. >> july 2000, reporter brian schultz is dispatched to new providence, iowa, to cover the installationr tower. >> that looks pretty good, don't it? >> it does. >> getting the water tower was a point of pride for new providence. something they'd been trying to get done for quite a while. so it was quite a big deal. >> new providence raises enough money to purchase its very first tower. the remote town of a little more than 200 people is all abuzz. >> anyone who was at home at the time, they were going to go out and see this happen. >> as local residents gather in the streets, a 150-foot crane rises and successfully lifts the four steel legs into position. >> there were some gentlemen on top of the tank that were attaching these straps to a central point that the crane would lift up. there were a few gentlemen on the ground that were kind of directing them. and there was a gentleman on top of the crane that was waiting for all this to happen. i remember even at the time i was pretty impressed with how cautious they were being. >> we're going for liftoff. >> with two workers poised on the

it took two days for the country to disclose the news, providing another example of just how secretivehat nation is. while little is known about the inner workings of the leadership there, it's difficult to hide the suffering of the people. if you want to sound smart today, tell your friends, a famine from 1995 to 1997 killed 2 to 3 million north koreans, and the united nations says an unacceptable number of children under 5 are malnourished. >>> enough with the real news, though, let's gather around the water cooler to show you "saturday night live's" skit on tim tebow's visit from the almighty. also, jimmy fallon returned to his old stomping grounds as host of the show. >> thank you, jesus! >> hi, everybody. >> oh, jesus! he has risen! >> no, no, no, not really, just a quick visit, so, everybody take a seat. go ahead, take a seat, chill out. first of all, you're welcome, all right? yes, i, jesus christ, am indeed the reason you've won your past six football games -- >> i knew it! >> whoa, tim, easy, easy. hey, buddy, leave a little room for the holy ghost, okay? >> all right. >> tim'

starting with a new care provider, identifying support services, knowing where to turn in an emergencytransition program can help. intransition provides you with encouragement from a personal coach and access to other resources to help you get started with your new provider, get your questions answered, and continue your treatment. . >>> off it nice start with plenty of sunshine out there, a bit of hazand the one constant we have been talking about is cold overnight lows. that is case again heading into early sunday evening. on stormtracker 2, a few high clouds to our south and west. with the clear skies overhead, tiffs are dropping off rapidly. you can see it happen napa 34 degrees and 30s and 40s downtown san francisco 47 and san josi at the airport, right around 45 degrees. this was the time-lapse towards the oakland estuary this afternoon and towards the bay. you can see the setting sun. some low cloud development offshore and hugging parts of the bay area coastline, so that the duck will be increasing through the overnight hours. temperatures tomorrow morning, on the cold side onc

because i feel that the american media is not honest with the american public but that foreign news providers such as russia today and other sources. are allowed to say it a little bit clear i'm a new yorker myself i've been up in the bronx my experience on i want to be the guy to bash the french but at the same time i think it distorts the appearance of people around the world that the state of our economy as a nation is no longer tenable if we have millions of people moving out of the middle class and into the ranks of the poor at the same time that wealthy people are ten times well dear than they were a generation ago if that says to me that we no longer have the sense of values of the country we need to return to that same spirit that built the middle class during the fifty's and sixty's and people certainly are angry. that's why we're seeing these occupy wall street protests across the nation i know that you've been taking part of them since the second or third day and today is kind of a unique day because you are taking it directly to congress and i understand that you are outside of jo

new research provides interesting answers. eurozone leaders have won a vote of confidence from the u.s. treasury secretary. timothy geithner has run off from the banks to the capitals to reinforce the u.s. message for the need of a long-term solution and stability. >> latest stop for the u.s. treasury secretary is the french finance ministry. it threatens economies on both sides of the atlantic. >> we have the same concern, to make sure that this crisis of financial major ens. and to have joint efforts so that in the real economy, there will be a support for investment and the creation of jobs. >> he was cautiously optimistic with plans by germany and france to build a stronger europe. >> we were encouraged by the progress they are making, and not just to put in place economic reforms across europe to create stronger growth in the future, but to try to build a stronger architecture for fiscal union. >> this is timothy geithner's fourth trip to europe as many months. for president obama senior at the g-27, his political future

