dan griffiths, bbc news. >> still to come, the world's best-known naturalist has weighed in to the warthe british government has won an important ruling on the way pensions are calculated for millions of public sector workers. trade unions had argued that a decision about which measure of inflation was used was unlawful. this week between one and two million public sector workers went on strike over changes to their pensions, but today unions lost a key legal battle over how pensions will be increased for years to come. pensions are up-rated annually to take advantage of the price of a rise -- rising price of a basket of goods. in april the government switched to the c.p.i., the consumer prices indelk, which is says it a mar accurate reflection of the inflation we all feel. but the c.p.i. tends to be low, to phil kendall and millions of other public sect orr employees now face a cut in what they will receive. >> the c.p.i. measure is sort of like a percentage point on average lower than the i.p.i. so i probably won't notice it next year, but it's the same amount every year that my ment

as we recently received a grant for $30.5 million, when we demonstrated that, residents of alice griffith, in one of the worst housing developments, we demonstrated to the brookings institute, we demonstrated to the urban institute, we demonstrated to hud that residents can help us build their own housing and stay there on-site when we rebuild it so that we would not do this old redevelopment move of pushing people off and then they would never be able to come back. they get to rebuild that housing themselves, and we spent part of that $95 million commitment training them to evolve with the skill sets needed to have not only the jobs on that project but when it becomes the mixed income project that we desire it to be, those jobs that they have will be sustainable for the rest of their lives. we ought to make sure that their lives do not go back. so we are looking at public/private partnerships that not only transformed a physical nature of the housing but also those very lives that i think are the real essence of your worked is the transformation of lives and the transformation of whole n

that contract as well as griffith are both being managed by the redevelopment agency. so if you want contracting information and opportunity, you should look for that to come from the redevelopment agency. but those are housing authority projects, and so there is a 20% m.v.e./w.b.e. requirements project. you can contact our office to get information about them, and we can connect you to the right folks at redevelopment to make sure you are aware of the opportunities that are coming up. additionally we have modernization and rehab contracts for the other sites that are not going through redevelopment but have some modernization needs. you can contact our office. i don't have any flyers or anything, but you can call us at 715-3280, and we can add you to the list when we solicit companies to do some of the rehab work at our sites. we have over 50 sites in france. we have a number of activitying we do, from roofing repair, landscaping, different contracts that we have throughout the year. we publish them on our website, and we send them out to the local businesses, but we

i am wendy griffith. e holy land draws christians to the place where christ was born. a side ironny that christians that live in bethlehem are desperate to leave. julie stall explains. >> unpredictable is how christians are described. forced marriages between christian women and muslim men. worst is against converts to christianity. >> if they were born muslim and decided to find jesus. this is a like being a traitor to god. and there is very substantial chance they will be beaten, forced to leave the country or killed. >> threat against christians from fellow palastinians has subsided since 2005. years of violence ruined touriu. a record number of tourists this season. many christians are doing well financially. they are still subject to neighbors that could throw them in jail because they are christians. this has forced many to leave the holy land. those departures have depleted the population of bethlehem area from a high of 80 percent to around 10 percent. >> it is my prediction that if the remaining christians in the west bank and gaza. gaza only has maybe 1,000-2

welcome to "christian world news" everyone i am wendy griffith, george thomas is on assignment. the 23rd annual world aids day reminds many across the globe that the disease is one of the top killers. that is especially true in developing countries, in africa, 5.7 million are infected with hiv. christian international are fighting back to meet needs. >> virginia joins us by skype, regina, thanks for being with us. >> it is my pleasure to be here. >> your organization is ministering in ten different countries. what are the biggest obstacles in fighting aids? >> our organization is a long-term child development agency. we work primarily through the local church and communities where the children are. so what we have to do is try to identify the children through our registered beneficiaries and encourage them to overcome the fear, fare of stigma to be tested. we encourage all of our children and their care givers to be tested if at all possible. we make arrangements for testing to happen. once they are identified, if they are found to be hiv positive, we help them obtain the next t

