becomes our finding, because we were split 2-2, i.e., don't have a three-person vote. or as we discussed earlier, could we carried forward to a subsequent meeting. if the commissioners at the 2-2 say that was a complicated hard-fought and sincere, this is one that we really ought to bring forward to the next meeting and allow the fifth commissioner the possibilities of doing this by a 3-2 vote, whichever way that commissioner should go. but i think we have those same options at the 4-person meeting could yield a 3-1 or 4-0 result without finding us to always have five for those. we don't know how numerous, how frequent an occurrence this might be. i respect the practice and i appreciate the executive director's point, but it's a high standard. part of what we want to do is bring them forward and act on them in a timely, responsive way. i am just trying to figure out how to make solid decisions, but without being unrealistic about how often we can get five? >> i think that is a good compromise. mr. st. croix, did you have something to add? >> no, i was just thinking tha

result of the review was that the developer, in order to obtain a demolition permit, had misrepresented, i.e., lied on his applications about the age of the building, about its historical significance. thankfully, because of the review, there was the revelation that this in fact was property in a historic, prospective historic neighborhood, contiguous historic neighborhood block 26. we found that the person who had built the house and lived in the house had a direct historic recognition which is part of c-e-q-a. c-e-q-a recognizes historic contexts. because he was the reservoir keeper which is a block away. we also found out that the -- so, basically, the point of that is that if it weren't forsee qua in that case 869 would not have been -- it would have been demolished. it's an a forwardable house. a family is living there now. it was abuse of the process upstream. so, c-e-q-a, had there been an appeal at the beginning of the project, would never have happened. this information would not have come forward from the planning department that did the further investigation. thank you. >> thank y

b i.e. ber just did a sold outshow. the efforts that help children get from point a to point b.et weather will be back in the forecast. we'll find out when the next storm is going to hit. > >>> today is a busy day for fedex. in fact, it's so busy, it's going to be its biggest day ever. they say they sent 19 million packages today. the company says the. >> i'm meteorologist hear to talk to you about -- here to talk to you about changes ahead. >> some reaching 70 degrees. we are going to see a huge switch. it's going to feel like winter all of a sudden. they're failing off. san francisco 359. a chilly one in nappa, 49 degrees. temperatures were anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees above average this afternoon under mostly sunny skies. satellite radar showing you we remain with mostly clear conditions. i want to have show you the satellite radar. here's a 12-hour alley-oop. in the last 12 hours we can see an arch beginning to cave a little bit right back here. this is where the system is coming from, dropping in in time for tuesday night and into wednesday morning. we pick it up tuesday m

i.e., amazon not paying enough tax. therefore people were slightly not doing amazon. they were going to john lewis. does that hold water or not? >> i think -- i'd be careful. there's a little bit of p.r. spin. john lewis are doing very well. and no small thanks to the internet. sales up 40%. mind you, they were up 40% a few months ago. there's no real change in trend. what they are trying to do is capture a slice of the headlines by making more people -- >> we heard yesterday, describing cost of coffee as the tax man's favorite coffee chain. did you like that? >> it's great, isn't it? >> at this point do we have to call the gdp figures into question in the u.k.? >> when -- people have been talking about this for maybe two, three months about the employment data versus productivity and gdp. and something doesn't seem to quite add up. even the bank of england saying, you know, we're not sure how this adds up. we're not sure of what it means for the economy. and when they start saying that, you've got to wonder what the policy response should be if they don't know what t

touted by foreign donors and the afghan government as proof that the country was modernizing and stable i.e. the poverty barons pushed the people of afghanistan into this bank saying where the ones that advised them we know it's modern we know it's great big jump some of taliban are out there at the improvised explosive devices going after a few marines meanwhile the u.s. banks are in bank of capital stealing billions. and we've got all rights to see thanks so much darling not us the wedding rings. thank you max all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max keiser and stacy herbert and i want to thank our very special guest john cooper clarke if you'd like to follow us on twitter cars report or at facebook dot com forward slash cars report happy christmas or just plain old nice twenty five trillion dollars worth of . forest in your frank imagination about a frank banking scandal that never happened and the austerity measures are good for you by no.