the new project would provide about 100 or 150 jobs. both tenants are focused on local hiring. we have provided information to the existing employees so that they can follow up and be included in a hiring process when that occurs, which is approximately nine months from now, assuming approval. if we are approved today, we are scheduled to start construction as early as january, and we can be opened before the 10 black up, which sets the worker in november. it permits that -- we have a demo permit that has been issued. we have a shell that has been submitted and a structural of great permit that has been submitted. as you know, we are focused on the formula of retail and the non-residential use. the highlights are really exterior upgrades, improved accessibility, street and our escape improvements. we are adding car share. we are adding bicycle parking. 18 spaces. we are doing voluntary seismic upgrade, and adding security. the lower level will be locked down after trader joe's closes. if cbs decides to operate 24 hours, they would only have the upper level parking to be availab

they are specifically served when a business provides a new benefit to the community. wholefoods, selling liquor or providing services this area is highly concentrated. and whole foods will not provide a community with new benefits or services if they get a liquor license. the whole foods parking lot is also small. they have a few thousand -- [beep] supervisor avalos: there is a clock right there. the parking -- >> the parking lot as always fall. when the parking lot is full, cars are always overflowing into the street, causing congestion. i also want to say that there are many concerns in the neighborhood that are threatened by wholefoods selling liquor. like this one here. >> thank you. supervisor avalos: a question for you, or the inspector, what was the liquor license of the store that was there before? >> i believe that i have records to show that previously it was a 20, and prior to that it was a 21 at one time. supervisor avalos: which is what we are approving today? >> which is what you are approving today. supervisor avalos: when it closed, it was 20? >> beer a

. >> major funding for religion and ethics news weekly is provided by the lily endowment, an indianapolis-based private family foundation dedicated to the founders and christian religion, community development and education. additional funding also provided by mutual of america. design suggesting customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. the estate of william j carter and the jane henson foundation and the corporation for public broadcast suggesting. welcome, i'm bob abernethy. it's good to have you with us. the war in iraq was declared officially over this week. president obama traveled to fort bragg in north carolina to thank the troops for their service and sacrifices. he promised to help those returning from the war to find jobs and pay for education. the president also paused to pray for the families of close to 4,500 americans who died in the nearly 9 year war. earlier in the week, obama and iraqi prime minister nouri al-maliki laid a wreath at arlington national cemetery to honor those who lost their lives in iraq. a report this week

pts system and pilot testing for chromat q-matic, and a press ree for the new features being provided to the public. and also, representing dbi on channel 7 was built strong where he talked about the public affairs program on november 10 and played -- explained our role in enforcing the new state law enforcing carbon monoxide alarms to residents with fuel-burning devices, especially with the oncoming demand of heating. these alarms prevent injury and death from carbon monoxide, which is odorless and invisible and can only be monitored with technology, so please take a look at that. another item is to express my appreciation to james [inaudible] i want to extend my appreciation that james is representing the public and to the public of the category of service. happy thanksgiving to all, especially to the debbi family and their friends. that is all. >> is there any public comment on the president's announcement? cnseeing none, if it will take public comment on matters that are not within this jurisdiction. -- that are not part of this agenda. >> commissioners, a deputy sweeney, i would

the mercury news provided us with these pictures taken inside facebook, wow the campus is connected throughsingle central courtyard contains two full service cafes, microkitchens for free snacks as well as break away spaces called cozies. employs -- employs get free rides to work, read a full report inside today's edition of the mercury news. >>> ever find yourself talking to someone and they use a word that makes you cringe? new survey revealing the most annoying words of 2011. number five, seriously. number four, just saying. number three, you know. number two, like. and the most annoying word of 2011 goes to, whatever! that's the word i'm not saying whatever that's the actual word, whatever. >> some of those words are valley girl terms. >> you can put them all in one sentence easily. >> let's not try. >> kwaoepg the port open by any means -- keeping port open by any means necessary. it could mean big changes for future protests. >>> new push to erase california's same-sex marriage ban from california law. >> reporter: more than 69,000 fans sat in the dark inside this stadium last night.

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. >> major funding for religion and ethics news weekly is provided by the lily endowment, an indianapolis-based family foundation dedicated to founders in christian religion, community development and education. funding provided by mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. the estate of william j carter, the jane henson foundation and the corporation for public broadcasting. >> welcome, i'm bob abernethy. it's good to have you with us, this weekend after thanksgiving and this season of coughs and colds. faith-based groups were among the many expressing frustration at the congressional supercommittee's failure to come up with a debt reduction plan by this week's deadline. in washington, an interreligious coalition held what it called a "super- vigil" to pray that lawmakers would protect programs that help the poor in this country and around the world. the group said the nation's most vulnerable could be harmed by several congressional votes still ahead. >> jesus and the prophets, this is the vision. they said do n

