and the trainer of nert and lieutenant erica who has been providing training to all of us and andrea jordan son and, of course, nert volunteers (calling names) thank you all so much for being here and really paying our respects to diane i hope all of us b will continue our important work despite you're not being in san francisco i want to offer you and our chief without objection our lieutenant to say a few words on our behalf diane. >> you want me to speak. >> if you want to say. >> thank you for this lovely honor katie it was wonderful working with you in the sunset and happy new year and gratifications for being president of the board you mentioned this was my project awhile i was in a particular position to be able to do some of the work i did i stood on the shoulder of many, many people that preceded me and it involves fire chiefs of the fire department and includes prior kroertdz for the nert program and includes to some stent the decision of the mayor and the board of supervisors but in my time i would like to say to each of you thank you for your support we stand on the shoulder tha

jordan sucking the soul out of lopez. for tennis fans roger federer has been knocked out of the australian open. he was beaten by 46th ranked andreas seppi. used to be a surprise if federer didn't win a major. down under he struggled through the first two rounds and wasn't 100% and certainly didn't have his a game against seppi losing 6-4, 7-6, 4-6 7-6 and an m.r.i. on kobe bryant's injured shoulder shows a torn rotator cuff. he may be out the rest of the season and who knows about his career. kobe is 36 years old. this could be the end of kobe bryant with a torn rotator cuff. >> hard to feel sorry for him. he'll be sitting at home collecting a check for $40 million. what are you going to do? that's tough. >> that's a doug hill deal. >> yeah. i wish. let's take a look at our abc weather team here. >> stopped him dead in his tracks. >> for real. mix of snow, sleet and rain. that will be the story for tonight. during the evening, you can look at this live on wjla.com. all night long and we'll have an update tonight. let me >>> on the friday night, the weekend storm. the biggest yet this winder for much of the country. 50 million in t

jordan are members of the u.s. coalition against isis. the president and a large delegation traveled to riad to offer condolences on the death of king abdullah. joining me now are my guests. andrea, let me start with you first. in terms of the departure of chuck hagel, this has been a sort of drawn out and awkward affair. the secretary of defense has taken to the air waves to express his concerns with perhaps his own departure but the issues at the pentagon as he sees them. how do you grade this as departures go from the white house? >> this entire situation with chuck hagel has been so awkward, so difficult. it was a painful expression on the vice president's face when the new defense secretary was introduced. it was clear joe biden and john kerry were friendly with him in the senate and were not happy about the way he was treated. he got off to a very bad start with a tough confirmation hearing. barely got through, had to overcome a lot of slings and arrows from ted cruz and others who really went after him. diane feinstein defended but he never did well. he never got into that inner circle. he was really on the outer loop of the outer circles. >> hagel has been speaking about