the-you're barrett is a live from reagan -- and that's how shall bear it is live from reagan national. >> inside, many delays and canceled flights as people are still trying to make their way back home for this weekend. it is a storm that keeps making its mark. the storm it deflated the dome in minneapolis, moving the game 2 tonight in detroit. people are waiting to leave nbc at reagan national airport. these travelers are trying to get the portland, maine. >> when we saw what was happening weather wise on friday and saturday, i thought we were going to be in late on monday. >> this has been one of the great storms in the twin cities. almost two feet of snow. as the storm moves east, bone- chilling 50 mile per hour wind is moved in. >> stuck in the snow, cannot get out. >> white that conditions have made travel dangerous and some of snow plows were pulled off of the road. 1600 flights were canceled just in the chicago area and not to mention the fact in atlanta. some of them are still trying to get home. >> you always have to look over your shoulder to be able to do something when thi

natasha barrett has details. ♪ >> anti-war protesters chained themselves to the white house fence. 500showed up in lafayette park for the rally. inside, the president released his a review on afghanistan. he expects to reduce our forces next july. >> thanks to the extraordinary service of our troops and civilians on the ground, we are on track to achieve our goals. >> the new annual government report on operations in afghanistan and pakistan says that the increased success in recruiting of afghan forces and it has been crucial in the war's gains. >> in terms of what that war looks like beyond july, 2011, the answer is we do not know. >> the campaign in southern afghanistan was more difficult and has taken longer. security there is on target. the transition to afghan forces. the most famous was a low of the vietnam era was one of many arrested for civil disappointmeobedience. >> we will not end this war today. only the american people can do that. >> earlier today, he held a news conference defending wikileaks founder julian assange. ellsberg says that julian assange should not be prose

record that he did and going to new york and working with, you know, jackie wilson, working with barrett strong, writing some great songs back then, obviously meeting smokey robinson and what a great songwriter/lyricist he is. and think of the contribution that he's made to american music. i don't know, i just feel, again, it's a blessing. the way it all started for me was outside playing with my friends. i heard these kids playing some git ars a little ways away, and i wanted to go where they were. and my mother had a rule, obviously that, i couldn't go across the street by myself. but i had to find a way of doing it. i think that particular day me and my friends, we did this thing where we'd go in the alley, you know. we call it snapping now, but play instruments. it was crazy. there was this family that owned this kind of car repair shop a couple of blocks away from where i lived. and the alley was right in back of their place and the heinz brothers' repair shop, and i guess they heard us making noise in the back. said some bad words and all that kind of craziness. so he came, you kno

barrett? >> i'm barrett duke, for the southern baptist convention's ethics and religious liberty commission. as you heard, we have about 16 million members in the united states worshiping in about 45,000 autonomous congregations. hundreds of those of our congregations currently engaged in refugee resettlement. they are currently looking for folks that they can assist to get settled into the united states and help them assimilate as well into other communities. some of them are finding it very difficult to do that because these folks cannot get permanent legal status that they need to actually be able to really engage in life here and know that they are going to be a will to stay and it's becoming frustrating to a number of our congregations and certainly to less at the southern baptist convention as well. we support the goals of the real i.t. act and we recognize that there are real terrorists who have real intentions of farming and killing americans and others who support democracy and freedo

around the table to get a firmer grip on the continent wide debt crisis next week but richard boyd barrett from the people before profit alliance says ordinary workers are being made to pay for the mistakes of the rich and powerful. europe clearly has a big part to play particularly in its you know pursues of neo liberal policies of deregulation of lowering taxes and well to privatization all of those have certainly contributed very serious these the current situation but it's important to stress that our own government our own rulers have been very much into zero stick champions of those same policies and indeed many irish senior irish political figures have ended open senior positions within the european union because they are of a mind with that body in pursuing these failed policies that have done so much damage to this country and we are being a commie if the european commission european central bank want to save the euro then they should pay for it on the phone told us on the speculators who calls the crisis they should play to save the euro not poor. poor people and working people w

