toyota is rolling out the first-ever wireless phone charger in the 2013 avalon limited edition model.re with all the details of this break through, car coach, lauren fix. lauren, thanks so much for coming on. we're trying to cheer people up here as we're waiting to hear the bad news that everyone is going away for christmas break and nothing's gotten done. help me out with that, a little look into the future. this is actually incredibly cool. tell me all about it. >> consumer electronics show a few years ago said we get wireless connect activity in our cars, it finally arrived. not avalon for 2013 but the dodge dart will have a wireless connection for your car so you can charge your phone. how many times have you left the house and left the charger on my desk or computer or left it in someone else's car or rental car? now you can place your phone at least with the toyota on a pad and charge it while you're driving. you will always get a charge and wonderful for all of us with blackberries and iphones and an droids that never have enough power. melissa: that is great. you come in the c

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off the coast of avalon.omeone in effect. >> monteux vista high school and lead to an elementary school are we opening this morning. both schools were closed yesterday after officials found graffiti at a nearby high school that made a threat against a teacher at monte vista. if the teacher is being closely monitored by authorities. no explosive devices were found. >> is a cold start and very similar to yesterday. tonight will be about the same. here is a look at the james lick freeway. there is not a lot of cloud cover outside so that is why we are seeing the cool temperatures. it is 40 degrees in concord, 374 and a bottle, 37 n san francisco. it is a chilly start and especially out in the east bay we're seeing the frost advisory. this will be on until about 8:00 a.m.. you should be ready for the frost on your windshields. give yourself some extra time. >> it will be cold and frosty this morning. this afternoon it will be light rain in the pitcher. temperatures will be in the upper 40's to the low 50s. this a

at seven pm on the sea level nineteen sixty five in the corners of one hundred sixteenth and avalon twenty one year old watts resident marquette fry was pulled over by the california highway patrol on suspicion of drunk driving a routine traffic stop until police insisted on him pounding frys car despite being less than two blocks from his home fries mother rina who own the car join the rapid growing crowd who along with marquette grew increasingly belligerent of what they felt was the heavy handed police response l.a.p.d. reinforcements who called in a scuffle broke out and friday his mother rena and brother ron were all taken into custody. the squad cars rolled away but the crowd continued to swell as one of the incidents swept through the neighborhood when i woke up one hundred fifty two now when i drop my quarter from the dark tower. yes i see what happens is they jumped on market. we just got more and more said it was a cumulative thing it was one racist traffic stop two minutes. please. well going to the trunk this month high tech means good help whether it be the latest laser cutter

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professor from new york university stern school of business and john avalon, columnist for the dailyat to see all of you. you heard her say this is a huge black eye for john boehner. he comes in and says tax increases for those over a million. i've made a deal with the president. you should be excited about this deal and they're saying no way, buddy. that's not enough. we don't want any taxes. >> the speaker has been guided by some very simple principles. principle number one, he does be want to go over the tax cliff and he believes that. it is a threat and it would mean a recession. number one, let's keep taxes as low for as many americans as we can. and he has put forth a bill that does that. the third thing he stuck to again and again with the president, give me something that i can pass. it is fine for you you to posture, it can't get through the house of representatives. he is showing that to that. >> what happens now? do we go off the cliff? if the problem is republicans don't want to vote for any tax increases at all. there won't be anything that democrats will vote for that r

john avalon is "outfront" on this story right now.htrope for the president, john. >> it is. it's fascinating a brand new quinnipiac poll illustrates what a tough situation this is. for the first time, a narrow majority of americans, 51%, support legalizing marijuana. but here's where it gets politically interesting. when you break it down by party i.d., 58% of democrats and independents support legalizing marijuana. clear majority. only 31% of republicans do, however. so it's a fascinating shift where liberals and independents are saying, look. states rights at least on this issue. more individual liberty. and republicans are being more traditionalist about their attitudes. final point, this poll makes very clear it's a generational shift. just a second ago you were talking about the evolution of this issue of same-sex marriage. same thing with marijuana legalization. clear majorities of americans under age 44 supporting legalization. only 35%, however, of senior citizens supporting marijuana legalization. so a generational trend that

