brings to the city is an important thing in the time of this city's growth, and as sean said, as all big city in america does, we have pockets of poverty, pockets of trouble, and i think the mayor is really looking at this with fresh eyes, and it is terrific

the most recent republican front-runner reached out for some bright light, big city report. nbc's brian mooar reports. >> reporter: newt gingrich is on a role in iowa and new hampshire, but he spent the day in new york, hoarding the support of donald trump. >> i think one of the differences between my party and the other party is we actually go to people who know how to create jobs. >> it was a great honor to have newt up here. it's amazing how well he's doing. >> reporter: the former speaker is cultivating a tea party hour base that grew stronger over the weekend when herman cain dropped out which spells trouble for mitt romney. >> this translates politically on being out of step with the electorate on fundamental ideological grounds. >> reporter: in a new ad gingrich echoes ronald reagan. >> working together, i know we can rebuild america. >> reporter: ron paul is taking a very different tone. >> what's up with these story politicians. not the bark, when it's show time, women perring like little shih tzus. >> some two-thirds of likely iowa caucus-goers can be persuaded to

his surging campaign, the most recent republican front-runner reached out for some bright light, big city report. nbc's brian mooar has more. >> reporter: newt gingrich is on a roll in iowa and new hampshire, but he spent the day in new york. courting the support of donald trump. >> i think up with of the differences between my party and the other party is we actually go to people who know how to create jobs. >> it was a great honor to have newt up here. it's amazing how well he's doing. >> reporter: the former speaker is cultivating a tea party power base that only grew stronger over the weekend when herman cain dropped out, which spells trouble for mitt romney. >> this translates politically into being out of step with the electorate on fundamental ideological grounds. if you're conservative, you're looking for conservative, and you don't think mitt romney is. >> reporter: in a new ad gingrich echoes ronald reagan. >> working together, i know we can rebuild america. >> reporter: ron paul is taking a very different tone. >> what's up with these sorry politicians? lots of bark. when it's

a few big cities that set their own minimum wage. in 2003 voters approved a law that called for automatic yearly wage increases. this year the federal minimum wage will stay at $ 7.25. >>> in the new year you won't be able to buy alcohol at the self check-out stands. you have to buy and sell liquor the old fashioned way. the state assemblywoman says the new law makes alcohol on par with spray paint, cigarettes and prescription medicine. governor brown signed the bill into law earlier this year. >> do you tweet socially or professionally? if it's for work, does your employer own your followers? an oakland writer is being sued. a big called phone dog dot calm claiming a lawsuit saying he stole a customer list when he left the company and switched his twitter handle. he says his 17,000 followers are worth $2.50 a month. they are after eight months of use for $340,000. but he says they knew about the handle change. >> you can click a link to show every one of the people who is following me. it's all in the public. >> a judge will make th

it is good anytime you are running a big city like this. i think you know that when major league took over, -- when mayor lee to go when gavin newsom was appointed -- sorry. he was elected to statewide office as the number two person in the government of california. i think many of us met gavin newsom and was impressed by his leadership. it is good to have the newly- elected mayor with us, it elected a few days ago as the first chinese-american mayor of the city. a great city. many of us do not get here as often as we like. we are often in awe of this place. i think what he brings to the city is an important thing in the time of this city's growth, and as sean said, as all big city in america does, we have pockets of poverty, pockets of trouble, and i think the mayor is really looking at this with fresh eyes, and it is terrific to welcome you. [applause] >> thank you. well, thank you very much. it is my pleasure to be here. philip, thank you for that introduction, and as many of you may have heard, we just had a recent election here, the vo

and 40s in new york city to start your morning and eventually it will move into the big cities. 'll take a while, d.c., midmorning or so. as we go through the afternoon new york city will see rain. hartford, boston, it won't be until after the sun sets when the rain moves into your direction. all of these big cities, it's an all rain forecast. no snow at all. only areas that will see snow eventually as we go through western new york, pittsburgh, erie, cleveland and back up into western portions of new york state so, veronica, maybe a little snow for the kids to play but most of us plain old rain. >> sounds good. who is getting married? who had a baby and who is fighting over a dog. plus a new lawsuit against lady gaga makes her sound not the greatest person to work for. your first look at entertainment straight ahead. you're watching "first look." other makeup can sit on your skin, so it looks like...makeup. but trublend has skin twin technology to actually merge with your skin. how easy breezy beautiful is that? trublend...from covergirl. nick, what are you doing? oh, there's st

