first, we're joined by paul barrett from bloomberg businessweek. his latest book is called, "glock: the rise of america's gun." welcome back to "democracy now!" talk about what happened on friday and put in context of gun violence in this country. >> what we saw is yet another one of these huge the disturbing mass killings that i think is the almost inevitable outcome of a society that is permeated by firearms, some 300 million guns in private hands right now. the intersection of a society like that with mental illness, which is almost inevitable in society. once again, and that a young man, for reasons we do not yet know and may never know, snapped. guns are readily at hand. that would be my first cut to the awful thing that happened in connecticut. >> just what hours, something like that before in china, another mentally disturbed man went into a school and knifed 23 people, 22 of them children. i think one has died. the difference was, he had a knife. adam lanza had a gun. >> the united states, for better or for worse, is a gun culture. we are a

nolan and all board, i'm michael barrett. i'm a member of save muni. for four years here in san francisco. i'm here to address the central subway construction option of north beach * . our last meeting was november 19th, which has been mentioned, when we finally had representatives of the mta present what they plan to do, and nobody in north beach had heard or agreed with any of it. so, i mentioned at that meeting that i have never missed a vote. i've been in this city for 45 years, but i couldn't remember having voted on this project. i was informed correctly that the taxpayers voted for the subway in the late 1990s for a $6 47 million expense, which is now $1.58 billion, with a b. the whole project is too little too late. and the mta has made cost cuts, but prices continue to rise. as required by the federal law, the city of san francisco must pay for all overruns on this project. i ask the mta board what are your latest project costs? and how can we continue this new project when our present and regular equipment are continually breaking down, as wa

nolan and all board, i'm michael barrett. i'm a member of save muni. for four years here in san francisco. i'm here to address the central subway construction option of north beach * . our last meeting was november 19th, which has been mentioned, when we finally had representatives of the mta present what they plan to do, and nobody in north beach had heard or agreed with any of it. so, i mentioned at that meeting that i have never missed a vote. i've been in this city for 45 years, but i couldn't remember having voted on this project. i was informed correctly that the taxpayers voted for the subway in the late 1990s for a $6 47 million expense, which is now $1.58 billion, with a b. the whole project is too little too late.

melissa: mike barrett, this is great point. wee don't know who we're giving the planes to. >> i used to live in turkey. i love it as a country. we see islamist oriented government has taken over the reins in terms of military. they put the senior military officers on trial. as a result they now exert a lot more political influence over this. while i agree with judy on the point the egyptian military is the not problem. what i'm worried who will give orders to the egyptian military in a year, two years, three years. melissa: what is the best way to play that? we all agree there is a lot of uncertainty in the situation. it is incredibly volatile. everyone in charge or in power over there may or may not be our friends. but at the same time, withdrawing everything brings its own peril. michael rubin, let me start with you. what do you think is the best way to respond to maintain influence but, you know, not turn over weapons to people who will use them against us or our allies? >> first of all, we have to underrtand that egypt shou

interesting story for anyone who has to use a computer is our old pal barry brown who is a member barrett yeah there we used to have on the show all the time he said about him all the time until he was sent to prison and i actually just unsealed a new indictment against him the other day and for copying and pasting a link a link to a website where people could download that big stratfor hack from last year or the and went to wiki leaks the big surprise that intelligence company all that data all those credit cards all those e-mails for barrett allegedly sharing that link he's now looking at decades in prison so it's one of the few cases that we've seen in the last couple of weeks where it seems like they're trying to really hammer out computer laws that don't quite exist so good are to dot com so she would say you can read about the new indictment against barrett brown who's just activist who is a links to the united this collective and then like i said go learn about the drones that are coming over to the air force go learn about the unemployment rate yeah and see what laws are regarding

in the wisconsin recall election, here's what the nra did to mayor tom barrett. >> this is your freedom. this is your freedom tom barrett gets your chance to recall the gun rights. >> freedom is the buzz word. nra was more than $17 million, according to our next guest, john nichols, about 6% was spent in support of americans. $11 million was spent against democrats. i'm joined tonight by john nichols. john, i don't want to overstate this. do you think that there is a divide in this country between urban and rural when it comes to the gun culture? >> this divide and how it's talk about and there's a divide in how it's thought about it. . it's not one that can't be left, but it's one that president obama and supporters of gun control have to understand. and they have to take lessons from some of the political figures who have figured out how to leap over it. it's not that hard. what you do have to understand is that people in rural america and grew up around guns. i did. i come from a very small town. my grandfather was a gun collector. he and i made shells in the basement. we went skeet