have defied the ratings agencies calls and with the libya mission over nato is turning to a new front providing a new revenue stream to feed the coffers of u.s. military contractors meanwhile a german corporation brings on the former us the nato commander of the afghan war to try to expand efforts to fill its coffers with the u.s. government contracts will dissect the art of war profiteering but now let's get to today's capital account. happy monday and what can i tell you thousands of government workers reportedly are striking against austerity in italy today and portugal gets the next installment of its bailout loan from the i.m.f. and exchange for good behavior on budget austerity of course meanwhile mario draghi is quoted front page of the financial times warning about the eurozone break up downplaying expectations about the role and warning that struggling euro zone countries would face greater economic pain if they left the eurozone but how much would they and could these countries actually use their debt as a weapon against the technocrats and euro zone politicians meanwhile druggy today

they are not being held responsible for their public interests to provide news and information, to provide quality children's programs. no one is gauging how much time they are devoted to commercials rather than to content, so the safeguards that existed before to insure that the public airwaves were used to serve a public function, they have been whittled away, so they are able to develop the consumers, to exploit the market, but they are not being held responsible for their public interest requirements and also the citizen movement has become disarmed. unfortunately, too many of our civil rights organizations, which used to stand up against a media concentration. the comcasts and time warners and other media companies, and they are now less confrontational to big media. tavis: when you say, and i am paraphrasing, that the government has been a friend to the media business of late, during the bush years, these policies got much more lax. you lay this out. between the bush years, the world's got much more lax. the fcc gave them a pass on many things. what you call centralization, i call mo

aids memorial grove for helping me become the first time my family to attend the university and providing new it greater awareness about how i am affected by hiv and aids. this scholarship will help me pay tuition, because i am not eligible for financial aid as an immigrant from guatemala. thank you. [applause] >> i would now like to introduce nancy rodriguez, our third winner, from long beach, california. [applause] >> hello, good morning, everyone. is it a senior in high school in long beach, california. in my essay, i wrote that i connect with the memorial grove because my mother's friend was contracted with hiv. when she found out she was hiv- positive, she was shocked. she never expected to have hiv, because she was married and did nothing she was at risk. it is inspiring how she is using her experience. she educates women in mexico about hiv and aids. and how to prevent the transmission of the virus. the way she helps others is similar to the national aids memorial growth. by providing support to people with hiv and aids. i have seen that people with hiv sometimes feel rejected, and lon

fox news provides that for a pretty unfortunately wide audience in the united states. >> on fox and friendseadership is who we need in public office. would you ever run? great question. >> not right now. >> is devout christianity the only requirement to run for office with the republican party these days? >> it certainly is tnot, althouh i'm a christian. the christian principles are good in general. folk get mixed up about them sometimes. listen, tim tebow has great chrkri charisma and leader. obviously religion should not be the litmus test. >> we've seen athletes come together in a

that are not the stations providing local news, weather, and sports. they may be other startup channels that are not succeeding financially. they may take the money and run. >> a question is how much are you when to give me, which we don't know. more options are welcomed by tv stations having financial problems. >> if they do it, we support the decision to do so. >> verizon is now buying spectrum from changing companies. do the broadcasters have excess spectrum they could sell in the marketplace? >> i am not aware of it. what i am aware of it is when you get a broadcast license at 6 mhz, you can do more with digital and you could with analog. i am aware of many, many broadcasters that are deploying mobile television. i do not have it with me, but i wish i could show you this little online ipad. i can get and app. i attach a little dongle you can plug in. you can watch local television, with a broadcasting and not a broad band signal. that will come on the market, i am told, in the spring. you need spectrum for multitasking. -- multicasting. that is the

that is a new service, a new way of providing care and they will have benefits. it was a very important constructs that we created to insure that patients would be able to take advantage of the program. the other was the fact that working internally in terms of its discharge, many times the discharges from the hospital's heart difficult and you kind of lose their community connection. it is a warm handoff, and we have asked them to work with community programs to assist them in the patient's navigation program. those are the major three areas, and trying to keep to the charity care physician and continuing that in the future. supervisor campos: if i may ask you more specifics about that, the issue of charity care is an important issue. i don't know if you are aware of this independent study that just came out -- it just came out at the hastings college of law. quite frankly, it is a very disturbing study in terms of what it points to. it finds thatcpm cpmc is the city's most profitable hospitals. it posted a net income -- that is compared to say to mary's hospita

