crystal sugar ceo david berg, well, he should have nothing but gratitude for his workers. in 2011 he made $2.4 million in total compensation. american crystal sugar had a record year of 1.5 b, billion dollars in revenue. the workers apparently don't deserve to benefit from those profits. and they're out of work. >> is this winter going to be kind of tough for you if things don't get straightened out for you? >> well, once the cold starts coming in, the heat bills are going to rise and, yeah, it's going to get worse. >> now, this isn't just the private industry money taking place here, folks. you see the sugar beet farmers in america, they get tax dollars. your tax dollars. sugar beet subsidies in the past 15 years total over $240 million for the growers. now, here are the top ten recipients of sugar beet subsidies. you can see most of these are from farmers from north dakota and minnesota. their neighbors are the ones that are being hurt by all of this, this lockout. why are we giving money to sugar beet farmers and to the sugar beet industry while their executives make mi

tom sten berg, now a venture capitalist. we don't we hire these people? one of the problems in the particular economy is a lack of certain skilled labor in particular when it comes to engineering pro h programming. one of the problems we are facing is people want overall immigration reform before trying to get some of these people to come to the united states give them a work visa. the truth of the matter is that these particular engineers will create jobs in america for americans. >> john: i hear they steal jobs. was a job that might have gone to an american. >> for every engineer we hire in the united states there will be six or seven other types of manufacturing jobs we can bring back from china and india and other types of countries. there is all this conversation about illegal immigration. the truth of the matter is we have great, great shortage of skilled labor in this country particularly in engineering so unless we fundamentally change something about our educational system to build more engineers we wl continue to lose these jobs because what we

tom sten berg, now a venture capitalist. we don't we hire these people? particular economy is a lack of certain skilled labor in particular when it comes to engineering pro h programming. one of the problems we are facing is people want overall immigration reform before trying to get some of these people to come to the united states give them a work visa. the truth of the matter is that these particular engineers will create jobs in america for americans. >> john: i hear they steal jobs. was a job that might have gone to an american. >> for every engineer we hire in the united states there will be six or seven other types of manufacturing jobs we can bring back from china and india and other types of countries. there is all this conversation about illegal immigration. the truth of the matter is we have great, great shortage of skilled labor in this country particularly in engineering so unless we fundamentally change something about our educational system to build more engineers we will continue to lose these jobs because what we are doing is these immigr

you can get a free taxi ride in east bay and luxor cab in san francisco, but you have to mention berg injury lawyers for a free ride up to a maximum fair of $35. muni is also offering complimentary service, and if you just need some coffee to keep things going, bay area 7-11 stores will be giving away free small coffees to help you on your new year's eve celebration. for more information go to abc7 news.com and click on "see it on tv." >>> as the first day of 2012 approaches, it's time for some to get their resolutions in order. here's the list of the top five resolutions for 2012. number 5, stay fit and healthy. number 4, enjoy life to the fullest. number 3, spend less and save more money. number 2, get organized. >> that was for myself. i was just enforcing that for myself. and the number 1 resolution, which no doubt leads the pack every year, lose weight. >> it all adds up to one thing, feel better, be happier. five all lead to go that one goal. >> you are going to start. we will follow your lead. >> no, please. it's not going to last too long. it will be done by 10:00 tomorrow mor

cotton fields of one of the poorest country in the world seem a long way from new york city, but black bergorts cotton used in the underwear comes from west african farms where young children are doing backbreaking work. >> everybody knows about it which i why they spoke about it so extensively, the farmers, bus they really didn't know that they were doing anything wrong. >> victoria secret issued this statement: our standards specifically prohibit child labor. we are vigorously engaging stakeholders to investigate the matter. the company says it relies on international fair trade groups to make sure children aren't working in the field. >> one of the biggest toy giveaways in silicon valley takes place tomorrow, but they're coming shout on toys. labor unions are trying to answer the wishes of 9,000 children at their holiday party but they're still looking for hundreds of toys in santa clara. the demand is more than double that of previous years, and for some children it will be the only gift they get. donations are not restricted to toys. >> coats, sweaters, things most people take for gran

