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. >> host: dale hatfield, going babb to the urban -- back to the urban congestion issue, are we almost to the crisis point when it comes to spectrum availability in the urban areas much like traffic is at a standstill in many urban areas? >> there sure are some challenges. you know, the choice of words, but clearly in major urban areas the rapid growth of devices like ipads and so forth that use a lot of, especially video. your voice conversation, of course, doesn't use much of the resource, but when you start talking about doing a lot of video and that sort of activity, it really increases the band width. and the more these devices come online, we just see them all the time, that really puts upward pressure in the urban areas. and the studies that i've done suggest that while there are certain efficiency measurements that we can get in terms of getting more video through a given slice of spectrum, that's not going to be the long-term answer. and what we have to do is use spectrum more intensely in the geographic sense. and what i mean by that is when cellular started out, it used grea

part of the world we're ignoring now in both a touch and sensible kind of way i'm going to keep going babb finance and economic plans, the "wall street journal" says if you really want somebody 20 do something effective, look at jon huntsman's plan. if you think about it being eight or ten states instead of 50, you have to be looking at governor huntsman. >> i'm going to lose you in a minute, does he need to win new mexico or a strong showing? >> i think a strong. several people have said second or third gets him in the limelight. there's been a winnowing of other candidates, and at the end of the day it could be governor romney, speaker gingrich and jon huntsman. >> merry christmas, governor ridge. thank you for your work on the flight 93 memorial. >> i was going to thank you for your work. thank you, michael. >>> when we return, let me finish with how the republican party's opposition is finally catching up to them. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. this was the gulf's best tourism season in years. all because so many people came to louisiana... they came to see us in florida...

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babb to the desk. >> thank you, rosemary. >>> some shaking here in california last night. plus a powerful temblor overseas in a place where deadly earthquakes hit this year. >>> plus -- winds were howling again in southern california? take a look. we'll take a look at some of the damage. >>> and how many tents are left at occupy camps today? >>> good morning. jack london square. you can see the gusty winds are gone, calm conditions and it's cold outside our doors this morning. >>> in southern california, santa ana winds are dying down as west yesterday, 60-mile-per- hour wind gusts flipped over several tractor-trailers in san bernardino county. it was even hard for people to stand up. in other areas, the winds toppled some trees. so far there's no word of serious injuries or major damages. >>> thank you, rosemary. >> i just checked with the faa website. right now there are no weather delays at any airports in the country. still, bay area airports are bracing for big crowds this morning as a rush of holiday travelers try to get to their low cases -- location -- locations. a

it's like the taliban, al qaeda, like that babb of -- like sahabab. >>> at least seen serp people are after a suicide bombing at a checkpoint leading to the iraqi insterier ministry in banged -- interior ministry in baghdad. no one has claimed responsibility for the attack but it kurmsz after a series of bombings last week that killed upper to -- comes after a series of bombings last week that kill -- killed last week. >>> police in southern california are a -- have identified the man they say shot an army solder at his -- soldier at his own welcome home party. the shooting happened friday night in san francisco. these are pictures now of sullivan who was an afghan army vet. it's believed eduardo shot sullivan over an argument over football. >>> thousands of credit card numbers and personal information belonging to clients of a security thank tank. "anonymous" says they stole the confidence client police which includes the air force, the police and even apple. some victims are confirming unauthorized transactions linked to their credit cards. >>> tw men face chaushes. the incident hap

apple suppliers are cutting babb on time -- cutting back on time off during the lunar holiday. >>> drew brees is now a new nfl record holder. >> touchdown! >> brees through for 307 yards in last night's game to break dan marin know's record. that record stood for 27 years. the saints beat the falcons, 45- 16. >>> volunteers are working overtime to finish decorating the floats for the rose parade. the theme this year is "just imaginen -- imagine." this is the 123rd rose parade. an iraq war winner and jr martinez will serve as the grand marshals. >>> dozens of fights break out at the minnesota mall of america. the two rappers police believe may have started the whole thing. >>> preparing to bury a leader. north korea gets ready for kim jong-il's funeral. hopping cart. so 2005. wait, what? and only 3 likes? honey, it's embarrassing. carol's son got over 12 million views on that dancing squirrel video. don't you want that? i...i suppose. now go make your dad and me proud. try something funny. [ male announcer ] now everyone's up to speed. get high speed internet for $14.95 a month for 12 mo

. >> was babbs, wasn't it, tony? that's my final answer, yeah. >> i'll take your word for it. >> i know that allison is correct, just trying to humor you. >> we're hoping we can go back to the way we were, week one. i know it was a long, long time ago, but how do you work barbara streisand -- it's a stretch. >> the way we were >> good for you. >> as i was saying, let's hope that we can get back to the glory days of week one because everything looked so good, looked so promising and they started off so well. >> memories from the cast. >> i will not sing. i know my limitations. the redskins have had a lot of limitations since week one, but in week one everything was so good the way we were . here it is ryan playing his first game ever as a member of the burgundy and gold, breaking off a 14 tie with that great tip, interception, rex grossman to jabar gaffney, can't feel his face he's so hot. >> is that what that mean? >> i can't feel my face. 28-14, everybody is happy and, well, sadly -- shortly after this game -- i tol