condemning those who she says are blaming her for the shooting. >> reporter: in her video sara palin cast herself as a victim of left leaning politicians, pundits and the press. >> journalists should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence that they purport to condemn. >> the sheriff of pima county, arizona sparked the debate. the day after the shootinging on politicians to dial down rhetoric. >> anger, hatred, the big gotry that goes on in the country is getting to be outrageous. >> that led to reports sara palin had politically targeted gabby giffords, today she answered but her choice of words blood libel, stirred up more hard feeling autos we heard this morning from members of the jewish community deeply upset by the use of the term "blood libel". >> the associate director of the jewish relations explains it's a term date back to 12th century. >> it's an untrue idea jews used blood of christians and their children for religious ritual. >> a lie used to justify violence against jews. palin's use of the term defended today by conservati

so sara what's been russia's official reaction over the terror attack. the president has made a statement today and it he's pointed the finger at the airport authorities and. no you know that it was a huge quantity of explosives that were poured into the airport. and what he said is that there's no way that should have happened at the airport authorities really now need to take responsibility for he said is an ineffective security measures are clearly not in place. what happened shows that the airport lax security it's unbelievable that such a huge amount of explosives was brought into the terminal those officials responsible for security. must be punished for their decisions this is a terror attack a grief a tragedy to. what we lost terrible try to reconnect to her later to get more on the story and i believe we're going to talk to lindsey has outside of one of the moscow hospitals here moscow lindsay can you hear me. yes i can. tell us what's being done now this point to help those injured in the blast i believe there are over one hundred people in hos

more than four hundred people are still trapped well we're going to cross live to a correspondent sara first who is following the story for us on our t.v. sara we know that this isn't the first rescue attempt to tell us what went wrong before and what's being done to prevent it from happening again. well the ice breaking mission rescue mission has been slow progress as the ice break his so these extremely tough conditions now we know that the rescue operation was launched last week off the three vessels for help when they got stuck in the ice and after that. the ice breaker was launched and the country's transport ministry issued a warning to other ships in the area about these tough conditions but we saw a number of others continue their progress and that resulted in a further two getting stuck in the ice now the original ice breaker than they've gotten was actually itself when it got to the ice came up against this incredibly thick ice and itself got stuck in a second large ice breaker that admiral marker of was then launched three times as powerful as the make out and we see now the

all right well sara at this point tell us how the airport is functioning what's going on there. liz he said they've noticed that the security here. isn't a civil they've got a lot more security stuff on the ground and they've got days message to take them places when you. know we saw this happen after the attack yesterday not just a time of day to vote but all the main trials with haitian hugs that was on a presidential order but as we've heard first i'm afraid of just saying now questions are really going to be asked as to why these measures what in place in the first instance and why it was able to happen. that's going to certainly be something that they're looking fairly closely at we've also heard a personal data saying that they're going to need to reassess the anti terror laws we know that those were both stood up on the desk expressed in the last game that shape of things. happening less than a year ago they're now going to need to be scrutinized to see how they're operating in practice i want can be done to avoid situations like this happening in ensuring really the meas

today the public heard from sara palin who has been at the center of the criticism. she responded to the situation. kron 4's kate thompson has that story. >> reporter: sara palin breaks the silence, rejecting criticism that the language may be to blame for the shooting. >> despicable act of this criminal. and they claim political debate got more heated just recently. >> reporter: stirring up more controversy, she accuses the media of blood libel. >> should not manufacture a blood libel that services only to insight the hatred that they purport to condemn. >> reporter: a poll shows americans dismiss the idea that it is to blame for the shooting. >> i don't think it caused this. >> reporter: hillary clinton calls him an extremest. >> when you crass the line from expressing opinions that are conflicting differences in our political environment into taking action, violent action, that is extremism. >> reporter: kate thompson, kron 4 news. >> we will continue to cover the arizona shootings and the after math on our station here, kron 4 and we have posted the president's s

well let's now go back to sara who is outside of the airport sara tell us more about the reaction from the russian government. but what we saw yesterday was a very quick very strong response president would face paint his economic core than . to really address this issue you know what we have with he was saying first and foremost obviously with the families and friends and old days who were involved in the. state of the pipe take the bull because in his words they're going to be false and the hills as we said we still with it in accordance with presidential security we. know just the date of the will the day to chance would take we've heard that he's going to be looking for a place to live at the antiterrorism these people stood up to the attacks of the netsky expressed but. that happened less than a year ago and these that these were added to these talks and what we've heard now is that these are very now going to be scrutinized let's look at how they work in practice if there's anything that can be done to prevent situations like this from occurring again. brushes busiest air hub roc

