poly i didn't. >> inspector bert for those of you who were not here the packet is thicker paul and i with trying to give us a better understanding of some of the progresses we use and some of the paperwork we use to inspect the clubs and issues certifications each week anything or anything property owner to the weekend shifts we're going to try to include some additional information in those packet and we've been upgrading old sfpd permits and reissuing the permit so you can see on my notes there's a lot of that going on last weekend after my next inspection i'll bring you the sheet and a we use to sign off there was one this weekend that was completed i'll try to bring one at our next weekend the second page has our general inspection report meantime we had an inspectors the third page is the update sheet for the permanent updates i've included a notice of violation i wrote this past weekend one at port house they were in violation of they're 10:00 p.m. l o p cut off time one at the house they had 3 separate violations good neighbor violation of the door on the decimal limited on th

two pipelines check in the bert. the red line is the bert clipper.is is the keystone xl pipeline that's approved. we have tar sands oil coming to the east coast reef fineries. -- -- east coast refineries. it matters because by forcing it to come by rail we are raising the cost of the products that are distilled at those refineries. everything from gasoline to you name it is costing more than it ought to because it's being brought on expensive rail cars that are far less safe than a pipeline. why the president is doing this is beyond me. bill: supporters are saying the middle east is giving us heartburn and heartache and isis is doing what it's doing. every bit of energy independence helps america. even though this is just a small piece of that, it would help as well. that's what republicans and some of the democrats who support this are arguing. >> one other geopolitical point this would reduce our reliance on the hasty crude that comes out of venezuela that would allow us to further crate kerr our opponents in venezuela that is anti-american and fue

then president doctor bert hayward, so i owe them a lot.e for me to be. they were nice to me. and i thought it was to would be a great thing for me just to stay here for my whole career. i never regretted anything. so it has been a great ride. it is not over. we got a lot of games to play here and more years to come. >> coach congratulations. >> thank you. >> i know you want to get back to those guys. good luck tomorrow. >> i appreciate it. >> back to you guys this is the studio. >> jan, great man, building young men on the court and off. >> great sense of humor too my players are still scared of me. like. >> thanks, jan. our time now 6:40. and beck shocks shocks a lot of people, and kanye west had something to say about it. >> of course he did. that's coming up. also talking fashion this morning. who is on the best dressed list and who came up little bit short. we're live with a look at the most talked about red carpet looks. >> also, if you love cheeseburgers, i mean, really love cheeseburgers, a local burger joint has quite a deal for yo

we talked to better to bert garcia who has diabetes and ensigned up to have better coverage for himself and his kids. 300,000 californians signed up for the first time in health care through cover california. at this office in san jose enrollment specialists say they have seen an increase compared to last year and the process is easier. >> not having any issues like last year where the website is crashing. this year has been smooth. and this explains why they have been very successful of enrolling people in the 30-minute span. >> free health karen rollment care was also held in san leandro today. if you don't sign up for insurance by midnight tonight you have to pay a fee of at least $320 per person and about $163 for each child under age 18. if you still haven't seen signed up register on-line by midnight. once you do register your health care coverage should kick in by march. reporting live in san jose marianne favro, nbc bay area news. >> drone business dead before taking flight. all because of proposed rules by the faa. they would allow drones under 55 pound to be used by businesses

take a look at this video to get a bert look at the conditions a short time ago a lot of water and a lot of ice. those conditions at this location had been problematic since yesterday. road crews had to close lincoln drive last evening because of ice police say the sewer couldn't take the run trough yesterday's snow and rain, so water back up on to the road. lincoln drive did reopen for short period last night but closed again after ice once again formed. with the temperatures, so cold this morning any water still standing caused this problem. so penndot has about 50 trucks out right now salting and responding to any left over icy areas. and here in philadelphia, the city has more than two dozen trucks out as well. for crews and drivers i've spoke win here this morning, tell me streets in philadelphia are looking pretty good. take a listen. >> you know, actually, the roads are pretty good. couple side streets icy, but the main roads pretty clear. no ice. i haven't seen any. i haven't felt any. feels good. >> of course, ice varies from spot to spot. yesterday on sproles road radnor to