>>> y el que anda solo y sin su esposa, melany griffith es antonio banderas, lo pijamas en aspen coloradosolito, cargando bolsas lo vimos con los esquÍes y los zapatos para la nieve de su hija y esposa nada de nada. serÁ que quiso pasar las navidades solita. hay que ver. y por otra parte, les cuento que sofÍa vergara sigue presumiendo vacaciones en mÉxico. compartiÓ fotos escuchando mariachi. que rico mariachi. yo tambiÉn quiero ir por allÁ y montando a caballo en la playa. d definitivamente que en mÉxico se disfruta mucho. y luego del escÁndalo cuernos y divorcios de demi moore, se quedarÍa llorando, por los rincones. les cuento que no, se equivocan. porque demi se prepara para producir un programa de televisiÓn, tipo top show. hablarÁ de divorcio y temas fem mÍnimos. y asÍ que vamos a ver ade mimo re, como dicen que serÁ productora. y que el show, pues posiblemente estarÁ asistiendo en el show cada ratito. ahÍ la estaremos chequeando ade mimo re. >>> recuerden seÑores tom tom boleros es el Último dÍa para botar por su artista favorito. entre a www.premiolonuestro.com. y deje su voto en

griffiths. frances griffiths, yes.ry is that these two children, one age 16, one age 10, believed there were fairies in the bottom of their garden. and, in order to convince their father, they took a camera and they took photographs. that's right. and that was in july and august 1917. and those two photographs, as i understand it, were those two. is that right? that's right, yes. so, which is your mother? this is my mother here. that's your mother. so, elsie was what, her cousin, or...? her first cousin, yes. their mothers were sisters. okay, so, they came back with the camera and said, "we can prove there are fairies." and these were accepted at the time, weren't they? so, when the first photographs were taken in 1917, they were really only shown to the family, weren't they? they were only intended for family consumption. just to get frances out of trouble, 'cause she was always falling on her back and getting wet. yeah, so it was about saying, "there really are fairies that've delayed me in my walks in the garden." b

. >> reporter: a dozen homes red tagged and destroyed and griffith fit park shut down.s in northern california blew down chunks of the bay area. >> almost like a hurricane. i've lived here all my life. i was amazed at the stuff that was playing last night. >> today brought calm but temporarily, weather casters predict another fierce windstorm to sweep through southern california this weekend. nbc news, los angeles. >>> when you see the destruction there, bringing things over to jeff ranieri, they had severe damage down there. >> it could have been a lot worse had it been positioned more to the north. there was a better side. we had thousands without power, as we talked about, as you guys mentioned at the top of the show, from the winds that topped 90 miles an hour. from the highest peaks, mt. diablo and los gatos getting in on the wind gust, this 45 miles an hour wind event for the bay area. with the north winds, most of the day, we had spectacular weather. if you weren't dealing with wind in the hills, very nice, currently 62, winds to the west at 13, starting to shift

and the winner of the 2012 heisman trophy as college football's best player, robert griffith who dazzledhis super-ability to throw, run and lead baylor from ran into the national rankings. super as in superman! preseason heisman favorite andrew luck finished a distant second. meantime, will the real ray lewis please stand up? that's the fellow linebacker jarrett johnson number 95 wearing his teammate's jersey in practice yesterday. he expected do watch from the sidelines for a third consecutive week versus the colts tomorrow might miss a play, never know with a toe turf it might make more senses to keep him sidelined until he's really need in the playoffs. right, coach? >> makes sense on we just depending ons how well he's coming along and i think he's -- very close. one of those injuries where you just got to see how it goes, take everything into consideration. and maybe could have played in the last couple weeks, maybe we just decide to mitigate the risk. just have to see where we're at. >> and with that, ravens-colts right here on wjz starting tomorrow afternoon at 1:00. finally, balt

