. >>> coming up next on nbc bay area news, two of the men portrayed in the clint eastwood movie "escaperomm alcatraz" my still be alive. we'll have their story coming up. >>> we have a spare the air alert as we get back to the work week, but we're also seeing a few changes offshore with increasing cloudshat will lead tie change in our temperatures tomorrow, but will they bring any rain? we'll have as look at thatn ihe stwecan e heomt cghri lback. it's the perfect time to find great deals on the 4g lte devices you love. like the droid bionic by motorola for $199.99. or the pantech breakout for $49.99. our lowest price ever. get the technology you love, on the network you deserve. and for a limited time, get twice the data for the same low price. verizon. >>> back to our top story now. the fire in san francisco that burned three homes in the bay area. kimberly williams is there and joins us by phone. kimberly, what do you know? >> reporter: what i know is by 10:00 tonight, we saw several fire trucks pulling away from the scene. police still surround the area. it's shut down to traffic bet

. >> clint eastwood and denzel washington tied for second and sandra bullock was the only woman in the top ten. >>> this comes from news 4 new york where in harlem, we heard president obama like you've never heard him before. take a listen. ♪ i go >> reporter: not bad, mr. president. yes i was the leader of the free world. he was holding a campaign where more than a few acts have been booed off the stage but not last night. you can see why. no word if he'll try out for nbc's "the voice." he was completely confident. >> butterflies had to be churning. >> when you're at the apollo theater and they are known to boo everybody off the stage, but there you go. learn something about the president every day. >>> i'm lynn berry and this is "early today" p your first stop of the day on your nbc station. >>> 4:28 is our time on this friday morning. we have 39 quite cold degrees out there this morning on this 20th of january. good morning to you, i'm joe krebs. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today" for this friday, january 20, 2012. we have breaking news off the top in the district. police say

fellow actor leonardo dicaprio and director clint eastwood are also taking part in the project. he spoke about the bonds that united japanese after the disaster. >> they supported each other and leaned on each other. this happened regardless of age, oppression or rank. this was a culture of bond. and i also hope that the bond will not only connect people within japan, but go beyond and reach people all over the world. thank you. >> reporter: japan will continue to be the focus here at the world economic forum. nearly a year after its disaster participants are studying how the country recovers. they also tried to figure out how they could help. >>> next, we go to bangkok to find out what's going on in the region. >> tens of thousands of workers in indonesia took to the streets of industrial zones near the capital jakarta on friday demanding wage increases. the disruption affected over 2,000 companies including foreign firms. >> reporter: the workers have stopped and getting out from the factory. the size of the demonstration is getting bigger and bigger. angry workers in the city

fellow actor leo dicaprio and director clint eastwood are also taking part in the project. watt na bee spoke about the bonds that united japanese after the disaster. >> leaned on each other. this happened regardless of age, oppression. this was a culture of bond and i also hope that the bond will not only connect people within japan, but go beyond and reach people all over the world. thank you. >> japan will continue to be the focus here at the world economic forum. nearly a year after its disaster, participants are studying how the country recovered. they also tried to figure out how they can help. >> next we go to bangkok to find out what's going on in the region. >> tens of thousands of workers in indonesia took to the streets of stral zones near the capital jakarta on friday demanding wage increases. the disruption affected over 2,000 companies including foreign firms. >> reporter: the workers are getting out of the factory. the so size of the demonstration is getting bigger and bigger. workers in west java stage large scale demonstrations to protest moves by employers

clint eastwood and denzel washington tied for second.dra bullock, the only woman in the top ten. >> why is he always shafted? come on. finally, in new york city in harlem, the president was heard like we've never heard him before. ♪ i so no love with you >> not bad. not bad. even hit the high note. yes, that was the leader of the free world offering his rendition of al green's "let's stay together." the president was headlining a campaign fund-raiser at the apollo theater with more than a few acts were booed off the stage but not last night. no word if he'll try out for nbc's "the voice." shameless plug there. we apologize. shameless plug. >> he was smart. he knew he hit the note and he stopped right there. >> did you see that? he was a little pat on the back. >> yeah, it's like the seinfeld episode. >> walk away. be happy. i'm lynn berry. this is "first look" on msnbc. stay tuned, "way too early with willie geist" starts right now. >>> a destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this count

on the other hand guys like clint eastwood really protect nature. i agree with you that i was a schoolboy leftist of the extreme sort. i gave it up. i think that ideological ideas are a form of blindness. ideology blinds us. i love ideology. i grew up in the generation of 68 where marcuse was god. i read that now and go yes, yeller. i look around this audience and see a lot of faces. i used to live in echo park. i was superleft. i see faces in here that look very left. i know the world. i will tell you something. i will tell you something. i feel better now. i tell you why i feel better. i know people won't like hearing. freedom from ideology is freedom to see. for me. sometimes the left is right and sometimes the right is right. that is a weird thing to have to think but it is absolutely true. >> it suggests the right is free of ideology? >> no! not at all! freedom from ideology is -- >> makes me bristle. [talking over each other] >> i am saying now as i was in 1968. i was a freshman in colombia in 1967-68 when the columbia uprising happened. i was