you'll be just fine, but later on today things do get a lot bert. we expect to flirt with 40 degrees, will help a loft this to begin to melt away. jess, we send it into you. >> katie definitely, slowing down is the advise of the week, we can definitely see some icy conditions still, and i'm show you what i am talking about here, as we head out to the cameras on 95 right around girard, you can see potentially wet and/or icy conditions here, and the north and southbound lanes, you can see, just little bit shiny actually the southbound lanes headed toward center city. no real volume to speak of. that's okay. we want you to slow down and take your time headed down on 9a42, out in new jersey, everything looking free and clear here. northbound lanes where we see most of the problems, but everything moving just fine, though, so far. otherwise, we do have some problems out in new jersey on the new jersey turnpike, actually did accident investigation from accident last night around cranberry new jersey on the new jersey turnpike southbound, between new bruns

happy burst and--bert the day president obama-if you really want to list come talk to me.: the jesuits to hear what else he has to say more and 3000 people listening in at this prayer breakfasts write-down losses increased washington dc. >>james: will see fit in the comments on that >>erica: it is a one-two punch of a couple of storms had in our direction we're tapping into moisture all the way from hawaii if chechnya from the pacific northwest and is wanted second to the bay area for size of line for an update tonight and that heavy rain starts tomorrow morning and that is what to affect your commute friday is going to be the day with the heaviest rain for much of the bay area but we will see a driver is to get into saturday like i mentioned we have a second system hot on its hills the drive for not in the bay area and was cloud cover associated with this system temperatures in the '60s will see free mild conditions led on to lead the big concern is the rain rep top model//litter on to my for another survey napa and marin and sonoma county all be affected as a early satur

her bert lynn at stanford university, cyber security given the recent break ins from anthem blue cross, target, is that an oxy moron. >> there are better and worst levels of cyber security and i would hope that i'm a little bit better than my grandmother and so on, although i try to secure her systems too you can get better but you're never going to be perfectly safe. >> but these are massive millions of identity thefts that go on routinely. it is becoming they have the incentive to get credit card numbers. they have the incentive to get names, addresses, and social security numbers identity theft and so on. that's 1 part of it. there's another part that says these are the hacks are being committed by nation states which are trying to get our so they'll build better airplanes an refrigerators and cars. >> but that seems to be 2 different types of threats. one is like i said, 1 is informational and the other is personal data for criminal exploitation. >> that's correct it's all at risk. >> what can the government do to prevent it. >> one of the things that it turns out in thinking about

and in center city overnight the water department had to dispute down penn street from arch to fill bert. the street just reopened a number of minutes ago. >>> and at 8:04 investigators in mount holly new jersey spent the night looking for clues after two people were found dead inside of their home. sabina? >> reporter: karen, the burlington county prosecutor's office is handling this investigation and we don't have a lot of information right now. but here is what we do know. a man and a woman were killed inside their home along the 200 block of washington street. it's actually not too far from the police station. in fact it's just up the road from where we're standing. and the bodies of two adults were found by a third person who lives in the house with the victim. that person called police just after 9:00 yesterday morning after apparently coming home and making the grusome discovery. police are not saying exactly how the man and the woman were killed or how long they were dead, and they haven't arrested anyone. but authorities say the community is not at risk. published reports indica

time his office a couple weeks ago and apologized for going public with thoughts that they would be bertut the high paid slugger. he must report tomorrow. a former philly showed up with great news. here's jeff skversky. >> hi dar. >> there's all the lover in the world at spring training for darren daulton. former phillies catcher is happy camper right now and feels lucky to be alive. in 2013 dutch had surge troy remove two brain tumors and after chemotherapy and radiation, a scan last week shows he's currently cancer-free. >> when the doctor walks in and opens the door and we start smiling then everything is cool. >> mike schmidt knows that feeling too. hall of fame third baseman battled melanoma skin cancer and he reveals it spread to his lungs and brain. like his former teammate he's currently cancer free. >> darren went through quite a bit more than i did on the brain side. >> and here he is now. >> i know this guy very well. okay. and you know it's the same thing that i have. >> not quite, brother, not quite. you're much more of a warrior than me. >> how great to see him out here smi

evidence of a slow down over a dozen ships anchor in the bay are just outside the golden gate waiting for bert to unload cargo from asia. >> the yawn can do whatever they want without ann arbor traitor. that includes stage traitor. that includes staging devastating slow dup up and down the coast. >>reporter: that has the management group threatening to shut down the port. last time there was a shut down was in 2002. >> would really be foolish and irresponsible because right now the port are moving. congested the port are moving. congested. but they are moving t.shut down would obviously be a disaster. >>reporter: contract talk continue in san francisco. at the port of oakland david louie abc 7 news. >> tell local small businesses are caught right in the middle of this port dispute. impact is significant. laura found one company that is really feeling the pain. >> typically we would unload obviously about 4 times as many containers as we are rate now. >> there's nothing typical these day at dave weber warehouse because much incoming product is sitting out in the bay on cargo ship. weber company

