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. >> look who better to talk abou. he faced the challenges as a young boy himself. he understands it. >> if you have m mit romney como credility. if i talk about wage subsidies and talk about pro marriage values and a lot of lerals will attack you and you e jerry falwell. where is the benefit for me. this is symptomatic about the general problem. we don't have politics where we can take something from menu a and menu b. b and put them tother. >> what has to la happen to cha? >> i'm in arim mood these daysa. right now when we speake are having an incredible stupid fight in washington over the payroll tax. this is kindergarten. if we can do that how do we do retirement form and growth strat brinstrategy. my view is i is if the republics take a snd on princple i don't know what they are fighting about. they are internally disorganized what is the princple here? do we think it will work, by the way? it's weird maneuvering. >> it's politics. >> it's hard to wrap wrap your . the democrats are saying let's exnd a tax cut. and the republicans are baching at a tax cuts. i wa

. >> are there any other issues of concern we have not discussed ayet that you want to chat abou? >> in the end, it all comes down to budget. i hate to be focused on such a bad issue. but whether your issues parks, public health, transportation -- in the end it is all about budget. that is what i will be focusing on. >> it looks like we are out of time. we will have to wrap this up. thank you so much for joining us today on "meet your district supervisor." we have

. >> are there any other issues of concern we have not discussed ayet that you want to chat abou? >> in the end, it all comes down to budget. i hate to be focused on such a bad issue. but whether your issues parks, public health, transportation -- in the end it is all about budget. that is what i will be focusing on. >> it looks like we are out of time. we will have to wrap this up. thank you so much for joining us today on "meet your district supervisor." we have been speaking with supervisor elsbernd. we will be back next time with another one of our supervisors. ♪ >> for those of us on the board, i know many of us have young ben was in the city. i know a ton of my friends have left the city. one thing that the strike me as we have a ton of data, but it is a different places. this year, we will call for those constituents to come together to understand the issue better and, going forward, enacting policies to extend that period . of all the places i have been, this is my favorite. i am a born and raised san franciscan. more important, i represent district 2. i grew up in the mar

. >> look who better to talk abou. he faced the challenges as a young boy himself. he understands it. >> if you have m mit romney como credility. if i talk about wage subsidies and talk about pro marriage values and a lot of lerals will attack you and you e jerry falwell. where is the benefit for me. this is symptomatic about the general problem. we don't have politics where we can take something from menu a and menu b. b and put them tother. >> what has to la happen to cha? >> i'm in arim mood these daysa. right now when we speake are having an incredible stupid fight in washington over the payroll tax. this is kindergarten. if we can do that how do we do retirement form and growth strat brinstrategy. my view is i is if the republics take a snd on princple i don't know what they are fighting about. they are internally disorganized what is the princple here? do we think it will work, by the way? it's weird maneuvering. >> it's politics. >> it's hard to wrap wrap your . the democrats are saying let's exnd a tax cut. and the republicans are baching at a tax cuts. i wa

ktvu's news photographers spanned out all across the bay area to bring you stories abou the holiday givingliday in focus premiers tomorrow then again on christmas day. >>> christmas came a few days early for some children in need. santa joined the san francisco police department to hand out presents as part of operation dream. police chief greg suhr was on scene. the annual give away provides holiday gifts for 5,000 children who live in the city's pub pub -- public housing. there's a last minute rush to gather more goodies. presents are filling containers and piling on on to counter tops. organizers are encouraging people to buy an extra gift and to drop it off at lefties. they will be accepting toys until 2:00 a.m. christmas eve. the fire department is hoping to give out 4,000 toys on christmas day. to find more charities in needs, go to ktvu.com and click on the charities in need on the top of our home page. >>> no real changes to our forecast as we head into the holiday weekend. today this was the scene. you may have noticed a few high clouds headed into parts of the bay area. we do hav

oscar day lajo jolla knows abou that. i'm going to start with seth. what was it like for you to fight and get a second round t.k.o. in front of family and p friends. >> for me, it was a surreal moment. i thought i could stop him, but i didn't think i was going to run through him. i thought it was going to take sevenover eight. i was elated. the crowd was happy. i wanted to set the stage. >> vance, i have to tell you this, he defers to lamont. look at this. >> stop the fight. he's killing him. stop it! >> when we were sitting down here, seth said you have to put the champ in the middle. you have to put the champ in the middle. i told you when you got here, you are one of my favorite stories ever. you took me through the streets and showed me the shelters where you grew up. your story is well documented. i have to imagine, after that huge win for you, you are getting international recognition, a key to your hometown. seth used the words surreal. this is surreal for you? >> yeah. each day, each week, it's hitting me more and more. the key to the city las