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. >>> the 17 -year-old has been arrested with in connection with the berg killing spree and concorde. as many as 24 geese and ducks were shot with pellets for small caliber bullets at new hall and will pass park. the shootings happened between late october and early december. >>> this week santa clara officers found for improvised explosive devices. they found hundreds of rounds of ammunition in the rosemount drive home. the bomb unit disposed of two explosive devices. they took custody of two other bombs. >>> it was so bizarre it was almost not to be believed. the 30-pound cannonball blast your neighborhood can causing considerable damage. they confronted law enforcement and tim markovic tells us that they got an earful. >> i'm still amazed by the commonwealth doing what they did. >> sa executive producer of the show myth busters. >> it was an accident. >> explain that to these people. >> this with some of the damage left from the 30-pound softball sized cannonball. the myth busters team is doing an experiment at the alameda county bomb laden chip, intending to shoot it through water

the ship got stuck after it hit an underwater ice berg and tore a hole in the hull 10 days ago. 32 people on board and everyone is believed to be okay. it is not clear how long the rescue will take. probably several days to be sure. >>> a group of computer hackers known as anonymous is now claiming responsibility for a so caughted robin hood theft. and stole thousands of credit card numbers as well as other personal data from clients at the security think tank stratford. and some victims are confirming they are missing money. and one says $700 was taken from his account and given to various charities clug -- includes the red cross. >> it is actually costing us all time and money. it is ruining lives, my christmas, my holiday, not my christmas spirit and not my family but it is costing everybody involved. >> one hacker said the goal was to take funds for people's accounts, and then donate the money. and they said that there could be more attacks this week. >>> it was a danger she never knew was there. >> we put her brain in a state of animated suspension. >> how doctors say the california

fight at the weekend the russian champion was taking on compassionate surrogate cover of in katherine berg in the w.b.c. asian boxing consul clash the fight ending with a technical knock against him a cough he then entered into a coma while still in the ring and was immediately taken to hospital where he died from brain injuries some of cough was aged twenty seven. it seems that all the world class winter sport action recently has me taking place in beaver creek colorado eats acosta which winning the first men slalom event of the season a day after the levees were moved to the same resort due to lack of snow in the french alps reeling over a world cup champion. rusty during the run off three as much as the storm into the lead after his first effort to this giant slalom winner however could not match the croats moving this on the second round thirty two year old cost which crushed several times on this birds of prey course with three of those nine direct result of those accidents but the story learned to stay safe yet effective securing the top podium spot or ended up a third after being ed

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if you have any information, call detective mike berg right now at 410-612-1717. >>> investigators in howard county are trying to figure out what start -- what start a fire in a hotel at 9:00 at the white elk motel in elk rinl. it took firefighters about 15 minutes to get it under body wa >>> police in prince george's county looking for man who broke into an elderly woman and beat her badly. he ransacked the place before attack her. the woman woke up to find the man in the bedroomment after he left, the victim crossed the street to ask her neighbor to call police. >> she was covered in blood, badly beaten and i made her sit down, went and got a towel and was starting to wipe off some of the blood. my husband called the police and the ambulance. >> thank good rns for good neighbors because the victim has lived in this neighborhood for 20 years. she's in critical condition, broken bones, stitches. police say they don't have a description of the suspect. >>> they didn't know what they had in downtown baltimore here this morning. they just know the package place did not belong under any t

for a look at what we can expect on this busy week of returns we're joined by meteorologist adam berg at weather channel headquarters. adam, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. you're right. it has been extremely calm across much of the east. green christmas actually this year for a lot of us. same deal in the south. let's talk about the systems that we can see over the next couple of days. some of these will be impacting us. one area of low pressure across the southeast. one year ago it was snow across the south. systems roll into the northwest. this low pressure system brought ten inches of snow to parts of northwestern texas. about four inches of snow to places like amarillo. that system will eventually move on out to the east. also noticing things getting much busier across the northwest. this will cause showers and thunderstorms across much of the mississippi valley. we track that eastbound. now it starts push into the rest of the southeast. and tuesday night into wednesday right across the northeast. then we get those winds shifting back to the west. not much rainfa

employees gave mark sucker berg a knee% approval rating. google -- a 93% approval rating. google, apple, and sales force.com are in the top 13. >>> bay area community colleges are bracing for crowded classrooms, fewer services and tuition hikes in the face of state budget trigger cuts. the mid year cuts set to take effect new year's day will slam public colleges and universities already struggling financially. at city college in san francisco, it means some 350 classes will be dropped from the curriculum. enrollment will be cut and tuition will go up. >> it's going to make it harder for everybody that don't got a job, their family don't support them, they have no type of income coming through. >> next summer a full class load at city college will cost about $1400. last spring it was about 800. today, students were planning petitions to get a measure on the state ballot that would impose a tax on oil companies towards public education. >>> this afternoon the los angeles unified school district filed a temporary restraining order to stop the state from cutting funds earmarke

