right now the u.s.a. is playing it very dangerous game with the currency.y americans don't want to pay attention. in fact, some americans don't even know who joe biden is. they are texting all day, all night. but unless voters, unless voters start to demand that the feds pull back on spending, all of us are going to get hurt. all of us. just a matter of when. once again, talking points feels like paul revere, i'm galloping around, but half the country doesn't care. democratic party surely knows the danger on the horizon. are they doing anything about it? are they trying to find ways to cut spending? no. same with president obama. he doesn't seem all that concerned by the titanic national debt poor you are very sensitive. you didn't have anything when you were a kid. parents didn't have anything. now you are a success. you still put money away? >> there is a possibility that all the money that you have, all the dollars that you have saved. those dollars are going to crash. do you know what happens when a currency crashes? all your savings. everybody watching

the u.s.a. remains the hope of the world.other nation can fight worldwide terrorism as effectively as we can. no other nation will spend blood and treasure trying to give people liberty like we are doing in afghanistan right now. and generally speaking, no other nation has sacrificed so much fighting evil on this planet. so, if america becomes weak, the whole world is in trouble. next sunday i will do a live interview with president obama and i hope he will be candid because i have very important questions for him. i also hope the president will analyze the poll numbers we just gave you and, perhaps, try a new strategy. one final comment. when asked what the most important priority for the obama administration should be, the american people said loud and clear, creating jobs. 91 percent said that. next was reducing the federal budget deficit, 74%. so, with all due respect, i think the president should concentrate on those two areas in his last three years in office. this country needs a vibrant economy in order for people to

those of us that are sane, the u.s.a. is a a noble country provides massive opportunity to those who will work for it. and that's the memo. now nor the top story tonight. reaction, joining us from washington managing editor of ewtn news catholic news service and the president of sojourners, a national christian group committed to faith and action for social justice. where am i making my mistakes, mr. wallace? >> happy new year, bill. >> same to you. >> great place to start the year with a story on pope francis. the pope is calling us not to an ideology. is he calling us to the words of jesus. the words that you had speak to us. he is the -- as a catholic you know what the gospel of matthew 25 says how we treat the least of these hungry, the naked, the sick, the stranger, those locked up in jail-time is how we treat christ themself. this is the core of the gospel. so today, just today it was released the pope had a meeting with all the heads the orders and he called priests around the world to get out of their comfort zones

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they hope to reopen soon once they are given clearance by the u.s.a. d.a. >> i eat chicken. .. >> the livingston plan is one of three that was linked too a salmonella outbreak last year. now in a statement, food safety is pastor farm -- foster farm's highest pry yourty and the company took immediate action. >>> a 63-year-old man with chronic health problems died at the end of the december and a 43-year-old man died on monday. neither person had a flu shot. neither is really affective. >> it will protect me 70% of the time as opposed to zero% of the time. >> -- zero percent of the time. >> too many americans die of influenza. >> they are seeing so many people with flew symptoms to take hair of so many patient. people stricken can retrieve it without being admitted. and now they are setting up another larger tent today. >>> and the first bird flew, health officials say the first person who died was from beijing. it is usually contracted in asia. most people who have died have come into close contact with infected birds this. no cases have been reported he

john carlson for the u.s.a. and, don't forget to vote in our high school game of the week poll. have four great games for you to choose from. text the code to the game you want to 25543 and we'll announce the winner on thursday night. >> that was a really good game last night. >> looked away and you missed that kickoff return, i walked upstairs. >> 21-3 at halftime. >> all right, go florida state. all right, that's it for us. wusa9 is over for now. the cbs evening news is coming up next. >> i will be back with jan jeffcoat for your only local news at 7:00 and wusa9.com is >> pelley: tonight, the worst day of the big chill. the freeze reaches all 50 states. >> it's cold as hell out there! >> pelley: jim axelrod has the northeast. mark strassmann the south. jeff pegues the travel trouble. and dean reynolds is with those in greatest danger. former defense secretary robert gates tells rita braver president obama doubted his own afghanistan policy. nearly 100 cops and firemen are accused of claiming fraudulent disability. do these men look disabled? jeff glor reports. and chip reid w

