as the mother of two children who had the fortune of being educated by sarah at the catherine michael school and polka dot she is an incredible mix of caring and nurturing, mentoring to her children. she was clear, respect the neighbors, be mindful that people live here and we always were. so although i understand the neighbors' concerns, i believe that the public interest here is served by adding a school to a community that is underserved by schools and furthering san francisco's stated goal of developing the resources for families. encouraging families like mine to stay in san francisco. it's a difficult job that you have. but i am an administrative law judge across the street and i understand that there are times that we have to make decisions that serve the public interest and ask the owners of businesses to mitigate any negative impacts. sarah and lawrence are people of integrity who will do that. thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening. my name is michelle long. thank you for allowing me to speak and i'm sorry for the late evening. i am a third generation native san franciscan

. >> catherine: our political analyst michael yaki is here.nk that they are going to pass something. i do not think they are going to bring it up if there were not going to but given the debacle from last week. you have to wonder does he know how to count. you could count perhaps 150-180 from the pelosi democrats. now, 37-40, republicans are going to vote. this is interesting. if you enjoy c- span. if you are going to watch this vote slowly. many people that have been against this and there is going to be a slow dance. >> catherine: you are saying they are kind of playing chicken? >> yes with each other and even in the same party. who will cast that deciding vote? nobody really wants to be the deciding vote. but this is a big victory for the president. there are a lot of things that no other president would cast. and this sets up which is going to be a wild and woolly and very divisive fight later this year >> catherine: the biggest sticking point remains for the republicans with not enough spending cuts? >> they wanted more spending. the sequ

>> catherine: this was a difficult week for john boehner. our political analyst michaelins us now. >> i remember when that this was during the disaster aid relief. i was working for nancy pelosi your >> catherine: why did this not pass immediately? >> i think that he has a difficult time committing. he says that he does not want a another spending and no vote. but this the relentlessly finely delta that figure that this had no prediction because was a national emergency. and also while the our regional house bill was one half that of the senate bill. now, they're talking about a $60 billion in reserves. chris christie and king had a bit of political theater by leveraging that in action into a full commitment for the full amount. >> catherine: let us talk about the fiscal cliff the day after, michael. what did it solve? >> the only thing oblique it's all for that tax rates to was going to pay more it was not going to pay more. what tax credits are out there. and also the pitch to the alternative minimum tax everything else was kicked down the the peak three items. in real

catherine heenan and gary radnich is hosting new years live right here on kron4. starting in a few minutes. >> welcome back. as the 49ers beat the cardinals, 27-pertained. m thes went to michaelree. 27-13. franknted his place in history. 81 touchdowns. and minutes after the niners had victory, the wait and see mode. >> players need to rest their minds, will rest their bodies. they will have today, tomorrow and wednesday and we will ask them and suggest and nearly incest to stay close. >> right now, things are well but we need to take advantage of those opportunities. >> a likely scenario is that if there will be hosting green bay. the raiders, on the heels of a truly miserable season. fired some of their coaches. offensive coordinator knapp was let to go. and just 18 points per game and most glaring was seventh last year, 28 this year it also the special teams linebacker. a big day of firings are run the n f l what chargers head coach was also lead to go. just one of seven the most surprising was lovie and actor died season in chicago he is gone. the longest. chiefs romeo also fired and past of the cleveland browns past shermer stanford, there are six point favored. in the ro