new arrivals. once they become friends, they provide new links between china and the outside world. >> the pandas arebol of the friendship and the cooperation between chinese people and others. >> reporter: the zoo says its new guests will raise awareness of an endangered species. one estimate puts the number of giant pandas in the world at less than 2,000. for now, the panda population of the uk stands at two. keir simmons, nbc news, london. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this sunday. coming up next, "football night in america" followed by "sunday night football," lions versus the saints. brian williams will be here tomorrow. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. for all of us here at nbc news, good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com laces? really? slip-on's the way to go. more people do that, security would be like -- there's no charge for the bag. thanks. i know a quiet little place where we can get some work done. there's a three-prong plug. i have club passes. [ male announcer ] now there's a mileage card that offers special perks on united, like a free checked bag, united club p

new desks. facebook did provide a few still photos from inside the new campus. they say that as of today, about 2,000 people are working here at what was once the campus of sun microsystems. and at rival of -- the arrival of facebook brings good news for some nearby businesses, including a restaurant that saw a big dip in business when sun moved out. >> i'm excited. hopefully we can have a big line in here. >> facebookers come on over, huh? >> finally. >> reporter: now, facebook's move also represents a move from santa clara county in palo alto into san mateo county. the company says it is working hard to be a good neighbor. it plans to launch something called facebucks to encourage its employees to leave the campus to leave the on-site dining room, for example, and to spend money in the local community. facebook also has plans to growth campus in the come years to over 9,000 employees in the coming years to. do that, they need approval from the city in menlo park. there is a hearing on this in january. mark sayre, cbs 5. >>> they are paying it forward and their

i'm not proposing that they be, but i'm just simply saying that the standards of localism, providing local news, weather, emergency information, decency standards, these things are asked of broadcasters, and we live with them because it's part of our public service mission, but they are not asked of the internet. they are not asked of these other services. >> host: speaking of one of the legislations indecency will be heard by the court. >> guest: it is, and broadcasters, if they were actually in the -- wanted to be in the indecency business, they don't have any regulations or prohibitions after ten o'clock, and you would see the indecent on broadcasting if that was their business, and 10 p.m. to 6 # a.m., they can be as indecent as cable is, but if you want to see things in your home that are many would say are indecent, you have to turn to a cable channel or a satellite channel. they are not regulated by those local community standards. we are. frankly, i'm good with that because i think we are, as a society, our just overflowing with the indecent, and it has cultural consequences that i thin

new delhi. noda told sin that they will provide a loan worth $4.5 billion. they will be building a railway line linking new delhi and museum buy. noda and sin agreed to create a new framework for surn can i swaps to help pro vent europe's credit crisis from invading into asia. >>> the u.s. military has warned iran, that blocking a strategic waterway will not be tolerated. teheran threatened to block the strait at the mouth of the persian gulf. the u.s. navy fifth fleet based in bahrain warned in a statement that it is always ready to counter ma lef lant actions. iranian vice president said not a single drop of oil would flow from strait if the west imposes sanctions over iran's nuclear program. >>> the narrow passage in the persian gulf is major sea lane for tankers carrying oil from the middle east. the west is increasing pressure on iran urging stopping development. they call for a ban on trading with iran. the european union is studying tougher sanctions including oil embargo. >>> oil prices fell on wednesday in london and new york. a saudi oil ministry of

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this proposes that they provide care for 10,000 of the 30,000 new beneficiaries. cpmc would do this with partnering with at least two partners, to provide hospital care at the cathedral hill campus. there are accounts for one-third of the anticipated 30,000 new beneficiaries, which is the same as the proportion of all hospital care. this provision was crafted specifically in response to the shift of individuals from being uninsured and reliant on charity care to being insured as participants in the managed-care program. the next provision requires that cpmc continue to provide care for the poor and underserved, and it includes three things. charity care, which as you know is without the expectation of reimbursement, the un reimburse costs of caring for medi-cal patients, and other care -- those that reimburse costs of care for medi-cal patients. this baseline will adjust each year in proportion to the overall inflation and the financial position of cpmc. it is expected that the measure to be used to determine the financial position will remain relatively stable ove

and they are not the stations that are providing local news, weather and sports. they may be other start-up channels that are just simple my not succeeding financially, and they may take the money and run. >> host: of course. a lot of it is how much are you going to give me, which we don't know, and then what's the economy like. you would assume that an economy that, perhaps, isn't doing as well, more options are welcomed by a tv station if they're having financial problems. >> guest: yeah, you know, and again, that -- if they choose to do it, we support their freedom to do so. >> host: senator smith, you referred earlier to the fact that verizon is now buying some spectrum from comcast and some other large cable companies because there is excess spectrum. >> guest: yeah. >> host: are the broadcasters, do the broadcasters have excess spectrum that they, too, could sell in the marketplace? >> guest: i'm not aware of it. what i am aware of is that when you get a broadcast license of six megahertz, you can do more with digital than you could with analog, and i'm awar