but not on as broad a rationale as burt fears.ay is, it doesn't really make sense to ban aggregate contributions in this amount. that it makes sense people should be able to give the $2600, which is the limit for, say, a primary to each candidate they want. so i expect another step in the direction of campaign finance deregulation. but not a huge leap. >> yeah, i mean, that's my view of it on the voting rights arena. i've always said and written that justice roberts does incremental radicalism. some of the outcomes move us very far away from precedent, but it goes in these small steps. burt, i want to get your views on another important case we mentioned. which tests the limits of whether the president can push off the senate and get his people into government through recess appointments. >> that's the reket questions appointment case, sure. the increase in hyper politicization of the senate has rendered it impossible for the president to get his nominees through. they simply filibustered the nominees and the republicans wouldn't

jimmy burt. i got a phone call when it went down. they said, who too you think, gotti? i said gotti is not smart enough. i said, journaly burt, and it was. >> you couldn't pin it on him. >> we pinned a homicide on it. another guy, eaton, got killed on burt's orders, and he went to jail for that. >> joe coffee, watching it unfold. >>> an update on the up mat feel-good story of the day. father and son on a trip to the beach. justin bieber and his way cool dad. the biebs and his old man spent the day in miami with justin smoking pot, in the clubs, and the early morning hours drag-wassing, and tmz said dad helped block the street for his struck high and pilled up sob to show some speed. and the e then the cops showed up and the golden boy is in dribble. here's his mug shot. bobbledded out of jails a short time. he jumped on top of an suv, channeled his inner michael jackson, waved to the fans with hoody in place. loved eave minute. here's a live look at the suv. the choppers are following it, this is 7 sky 4 following justin beeper to his next location, wherever the next ma

it sounds worse. >> my advice to musicians -- you know, burt bacharach had a lucky career.lize on the songs he was writing at a time when you could hire a songwriter. my advice to musicians is never count on royalty checks. try to own your material. believe me. you want to own the songs you write. you could get lucky. ultimately you have to perform your own songs. you have to figure out a way to take care of yourself. there is always a way to do it. you know, i don't think you have to count on the social media to be your food money. it's like what kind of money do you have to have for a successful youtube video? you get to promote something. >> i feel the same way. let me ask you about another story. >> sure. >> you're a libertarian capitalist. >> definitely. >> i love that. >> oh, yeah. >> there is a headline story on the web tonight. the irs is targeting this hollywood group called friends of abe. it's a republican group in hollywood which is difficult. guys in the group, pat boone, kelsey grammer, jon voight. and others. i know you're not in the group. what do you think?

ashley: hey, burt, i wanted to follow up on some of your notes here.sing a section of their consumers, hispanic consumer. you say they lost the core of that sector of the market. why, how did they blow it i guess is my question? >> they blew it because target, macy's, others, between univision, telemundo, latina magazine, really appealing to the spanish-speaking shoppers, particularly latinas. and as those shoppers shifted to other stores, they took three generations of the family with them, shopping particularly on sundays and weekends from weddings, christenings, first communions, big graduations, and when the shoppers left, like the old elvis presley line, they left the building and they're not coming back. tracy: remind me about sears, charles. you know how i feel about sears, i need to shower after i walk in the store sometimes. that is how it is feeling. why would anyone own the stock when to burt's point, macy's loaded in cash. >> macy's trading at all-time high and jcpenney all-time low. you know, it is not one of these things you're going to p

burt and ernie will be exercising, and other characters will be eating healthier foods. thank you for joining us. oh, hey, i, uh, i found your lipstick. oh! oh, no, this isn't mine. this is sunset blush. i wear tiger orgasm. but it was in my apartment. [sniffs] i don't know why i told you about the pop-tart. but that's weird. it's just me and pete at my place. hello, ladies. pete's having an affair. what? the lipstick, the spring in his step. the sexy justin timberlake hat. no, no, he's still married. i don't know what to tell you. the only reason men start taking care of themselves is if they're getting someone to have sex with them. if it wasn't for that, they'd just sit at home in their own filth. hey, liz. we're out of string cheese, so i think i'm gonna take off. ohh.