i want to you the picture of the u.s.a. icture we have seen all day long taken by the af photographer, she was napping pictures in an area where the homeless gather on the cold days. simmons was last seen leaving his parent' home in greece, new york, suburb of rochester, which is nearly 400 miles away, on new year's day, took off without anything on him. i talked with the photographer, she says she noticed simmons as being the youngest in the group, looked a little out of place. he said his name is nick. the picture was spotted by friends and families who were able to track down the u.s.a. reporter and photographer, which also led them to nick. police sale the way everything fell into place was one in a million shot. >> certainly very unusual. the odds are against someone taking that photograph, the photograph actually making it into the paper, and then somebody actually seeing the forecast in the paper. >> so, police picked him up, took him to the hospital and is reunited with his family. >> what happens next? >> right now

should pot be legal in the u.s.a.? yes or no. bill o'reilly.com. estion that liberal americans tend to see drugs in a more benign way. however, the other day lefty chris matthews disagreed with president obama that pot is no different than alcohol. >> i don't think he is right on this one. because i think people have addictive personalities and some people react to freedom differently than others. i think dope, marijuana, makes it sort of vague out and lose interest in tomorrow, two weeks from now, two months from now where are you headed? i do believe that. >> with us now fox news analyst allen colmes and monica crowley. so, generally speaking and i could be wrong on this, i don't think so. the left is more accepting of legalization not only pot but all drugs, right? >> i would agree with that as a general proposition. i too want to clarify that there is some people on the other side, on the libertarian right like john stossel who believes the legalization not just pot but other things. make clear that it's not just those on the left. >> not just.

the white over the top into the u.s.a., that's the coldest of cold air into the hemisphere.as we head into super bowl sunday and by thursday the cold air finally retreats. we get a little bit of a january thaw as we head towards the upcoming weekend. no huge shot coming back down to the u.s. we get a little bit of a break from all of this polar air we've been dealing with. >> we'd like a little break. >> we need it. just in time for the super bowl. if the super bowl had been in this type of weather that we're goings to have, it would have been horrible. thankfully it will be mid 30s. >> mid 30s, we will take it. keep practicing with the fan. >> a fan will really cool you down, trust me. i know these things. >>> coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," senator rand paul's attempt to reframe the context of the war on women. the new strategy and whether it can actually change the conversation. >>> then when we come back here, we'll huddle around the water cooler. daft punk and pharrell williams. we're talking about one hat in particular. we're back after this. ♪ ♪ i l

the evening. anchor, derek mcginty will speak with u.s.a. today congressional reporter susan davis coming up at 6:00 and 7:00. that will be live from the rustle senate office building and carry the state of the union address live right here on wusa9 starting at 9:00 and then stick around for derek and jan at wusa9 news at 11:00 and teaming up with the u.s.a. today political team to provide you with complete analysis and reaction. >>> there is some encouraging news on the unemployment front tonight. at least in our area. the district's jobless rate is at at lowest it has been since december of 2008. the seasonally adjusted rate dropped to 8.1% last month and that's down from 8.6% in november. mayor vincent gray welcomed the news, but says we have a long way to go. >> in tonight's travel alert, block an intersection or roll through a stop sign and be prepared to pay the price. that's the warning now from d.c. police. cameras will start targeting vehicles that block intersections starting saturday. you can expect a $50 fine. fail to yield to ped

. >>> bradley beal is named to the u.s.a. basketball national team pool. is one of 28 nba players selected to try out this summer for the world championship team. if they win, then that team will represent the u.s. it is for the 2016 summer olympics. >>> the first round, sunny and beautiful. much warmer than here. it looks beautiful, doesn't it? and it will be an up and down round for him. at the 11 he misses the put, which burns the edge of the hole. then he bounces back from just off the green. and he sinks that birdie. he even threw for 15 holes and topper, they finished with a minus 369. not a bad first round. >> if he wins and he retires? >> i would think so. yeah, 10 seconds left as we need to talk about it later. >> pelley: tonight, the cold turns into an epidemic. every one of the lower 48 sees temperatures below freezing. >> we have not had these numbers ever, as far as frostbite injuries. >> pelley: we'll have the latest forecast. "goodfellas," the real life sequel. bob orr on the arrest in one of thst robberies in u.s. history. tonight, for the f

