we are watching rain heading through many of the big cities on the east coast. bring the umbrellas. anywhere in new england, upstate new york, right down from new york, philly, d.c., baltimore. it will be over by noon today in just about all areas. that's a good part about this forecast. the cold air will move in. don't expect the warmth like we had yesterday a long the east coast. temperatures in the midwest. slow recovery. we've hit our peak coldness. we'll warm it up here. everyone looks for a nice, quiet day across the country. that looks nice. >>> monday marks the beginning of the end for "twilight", robert pattinson and kristen stewart vamped it up at the "breaking dawn" premiere. e. news asked if pattinson would ever play a vampire. he said, yeah, certainly. >>> victoria's secret has been under fire for using a native american headdress for one of its models. they say the lingerie maker is spitting on our culture. they've apologized and they're cutting the controversial outfit from their show. >>> if you hear a roar, there's a crowd for the show, one direction. we had to drag

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the good news is that we came as republicans and democrats, as mayors from big cities and small cities, all around the country. and are able to really speak with a voice that says, look, we want to be pragmatic about this. >> so you've got republican mayors in your group that are concerned about their cities, cuts in federal help that their own party is putting on the table. >> they all do. i speak for myself as i say about what just happened in the election but i also, by the way, speak for the majority of the country that voted for that. the republican and democrat mayors and the many, many nonpartisan mayors really stand up together to say that we can't just do this by balancing on the backs of local property taxpayers. a tax at a federal level is a bad thing. a tax at a local level and property taxes is just as bad. don't just pass one to the other. >> okay. so if you were to take any federal cuts would you have to raise property taxes in your neck of the woods? >> probably. i never want to say that's an absolute. like i just said, take that example. of any of the crime prevention

but for the big cities along the coast, a cold rain and wind. we'll have to watch out for some of those trees. the forecast today, no issues out there today too much, just that rain diving down through the mississippi valley. otherwise, it looks like a pretty nice monday. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. as i mentioned, we do have cold temperatures. here in new york, temperatures down to the 30s. you really feel for anyone trying to stay in their homes as we go throughout this very cold period post-sandy. so veronica, the bottom line is this storm will probably be 0.01 the damage of sandy, but not what we needed. >> democracy plaza is looking pretty good. >> it's looking very good. once we get close to the 270 number, it's going to be magical. >> democracy plaza is taking over the iconic rockefeller center. it's the place to watch the votes be counted for president of the united states. you can check it out on the web. if you are in the new york city area, come on down. be sure to com

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really big city. we have been getting letters from people who vote in california where they opened tons and tons of polling places that serve much smaller groups of voters than the way you deal with it in florida. in california they vote at the neptune society. they vote in their neighbor's garage. they voted at headquarters of the venice beach lifeguards. californians do not do is stand in line and wait eight hours to vote. after the cake splat of an election in florida and several other states, we're watching for ideas about how to fix our broken election system. rick hassen says we should declare florida an election disaster area and bring in the fed's. congress should nationalize it and the option of using your thumbprint as i.d. at the polls. the center for justice is recommending that congress require early voting in every state. the same amount and set a standard for number of voting machines so every polling place has enough to go around. if you want to take the long view, hillary clinton's co

but, not much in the way of accumulation in the big cities. it's really north and west. nd of the stripe of the big snow will be. relative, 1 to 3 inches of snow. harrisburg, allentown and then right here through about morristown, new jersey, that's where we'll see the snow throughout the day. accumulating 1 to 3 inches. we do have winter weather advisories. even west of western washington, garrett county, maryland, high elevations there. picking up about 2 to 4 inches. also in the south side of this storm, we do have some severe weather. we do have showers and thunderstorms, birmingham, a loud morning. you don't need your alarm clock. all that moving toward atlanta and new orleans, as well. so, one line of storms is snow to the north, it's rain, and thunder, to the south. it will all move through today. guys? >> all right. thank you, alexandra. 52 minutes past the hour. packed hour ahead on "early start" including 35 days left before we hit that fiscal cliff. and it's already weighing heavy on holiday shoppers' minds. we're going to chat with democratic congresswoman max

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how will those cuts impact of big cities, small towns? >> we know that the state and city governments have been cutting, and knowing what is to come. that will likely continue. the demographics of this country have changed tremendously. we are living longer, for example. generations of today living much longer than we ever dreamed. i always laugh when someone says we are living longer and we can't been afford social securi, this is a crisis. listen to what you just said, we are living longer. this is an opportunity. but the entitlement programs like medicare, social security, these programs have not changed at all. you can understand that at some point, we need to resize the government programs to the reality of the world. the fact that we are living longer and working longer, i think most people buy into that and recognize that we are going to see cuts in medicare, medicaid, and social security. the politicians and the leadership, and nobody wants to have their name on that, to be the guy that cut off the care for our grandmothers and se