all right sara thanks very much indeed for the subway terrorists there. and ivan eland at american the fans and also an author explains why russia is becoming a frequent target for islamist terrorists. these people may have been trained in pakistan and the al qaeda areas the problem that you have with the area is there are many groups that are there and they all have different causes that they are fighting it seems like all these people are islamised what we generally call islamist but they are they often have separate goals and usually groups have a specific target in mind they've done studies on suicide bombings and this technique is often used against democracies to try to get them to withdraw from various areas now if russia got more heavily involved in afghanistan in the region again of course you might see some of the groups there. go against russia it has to do with the main reason the al-qaeda attacks the united states because it meddles in the muslim world they know who they're targeting what country they're targeting and they know why they're ta

sara first thanks very much indeed for bringing us the update. that over one hundred people are now undergoing treatment in hospitals across the capital thirty nine of them are in a serious condition and four are in a critical state are just lindsay francis outside one of those hospitals. one hundred ten people are reported to have been taken into the hospitals at this point thirty nine are seriously injured four of those are critical there are internationals injured at the various hospitals reportedly from italy france england serbia and to the prime minister putin had met with the ministry of health on this yesterday asking her to please bring deputies to the different moscow hospitals that absorbed these one hundred ten injured and inspected facilities make sure that there is more than enough staff. on call at this point to deal with. number of injured deal with medicines make sure there's enough blood and in fact these hospitals are calling for blood if it's at all possible to get to these hospitals at this point and donate please do so the h

cross live to respond to sarah ferguson lindsay france who are monitoring the situation for us now sara what's been russia's official reaction over the terror attack. well first of the date of his latest statement today and it he pointed the finger firmly thirty's in management. now we know that yesterday a large quantity of explosives was able to be taken inside the airport and what he said is that the airport authorities really no need to take responsibility for clearly not having had effective security measures in place. what happened. to the airport security it's unbelievable this is a huge amount of explosives was brought into the terminal those officials responsible for security. must be punished for their decisions this is a grief a tragedy. now we've heard much the same from the country's antiterrorism committee that it's really quite unbelievable that this was able to happen now they have good security measures as you'd expect in place today but what people are really asking know is why and what in place to prevent this happening now the investigators at the moment at the scene

all right sara thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest on the surface there. and scientology who is pakistani bureau chief for the asia times online says an international terror hub is behind the moscow era bombing airport rather there was a plan by the. i was recently in northern no one is. and i gathered. organizations like islamic movement of uzbekistan and other. groups and church and groups. of one is on the whole did our duty and the pope is not targeting the northern of one is. actually. two words. one americans were you know started reducing the presence in of one istanbul russia would be the most important regional player in the one a storm. ivan eland a senior fellow at the in a panacea to washington d.c. points out that despite representing what is commonly known as islamist religion is not necessarily the principal reason behind their actions people may have been trained in pakistan and the al qaeda areas the problem that you have with those areas is there are many groups that are there and they all have different causes that they are fighting it s

we sit at his feet and listen about stories about sara and pat and nollen. that is my brother, my sister, and me. we thought we were just as clever and smart and just as brave as the children in his story. he told stories vaguely familiar, but different some how because he told them his way. you see, i had no idea my grandfather was a functional illiterate and encouraged all 3 of us, his grandchildren to read. the way he encouraged me, he'd say y'all read to me what they taught you up at the schoolhouse today. i would whip out my dick and jane. see jane run. run, he endured that. he allowed me to read to him. i had no idea in other families the adults read to children. in my house, children read to the adults. imagine the confidence they gave me in my readings. i loved to read out loud. enjoyed it immensely. so i would read dick and jane all the way up to julius caesar. when i came to a word difficult, he would say work with it little sister. he wouldn't jump in and tell me. he would let me work it out so i did. i learned to jump into words. that built my co

