>> oh, clare, can i have everyone in the instant room in about ten minutes? >> okay. >> yes, sir, i will keep you informed about that. >> mm-hmm. >> campbell. where are you going? >> i'll come back to you, sunshine. right. scene of the crime. the location. come on, speak to me. rankine? >> the clem attlee estate. it's where the homeowners bring their doggies to defecate. it's... it's not a nice place to live. the registered tenant of the flat where the killing took place is michael johns. >> he's only 18 years old. what's he doing with his own apartment? >> the street takes care of his boys, you know? >> pardy? it's pardy, isn't it? >> yes. >> um, steve. >> yeah. >> got this dabs? >> yeah, rice, toots, chalker-- they all claims to be friends of michael's. their prints have got a perfect right to be there. >> well, that's very boring, isn't it? well, bring him in anyway and make life hard. what about the blood? [phone ringing] >> uh, buckets of ahmed. a little bit of michael. period. >> oh, pardy, you're such a laugh. >> these are the lists, are they, rachel?

clare cushman who are the "courtwatchers"? >> the "courtwatchers" are the justices themselves, their wives, children, oral advocates who argue, court staff, reporters that cover the cords and even some just random bystanders who happened to be in the courtroom and witnessed something exciting and then went back and reported it. so most of what this book is, is me digging up all that stuff over the last 220 years that the court has been in existence and finding all the insider stories written by people that were affiliated with the courts. >> what is one of your favorite insider stories? >> i have so many. there are some that are funny and some that are poignant and some better educational. but i guess the ones that i like the most are the ones written by the supreme court spouses because you really get a sense of what it was like at home so my favorite is written by elizabeth black who was the wife of hugo black and he had a hard time sleeping at night when he was cogitating on a difficult case and the like to wake up at about

clare's. or up the street. like us said, this is purely for public convenience, this is something that are customers ask us for. if this is something that people do not approve of, we will drop it. and i have the sheets. they are showing the signatures of folks getting these requests. we get about five requests every day for it. that is what we would like to bring in. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. supervisor elsbernd: -- supervisor mar: quite a few of the small businesses in the neighborhood have raised the notion that this may impact public health concerns in the neighborhood, as well as the vibrancy and success and vitality of the small business sector there. that is one question. i always try to benefit to the community bourses potential health concerns. i think the benefits to the community are really helping the small business sector at this time, when they are suffering. can you address what they think about those concerns that were raised? it was way more than 50 letters of concern in complaint

is. >> coming up tonight 7 news at 11:00 as we reported few minutes ago the city of santa clare justved a financing plan to build a new forty-niner stadium. about a billion dollar deal. reaction tonight on the major development involving the frainers. >>> and the plan to dress up the bay bridge for its 75th birthday bash. what it will take to make the span sparkle. >> those stories and more coming up in 1 hour on 7 news at 11 oe over on channel 7. mr. biel is here. sharks on the road. >> yes. something wrong with the shark but nobody sure what is wrong but clearly out of whack. shark avalanche met. men in teal dramatic come about a in the final seconds of regulation only to fall flat in the shoot out. hard to play with broken stick. just ask jason. second period game tie. shoots dan boil. with rae bound. second goal of the yea year. san jose the lae. colorado scores a pair of third period goal to go in front. matt found and 3-2 to the final minute. shark empty the net. feeding marlow for the tie 22 seconds up. the toe drive after the move and they go on to over time then the shoot ou

. >>> oakland as owner lew wolff head of an investment group buying the saint clare hotel. "contra costa times" reports the price is up to $18 million. wolff a long-time developer in san jose says the deal has nothing to do with his efforts to move the oakland as down to the city. the hotel built back this 1926 has 171 rooms. >>> a lot of disappointment over at cal berkeley. the cal bears coming up short in their bowl game last night. they fell 21-10 to the texas longhorns. this is the holiday bowl down in san diego. cal turned the ball over five times. the quarterback had a rough day. he was sacked six times. touchdown for texas. bears end the season with a 7-6 record. i watched for about 15 minutes and said, i can't watch anymore. [ laughter ] >> shut your eyes. >> i kind of forgot in the first half. then the 3rd quarter i have to go to bed. eh. sorry, bears. >>> the country's most desirable celebrity neighbor likes to take his knee for touchdowns apparently. >> according to a national survey folks want denver broncos quarterback tim tebow living next door. real estate in

neighbors in month clare reported seeing several people breaking into an empty house. they gave a full description of the car. when police officers responded, they spotted the suspects waiting at a red light about a half mile away. the suspects are all in their teens and early 20s. and investigators are looking into whether they are also behind several other robberies in the same area. . >>> it is a scene that is giving new meaning to the term drive through. take a look. an elderly driver lost control of his pick-up truck. and crashed into a safeway store in vallejo this morning. apparently, the 80-year-old driver's foot slipped off the brake pedal and hit the gas. the truck narrowly missed customers and employees as it careened down an aisle. >> slamming through the front west doors of the store. and apparently accelerated through the front lobby, taking out a couple of check stands and landing on the far side of the lobbies against starbucks. pretty exciting drive through day. >> well, the damage to the store was extensive, the driver was not hurt. >>> right now the