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one thing the city of san francisco or big cities or federal, right, the other smaller cities, smaller cities have smaller budgets. having a structure to support all this open data takes a lot of money. so, when these small cities are thinking about this, they should think about a way of somehow equalizing because they are putting into having these open data team, right? so, what does make sense? this is kind of an open question to get your point of view. >> do you want to take that, shannon? >> i think that there is actually quite ah few examples. we can probably talk to this more with smaller cities that are making open data efforts. but what i would say is that it's proven more than the value of the investment. the return that we've gotten just by opening up the data has actually given back more. so, that would be my short answer to it, but i think you probably have more experience working directly with some of the cities. >> so, i grew up in a small city so i care about small cities a lot, 15,000 people, southern illinois. i'm a card nastionv fan. -- cardinals fan. i should say tha

some of them where they were closer to big cities, obama counties.ou also have to look at it and say big cities are more able to adjust for these sorts of things, kind of vacation community, those sorts of community may not be able to adjust as quickly. you may be disenfranchising or pushing people out of the voting process who are more likely to be republican. you have to look at age differences of those who might have been affected. if you are a younger voter, maybe rumor able to get over the hurdles to get to a new place. if you are an older voter who tend to be more republican, you may not be able to do that, go three polling stations over from where you have gone your entire life to cast the ballot. i live in new york city. we -- my -- the evacuation center is on my block. that's also the polling place. have you all of these people in a polling place that will be there on tuesday. >> i heard in new jersey, a lot of polling booths, people can't get to. it will be an interesting week. ross, let me come to you. which ever way you look at this, it's

after years of working for a five-r hotel in hamburg, she ditched the hustle and bustle of the big city and returned to her roots where she has opened up from small hotel. >> when i saw this place, i just know i had to come back. i was on maternity leave and i had spent the summer out here. my first break away from work. i said, this is it. let's go. >> business at the hotel is up where she runs a staff of four. hers is a blueprint for success common to many of to printers in eastern germany. -- want to print your -- entrepreneurs in eastern germany. >> be used to be dead. lots of people came. we turned it around. a lot of the locals come here to talk and hang out, have a cup of coffee or beer. they're happy that we're here. >> consulting agencies have popped up all across eastern germany, like this one, at home in brandenburg. they help compatriot settled back in. the new east germans are giving the region a much needed makeover. clucks of this kind of brain and is immensely rewarding for the region. -- brain gain is rewarding. the have learned new languages and it is putting a whole n

females is good to university woman out of working buy into it by go out of men in big cities in really they do this is so every two women. they are independent the economy independent they have some somebody this is maybe one or two pressing no more most of them when we say that the situation of women in afghanistan has improved you can only take into consideration places such as harrow to missouri sharif and kabul. in the provinces in the villages the situation hasn't changed some women are still victims of violence and rape me. good morning i'm laura bush and i'm delivering this week's radio address to kick off a worldwide effort on the brutality against women. network and the. taliban. soldiers. across much of the country and the people of afghanistan especially women are rejoicing and women are the bush administration latched on to the issue of the oppression of women now women were oppressed a long time and you never heard anybody talk about it but when the u.s. wanted to invade all the. military. and women are no longer imprisoned in their home they can listen to music and teach

will be tested in san francisco next month and if it's successful the program will expand to other big cities like boston, new york and chicago. >>> some incredible sports highlights are straight ahead, plus just 12 short years ago it was billed as the tallest and fastest wooden coaster, but now no more. we're going to tell you why. >>> weekend forecast is definitely talking about the big chill. all those details coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> well, good morning. some other stories making news across america now. hundreds of volunteers helped serve thousands of men, women, and children in need of a traditional thanksgiving dinner at the midnight mission in los angeles. it was a festive atmosphere for the diners, many of whom are homeless. legendary actor dick van dyke who helps out every year says serving at the mission makes his holiday. >>> meanwhile, in sacramento, nearly 28,000 runners and walkers took part in the 19th annual run to feed the hungry race. it raises hundreds of thousands of dollars for the sacramento food bank. >>> east and west coasters took to the streets t

really big city. we have been getting letters from people who vote in california where they opened tons and tons of polling places that serve much smaller groups of voters than the way you dole with it in florida. in california they vote at the nep tune society. they vote in their neighbor's garage. they voted at headquarters of the venice beach lifeguards. californians do not do is stand in line and wait eight hours to vote. after the cake splat of an election in florida and several other states, we're watching for ideas about how to fix our broken election system. rick hassen says we should declare florida an election disaster area and bring in the fed's. congress should nationalize it and the option of using your thumbprint as i.d. at the polls. the center for justice is recomme recommending that congress require early voting in every state. the same amount and set a standard for number of voting machines so every polling place has enough to go around. if you want to take the long view, hillary cli