. >> how did that morph into a bert than 330 page document of4 # surcharges and potential fees that arethat happen? >> it's twofold. one is that the commission lost in court last go-round last year and so from that the number of supporters have south -- sought to impose title ii regular layings of the 1934 communications act which they believe provides the strongest legal footing going forward and with that comes all the negatives i talk about and you highlighted. >> commissioner, we'll see what happens. thank you very much for taking the time. >>> if it bleeds, it leads. the president was right. when it comes to terror the bleeding is leading all other years we have been reporting [ male announcer ] legalzoom has helped start over 1 million businesses. if you have a business idea, we have a personalized legal solution that's right for you. with easy step-by-step guidance, we're here to help you turn your dream into a reality. start your business today with legalzoom. >>> isis is dangerous but could the administration's changes stance on the group prove even more dangerous? we're back i

it is a little bit bert.y still has to wear his blanket coat and mittens, hat temperatures in the teens, 20's, but that is what it feels like. we don't have the winds that we had yesterday. we have seven out of ten in your weather by the numbers today, even with some clouds, we'll enjoy those temperatures while they're here. it is casino after one day special. few flurries moving through the area, quick snow showers especially north and west, up toward the allentown area, maybe northern bucks county, you might be seeing just little bit after coating on the gown, but it is a quick system moving through. and shouldn't amount to much. 28 degrees is our current temperature, feels like 23 so not much difference between the temp and the win chill. 7:07 our sunrise time, high today is 45 degrees. clouds, and sunshine, little bit milder than yesterday. then tonight any time after midnight, we can start to see some snow, maybe little rain mixed in, initially, but that overnight low will be 29 degrees, so we'll stay, c

doesn't he have anything bert to do? well, robert the wait is over.ing more on that with our panel ahead. >>> but first, please keep the conversation going on our facebook page or tweet us @ us @politicsnation. the up all-nighters. and the ones who turn ideas into action. we've made our passions our life's work. we strive for the moments where we can say, "i did it!" ♪ ♪ we are entrepreneurs who started it all... with a signature. legalzoom has helped start over 1 million businesses, turning dreamers into business owners. and we're here to help start yours. [ female announcer ] we help make secure financial tomorrows a reality for over 19 million people. [ alex ] transamerica helped provide a lifetime of retirement income. so i can focus on what matters most. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. transamerica. >>> developing now, president obama's pick to be the next defense secretary is ready to be sworn in. the senate easily confirmed ashton carter today. no drama, no delays. he should take over sometime next week. t

trace to do a comcast internet address insider this brooklyn center house on the 3800 block of egg bertinside ignored our questions questions. >> i just want to get your side of the story. >> is it true police found a stolen tv in here? >> police served a search warn and found some of the stolen items inside including the smart tv. >> once you connect something to the internet, the system automatically talks to everything. >> reporter: according to tech experts talking is exactly what the latest line of smart tv's do. police just need to know where it came from, what it's going through. >> reporter: helping police solve this crime. and giving corrigan some piece of mind. >> they got burned i guess just justly. >>> wow! >> just be careful. >>> all right. let's get a look at your winter wet out there. it wasn't that bad out there today. i mean relatively speaking. >> we were actually playing basketball against good day today. i have to say we did pretty good good. >> we did. >> they kind of got burned. >> they really did. >> they were awfully cute. that was all that matters they were cute

we can have bert resolution of these issues if we work together. i look forward to discussing these and many other issues when we get to the questions. i appreciate your commitment and the president's to creating jobs and building partnerships, investing in our public lands for future generations. thank you. >> thank you senator cantwell w. that let's turn to the secretary for your -- can't well, with that let's turn to the secretary for your comments. >> good morning. thank you ranking member cantwell and members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the department of interior's fiscal 2016 budget request. joining me is deputy secretary mike connor who is certainly no stranger to the senate. i submit add detailed statement for the record that discuss as number of important investments we are proposing so i'll be relatively brief in these opening remarks. this is a forward-looking budget to grow our domestic energy portfolio, creating jobs here at home, to build climate resilience and revitalize our national parks as t