right now sara what's the situation where you want any sign of increased security what can you tell us. now operating under a possible terror regime we spare you continue security starts here they've already increased the security level all the personnel are on high alert all the luggage is being checked and stuff monitoring very closely the c.c.t.v. cameras any suspicious behavior that we've also heard that has said that they're ready to take all the flights from down the data we know that a number have already been diverted now people traveling to and from the airport ever only just starting to hear the news about this attack so there's not a huge level of panic at the moment security stop very best to quell any fears that people have. they need to extremely anxious as we said top priority for security if not to make sure they're doing everything possible to ensure the safety of the people. or announcer as we know there's been a mandatory evacuation order russia's biggest and busiest airport investigations continue there of course the blast or blast only happened about an hour and a

go ahead, sara. >> sure. right now we're just trying to cope with this week and take it day bidet and also try to still serve our constituency who's also been hurt so hard by this. we lost an amazing staff member, gabe zimmerman. he was an integral part of our staff, but also an amazing human being and helped serve so many people and we've just been -- we opened yesterday and we just keep taking the constituency, they want to leave their sympathy and we are happy to take that. it's a great deal of support to know that the community is there for us and have been leaving flowers and signs as well on our corner and, i mean, we're distraught and it's kind of an emotional roller coaster right now but we're just trying to function and stay positive with the positive news we hear about the congresswoman and our other staff members. >> mark kimble, obviously as long-time journalist, editor of the daily newspaper for so many years, you have written these stories of carnage and bloodshed and of course somewhat as we al

. >> evelyn y su hermana sara recibieron disparos en cráneo y cuello, el ataque eran para hombres decomer y este... iba a comprar carne y salieron de ahí de la tienda y pues lamentablemente a la hora de la balacera estaban ahí par ardz, salieron caminando por ahí. >> las niñas no vivían en la ciudad. >> venían aquí a visitar únicos abuelas y les tocó, iban pasando y nada que ver con la agresión directa. >> mientras eran sepulto tadas en medio de un gran dolor su abuela pedía justicia. >> pero esas personas de la ley divina no van a escapar. porque dios con nada se queda. entre las personas que asistieron a final orales estaban compañeras de colegio que las recuerdan como niña ejemplo ar a evelyn. >> era muy buena y nunca alegaba con los maestro, y era sonriente y se reía de todo, a los pocos autoridades detuvieron a varios sospechosos pero otros crímenes en interrogatorio uno confesó. >>> y se trata de oscar caro denso fuente a quién la secretaría de seguridad detuvo con nueve personas más por su presunta posesión de de tremendo arsenal aceptó haber vinl lado la calle el día que bale

while we're talking about food, sara lee stock jumped to another 52-week high. nice move. 4.5%. a group of investors reportedly is putting together an offer. sara lee already rejected a buyout offer from a brazilian firm and is in the process of splitting its meat and coffee operations into two companies. and hugh hefner finally is consummating his buyout of the company he founded, playboy. shares jumped 17% on almost ten times their usual volume. back in july, hefner offered $5.50 per share. this offer is for $6.15 per share. it was a different kind of deal after the close tonight between semiconductor companies nvidia and intel. under a new agreement, intel will pay nvidia $1.5 billion for certain nvidia technology. nvidia will get certain intel technology as well. this deal ends a five-year legal battle. nvidia was among the best- performing tech stocks today, up almost 4%, and another 5% after the close. shares have jumped 30% in a week. intel was up a fraction today. a.m.d. led technology today, up 4% to its first close above $9 since may. but shares gave up most of today's

sara lee will also pay shareholders a special one time dividend of $3 a share. and the federal communications commission wants a federal court to throw out challenges to its net neutrality rules. verizon and metro p.c.s. sued to stop the rules requiring providers to treat all content equally on their networks. the f.c.c. says the companies jumped the gun, because the rules have yet to be formally published. still ahead, ringing in a new lease on life bank united returns as a publicly traded company less than two years after being taken over by regulators. we talk with the man behind the turnaround c.e.o. john kanas. >> tom: ford motor's run of better than expected quarterly earnings grinded to a halt in the fourth quarter. the disappointment led to a stiff sell-off in ford shares today, dropping over 13% to a six week low. ford earned 30 cents per share in q-4-- well below analyst estimates and down from a year ago. among the reasons for the miss, higher production and advertising costs for new vehicles. c.e.o. alan mulally says expect those higher expenses to c