i want to bring in john avalon right now. this is what i find incredible is we are getting so focused on the deal and the politics of a deal and going off the cliff and if the cliff is a slope and missing the overall picture which is that we have a bigger crisis than anybody's talking about. >> that's a great point and exactly right and what they have been warning about. look. politics is the art of the possible and near term that focus on $4 trillion, $2 trillion, look how hard that is to get to. it doesn't begin to solve the larger problem. we need to get economic growth and cuts in ways that this congress can't contemplate. >> thank you. now let's bring in bill gross, founder of pimco. they said we're talking now and getting a deal done and focused on this whatever it's going to be. as you have pointed out, we could need $16 trillion. erskine bowles said you were absolutely right. what happens if we settle on what washington thinks is a big win? let's call it $3 trillion. >> i think $3 trillion, $4 trillion will be a suffi

stall san bruno north 280 at the avalon off-ramp. >>> we have breaking news.jured after what began as a chp pursuit ended with a deadly crash in oakland. amy hollyfield is live near the scene. >> reporter: officers are still here on the scene they say because it was a fatal accident they have a lot of work to do. the two cars involved are still here on 98th street this area still blocked 98th at golf links at 580 in oakland. police are going to be here for a while. they have the man who they think caused this. they say he's facing very serious charges. he was driving the bmw, police were trying to stop him for speeding but he refused to stop and took off and one minute later, crashed into a lincoln with four people inside

i have attended the meetings related to the loop and avalon developments. i commute on bart every day and worked at uc berkeley at the institute of transportation studies. i have carpooled a few times, but i have taken bart daily and i'm very much able to represent the interest of the bart riders. i frequently walk in the neighborhood. i walk from my home to ocean avenue to patronize the merchants on ocean avenue. in my work at the institute of transportation studies i manage one of the largest collection of transportation information in the country. i routinely provide access on transportation to transportation agencies and practicioners. pedestrians, bicyclists, land use, complete e streets and transit-oriented development. i have been active in the neighborhood association, including representing that group before meetings involving balboa park. i would welcome the opportunity to utilize my experience as a member of the community advisory committee. >> thank you. next we have richard james hogan. and then after richard we have david mauroff. >> good afte

frankie avalon. >> you played a record of mine and that was on a thursday and on a monday, i was own> reporter: over the years, clark barely seemed to age. he spoke of america's nickname for him. >> i have a terrible because people keep referring me as america's oldest living teenager. >> reporter: his agelessness so much of a punch line. >> i've been watching dick clark since i was a little kid. >> reporter: it was the 1970s, dick clark first started hosting on null year's eve. the program, just an hour and a half in the beginning, but expanding to six hours over the years. become an american staple every new year's. and only a stroke would slow dick clark. >> my speech is not perfect, but i'm getting there. >> reporter: and this year, his wife of nearly 35 years will be in times square. she was the one who helped screw that crystal triangle with dick clark's name under the giant ball. she spoke of the question so many people have asked her. >> 40 years i've been coming here, so, this year, people were saying, what are you going to do? i said, hmm. really -- i don't know what else t

off the coast of avalon. another earthquake off the coast of san diego was reported shortly after this was a 4.7. as of right now there are no to someone is in effect and no reports of any damage. >> anoother developing new is that we are following. monte vista high school at lincoln elementary school will be reopened and this morning. both schools were closed yesterday after school officials found graffiti at a nearby school that made a threat against a mountain of this the teacher. to get you more news faster we turn to kron4 is so low reporter mike pelton. he joins us live from monte vista high school. mike? >> this was a very scary day for students and parents. here is video and this all began about 24 hours ago just before 7:00. the officers responded at lynbrook high school. they feel about a bomb threat and it it was targeted against a certain teacher. we are not releasing the teacher's name to help protect him. the authorities came on the school premises with docs and evacuate the school. this entire

joining us from new york, john avalon and, john, would it be accurate to say that vice president biden and whatever senator republicans he was talking to, they're essentially scrambling to undo that emergency compromise that biden helped engineer in 2011? >> well, look, i think the key point here is that it reminds us how much politics is people. it is people in a room. and the rapport between the people makes all the difference in the world. and the fact that joe biden, part of the wisdom his selection and the logic behind it is here is a guy from washington for over 30 years and that reservoir of goodwill he bought, even mitch mcconnell, the two decades they served together in the senate, can bear fruit at times like this. the negotiations between harry reid and mitch mcconnell hit an impasse. mcconnell called biden. they were apparently able to break that impasse by reasoning together. that's the way our democracy works at the end of the day, when it works, people being reasonable in a room together based on a reservoir of trust. and that's an asset biden brings to the table. >> joh