stuff about reason, which i really enjoyed and i think there are points very well made by you and by burt, i know you like being put in the same sense as burke, but there is a lot -- i think i put it in the review, you know, these guys are sort of -- i understand this gets the biology wrong but they our founding fathers, right? so this left-right debate, but it had been so many generations that the genetic material has gone all over the place. .. i think that there are a lot of libertarians to start her pain starts. and am i libertarians them contains different things. some forms of it are very burkey n. a hayek's kind of the least inorganic growth is the essence of works to you. but some forms that are very rationalistic and really believe that society by applying different roles, especially economic principles that are morally signed chafic can maximize freedom and therefore maximize happiness. what pain shows us in the course of his own thinking and in the evolution of his own thinking is how radical individualism leads to the desire to liberate the individual firm reliance on other pe

burt, you're the expert, give us the 2014 outlook for the retailers.go shopping again this year? >> consumer hits stall speed in 2014, sandra. disposable income's been declining six straight years, so consumers will outsmart the stores, they'll get better bargains with their mobile apps online, they'll demand desperation discounting from the retailers that are struggling to stay in business, and the retailers who want to compete. they'll put more pressure n profits for retailers like best buy, and the online retailers that ship for free don't charge sales taxes to your point, ultimate winners in 2014. sandra: i've got to think as we look at this snow falling outside in new york that at least home depot might do well. they might sell a few more snowblowers. >> frank blake, the ceo, is a genius of strategic planning at home depot. dave dylan, rodney -- [inaudible] michel lis, they're the same at kroger. they'll do extremely well. but for the most part, investors should run away from retail in 2014 with a few exceptions. sandra: that sounds like a dire wa

joining us is burt dolman who says apple is headed to $320. on the bullish side is the lou bassinese. burt $320 a share, really? >> yes. actually that was my target on cnbc asia about ten months ago. i said over the long term that is the eventually downside target. i had given a sell signal on apple six days after the top at $705. that was in late september last year. >> why do you say that? the company had record revenues. it sold the most iphones in a quarter it ever has. it had record sales of ipads, and its profits were pretty doggone good? >> profit margins -- profit growth has shrunk now four consecutive quarters. it's losing market share continuously. why would you want to buy a stock that has declining profit margins, declining profit share, is in a very very crowded sector? they made all their money when they had a virtual monopoly on the smartphones. it's a really crowded sector. nobody is going to win the smartphone market anymore. >> go ahead, lou. >> if burt is issuing a sell signal, i'm issuing a buy signal today. we can recycle

burt hill from the bicycle advisory committee, sue vaughn, patrick trawber, jenny lee, leah sharm from the bicycle coalition, do you think las nickelson, [inaudible] madeline [inaudible] from san francisco league of conservation voters. >> thank you committee. this is a very important meeting and i really applaud you supervisor for bringing us together. this report concentrates heavily on infrastructure proves but there are five other ones and if you focus on the 2020 we need to look at things like education. europe in establishing its system it has now implemented education at every school level to help people learn from a early age the rules of safe bicycling and the process of doing that. we need something and spend more money with the school district. it won't be funded out of the school district or the superintendent office. i think we need to integrate our education system. law enforcement -- i have sat through meetings and i know you have and enforcement needs help. they're not going to fund themselves for the things that need to be done and the grand juries and everything else