plus, the uniforms team u.s.a. will wear at the olympic -- what? opening ceremonies.nd social media is going crazy. al jazeera america. forum today.rld economic he is looking to change iran's image and in a historic keynote speech, he said all countries should get the same opportunities for economic development. his comments come as trade sanctions have been partially lifted. real money has this report now. >> once again i drew the short straw, stuck here reporting from the swiss at alps. and hopefully i have some snow by the time i talk to you tomorrow, it isn't so much the world economic forum as it is the world diplomatic forum. canceled an appointment to speak to us, i was supposed to interview him this morning he is too busy meeting with executives to come back into iran. iran is a major oil producer, it ooze capacity has been decreased by the sanctions because they can't keep the oil producing facilities up to statute. they are also talking to the car companies, do you know before the sanctions iran was the 10th largest car market in the world. one of the big ca

particularly important evaluating the phone records program conducted under section 215 of the u.s.a. patriy tri ya act. i have concluded the program is not uniquely valuable enough to justify massive intrusion on americans' privacy. and the review group likewise concluded the program has not been essential and i'll quote the review group. the information contributed to terrorist investigations by the use of section 215 meta data was not essential to preventing attacks and could have been obtained in a timely manner using conventional section 215 orders. and even a few pages later, they said section 215 is generated relevant information only a small number of cases and there's been no incidents in which nsa says with confidence that the outcome would have been different without the section 215 te pefny meta data program. the report explains that nothing in 215 is interpreted by the fisa court precludes the mass collection of americans' personal information beyond phone records. and the private sy implications of this sort of massive surveillance in the digital age can't be overstated

this year the pants, caps and cardigans big on stars and stripes were made in the u.s.a. still to come: learning from mistakes. in traders unplugged the guys break down how even warren buffett overcame losses to become an investor icon. plus... is this superbowl spot about to change the way companies advertise? and a travel guru tells us why now is prime time to book a ticket to the superbowl...that's after this in the know message. real issues they're dealing with can be awkward and uncomfortable. but when their behavior changes, it's time to act. because if we don't, our families and relationships will suffer. listen to the veterans in your life and show you care. it matters. when you recognize a veteran is in crisis, call the veterans crisis line at 1-800-273-8255 and press "1". with the super bowl contenders picked this past weekend and the big game itself just more than a week away, the super bowl is putting super stress on flight schedules between the airports around new york city near to met life stadium and denver and seattle - the home cities of the two competing

past eight months revelations by edward snowden have exposed must global surveillance conducted by the u.s.a.'s national security agency and often in conjunction with its european partners makes them look a bit stupid if they actually tackle the larger problem is that data protection is important by the way people spying on you i mean it's just according to the snowden leaks the n.s.a. is prism program collects the data directly from the servers of u.s. companies like google microsoft and yahoo and not try to think of an individual household or a business that's not a customer wants more spy agencies in britain germany france and spain and taking all the data that they have optimistically and posting it on to the n.s.a. for processing as the story on ravelled it's been revealed that emails text messages phone calls and internet activity of citizens across the globe have been hoovered up the year ago most people have agree that the european union's data protection the best in the world the most rigorous the spy agency the n.s.a. and in the u.k. basically just mean ignoring all those rules and

we should kick their butts in the game. >> there you go. go u.s.at's the best way to win there are other options on the table. >> let's kick their butts. plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. jesse watters swimming with the swells, everyone. at the sundance film festival. that should be interesting. and next, president obama and the bible. the book says. so things he is doing have deep religious connotations. hope you stay tuned for those reports. vo: once upon a time there was a boy who traveled to a faraway place where villages floated on water and castles were houses dragons lurked, giants stood tall, and the good queen showed the boy it could all be real. avo: wtever you can imagine, all one place. expedia, find yours. i nethat's my geico digital insurance id card - gots all my pertinents on it and such. works for me. turn to the camera. ah, actually i think my eyes might ha... next! digital insurance id cards. just a tap away on the geico app. could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. wel