indiscriminate attacks i.e. they fail to distinguish between combatant and civilian in the same way that hamas rocket attacks very clearly are aimed at civilians which is a violation of international humanitarian law in the sense that target civilian. indiscriminate nature of. the way for a two state solution perhaps you've ever been before but only by building on the international consensus that we've got the israel and even the united states are further away from can we move towards a long lasting peace and you're with r t the future of america's high tech hub is in jeopardy find out why silicon valley is shutting out of the innovators who helped create its digital revolution plus. i'm kind of a thought what i don't know doesn't everybody so if your government is killing innocent people you're ok with that so you go. ok with the good. i know i'm contradicting myself but i obviously don't want my government to kill innocent people but in the same boat. how do i know they're innocent we ask people in new york wh

limit how much they are able to use when it comes to you know compile information on a specific person i.e. look at what happened in general petraeus probably well except for very interesting and important bill with important implications for everyone's privacy so great that things are filling us in on it as our producer adriano sero. still ahead everything you thought you knew you know you don't now at least when it comes to north korea and fears over its nuclear capabilities and missile program will separate fact from fear mongering that. is right right i mean it's like a derivative of pepper it's a food product essentially. much stronger than anything you'd buy off. our rules of stronger than any kind of. well bit weak since north korea test launched a rocket and put it into orbit if you will do a strong response with people fearing the worst that it was a precursor to firing a long range weapon amid a frenzy some misinformation was reported so we wanted to set the record straight first off the north korean rocket launch was a space launch not a ballistic missile test the launch was no

and eight he explained to a broker who was submitting the libeler bid he said quote if you keep sixes i.e. the six month japanese libel rate unchanged today i will do one humongous deal with you like a fifty thousand buck deal whatever i need you to keep it as low as possible if you do that i'll pay you you know fifty thousand dollars one hundred thousand dollars or whatever you want on a man of my word so illicit fees of more than one hundred thousand pounds were paid to this particular broker. well yeah and suitcases full of cash they're brought in and i was working on wall street you know that suitcase full of castor used extensively to bribe sales managers and regional managers and the i.p.o. market talked about it before so they are involved dozens of people in in a mafia criminal racket for fifty thousand dollars in cash is his is a bribe to commit libel fraud it's fully documented and yet nobody in these governments are saying we can't go after them because they're too important to the systemic health of the global economy so therefore they live above the law that's a caste system

upsurge in violence in gaza we've seen documented proof that israel launched indiscriminate attacks i.e. they failed to distinguish between combatant and civilian in the same way that hamas rocket attacks very clearly either aimed at civilians which is a violation of international humanitarian law in the sense that target civilian or by the indiscriminate nature of their arsenal further away from a two state solution perhaps we've ever been before but only by building on the international consensus that we've got that israel and even the united states are forever away from can we hope to move towards a long lasting peace. if huge of america's high tech hubs in jeopardy in a few minutes almost twice of the value shutting out the innovators who helped create the digital revolution in the first place just one of the many stories told in this way. waves of corruption are rocking russia hundreds of millions of dollars vanished from apec building projects and russia's got a nice satellite project a real estate scandal has also led to the defense minister being fired note i said fire in russia

latest upsurge in violence that we've seen documented proof that israel launched indiscriminate attacks i.e. they failed to distinguish between combatant and civilian in the same way that hamas rocket attacks very clearly are aimed at civilians which is a violation of international humanitarian law in the sense that it's target civilian. indiscriminate nature of the arsenal we're further away from a two state solution perhaps you've ever been before but only by building on the international consensus that we've got israel and even the united states a favor away from can we hope to move towards. long lasting peace. or some other stories making headlines across the globe at least two people have been injured as clashes broke out at the inauguration of mexico's president police used tear gas to disperse in the. protesters trying to break through security barriers by throwing molotov cocktails the demonstrators claim president yetto bought votes to secure his election with. north korea says it will try to launch a long range rocket later this month the move is set to sour relations with south k

limit how much they're able to use when it comes to you know compile information on a specific person i.e. look at what happened in general petraeus probable exciter of so on and so forth very interesting and important bill with important implications for everyone's privacy great thanks for filling us in on it as our theme producer adriano the cerro. well coming up next on our t. is the capital account with or in leicester let's check in with lauren to see what's on today's agenda laura and i there live as well as you well know the fiscal cliff deal making or lack there of continues as republicans in the house were reportedly going to vote on john boehner is plan b. which obama reportedly would promptly veto if it does pass which it wouldn't pass in the senate anyway but this just highlights the whole issue of this fiscal cliff with no resolution we've seen fish the credit ratings agencies say the u.s. could lose its aaa credit rating well gee we've heard that before liz maybe people are getting deja vu maybe this just sounds exactly like the debt ceiling deal of two thousand and eleven a

when you're talking about cad x's, categorical exemption, i.e., a house becoming a house or a house expanding a house, that's the kind of cases you're talking about when you're talking about a cad goerth cat exemption. a negative declaration is usually -- it can be a similar situation but there's a little more complication because there's historic resource or historic district involved. and i think that we have seen that people don't like a project, so they use c-e-q-a as the thing in the process. and it's hard because when people do that, it destroys the integrity of c-e-q-a in the sense that there are legitimate environmental concerns. projects like treasure island and the shipyard, they're truly environmental concerns and real issues there that c-e-q-a deals with. a lot of the socioeconomic policy sort of issues and questions that we have and concerns, c-e-q-a is not designed to deal with that and that's a whole 'nother conversation about the general plan and how we implement that and how we look at how we make our decisions. but that is those are not c-e-q-a issues and i think they often