. >> despite their efforts, the link made it tough whenever voters were in the big city. specialist in francisco. >> the problem with san francisco is that women's suffrage as an idea was associated. >> susan b. anthony joined the provision party. a deadly idea in san francisco. liquor was the foundation of the economy. and >> anything that touched on the possibility of prohibition was greatly and popular. >> the first campaign was a great effort, but not a success. >> the war was not over. less than one decade later, a graphic protests brought new life to the movement. >> women's suffrage, the republican convention in oakland, this time it was the private sector response. 300 marched down the streets of the convention center. women were entitled to be here. >> joining together for another campaign. >> women opened a club in san francisco. it was called the votes for women club. if she could get the shopkeepers to have lunch, she could get them to be heard literature. the lunch room was a tremendous success. >> it was the way that people thought about women willing to fig

as i said, it's not a lot of big cities. it's mostly interstate 70, rural kansas, around dodge city and garden city. there's a little surprise snow this morning out there. if you look out the window around ft. wayne, many areas of northern ohio, there's snowflakes falling, even just north of pittsburgh, but temperatures are warm enough that it's just going to melt when it hits the pavement. also some thunderstorms in louisiana. so, we have a little travel trouble today, but nothing too bad. new england, you look fine. one dry day, today. the rain will move in during the day tomorrow, so if you want to do your shopping in the dry, nice weather, today's the day to do it, if you can get away from work or school. also, down through the southern half of the country, rain will eventually work into atlanta, but you're looking pretty good as you go throughout tomorrow as the rain kicks up to the east. and here's a sneak peek at tomorrow's forecast. there's the wet weather up there from boston and new york and also d.c. yesterday i te

. >> that was a big city. tavis: for you it was. kokomo, big city. they laugh at me right now, my mom is watching and laughing right now, in kokomo. grew up in indiana, one of 10 kids. i was just so -- i grew up watching you on "the brady bunch" and thinking that house, is nothing like my house. >> it wasn't anything like mine, either. tavis: i was so tickled when i got into the book, just about the interesting part of your life growing up in indiana, but the thing that got me more than anything else is that childhood in indiana, where your family is concerned, is so far removed from this wholesome, loving, blended family that we came to know you through, "the brady bunch." tell me about your childhood in indiana. >> well, as you said, i'm the youngest of 10 children. my father didn't marry until he was almost 50, then he had 10 children. i was his 10th. i was born when he was close to 70. and you know, depression, i was born in 1934, don't tell anybody. yeah. and you know, growing up so poor, my dad was a sharecropper, dirt farmer, and struggled so

some of the big cities could see flash flood watches and warnings.erior sections 3 to 6 maybe 12 inches of snow in the mountains. >> shepard: enjoy. >> it's december. >> shepard: shep it is december. nice to see you. a push to ban nuclear power in the state of california. that could leave millions of people in the dark and cost taxpayers billions of dollars, we're led to believe. voters may have to decide if the risk outweighs the benefit. that's coming up inside fox report. with the capital one venture card we get double miles on every purchase. so we earned a holiday trip to the big apple twice as fast! nner! [ garth ] we get double miles every time we use our card. and since double miles add up fast, we can bring the whole gang! it's hard to beat double miles! i want a mace, a sword, a... oww! [ male announcer ] get the nture card from capital one and earn double miles on every purchase, every day. go to capitaloneom. i wonder what it could be?! what's in your wallet? >> shepard: if the feds can't find a permanent storage solution for nuclear wast

