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atlantic city is family-friendly. we have a wonderful beach and boardwalk. so typically, we see a lot of families still coming to atlantic city as they always have. what we have is very inviting. >> atlantic city is starting to see a shift of more dollars spent now. neil: a lot of peple are in bankruptcy. but whats going on here? >> non-gaming revenues are up. shopping, particularly, we have seen tremendous uptick. >> where they shopping? other shopping outlets and in the casinos >> at think it is a sense of freedom that has been developed over the years. neil tell my ten or 11 year-old. whatever you do. >> your tenner 11 euro will go to one of the children's pools around here. neil: and the other ten year old says the same thing you have to worry. >> not really. we did a study as to whether or t that model would scare away businesses. and it did not. it is very enticing. neil: okay. by the way, you both should be heralded for having the least expensive more value breakfast than any place on the planet. you can eat like a king for $0.99. here.p spreading the

in this indication of atlantic city, the fact that we are in an ecomic downturn and the proliferationthe mid-atlantic region, we are referring to what is a meiosis. neil: so you're not the only game in town in your neck of the woods. >> that's right. >> traditionally much of it comes from neighboring states. many of those residents are starting to stay closer to home. neil: mayor, it wasn't that long ago that the president got a lot of grief from both sides of parties. so have you seen that rebound yourself? >> we are definitely back. it's really remarkable what has happened basically in the past year basically casinos are full most of the time here. doing very well. neil: some may disagree with you. in other words, there is plenty of entertainment there. i could be wrong. i will let you address that and how important that it is in taking what is typically this industry to be a nice one. >> about 7% of the folks come here with the intention to gamble. entertainment has a great bottom line. things are paying for themselves, we are not relying on gambling anymore. gambling is the backdr

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atlantic city is family-friendly. we have a wonderful beach and boardwalk. so typically, we see a lot of families still coming to atlantic city as they always have. what we have is very inviting. >> atlantic city is startingo see a shift of more dollars spent now. neil: a lot of people are in bankruptcy. but what is going on here? >> non-gaming revenues are up. shopping, particularly, we have seen tremendous uptick. >> where they shopping? other shopping outlets and in the casinos >> athink it is a sense of freedom that has been developed over the years. neil: tell my ten or 11 year-old. whatever you do. >> your tenner 11 euro will go to one of the children's pools around here. neil: and the other ten year old says the same thing you have to worry. >> not really. we did a study as to whether or not that model would scare away businesses. and it did not. it is very enticing. neil: okay. by the way, you both should be heralded for having the least expensive more value breakfast than any place on the planet. you can eat like a king for $0.99. >> keep spreading

we will have more from the president of atlantic city president of atlantic city casinos and what isescape the rebel forces ! ahhh. got you ! got ya ! gotcha ! got ya. that's all you got, brother ? take that. never having to surrender the things that matter. gotcha. that's powerful. verizon. neil: people are feeling g prices. it could force them to plunk down less on things like gambling and traveling or it could go the other way and make them roll the dice. we have oscar goodman her this is the one thing. in an improving economy, people continue to gamble. what do you say? >> i would agree to that. i liken it to a two edge sword. in this indication of atlantic city, the fact that we ar in an economic downturn and the proliferation, specifically the mid-atlantic region, we are referring to what is a meiosis. neil: so you're not the only game in town in your neck of the woods. >> that's right. >> tditionally, much of it comes from neighboring staes. many of those residents are starting to stay closer toome. neil:mayor, it wasn't that long ago that the president got a lot of grief from

they have the borgata in atlantic city a well-known brand.we just had the president of boyd gaming and the borgata right there in atlantic city, everybody says this is real opportunity. they have been sort of at the forefront doing things like you can gamble from the hotel rooms in atlantic city. they're waiting to sink their teeth into the opportunity. >> well, it is a significant opportunity. they got rid of what was a long term money-losing asset in las vegas. they sold their land parcel on the strip to a company out of malaysia. that was a significant milestone. they will be able to delever. they have a bit of a growth story here and their bricks and mortar casinos will also benefit if the economy gets better. las vegas is big section of their business in terms of local business out there. that has been depressed a number of years. if that gets better, boyd is a big beneficiary. david: the side market is of course key to all this is the software companies that have to develop the software planning that these models are going to need. it g