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if you'd like to connect with michael -- you can follow him on twitter -- his handle is "at-yaki-blog." >> catherine know how many foreign hostages died in algeria. and the u-s is confirming that three americans were among them. that hostage crisis is over.but there are still a lot of questions. in the first official tally of the deadly 4-day crisis. algeria's prime minister says that at least 38 hostages died. others are unaccounted for - as many as nine.. it's not clear whether they got away - or were killed. the attack was on this remote internationally run gas field. a refining site in theone of the men who got away talked about what happened. >> there were shooting from the guys from the gate. >> catherine: the algerian prime minister says the jihadist extremists who attacked were from 6 different and egypt. he says rescue crews first went nowhere. the rescue attempt was bloody - it's when some of the hostages were killed. at least three americans died. >> they went wild with their unreasonable demands. >> catherine: but among those who managed to escape unharmed - this man. mark cobb of texas

catherine: the massacre at newtown reignited the debate on gun control. vice president joe biden heads a panel that will make recommendations to president obama on ways to curb gun violence. newtown police chief michaelehoe offers his opinion. >> ban assault weapons, restrict those magazines that so have so many bullets in them. >> catherine: as the debate rages in washington, the people of newtown look for ways to move forward. catherine heenan kron4 news. >> pam: there is a new battleground on in the war on terror -- but this time america is *not leading the charge. more tonight at 5-30. ♪ secondhand smoke affects everyone's health. it's not just irritating. it can cause heart disease and even death. speak up about secondhand smoke. your health and the health of your family depend on it. >> one of the big questions we're talking about are the freezing temperatures. take a look it this that is frozen this is in napa valley. and how about this grass? you can really see it. we're always looking for your images. sending them it. we're always looking for your images. sending them in look at you guys with your fancy-schmancy u-verse high speed internet. you know, in my day you couldn't just start streami

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michael hanniky for best director. the film maker beating high-profile americans like ben affleck, catherine big low and clinton tarantinonate foreign language films for the top prize especially when they're bleak, arty, glaicially paced, profoundly hopeless. i could go on. so what is the deal with this one? well, it's two-plus grueling hours of an 80-something woman dying very slowly. and an 80-something man looking on helplessly. riva plays the woman, a retired music teacher. and her band. they're proud. self sufficient, the embodiment of western european upper middle class refinement. in a paris apartment that's a bastion of culture. a refuge. until it becomes a prison. the light growing colder as the woman loses one precious faculty after another. >> reporter: loss of movement. loss of language. as their daughter is a by-stander, the couple doesn't even want her standing by. i'm not a fan of michael's other films. among them the thriller funny games. it was made in german and remade shot for shot in english. and the piano teacher. not to put too fine a point on it, i think it's a pretentious punk, an art house thug,

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michael lewis, brooke can take any subject, even something you do not give a damn about, and make it of interest. please welcome two-time peabody award winner brooke gladstone. [applause]>> thank you, catherine. thank you, brooke, for coming tonight. i would like to start with your book. you talk about a number of media biases. one of favorites is the narrative bias. that the media takes a story, no matter what it is, they have to come up with a beginning, a middle, and an end. we have just gone through an election in which there were thousands of just such recorded events. i am wondering, do you think we have a lot when presidential elections are treated as a four- year heavyweight battle to the death? beginning the day after the less election is held -- last election is held. >> we miss something. i do not completely condemn horserace coverage. that is a big part of the story. the problem is, what isn't covered. one gets completely fixated on the gaffs. who said this, how did that have an impact, some of these are really quite revealing. even those, i cannot entirely condemn. you have your 47% remark, which anyone would argue could possibly be extremely revelatory. he said he did not mean

this is catherine zuber, who designed the costumes for today's production and michael yeargan, who did the sets. hello, welcome. uh, cathy, as usual, your costumes are really just gorgeous. oh, thank you. what was your inspiration for the look that you've created for this show? uh, well, we looked at a lot of research of the 1830s and also we looked at a lot of films that were designed by piero tosi to sort of get a sense of costumes that would be at the same time real and theatrical and have a quality to go along with the beautiful sets that michael designed -- that they have a painterly quality to the costumes. well, you just said it. michael, i understand that you and bart took design cues from the legendary scenic designer oliver messel. we did, actually. we were about halfway through the process of working out many different versions of it and, uh, suddenly we looked at some of the designs of oliver messel and there was a kind of wonderful, naive but sophisticated quality to them, which we felt was really right for "l'elisir." and, uh, as we worked on it it just sort of evolved in