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but the net jones athena--- jones, reporting. >> brian:there is this a system that is coming closer. going to increase but all of this rainfall will stay to the north. not as far south as what we saw. yesterday. however, for tomorrow we can expect clouds and temperatures will be warming up the next couple of days. 60s. home ihere is the satellit, going out towards the east. there is a another storm that is making its way on to the north coast. notice the rainfall is far to the north and that is where it will stay. on futurecast. clouds and even further to the north but these clouds will begin to brspread south. with partly/mostly skies and clearing for the afternoon. by noon, still some clouds however, those could dissipate for the afternoon. the rainfall is going to stay near ukiah until wednesday. morning temperatures. the coolest will be in the north bay, mid 30's. pleasanton, livermore, low 30's for inland and the highs will be in the afternoon will be 50s and even low 60s. nearly 60s for sunnyvale, mountain view, san jose. readings with upper 50s in the east bay. not only inland

i want to go now to cnn's athena jones live from capitol hill. athena, the last few weeks between the president and republicans has been pretty bad. what will the crowd look like in terms of the gop? will we see any gop? >> reporter: we absolutely will see some, don, you know, the congressional leadership on both sides, republicans and democrats, is planning to attend. we expect more senators from both parties to attend. the real question here is the rank and members of the gop on the house side. you know, it's very difficult to survey them all but we did get a chance to catch up with north carolina republican from raleigh, a very republican area. his name is george holding. he says he is planning to go we note former vice presidential candidate, paul ryan, has said he sees that as his obligation to go. of course, i mentioned the leadership, folks like speaker boehner and minority leader mitch mcconnell, they will all be there. let's listen to what republican senator from wyoming, john bar ras, so he told candy this morning about how he is coming

hello, athena. >> reporter: hi, martin. >> who are the major players?> reporter: you just showed some of t this has been a dress rehearsal, realtime that took place during a large part of today, starting in the morning. we saw the fife and drum band practicing, every branch of the military marching in formation and then the stand-ins, the stand-ins for the president and vice president as well as the first lady and even two little girls standing in for sasha and mally yeah, the guy standing in for president obama said the view from that podium is really, really fantastic. >> once-in-a-lifetime experience. what is it going to be like for tourists? can you get a hotel room there. >> reporter: this time around, 600,000 to 800,000, stale lot of people. if you are looking for a hotel room, you are in luck, according to the chamber of commerce. we got a chance to speak with them. let's listen to that. >> we are told that the hotels are not sold out. that is very different than it was four years ago. there is still avail is bill knit all of the major hotels aro

athena jones live for us.ate it. >> like the first day of school on capitol hill as the new members of the 113th congress were sworn in. >> you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter, so help you god. >> i will. correspond congr . >> congratulations. >> ron desantis of florida, sixth congressional district. one of a dozen of newly elected members of the house who served in iraq or afghanistan. a j.a.g. officer in the u.s. navy. he certainly comes with a stellar resume. congressman desantis joins us on his first day of the job. >> thank you. good morning. >> this is what you said about the fiscal cliff deal that just passed. that foreshadowing a bunch of stuff. any agreement that raises taxes and allows federal spending to continue ballooning out of control is a bad deal. bad for families, bad for business. you wouldn't have voted for that fiscal cliff deal i assume? >> no, i wouldn't. a lot of people aren't talking about a couple of things. one, a big payrol

athena jones joins us from the capitol. they're going to get help from something called cows.e we talking about here? >> good morning, john. cow stands for cell on wheels. a temporary mobile cell phone tower. things like companies like at&t and sprint will fortify the network with all the people coming in. half the number of people expected in 2009 but people will be coming with smartphones and smartphones means more data. back in 2009, global smartphone sales only accounted for 11% of sales. now it's nearly 40% as of the most recent numbers. that's a lot more people putting a lot more demands on the network. >> it's really interesting that everyone is taking this into consideration here, i have to say. what are some tips that you can give to all of us to make sure we get our messages through? >> it's a good thing they're planning for this. they know people will take pictures and videos and everyone gets excited and share with their friends and show they're there in a special place on this special day. focus on texts. much easier to send a text. takes a lot less band width tha