keep us updated sara for reporting that thank you for that. still to come about how the world has just gotten my two sons are still powerful microscopes and i'm specialist one point to probe into the tiniest. seven hundred twenty five billion dollars that's how much the u.s. plans to spend on its very attractive. it's the world's largest ever defense budget comes amid the economy and burgeoning national debt the pentagon says it's cutting its cloth and for next five years but with all of this to reports that's going to be difficult when there's an entire industry even going on was to continue. when it comes to the afghan war well over half of americans oppose it and after a year of record casualties and having plowed in over three hundred sixty six billion dollars why is the u.s. committed to staying the course they're all trying for the war in energy motives and profit motives in st. egypt motives and if you're wondering why some in the u.s. just might not want to see the war and ever hear of three reasons thirty six billion twenty five billi

first who can bring us up to date hello to you sara specialists have said that they don't know how long it will take to free the ships we've heard reports in some areas the ice is up to eight meters thick has it been any progress so far with those and freeing them from the ice. yes so we made it the marker of the largest of the ice breaker. three vessels that remain and they've been deciding the past couple of hours which is the three will be taped out but they for the very place to make that decision any minute now they'll start playing one of these three vessels that we've heard from the captain from the department of security and navigation just how complex this rescue operation. will review the ice and meta power now they have to decide which of the three ships will be the first to be to the tugboat slickly be the shore of hope then we'll see what the circumstances or the situation is complex the ships will have to be to one after another at a very short distance from the. bay where these three vessels are. quite dangerous moving. area there is very clear water got. very thick aroun

hundred people are still trapped or you know across life responded taraf earth was story for us so sara tell us what's happening at the moment. we've just heard that the ice breaker his about a mile away from reaching those three vessels that remain. we haven't heard any specifics as to how long it's going to take to free them and we do know that that big. by the extremely thick ice that surrounds the we've also heard that a third icebreaker the admiral crested. now being just but the backup which is not still going to reach the shits. another three days so obviously with the other two ice breaker places hopes that they'll be able to free these vessels as soon as possible and certainly with further weather warnings they're going to really want to get underway and successfully completed a very quick what are we understand that the rescue team to the moment are working in very tough conditions but still it's almost a week why is it taking them so long. we have seen the progress of this ice breaking missions. sixteen conditions the temperatures be unusually low around minus seventeen degre

for us they are sara was been the reaction from her over the tragedy and also what conclusions have the investigators made so far. but we had present today that they did it of course pointing the finger of blame at the third and saying that they really need to take that part of the responsibility for what happened now we know the laws quantity of its place is were able to enter the school yesterday and so we have to say really now the. need to look very closely at what. place to prevent not from the happening and we've put them in the sense of the. terrorism committee saying really that it's quite unbelievable that that was able to happen overnight at the moment investigates the still working here with the forensic team . they're trying to establish exactly what did happen yesterday we know that there are a number of versions of events. we've heard that they are looking for a number of other people in connection with the attack and they do think that the most predominant likely scenario is that the terror attack was carried out by a suicide bomber and the possibly these other people

. >> authorities do not know why they shot congressman difference, but many people are criticizing sara pailin former opponent for today's shooting. take look at a language in the sad, it was riposted by justic help who tried to unseat different. kelly and bided his supporters to attend us and then, to help remove gabbro difference from office, issued a fully automatic m- 16 with jesse kelly. >> that may be free speech, but it is not without consequences. >> last march sara pailin posted this side with gunsights, on it was 20 democrats that she won it gone including the name of difference. critics accuse pailin of inciting violence. helen later stated on her face but account of retreat reload. >> what they need to realize what the firing of people up, and even things worse they lent palance heartless, i think the way she has is depicted with the gunsight, over our district, will people do that has she needs to realize there are consequences to her actions. pailin posted this message to date, my sincere condolences to this family of gabrielle gifford and the other victims after today's t

we're going over to miss sara. sara? >> what do people want to snow? >> we are jamming over here.thing to do when you have a bad food craving? >> thanks, brian. >> what kind of craving? >> what kind of food craving? >> burger king. >> well, if you have to go through a fast food restaurant, drive through? i would say get the grilled chicken, no mayo and a side salad with light vinaigrette. you still get your fast food fix but without all the calories and fat. doable? >> thank you. >> he didn't commit. what next, sara? >> we've got a question from matt from oklahoma. he's got a question about scheduling. >> my question is for hoda and -- i'm a law student and very biz. how do you fit in working out in a very busy schedule? >> i like what you're doing right now. i get up at like a little after 4:00. i work out early just because i figure get it out of the way. i pad around the gym and sit in the steam room. that's pretty much it. >> we got a question from katie, alabama. favorite workout. >> my question is for kathie lee. >> oh, no. >> give it to her. >> kathie lee, would you rather