it's abou feet tall and 118 years old. guess how much it weighs?pounds. >> that's more than i was going to guess. >> 3-2-1 -- [ cheers and applause ] >> and it is also traditional that a child that you can see there, is chosen from the state where the tree came from, to be the official lighter of the tree. >> the plugger-inner? >> the plugger-inner of the tree. >> how much cooler would it be if they just told the kid to just use the clapper on the christmas tree. wouldn't that be fun? >> you're in the '90s. >>> next time on "right this minute" -- ah, those terrible twos. >> oh, the cat twos? >> he found the mother lode and he threw all of it. >> that's next time on "right this minute." >>> last week, this video asked "rtm" viewers -- >> if they believed that men and women can be just friends. >> we were flooded with responses. but -- >> where are the men? >> it's just a question that's easier to avoid. >>> meet daniel the cat. daniel has a whole lot of toes. >> we're so overwhelmed, it's just -- i can't even find words sometimes to talk about it. >

. >> look who better to talk abou. he faced the challenges as a young boy himself. he understands it. >> if you have m mit romney como credility. if i talk about wage subsidies and talk about pro marriage values and a lot of lerals will attack you and you e jerry falwell. where is the benefit for me. this is symptomatic about the general problem. we don't have politics where we can take something from menu a and menu b. b and put them tother. >> what has to la happen to cha? >> i'm in arim mood these daysa. right now when we speake are having an incredible stupid fight in washington over the payroll tax. this is kindergarten. if we can do that how do we do retirement form and growth strat brinstrategy. my view is i is if the republics take a snd on princple i don't know what they are fighting about. they are internally disorganized what is the princple here? do we think it will work, by the way? it's weird maneuvering. >> it's politics. >> it's hard to wrap wrap your . the democrats are saying let's exnd a tax cut. and the republicans are baching at a tax cuts. i wa

what police are saying abou,,,,, >>> it is 5:30, 53 degrees and very rainy out there. good evening, everybody and thank you for staying with wjz eyewitness news. here are stories people are talking about tonight. downtown businesses are gearing up for a new year's eve. the night is more than just a celebration, it is also a major boost for the local tourism industry. wjz is live and why it is becoming more important, adam. >> reporter: most of the people that head downtown don't live there and they are spending millions. on new year's eve you expect booms in the sky but it is also a boom for the economy. >> surf and turf for the new year's experience. >> reporter: martin steakhouse one of the many downtown restaurants expecting big crowds on saturday night. >> it is wrapping up our year on a super high note. >> reporter: in years past, downtown visitors spent almost $2 million and 80% of them come from outside of the city. >> people try to time their dinners so they are done with dinner and step outside and enjoy the fireworks and then come back for dessert and coffee.

case, not just for this young man and his mom and his family, but just to kind of open people's eyes abouiv in this country and the reality of it. >> i have to say, i was surprised by this case. not because it was the hershey school which is a very distinguished place but people still have these kind of fears so many years after the epidemic. >> any chance this holds up legally? >> i usually don't like to give categorical predictions, but no way a court is going to keep this kid out of this school and i think the hershey school ought to wake up, let the kid in, welcome him and not be further embarrassed because i think it's pretty embarrassing, as it is. >> jeff toobin, thank you very much. dr. kimberly manning, thank you. we'll continue to follow this. >>> we'll continue to follow this closely in the day ahead. >>> herman cain reassessing his campaign after allegations he had a 13-year affair. newt gingrich under fire for what he said about disadvantaged kids. we'll talk to gop strategist rich galand. >>> he doesn't look like a serial killer, but that's what police say he is. the younges

cab driver crashed into a metrobus last nined abou 3800 block of 12th street northeast. the cabbie was chasing driver of another car that had crashed into the taxi and took off. six people were hurt. one has possibly life- threatening injuries. >>> our big story, defense secretary leon panetta in baghdad overseeing a historic flag lowering ceremony. >> it is a symbolic move marking the end of the nearly nine year war. let's get fore from stacy cohan live in arlington near the pentagon. >> we are near the pentagon where defense secretary leon panetta usually conducts his business. he is not here. he is in baghdad for the ceremony marking the end of the war. the iraq war has continued for nearly nine years and it has cost nearly 4500 american lives. $800billion is the price tag for that war. as they mark the end of the war today, they had an official ceremony where the u.s. forces iraq flag was official ly retired or cased. it was wrapped and covered with camouflage. >> with the departure of the remaining u.s. forces within these last few days to the end of the year, we sa