give us a little preview, athena. >> reporter: hi, wolf.ned that justice sotomayor will be swearing in vice president biden. he personally select herd to do the swearing in. we are told she is the first hispanic and fourth female judge to conduct a swearing in. one other detail, interesting factoid, i guess, is that vice president biden will be using a family bible, a bible that's been in the biden family since 1893. we are told it is five inches thick and used the bible in all of his past swearing-ins as senator. and a few tidbits to look out for as we wait for the next few minutes, wolf. >> as jeffrey toobin mentioned -- excuse me, as david gergen mentioned a little while ago, athena, the vice president had a little gaffe last night, maybe foreshadowing his plans for 2016. but tell us what happened. >> you know, this sounds like it was really, really funny, wish quo have been in the room last night. he went to a party given by the state society of iowa, you can imagine there were a lot of iowa democrats there. we know how important the st

athena jones is in washington to give us a sneak preview, hello.i guess they started early and i suppose they're trying to make sure they work out all the kinks, you don't want to have anything go wrong on the big day, do you. >> certainly not, you think every four years they'll try to get it right. today we've seen fife and drums, military bands, we've seen people standing in for the vice president and for president obama, as well as the first lady. and two young girls standing in for sasha and mallia to make it as close to how they expect it to be as possible next week. there's a lot of excitement here in town. we had a chance to speak with the president of the chamber of commerce about some of their expectations, let's listen. >> what we're hearing is anywhere from 600,000 to 800,000 people coming into the city. you compare that to 2008, 2009, 2008 election, 2009 inauguration, it was almost two million. 1.8. those of us in the business community would love to see two million people in our city. but no, we're not looking anywhere near those numbe

athena jones has the latest. good morning, athena. give us the goods.t events can we look forward to here? >> good morning. it kicks off this morning with a national day of service. a series of public service events held across the area, including at the national mall. and sunday is the day, we have the official swearing in. semi private ceremony at the white house. we'll see video of that. and monday, kicks off with a church service at st. john's church across lafayette park from the white house. and hundreds of people are expected, singing performances from people like james taylor, kelly clarkson and beyonce, followed by the parade. and it doesn't wrap up on monday. there is a prayer service on tuesday morning. a lot of folks wondering about the weather. quite cold this morning. but the forecast for monday is a low of 25, so it might be very, very chilly early on in that day, and a high of 40, which is around about the average for presidential inauguration days. in recent years. >> work on the weather for us, apt athena, make it warmer for monday mor

and athena jones now joins us live from washington.d athena, it seems they really wanted to make it look like the real thing, especially when you look at the stand-ins and detail they went to. >> it was a full dress rehearsal done in realtime, you saw the fife and drum band playing, the marine band, members of the military matching in formation and those stand-ins you mentioned for president obama and the first lady, for vice president biden and even two young girls there to stand in for sasha and malia. folks are saying that the people standing in for the first couple actually resemble the first couple. we'd chance to speak with them and the woman who is standing in for the first lady said she tried harness a little bit of michelle obama's style so i think they had some fun with it today, martin. >> i'm sure they did. let's talk about crowds, the first time of the inauguration was historic, it is still historic, i'm wondering, will the crowds be the same? >> we asked the chamber of commerce about that, what expectations r let's listen

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our athena jones is live at a flu clinic in virginia. are enough vaccinations available for people who need or want them? >> reporter: i do. hi, martin. doctors say that there are plenty of vaccinations still available. millions, in fact. according to the cdc, some 135 million vaccinations were manufactured. but only about 112 million people have actually received them. so that leaves many millions left. i'm here at a clinic, as you mentioned, in falls church, virginia, just outside washington, d.c. virginia is one of the states where the flu is widespread, and we spoke with a doctor here on staff about what they've seen here at this clinic. let's listen to that. so we talked to dr. greenburg. sorry about that. who said that they have seen a big influx, a big jump in people who are coming in just in the last 12 days of january. they got in a shipment of vaccine in december. but they've really seen the influx, including on days like today when we saw several people coming in to get the shot. there has been a lot of discussion about whethe