>> i mean, those are bert, with one in 5 million. >> oh, okay, bank on. that will here are some things that are more likely to happen to you than winning the lottery. >> okay this. >> you have a one in 11 million chance of being attack by a shark. >> okay? >> and one especially here in the delaware, i don't think that would happen, and one in 50 chance of making a half court shot at one of those half time competitions. >> coming up, american murder sniper trial coming up this morning in texas. who is expected to testify in that case straight ahead. >> the state department closes the us embasy yemen. growing security concerns in that >> ♪ ♪ >> go ahead, sue, get in on this. >> world premiere, right? >> 9:00 a.m., world premiere. >> world. because really, it is going to be world-wide on the world-wide web. that's www. >> myfoxphilly.com. tom lowden has kept this under wraps, top secret no one has seen it except him and bill, who has been editing it. i don't know how they do. >> this all right, sue serio? >> all fired up, all standing. >> we only did this a

keep everything close to the vest or thinking maybe an ipo for other investments down the line is a bertnever had that conversation either. i'm just fascinated by companies that have found ways to add more hospitality for guests, more insights and profits for businesses, and probably more than anything, i love hanging out with really smart people like noah who can teach me things and -- especially about tech that i don't know myself. >> like hanging out with smart people like you too. >> might be tough. >> thank you for coming by. >> thanks for having us. >> danny, good to see you as always. >> thank you, carl. >> when we come back we talked about virtual reality at the top of the hour. wait until you see the latest offering from sony. we will show it to you in a minute. news alert! message! email! calendar update! most of us admit to being overwhelmed by information at work. that's why ibm created verse. it uses powerful analytics to uncover hidden patterns in your email, calendars and social feeds. it continuously learns how you work. and helps you prioritize the people and projects yo

look at 11:00 this morning so obviously when you see the temperatures like there is things getting bertand west of the city, staying colder longer. no precipitation is falling. but you still have that possibility of everything staying locked up and frozen. eventually this afternoon we get into hopefully the lower 40 ace and then tonight start to drop down temperature wise finding colds night cold start to the day tomorrow. forty in philadelphia, shore 42 poconos 32 degrees with hopefully some sun breaks, as we move into the afternoon hours. our winds out of the west about 5 miles an hour. tonight down to 19 degrees, partly cloudy, cold again and a re-freeze absolutely guaranteed so where testify melted today and it didn't evaporate, it is going to be freezing tomorrow morning. so it could be an in a different spot than you found it this morning. just be rear careful out there. bring those pets inside. way too cold out there. continuing, and then, on monday we look at 25 degrees, look at monday night's temperatures 7 degrees. tuesday, 26. wednesday we're into the upper 30's. nicole? >> a

you're going to hire an individual who's going to come in and shake things up and look to make things bert. all of -- make things better. all of us get a part of an institution in good stead. as i looked at what we were facing and what we faced over the last decade, i was trying not to move an organization to fight the last war. that would be irresponsible. i was trying to look at the trends we were facing in the future and we were facing massive urbanization, massive amounts of population growth in the part of the world where there's not a lot of good governance. 65% of the world's population, the largest chunk is going to be in the sahara and sub is a sahara area in the next 15 to 20 years. you're talking about a country like nigeria, charlie, that has approximately 200 million people. in the next 15 or 20 years, that country is going to surpass the united states in population and is going to be the third most populated country on the planet. >> charlie: how many years? in probably about 15 to 20 years. >> charlie: because their population rate of growth is -- >> because you have child-b

new signs isis is gaining followers from other terrorist organizations, we'll talk with cia inside bertr for the west. ricky takes closer look at the jury chosen in the american sniper murder trial and steve correll is right here in studio 57 with the transformation for foxcatcher that earned him an oscar nomination. the news is back in the morning, guys, see in you just about ten minutes. >> that will be a great interview. >> that all went doubt right here in our area, thanks so much. >> hackers now have new target. your car. >> disturbing report shows just how easy it is for cyber criminals to take control of your vehicle and steel personal information too. correspondent danielle nottingham has the details. >> nearly all cars are at risk of being hacked, according to a report from us senator ed marquis. >> americans are just driving around, pretty much in computers. no longer do you need a crowbar in order to break into a car. marquis says hackers could take control of cars and steel personal data, through vehicle's wireless technology. previous studies found hackers could control the