of barrett's spot group is one of the persons cited in the group and he has research in projects like this and sports arenas and other things and in 2011 talking about the kingace project in kak kak he said "a city must do the due diligence with projects like this and particularly with opportunities come risks and challenges and those risks and challenges have to be weighed carefully before you move forward". i do not feel that the current process is giving due weights to the concerns of the neighborhood whose quality of life is going to suffer traditionally unless mitigations are made and if this project is so great for san francisco and i hope it is. we have tickets for warriors tickets. we request there is nothing wrong to put it front of the citizenry and with respectful deliberation. thank you. >> thank you. >> sue hester i got my feet wet in this area by participating in the giants project, and that went on for several years, and the giants showed us all how it is done. they worked with the community, the community of their neighbors, the broader community of the city. the eir t

tom barrett was not talking about guns in that race. that's not the reason he lost. were other reasons that he lost that we regret. the fact is we have mayors who understand if you do the right thing, politics will take care of themselves. they run and they win. >> what do they hope to achieve. >> first thing is, maybe close to 50% get a background check. >> that's because of the gun show loophole. anyone can go into a gun show and that was before the internet generation. now a huge and growing share of the private gun sales that take place in this country with no background check are online with no background check, no record of the transportation and no questions asked. so you should require a background check for all gun sales. second thing you should do is take a very serious look is whether we can craft an assault weapons ban that causes enormous amount of mayhem in minutes because nobody has to reload. you should try to do that seriously in a way that gets them off the streets and i think we can do it. believe it or not, no federal statute makes gun buying a cr

>> a fanciful barrette for her hair. a new hairdo, rocking a new look. >> i didn't know that. >> how could you not know that about nancy grace's barrette? everybody is talking about it. if we're going to do a countdown, that's my number one story of the year, easily. >> we'll see you monday night, 10:00. we're starting an hour earlier this year. 10:00 p.m. all the way to 12:30. >> how many days are we going to rehearse before that? >> that would be zero. the magic, it's all about the magic of that moment. it's live tv. >> remember, you don't need to know everything. >> okay. thanks, kathy. >> bye. >> and there will be plenty more of that magic on monday. cnn's new year's eve live with anderson cooper and kathy griffin starts at 10:00 p.m. eastern this year from times square. we have been counting down your ten favorite ridiculist of the year. number six tonight, a festive holiday story featuring what else, a strip club. anderson's take on the toys for tatas program coming up next. >> hi. >> hi. you know, i can save you 1

reporting live, natasha barrett, abc 7 news. coming up, the fbi is rating -- raiding a buildings. >> now the coffee giant is expanding. we will tell you how many more shops will soon be popping up. plus, the new advice for and a cancer survivors life-saving drug. >> business reviews have become common in this day and age. how far can negative reviews go and fairfax county lawsuit this this is on the internet. a contractor is doing a woman a comment she posted about his work. over a commentman she posted about his work. negative posts you can , but significant portions need to be taken out. these two went to high school , buther in falls church this is proving to be a bad both sides. for the past year and a half, is the day that chris has been waiting for. to be able to say that i was do anynd i did not wrong and justice prevails, it is a great healing. today's decision comes from heinternet posting on what on this fairfax county owned by jane perez. perez hired a company for a job. awful --s it was .cuffed floors she aired her g

. >> woodruff: devlin barrett is covering this story for the "wall street journal," and has more details for us now. so, thank you for joining us. how much money was involved and what are some other examples of what was going on beside this box that fit through the tellers' window. >> the $800 million you mentioned is what they know was essentially laundered drug proceeds but there's also actually vast pools of billion of dollars of money where the bank wasn't paying attention and wasn't checking the basic principle of know your customer. personally one of my favorite little tidbits in this whole case is there was a sequence of transactions in a bank in japan in which they brought sequentially numbered travelers checks into this one little bank in japan totaling $290 million. no one seemed to have any idea where it was coming from. it all traced back to a guy in russia who claimed to be a used car salesman. >> woodruff: a used car salemans. >> with $290 million in sequentially numbered travelers checks. >> woodruff: isn't there supposed to be internal monitoring going on inside a bank? >