we are recipients of a hud grant, community choice program ground to rebuild our alice griffith one of the hardest areas of our city and toughest of our public housing developments. if you look at years ago, it was -- it was very high in the statistics in twain -- 2009 of all the shootings and gang recruitment. we are going to rebuild that housing with those neighbors on site and residents of alice griffin participating in the building of their housing. that is how you get strong communities. that is how even our chief says the other programs aren't worki working, your job will be 10 times harder. so building strong communities in my opinion will contribute a long way to prevention and we are fortune with leader pelosi and feinstein to get that grant in the right way. one reason they chose us is because of the integration we have working directly with the residents who have been victimized many years. they get to build their housing with us as a partnership. >> just one final comment. the a.g. is on her way up. one thing we're trying to do on the federal level is to have the various fe

who needs anderson cooper or kathy griffith? we have gary radnich and catherine heenan! mr.arty animal and mrs. devine. they are reunited again. here at davies hall, the masquerade party. we will bring you all of the elegance of this event ended you want to catch the fireworks, you can visit www.kron4.com. we will be streaming the fireworks as well. late! there's more. we will be on the air at most of the bay area's hottest parties. this is a big deal. this is the final then on the embarcadero. they are moving because the america's cup races are moving--are coming in. this is their final that here, their new year's eve celebration. it is going to be a great party. they will have jugglers, singers and dancers. we will have it all for you and of course the fireworks. grab your bubbly, enjoy the party along with us. >>catherine: our party begins tomorrow night at 11:30 p.m.. the only local countdown show. i will be hosted with gary radnich. we hope to see you here. >>kimberlee: if you have a big new year's eve plans and are looking for a way to get around without having to driv

griffith. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. griffith: i think if thomas jefferson had dropped back into this body he would think he was alice in wonderland because when he wrote the wonderful jefferson manual of parliamentary procedure he made it very clear that we had two bodies in this government, the senate and the house, and each was to act independently, one of the other, in order to come up with what was right for the american people. we are now told today that we are supposed to accept a compromise that the senators compromised on and then left town to go home to celebrate their holiday. ladies and gentlemen, i don't think that's appropriate. i think we should do what the system calls for when our founding fathers put it together, that is they do their business, we do our business and we do what we think is right. we are trying to do what we think is right here today. this resolution includes many parts, one of those parts that i think is extremely important is the boiler mact part. it had 41 democrat votes in this house

and four in ohio what's more important in my opinion is what united russia should do to address griffiths is from parts of the russian population this is the real issue. log on to r.t. dot com to see how the election rallies have been developing here in russia we take an oath of office gallery to see snapshots from the biggest run in moscow in twenty years and that's one of a little online in our exclusive section on t.v. dot com. it's already been dubbed europe's great divorce this week britain vetoed france and germany plans to impose a fiscal agreement within the e.u. three countries will take the path to that national parliaments with all the other e.u. members agreeing to hand brussels absolute control of their budgets. brings us this report. reaction has been muted to the e.u. summit deal with observers looking sideways wondering what to really make of it a two speed europe is being formed almost all of the e.u. members have said they will forge ahead with the franco german plan of a new treaty resulting in a fiscal union with a tighter grip on finances there was only one clear no t

in four in ohio what's more important in my opinion is what united's russia should do to address griffiths is from but hearts of the russian population this is the real issue watching on t.v. live from moscow are still ahead of you in just a few minutes here libya's dash for cash used by the revolutionary spirit of the uprising the hopes of a bright future pushes libya's new leaders to make an international plea for funding. now a ten minutes past the hour here in moscow the euro's desperate struggle for survival was struck another blow this week a british veto shattered delicately laid plans to synchronise the finances it all happened at a critical summit in brussels where twenty three out of twenty seven member nations voted to hand brussels absolute oversight of the budgets of all member states. delves into this report. reaction has been muted to the e.u. summit deal with observers looking sideways wondering what to really make of it a two speed europe is being formed almost all of the e.u. members have said they will forge ahead with the franco german plan of a new treaty resulting in