it is a rare bert is conceived without the help of fertility drugs. their older brothers are two and three years old. >> i always wanted a big family and i guess this is the way to do it all at once. >> all at once is right. identical triplets conceived naturally occur one in 60,000 to one in 2 million births. whatever the numbers are, the wittilies are calling it an act of god. >> see the look on that man's face. >> slight terror. >> it was dread, man. it was dread. >> the sleepless nights. >> they are cutis, though. look at that. >> it will be worth it when they are 5 and look sleeping in tir own bed sghs we will check back with the whitlies in five years. >>> when life gives you lemons make lemonade file. this is from east texas a lot of snow there the past few days. >> enough snow for adam graham to build an impressive igloo in front of his family's front yard. the heavy, wet snow was perfect for building those bricks. good thing because he's more than 250 of them. >> he spent three days building the igloo. hopefully they were out of school. he ca

he points out the best of us so we can be bert and he points out our mistakes so we can be better stillou can't paint all republicans with this. president obama's career was start bid people who bombed the pentagon. so if that doesn't give you any idea where the president is coming from on his blame america first approach i'm not sure where to go from there. let's talk about hillary clinton since you want to paint all the the 016 republican candidates with this broad brush. hillary clinton started the birther movement that democrats love to go back to when they are criticizing gop candidates moving forward. if we want to talk criticism and history of barack obama let's start with the democrats who started this in 2007. patti ann: giuliani said any reluctance to hold up america and its ideals to our enemies weakens our message. >> rudy giuliani never lets the facts get in the way of his sad story. it's pitiful and pathetic that rudy giuliani is going to be relegated to the dust bins of history by the way he conducts himself. >> we can use rudy giuliani as an example. a way to properly cr

we check out 59 around cottman, looking a lot bert.ed looking good in south philadelphia. still slow then out of the city on the schuylkill expressway, still parts of 95, 8 miles per hour headed into the city, slow spots heading northbound on 295 and little bit slow in delaware county, as well, up around the commodore barry bridge. speed restrictions still on area bridges due to the low visibility, coming across the ben franklin, betsy ross and the walt watt. out in chester count i do have an accident west bradford overturned vehicle, on hall road closing it down, near downingtown pike. the alternate will be shady side road. and another overturned vehicle, into a creek in west pike land, this is right around route 401 nearby road. the alternate, who are shoe trip. -- trail. new jersey transit reporting 15 minute delays, paoli thorndale, 15 minutes due to switcher problems. we send it back over to you. >> thank you that's eyewitness fuse for now. talk philly coming up at noon on cbs-3. i'm erika von tiehl. hope you have a good morning.

bert he now, look what that girth wants. >> all it takes. >> that's my daddy. >> yes. >> that's her daddy bill anderson, the new co-host of fox 29 weekend. no longer on chasing. so if you want to see him, see his interview, see him. fox 29 weekend. but how good toss the last part of empire look? , really good, the fact we had nice little surprise, last night, raven simmone walked in there. >> that's the mom. >> i did you notice, sue, her name was olivia? oh, they got that going. >> this is my lovely daniels. remember, you know, she, her personal history little different. interesting they put her with the character that they have portrayed as gay for so long. >> that's true. thanks, jen. kanye west, speaking out yet again. about that grammy night. what he says is to blame for his outburst against beck. plus, he's going to do a song with taylor swift? plus, he's going to do a song with taylor swift? >> he's going to lit her just by switching to progressive. so you'll be bringing home the bacon in no time. sorry. get a free quote at progressive.com. >> little clipper system starting to stren