a big surprise in intelligence company all that data all those credit cards all those e-mails for barrett allegedly sharing that link he's now looking at decades in prison so it's one of the few cases that we've seen in the last couple of weeks where it seems like they're trying to really hammer out computer laws that don't quite exist so good are to dot com so she would say you can read about the new indictment against barrett brown who's just hacktivist who has a links to be anonymous collective and then like i said go learn about the drones that are coming over to the air force go learn about the unemployment rate yeah and see what was there regarding the internet certainly still a wide open field without a lot of ramifications drawn out producer andrew blake review of what is trending today on the web site the web site thanks so much. well when we talk about going over the fiscal cliff one of the things lawmakers really on both sides of the aisle fear most are these massive cuts to the defense budget that would go into effect leaders in washington warn pretty much on a daily basis the

i am scott thuman. >> i am natasha barrett. we will get to meteorologist adam caskey. are you warm? >> i will fire up the yule log in about nine minutes. first let's start with what's happening outside. we will have a light wintry mix today, but nothing to panic about. just enough to put us in the spirit of the season. is a look at our satellite and radar. areas of rain migrating through southwestern virginia. that will continue to push our way and bring us in light wintry mix about lunchtime. 26 in a country village, 25 in waldorf, 23 in bristow. 28 in aldie. a light, wintry mix around noon and then kept in light rain fall in the afternoon. damp roads is all that's expected. high temperature of 42. >> some travelers could be dealing with a nightmare before and after christmas. meteorologist are talking about two big storms. >> get ready for a white christmas across parts of the u.s.. this is video from reno nevada, where visibility was an issue as drivers tried to make their way through a snowstorm. >> in syracuse, new york sn

i'm natasha barrett. let's get straight to adam caskey. merry christmas. belfortn the furniture weather center. a few wet anda sloppy snowflakes. no accumulation expected. that will turn to rain. rain in north carolina and points south. systempart of the pushing our way. we will see a light mix around lunchtime changing then overtraining. a few sloppy snowflakes to get christmas. it's 32 at reagan national, 28 in winchester, 25 in manassas, dulles. we will be in los low 40's this light mixwith a changing over to train. wednesday, a big rain maker into town the day after christmas. you.to >> the maryland state highway administration is keeping an campf the weather possibility of any freezing rain right now. officials are fully stocked with surprise and will deploy equipment as needed. with nearly a third of all americans traveling this meteorologist are about what could be the nightmare after christmas. two new storms are moving in. rob nelson it is on storm watch. >> there is no place like home for the holidays, but the making it easy to get there. rain sn

i want to turn to paul barrett, who we had on yesterday's, author of "bloch: the rise of america's gun i asked about senator feinstein's announcement that she will reintroduce the ban on assault weapons on the first of the senate. >> i will read the legislation very closely when it is out. i have to say i'm skeptical. the 1994 so-called assault weapons ban was one of the most porous, ineffective pieces of legislation that i personally have the opportunity to study. it was shot through with loopholes. it had no applicability to weapons that were made and sold on the day before enactment. and the fact it was coming for a period of years gave gun manufacturers an opportunity to run their factories overtime and to build up huge stockpiles of the weapons. so we will see. but if congress is not proposing to ban weapons that are already out there, then that leaves millions and millions of weapons already out there. >> that was paul barrett, author of "glock: the rise of america's gun." rebecca peters, if you could compare to the legislation that was passed in australia after the massacre, and

is recovering, let's face it "hln" is what is happening, nancy grace -- she has a very sensible barretteir, she is working a new look. >> i did not know that. >> yes, how can you not know about nancy grace's barrette, of everybody is talking about it, that will be in number one story. >> kathy griffin, starting an hour earlier this year, at 10 p.m., at 10:30. >> and you and i, how many days will we just rehearse? >> that would be zero, just the magic of live tv. >> remember, you don't need to know everything. >> thanks kathy. >> good-bye. >> and there will be plenty more of that magic on monday, cnn's new year's eve live with anderson cooper and kathy griffin starts at 10:00 p.m. eastern, this year at times square, and we're counting down the ridiculous, we're wrapping down number six, a festive story, what else, a strip club? coming up next. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose. [ breathes deeply ] awesome. [ male announcer ] yes, it is. that's the cold truth! aww man. [ male announcer ] returns are easy with free