we should kick their butts in the game. >> there you go. go u.s.a>> that's the best way to win there are other options on the table. >> let's kick their butts. plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. jesse watters swimming with the swells, everyone. at the sundance film festival. that should be interesting. and next, president obama and the bible. the book says. so things he is doing have deep religious connotations. hope you stay tuned for those reports. [ tires screech ] [ car alarm chirps ] ♪ [ male announcer ] we don't just certify our pre-owned vehicles we inspect, analyze, and recondition each one, until it's nothing short of a genuine certified pre-owned mercedes-benz for the next new owner. [ car alarm chirps ] hurry in to your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for 99% financing during our certified pre-owned sales event through february 28th. there was a boy who traveled to a faraway place where villages floated on water and castles were houses dragons lurked, giants stood tall, and the good queen showed the boy it could all

stiff competition not only from the powerhouse pairs of kind of the virtues and school more and the u.s.a.'s merril day . and charlie white but also fellow russians in katrina but over and to meet the soul of your who beat them at the recent nationals to win the fourth straight gold . i think they're very good and i can say again all that all the people who are going to be like can top ten on the olympic they all prepared very well they all have great programs all the very strong physically as so. it's a competition also in the competition you never know. in the from it she loves the duration of the fans and believes the crowd response is the true seal of approval however she knows that real glory only comes from winning i think for me it's important of course winning because everybody who is working so hard is now poor and this. is too much health is going on that you working so hard for so long so it's you need to win because everybody is working so hard and there were body wishing for it. so and then the glory and everything is going to come for sure . and cuts a lot of have the advant

some $595. $95 for the hat, but look, it could be worse. germany, definitely gives team u.s.a. mpetition. >> right. >> and this one is -- >> that's insane, what is that. >> this is the nor ow january curling. >> you wouldn't even put that on your table cloth. >> you request go dancing in this. >> just saying. >> i suppose, that's the curling team. >> the curling team for norway. >> well with, that's the only time. >> this, or this? what do you think? >> that's a little busy, clearly, but it's -- made in america, you want this over the thing from the curling team, right? >> i'm definitely -- >> i would say -- i'm go for bold, but that's just me, if you want to check these out, just go to my twitter. >> your casting a vote for the norwegian gear? >> i would. >> you just want with to make a statement. >> go bold. >> go big or go home. >> thank you, the jamaican bobsled team will be fighting for the gold, after qualifying. the team said it didn't have the money to compete, but after some help from the international committee and a fund raising campaign, the two men bobsled team will

most of the knockoffs were manufactured overseas and shipped to the u.s.a. the team were announced. authorities say the counterfeit are poor quality and drive up the price of the legitimate items. those are the hot stories on foxbusiness.com. we have more coming. evidence the warning of doctor shortages may be coming true. next, a consumer alert, how crooks are tricking you in to calling them with a new scram. don't go away ♪ ♪ gerri: who is calling you? one ring to your cell phone cost cost you. details of a new sc the whole idea is to get you to call back because if you call back it is a pay per call service so if you call back, you will be charged $20 for the call, $10 per minute. so this is a big scam that is back. the 900 numbers are if you call in 900 number you get a fee. in the united states a lot of 900 numbers went away and regulation came in saying it had to alert you you have to hang up or you will be charged x amount per minute. these are coming from international waters, mostly from the caribbean. caribbean. gerri: if you wait, it is $9 per min

i was mentioning before the u.s.a. aid freedom act which is a small fix for some of the things that are wrong with this collection it just goes too far. my book also talked about all sort of other kinds of laws nut to place on -- accept, october, of 2001. and these are expanded criminal laws that, you know, examples i give i chose stores about a person prosecuted farred crime for posting links to controversial speech on a website. a woman who was prosecuted for supporting a foreign terrorist organization, this was an iranian woman imprisoned in iraq for supporting the pro democracy group opposing the laws there now. when she finally got out of prison and got political asylum in the united states we prosecuted her for supporting the same pro democracy group. there are laws that people adopt know enough about. we don't need snowden to tell us those laws. i think if they don't know about abuse nothing happened. i think to have a -- the reason snowden paper give us the occasion to really look back overall at what we have do