able to fire their employees they can fire their employees because their employees don't know the job i.e. you only kind but if you didn't fire people because they were you that's why didn't you say you want to do your it is right you are what you're describing is labor conditions outside of the renaissance period and i agree with f.d.r. that i think people do have a right to a job if they want to job they should be able to have a job in america where the wealthiest nation on earth and somebody has to provide a forum and then be the terms have to be imposed upon the employer and they have to provide a job because this person has a right to a job and even if the market doesn't bear you have to pay what it takes to live not what their values worth your company i believe the market would bear it if the wealth wasn't so concentrated in the hands of you know point zero one percent of the population because the market would work it out say oh yeah no more to the way that i was a little way to argue it is a way to get more it would self correct me so i mean if i don't if they can't fire their ow

i.e. i really want to have something that nobody else knows. the other is--and it's not knowable.otion is that there are social norms about what you dig into. you know there is probably a lot i could probably find out about your personal life or my personal life, and you don't. we don't worry about that. we simply say this is private an we don't have to make it secret in order for it to be private. private is a social construct not a technical construct. secret is a technical construct. you have to do something to make something secret. but private is something that we agree on between ourselves and i think we need to under you know that distinction. if we do, oh, yeah, it's going to be very hard to keep information secret because there are so many case where is the information needs to be shared with a lot of people in order to be useful. you know, you want your genetic profile to be part of your medical record. you want any doctor to be able to see it. you want your personal health apps and share it with other people because you really for example, if you're a community with pat

we'll have a full rundown on the fest i.s when we -- festivities when we return. we know that will be a traffic jam for people with tickets. what about now? >>> here is a live look of the overturned truck carrying pineapples this morning. you will get by with delays to the left side of the roadway. more details coming up in my next report. you're watching 9news. stay with us. >>> good morning. we're back. 6:29. always the place to get your weather first. a live look at the beautiful skyline of our nation's capitol with the jefferson memorial and washington monument standing tall. it is 35 chilly degrees colder some some parts of the viewing area. thank you for starting your day with us. i'm andrea roane. >>> i'm mike hydeck. howard bernstein is bundled up on the weather terrace and needs to be because it's definitely chilly. >> got the gloves, the jacket. earlier in the week i was sign in a suit jacket but a much, much colder morning out here, 20, 30 degrees colder than this time yesterday. we start with the day planner. it's going to be sunny and the winds will b

>> reporter: if harry reid got this through the senate, i.e., that he got all democrats onboard for the 250 or below and he was able to pick up retiring republicans and maybe he gets olympia snowe from maine, scott brown and folks like that and get to the 60 threshold and break the filibuster and if he was able to do that and it went to the house floor, there's no doubt it would pass and probably get enough republicans at the end of the day. the question is a, would he be able to break the filibuster in the senate, we don't know if that would happen. would boehner put it on the house floor and he said from day one, any plan he would like to see the majority and the republicans in the house move forward. if it were to go to the house i am very confident from conversations i've had that it would pass. >> nbc's luke russert. always appreciate the insights. >> nbc news senior political editor mike murray also digging this joining me live. president obama using the bully pulpit of his office to put pressure on congress. "meet the press" tomorrow and take a listen to part of what he said yest

tax rates need to go up, not just on other people, i.e. wealthy people, but all people. here's bill clinton. >> i think you could tax me at 100% and you wouldn't balance the budget. we are all going to have to contribute to this. and if middle-class people's wages were going up again and we had some growth in the economy, i don't think they would object to going back to the tax rates that i obtained when i was president. >> do americans need to relux that taxes are going to go up and on everyone? >> i think they do, but let's be honest and faithful to an economic theory that says it's basically the lower and middle-income groups that basically spend most of the money. so if you do raise taxes on middle-income americans, you're going to see some economic effect in terms of slower growth. so do i disagree with bill clinton to some extent? yes, i think i do. i think the bulk of the taxation has to come through capital gains taxes, has to come through dividend taxes in terms of increasing and certainly in terms of increasing the marginal income tax rate from a minimal 36% to