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athena jones is joining us live from washington. the scene for us here. >> reporter: you can see behind me thousands of people here are gathered on the mall, young and old. people from all over the country. i saw a group of high school students from memphis, tennessee. i've seen banners from michigan. they are here as you mentioned to mark the 40th anniversary of roe v. wade. this group, march for life, has been organizing this march since one year after the decision. they continue to come every year. you can see the signs they hold. defend life. they have a series of speakers here and later on they'll march to the supreme court which is their ultimate goal. their ultimate goal is to find a case to challenge roe v. wade. >> do we know if there are cases that are actually in the process of challenging roe v. wade? >> reporter: we know there was one that some thought the supreme court could add to the docket this year. a case out of oklahoma that dealt with personhood laws. abortion opponents in oklahoma wanted to bring to a vote this

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athena jones standing by in washington. chuck hagel has detract tors on both sides of the political aisle. he has critics in the gay and lesbian community. why are some in that community criticizing his nomination? >> back in 1998, then senator hagel called into question the suitability offer a nominee for an ambassadorship because he was gay. he called it an inhibiting factor that man was openly aggressively gay and questioned whether he could do an effective job. he apologized for those comments in december. it is still something that the lgb community is not happy about. >> when does this process get started? do we know when the hearings will begin? >> they won't be able to happen until the president makes his official announcement, which, as you know, is planned for tomorrow. the first step is going to be hearings in the senate armed services committee. after hagel gets through that, assuming he gets through that, he will go before the full senate for a vote. we expect it to get started soon. >> he is a nebraska republi

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our athena jones is live at a flu clinic in falls church, virginia. athena, good morning.r the last few days, we keep hearing everyone needs to get a flu shot. but the question is, is there enough of the vaccine to go around? >> good morning. well, doctors say there is enough vaccine to go around. i think you've got numbers you can put up on the screen. there are millions of doses still available. we are here as you mentioned at a flu clinic in falls church, not far outside of washington. this is actually a multiservice clinic. they provide dental care as well as medical care. they tell us that most of the people coming in here are already showing some symptoms and want to be diagnosed for the flu. they've also seen a boost in the number of people seeking vaccinations just in the last 12 days. they say they industrial some on stock. doctors say that there are some spot shortages around. so people may have to check around, call around to make sure that they know the place that they're going to go to get the shot, it still has the shot. >> and health officials have been urgi

athena jones is at the white house and hagel, athena, has angered some lawmakers, many because of the positions he has taken up on middle east issues. what has he done that could cause challenges, say, for him here? >> reporter: well, that's right. even though this is a republican who served as nebraska senator for two terms, it sounds like a bipartisan choice but really, it's just going to be shaping had up to be another fight. one of the issues here that has angered the lgbt community is comments he made back in 1998 questioning a nominee for ambassadorship because that nominee was in his words, openly, aggressively gay p he has recently apologized for those remarks but these just a sampling. the big issues are -- more big issues on the foreign policy side. let's listen to what south carolina senator lindsey graham had to say about his concerns about hagel on "state of the union" this morning. >> chuck hagel, if confirmed to be secretary of defense, would be the most antagonistic secretary of defense towards the state of israel in our nation's history. not only has he said you shoul