sara first talking to be a little earlier here naughty well now let's talk to moscow based sociologist and political expert ski. in central moscow thanks very much good to have you here on r.t. so many people will be watching this learning this tragic news saying why who would want to do such a thing. so where is the finger of blame pointing to at the moment. well it's very unclear and people are extremely confused because of course the easiest way to do when they're with this situation is to blame for example nora cook asian terrorists and i think quite a lot of people already quite ready to do it though there is very little evidence behind these claims and in fact would know. little if anything about their real causes and. the people behind the blast so that sounds a little worried because i think it can be very much like a pro occasion. increase. in the ethnic tension and their general political tension in the country and that will have very negative effect but the signs are that they did have the hallmarks of a suicide bombing we know that two female suicide bombers from dagestan r

the case of sara kruzan is closely watched by those who oppose life without parole sentences for juveniles who commit crimes. kruzan was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for the the 1994 slaying of george howard in southern california. the governor called the sentence "excessive," and reduced to 25 years to life with the possibility of parole. kruzan's attorney says howard sexually assaulted kruzan and forced her into prostitution. her attorney says she suffered from battered woman's syndrome. >> sara is grateful to the governor for acknowledging because of her age and the circumstances of her crime and the fact she was abused, that she deserves a second chance. >> prosecutors had argued in the case that kruzan was no longer working for howard when she killed him. kruzan's case was the centerpiece of a failed bill calling for the reduction of life sentence for minors. that bill was authored by say the senate yee of san francisco. >>> history will be head tomorrow when the first asian- american woman will be sworn-in as mayor of a major american city. jean quan has a long

go ahead, sara. >> sure.ight now we're just trying to cope with this week and take it day bidet and also try to still serve our constituency who's also been hurt so hard by this. we lost an amazing staff member, gabe zimmerman. he was an integral part of our staff, but also an amazing human being and helped serve so many people and we've just been -- we opened yesterday and we just keep taking the constituency, they want to leave their sympathy and we are happy to take that. it's a great deal of support to know that the community is there for us and have been leaving flowers and signs as well on our corner and, i mean, we're distraught and it's kind of an emotional roller coaster right now but we're just trying to function and stay positive with the positive news we hear about the congresswoman and our other staff members. >> mark kimble, obviously as long-time journalist, editor of the daily newspaper for so many years, you have written these stories of carnage and bloodshed and of course somewhat as we all

. >> narrator: before she started going online, sara was more reserved. >> like, once, i was talkingy friend and he was like, "send me a picture." i was like, "i don't want to send a naked picture of myself because i'm not comfortable with, like, my naked body." he's like, "fine, send it with minimal clothing on and i'll send you one of me." so we were both like, okay, so i went in the bathroom and took the picture, then i uploaded it to my computer and i emailed it to him. and then i deleted it from my computer. and it was just like something to do. it didn't really mean anything. it was just like a picture. ♪ i used to have four pages of myself on myspace, but i lowered it down to one. >> in the pictures, like, you kind of want to look hot, but you don't want to look too hot so people think, "eww, whore." >> look at that thing. >> in my pictures, i try to smile on this side because of my dimple. >> that's me. i'm a princess. >> i like moving around, posing, doing this, doing that. >> model shots. >> yeah, model shots. >> in a way, the social networking sites are this digital repres

. >> en tanto la republicana sara... publicar un mapa polÍtico en su sitio de internet. respondiÓ mediante un vÍdeo difundido en su pÁgina de facebook en las que acusÓ a periodistas y analistas de incitar al odio y a la violencia tras el atentado del sÁbado. desde enero del 2007 ... hace parte de la cÁmara de representantes y con sus colegas le rindieron homenaje. los han expresado tambiÉn inquietud por su seguridad. poquito de temor y creo que todos necesitamos un poquito de reconocer que dios estÁ a cargo. >> tambiÉn debido al servicio la secretarÍa de trabajo que fue congresista y conocer hace aÑos a gifford. >> tambiÉn hoy a puerta cerrada hubo una reuniÓn para discutir medidas de seguridad. segÚn participantes en el mensaje es mÁs importante que las autoridades aquÍ, porque era imposible proteger a... >> les recordarÁ que lo más importante es reportar toda amenaza, tambiÉn escucharÁn sugerencias y se elaborarÁn más planes. >> un cambio inmediato involucra autoridades locales. >> tendremos reuniones abiertas al pÚbli

