and of course, the fourth option would be the international criminal court. >> david crain thank you your time and for bringing this horror to light. >> it's good talking to you and your listeners. >>> for another perspective i'm joined by a senior advisor to the syrian opposition. it's good to have you back on the show. i want to start with this terrible report and all of these pictures, allegedly showing massive torture and killings by the assad go of detainees. as an advisor, you have said that the timing of this report may help the opposition in these talks in geneva? >> absolutely. this report is direct evidence of what we in the syrian revolution have been trying to tell the whole word for the last three years. they thatry responsible for genocide, for the worst war crimes in our generation, and it is time for the international community to rally and support our efforts to transition syria to a democracy without assad. so especially at this crucial time when the syrian opposition has clearly voiced its support to a political process to transition to a syria with a government th

a potential member country of the european union it would be very hard very evil crain joins the union sooner or later because as long as who doesn't join we have the whole. of the european course of action but of course we have to first of all to wait and respect what the ukrainian people decides and decisions. are not taken by demonstrations in the streets are taken by voting in elections and by. giving viewable to nuti to the government and the problem in the chart of the representation of the people giving them the possibility to decide what we we hope that. the sooner the better the majority of the parliament will be to say the majority of the brilliant people makes a clear choice to join the opinion meanwhile the only thing we may expect is that the ukrainians themselves. parties government and opposition find necessary understandings and especially the necessary primate to define. their future also in what respects the connections with the european union well you're saying q craniums should decide for themselves what we see lately a lot of european politicians actually taking pa

brigid sweeney of crains wrote about this. brigid, first, what are the 2 new players on pea pod's turf doing doing? >well, they're frankly not new they've been here for a couple of years but amazon and wal- mart are basically testing the waters that the pea pod has been swimming in since 2001. they're trying to do same day delivery of groceries and frankly same day delivery is kind of the ultimate what the consumers want and it's something that pea pod does not deliver, they do next day delivery. what is amazon and wal-mart do when are they actually putting money into this and building facilities? > they all are. they are using existing facilities for right now and they're testing them in test markets on the west coast. amazon is testing in a couple of places in california, wal- mart is also in the west coast area just testing the market to see if people are willing to pay for this, really want this. you talked with co- founder and chief technology officer for pea pod, what is he doing? > he is trying extremely hard to ramp up

exaggeration to say that today is the most important parliamentary session in the history of more new crain and has already started with some big news with the country's prime minister and the colors out of saying he is offering his resignation as a as a step to a stop the violence to bring the country to peace we do know that last night the sides of the political crisis have managed to agree to abolish the controversial anti-riot legislation and also to release the prisoners all those who were detained during the mass protest even the so-called right wing sector the hardcore right wing nationalists who are in the core of the protests they've said also last night that they would withdraw from the governmental court to dismantle the barricades and retreat to the pre january nineteenth position which is the independence square if a compromise between the opposition and the president is found so all these all these laws all these amendments will be voted within these bottom entry session was certainly following it and also we do understand that even judging by this statement by the right wing

crain into the european sphere of influence but they are the public face of the whole going away of ukraine away from russia they are the faces of the interests who have been attempting to do that now for more than twenty years so in terms of what's happening on the ground it's obviously a chaotic situation it is not an out of control and i doubt that anyone has a real handle on control of the situation but from a political perspective and from a public relations perspective they are certainly still the leadership they are certainly still at least from the propaganda side they are the leaders now why do you think the opposition has refused the offer from president especially considering these are top government posts. because their intention was never to win political concessions it was never to come to a political settlement there their true intentions have been quite apparent all along and that is regime change that we're in for regime change in the ukraine in order to overthrow that government in order to pull it away from the russian sphere of influence we see something quite similar in

as we stand here in downtown chicago, most of the big buildings, that is the crain communications buildingential tower. aon building to the right. most of these buildings are heated with natural gas. that is heating source of choice. mostly forced air natural gas. take a look at the numbers today. it has been on a big run. yesterday, i think i saw around 5:30, big selloff today because this cold although will stay cold will not be quite as cold as this going forward although still overnight will still be somewhere in the neighborhood of minus 18, minus 20. not windchill, real temperature in chicago. tracy: god bless you. god, i can't even imagine you poor thing. go inside. go inside. ashley: well, listen from freezing temperatures to a lack of rain there won't be much of a cattle call in california. three years of drought out west in the golden state has ranchers rushing to market to dumb their cattle. auction house that is normally sell 100 to 150 animals per week this time of year, are reporting 800 to 1,000 cows being sold this week. the majority of cows are headed to texas where drough

lori: i think i need a crain to get out. >> we sell those two too, believe it or not. back? >> love sacks run from 2, 300 bucks to more than a thousand bucks. they are more of high-end not bean bag chairs. lori: do you customize them. >> we customize them. we have hundreds of fabrics available that is the just the beginning. ashley: not just the bean bag segment. you talk about the furniture. we have the factionals. >> this is for tags is just small models. we didn't bring a full setup. but sackional have turned us into the fastest growing retailer in the u.s. according to furniture today. ashley: any configuration you come up with. >> there are only two pieces. we have a patent. there is a base and a side. if any number of bases and sides you can build anything you want. combine, arrange, rearrange. line them up however you like. and you can build things thaw can't even buy from typical furniture stores. you can get at home in a honda. you can, we ship it. the covers come off. they're machine washable. they're easy to make into a guest bed. with just these two pieces.

tracy: tell you, i'm going back to my crain stationary and writing letters. it is safer. how to write a letter anymore. tracy: that's true, lol. ashley: yeah. tracy: up to 22 inches of snow dumped by the latest nor'easter, but don't look now but there is more snow in the forecast. we're live in the fox weather center next. ashley: we're moments away from ben bernanke last official pronouncements as fed chief. peter barnes standing by in a very cold philadelphia. tracy: peter better have cheerios to beef up for the cold weather. we're telling you why general mills is giving in to protesters to change the way the cereal is made. i hope they make it cheaper. ashley: no. tracy: this time of day, look how oil is trading, down about 1.35, $95.09 a barrel. we'll be right back. my dad has aor afib.brillation, he has the most common kind... ...it's not caused by a heart valve problem. dad, it says your afib puts you at 5 times greater risk of a stroke. that's why i take my warfarin every day. but it looks like maybe we should ask your doctor about pradaxa. in a clinical trial, gat

. >>> awe crain's president signing amnesty for detained demonstrators into law and repealing anti-protest legislation. many protesters reject the bill with the requirement that activists leave occupied buildings. >>> australia pushes ahead with a controversial policy reducing shark attacks and catching and releasing two sharks off the west coast, deeming them too small to be a threat. seven people were killed by sharks there over the last three years. jenna: now time for the fox 411. new information on justin bieber's legal troubles as a united states senator weighs in. florida republican marco rubio, offering the beebs some fatherly advice. in the meantime there's a new report that might put the brakes on the claim he was drag racing in florida, rubio's home state. julie banderas has the details now. >> justin bieber is such a dolt. that is the word of the day. i'm quoting your buddy jon scott, word of the day, dolt. jon: appropriate. >> from tongue wagging twerkers to politicians seems justin bieber is the topic of covers everywhere these days. bieber's third run-in in the law in one mo