. >>> there is an ironic twist, anthony sea burt, he was killed in the back country and he founded that world famous resort and he was found with three other people who were hurt and and he is spented to survive. cracks in the ice allowed a russian research ship where he had been stranded for two weeks. he had to be evacuated pie helicopter and that helicopter had to be from an area which also got stuck as well. >>> they could declare a state drought next month in california. they have an official declaration right after the february 1st snow survey. the announcement would clear up some red tape and set up a water bank and set under water transfers. and local reservoirs like crystal springs make up the water supply and right now it may consider rationing and other options -- options. >> we are looking not only for a june year drought and make making sure our supply lasts. >>> it allows reservoirs to release water to the delta and that concerns environmentalists, that officials could eventually issue water mandatory because of really dry conditions. >>> the county board of supervisors sa

then she puts interviews and thought to burt fisher book. >> : mckenna thought this picture would bey to demonstrate what she's lost. and gained. >> : on essentially have my size that i was. last night she met her fan page profile picture >> : this book found a problem. >> : this step of a midget idealizes. >> : which again year i had was approved because it promotes a dull products. >> : i can't even fathom what they're thinking. >> : but cannot mate lost weight but she didn't miss words. >> : a comment like that could get kicked off this book as well. >> : a storm approaching the coast line read no single answer it tomorrow early at an early afternoon. >> : reporting showers in north bay by 10 p >> : veteran morning hours will continue as the rains in the north light showers here at dawn in san francisco by 11. >> : not really know how accurate the ldp >> : more like one in the afternoon. consider new this year in the afternoon though. a three show is concerned it continue over san francisco. then start to slide down the south. >> : clear skies and the evening not really a whole lo

burt and ernie will be seen jumping rope and eating vegetables. >> maybe there's low-cal cookies. gluten free, sugar free cookies. >> that's no fun. >>> well, we are going to have more sunny skies, right? >> we do have a little bit of fog building for tomorrow morning. but by tomorrow morning expect clouds. then as we head throughout the afternoon hours we'll have clearing and cooler temperatures for your friday forecast. mainly 60s. no more 70s like we've had in the past. them as we head through the upcoming weekend, at least if we can't get the rain, it's going to be sunny and looking pretty good. >> we hope to see you at 11:00. goodnight. >>> bieber's smug shot. breaking new details on his drunk driving bust, how his own father was his wingman, now on "extra." >> drinking. smoking pot. resisting arrest. after a dangerous drag race at 4:00 a.m. new shockers as we trace the time line from battling the paparazzi with his dad to his wild night in the club. and we reveal the mystery girl in the lamborghini. is bieber's house of cards finally falling down? >>> now trending, kim karda

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for the office of strategic services and didn't have time to cover that aspect of the story as well, burt the cia's office of strategic services during world war 2 was the -- its middle eastern division was dominated by these people with pro-arab outlook on the region and the u.s.' role there. so that was another influence on these people. of course, immensely important and ultimately they do -- they win the day. right? the arabists lose the argue; as it were, but nonetheless it was there at the beginning. it was undeniably there. thank you. >> i'm curious as to what extent did the arabists were free agents as opposed to just carrying out the policies of the president and the secretary of state and the head of the cia, and i guess were the arab -- did you find the arabists were those who were simply antizionist or promoting an agenda which would make the life of the bulk of the arabs better? did they support the algerian resort -- revolt or support the french? >> archie roosevelt along with many other americans in the middle east during world war ii, and in north africa in particular, wer

so you are actually burt bacharach and hall davis' number one, you're the trumpeter singing. >> it wassinging a song instead of me photographing you with the trumpet in your mouth all the time. >> mm-hmm. >> and i had a friend by the name of burt bacharach. >> a good friend to have. >> yeah. i called him, i said, burt, is there a song you find yourself whistling in the shower, or recorded, maybe didn't get the right recording -- >> yeah. >> anyways, he isn't me "this girl's in love with you" recorded by dionne warwick. >> right. >> and i loved the song. i felt i could handle it as a vocalist. obviously, hall david needed to make some changes in the lyric, change the gender, et cetera. i asked him as i was leaving his place, is there a song, by the way, you know, you didn't get the right recording, you find yourself whistling in the shower, blah, blah, blah, and he sent me "close to you." >> oh, my god, yeah. >> which i was going to do as a follow-up to -- >> tell me about the story carpenters, you brought up "close to you." you were a fan from the start. >> i learned something from sam