. >> pero lo que pasa que esa está rabiosa porque el otro con un bombón como melanie griffith. >> Éllas dos ¿ok? >> aah, aquí aparecieron. >> ¿en qué sentido? no, pero yo voy a arreglar las cosas. ¿en qué sentido? yo llevaba... >> por eso yo insistía. >> yo llevaba como un año de relación, ¿ok? yo no sabía nada, nada que ella estaba embarazada, yo no, yo estaba ajeno a todo eso, pero ya en realidad la relación de nosotros estaba muerta, no servía, yo en ese tiempo más o menos estuve como un mes, la última relación, el último tiempo tuve más o menos como cuatro semanas saliendo con ella, me enamoré de ella... (risa). >> decidí dejarla a ella, después que pasa todo este problema, ya en ese tiempo que ella se entera que estoy con ella me llama a mí a decirme que estaba embarazada. >> ¡sorpresa! >> empezaron los problemas con ella, ella me lo dijo que, tú sabes, muchas cosas empezaron a pasar, yo le dije, mira, vamos a esperar, vamos a decidir esto con el tiempo y no. entonces ahora después de que ya el niño tiene dos años ella empieza a, tú sabes, presionarme, presionarme, presionarme y

winds blew down 400 trees in griffith park which probably will not reopen until tomorrow. 67,000 in that area are still without power. >> an east bay family had to move out after a tree smashed through it narrowly missing their young children. is it's the most extreme example of the high winds from the bay area. >> first thing we thought was earthquake. >> ben and his family were sleeping when it sounded like the sky was falling. this 60-year-old kip press tree landed between the bedrooms and the family's two small children. >> there is a bathroom. it went straight through. in a way, yeah, it's a bless igt not only plowed true through the roof but damaged the foundation. and they're now staying in a hotel. >> homeowners moved in four months ago. >> andrew is the contractor fire hired to fix the house. >> we're talking about roof structure, possible foundation, interior plaster, electrical. >> this is just one of many that came through this week. three crews are not only busy with clean up but cutting back limbs so more trees don't come down next time. >> this is thinned out. >> people ta

griffith park, home to the hollywood sign, shut down. the same storm slammed new mexico, and in northern california blew down chunks of the bay area. >> it sounded almost like a hurricane. i've lived here all my life. i was amazed from all the stuff that was flying last night. >> reporter: today brought calm but temporarily. weathercasters predict another fierce wind storm to sweep through southern california this weekend. gina kim, nbc news, los angeles. >>> taking a live look outside right now here. the big story for our area, still the cold. >> storm 4 meteorologist veronica johnson has the details. so veronica, it's been chilly today. what's coming up? >> it's been pretty chilly today, but did you like the sunshine? guys, a lot of tweets i've been reading today. folks saying they love today. the fact i can get by without a coat. that is nice because it's winter, right? it's winter. you're going out to get the tree. well, you expect to be all bundled up. we're doing just fine today. we talked about those winds out on the west coast, t

griffith park, home to the hollywood sign, shut down. the same storm slammed new mexico. in northern california, blew down chunks of the bay area. >> it sounded almost like a hurricane. i've lived here all my life. i was amazed from all the stuff that was flying last night. >> reporter: today brought calm but temporarily. weather casters predict another fierce wind storm to sweep through southern california this weekend. gina kim, nbc news, los angeles. >> that's a mess. >> it is a mess. one thing we don't have to worry about around here. we have our share, but -- >> that's right. we have been lucky. we have been lucky going into this latter part of november, early part of december. things are going to start to turn before long. >> is that so? >> uh-huh. >> we should knock on wood. >> we should knock on wood and really take advantage of this upcoming weekend. my list is getting longer and longer. i cannot stress enough you should put together a list of things to do jououtdoors for th weekend. next weekend, not looking as nice. >> you're saying we need to take advantage of