you call it revel or whatever you call it, the point of the story is this lavish cay casino in atlantic cityfiling for bankruptcy protection, and, obviously, they are direct competitors. look what's going on, 6% boyd gaming, so this will eliminate the debt of this one casino, revel, in atlantic city, but it was supposed to be the next forgada where boyd makes huge revenue through them. back to you. liz: okay, thank you. so wooing a timothy geithner has begun. we have details in firms interested in hiring him. >> and the man -- liz: turn it off, you know what? it's like this is a mess, all for this. >> oh, i'm sorry. calm down now. liz: it was a little off. >> okay. what are we doing now? geithner is being wooed by a wall street firm, that firm is black rock, the person running black rock is larry fink. i don't think geithner leaves in eight months, but finishes the book as we reported here, a book about his role in the financial crisis. liz: what do you call it? a down payment on a book, i don't know what the word is but -- >> an advance. he got a fairly major advance from randomhouse, write

the warnings pick up towards atlantic city. w york city you're into an advisory which means about 2, maybe 3 inches. this is going to continue for a while so the radars really tell the story. we've got this area of low pressure kicked out of rockies right, a heavy amount of snow that transfers its energy to a coastal storm. st. louis ten days ago it was 74. they have more snow on the ground than all winter long. 9 inches and 2 more to go and advisories and warnings in effect there, and then you get up to areas around champaign, illinois, indianapolis 6 to 10, going to get a little bit of a break. mainly thunderstorms to the south. bowling green, kentucky, large hail. this bright banding that you see here is going to change over to sleet and then snow. columbus you're looking at at least 6 to 10 inches. your warnings continue until the afternoon. pittsburgh, 4 to 6. thousands of schools will be closed here, but as the energy gets transferred to this other one, i want to show you in the higher terrain above 1,500 feet, maybe in th

we will have more from the president of atlantic city casinos and what is thank you orville and wilbur buzz: for teaching us that you can't create the future... by clinging to the past. and with that: you're history. instead of looking behind... delta is looking beyond. 80 thousand of us investing billions... in everything from the best experiences below... to the finest comforts above. we're not simply saluting history... we're making it. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. we asked total strangers to watch it for us. thank you so much. i appreciate it. i'll be right back. they didn't take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money? if your bank takes more ney than a stranger, you need an ally. ally bank. your money needs an ally. neil: people are feeling gas prices. it could force them to plunk down less on things like gambling and traveling or it could go the other way and make them roll the dice. we have oscar goodman here. this is the one thing. in an improving economy, peop

have you been to a casino in atlantic city? to vegas. >> you're in atlantic city, you're like, wow, i'm in vague as. you walk out and you go -- i mean, you don't want to go -- i don't know. it's not a place you want to hang out i don't think. >> the boardwalk they kept that contained. >> they need to fix up atlantic city. because you feel like you're in vegas. the casinos in vegas, you don't want to spend all of your time. >> you walk outside and you know you're not in vegas. you're not in kansas anymore. >> great history there. >> yeah. >> boardwalk empire. >> so nice. >> there's a great history. i wish you could find some way -- >> you don't want to go gamble with your life. >> i don't want to gamble anywhere. >> but you want to be able to get back to your hotel. >> if you could stay in the casino i guess you could do that. >> one more headline. general motors kicks off an effort today to try to revamp its buick brand. new versions of regal and lacrosse models. >>> t-mobile usa is turning off its cell phone contracts. number

atlantic city's rebel casinos filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection less than a year after it openedlion to build. it hopes to emerge from bankruptcy by summer. it owns 24 restaurants, 2400 slot machines and 11 00 table gains, but failed to gain appeal in atlantic city which has seen gambling revenue fall for several years. >>> and the ongoing crisis in the eurozone has hit the bottom line of a lot of businesses such as caterpillar. it cut almost half of its workforce in its belgium plant earlier this year on sluggish growth in the region. but the ceo told cnbc today that he's still positive. >> well, our business has been flat and tough for some time. you know, all the way back to '07 and '08, of course. but we found a way to really skinny down our costs. our market now is stable. some countries are better than others. we've seen some nice things in france and germany, of course. italy is -- has been depressed for a long time, but all in all, there's hope that we're sizing it right and at some point the tide is going to rise and we'll do well again. >> a reminder of the headlines to