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curious about this whole task forceful it is great to have a task force but there are three things john avalonorted they could do now. we haven't had an atf director in six years. apparently only .1 of 1% of people who lie on their background checks. of course the ban on assault weapons. why doesn't the president just do that now in. >> i think that the ban on the assault weapons, i think it legislatively expired in 2004. pass in the 1994. i don't know. other things seem like good ideas to me. i think there are two problems in this country. there are too many high magazine assault weapons and too many crazy people. and we ought to reduce both of them. we need fewer crazy people and fewer, you know, 30-clip, 30-round magazines in this country. and look, i own guns. i know a lot of my friends do. some of this stuff is kind of absurd. and i think it makes a very good point. the gun show loophole. some little loophole slips through and more crazy people get these things. i'm for doing something about mental health and these high ammo magazines. >> both of them are two crucial parts of the problem

after 1:17, the police found one of the brothers unconscious on the grass next to the sign of the avalon school. a video shows passengers working on the man for several minutes and he never regained consciousness. when he spoke to the brother, he told them this. >> he related toes that you he and his brother were in a black honda civic with at least two other people in the car. they received a ride and they were dropped off in the shopping center beus here at chestnut and route 355. >> the men began walking down west diamond avenue when the surviving brother said the same car they were riding in ran then over. the police damaged the car windshield in the nearby shopping center. >> we have the car and we're going to say softly where the car thawas that was there this morning. >> reporter: police say the case is being investigated as a homicide. earlier this afternoon, fox 5 spoke with the mother of the man killed. she declined to comment on camera but did say her son who survive side released from the hospital and is recovering at home. >>> all right, paul, thank you. >>> prince georges c

avalon, good morning, everyone. we begin in australia, with a confrontation with a shark. it cost a surfer two fingers and a chunk of his leg. the 29-year-old was surrounded by a pod of dolphins when the shark attacked yesterday. >> are you all right? >> yeah, i got my legs. i'm good. >> and witnesses say the man used his surfboard to fight off the shark. but the shark bit off two of his fingers. and sank its teeth into his legs. other surfers came to the man's aid until paramedics arrived. >>> and police in new york city are searching for a woman who pushed a man to his death in front of an oncoming subway train. police are checking homeless shelters and psychiatric units for the woman seen in this surveillance video running away from the scene of that crime. authorities released a sketch of that suspect. investigators used a smartphone and a bottle prescription pills to identify the victim. he's 46-year-old sunando sen. he is the second person in a month to be pushed to his death in the new york city subway system. >>> and the neighbor of the gunman who shot and killed t

john avalon said, congress is raising to diffuse a time bomb that congress wired. >> reporter: that'she thing is, and we will continue to be in this process. now the expectation, obviously, is that dealing with the long-term fiscal health, that will now get into the mix with the debt ceiling, which we're looking at in february and march. we'll be talking about these issues for a long time to come. >> for another metaphor, we're in the second inning of another long and painful process of how to have a skbugt how to stick to it. thanks, brianna keilar. >>> we'll take a closer look at the cliff and what failure to reach a deal could do to your paycheck and when. we'll also look at the hit that you're going to take even if they do reach a deal. >>> first here's a look at other top stories we're following. secretary of state hillary clinton is in the hospital because doctors discovered she had a blood clot. it was found during a followup exam for the concussion she suffered earlier this month. she was suffering from a virus and was dehydrated at that time. doctors say they will keep her in

the avalon school was closed for the day. >> i saw the body over there, but it's kind of scary. i'll tell you that. >> reporter: as police await the medical exam their, they continue to question the survive -- examiner, they continue to question the survivor and scour the areas for clues that could lead them to the driver of this car, the suspect and their murder. >>> still ahead on 9 news the suspected online predator busted with a young girl. at 5:30 we'll show you how to keep your child safe while surfing the net. >> we lost 10 or 12 degrees today compared to yesterday. we're not done yet. we'll tell you how cold it's going to get tonight and tomorrow and look ahead to the weekend, big ravens/redskins game. >> plus royally pranked, a radio dj pulls one over on a nurse tending to the pregnant duchess of cambridge. >> right after the break remembering jazz legend dave brubeck. ha never encnteredch a bning . until had thshingles. r re of the side sry, visit shinesinfoom like sebody d set a ba of hot chaoal ony neck. hai's somethg youdch a bning . ner wanto encounteochickenpx >>>