we have one of the train once book, 9/11, 9/11 and there's also philip jones griffiths book, photography book, which is on basic sale for $20, a gorgeous photography book at so it's hard to beat those prices. here's the mic that lisa will get over to you. ask your question and let's see if we can get as many and as we can, and lisa, here is one. >> yes. thank you for your commentary. but i was just a thing as listened, because i had recently found out about the matter of fracking, which is what i'm going to talk about it and i was thinking out and hearing your commentary that perhaps if the people in these countries is the victims that you mentioned were seek revenge, they would say we have found a way of doing ourselves in, because a friend of mine said, and if you're not the mother with fracking, i'll mention it in a minute, fracking is not spelled f-r-a-c-k-i-n-g. it is spilled -- because what we're doing is already showing up in places like pennsylvania, we can wipe out the water supply, and that's not something you can replace. repeat, that's not something you can replace. many peop

virginia governor bob macdonald, and morgan griffith attended today's ceremonies. police officers from up and down the east coast were also on hand. it is also still unclear why 22- year-old russ ashley shot officer kraus and took his -- life last week. he leaves behind a wife and five children. mary, back to you. >> all right, adam, thank you. >>> city police officers shoot a man several times after they say he refused to drop a knife. mike hellgren has new details on what led to the violent confrontation. >> police are not identifying the officer who fired the shots, the man who was hit survived, and was in critical but stable condition at last check. an investigation is under way at this hour, after police shot a man on south morly street late last night, who they say became unruly and argumentive, and they say he was armed. . >> this individual had a knife. he began to advance police officers with that knife, after numerous commands. police officers asked the suspect to drop that knife. he did not comply and was shot numerous times. >> reporter: police have not

starting with the andy griffith show and things like that.hen i was in film school, before "happy days" and i thought, i don't know if kimake this transition, i would like to be a film maker, if it doesn't work out, what else would i do? i was wrestling with being a high school basketball coach because i thought that would be fun and the other is journalism. vilong felt that it's sort of -- i am very grateful for the kinds of-- the range of experiences that i get making films. but i have always felt that, you know, a journalist puts in his or her years doing that and it's, you know, it's a rich -- it's a rich life experience. >> you have been out of there for five years. it will be six years in june! >> i have never had any hard feelings. i get a chance to see some of the girls at different social events. i am sorry that i don't have really super relationships with everybody, but that's okay. you know, we are adult women. we don't have to like everybody. so it's cool. >> did you feel sorry for yourself in prison? here you were -- unbelievably

. >> the andy griffith show delighted tv audiences from 1960 to 1968.ch member of the cast went on to direct such films as "a beautiful mind" and "the da vinci code"? >> bill, it was ron howard. >> do you have a paddle? [ laughter ] >> it was b, ron powered. [beeping] >> bill: here they, the quiz kids themselves. >> i like that. >> bill: did you lend these to "saturday night live." >> they came over and picked then up and now they are back. here is question number one. michelle obama known for being strict about letting her kids have junk food she also revealed last week she is strict about something else. she said she will not allow her daughters to have, what? a, a cat. b, facebook accounts. c, friends spend the night. d, birthday presents. [ laughter ] birthday presents. >> bill: cards up, please. and roll the tape. >> sasha and maliyah, are they on facebook. >> no. >> bill: no? is that because of who they are or because you are not in favor of it? what's the reason for that? >> there are a lot of real constraints things like secret service and stuff