. >> i feel bad abou making a joke like you didn't read 19 books. >> jonah worked so hard on all of this stuff, anyway. >> charlie: where did you come up with that. >> it just happened once. >> i wasn't there for the filming. i mean, i don't remember unless we must have, i don't remember coming up with it at a certain point, you know. i don't know. just maybe once i start doing it i felt natural but i really did do a lot of research for this film. i read a lot more than i ever wanted to read about baseball. >> i'm buying it. >> one didn't wk without the other. >> charlie: it gives you something. >> everything. i was such, it's a brave performance, studying a reserve. it's anti-thetical to an actor's, i think i was smart instinct from the get-go to pull back like that when billy bean is gregarious. >> charlie: tell me how you thought about what he just described in terms of how you knew you had to bring, what you had to bring to this chacter because of who you were playing against. >> i started to say earlier it was to the wall and it's a sto about the person who is on the wall gets t spo

. >> couple that with bill clinton saying nice things abou gingrich. >> bill: everybody knows that barackbama would rather run against gingrich than romney because of the independent vote. >> the world doesn't know it. >> bill: yes they do. the factor viewers know it. >> if the independent voters in the republic primary understood that it would help romney. and i think that if three pieces. you have that piece of evidence. you have clinton's comments that i think are orchestrated pro-gingrich comment. thirdly you have that romney every chance he gets oh and there is romney care in massachusetts that i have patterned my bill after. >> bill: obama. you said romney. >> obama. >> bill: you certainly want to run against newt gingrich because you can demonize the speaker as a door -- >> romney crosses over gets republic and independent votes and even conservative democratic votes. it's all about the economy. >> first it is the economy and he does a very god job on that. when you talk to him about foreclosure policy and everything else, he has learned the trade. when you are talking about econom

can newt gingrich be his own worst eni our political analysts, they're both standing fwby to talk abous and a lot more. >>> plus, abortion controversy swirling and the new iphone. t r he'd yet to hear of mutual funds, iras, or annuities. back then, he had something more important to do. he wasn't focused on his future but fortunately, somebody else was. at usaa we provide retirement solutions for our military, veterans and their families. from investments... to life insurance... to health care options. learn more with our free usaa retirement guide. call 877-242-usaa. >>> they call siri a popular assistant on apple's new iphone 4-s that can help you locate phone numbers and addressesment but she is biassed against abortion rights. mary snow is joining us. what is going on here, mary? >> you know, with critics questioning whether moral message was at play, apple denied that blaming technical issues to explain why siri can't seem to locate abortion clinics. >> where can i find a supermarket? >> it's one of the hottest functions of the new iphones. ? i found a number of super markets. >>

we're talking abo ing abouing a inequality, which party is the better deliverer for the middle class.up a narrative that the democrats are the ones looking for a payroll tax for middle class americans and republicans weren't. and that is the potential danger for the republican party. >> mark, charles krauthammer had an interesting quote this morning in an op-ed in "the washington post," the gop's performance nicely reprises that scene in animal house and row after row of plumed morans plows into a brick wall, crumbling to the ground in an unceremonious heap. we have the video there for you from one of the all time classics "animal house." mark, you know, krauthammer is not one to mince words there. is that supposed to be taken as a sign to the house gop leadership, they really screwed this one up? >> luke it was a tactical mistake by republicans. you look at it in poker terms. the republicans were basically holding a pair of 2s in this fight. this wasn't a -- they did not have a strong hand to play. but they went all in on this pair of 2s and they ended up losing their pot of money. o

. >> as i got abou tmr.>> tipton lets loose the barbs and zaps german with a direct hit. >> lie the [ bleep ] on your stomach. >> tipton lets loose the barbs and zaps german with a direct hit. >> the officers cuff and arrest german. >> paramedics arrive at the scene to treat officer deaton. >> my adrenaline was still rushing. i saw all this blood that was on me and at this time i could see it was dripping off my nose. >> deaton's nose has been sliced open from one of german's punches. in the safety of the ambulance, the officer realizes the severity of the attack. >> realized, man, this is for real. this guy was really trying to take me out. luckily i'm still here and i started thinking of my wife and kid. good thing was, i was on the better side of it, even though i did get injured. >> and his injuries are significant. >> basically, i had to have reconstructive surgery on my whole eye socket. he broke the bone here, broke my temple bone and broke my eyebrow. and i had to have four titanium plates put in. >>

