this is bill fletcher talking. i find myself celebrating his comrades, some alive, many dead, who against all odds took up a multi-decades struggle for freedom and social transformation. i celebrated the fact that mandela believed both passionately in organization and did not wish to be worshiped as the supreme leader. he saw in organization that the organization of the people, the key to liberation. nelson mandela will be mourned and celebrated, but something else will happen. there will still probably very soon be efforts to reinterpret his life. i do not mean leaving things out as happened in the otherwise film just released about his life. rather, as we have experienced here in the u.s. with great leaders like martin luther king and malcolm x, there will be efforts to convert mandela into a very safe character in order to advance the ends of the global elite. the battle over mandela's legacy will not await his burial nor will it await a period of mourning. it happens immediately. and for that reason, how we int

bill. >> and the funeral service for former south african president nelson mandela will be held today. we'll have a live report out of johannesburg with details. >> good morning. it is tuesday, december 10th. i'm james fletcher. >> and im anny hong >> taking a live look outside at san francisco we are waking up to clear conditions. 24 degrees right now in santa rosa. we are just above freezing and oakland and hayward. we are freezing currently in redwood city. we still the freeze warnings and affect. that will be issued this again to mind. we do have a few more minutes for this. the good news is that we will see sunshine and a slight warming for the afternoon. most locations will be in the '50s. 52 degrees for concord and a little cooler--a satellite radar shows clear skies over the bay and high pressure will slowly build. dry weather will come in and we may see a slight warming for the work week and the weekend. in fact, some of the extended model shows 70's by next week. we will be warmer than average and we are not looking at any precipitation. we may see a few raindrops on christmas eve. dry run weather will hold on and i do want to focus on the 7 day around the bay although we have a 10% chance for show

fletcher, thank you so much. >>> well, 2013 will go down in the record books as the most unproductive year for congress with fewer than 60 substantive billsassed into law compared to 231 last year and 906 in 1948's do-nothing congress. among the items left undone, immigration reform, long-term unemployment benefits, and a farm bill. so the big question, will 2014 be any more productive? let's bring in jerry bernstein. jared is a senior fellow at the center of budget and policy priority, former chief economist and economic adviser to vice president joe biden and an msnbc contributor. thanks for being here. happy holidays. >> thank you, kristen. nice to see you. >> great to see you as well. i want to ask you about this point you raised in politico last week. we have a graphic of it. you write, does the recent outbreak of compromise between the parties that delivered the murray/ryan budget deal mean more much cooperation is on the way? that's the question. what's the answer? more cooperation in 2014? >> i'm afraid we're not going to see a lot but we'll see some. whether 2014 will be more productive than 2013 just makes it a very low bar and