." >>> i'm john avalon in for erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, a stark warning from capitol hill.e majority leader harry reid says we're all headed for fiscal disaster. >> if we go over the cliff, and it looks like that's where we're headed, mr. president, the house of representatives, as we speak, with four days left before the first of the year, aren't here. >> we're now told the house will finally return to work on sunday. now, that's december 30th. in other words, less than 48 hours before we go over the fiscal cliff. meanwhile, president obama cut his hawaii vacation short to return to washington today. but has he been working on a deal? "outfront" tonight, reports from both ends of pennsylvania avenue. chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin, and senior congressional correspondent, dana bash. jessica, first, to you, the president's back in washington, wheels down. he left his christmas vacation early. but was this just a bit of showmanship, or has he been working on something specific? >> reporter: hey, john. well, today has been a bit of a quiet day here at the whit

this morning police found one of the brothers unconscious on the grass next to a sign for the avalon school. video of the scene shows paramedics working on the man several minutes, but never regained consciousness. when police spoke with the man's brother, he told them this. >> he related to us that he and his brother had been in a black honda civic with at least two other people in the car. they had received a ride and were dropped off in the shopping center right behind us here at chestnut and route 355. >> reporter: police say the men then began walking down west diamond avenue when the surviving brother says the same car they were riding in ran them over. police found the car with damage to the windshield and n a nearby shopping center. >> we -- in a nearby shopping center. >> we have the car. we're going to check with the registered owner, ask them where the car was, who had it this morning and hopefully close this case very soon. >> reporter: police say the case is being investigated now as a homicide. earlier today in potomac we spoke with the mother of the man killed. she dec

john avalon is looking into that.the party and even staunch, staunch members that are staunchly backed by the nra are united in their grief and say they want change to happen. will it? >> erin, sometimes it takes a tragedy to make us confront reality. and you are starting to see politicians on both sides of the aisle say maybe now is not the time to rely on ideology or partisan politics but take a long look on the laws around guns and not infringing on the second amendment but what reasonable restrictions can be put in place. in the last 24 hours two senators with nra ratings of a, joe manchin and mark warner said this event changed them and they're open to new solutions. let's take a listen to what senator manchin told christiane amanpour. >> who would have thought in america or anywhere in the world children would be slaughtered? it changed me. i don't know of anybody that goes hunting with an assault rifle. i don't know people that need 10, 20, 30-round clips. >> i believe every american has second amendment rights

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>> don, we have cnn contributor and columnist for newsweek and the daily beast john avalon joining us from new york. john, the remarkably and so dana had a lot of detail as don pointed out. why are we having this discussion with all of this detail with less than 36 hours to go to the deadline? they have had, and you know how many days to work this out? h 516 days since we first learned about the sequester and 12 years since we first learned that the bush era tax cuts would expire. >> yeah. the world's most predictable political crisis and this is a totally self-made problem. congress set this time bomb and now scrambling to diffuse it. it is a dereliction of duty. we were told all year that nothing would get done in the presidential year, because it was contentious, and that the lame duck would be productive and politicians would come together and reason together and think about the national interests, but it has not happened. they can't seem to focus on solving a problem until the literal last minute and the senate is at home and everything is going to be done tomorrow on new year's

john avalon, an editor and columnist as well. we wanted to have something like this.. we would ask some of the older guys and you might fall into that category, frankly, but we would ask people, who were the great columnists. jack newfield, we asked him, jimmy breslin, these guys, and they would call out these names and we would find out this stuff was out of print, you couldn't find it. we realized we need to grab hold of this stuff before it all gets lost in a maze of twitter and social media. >> i'm curious, is there any connective tissue between the folks that you chose in terms of what makes a great columnist. was there anything they all do? >> if you wanted to sort of boil it down to elements, first of all, they're all on deadlines, hence the name "deadline artist." it matters. we really try to find stuff that is right on deadline. you're writing in 800 words so it has to be punchy. these are people who put themselves on the line. they go out and report. >> report. >> yes, unlike people now who call themselves columnist and they're reflecting cocktail party chat

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it was southwest of avalon california.two quakes with in seconds of each other were first reported but the usgs says now there was just one main quake. there was a 4.7 after shock and that hit 15 minutes after the 6.3 quake. no tsunami warning was issued. >>> the massive fire at a fremont machine shop remains a concern this morning for several hours yesterday thick black smoke came from the factory near interstate 680. we are at the plant where firefighters are still keeping guard this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the fire department was called back out early this morning to take care of a stubborn hot spot. later the fire marshall is expected to come out to investigate. you can see this morning what's vest a gutted office building and machine shop. the fire started in the company around 1:45 yesterday afternoon. firefighters had to battle it defensively. the roof collapsed just minutes after they got here. management said they have a good insurance poll and i employees their top priority. all 80 or so