salzburg also won the austrian club's better head to head recalled with a french opponent could soldier berg go through. and there was another big shock in group k. years following crashed out of malta new old men you victory against would secure passage into the next round and things were going well for the cottages as they lead to nil off to help an hour however the danes poor one violent sixty four minutes of any equalized. to the night full of two finalists in two thousand and ten a place in the round of perth to speed. f.c. twente to pick the londoners five points. allowed syria a little trouble doing what they needed to do the beating sporting lisbon to another room goals from liberal culture on the gist of the strike hoping to secure the points alliance with finish clear of f.c. but slowly lost by the same scoring at suzuki. in well over in japan brazil's teenage strike and neymar has moved one step closer to his dream of playing in spots alone after his central side breezed into before and all of a thief club world cup in one thousand year old scored the opener of a free warm win for

and they -- getties berg. and they stood just absolutely firm. and that's something else that i have mixed feelings. i had a great -- myself, i had a great grandfather who's in second kansas cavalry, had three horses shot out from under him, was in the trans-mississippi war as it was called, spent the last year of his life in a prison camp in tyler, texas, okay? so, you know, and i wrote a warm, sympathetic study of robert e. lee. on the other hand, i want to tell you that up in maine you go into these little historical societies, and you see these men from the 20th main, the 10th main, the 14th main at their reunions, and this is a very serious group of men who, you know, you can see they're 20 years past their musket-bearing incarnation, but they, you know, we think -- the confederacy naturally, you know, wanted to have their reunions and everything, but those reunions were going on amidst the gar, the grand army of the republic, and they look about as serious as any group you could ever see. now, i forget just where -- chamberlain, oh, the oth

fema approve the request for disaster aid for residents in culpeper the city of friedrichs berg will also get aid. >> as some occupy in cameras are being dismantled, at least one in washington is not going anywhere soon. a permit for protesters in freedom plaza was supposed to expire by the end of the week. that is along for the case. >> police are very concerned about the extended stay of these occupiers will tap critical police resources in washington. like it or not, they are here tuesday. at least for the next 60 days. the tents will be allowed to stay. the u.s. park service has issued a permanent extension allowing the protesters to remain until the end of february. she says the longer they stayed the more they get their message out. >> if raeburn not in the public space, it would be harder for people to come to us. >> there is concern that this long term demonstration and another at mcpherson square is draining police resources. crime is up 17% between november and december because officers are not able to patrol neighborhoods. >> and no one wants to infringe on their rights to

repeatedly i've been covering builder berg in virginia and had guys come in and sit down at my table who were obviously you know well they were state department security forces they were marines in plain clothes but they were both about forty five fifty years old and say hey alex let's attack the state department together and i looked at them and just said guys i'm i'm not i'm nonviolent you know that and i'm just here to cover build a barrier like we're just checking something it's all a big joke so i've been followed around i've been in urban warfare drills peacefully trying to videotape. the federal government training because i had inside sources for martial law which is now admitted in the different federal acts that are public you know like the national defense authorization act but i mean a decade ago or more before nine eleven effect in ninety nine i would be in brooksville florida just trying to film in the town and i have it on tape in my film of the takeover people walk out of their houses and say you're alex jones the armies come to my door and said don't talk to you you'

residents celebrating along with thailand and vietnam next midnight reached the cities of yet fifteen of berg and peons just an hour before muscovites celebrated the beginning of two thousand and twelve. and thousands were angry at the results of. russia's a parliamentary election results but this year's new year elections will take place in the race for russia's top job is on let's discuss it now with our karen the current chair hello karen and well happy new year to you first of all and will the new year also brings in new elections to russia tell us more about that. that's right happy new year to everybody very interesting first to say a very fond and very regulated new years here on red square everybody laughing yelling fireworks going off but more importantly with the protests this year in december amidst many many claims of ballot box stuffing that coming after the december fourth parliamentary elections where united russia did win two hundred thirty eight of the four hundred fifty horrible men. protesters took to the streets first on december tenth where seeing the interior ministry re