. >> last march sara helen posted this type of matter on her face book page. she wrote on her twitter count, and don't retreat instead reload. critics accuse the bait pail of inciting violence. a big fog bank today across the central valley stretching all weight from redding to baker is bill. light winds come in and out of the east, that's what we had such a great day today and as a result of all the clubs, not all the greats guys to some cool temperatures as well. lot of places not making it out of the low 40's this afternoon. a high of 44 bear bill. but december fell just 39 degrees that is as warm as it got during the daytime hours. for dammar we are going to notice more grace gals, cloudy conditions in the morning and cool temperatures close to freezing in some of the inland valleys. but through the day, and things will change a bit i think the winds were shipped we will start to see more sunshine than what we did today. the result will be temperatures is bumping up a couple of degrees may be into the low fifties for the warmer spots. i will have more deta

en el centro de las discusión, está sara palin, en las reciente elección.mbro del movimiento. - el correo electrónico que gabrielle gifford envío el viernes secretario de kentucky en el comunicado la congresista expresaba su deseo de suavizar el tono del discurso político. si josé, como lo decías hay expertos que hablando que justamente este discurso ha sido ofensivo, agresivo y que ha provocado que esto llegue a una situación así. no se sabe por qué sucedió. pero dicen que personas que pueden estar dañadas mentalmente como el caso de este hombre de loughner. pueden ser más afectadas. >>>josé: tenemos una foto reciente, que podemos mostrar del acusado. >>>rogelio: se presentó en phoenix y se presentó ante la justicia, con el pelo rapado y tenía un golpe, pero en esta foto que le mostramos aparece sonriendo ¿no?. >>>josé: así es rogelio este discurso político agrio que vemos en este país. los estados unidos no tiene monopolio sobre él, ¿verdad?. >>>rogelio: se da en muchas partes del mundo josé la situación que enfrenta el país con tanto desempleo y la gente

it's going to kind of be like i hate sara marshall. how many folks so that? it was all over. anywhere you saw it, you saw it. we have to create a culture where we won't accept that. >> you have listed a lot of things going on. where are we going to look to see when its going to start? where can we look to see this is going to start here. we can hold us accountable. >> certainly, so our intention is we are developing a summer resource guide. we will be giving to the community conveners and community builders. and with the san francisco housing authority. these will be saturated. it will be on the msclb website. can you call 211, which is houses all the summer resources. >> it's at the printer. >> when can we expect it to be out? >> in the next few weeks >> can you give us one start date. let's say one particular activity that all of us his or her can look to that has a definite start date? >>on june 21st, the mayor will be hosting an alive and free event. we think we will be able to bring rizza from the wutan clan. particularly gun violence to hear from the youth voice but to

how sara palin's comments about the media's handling of a tragedy are not sitting well with one group>> might not mean much to most but why there is a shortage of crickets and why this is causing concern. >> we're going to leave with you another look at the memorial service underway at university of arizona. >> this is a live picture where the service has been underway for about half an hour now. >> that is the governor getting ready to take the podium. the president scheduled to speak in just minutes to pay tribute in the victims. >> president obama arrived this afternoon with a bipartisan delegation from washington. his first stop was to the hospital to visit congress woman giffords her husband as well as other victims of the shooting. >> thousands waited hours in line to attend. abc news will bring live coverage of the remarks in just a few minutes during world news. >> stay with us for that. and we'll be back here tonight at 6:00.

. >>> and a group of private equity firms are reportedly interested in buying out sara lee, a deal worth $11 billion. >>> and finally, one sign the nation's cupcake craze is here to stay -- "the new york times" deal book reports that crumbs bake shop is about to go public thanks to a $66 million merger expected to be announced today. >>> talk about blockbuster trade. this one is practically nuclear. >>> plus, nfl playoff action including green bay looking to send the eagles packing. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> a major winter storm is paralyzing travel in the southeast and it's going to head up the east coast. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> well, good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." >>> in sports -- the nfl wild card playoff weekend ended appropriately enough for the wild down to the wire thriller in philadelphia. here's mario solis with a look at all of your sports headlines. >>> good morning. the sport of the year in the nfl has been the resurgence of michael vick. but the fairy tale season has com