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joining us to talk about this is john avalon.nist for "newsweek" and "the daily beast." we're here again. it's like groundhog day. we don't think there's going to be any kind of grand bargain at this point. what are the short-term measures? what's the best thing to hope for in the next six days? >> the best thing we can hope for is they get back to work again, suzanne. from all reports leadership isn't even talking to each other at this point. so it really is urgent. with six days left, the clock is ticking and the countdown is going on. this is not something abstract on the washington level. people need to appreciate if the country goes over the fiscal cliff, it will impact the bottom line as well. money out of their pocket in the form of tax hikes. >> we have stop gap measures. there are some things they can do. what are they at least talking about? >> the president said in his friday press conference that he was hoping for not a grand bargain but a piecemeal. let's come up to an agreement so that the vast majority of americans

the quake with a magnitude of 6.4, it struck in the pacific ocean off the southern coast of avalon, californiaand about 170 miles from mexico. no reports of damage or injuries and no tsunami warning has been issued but coming up we'll talk with a seismologist to see if this could be the start of something bigger. bill: there are new concerns secretary of state hillary clinton will not testify about the attacks in benghazi. both the house and senate foreign relations committees had announced she would testify and in fact that would happen in about a week's time. now the state department says that is not such a done deal. congressman ed royce is on the house foreign affairs committee. he chairs the terrorism committee. he is my guest now and, sir, good morning to you. >> good morning. bill: what do you read into this? >> bill, since the beginning we haven't been able to get answers but now we have the accountability review board's report which is dewey has to be shared with congress. we expect the secretary of state to come and answer some questions that frankly have been asked by the media and

john avalon described it like this. a time bomb they set that they are now trying to defuse. >> um-hum. >> we should remind people, congress made this mess and now they are arguing about whether they have a one-week leeway or maybe we have a -- it's -- it's pathetic. >> well, i think that time bomb analogy is a very good one. i likened it often to a slow-moving car wreck. where you are watching it happen, waiting for someone to take the wheel to avert the cliff. democrats and republicans are still far apart on the threshold for who taxes should go up on. democrats have been at 250, but reports yesterday as i was talking to my sources that democrats have moved on that in negotiations with republicans and somewhere to the 350, 360 range and republicans are looking for more around the half million range. so there is still a ways to go here. we walk into the final hours. there is a question about whether we go over the cliff and we come back after new year's day with the same story being told and the same problem to address

coast just south of the mexican border around a hundred miles southwest of catalina and a town of avalononcern was there is a tsunami warning but there was no issue. monta vista high school in lincoln elementary school are reopened this morning. those schools are closed yesterday after officials saw graffiti at a nearby high school that made a threat against a teacher at monta vista. the teacher is being monitored closely and no explosive devices were found. it's a chilly morning across the bay area and received temperatures freezing in many areas. across the visor is inept at 4 east bay valleys. >> the clouds were not in the financial district will be for started at 48 am. they rolled in overtime and with that the temperatures have been on a chilly side. 374 nevado and santa rosa 35 and pleasanton which is in our calls all morning long. also low '40's in the south bay 46 for san francisco and oakland. the trust advisory still in effect for another 15 or so minutes. it is in the areas of think where we saw temperatures awfully cold this morning, darn near freezing for a bit of the overni

. >>> cnn contributor john avalon is sitting in tonight on "erin burnett outfront".rts the idea of letting school principals have guns? >> this is true, candy. we're talking to an arizona sheriff who's backing the nra's plan, wants to arm school principals as a way of hedging against any future gun violence. we're going to ask him if that plan really adds up. also, the latest on the fiscal cliff, and our top 5 political viral videos of 2012. they helped set the tone of the debate. it's a lot of fun to go through. >> about 15 minutes from now, we'll be watching. thanks, john. >> thanks, candy. >>> actor matthew mcconaughey is opening up to cnn about the way he's using his fame and money to help young people improve their lives. >> i've got things. i'm one of the haves. there are a lot of have-nots. we're giving the proverbial fishing rod instead of the fish to a lot of these kids, and thankfully, they're taking it and they're using it. ®, i have the proven allergy relief of zyrtec®, plus a powerful decongestant. zyrtec-d® lets me breath freer, so i can love the air. [