alster burt was until recently the u.k.'minister for the middle east. >> once people are sitting down where do we with go. where's the incentive. the regime. i am not so sure. they believe they are winning. >> two decades ago, the u.n. bug struggling to stop bloodshed. peace talks finally halted the violence there, but one key figure from the time the former foreign minister says he fears the syrian only six will now face a dilemma. >> the syrian people are going to face an unfavorable set of options. just like we did in bosnia. they sent away right now. >> an international gathering more than 40 countries but not iran expressing their support for this process, around the table talks then start here at the united nations in geneva on friday. but the reality is this, the syrian regime just like iran has made it clear it will not support any plan that doesn't involve a government led by president asaad. >> in this building both sides are supposed by mutual consent to come up with a new transitional government. the challenges a

a lighter flow of traffic burt slower because of that trab as far as northbound routes. the sought bay commute. patches of fog could cause you to hit the brakes. we don't see this until 10 or 15 minutes later. that's moving nicely. the orange is painted across our maps. also through the north bay slowing for 101 and we'll end with a shot, this shot and haze through the area north of university. back to you. >> 6:22. still ahead the most talked about accessory coming up. how a hat slow is. >> fashion choice. >> no shortage of memorable moments at the grammy awards. the first performance of the night. ♪ >> that was beyonce with her husband jay-z. jay-z won for holy grail. he dedicated his award to his daughter. listen. >> i want to tell blue that look, daddy got a gold simy cup for you. >> one of the most talked about moments of the ceremony came during another rapper's performance. 34 gay and straight couples were married during mclemore's performance of the song same love. >> by the power vested in me by the state of california, i now pronounce you a married couple. >> a

. >> okay, burt. play of the day. the 9ers had to win yesterday. was so good. going to see it one more time. two seconds left on the clock. phil dawson, 23-yard loon, launches with great accuracy. that baby will go right through the uprights. a little to the right. but their super bowl dreams are alive. incomes up, the boys head to charlotte, take on the panthers. starts sunday morning at 10:00. chec at happened when the ckers john kuhn tried . off the famous >> the packers win it last night up check out what happened when the packers john cutro tried to pull off the leap. he still face. aiming for the 1st row of the bleachers. open arms, got a couple high fives. whatever. he comes up short. so does his team. the 9ers win in dramatic fashion. >> that's hilarious. maybe it was too cold. >> to show your 49er pride we had a little something on the line. >> yes we did. we made a bet with the morning team, our affiliate. here's a reminder. here's the deal. when the 9ers win, you have to go out into the cold with your best california gear, right? what is that? . >> r

burt he also wanted to earn a living, and the way he started to earn a living what in the film world, and the first director he met was a young man called alfred hitchcock. so at that time when you turn 21 england, you were finally allowed to travel without parental permission. on the day of his 21st 21st birthday he got on the tray to moscow, and then ising picked up by the russian intelligence. the son of a baron. and is sent back to london. then gets called out again the following year, and they ask him to come and work secretly for a thing called the common turn, and that has a precise mandate and that mandate was to bring communism and infiltrate foreign countries through culture. so, montague had this wonderful opportunity to do with his film. now he is doing all of hitchcock's spy movies and yet hitchcock has no idea that his producer is actually a spy. and this goes on -- this relationship continues for five or six really good movies, like 39 steps, some of the greats. i'll give you one quick short story of what a typical week in this young man's life was. he would -- he could

burt to suggest he didn't know he was on the wrong side of right would be really a stretch. go. see you. don't pay too much attention to wall street. it's a bad down. we're down 265 points. it's been a very rough ride. who are you again? >> sandra smith, fox business network. >> my cousin san contract. what's going on? >> bear in mind we have 15% gains in our report. the earnings have been good but not great so no catalyst to keep rallying the market. so they've started to focus on the bad, and everyone is fearing that perhaps the big stock market correction is coming, which would be a selloff of 10% or more for the major averages. right now investors running for the exits but the big news, weakness out of china, theirctus contracting, gdp is slow so everybody is saying maybe china is not the story everybody thought it would be. >> maybe china is a new story but a negative story. >> exactly. >> what could stem the tide sneer we need some favorable something. >> a lot coming up and next week is the big fed two-day meeting, concludes on wednesday and the big question is whethe