>> athena jones, thank you very much. much more on this story also coming up. >>> so how do you ban a weapon that may not even have a clear-cut name or definition? we're taking a closer look at the confusion surrounding some of these gun control proposals and what tone will the president take in his second term inaugural address? we're going to hear from two former white house speechwriters. stand by. stress sweat. it can happen any time, to anyone! stress sweat is different than ordinary sweat. it smells worse. get 4x the protection against stress sweat. introducing new secret clinical strength stress response scent. prego?! but i've bought ragu for years. [ thinking ] wonder what other questionable choices i've made? i choose date number 2! whooo! [ sigh of relief ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego. >>> when it comes to the president's plan for controlling gun violence, the devil's in the definitions. aside from all of the political obstacles, how do you go about banning a weapon that may not have a clear-c

first, we want to bring in cnn's athena jones who is live on capitol hill.swearing in ceremony going to be like this morning? >> we know that the vice president personally selected supreme court justice sonia sotomayor to do the swearing in. the first hispanic and the fourth judge to do a swearing in. we also know he will be using a family bible. a bible that has been in the family since 1893. this is, we're told it's five inches thick bible and that he used it for every swearing in he had as a u.s. senator and also used it in january of 2009. so, those are just some of the tidbits we know about this coming swearing in. >> so, the vice president has become something of an epic character when it comes to comity, both intentional and unintentional. and last night, he had one of those moments. was it a gaffe or perhaps foreshadowing of what's to come? explain. >> he would say it is a gaffe, but pretty funny. he was speaking at a party, the state society of iowa. a lot of iowa democrats there and you know that iowa is a very important state in presidential elect

cnn's athena jones has a look. >> reporter: gun control is front and center at the white house and a matter of debate among christians. >> there is a fascinating religious divide over the issue of gun control. >> reporter: a survey by the research institute conducted before the newtown shooting found that 6 in 10 catholics support stricter gun control laws compared to one-third of white evangelical protestants and 42% of white mainline protestants. >> it is not just about theology, but about culture and theology. >> reporter: and polls showed that white evan gels can mostly to own guns and most live in southern and rural areas where owning guns is the widest. what is the message? >> the message is not to avenge other people, but however, the government has a divine role to punish evil do-ers. >> reporter: with polls showing increased support for ban on some guns. >> there is a message to tamp down the mass violence that does not mean taking away everyone's guns. >> reporter: the pastor is calling for evangelicals to ban high capacity magazines and assault weapons. >> the scripture ca

maybe you won't be sick for quite as long, martin. >> athena, thank you very much. stay healthy. >>> governor andrew m. cuomo today declared a public emergency for all of the state of new york, and this is because of the flu. this declaration is in response to what has been, as we've reported, an increasingly severe flu season. it will allow among a number of things for pharmacists to administer and give flu shots to people who need them or still want one. >>> all that illness, though, it isn't stopping people from going to work sick. this is a real problem. it could be because of about a third of the nation's employees don't get paid sick days. that according to the bureau of labor statistics. so people can't afford to stay home even if they do get the flu. one study says an extra 5 million people caught the flu in 2009 because of workplace policies such as a lack of paid sick days. >>> ahead in the "cnn newsroom," it's time for the cabinet shuffle. with inauguration comes a realignment of all the president's men. and that may be just one of the problems president

cnn's athena jones reports on that. >> reporter: as students as sandy hook elementary returned to class, former congresswoman gabrielle giffords, nearly killed in a mass shooting two years ago, visited newtown, connecticut and on capitol hill lawmakers arrived to begin a new session of congress with members in both chambers taking aim at guns. >> this is a fight that the american people are going to have to stand up and stiffen their spine. >> reporter: california democratic senator dianne feinstein plans to introduce a bill to ban more than 100 assault weapons. eight years after the old banshee championed expired. another senate bill would ban high-capacity magazines, and among nearly a dozen gun bills introduced on day one in the house are efforts to ban online sales of ammunition and to require background checks for all firearm sales, including at gun shows. two bills from freshman republican congressmen would allow more guns around schools, echoing the position of the and a half rifle association. >> the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> we are

