >> i and the operations manager

the first challenge for the america's cup. this is a very historic and exciting opportunity. set aside what you know about the grand 159-year history of the america's cup because its san francisco gets to host the america's cup, in our city, we can transfer the america's cup on the most exciting, popular, financially viable america's cup ever. there are three reasons why this is the case -- our natural a minute, our reliable wins, and a spectator-friendly, spectator- oriented race course -- our natural arena, our reliable winds. this is a great contrast to the offshore races, which have been characteristic of the america's cup until now. the races are all 20 miles offshore. a spectator could ever see them. secondly, reliable wins. in newport, about 40% of all the races were canceled. in valencia, half of all the races were canceled. by contrast, the reliable wins in san francisco, averaging 20 knots on a summer day, permitted a schedule of summer race days. reliable race days would present a media coverage, generate bigger audiences, improve sponsorship a dissipation and potentially enable more teams to compete for the amer

the past ten years. the slowest population growth since the great depression. this year, michigan was the only state to actually decline in population. 55,000 fewer people living there than in the year 2000. america's population center continues moving south and west. with double-digit growth in both regions. the most populated state, still california, with 37.3 million people. the least, wyoming, with fewer than 600,000. all of these numbers have big political implications. determining how many representatives each state sends to congress. >> there are some experts who are looking at this data and saying that, based on what they're seeing now, the republicans could add ten more states. to their total. >> reporter: why, because most of the states picking up seats in the congress lean republican. the biggest gain, solidly-republican texas will pick up four more house seats. this could make it a little tougher for president obama to get reelected. because those house seats, diane, also help determine how many electoral college votes each state gets. >> thank you, jon karl. >>> and we turn now to this anxious season about security in america. yesterday, we had the news of 12 terror arrests in london.

unlike the world series and the super bowl, the america's cup will bring business for weeks, months, and yearske the olympics, it is a tremendous opportunity to benefit the people of san francisco by bringing a surge of economic impact to the city's largest industry -- tourism. the couple bring millions of spectators plus thousands of -- the cup will bring millions of spectators plus thousands of competitors. every dollar is spent outside the hotel on retail, transportation, and so on. the america's cup will support jobs for people who live all over san francisco. the largest part of the hotel tax goes into the general fund. that support services for the entire city. -- that supports services for the entire city. people in every city neighborhood will benefit. this is a global media audience. this is not the best team in america. it is the best team in the world. international visitors stay twice as long as domestic visitors. that is more spending. when viewers across the world watch the competition unfolding, they will make plans to visit four years to come. i encourage you to embrace all the

the past 10 years. the slowest population growth since the great depression. this year, michigan was the only state to actually decline in population. 55,000 fewer people living there, than in the year 2000. america's double-digit growth in both regions. the most populated state, still california, with 37.3 million the leaspeople. the least, wyoming, with fewer than 600,000. all these numbers have big, political implications, determining how many representatives each state send. to congress. >> there are some experts looking at the data and saying, based on what they see now, republicans could add ten more seats to their total. >> reporter: why? because most of the states picking up seats in congress lean republican. the biggest gain, solidly republican texas, will pick up four more house seats. all this could also make it a little tougher for president obama to get re-elected because those house seats also help determine how many electoral college votes each state gets. jonathan karl, abc news, capitol hill. >> interesting census trivia here. for the first time since it became a state, 1850, california did not gain a single seat in the u.s. congress. >> that's always fascinating to see where peopl

of course of course they do well i think this was the 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

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the past three years. it has been nice. just this time of year when we can go and we have been giving every single year to the junior blind of america,000 each year. but it is to make sure every child -- not just young people but even the teenagers and those who are about to go to college will get those things they would love to have for christmas. to be able to enjoy themselves as well as do something great to help them with whatever they are doing. computers, the latest technology. we plan to give away some of the iphones. because you probably know this -- the incredible thing about the technology that exists on the ipad, the ipod, and iphone is one that makes it accessible to those who are blind or deaf. the iphone -- the ipad as well. the screen has this technology that makes -- it gives voice feedback. whenever you touch a particular part of the screen id will know where you are. that is an incredible thing. [unintelligible] hey, steve. it is an incredible thing. you are able to know exactly where you are on the screen and be able to navigate. tavis: you said two things i want to pick up on. >> we were having a little conversat

the mrn american also succeed. america should recognize what is a huge consumer market that 10 years from now, the asian consumer market will be twice as big and america has to export to that market, and therefore you can either solve your problems today by increasing production. america has got to increase its production, sell to these new market markets. it has the branched names and the good -- brand names and the good. america and europe together of course can sell to these big markets in the future. if you look, then, to the future, you invest in education and free trade and one in coop wration china and india and asia. all the continents will create massive numbers of jobs. i'm optimistic about america. the rebirth to have american cream dream is part of that. i think america that is talent. quite a different challenge, which is the growth of a middle class, on almost every continent in the world. tavis: you narg the book that markets -- argue in the book that markets need morals. let me say to you at best, some would find that oxymoronic and at worse, laughable that markets can, in fact, have morals. >> i think

none of the mercy now this week we've been bringing you the best of the a lot of show from the last year for america's war abroad to the best debates of the year but here on the show we also had the opportunity to have fun with a lot of stories and frankly we have had so much fun we wanted to share some of those with you once again back in august a pew research poll came out revealing that twenty percent of americans think that obama is a muslim now the fact that they even did a report speculating on obama's religion was beyond me but the really sad part are the number of people that actually believed that this president is a muslim now most of the participants were questioned they said that they came to this conclusion after watching reports from the mainstream media again utter and barest meant so we called on one of our favorite guests blogger sarah bennett caso to get her take on the report and despite having a few technical problems with her earpiece during the interview she still brought plenty of insight now seeing what the attitudes are towards muslims in america these days a new poll that cam

the big end of the year briefing on america's longest war, afghanistan. are we winning or losing? and, a portrait of the sacrifice. >>> treacherous travel. new snow, sleet and ice turning roads into rinks. >>> humble hero. the guard who saved the day in the school board shooting speaks out. >>> security slips. tsa screeners failed to spot guns, even bombs? brian ross investigates. >>> and, helping hands. so many of you, such generous offers, after our story last night about the heartbreaking letters to santa. >>> good evening. it is all there in black and white. the target dates, the heavy toll. the long-awaited review of america's war in afghanistan was released today, addressing the questions, how much ground has been gained? and is the end in sight, after more than nine years? our new poll finds increasing discontent, 60% of americans now say it has not been worth fighting. we'll delve into this new report, beginning with jake tapper at the white house. jake? >> reporter: good evening, diane. well, the review states that conditions are being created for the u.s. troops to begin