it's tough being a big city mayor running. >> a little trust issue for mayors in rural areas?> very tough for big city mayors because the rest of the state -- i have parts of north carolina that are closer to washington, d.c., than they are to charlotte, north carolina. and i had to build a relationship during the last 6 to 12 months with those people and they saw what i did as mayor and realized maybe they could use the same type of leadership throughout the state. so i'm very, very proud of our campaign and hopefully that will tell political consultants across the country that you don't always have to go negative to win. >> what is your advice for the national republican party? there is some soul-searching going on this morning, some of it has to do with demographics, some has to do with tone, ideology. what's your advice? >> i think most of it's tone. i didn't change my philosophy. i didn't change my vision and my strategy, but i made sure that we had a positive tone that was appealing not just to republicans but to democrats and independents and our sta ttisti show that. i

man: let me tell you something-- san francisco is a big city. they're not going to meet each other.will... remember, he waved to her and then he went to buy the dream catcher. you don't buy a gift like that and it was meant for her. i agree with her. maybe he bought it for himself. no. you never know. he does have a nice smile. the guy is a hunk. he has a great smile. he's very dashing. he's very interesting. why wouldn't she want to see him? hi. hi. hi. nancy? rebecca, is that you? yes, it's me... hi, how are you? it's nice to see you after all these years. it's good to see you! my, my... you certainly look like your mother! welcome. welcome to san francisco. it's good to be here. it was a long trip. what exactly happened to your car? oh, my car broke down in the desert and i didn't have the time or the money to fix it, so i sold it. what a shame. that was the car your father bought you, wasn't it? but at least you made it. now let's go home. that sounds good. now, where are your bags? rebecca: uh, they're over there. are all those yours? good grief! i don't know where we'll put th

mayor, what are the areas that affect the big cities?cities are affected by housing, community development investments, education investments, which i might add have already taken cuts. this is what's important is that this is not happening in a vacuum. this is a continuum of looking at with the sequestration and the debt deal where have the cuts already taken place. let me give you an example. community development bloc grant, title one, head start, workforce investment act which is job training. these have taken cuts. the most important thing is, one, to sustain, sustain the middle class tax cuts because to allow them to he can pir would mean a $3,000 hit for someone who makes $50,000 a year. it's important to understand that revenues and expenditures go hand in hand and any plans got to include all. >> that's right. let me get back to aaron. there's three ways to reduce the debt, increase revenues, reduce expenditures on entitlement programs, or reduce expenditures on regular appropriationings. if you were sitting with the president a

mayor, what are the areas that affect the big cities?hat the --. >> the big cities are affected by housing, community development investments, education investments, which i might add have already taken cuts. this is what's important is that this is not happening in a vacuum. this is a continuum of looking at with the sequestration and the debt deal where have the cuts already taken place. let me give you an example. community development block grant, title one, head start, workforce investment act, which is job training. these have taken cuts. the most important thing is, one, to sustain, sustain the middle class tax cuts because to allow them to expire would mean a $3,000 hit for someone who makes $50,000 a year. it's important to understand that revenues and expenditures go hand in hand and any plans got to include all. >> that's right. let me get back to aaron. there's three ways to reduce the debt, increase revenues, reduce expenditures on entitlement programs, or reduce expenditures on regular appropriations. if you were sitting wi

but they used to call san jose the safest big city in the world. >> reporter: police later arrested one of the suspects, jonathan willbanks in an east san jose neighborhood. police are hoping a $20,000 reward and this sketch will help them. the former high school football player is being honored at the spot where he died. >> it's beyond belief. it's the saddest thing ever. >> reporter: the memorial service will more than likely be this saturday. he is survived by his father, mother and older brother, dylan. >> it is just simply tragic. thank you, george. >>> they want to know who took her. pg&e is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest in a walnut creek kidnapping and robbery of a pg&e employee. she left work on november 7th. these are surveillance photos of one of the suspects. police say the woman was tied up, blindfolded and forced to withdrawal money at east bay atms. ultimately, the men drove her to an isolated area of the oakland hills where they left her go. >>> the search is over for isaac nash, seven hours after he was reported missing from his schoo