every time we talked to the u.s.a, to u.k. spying agency, any agent out there, we have a long conversation to make sure we look at it carefully. we don't report the stuff because it's interesting or funny, we release the information about mass surveillance on ordinary americans or mass sphains to others around the world. you've really not read anything in the guardian or anywhere else about, this is the method for tracking the particular suspect. snowden chose what he did to put it in the public interest. i think everyone out there is the doing something about this. >> james bawl thank you for being with us. speaking of this, james far far, has come opportunity cross hairs of al franken. they all rely on gps data and in a new book called the polaris protocol, author brad harris joins us, polaris protocol is in bookstores. glad to have you back on the show. >> thank you. >> in this book, you have a cyberthreat. how vulnerable are we? >> originally i tell you that i was actually allowed on the constellation, that's one of the mos

. >>> back of the book segment tonight, the movie lone survivor opens all over the u.s.a. way i see it, we have got three options. one, we let him go, hike up, probably be found in less than an hour. two, we tie him up, hike out, roll the dice. probably be eaten by wolves or freeze to death. >> three?death. >> three? >> we terminate the compromise. >> we cannot do that. >> and if you haven't read the book, that is a key scene in marcus luttrell, who is now in houston, and joins us. they didn't kill the shepherds, and the shepherds did tell the taliban. and therefore, the four americans had to engage a huge force. and that is what the book is about. before we get to that, marcus, four of your friends died there, and you almost did, as well. do you have any feelings about afghanistan now that it is tottering? >> sure, the villagers who saved my life, they're still over there. i worry about them constantly, they're still in threat. i have family members in the military. when we first went over there the game plan was solid. we knew why we were over there, the game plan is dif

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. >> athletes have been instructed not to wear the team u.s.a. logo outside of the olympic events. the u.s. lawmakers say the russians have not been very receptive to american efforts to help out with security. >>> another hearing is set for next month on what went wrong during construction on the new bay bridge. on friday a whistle blower told state lawmakers at cal that they tried to quiet safety concerns. engineering geologist mike morgan claimed his supervisors covered up structural problems. a report commissioned by the state senate sent project officials telling an engineer not to document concerns on paper, but to voice them instead. cal tran said that it all adds up to a difference of opinions and not a cover up. >> after the complications were discovered, they quickly became apparent with me and the problem with the tech in order to cover it up. >> i have no evidence or no reason to believe that there was any coercion or anything like that and bullying to make determinations. >> cal trans is sticking to their claim that the eastern span is safe and that quality was never c

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now, the u.s.a. was founded on individualism. and that rugged tradition has taken deep route. of us just don't want the federal government to control our lives. we want to be able to protect ourselves. that's the gun issue. we want to be able to make a living without the feds taking 50% of our pay. and we want to be able to wreckcreate in a way that pleases us. for some that means getting high. talking points is somewhat amused that the liberal agenda is prodrug and antigun and pro-nanny state. today in the "new york times" they scorched the cigarette industry telling the readers that nicotine is the devil. but the same newspaper doesn't think thc, the intoxicating agent in marijuana is so bad. last november, the "times" made all kinds of excuses why pot should be legal. so, to the avid left wing times cigarettes no, pot yes. believe me, the health hazards both physical and mental of using marijuana are at least as pernicious as using tobacco on a regular basis. in a perfect world, all americans would discourage the use of destructive chemicals, right? that has happened with t

talking points will understands is that the u.s.a. ot a country currently served by a fair media most press outlets are sympathetic to the democratic party and will only reluctantly cover stories that make the dems look bad. benghazi is a very important story because it goes to the efficiency and honesty of the federal government. maybe some day we will find out what really happened. maybe some day. that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. reaction, first up ms. laura ingraham who joins us from washington. and you say? >> well, bill, the fact that when that first report dropped this week, the house report, there was, as you pointed out, basically a media blackout on it except fox. it kind of defies credulity. first time an american ambassador was killed on duty since 1979, right? the media was swarming, has been swarming all over chris christie, every nook and cranny of the christie administration about bridge gate, all these interviews, demands for accountability, comments about his bully nature set the tone in the administrati