natasha barrett is live in south east with the latest. >> this bitter cold outside and the old pipes in d.c. underground are not a good combination. we could still see some water on the street behind me. people will live out here were without water since 10:00 a.m. we found about five water main breaks in d.c. today. this man cannot go anywhere because he has not showered. this gaping hole outside his front door is the problem. a water main broke today. >> my mother needs to be based. >> his mother is 75-years old with alzheimer's. they have to share one bathroom with three people. >> you cannot go out there and replace the pipes. >> in south east, the same thing. workers have been fixing to fix the pipes but it takes time. he already has enough stress to deal with. his brother just passed away. >> we cannot go anywhere until the water comes on. >> that water main break may take a little bit longer. it is a bigger break in northeast d.c. i like this in southeast. >>> now we want to head over to gale in northwest to find out how people are dealing with this cold. >> 10 days before chr

turn to wftv steve barrett live in lake county, florida., we saw now on the early morning feeds and we couldn't believe -- i mean, the way the crops look behind you, give us a show and tell. there's actual ice on the leaves there? is that right? >> absolutely. you can see it right behind me. look at the citrus trees here in florida look like. sunny florida. covered in ice. just a second here, i'm going to tell you how this is helpful and we'll have phillip here give us a look right down the aisle here. this is 350 acres of groves. called the showcase of citrus and it is like a winter wonderland this morning but this is all done with irrigation. i can show you they have these tiny little irrigation sprayers still working right now. they're going to be on all day for most of the day here and what they does is puts the water on the tree. creates the ice and then the ice creates a barrier to the cold believe it or not. the more ice you have got on it, the better off the citrus is and overnight they watched it quickly. a demonstration of how the

police say a man was killed at 7:30 in a construction site at the barrett quarry in frederick county. investigators say he somehow got trapped near a rock crusher. the man has not been identified. we'll bring you more information as it becomes available. >>> today the city fire department will host a neighborhood sweep in east baltimore, four days after a massive fire took the lives of six people. the sweep will take place in the 2300 block of homewood avenue where the fatal fire occurred. firefighters will go door to door making sure residents have working smoke detectors. if they don't, smoke alarms will be installed for them. it's not clear if the homeowners who died had working detectors. >>> a man tries to steal from a local bake sale, but several witnesses didn't let him get away. it happened last night in hamden as the miracle on 34th street. the bark's animal shelter was selling baked goods to raise a money when the man grabbed the donation box and took off. a bark staffer and two others were able to chase him down. police arrested the man and barks got their money back. >>> d

and also our announcer dicky barrett is getting his old band back together.dicky: no, we go with the funky bunch. >> jimmy: the mighty mighty bosstones, the annual hometown throwdown. this is the 13th throwdown. they do it every year. house of blues in boston. december 26th, 27th, 28th. >> thank you, jimmy. >> jimmy: you can get tickets through ticketmaster, so -- >> dicky: thank you, jimmy. >> jimmy: thank you, dicky. you don't take a break. you continue entertaining. >> dicky: i'm a machine. >> jimmy: this guy works ten so for him -- >> dicky: solid hour and ten, though. >> jimmy: our first guest is an oscar-nominated actor, who is now also a golden globe-nominated actor. yesterday his new movie earned six nominations including best actor. "the fighter" opens nationwide on friday. please say hello to mark wahlberg. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you brought your own water? >> yeah. >> jimmy: all right. >> how are you? >> jimmy: what's happening? [ cheers and applause ] oh, yeah, that's right. you guys are -- fellow bostonites. >> he's been an honorary me

general consensus is if you drive a car in the bay area there's not much you can do except grain and barrett. in stanford's is good george bush for kron4 news. >> end world is the bomb was found in the package in received at the greek embassy in rome. they're investigating other suspicious package is said to danish facilities in italy. scared comes after bombs were sent to chile and embassies. all incidences are related. nine men accused of committing threats are charged in london. the amount of people arrested following a series of raids in fort counter officials. three of them arrested at been released without charge. the police spokesman says they do not know who it was charged but they were released to ensure public safety. will be record after this break prayed accurate and then they send you your payments. once they received the item you should be paid within a week. you can be sent a check in the mail are be paid by paid pelt. >> it is 547. we're >> the winter storm conditions are eminent. to plessey is not expected around 5,000 ft.. snell levels of 4,000 ft. when the snow starts late