risk and firefighters had to hip people get out safely and deal with the propane tanks out here that burtause -- burst because of the fire and it was a dry and remote feel the. >> it was dense. the fire was dope in there with a lot of water and we used foam to get down in there. we will be out here all day today. >>> this happened at 10:45 and behind the village shopping center you can see the marsh from the shopping center and this field is tucked away behind the marsh and behind trees so it is hidden from sight and difficult to find. because of that it is a popular spot for the hopeless. the chief says they have a fire out here once or twice a year. >>> thank you, amy. several flights in and out of bay area airports are already canceled this morning because of the massive east coast snowstorm. katie marzullo is at sfo with the latest. good morning, katie. >> good morning, matt, we i had better news for anyone trafficking but i checked with the duty manager this morning and the numbers are moving in the wrong direction. last hour i told you there was only one confirmed cancellation and n

lee, burt ross, pictured on the right on the screen there, he was approached by allegedly mob-linked hard to refu refuse. give them the rights to slap a high rise on that land, those 16 acres, and he would give them a million dollars. burt ross didn't want that money but he did wear a wire for the feds and those crooked developers went to jail. a book was even written about this called "the bribe." this wasn't the luckiest piece of land. and since then, four decades ago, that land, those 16 acres that every builder in the state has salivated over, that land has sat vacant. that is until last year and that's because of mark sokolich a mayor who says he has no higher ambitious in life than to run his town and he has made the redevelopment of that site his defining mission as mayor. it's what he's poured his efforts into, what he wants to be remembered for. it is his legacy. so what is it that he's done, that he wants to do? the project is so big he's split it in two. the eastern half of the land -- the whole thing they call redevelopment area five, for what that's worth. the eastern ha

>> i think burt bach ka rack said it best, anyone that had a heart, right? i feel the vet that should have been given a break perhaps got into some sort of a contest that starts with a "p" with the judge and being that they all know one another, this person perhaps being cantankerous was trying to make an example and teach him a lesson about being humble. but i really do believe something better could have been done. they should have made some sort of a better offer to help him to pay his taxes and to do these repairs. >> hopefully they will now. jeff, thanks. holly, as well. these have been very difficult topics but you make them so interesting and important. thanks. >>> okay. moving on. on the heels of a massive snowstorm now comes this fierce arctic cold front. it's sweeping across the country. it's threatening to push low temperatures even lower. and possibly shatter records across the u.s. we'll talk more about that next. we still run into problems. that's why liberty mutual insurance offers accident forgiveness if you qualify, and new car replacement,

this is bulo burte, a key strategic crossing point on the shabelle river.s an al-shabaab stronghold. it also happens to be the town where one of the westgate attackers came from. the number and identities of the attackers still remains a mystery. kenyans claim there were only four, but locals here suggest there were more, and some are even believed to have returned to somalia. >> reporter: unlike other parts of southern and central somalia, there is peace here, but it's under al-shabaab's strict sharia law. all the women do go to a school and are allowed to run their own businesses. the locals might not agree with al-shabaab's military campaign, but they told me they appreciate them for bringing law and order. i ask local elder muhammed bedel what life is like now under the self-appointed al-shabaab rule. >> reporter: i followed the hizbat, the al-shabaab police, on their beat. none of them would let me film their faces. the first stop was this restaurant, telling the female owner to remove the rubbish from outside. then, they make their way to the local ho

took me to see the filming of to meet john franken high-rise director, seven days in may and i met burt lancaster and kirk douglas and the next day had coffee with johnny carson. it went on and on, this kind of thing and i was short of money and i entered with 200 american dollar bills when i entered the plane, 38,000 miles later, 182 of them left. the entire trip cost $18. the following year i went back and that was more specific during my summer vacation. quite a keen climber and i was going to do soon timing and much the same thing, i was hitchhiking and they picked me up 4 different series of reasons. i had a union jack on the back, this was the year the audience will remember, the perfumer scandal and people would screech to a halt when they saw my union jack and said that i know christine personally? and the great train robbery, they wanted to know if i knew how to rob a train and i knew nothing but kind of poignant side of things i went to the opening of a lock on the st. lawrence seaway to st. mary and was pushed forward to shake hands with president kennedy. you can imagine a f