. >> years ago, she said it was like the fictitious town from the andy griffith show. >> we knew everybody, had a good time, like mayberry. >> and just like there, your job defined who you were. in millen, everybody knew sandy was the woman from the bank. she had been there almost 30 years, after all. >> i got married when i worked at the bank, had my baby when i worked at the bank. eventually, became the first female vice president and only female vice president in the bank of millen. >> founded in 1881, it transformed from a railroad and agricultural hub into a factory town of 3500 people, almost half of jenkins county's population. various plants in manufacturing, clothes, and home products employed three quarters of the work force, including this single mom, kimberly thompson who worked as a quality control specialist for a factory, manufacturing mobile homes. >> i was great at my job. and i loved it because the money was great. >> in the past, kimberly, a high school graduate, with no college education had struggled to support her family. she knew what it was like to survive on low pa

now, ryan, if you pan to your left, we've got the folks from griffith energy. look in the back of this van here, they're donating all kinds, that is fantastic. reporter: very cool. reporter: look how still everything has become in the last -- how everything has filled in the last 12 hours. reporter: how many bins? one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and a big box. eight bins and a big box. reporter: almost completely filled at this point. reporter: there's more food coming. thank you very much. reporter: everyone who has come out, we appreciate it. we have got cash donations. we gotta let you know this is going on until 11:00 p.m., not just here at brentwood but at the other locations as well, montrose crossing, greenbriar and the other one, wherever that is. hyattsville. reporter: there's been a lot of redskin and cowboy fans around here today. a lot of good basketter. reporter: wpgc behind us, they're wrapping up their morning show, they have been great this morning. everyone has come out. keep donating through the day. it's going to be a great day

reporter: years ago, sandy said, millen was just like that fictitious small town from the "andy griffithhow." >> we knew everybody. had a good time. like mayberry, i'd say. >> reporter: just like if mayberry, your job defined who you were. in millen, everybody knew sandy was the woman from the bank. she'd been there for almost 30 years, after all. >> you know, i got married when i worked at the bank. i had my baby when i worked at the bank. eventually i became the first female vice president. and only female vice president of the bank of millen. >> reporter: founded in 1881 millen had transformed itself from a railroad and agricultural hub into a factory town of 3500 people, almost half of jenkins county's entire population. various plants manufacturing clothes and home products employed more than three-quarters of the town's adult workforce including single mom kimberly thompson, who worked as a quality control specialist for a factory manufacturing mobile homes. >> i was great at my job. and i loved it. because the money was great. >> reporter: in the past kimberly, a high school gradu

you're about to see was the official program from that 1940 game played 71 years ago today at the old griffith here in d.c. >> cool. >> that's amazing. >> maybe that's a good tactic, though, the coaches now can call the skins cry babies and they'll get all fired up and go out and decimate other teams. >> that's why you never say that about another team. 1940. >> what did you say? >> nice artistic work. >>> it looks like a rat almost, a big rat. >> it's a bear. >>> tucker. >> that's cool trivia, tony. there you go. sunshine, cool today with winds, it's going to feel like 30s all day. coat weather here to stay. cold tonight. army/navy game on saturday, a redskins game on sunday. >> big weekend. one of our smart elik staff members brought this up and said you can hang this ornament on the tree since i broke the other one. >> that's not even funny. >> never mind. i'll do it tomorrow. please continue to send them in. >> i'm sorry. >>> hi, we're the world famous radio city rockettes. we're here to celebrate the holidays on "the wendy williams show." how you doin'? >> it's time for "wendy." today, th

a 23-year-old african-american man named michael griffith was killed in a racist attack in howard beachhite teenagers outside a pizzeria and chased him to a highway where he was hit by a car and killed. after this horrific and unprovoked attack, we marched for justice for michael. we marched to show the world the ugliness of the attack, and the world took notice. >> hate on earth, that's how "the new york daily news" described a racial attack last weekend. >> the reverend al sharpton saw this as part of a pattern. >> all over the northeast, it's gone to a nationwide white backlash. >> before we marched some people believed that racism was just a problem in the south. we learned that it existed in all parts of america. in remembering michael today i looked at how much has changed in 25 years. we have an african-american president, and an african-american attorney general. that change gives me reason to believe we can change america because we did change america, but we face new challenges, we're challenged to fight class warfare and income inequality and continued institutional racism. w