. >> reporter: it stars a zuker berg. >> forget they are watching on a cell phone and walk out of the theater and say, oh, my god, that was shot on a cell phone. >> reporter: taking what most of us do every day and putting it in lights. the movie, "olive" has an opening date. the crew says it's trying to get screenings here in the bay area, which would be fitting. >> thank you very much. >>> if you bought a ticket through ticketmaster in the last 12 years, you may get a refund. the processing fees are decepti deceptive. if a judge approves a settlement then they may get $5 a ticket. >>> a link between yourp credit score and e-mail address? perhaps. credit karma took a look at the database and about 100,000 users. the number show people with g mail addresses are more likely to have higher credit scores than people using other e-mail services. the results are similar to the same experiment done by the website but only with 20,000 users. >>> do you spend a lot of time online for no particular reason? if so, you're not alone. a study shows many of us log on for no good reason at all. when

molly heneg berg.ng about the operation that iraq war vets may face. >> the president is confidence of the men and women who left iraq . they will continue the quote to commitment to service and rebuild america. today's generation of efforts. 9/11 is armed to attack the challenge of our times. and responsibility is reward anyone can make it if they try. >> the president praised the honor and bravery of the troops that are leaving iraq and will have the thanks of a grateful nation . >> republicans had the idea to get jobs for vets. >> gop, they're pressing the president to go ahead for the key stone excel pipe line thal create tens of thousands of jobs and transport oil from canada to refineries in the u.s.. >> canada made it clear . if we don't build the pipe line, the united states will lose these jobs and canada will sell the oil to chine a. if the president successfully block these jobs it will add to a long list of bad economic decision. >> the obama administration put off a decision until after th

it happened in fredericks berg.event another step, the officials filled the statue with concrete, but that didn't deter the chiefs. there were tire tracks on the scene, proving a vehicle was used in the crime. >>> five people are in the hospital this morning injured in a violent crash between a taxi cab and a metro bus. it happened last light night near michigan avenue. police are still trying to figure out who caused the crash. we're told that everyone injured will be okay, though. >>> today, the fairfax county school board will vote on allowing security cameras inside their high school. the cameras would be placed in cafeterias, localbieses and other large gathering places. each school's principal would ultimately have the final say. opponents say ice an invasion of privacy. neighbors public school systems already use in-school cameras. >>> plans for the first whole foods markets are on hole. developers plan to use the town center. now those developers have asked the county zoning board to delay today's zoning mee

berg, for five minutes. mr. berg: permission to address the house for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. berg: as i talk with north da coat -- dakotans, they have made it clear that president obama's government stimulus is not working. washington bailed out wall street while main street continues to suffer. and washington persistently fails to balance the budget. meanwhile, the obama administration continues to pursue overreaching regulations that creates more red tape and uncertainty for north dakota's families, farms and small businesses. these burdensome regulations threaten job creation, and they are the biggest challenge facing our economy. we need to take serious steps today to halt the obama administration's regulatory overreach. that's why i announced my ration agenda. reduce the red tape, empower the state, grow the economy and stop president obama's overreach. this agenda is the result of talking to north dakotans. on north dakota's farmers, ranchers and small businessmen, during my recent regulation tour, i spoke with energy prov

if it's good enough from mitch mcconnell and john kyle and marco rubio and tom col berg, it should be good enough for house republicans. >> explain how they kill it. they don't necessarily always kill the bills. >> you need good faith. we don't believe speaker boehner has good faith left. we started out with the bill at 3.2% and went down to 2%. we took out the employer tax cut. they didn't want that. we then took out the millionaire's tax cut and said that was no good. they didn't want that. we even said we would accept the pipeline and they didn't want that. here's the ultimate. a few days ago, speaker boehner appointed mitch mcconnell and when he came up with the deal, he said that's a good deal and rejected it. the same will happen here and one other point about conference committees. they take time. he will never get it done here. the conference committee is a grave yard and the democrats and a good number of republicans won't fall for that. >> speaker boehner's office denied he gave a sign off to senator mcconnell on this two-month deal he was signalling support. do you have evi

joining me now in israel, ronan berg mann who has been studying all this, respected journalist and authorn iran and the issue and joining us from washington, from the brookings institution who has been studying israeli public opinion about what to do about iran. first to you, ronan, there have been some suspicious to say the least explosions in iran, the assassination, of a prominent iranian nuclear scientist, the most recent missile explosion. suspicions that this is covert activity similar to the computer virus, that slowed down the iranian nuclear program at least for a couple of years. what is your reporting telling you? >> according to the latest finding of the iranian investigation into, this because they are very keen to understand what happened and who was able to penetrate, they're in a circle and higher echelon of intelligence and nuclear manufacture. they believe that israeli massad has recruited the position group that penetrated into these installations, killed scientists, killed a general, exploded the site. i would say that the mommer the former massad chief has put towards