however, when we look at social participation in religion, i.e., going to church it's level.cale people are just as lickly to attend services of those who are lower. i think the relationship between social class and religion is complex. people use religion differently depending on the class position. >> i appreciate you going on. i feel there's an elephant in the room here. i hope you forgive me. we cover politics on the show, and anybody covering politics this fall spent time talking about gallup polls and the presidential race and you had mitt romney up through to laexz day and took heat over that. i wonder going forward, have you taken any steps or are you planning to take any steps sort of in response to what happened in your polls this year? >> oh, yeah. we're constantly reviewing what we do when it comes to election polling, and actually our final polling results were fairly close within the margin of errors with most other polls where the popular vote would be. we're constantly review election polling which is a complex animal as you know. we are reviewing procedures i

he's a big proponent of fiscal expansion, i.e., the huge japanese printing press. nomura up more than 6%. continuing with japanese related news. bristol myers and pfizer, mixed trade for these names even with an approval in japan. japanese regulators approved anti-clotting drug developed called eloquist. it is the third approval for the drug in less than two months. the u.s. fda considering it. their decision expected by st. patrick's day of 2013. infinity farm amended a licensing agreement involving enzymes that could help fight against cancer. rbc likes it. they raised their price target to 38 from 32. this company also recently sold stock which rbc adds could help shore up their capital position. >>> finally, best buy. best buy shares not moving higher today. in fact, down a percent. but you had positive comments i want to relay to you about the new store remodels. an analyst went to best buy post- and pre-model and says the new stores are a real up grade from the whole. he believes the new design could help sales. best buy down about 33% this quarter. >>> in bo

we lived there for a while, and part of this book comes out of doing these kind of dopey things, i.e., nothing which is dopey. >> i've done plenty of dopey things. >> i was on the hudson river, this down where the hudson is shouting at you. the hudson is a imax movie is playing concert in this town. incredible. you sit there and you go down to the water and you look at the hills and things come clear to you. to me anyway. so yeah, so david was really interesting. he chronicled the americas weather history. which is amazing unto itself. but what the parliament was he went back and looked at the people who kept notes on the weather. people who kept notes on most mundane things. and then you call it -- [inaudible] >> i like to quote emerson. >> so thoreau kept whether blogs and kept these logs about when the flowers bloomed, and his great project near the end of his life was great a calendar, an almanac of april 1, this have happened in our town. the water is that this level. and that's an almanac. and thoreau was obsessed with -- [inaudible] when you read it, you are reading this beauti

we live there for a while and part of this book comes out of just doing these dopey things, i.e. not that we do is dopey. that's not what i'm trying to say. i was on the hudson river and this is a town where the hudson is shouting at you. you turn the corner and the hudson, the hudson is an imax movie playing constantly in this town. it's incredibly new sit there and you go down to the water and you look at the water in a look at the hills and things become clear to you, or to me anyway. so yeah, so david ludlow is really interesting. he chronicled the americas weather history, which is amazing unto itself but with that partly meant was that he went back and looked at people who kept notes on the weather, people who kept notes on the most mundane things. and then, you refer to it as the windbag, henry david thoreau. yeah, i am -- so thoreau kept weather logs and kept logs about when the flowers bloomed and his great project in his life was to create a calendar, and almanac of april 1, this stuff happens in our town historically forever, the waters at this level and these flowers

. >> reporter: robbie parker the father of 6-year-old emili i.e.is oldest daughter in a tribute just hours after they were told her life had been cut short. >> she was the kind of person that could just light up a room. she always had something kind to say about anybody, and i'm so blessed to be her dad. >> reporter: 6-year-old jessica rekos was remembered as a horse lover who had asked santa for new cowgirl boots and a cowgirl hat. in a statement, her family wrote about their rock. "we called her our little ceo for the way she carefully thought out and planned everything. we cannot imagine our life without her." today funerals will be held for some of the young victims, including 6-year-old noah pozner described as smart as a whip. his twin sister survived the shooting in a different classroom classroom. then there are the women whose passion for their job cost them their lives including 29-year-old rachel davino who was about to get engaged on christmas eve. 27-year-old vicki soto who tried to save her students with her final breath. and 30-year-

. >> they are starting to look at the positive of what i would call a -- strategy, i.e., a clean sweepn it comes to the business strategy of thyssenkrupp as well as the instruct occur and the refocusing on being transparent and definitely being something shareholders should trust. so no dividends, jobs may go and the sale of celiamerica being looked at. the cfo says there's a handful of interested parties in that particular party of the business. all in all, i think if you look at the message and the resale note issued by j.p. morgan earlier on this morning, on the back of the numbers, it's a very positive story because all the rubbish that needs to be cleaned out is being cleaned out. when it comes to the actual strategy, it will be reduced process on sale after the sale of about 30% will come from that sector. the rest is being refocused on technology and engineering. >> patricia, thanks for that. still to come, as the global economy trudges along the roads to recovery, will we see a high full rebound? we'll talk about it in just a few minutes. >>> mass rallies have been called in ca