atlantic city spending tens of millions of dollars on tourism trying to lure visitors away from vegasnd other competitors. gerri willis at casino golden nugget hotel. where is all that lost money going? >> reporter: it's not lost. casino gambling is more legal in 30 states and there are lots and lots of competition. golden nugget, it's competing with pennsylvania and even yonkers new york has a casino now. >> harris: what are the casinos doing to try to get people to come back? >> this casino spent $150 million on a big renovation project that got done recently and it's beautiful. there are also appealing to the high rollers. this table right behind me, this is where high rollers play and high margin business. i went to the high limit room today. that is where the high rollers go and i learned how to play back jack. i have to tell you it was a big success. we played five hands and i won all of them, if we playing for real money, i would have made a thousand dollars. pretty good. >> harris: high limit table. i'm like the small chair table. thank you. >> every chip was $25. >> harris: t

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last weekend atlantic city new jersey, their guns for cash buy back in atlantic city, new jersey -- [udible ] sometimes it's the attorney general's office. but it is almost always a government agency of some kind that organizes these things. in new york city, there's an ongoing buy back program where you can turn in your gun to the police and get a cash reward. it takes in a few against over the course of in a city with 8 million people. you have to feel comfortable approaching the police with your firearm. in order to be able to hand it over to them. tomorrow, though, this weekend, in the biggest cities in the country, something new will happen. this is michael blue williams pap manager in the music industry and famous and successful one. he managed outkast, cee lo green, he worked with the flava unit, and he knows everybody. he is not that old but he has been in the business for decades. this weekend blue williams is taking the new gun buy back thing to a level it's never been at before. the city police commissioner signed off on it. this is the first private sector gun buy back in

. >>> a real life horror movie for greyhound bus riders. 15 minutes into the trip from atlantic city to new york city you will not believe what started crawling around. not just one or two roaches but dozens. in fact, hundreds, thousands, they say. one eyewitness said they were crawling everywhere on the seats, windows, on the passengers themselves. oh, my. the b problem got to bad the bus stopped and passengers got out and got on another bus for the rest of the ride. >> sat down, roaches started crawling on our clothes, falling out of the ceiling, everything. >> there were like a thousand roaches. when i say infested, i mean infe infested. >> the man had roaches on his coat. the lady had a roach on her hat. it was terrible. >> oh, boy. i bet there was a lot of screaming on the bus. a greyhound spokesman said the passengers received refunds and they have launched an investigation. that will do it for me. more cnn "newsroom" at the top of the hour. now keep it here for sanjay gupta, md. >>> hey, there. thanks for joining us. the new pope once had a health scare. it cost him part of a

three horses and one pony escaped onto the atlantic city expressway reducing rush hour traffic to a crawl. the owner showed up to round up his herd before any drivers or animals were hurt. >>> and massachusetts governor deval patrick took a walk on the wild side. patrick joined on the annual black bear cub survey. and even played the role of papa bear, keeping two cubs warm as their mother was being tagged. >>> number one in college basketball. for the first time ever washington state's gonzaga is now the nation's top ranked team after indiana lost to minnesota and fell to number two. the zags have been famous for some big wins in the ncaa tournament. and gonzaga is the 57th team to be ranked number one since 1949 when the ap poll began. >>> second overall notre dame's skylar diggins comes off with a steal. start a fast break and puts it up for a layup against number three uconn. irish beat the huskies 96-87 to win the regular season big east title. >>> and senior brittney griner of top-ranked baylor made her 14th career dunk and first at home since her freshman year when she piled up 50

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. >> reporter: wcau reporter jesse gray is near atlantic city. >> reporter: here along the jersey coast, this is more of a wind event than a rain event. as a matter of fact, it's not raining right now, but the wind is blowing. 40 miles per hour sustained. gusting to above 50 miles per hour. >> reporter: back in virginia, clean-up from what may be the last and only snowstorm of the year. meteorologists are saying that this is an example of why the u.s. needs a better super computer for forecasting. brian, the european model essentially said that for d.c. this was going to be more of a rain event, but the u.s. model said no, more of a snow event. again, the european model got it right. as for tomorrow, so far about 124 flight cancellations. back to you. >> tom costello starting us off in dulles. we mentioned front royal, virginia. let's go there next with weather channel meteorologist reynolds wolf. reynolds, good evening. >> good evening, brian. the amount of snowfall we have seen in this area has been from 12 to 17 inches of this incredibly thick, very, very heavy snow. the thing is, br