. >>> three suspected robbers in oakland's month clare neighborhood caught. all it took, a red light. neighbors on nottingham drive called 911 yesterday morning, to report several people breaking into a vacant home. they have a full description of the car. when officers responded, they spotted the suspects. waiting at a red light half a mile away. police recovered a flat screen tv, a laptop and jewelry. and they're investigating whether the suspects may be behind several other robberies in the same area. >>> other bay area headlines, today san francisco's chinatown library was rededicated in honor of mark lye, the preeminent scholar of chinese american history. the china town branch was his childhood library. he passed away in 2009. >>> volunteers and supporters laid wreaths at the golden gate cemetery in san bruno today to honor our country's veterans. similar wreath layings took place across the country. >>> black friday shoppers, pepper sprayed at walmart, why the woman behind it is now threatening to sue. >>> we give them cases of lettuce. and everything.

clare broadcasting live from moscow you're watching our carriage. well in this day two decades ago the world's largest country ceased to exist the fall of the soviet union meant the end of the cold war and the birth of a dozen new states but twenty years on the collapse of the u.s.s.r. raises unanswered questions he explains. even today many generate their own explanations for the fall of a global goliath but some putting it down to the role of just a few. ok for two reasons. the nineteen ninety one august coup was a turning point in the country's history with images of yeltsin standing on a tank creating a new hero yet for most here even that wasn't seen as causing a fatal crack in the soviet union. very sudden and. shocking i mean there were people even months before who were shoring us that this was going to go on forever so all the billions and billions and billions that the us and put into intelligence and forecasting all proved to be completely useless the collapse of the soviet union was not so much a revolution rather it was a peaceful divor

. >> fm 1efy uhters responded to e clare born place apartment b cenore 11:s. in annapolis. we're told a creelings ceiling fan in a bathroom on there b0th floor fell and started burning. no one was hurt. several residents were displaced. officials say the fire cy fsed $5,0s. >> former -- leslie johnson was charged with evidence tampering and will serve a year in prison. her husband, jackonson, will serve seven years for extortion. >> something needs to be done about the spike in vacant property. they estone million to tear down all the abandoned homes in the city. in baltimore city alone the number ofnciaacant properties h surpassed there b6,s. costing the city $2 million each year just to clean up around and board up the buildings. the governments claim the problem on a population dem 1ei and a surge in foreclosures. we're back in a minute with a >> temperatures have been falling as the wind has shifted from the west to out of the northwest. temperatures drop downtown to 43 degrees and 44 at aeweapolis. up north in parkton,and down at association city 44 degrees. as far as

it took about six months for me to get the clare to foreword fon and he wanted to read it first and make sure that it was accurate and well done so in a very grateful to him. >> what is your day job? >> and director of publications to the supreme court historical society. i write books about the history of the court. >> what got you interested in the courts in the first place? >> warren burger called me up one day and said i'm looking for somebody who is young, cheap and good and i said o.k. i think it was later that i felt the order of the adjectives is wrong and would probably be chief and worked out for me. >> here is speed's new book, courtwatchers eyewitness accounts in the supreme court history are the publishers. speed pbs newshour jim lehrer discussing his new book and taking viewers questions at the miami book fair international on the campus of miami-dade college. this is about 40 minutes. >> when is the first time you lost a presidential debate? >> it was 1988 between then vich president george h. w. bush andl michael dukakis who was then thf governor of massachusetts or verno

. >> i can't resist the clare boothe luce quote since it's the one you use in the book.he mind of a come my star and the soul of a meat axe is how she described him. >> yes, that's right. [laughter] >> so there were some definite characters. let's take one last question over here. >> more a comment that i'll attribute to admiral mihm in its. it was said in the war college that the war in the pacific was war game entirely during the 1930s and every move was anticipate with the the exception of the kamikaze attacks. again, a cultural difference where americans didn't think that way, so they didn't include that in the war planning. >> that is, and i'm glad you brought that up because kimmel talked about that, too, in his book. in the 1950s he wrote a book called "admiral kimmel's story," which was published by regnery, and al told me about meeting the admiral as a child in henry's, in his father's house. is that the job of war gaming is to consider everything. you know, martians from space and all these other things. and one of the things they war gamed out was a japanese a