a lot of the big cities are going to be missed. denver, maybe only get a little bit of snow out of this. pueblo and santa fe will be hit pretty good, but oklahoma city, dallas, kansas city and witch tarks a near miss for you. just a little too warm. you'll mostly be on the rainy side of the storm. blizzard warnings in effect until 9:00 a.m. tomorrow out here, this area of this magenta color here. so, that's a good, good section here of kansas, all the way north texas, panhandle of oklahoma. we also have winter storm warnings in areas like pueblo. as i mentioned, it's mostly going to be a rain event across much of central texas, where we'll deal with thunderstorms. as far as snowfall totals go, this area could see a foot. again, up in denver, maybe an inch or two, that's about it. most of the southwest of town will be hit. and kansas city, just to your north is where we'll see some of the snow, but kansas city itself, it doesn't look like a lot for you. amarillo, you're also on the edge also, probably three to six inches. the warm s

that is something that is not necessarily economic but something that matters to the city as a whole. it is a big part of what i look forward to doing in city hall. >> what are the specific thoughts you have on how the city can deal with budget issues? >> i think of two things. i'm not one the things that we can raise revenue and that is going to solve out of our problems -- i'm not one who thinks that we can raise revenue, and that will solve all our problems. we need to look at what we do as a city and was services we offer. we have 26,000 city employees. our payroll and fringe benefits for city employees accounts for over 60% of our budget. if we are not willing to look at that issue, i do not think we are going to solve -- i know we will not solve our long-term financial issues. that, to me, is the biggest deal. second, it is about job creation. jobs are not just putting people back to work, which i think is the highest priority, but it is all the ancillary benefits we received, whether it be payroll taxes, an increase in property taxes. people who live and work in san francisco also shop at

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and my wife says go to sleep but i can't because you see a village and then it turned into this big city in mexico and then you do more and it turns into china and you wonder where we're all headed. i don't know the answer but when you know thing i do know fiduciaries you listen to what the people want most of all, it's education for all they're children and i ask many women now when i'm over sees, i ask the women i'm here is a your servant and would like to help you what do you want? most women would say i want a good husband or to become wealthy or prosperity. what most women say is, we don't want our babys to diet. how do you answer that question? it comes through educating girls and through female literacy. >> thanks, doug. this is different schools. my daughter occasionally, she looks at these photos and said, dad you don't have any playgrounds in your school so now we have playgrounds and skipping ropes and it's been a really great blessing to see. play is an important part of the learning process and socializing so thank you, amira. this is in la lander school, the story is in kar

. >>> a lot of shoppers are carrying bags on january 1st in one of bay area's big cities. we're going to have the report for you in just about 7 minutes. while we found plenty of shoppers out there morning at target in emoryville, most people were snagging the bargains. they were taking advantage of the half price trees and getting stuff for next year. >>> drew people out in pleasantton. to catch those after-christmas sales and somewhere did even more shopping. >> i got to go to return shoes from macy's for my lady. it's going to be difficult with crazy dust customers. it's part of the holidays so it's fun. >> biggest day of the year behind black friday and christmas eve. >>> gift card sales continue to climb but 40% of all gift cards go unused every year which equates to billions of dollars. the state of california doesn't allow expiration dates. today is gift card exchange today, awareness of the cards. >>> stole from a company. anonymous boasted in on an line posting that it stole thousands of credit card information from clients. their role was to take money from accou

city. that is one of those things i want to make sure we do, to resurge that ever. so i am going to be a big supporter of the film industry and particularly this type of innovation here, this thing baitor where you have independent film makers and documentaries coming together. the city can come together here, and we have helped to find space and worked with a land leonard named craig. is craig here tonight? if anybody says he is craig, we thank him because he has given us a great deal here. and also doing it in a way in which it compliments the district here in the tenderloin. i want to thank the v.b.d. are you here? where did you go? >> here. [applause] >> ok, thank you. i am excited about revising and resources and making sure we support our independent film makers, our documentary film makers. we have a lot to talk about. i am also excited about some of the ideas that have already been on the books. but now that we have the space, we have a great -- production crews have already started here. i understand there is pot luck productions. cob great -- congratulations for being here. [applau