in atlantic city once and you tell anderson. >> was that you? what were you doing? >> i haven't actually been. i think you're the least likely of anyone i know to be getting sketchy phone calls. >> i actually probably did get a sketchy phone call from a friend in atlantic city once and had to help out. >> i bet you would. you'd be a good guy to help out. >> i think anderson is just a little jealous. >> jealous of what? >> you see these glass sflz. >> yes. >> whether i got them, i could tell he wanted them. >> he did? >> yeah. >> he copied. >> i was on the ridiculous list with the glasses. he puts on the -- he has similar glasses. >> yeah. he's a little jealous. >> yeah. i think a little bit. wolf. >> the first day of spring whether as a poet wrote a young man's fancy turns the thoughts of love. >> and one young man from los angeles is aiming high. he's asking a very famous model to his prom. here's cnn's jeannie moos. >> reporter: everyone wants her. will this california high school senior get her? >> it hit me. why don't i ask

we went to atlantic city. we had date night.that. >> that was a lot of fun. >> i know what that's like. >> we took your advice and went to atlantic city. we had a good time. >> which i had done the weekend before. >> i enjoyed it. >> good for you. did you roll the dice, play blackjack? >> yeah. >> i won $65. i never win. i don't gamble much. >> take you to atlantic city next time we go. i lost everything. >> let's do it. road trip. >> done. >> all right. let's get to the news as well. big day for supporters and opponents of same-sex marriages. lawyers from both sides of the issue prepare their cases. crowds have been lining up for days, trying to get a seat in the gallery and witness the historic arguments. >> we'll have more on what the justices have to consider in a moment. >>> first a look at some other stories we're following this morning. a potentially deadly virus, one that could be used in terror attacks, is missing. its loss is raising new question as but lab security. we'll tell you what else is going on inside of the l

ron claiborne, abc news, atlantic city, new jersey. >>> and now we head to washington, where there was a big brouhaha after tea party firebrand senator rand paul spoke more than 12 hours, nonstop, on the senate floor. it was a filibuster about america's policy on drones. and the reaction? here's abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. >> i will speak until i can no longer speak. >> reporter: it was something we almost never see anymore -- an all-out talk till you drop protest speech on the senate floor, with cameo references to jane fonda's anti-war days. >> that's one thing if you want to try her for treason, but are you going to just drop a drone, hellfire missile, on jane fonda? >> reporter: and a senator talking for almost 13 hours straight without sitting or even taking a bathroom break. his only real sustenance, a candy bar and some peanuts. he spoke to block a vote on the president's nominee for cia director, saying he first wanted an answer to a simple question. can the president use a drone strike to kill an unarmed american citizen on u.s. soil? >> we'll take a t

live from atlantic city. thank you for joining us. have a great night. we will see you back here next week. ♪u.u.u.u.u.u.u.u.u.u.u.u.u.u.u. >>.u.u.u.u.u.u.u.u.u.u.u.u.u.u. >>> for years kids have set u stands like this, but today, the police may busted you. >> i was really scared because i didn't know it was going to happen. we were selling lemonade out in our front yard and the third day they decided to shut us down. >> their mom heard the police yelling. >> i heard them yelling, girls you have to shut down the lemonade stand. >> it made me want to open my stand. will the police bust me? >> there are so many laws, everybody could be caught up in it. >> the avalanche of new laws, it makes criminals just about all of us. >> every citizen arguably could be shown to have vlated some regulation in these stacks, that is the danger. >> police never told knees girls why they were shut down. >> we tried to find out but the city official, they said really they shut down our lemonade stand. >> we're not aware of who made the lemonade or what the lonade with. you a

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what kind of customers are using >> we are not in las vegas and atlantic city.urt. the customer base lives within 50 or 70 miles from our casinos. the number of trips that we have seen from the casino customers have increased. cheryl: you do expect them to keep coming in and spending that money. >> that is correct. keep in mind, gaming is social entertainment. cheryl: it is indeed. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. dennis: former nfl quarterback and a rare position of playing defense. drew bledsoe. that is today at 1:00 p.m. eastern. cheryl: a quarter till the top of the hour. stocks now and every 15 minutes. nicole petallides. nicole: looking at something in the retail sector and are right now. jcpenney is a name that certainly has been under pressure. you can see the stock is down a half percent. finish line also getting downgraded. down nearly 5% on the day. finish line known for sneakers and such. dollar general beat the street by more than half a percent. lowe's is a window. best buy up over 2%. you have the sound of richard shultz now joining the boa