the underappreciated thing abou rick perry's candidacy, he has more money than you'd think looking at his polls. he has lots of money. on paper, rick perry was supposed to be competitive. he looked like a good candidate. again, on paper. so he did raise a lot of money right away. it was only when he started talking that things fell apart. can we actually just keep this -- can we keep this around as a little sound bite? >> oops. >> oops. because rick perry's candidacy turned out to be an oops candidacy, his poll numbers have just fallen off a cliff. he became very unviable very quickly. i mean, look the a this poll numbers over time. since mr. perry's campaign has money, they have not been giving up. the perry campaign appears to be pursuing a strategy of doing paid media and lots of it. paying for tv ads to blanket the airwaves in iowa leading up to the iowa caucuses. do some good ads, do some bad ads. hi "brokeback mountain" jacket. do ads, ads, ads all the time. keep yourself in a controlled, scripted environment where you, rick perry, control the message. if the perry campaign coul

i haven't worried abou about-- economies. i did it then even there in oxford where i had 0 money, dad had died 1 months ago there was no money in the price family. mother this had to go to work at a boy's clothing store immediately. but i went there and took ses il rhodes's illgotten gains and spent it on myself as lavishly as possible. >> the next year i won the william faulkner award for the novel. and i had never met the m. though i had stood next to him at the-- american academy and had never had the guts to walk over and introduce myself because i heard he had been rude to so many people. but then i got all these young southern writer, mr. price heir to faulkner, oh, god, i'm not an heir to anything. i'm a young american writer. >> rose: it was almost like if you googled today no matter how far back they go, if you googles reynolds price and william faulkner you would hear what you just said repeated over and over and over again >> as the years have gone on, the decades have gone on and i have now published 38 books, i h

case, not just for this young man and his mom and his family, but just to kind of open people's eyes aboun this country and the reality of it. >> i have to say, i was surprised by this case. not because it was the hershey school which is a very distinguished place but people still have these kind of fears so many years after the epidemic. >> any chance this holds up legally? >> i usually don't like to give categorical predictions, but no way a court is going to keep this kid out of this school and i think the hershey school ought to wake up, let the kid in, welcome him and not be further embarrassed because i think it's pretty embarrassing, as it is. >> jeff toobin, thank you very much. dr. kimberly manning, thank you. we'll continue to follow this. >>> we'll continue to follow this closely in the day aahead. >>> herman cain reassessing his campaign after allegations he had a 13-year affair. newt gingrich under fire for what he said about disadvantaged kids. we'll talk to gop strategist rich galand. >>> he doesn't look like a serial killer, but that's what police say he is. the youngest s

it is very clear that the conversation today i esseially abou fiscal constraints. rules about budgets that cannot be breached. who is dictating those terms? who is insisting that there should be a balanced budget rule, a limit on how much government borrowing can be? the answer is the german government. those of us who always worried about european iegration worried for historical reasons. the natural tendency for germany, the biggest economy, to dominate any federal europe has manifested itself itself. peacefully now, but it's happening and nobody should deny this. anybody you talk to, whether it's greece or italy, will admit that's the reality. >> rose: what's interesting about germany is there are people saying for a long time we wanted to make sure germany didn't do too much. now we're worried they will not do enough. the >> that there's an excellent speech by my old oxford friend, now polish foreign minister. one of the speeches of the year and it's remarkable to hear a polish foreign minister urging the germans to do more. by the way, the germans did not like

it's abou hard-working americans in class warfare. and i ask the question again, mr. president, what is a fair share? pick a number. tell me how much you want to take in taxes at the t ra. pick a number a let's see if it works. >> senator durbin? it's all politi. >> what is the nunuer? >> david, let me just say that the president has tried for three straight years to work directly with the republicans to solve the problems of this country. even this year, on three dierent occasions, he has met with speaker boehner, and with the republican leader kantor to try to work on a deficit and eachimehey walked out on him. this week, ine united states -- this last week in the ited states senate, as an illustration on two separate occasions, republicans use the libuster, something that said they wouldn't do except under extraordinary circumstances, to stop appointment of a woman -- a unanimously well-qualified woman to the u.s. district court in the district of columbia, and to stop the appointment of former ohio attorney geral richard cordray to head the consumer financial prot

and china has got big questions abou it where is global growth going toome from. >> there are two things at the least theyan do, though both difficult politically. germany could move as we said a mute ago, similar to a china problem,they could move to domestic demand led growth intend-- instead of exporting. and secondly there are reforms that could take place in italy and sman. but the politics of those are very diffilt because there are strong vested interests to prevent that. >> and as of yet angela merkel has not talked about boosting domesticrowth inside germany at all. has she ever said we will get the germans -- >> an china has a very different scenario too because they have a rising middle class. they ought to provide some of the demand, yes? >> they have a rising-- china is a whole different subject. >> rose: exactly. >> and china does have a rising mdle class but if we had enough trouble in the global economy this could affect them as well. this notion of a split screen that somehow or other some othe emerging countries continue to do well while all this thing is in terrible tr