cnn's athena jones has more on the religious divide on the gun control debate. >> you all know this isue. >> reporter: gun control is front and center at the white house. and a matter of debate among christians. >> there's a fascinating religious divide on the issue of gun control. >> reporter: a survey by the public religion research institute conducted before the newtown shooting found 6 in 10 catholics support stricter gun control laws compared to about a third of white evangelical protestants and 42% of white mainline protestants. >> it's not just about theology, it's also about culture and geography. >> reporter: the poll found white evangelicals are the most likely to own guns. many live in southern around rural areas. what does the bible say about weapons? >> christians are not to take weapons and avenge other people. however there's an affirmation that the government has a divine role to punish evildoers and so there's been tension. >> reporter: with polls showing increased support for gun laws after newtown, could we see a shift among evangelicals? >> it may be a tipping point

athena health is the only cloud based service. only ones who can respond to all these changes in the rules, so as those changes in rules become more profound, more doctors, more care givers, more hospitals are going to need to get on to the cloud. >> jonathan, good to see you. thank you for spending the time. jonathan bush there. chairman, ceo and president of athena health. >>. >> financials, there's your chart of the financials today. up 2.2%. let's end the year right now and go out with gains. how about it, guys? >> gains of 2%? that would be a great year. i think not. >> matches the tax hike. >> we're talking financials, straight ahead. [ female announ] today, jason is here to volunteer to help those in need. when a twinge of back pain surprises him. morning starts in high spirits, but there's a growing pain in his lower back. as lines grow longer, his pain continues to linger. but after a long day of helping others, he gets some helpful advice. just two aleve have the strength to keep back pain away all day. today, jason chos

here's athena jones with more. >> we're the center of this nation's future. >> reporter: vice president biden at a ceremony to welcome the largest number of latinos in congress ever. a critical mass that could help efforts to pass sweeping changes to the immigration system. >> we need to seize the moment. >> reporter: a top priority for the president, who won more than 70% of the hispanic vote in november. after the election, house speaker john boehner signaled republicans could support comprehensive action on legislation. >> i'm not talking about 3,000 page bill. i'm talking about he's a common sense step-by-step approach. secure our borders and fix a broken immigration system. >> reporter: democratic congressman luis gutierrez leads the immigration task force for the hispanic caucus. >> when you deal with the fiscal cliff, this is where the congress is at. far apart. guns, far apart. and immigration, much closer. we all signed on the dotted line? no, there's a lot of work to be done. but the commitment is there to getting the work done. >> reporter: so, what might comprehensive legisl

>> the word -- it's like the word for the parthenon because athena was a virgin goddess, the word is parthenos and that's the word that appears in greek of isaiah 7:14 but it's not the order in the original hebrew. >> what's the word? >> the hebrew text says ama. >> what does that translate to. >> it's the word for young girl which has its own greek word. >> what's the greek word. >> the greek word would be nianis. >> niansus is not parthenos. >> i have three daughters, we hope that young girls are virgins but it's not the same word. >> mary is not a parthenos. >> i don't know if she was or not but the text says -- >> how do you know the hebrew was mistranslated when put into greek. >> hebrew has word for virgin. it's tula and that's not what the hebrew text is. >> all right now, she is attacking the whole notion of the virgin birth of jesus christ. when she points to this translaws, what do you say about that. >> where i would take issue professor sore fredriksen is assuming because of the greek text, because of that difference empty words between the greek and hebrew text that that

athena is live for us in washington, good morning. >> good morning.'t really close yesterday that leadership vote but there were about a dozen members of his caucus who decided they were going to vote for someone else like majority leader eric cantor or just say present, which is a way of registering some disdain, and there were a few people who just abstained, they didn't say anything when they were called on. in the end of course he got 220 votes out of a caucus of 234. just shows some dissension in the ranks but there was never really any question of whether speaker boehner was going to be speaker again. so he gets to try to corral this caucus once again. >> other fiscal cliffs in the next what couple of weeks, couple months? >> yeah, you know, that deal from just a few days ago it seems like much longer than that i few days ago. all they really did was as we've heard every and over again kick the can down the road, move that deadline two months down and so we're going to see, we talk about fresh faces in congress but we're going to see a lot of th