passengers on a greyhound bus trip from atlantic city to new york on friday.of roaches were crawling everywhere. and falling on them. crawling up check out the cellphone footage that shows the pests scurrying across the bus floor and steps. a greyhound spokeswoman said the bus driver had acted swiftly when passengers alerted him to "bugs on the bus saying the driver immediately pulled the bus over and radioed dispatch for help. a second bus was immediately sent to continue the trip into new york. greyhound spoke to each passenger, apologized and provided full refunds to everyone. the latest figures in from dataquick show the bay area real estate market took a small hit from january's figures. take a look the median house price in february dropped one-point- eight percent from january's numbers. however. the numbers also show that prices are up 25 percent from last year at the same time. experts say with fewer bank owned properties pushing prices down, the market is heating back up. top stories we are following this morning a. police and alameda are investigati

we will be rebounding nicely in denver 40 degrees in chicago, 48 in atlantic city. chilly this afternoon 51 going to see a shift in the weather pattern. i am going to show you quickly by friday and saturday we can be looking at high temperatures into the 50s. a warming trend for you in denver, colorado. >> moments ago we told you about the story a moment ago. top appeals court over turning amanda knox case. she served four years behind bars now this acquittal puts this into question ordering a brand new trial. she was found not guilty back in 2011. we will have more details as we come. >> a big day in the capital. they pick up the issue of gay marriage. kelly wright is live for us in washingt washington>> no matter what the justices decide in these two cases history is going to be made. these are supreme court cases that are being watched closely by people through out the country. some even braved cold temperatures to get into the court to hear arguments on same-sex marriage. >> it could be one of the impassable decisions they ever make in my lifetime. it was a no b

atlantic city's only smoke-free casino will allow patrons to light up on the gambling board and morecle sam. they have gotten more than $4.5 million and are encouraged to seek more. this make no sense to me since the whole point of indian casinos is to make indian communities self-sufficient. and green has gone too far. we report here on "the willis report" about how the federal government's green agenda is not only costly, but in many ways, counterproductive. the whole issue is the subject of a special stossel with their very own john stossel. the federal government is a green tyrant. how so? >> let's back up for is to say, thank goodness that the federal government cares. the founders didn't think about pollution. and it doesn't work so well with pollution. my smoke goes to your lungs. >> you could see me, but that wouldn't work well either. so we have this control movement. gerri: have and they worked? >> they worked wonderfully. they had so much so that you couldn't open the window. now, i swim in the hudson river next 8 million people flushing. gerri: you say that the government

. >> speaking of being back there soon aren't we headed to atlantic city for the miss america pageant, i am super stoked we're bringing back the history to atlantic city and have such a positive, you know, outlook on it. it's great. >> your reign isn't going to be any shorter. you will always be our miss america. >> thank you. >> we love you and come back any time. >> thanks for having me. >> a little quick look at the boards. show you what's going on on your friday. quick look out of lake charles, louisiana, where it is a little warm in branford, connecticut where the sun is shining but certainly is not warm. st. patrick's day, a little look in case you're celebrating, dublin, georgia, emerald, washington, shamrock, maryland and where the snow is going over the next couple little systems pulling out of the great lakes and go to extreme northern new england. >> love each and every one of you for being with us this morning. all that weather was brought to you by crayola. >> let's go back inside to george. >> thank you so much. >>> all week long we've been meeting the amazing cast of t"

people turned in more than 2,000 guns, the fifth gun buy back in atlantic city since newtown.s against illegal guns announces a $12 million ad buy, advocating gun safety legislation in 13 states. they support universal background checks, which is supported by nine of ten americans, but people on the beltway but they say can't pass congress. president obama was pushing for gun safety legislation saturday. and saturday, wilmington, north carolina, they have a rally in support of gun safety reform outside a best western. you can see it is a crowd that's small, but inside the best western was an nra fundraiser. the group was pretty deeply focused getting local media attention to what they were doing outside that fund-raiser which is the point of these things. monday, hundreds of clergy and parishioners from episcopal die a sees marched from the white house to the capital for gun reform. monday in atlanta, georgia, more religious leaders gathering to protest a state bill to force churches to allow concealed weapons on their premises, even if they don't want them. clergy think it is