the scores put bat baltimore behind big cities. the head of baltimore schools admit there's a steep hill to climb. >> there's such a need to move the numbers of kids toward the professionally band, that we can, the you're yenni in the work has to be there, even as we celebrate the advancements we're making. >>> students take the national assessment test every two years. the ravens will be without ray lewis sunday when they play the colts. even without him on the field the team has won the last 3 games in a row. mclane is one of the linebacker that's filled in. lewis is out with a toe injury. donald ellerbee and brandon ayanbadejo have chipped in. >>> this organization knows what they're doing. they didn't bring us in here for nothing. we're not a mistake. we had to work for everything, and it's nice to reap the reward. the journey is not done. this is a small step. >> ray luis sat out practice yesterday as did matt burke and ben grubs. and you can watch the ravens taking on the cold -- colts live sunday afternoon at 1:00. >>> 20 mi

anyone going to the big cities in the east, a big rainstorm in new england. anyone flying there will have no problems by the time you get there. a great travel day heading to extra careful. san jose nice today. and areas around crescent city, not bad either. unfortunately, some rain heading in for christmas day. i'll tell you who, a little later. >>> also coming up, more job improvement. best buy says bah humbug, and what you won't find overhead this christmas. early morning business headlines straight ahead. >>> plus, he's back and expected to blow up his competition this weekend at the box office. >>> a dramatic finish between the colts and texas and another bowl, another win for boise state. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry and here are some of your top headlines this morning. a magnitude 5.8 earthquake shook the new zealand city of christchurch followed by several strong aftershocks. there were no reports of serious injury or major damage. this comes just ten months after a devastating 6.3 qu

the automobile was king of the road not only in the big city but even out on the form where a trip intown no longer involved hooking old betty up to the buck board. but outside if city limits roads were still horse trails that turned to pud in the winter and an automobile driver had to be resourceful. >>> not everyone could afford an automobile at first, driving one was a definite sign of suck says. to own a dobol you had to be rich. it was not only a sumptuous carriage but it ran quietly and elegantly on steam. it was in the late 10s that off doble. after building a few sample cars in the east, abner in 1922 opened steam motors. then 100 plane. abne's father owned a successful water wheel company. making a great car was not a fast process then. double made one car at a time. with the steam engine heated by carosene. even a road that could easily reach speeds up to 10 miles per hour. a young man got there in a hole. where is the doble today? two of the finest examples can be a at jim ovre. frank probably knows more about doble than anyone. he is currently fixing both cars. >> i'll give

the city of santa clara would pay $850 million mostly through bank loans. it was a unanimous vote last night. [ applause ] >> reporter: big reaction from the crowd after the santa clara city council made that vote acting as the santa clara stadium authority. dozens of supporters were there. only a few people voiced concerns. >> our grandchildren and great- grandchildren will be burdened with this massive debt. santa clara residents have been betrayed and deceived. >> they have the 49ers behind them and they have the nfl behind them. i don't see this as a risk at all. >> reporter: the 49ers do say that if the stadium ends up costing more than $1 billion, they are willing to pay up. right now santa clara planning to pay its loan back through ticket sales, naming rights and a local hotel tax. nfl voters won't be voting, just a briefing on the project today. the vote could come within the next several months. the nfl owners are widely expected to approve this plan. >> thank you, anne makovec live for us down in santa clara. >>> the "occupy" protests at the port of oakland was a multi- million dollar hit this week. only one te

. >>> also tonight, she is a big city power broker in this country. she's controversial, she is stylish and she has enough authority to turn times square into a pedestrian mall. the question is could some of her ideas soon be coming to a town near you? >> do critics say, well she doesn't listen, she's autocratic. we could go on and on. >> please this. >>> also we'll meet the hottest couple in the u.k. in the animal world these two could turn out to be something. >>> and our guest in the studio tonight, jimmy fallon. he'll talk about how he found himself in the middle of the gop race. all that and more on "rock center" starting now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television "rock center." since you have to spend money anyway, at some point it has become fashionable for a lot of folks to become better, more ethical consumers. from the meat that you buy making sure it was raised humanely, perhaps, to cars and air conditioners that are fuel efficient. spending based on good intentions in effect. well, this time of year a lot of people are buying gifts