he is part after new health write makeover for burt, ernie, grover, and the gang.s. dr. rooster helps the in making healthier options. even the cookie monster is getting in on the act choosing his favorite treat, only once a week instead of every day. the character is inspire bid a real-life doctor. a cardiologist who started working with the "sesame street" workshop six years ago. their project targets 3 to 5-year-olds by gradually incorporating healthy messages into the hugely popular show. >> your beating heart creates a pulse in many parts of your body. you see, this spectacular organ, the heart, works like a pump. a pump. >> the pump, you say. dr. valentin joins me now. your help it does you no justice and you are far more handsome in person but -- >> you think go i think you definitely are. i love this idea of incorporate thing. you were saying this has been hugely successful. the kids are jumping in on this. >> no question. the doctor is a role model. to see a doctor that gives advice is a significant dash has a significant impact on the children that are wa

stuff about reason, which i really enjoyed and i think there are points very well made by you and by burt, i know you like being put in the same sense as burke, but there is a lot -- i think i put it in the review, you know, these guys are sort of -- i understand this gets the biology wrong but they our founding fathers, right? so this left-right debate, but it had been so many generations that the genetic material has gone all over the place. ..

the van then burting into flames. operator still on the line. >> what is it that you're reporting? i can't really hear you. hello. hello. >> reporter: silence on the other end. authorities say 90-year-old frances savia inside the van died. the six survivors are recovering from their injuries. the crash still under investigation. but police say it looks like a problem with the gas pedal caused the van to go out of control and have advice for others in the same predicament. >> shift the gear selector into neutral which is going to cause the engine to rev but will allow you to stop. >> reporter: a valuable lesson during a life-or-death moment. for abc news, aditi roy, los angeles. >>> to the target store employee in california who police say helped rescue a little girl from a kidnapper. her awareness even before the amber alert went out may have saved that girl's life and abc's david wright has that story. >> reporter: something just didn't seem right. that's what 22-year-old roxana ramirez says about a man she spotted l

burt ross thanks for getting up this morning. made watching this story unfold? what do you think was going on? >> well the first thing is i don't believe that the governor is telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth. it just smells. we had an expression in law school. it doesn't wash. one of the things he said in his press conference was that the mayor of ft. lee is not on his radar. well you have three people whom he appointed and who are in his administration, one of whom called the mayor a little sur, another called the mayor an idiot and the third one called him on the phone and said the fine mayor, using a sarcastic tone is waiting. so if all of these people are obviously angry for whatever reason at the mayor of ft. lee and christie has known -- everybody i know who is close to christie says that he micromanages everything, then clearly the mayor of ft. lee for whatever reason is on his radar. the other thing that bothered me is when the gort nor was talking about these dedicated lanes in ft. lee. it's absurd. thos

doesn't he remind you of -- remember burt lancaster in elmer begantry?lly giving it to you, you know? really making you feel something. >> yeah. and just watching him bound up the stage with that electric smile and all. and then the speech as well. yeah. >> and he is very popular within the academy, within his colleagues. very popular. and then michael douglas, another popular one. >> yes. >> who i have a feeling, you know, kirk douglas is 97. and you could see that he was talking about his father kirk and that was special. >> that was a very moving speech. how he also thanked matt damon for delaying production of that film for a year while douglas was battling throat cancer, that's right. and that movie should have been on the big screen. that was an incredible film. >> yeah. so all in all while there weren't a lot of surprises it still was an entertaining evening. >> it was. absolutely. especially when you get television mixed up with film. then you get the whole thing. and that made it a lot of fun. and they moved it along. it wasn't that long. it was