yet from atlantic city back up to coney island, these legendary beachside amusement parks are beating the odds, reopening for the season on schedule today. >> i think the message is, we're resilient. we're resilient new yorkers. sandy isn't going to keep us down. >> reporter: it took almost five months of hard work and millions of dollars, but, soon, the wooden planks of the famous cyclone will rumble and the smell of nathan's famous hot dogs will fill the air. signs of the start of summer on coney island, but a celebration of so much more. >> it's our way of saying that new york made it through sandy. let's go have a good time. >> back to normalcy. >> reporter: and what would a celebration on coney island be without a hot dog eating contest? today they're holding a qualifying match for the big contest on july 4th. and dan, don't worry, i already signed you up. >> yeah, i feel vaguely nauseous already. thank you. >> hopefully by july 4th, it will be warmer a transition to weather. let's go over to ginger. hey, ginger. >> i assure you of that. i will promise you some warmer weather by

. >> harris: riders saw them everywhere on the journey back from atlantic city, new jersey.sengers jumping into the aisle to brush them off. this is someone's smart phone video. the bus pulled over. everybody got off. eventually onto another bus. greyhound issuing refunds and apologizing. the company says it is investigating. >>> michigan. a man on a run from the law turns into a chase through the streets of detroit. police say the chase started after the suspect assaulted an officer and took off. at times, cutting through parking lots and over yards. police caught him. the chase ended like a demolition derby with several squad cars hitting the suspect's vehicle, pinning him in. >>> california. caught on tape, some criminals trying to break into a coffee kiosk. watch as the gun jams as they try to shoot out the window. then one tries to punch through the window. no luck there either. eventually they use the butt of the gun to smash their way in. once inside, they try to move the security camera long after their faces were seen. their reward for all that? milk, muffin tops. n

it's big business, live from atlantic city looking at the business of gambling from the economic impactsf casinos to how to make money. it's game day here on "the willis report" friday. we have more to come here including president obama making another trip to capitol hill today, and whatever happened to internships? i'll break down a new report showing how much dough you can make interning for uncle sam. what was that about a sequester? ♪ [ lorenzo ] i'm lorenzo. i work for 47 different companies. well, technically i work for one. that company, the united states postal service® works for thousands of home businesses. because at usps.com® you can pay, print and have your packages picked up for free. i can even drop off free boxes. i wear a lot of hats. well, technically i wear o. the u.s. postal service®, no business too small. ♪ gerri: well, the imam administration, which claimed its hands are tieded by the sequester, which they say they had no part in, pays 139 people at least $100,000 each, and the federal government posted more than 2600 job openings over the last two weeks. now, the

because you're saying go all in, a little pun there, but they just had this big bankruptcy in atlantic cityoncerned about that? >> well, you know what? caesars, that's all i can say about caesars is they put together all the losing assets in that company, they did a rollout here about six months ago, they've been losing money like crazy. but if you look at the chart of czr recently, the stock has really taken off with a lot of the other gaming stocks -- cheryl: right. >> and i think it has a lot to do with mccow. cheryl: i do want to get to these last two. you say they're companies that are breaking up, they are prison stocks. you've got two picks. geo group, and you've also got corrections corporation of america, cxw. and the federal government now is turning over prison management to private enterprise, and you love these guys. >> well, you know, this is where all of this vice can lead if you're not careful. [laughter] near my office downtown san diego i see these geo trucks running all over and geo buses and minivans running all over the streets. it doesn't look like a van you want to ge

we're taking this money back to special needs kids in atlantic city who have been disrupted by the hurricane and good for them and good for the foundation. >> we'll endorse that one for you. >> rob mayeda has a look at the forecast. do you believe that check? huge. >> excellent cause, too, and i hope larry is ready for upper 30s with rain on the east coast and maybe appreciating our weather more as we look at morning temperatures outside and some haez there looking over san jose and thanks to the clear skies this morning it's running cooler than yesterday. we have 42 degrees in livermore and 49 in san francisco, winds somewhat onshore around novato and a southwest breeze into napa and in concord, and with the sunshine even though we'll get a sunnier start to the morning and cooler air aloft, and we should see those numbers, mainly 60s to low 70s and one of the changes will be increasing high clouds and clouds lowering in elevation as we go through the day tomorrow and mid and high-level clouds still mild as fairly muggy air sweeps into the bay area heading into monday night and by tuesday is