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. >> it is coming down harder than 10 minutes ago james barrett we are in downtown oakland on broadway. look how fast the rain is coming down. it is causing the little river on the side of the road to go rushing down. is causing the storm drains to fill up and pulling in the middle of the roadway. you can see the rain or from the left to the right side of your screen. be careful as you are leaving your house. it is not very cold. i have a light shirt underneath my rain slicker. that is 880 northbound traffic well. for be careful if you're heading to the bay bridge that is where we see a major pulp as you get to the toll plaza. we're going to monitor the situation. it is nice in wet weather wet was headed back to a nice try studio. >> it is maybe 60 or 70 degrees in the studio nice and dry. i see your feet. you came out the door pretty there this morning. can you still hear me? >> it would not be too bad that my feet started to get wet my stocks got wet now i whipped out the heavy-duty boots. these are great. if you do not have some today's the day for you to rush out and get them. i wi

no delay its for barrette moreno on the 1 01 southbound. >> public safety officials and east palo alto's0 emergency repairs to a levy that separates dozen of moms from the san francisco creek are holding up. the creek overflowed on sunday night causing mandatory evacuations for seven homes. at least one home was damaged to the point being uninhabitable. water levels in the creek have receded after sunday's overflow which was the third highest in recorded history. no further work is unscheduled of the city continues to keep a close eye on the levee. all the right over christmas shutdown the southbound side of the upper great highway from lincoln ave to sloped boulevard. a spokeswoman at the sampras's the department of public works says the road flood's be cut because the drains cannot handle the water especially during a powerful storm. drivers are being forced to take the lower great highway route and northbound side is still open. a visit which closes about 60 times a year. it is not known as out of sight will reopen. the storm also brought down a massive tree in the east bay and it fel

natasha barrett is live to explain why police believe this man was killed. >> police say this man's body has no relationship to the school right next to it. and the principle of this elementary schools sent a letter home to -- principal of this elementary school sent a letter home to parents. children will remain inside while this investigation goes on this week. the woman walking her dog found a man's body in fort lincoln park and called 911. >> you know. i wanted to see what was going on behind me. >> the part is right beside thurgood marshall elementary school in northeast d.c. all students were inside the school when the discovery was made. another woman who walks by said she was there yesterday and saw nothing. investigators say that the man had to be killed some time yesterday afternoon -- between yesterday afternoon and this morning. >> there was a street sign. >> investigators used police dogs to search for evidence. they found identification on the man and say he lives in d.c. >> one interesting note on this story is the police to present town home not too far from the place whe

barrett. >> has become part of the function of our daily living we had to be in touch electronicallyr it is a cell phone or some other electronic device we're used to having them with us 24/7. that being said in this particular realm ith flight safety initiative pastor safety we have to move in a deliberate way and that is what they are made to do. unsuccessful happen at some point, but when we do it is done so irresponsible with no unintended consequences. tracy: i agree. truth be told it does not actually affect the plan or the flight were the pilot, we have sort of been lied to all long, haven't we? >> as he said, people forget to shut off their phones and there have not been any crashes. it is probably not a safety issue. i do wonder if we are giving terrorism another tool. the flight tracking is delayed by five minutes because of rules for security. i'm not sure the security concerns are, but only giving potential terrorist another tool for safety reasons on the plane? real-time gps tracking they can communicate now with people on the ground. i may be completely off base, but i'

mike barrett is the c.e.o. of security consulting firm diligent innovations. you have say there are three ways to lay out the claim. >> first, that assad is planning on using the weapons. that is troubling because if that is true he is authorizing the use and we will see more chemical weapons used. another option is that the senior military leaders decided to use the weapons without his permission which obviously shows there is chaos in the ranks. that would be bad. and, third, the rebels have faked this incident in order to try and draw outside forts like the united states and the criminal lies and that is not good, either, it could end up with us going in under false pretenses. >>shepard: there is a red line we have said on that matter. is anyone suggesting one of those is what they are leaning toward? >> this is right now in the middle of the fog of war. a challenge is syria we do not know who the players are other what is happening on the ground. we have amazing intelligence gathering capability the reality is people on the ground don't know. when you hear

>> reporter: well, ted barrett was down there. i was not there.ness. as i said to you earlier, it sort of defies logic, but reid is also insisting that he went over there to talk about other things. you know, it's head skraecratch. >> yes, it is. i imagine we'll see you tomorrow. thanks so much, dana. >> thanks, candy. >>> another possible blow to the american economy could be in a matter of days. dock workers are threatening a strike that would shut down sea ports from massachusetts to texas. billions of dollars of imports to this country would be affected and corporate america is worried. our brian today is at the port of baltimore, where a strike would hit hard. brian, what kind of economic impact would this strike have overall? >> a massive impact, candy. the ports like the one behind me and the dock workers who off-load the containers, they are responsible for getting our clothes, our shoes, our electronics to the stores. just billions of dollars worth of goods pass through these ports, just about every week. and you're talking about 14 ports

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