improvement even though today the economy is much better diversified and muslim -- much less agricultural barrett we should expect to improve stability even if the fed had no effect for the fed has done worse than have no effect. the fed had naturally more stable economy to deal with the matter is watch, the economy has been less stable because they have tried to do too much with monetary policy. fine-tuning has turned out to be destabilizing in practice. we can try measuring stability by looking at the frequency and length of recessions. if you look at the old free sessions using the new statistics as christina romer reported in 1999, the average length of recessions is one month longer in the post-world war two era than before that. she said that in 1999. with we had in the recent recession, the case for the fed's failure becomes even stronger. as an aside, let me say that the feds bail out during the recent crisis did not save the economy. they have sharply increased the bad incentives for reckless bank and financial market behavior going forward. i am not saying we should go back to the execs

barrett duke will be next. the southern baptist church has 16 million members and represents 45,000 churches. next we will hear from michael horowitz, who is our host at the hudson institute greg he served in the reagan administration and played a key role in getting the improvements to the law that i represent -- the reference. after michael, we will hear from melanie nezer. she is incredibly knowledgeable about the details of block and their impact on real refugees. finally, wendy wright. you've got a very broad perspective and people who are devoting the energies and talents and the power of their organizations to stand up for refugees were unjustly affected by these laws. >> thank you, elisa massimino. i am the director of migration policies and public affairs at the u.s. conference of catholic bishops. when the first explain why the catholic church is concerned about this issue. this is an institutional issue. we bring in about 18-20,000 refugees into this country each year. we have overseen separations th

the chairman of the appropriations committee told our ted barrett today he does think he has 60 votes to do it. you heard mitch mcconnell, other republicans said this is outrageous, exactly what voters said they didn't want to do, not just the overall spending, but the fact that democrats are trying to do this huge bill, all the work they were supposed to do all year long in just a few days before they leave for the session. >>> dana, i know you'll be busy over the next couple weeks. >>> there are new concerns about north korea's nuclear capabilities and a potential war with the south. we'll tell you why a popular u.s. governor accepted an invitation to the region. >>> what prompted violent protests to erupt on the streets of rome. details ahead. >>> the biggest winners in jeopardy history. but can they beat watson? we'll explain. ♪ [ male announcer ] they've been tested, built and driven like no other. and now they're being offered like no other. come to the winter event and get an exceptional offer on the mercedes-benz of your dreams. it's our way of showing a little holiday spirit.

barrett -- thank you very much. the public benefits is that they protect precisely the values that the market does not protect. to say that it is didn't demand is to shift -- it is to presume that they know before they come to the university of what they should know. it presumes that they know they have it all mapped out at the age of 18. >> a lot of people go to university in order to get to an education. universities are a whole range of institutions. that is what you need to do. that is not the only role of the university. there are also people to go because they want to study the arts and dramatics and they love them. that can carry on. we are not reaching into the jar and saying that should be -- >> you did not exactly know what you wanted to do at 18. >> of course. what you do have to note is exactly how many seminars will i be able to attend. how many essays will i be expected to write? how well-equipped lab be? >> he talks about the different degrees. i detect a bit of condescension. art is there a worry tha

dig deeper into your pockets and really feel the heart fell barrett of christmas. santa your thoughts on what's going on? bam we are needing a lot more toys than we have gone so far. we are going to need another 30,000 toys. just to cover the people in san francisco that need toys. it's desperate people need to come down and bring us toys that we need to distribute to the children. it is most important. >> this is your first year i left the keys don't work at macy's this is a blessing right. that is a bad word. it's marvelous. it's wonderful to be here. they treat me like a king. at macy's they wouldn't provide santa with the dressing room. >> let's send it back to mark. >> was sent back to you as the news continues. up the morning we have been tracking santa claus joining us now from norad is john. by john. where is he now? >> santa is crossing russia again. >> where's he going next? >> i don't know we just try camorra rico's. >> out do we anticipate him coming to the east coast after sunset? >> we expect him around 7:00 p.m. over on our coast that's what we've se