state senate president sign berg is manage to offer legislation next year to create electronic library of freebase ick text book. that could save the typical student up to 1300 dollars a year. students have complained they are forced to take-out loans and work longer hours than they spend in the classroom just to afford the books. >> some union workers in do could -- contra costa county agreed to take cuts in wages and ben fights keep their judges. last week workers packed the supervisor chambers to complain about proposed cuts. well today under attentive deal 4400 employee will accept 2.75 percent wage cut and increases in their share of both pension and health care cost. the trade off is that each worker will get an annual 500 dollar bonus to offset those costs. >> and at the port of oakland tonight operations are slowly getting back to normal after protestors force partial shut down yesterday. but some of the very workers that demonstrators said they wanted to help wish the whole thing had never happened. jonathan bloom explains why. >> i think the process went pretty well yesterday

under heavy snowfall, a long line of vehicles made its way across the capital, pyongyang, could have berg 25 miles and lasting about three hours. it was led at the front by two vehicles in particular, one, a limousine that bore the portrait of the late kim jong-il, known by his people as the dear leader and another vehicle, a hearse, believed to carry his remains. it was also accompanied by his son and successor, kim jong you up, followed by his uncle, the man everyone believes is sharing power with him during this difficult transition. thousands of people, thousands of north core reyaps who turned out, many in military uniform in the main square but also civilians lining both sides of the streets of the capital. many closeup shots, the cameras coming in tight to show people mourning, grieving, crying for their dear leader, asking him to return, telling everyone that he had given them everything. it is worth reminding everyone it is not clear how much of this was staged. the pictures could only come direct from north korean state television so we haven't been able to verify how much of th

former attorney general there, heidi hidecamp saying she can be competitive with representative rick bergh that north dakota is going to be a competitive race next fall, so i would push north dakota and nebraska into the republican column. that's a pickup of two seats, but the next two seats, getting to four is a lot tougher. you have virginia, you have montana. you have missouri. nevada, which we were just talking about. those are all coin-tosses right now and to the democrats' credit they have been raising a ton of money for their incumbents, or even their challengers, and they have a pretty formidable organizations around these candidates and have been drawing a lot of races to a tie despite being battered by ads by cross roads coming outside. >> let me go to ohio. i'm a big sherrod brown fan. sherrod brown looks like the perfect labor democratic senator in ohio. if he can't win and hold that seat when he does everything right in tezmr of labor issues, tax issues, middle class issues, how can he lose? he's such the perfect democrat for that state? >> i -- >> christina, please. >> roll

ceo of the company david berg put replacement workers on the job rather than give his union employeesare holding a public forum tomorrow at minnesota state university moorhead and i will be there with a television camera crew to find out just how five months of being locked out is affecting these workers and families. we'll bring you the report on monday. the same thing is going on in findlay, ohio, where more than 1,000 workers are in the fifth day of being locked out from cooper tires. >> has five years at cooper under his belt. >> i've had two brothers who retired from here, and i've always wanted to get in here and i finally get in here and it's not looking good right now. >> mark's concerned about company plans to bring in replacement workers during the dispute. >> it makes good quality products and it's like it doesn't matter to them. temporary labor which the quality is what i'm concerned about with the customers. >> let's bring in larry cohen, the president of the communication workers of america. not connected with that strike situation. but certainly connected with workers a

um, there's not such a creature because there's, well, as berg hart said, there's a time and place forhings, and things reach their fullness at a time. and, frankly, we've kind of passed the time today for public intellectuals. that was bill's time. and i would, i guess i'd also say that i got to thinking about this, and i thought what's necessary for a public intellectual? i hate the term. let's just say an intellectual. and i think maybe the first celebrated intellectual in the 20th century, and that's about the time that was ripe for this kind of intellectual, was h.l. mencken. and he was right because, a, he was very thoughtful and very luminous and very witty. but also there was in place a mass media to broadcast his words to lesser people. heretofore, he'd have to talk out through his publication whatever it might be or through letters to people. like mountain and people like that. but now he had, he could be a part of mass media. and he could kind of cross-fertilize, so to speak, with hollywood. and it was, the time was right for him. a famous and versatile intellectual. but how