found out today that the prevailing color in gaza is yellow and the palestinian flag meaning that athena nationalism and that the others as opposed to islamic extremism and let me just quickly ask you briefly i asked you about. netanyahu is concerned how much could take have a palestine but is there an argument against fattah getting more involved with hamas perhaps which is currently being of course accused of stoking the violence towards israel and of course has a much more aggressive policy towards israel than fattah just briefly. no the policy towards israel depends on what israel does if israel shows the israeli government shows serious and genuine interest in peace negotiations with the palestinians and embraces the palestinian partner for then of course there won't be any reason for for or for violence anywhere but we have always to remember that sometimes when the political process is dumped and there is an impasse in the political process the level of frustration will go up and that level of frustration sometimes gets to a level to the point where nevertheless communal property

athena jones reports this congress will have the largest number of latino members ever, so it could bee. >> the vice president, joe biden is welcoming the largest number of latin members that could help with this leaping sweeping changes for the immigration. >> we need to seize the moment. >> 7% of the latin poet. >> john boehner saying that republicans will support comprehensive actions on the emigration. >> i am talking about using common sense and step by step. that will fix a broken immigration system. >> the immigration task force for the emigration. >> this is where the cameras, and this is where the people are, far apart. and immigration are much closer. we have fasigned on the dotted line. but the commitment is there to getting the work done. >> what could this look like. a big question is whether the parties can agree on how to approach the immigration issue. should it be one big bill, which many democrats are pushing, or several smaller ones, which many republicans favor, because the issue is so complex. groups that want to restrict immigration are skeptical. >> how on earth

as athena jones reports, the f-d-a is working on new rules that could save *hundreds of lives every year. these guidelines will not be final until of government will approve funding for the fta.fda.... >>> one police department facing excessive force claims. even after the suspect bit up. and avoiding the impromptu bonfires around the bay area. >> also this rainfall for tonight how much longer we can expect this. (male announcer): now, here's stanley roberts who found people behaving badly. >>> dispite comments on facebook this is not the stanford mascot passed out and it's not the latest version of a tree grows in brooklyn but one poster was right it's a tree kicked to the curb, in fact it's that time of year again where relics of christmas pass haunt us because everywhere you look old christmas tree are taking up residence around the bay like this tree which appears to be waiting for a phone call on folsom street . over at alice griffith housing projects discarded trees are being removed as quickly as possible to avoid them being set ablaze most cities have a policy for holiday tree re

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athena jones, cnn, washington. >> photoshopping a member of congress.o explain why. you'll see up at the very stop there, four congressmen were added after the fact because they couldn't be there for the original photo. the others, they got tired of waiting in the cold, so they just took the picture and decided to add in the no-shows later. that group of four. okay, that's what happens. well, ahead, winter is a season that always keeps emergency responders busy. especially when they live anywhere near a large stretch of ice. >> of. >> an american airlines pilot has been suspended for allegedly being drunk right before takeoff. tsa agents in minneapolis said they smelled alcohol on the pilot. the 48-year-old man was on the plane yesterday wrapping up his prosecute eflight when he was given a breathalyzer test. he allegedly failed the test and police arrested him. on another plane, a man who got disrupted on a plane from iceland to new york eventually found out he was messing with the wrong passenger and crew. they used duct tape and zip ties to keep him

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here is athena jones. >> reporter: it was a busy day today. a full dress rehearsal for the big event. we saw the drums and the marching band. members of every branch of the military marching in formation. we had stand ins for vice president biden and president obama as well as the first lady and two little girls standing in for sasha and malia obama. not as many expected this time as four years ago but still quite a crowd. >> what we are hearing is anywhere from 600,000 to 800,000 people coming into the city. you compare that to 2008-2009. the 2008 election, 2009 inauguration, it was almost 2 million. those of us in the business community would love to see 2 million people in the city. we are not looking anywhere near those numbers. >> reporter: maybe not as many as last time but still hundreds of thousands of people. the good news is there are still hotel rooms available if you are willing to pay a large fee. the average price for a night is $600. one more interesting thing to note is the actual official swearing in ceremony will take place n