james barrett >> here in the newsroom and report to the u.s.han half the nation's larger cities in october it rose in one-third of the others bay area made that last and is partially labor department says it dropped in 200 of the 300 metro area spirit week to put together a graphic in that it shows if you look at october of last year and october of this year and calculate the jobs lost in we ranked second in the nation the top was chicago area the loss 62,000 jobs bay area lost 33,000 and right behind that was to try. losing 32,600. although detroit has been hardest hit with automotive strand interest- rate surprisingly enough bay area's top them on that list. unfortunately. more on this report to come out through the day you can be sure. >> the latest with the british judge. sodium thiopentayou can see the media d to get a picture through the tin windows he was arrested on a warrant in london for the crimes in sweden he that's why he was in a british court this morning. robert gates weighing and he was meeting in afghanistan when reporters ask

mnc barrett and dallas.everyone the auditioning for the rain now. >> when it comes to auditioning and being in sports is everyone's dream to go to tomorrow. and maybe play in the super roll. you heard about this safety, editor of is that? >> no love it creates. >> these a good player. since with the jets. >> he is a good player. it's not steady what he keeps getting cut or what ever so they call him up, the jets do because they need them. i he says i recently got this job as a train conductor is steady, benefits i support my family, they spend of banks. i really do think you but there's more on the missing, not the family. >> how great is that, you get an idea of hey, if this thing is for real or of this just for one week. so why go take a checked and then start arriving? that's terrific. >> you know car that's got to be right when you love football. in your browser very love to play. speaking are you ready for a good hard reality been cut for five times a may not be start. >> its distance between are very l

there's a storm that came done it yesterday in the nation's capital and barrett they're blowing dust off the steps of the capital and shoving out as well by yesterday there was 2 in. on the ground and they had to ground someplace because of this out. >> i read so our team coverage continues as we headed to the weekend and taking a live look at the golden gate bridge. it is so well on our lens you can hardly see that traffic is very heavy. welcome back to kron4 news morning. the time right now is 7:15 a.m. at the shot right out the golden gate bridge with wide roads out there. chars accord to continue throughout the morning with heavy downpours in to the afternoon the record to see light trading gusting winds as we head towards our radar is showing us right now but it is going into the north bay and in to the adults as well. your picking up some sprinkles, there is some heavier rain drops along highway 37 as you head to the layout and along bead this morning in to back the bill with heavier rain. some scattered showers into fremont and the it down our bridge. here is a look at your sa

one more thing to put into my incident report, westbound 80 on barrett avenue through rich montrichmoridge but thunder showers off the north of the gold i can get bridge, a cell over san rafael and san jose south ward we're dry but to morgan hill, rain there and follow down the central coast today. we'll see some rain and timele. highs in mid 50s today and slight chance of thunder shower, unsettled today, heavier rain today, and a break thursday into friday. >>> with help the 49ers are still in the playoff hunt this morning. the two teams ahef san francisco, st. louis and seattle bought lost yesterday, giving the niners a slifr of hope. san francisco must win their fwo two games and seattle has to lose one fo san francisco to advance to the playoffs. niners play in st. louis on sunday and close things out on january 2 against arizona. >>> the raiders are hanging in the playoff hunt this morning, they let the broncos hang around until the second half of yesterday's game. final 39-23. raiders still trail kansas city and san diego in the afc west. they need to win their final two games t

objections to a commercial context and not to the security context, but it is still a roddick but barrett be those who would chip away and really hack away at our right to free speech and a free press was the same time wanting government to get out of the regulatory business with respect to commercial activities, so with that, i will yield back. thank you, mr. chairman. >> you're welcome. >> and i will note that not many are rounded to listen to my comments. >> the chair now recognizes texas. >> i would want a yes or no. we are providing approach boat information that has been provided to them. yes or no is the amazon cloud server. is it a recipient? is an internet service provider a recipient, yes or no. >> yes, but is unconstitutional. >> its is what? >> it is unconstitutional for purposes of criminal liability >> the medium is a recipient >> it would be moved to apply it that way >> yes, they are a recipient. the statue will apply once they disclose again. it is not a crime to recede. it is to transmit. like the professor, i think that application would be unconstitutional. >> it would