but one thing that became very clear was that toll bert was indefatigable indefatigable, he was a leader. he trained as a lawyer at the university of liberia. he went on to pursue his interests in humanitarian law at johns hopkins and emory and else where and in 2012 and '13 came to bloomberg school to complete a masters of public health there at that institution, and then, as he will describe as a ministerial official, he became at the center of the response directly empowered by the head of state to really carry forward this. and it became terribly important as the crisis worsened in the august/september time frame as the mobilization took off in the mid fall and up to now, and as we entered this new phase. so, we are really honored to have tolbert with us. i learned also, in speaking with him, that he's a malaria expert. he drafted -- he was responsible for drafting the first national plan under the president's mill area initiative. the plan for liberia. so he can speak to many different issues in the course of this. what we've asked tolbert to do is to speak for 15 or 20 minutes and

and my friend judge royce lem bert in d.c.ously signed a search warrant on the back of his motorcycle at 3:00 in the afternoon. and i have signed search warrants in my gym shorts in my living room at 3:00 in the morning. so judges are always available to hear emergent applications when there is probable cause about the target. the problem with what general hayden's folks have done is they have gone to a secret court and said give us the authority to listen to or gather data from and about all of verizon's customers. that is 110 million human beings, as to which there is zero evidence about inappropriate behavior on the part of any of them. >> your response general. >> sure. first of all, the jury should disregard the remark about content. because we've made the case this is about meta data. and again we can argue about meta data. but it is not about content. it is about fact of call. and again i repeat the controlling legal authority of smith versus maryland 1979 there is not a reasonable expectation of privacy that you or i h

are some commonsense things that we can do to better protect the american people and their data and bert respond to these incidents when they occur. >> getting back to the aumf, it is fair to say the president wants this to be tailored to the war against isis. is that right? >> well, i don't want to get into the contents of the lg language that will be produced shall-contents of the legislative language that will be produced by the contents of this. the president is seeking a right sized aumf, i believe is the way he described it, is because of his desire to see congress act in support or at least demonstrate their support for the strategy to degrade and ultimately destroy isil. >> will isis be defeated while the president is in office? >> i think we have been pretty clear, the president's been pretty clear about the fact that this -- what we are looking at here is a longer term challenge. and the president's been pretty forthright about that. a couple of reasons for that. the most important reason for that is that ultimately this is not a situation where it's the united states alone tha

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they can't take out of their mind's eye any bert than can i watching a video of 22 minutes while someone in a cage is burned to death. 21 christians in egypt are behead add few days ago. this is something that i can't imagine why we have fiddled around here for four weeks and not a thing has happened to homeland security. and what senator mcconnell said last night has nothing to do with homeland security. >> a lot of the republicans after 2013 said -- what does it say to you about the political strategy -- >> it appears to me that the ideologues are still running the republican party. i understand why they are not taking the advice i have given them. they are not taking the advice that the president's given them. they are not taking the advice the fraternal order of police has given them. they are not taking the advice the council of mayors has given them. they are not taking the advice of the "wall street journal." who says that what they are doing is -- it's leading to a disaster for them. i agree with george will. i agree with senator graham. that this is a -- the burden is on the rep

helping them pay their bills and provide a bert life for themselves and their he -- better life for themselves and their lives. when we talk about helping our local businesses, it's not just about the entrepreneurs. it's also about helping the workers that depend on them for their paychecks. it's not just about strengthening main street. it's also about keeping our neighbors strong and prosperous. we should never forget the vital role that our local businesses play in our communities. the small business regulatory flexibility improvement act upholds this commitment. current law requires an analysis to determine if a new rule could have significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. unfortunately our government agencies have failed to comply with the law's spirit. among its provisions, the underlying legislation targets loopholes agencies use to avoid regulatory flexibility act requirements. it also requires agencies to include assessments on the cumulative impacts and new rule -- a new rule may have on small businesses. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. c

bert acosta medevac will be marching with her sisters, the ladies in white than those galago -- damnest of local. if you think everything is rosy and bright hundred and all wonderful, just ask these three dissidents what life is like for them. very unlike what we hear from others. our witnesses are just three of the countless faces of cuba who represent the future, the administration has shut out of the negotiation. and rarely are they invited to meet with visiting dignitaries. we are glad that they get the chance to go to cuba. rarely do they invite dissidents who disagree with this administration. these other people who have to suffer the consequences of the administration's decision. it's easy for the president to change his policy in his ivory tower. these are the faces who must now suffer under a castro regime, reenergized. the regime is reenergized by president obama's policies, but it's injections of cash. the presidents december 17 announcement serves to both emboldened the regime by implying that it can continue its repressive machinery with impunity. raul castro said we will n