>> ronald reagan also route clare detroit opponents in his primaries as well and famously asked the question in 1980 are we better off today than we were four years under jimmy carter and i think the rye public is in far worse shape today under dobbs barack obamas leadership. who will take barack obama on toe to toe and hold him accountable and i think that i will be the best one to do that on the stage. >> governor huntsman? >> i actually worked for ronald reagan and i think he would have been the first to stand up and say debate is good. about must be respectful and it must be rigorous. a rigorous debate will lead to greater trust. and the one thing this nation needs desperately today is heightened trust in our institutions, in our tax code, in our wars abroad, in congress, toward wall street. i'm here to tell you that this kind of debate over time is going to elevate the trust level in whomever makes it out as the nominee he and that will allow us to beat barack obama. thank you. >> that is it for your debate tonight. thank you all very much. our thanks to the candidates, their staffs, th

clare cushman is the author and john roberts, chief justice of the u.s. supreme court, rutka foreword. who are the court watchers? >> court watchers are the justices themselves. their wives, children, or a lot of kids who argue, court staff, reporters who cover the court, and even some just random bystanders who happen to be in the courtroom and witnessed something exciting and then went back and reported it. so most of what this book is his knees to get all that stuff over the last 220 years the court has been in existence and finding all the insider stories written by people that were affiliated with the court. >> what is one of your favorite inside stories? >> i have so many because there are some that are funny and some of her poignant and some better educational. but i guess the ones i like the most of the ones written by the supreme court espouses because you really get a sense of what it was like at home. my favorit

. >> first hello to clare danes the star of a wonderful show on show time. >> i love you.and honor. we just basically finished filming so it's kind of wonderful to have this immediate response and appreciation. i couldn't be happier. >> i love how i guess -- how damaged your character really is and i think the story line is one that sort of hits a lot of sort of notes. did you know that it is one of president barack obama's favorite shows on television? >> i heard that. >> what is your reaction to that? >> what? but he naes the openi's in the . maybe that's why. >> it's amazing. an amazing honor. >> and you guys just finished filming your finale. now you've got season two coming back. >> yes. >> any tips or hints you can give us? >> they won't even tell me. >> really. >> i'm in the dark as much as anybody else. >> come on, clare. >> you could work here. >> they're trying to figure out where they're going to take the show as well so it's a mystery to all. >> season finale on sunday. all questions will be answered? >> never. or more posed? >> some questions will be answered

this says it's clare again, but i'm writing for my nine yeared old brother mitch.nts a binder, binder hole puncher and i want a hole punn punter, too. and a skate board, but don't give the skate board to him. mitch is very kind hearted, but doesn't mess doesn't like to read. >> dave: wants the skate board, but not for him. >> she wants the skate board, but not for him. >> and the spelling errors and our writers know the spelling. >> a classic older sister though. >> dave: dear santa claus, i miss you. i wish you'd bring me a bike for christmas and also a baby doll, a real r-i-l-l puppy that's alive and you can put it in the back yard. >> okay. >> dave: an rill puppy r-i-l-l. >> and dear santa, hi, i'm devin, i would like to know are you real? i think a lot of kids ask them. i believe, but my friends don't so can you give me a sighed picture of yourself and meaning signed of course and ms. claus, oh, besides, are you really fat? right me a letter back. >> dave: mrs. claus, is she fat. >> we don't have that. >> dave: you don't ask a woman if she's fat. >> exactly. >>

morning making fun balloons and of course we have face painting going on as well and joining me now is clarederful thing about old town is i think there's so much to see in addition to the festivities going on saturday. talk a little bit about that. >> absolutely. we want people to come down to old town for the day, have dinner, even stay overnight with one of our special hotel packages that's in conjunction with first night. but that's not all. because first night is really just the beginning of the new year and there's so much to do in alexandria that we want alexandria to be on everyone's new year's resolution list where you can try something new and creative and that's going to include civil war dance classes at the tavern museum, the art league school is offering a dozen weekend workshops and then also a celebrity chef series at the spice and tea exchange. if you want to leave the cooking to someone else, you can check out alexandria restaurant week which is going to be january 13th through 22nd, and all of the details on these are on our website which is visitalexandriava.com. >> repor

no problems to report on the clare a barton. >>> no christmas break for congress until they approve ansion of the payroll tax holiday. now, that's the word from senate majority leader harry reid who is trying to ratchet up pressure on congressional republicans to accept tax hikes on the richest americans. joining us this morning to talk about that and other political headlines, marty russo with russo capitol strategies. he's also a former democratic member of congress representing the great state of illinois. good to see you, marty. and also chris saxen, executive director of the virginia leadership institute and he served eight years in the virginia house of delegates and was the virginia state cochair of john mccain's 2008 presidential campaign. chris, welcome to the show. >> good morning, good to be with you. >> let's start with john mccain. some articles are calling him the possible kingmaker, expected to make an endorsement for one of these contenders. tell me what you think about that, chris. >> i wouldn't classify senator mccain as the king maker of this campaign. could he make

clare mccaskill, a number of other different people. i think i would like to see obama probably move in the direction of the more moderate democrats. i think that would be my best answer to that particular question. host: let's look -- answered, thank you, daryl. let us look at what's aaron says on facebook -- let's hear what a viewer from new jersey has to say. horace, good morning. caller: how are you doing? i would like to congratulate you for your very informed and this -- a former to show. i am very enthusiastic about president obama. this is the only present and we have ever had that only had -- president we ever had that only had a last name and ever-present to most people. that i don't understand. black voters -- is not in there for civil rights purposes, but he is there for the presidential candidate of the united states. he works very hard to try to keep things on a balance. he don't try to focus on self, but on other people. i am a disabled american vet and one of the primary things he talked about when he talks about budget

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