"my husband is not happy in the big city. he must come back." don't dohat, my brother. we all have troubles. we all have problems. t i tell you one thing, my brother. smile at these peopl smile at the world. robert, make a fall. make a fall, robert. how lovely. put this arm on the table. beautiful, robert. now, robert, smile. that's it, robert. smile. here we go. jesus christ, what is it, robert? you can use your pipe. this is not a railway station. now right, robert, a little bit down, just towards the mouth. that's it, robert. lovely. now, robert, smile. smile, robert. lovely. robert, it's finished. it's finished, robert. beautiful, robert. oh, lovely. robert, what about another card? no. just one card. one card. what if it gets lost? you know what, robert, i've heard stories about the postman. if those bastards don't strike, you know what they do? they sit down on the way, open all the letters. "dear my wife," the letter goes to hell, the money here. he opens another one, "dear my wife," the card goes to hell. he puts the money here. oh, robert, if you take another c

you're away from the big cities. >> how did they react amp you told them what these photos were? >> a lot is lost in communication. what often happens they'd think i've actually in some way accusing the first people i showed the pictures to, they said, listen, we know nothing about this. we're just simple farmers. >> sometimes there were awkward moments. >> we're going to -- one thing and how many buildings? and they say we're going to help you. where is the help? >> what was your initial response as you watched the reactions and heard the reactions of these people? >> i felt a bit like a lawyer asking questions. you know, you never ask a question unless you know the answer sort of thing. at the same time if these guys don't know what caused america's soldiers to come toll their own country, if you put yourselves in their shoes, i would have really liked to known why people are wandering around the area i was in. i felt kind of saddened for them. >>> it's julie's birthday. a friend thought it would be a great idea to get julie a bunch of lottery tickets. >> oh, my god. is that --

if it's successful, the program could expand to other big cities next year. >>> police warn a service that is supposed to deter criminals could be attracting them. putting a hold on newspaper and mail deliveries common for people leaving town but now at walnut creek police warn criminals may have access to those vacation hold records from the contra costa times and could be using that information to target homes. >> i had actually thought of that, that it kind of the same with the mail if you stop it that it kind of broadcasts you're beginning to be gone. and they know the start dates and end dates. >> now authorities are looking into the issue but say as an alternative consider having your mail collected and your newspapers collected by your neighbor while you're out of town. >>> oakland police warning drivers about a series of smash and grab break ins. woke up to smashed car windows yesterday. you can see the glass on the ground there and inside you can see that dash board just ripped apart of that suv. in all five vehicles were hit. so far police have not made any arrests. >>> the

really big city.ng letters from people who vote in california where they opened tons and tons of polling places that serve much smaller groups of voters than the way you deal with it in florida. in california they vote at the neptune society. they vote in their neighbor's garage. they voted at headquarters of the venice beach lifeguards. californians do not do is stand in line and wait eight hours to vote. after the cake splat of an election in florida and several other states, we're watching for ideas about how to fix our broken election system. rick hassen says we should declare florida an election disaster area and bring in the fed's. congress should nationalize it and the option of using your thumbprint as i.d. at the polls. the center for justice is recommending that congress require early voting in every state. the same amount and set a standard for number of voting machines so every polling place has enough to go around. if you want to take the long view, hillary clinton's count every vote act

the service begins december 12 and if things go well program expands to other big city next year. >> today was a beautiful day. beautiful thanksgiving. >> unusually warm. check in now with experience. >> we are not complaining. >> not at all. >> here's a lack at live doppler 7 hd. we have a cloud free sky just weighs did for most of the day today. very mild thanksgiving day with temperatures in the upper 60's around most of the bay i can't remember. right now cooling down a bit but still very pleasant conditions. getting cooler up in the northern part of the viewing area down to 42 at fairfield. 43 santa rosa and napa 47. we expect some locations to see low dropping to the 30's but we have some low 50's around much of the remainder of the bay area. still pleasantly cool to mild in some spots. forecast feature. cold conditions in some of the north bay valley over nature. maybe even patchy valley fog that could be dense in some spots. then sunny and mild today right through the weekend then chance of rain developing late next wednesday continuing into next thursday. now let's go on to

as i mentioned, the temperatures are starting to go above freezing especially the big cities. the highways will see improvement as we go throughout the morning. the forecast goes into the 40s. later today they're showing zero problems on the roads in all these locations. we should be in the 50s on friday, so it will be gone. there's another big storm behind this one. blizzard warnings in montana, north dakota and idaho. they'll deal with the next big storm in the rockies. that one is not headed east. >> there's a bit of a relief. >>> president obama is back at the white house this morning where he's going to begin to work with congress on taxes, spending and the national debt. to avoid that so-called fiscal cliff. nbc's tracie potts is in washington with the latest on that. tracie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning everyone. the party is over now in chicago. he's back here, and the real work begins starting with the economy including that fiscal cliff that you mentioned. taxes and budget problems that could kick in by the end of this year. >> i am looking forward to reac