. >> la republicana sara...ciÓn. para hablar de la tensiÓn polÍtica y tambiÉn para analizar el mensaje de obama esta noche, si esta noche logrÓ el objetivo de mediar entre bandos polÍticos nos acompaÑa ana... ella es profesora de la universidad de arizona. antes que nada quisiera preguntarle sobre el tema de... y si de hecho existe la posibilidad de que esta retÓrica polÍtica puede haber influenciado el joven asesino. >> pues, si, de hecho hay muchos estudios hechos por acadÉmicos, estudiosos, renombrados, en cuanto a la conexiÓn, la relaciÓn entre el simbolismo, el lenguaje y la violencia que incita. >> sabemos que anteriormente tambiÉn habÍa amenazas en contra de la congresista y de hecho su oficina fue atacada cuando votÓ a favor de la reforma de salud. >> si, muchos congresistas demÓcratas sufrieron ataques violentos en sus oficinas. violentamente atacado por personas que no sabemos, pero sabemos bien que fueron visitados por un blog de conservador incitÁndolos a esos ataques. >> tenemos pocos segundos, pero

daddy james would tell store reus about little girls named sara and pat and little boy named nollin and one he told in particular was one of my favorites. the 3 kids had a chore for the grandmother. take a basket of eggs to a neighbor's house. along the way they were confronted by a wolf, bear, snake, and fox. is they tricked that fox, and the bear and got them to the woods. it is a long, long summer and i don't have a contract, i said, maybe i'll try to write something, never written a picture book before. i sat at the word processor, i'll write my grandfather books. all 16 pages. it is usually 6 to 7 pages long. i sent it to my editor anne swarts. she was at thow publishing books. at the time she was at dial. she was right out of college and a reader. she wrote my manuscripts. she said it has possibility. there is a story in there but way too much going on. you have 3 kids, a grandmother, a grandfather, you got a bear, a snake, a wolf, and fox. a dog, cat, and a neighbor, way too much going on. if you'd like to rewrite it and shorten it some what and i'd be glad to look at it again. b

near sara and campus drive. it happened on a path near the edge of campus. she said the man grabbed her in a bear hug and put his hand over her mouth. >> she didn't want to be there. she wanted to get away and told him that she had friends to meet and suspect is reported have to -- to have said, not at this time. >> the woman reportedly tried to bite the man's hand and he took off. the attacker is described a as white man in his 40s wearing a dark-shooed sweatshirt. the victim said he had a mustache, goatee, brown hair and thin build. police are urging people to walk in pairs on campus and know where the emergency call boxes are. >>> today is the second day of the preliminary hearing against michael jackson's doctor to determine if he will stand trial for manslaughter. prosecutors say murray administered the propofol anesthetic to jackson without the proper medical treatment. and jackson's body guard said when he came in, he saw murray giving jackson chest complexes with one hand. an autopsy determined that jackson died from an overdose of the drug. the hear

>>y was targeted last year when demanding cal state stanislaus reveal how much it paid saver -- sara palin to be a key note speaker. and they're looking into the taxes. >> the senate sargeant at arms for security reason says it averages two threats a day to come in. and that encourages more people to do it. >> all right. thank you very much. and two new members of the california public utilities commission made their piers appearance on the job the day the commission is launching a controversial new foundation. an attorney has been an advocate with the watch dog group turn stands for you yilt reform network. he is a sab santa clara university law professor. both calling for a new pipeline safety in the wake of last year's blast in san bruno. yikts are questioning whether tonight's dinner party from this foundation. utilities are paying $20,000 per table. >> there is an outside board no, commissioners sit on the board. and we'll not have influence over how they use money they've raised. >> the vast majority of the money is coming from utilities and their board of directors have back g

sara lee about to receive a takeover offer from a private equity group as well as a competing offer froms, brazilian beef company. despite a troublesome year, toyota managed to hold on to its title as the world's largest automaker with nearly 8.5 million auto sales. >>> a new survey shows regular gas up three cents to $3.11 a gallon and the "wall street journal" reports the postal service is looking to cut costs by closing as many as 2,000 post offices beginning in march. >>> meanwhile some much needed optimism from a new survey that found 42% of 84 u.s. companies polled last quarter expected to increase jobs in the next six months. and finally, if you land a job interview, you might want to avoid these common mistakes. trashing your former employer and complaining about your spouse. but apparently the most common offense, answering a cell phone or texting. >>> well, the packers and bears take their storied rivalry to the nfc championship game. plus the steelers put an end to the new york jets' long loud playoff run. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> much of the