megyn: geraldine ferraro, clint eastwood, sarah palin all punched holes in the glass ceiling.w that michelle bachmann is out of the race where is the next iron lady that could poe ten alley lead our nation? where is america's march tkpwrat thatcher? casey anthony could she have new legal problems months after she was acquitted of murdering her two-year-old daughter? we are on the case. >> so, this is my first video diary. it is october 13th, which is a thursday, 2011. kind of nice finally being able to say that i have some belongings -- yoo-hoo. hello. it's water from the drinking fountain at the mall. [ male announcer ] great tasting tap water can come from any faucet anywhere. the brita bottle with the filter inside. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. r science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three y we've put nearly 100 million dollars into american education. that's thousands of kids learning to love ience. ♪ isn't th

clint eastwood and robert redford also received it. some critics say the award should be given to other who is are more deserving, such as soldier who is have given their lives in afghanistan. >>> yesterday, they canceled tv ads that featured alec baldwin. today, they decided to put the baldwin spots back on the air. he was booted from the flight after refusing to turn off his cell phone. some customers complained they were using him as a spokesperson. he was hired for the ads after he mentioned his mother is a loyal customer. >>> mariah carey and hubby are spending new year's in a hospital room. her husband is recovering from mild kidney failure. she told fans, they are trying to be as festive as possible under the circumstances and asked everyone ento keep nick in their thoughts. they had twins, a boy and a girl last year. >>> the broadway musical "spider man" is turning over a new leaf. the show made more than $2.9 million for the week ending january 1st. the take is the highest single week gross of any production in broad way histo

of this year's surprised not to see the yen are dubbed the capriotes nominated or his director clint eastwoodbs the full list of nominations on my page of the website wgntv.com/deanslist and to tom skilling with seven day forecast >> looks cloudy next couple of days but all things considered the rest of the workweek is crowded around here cloudy or around here a couple of days of arctic air watch the storm development for texas all kinds of thunderstorms developing northbound icons you can see each radar detected heavy thunderstorms produce and hail and so forth but buckle and the jet stream producing those rainfall as far north as southern ohio valley southern midwest but not into our area flood watches and he plans all kinds of advisories for wind montana and north dakota and heavy snowfall in the mountains high elevations low elevation grateful humility of rainfall forecast purple corridor heavy rainfall spreading out of texas oklahoma arkansas into the southern midwest stop the bus. a look at what happens temperatures kind of a moderate cool down later in the week 30's on friday over the

clint eastwood is missing on that for directing "j. edgar." leonardo dicaprio and -- >> "j. edgar" got left out. why? >> i don't know. i enjoyed the movie very, very much. i found it to be fascinating. but, you know, and leonardo, i'm stunned he didn't get one. >> i am, too. i thought he was terrific. here's what's interesting. we talked yesterday about heidi klum and seal splitting up, and we'll hear from seal in just a second. but there was an interesting article in "usa today" about seal and heidi but more about couples that show a lot of public displays of affection. they usually -- that looks like a great thing, you look over and say, oh. >> on the red carpet mostly. >> renewing their vows. a lot of public love. >> they had an interesting take on that. >> they think it's a red flag. if there's too much public affection you're trying to show everybody at home -- >> me thinks thou d.o.t. protest too much kind of thing. >> yeah. maybe that's a red flag. >> i don't know. i fell for it hook, line, and sinker. >> i love them. >> i thought they were truly in love. here's the t

>> to paraphrase clint eastwood, every wince in a while you run into a guy that you shouldn't mess withney system hitting him back with newt's own record, and that's something that won't go away. we have 33 years of him on record being one of most nasty campaigners out there and now the chickens are coming home to roost for him. i think it's going to be a difficult day for newt gingrich today, but a very difficult february ahead. i don't see where he wins in any of the primaries or the beauty contest happening in missouri. >> newt has been complaining about being out spent high pressure his campaign announced they raised $10 million in the fourth quarter of last year and $5 million in this quarter alone. do you think he's missing the fact that voters don't like him? >> newt is whining about pretty much everything. everybody's gunning for him. the establishment doesn't like him. rick santorum won't drop out of the race so people can align behind him. mitt romney is being mean to him. it's really hard to be newt these days, in newt's ahead. >> newt has a point. he is fighting for what he

one thinks of ronald reagan's "bed time for bonzo" and clint eastwood's "every which way but loose."this new super bowl ad for careerbuilder.com is causing an uproar. ron is all over this story. >> reporter: they're back. those lovable, laughable chimps that have delighted tens of millions of super bowl watchers over the years. this year, animal rights advocates are raising their voices to bring light to the dark side of primates in tv commercials and movies. >> you want me to go to new york with those guys? >> reporter: here's a sneak peek of the ad you're likely to see during the super bowl. >> job causing you sleepless nights. careerbuilder.com. >> reporter: pretty funny, right? wrong, say some animal advocates. they say it's rampant exploitation. >> what looks so funny on tv has a serious and dark side behind it. >> having worked with actors for many years -- >> reporter: actress anjelica huston has now come out to protest the ads as well. it's a subject she's been speaking out about for years. >> i find it hard to believe that anyone has to be dragged kicking and screaming into

it's unusual because there are only 26 states that have what is called the make my day law, the clint eastwood dirty harry approach to dealing with this. actually the facts were really more dramatic than this. both justin and dustin are banging on the door trying to get in because they think there are drugs in there. she has a 12-gauge shotgun, fredricka, ready to go as soon as he breaks down the door, which is what he did. she fires after guidance from the dispatcher, kills him. dustin runs to the police department, the cops grab him. now he is charged because of the murder, because of the killing of his compatriot. he is now facing very serious charges. >> so richard, was this a case of dustin when he went to the police department, he was thinking perhaps she would be held accountable for the death of his friend? was he fessing up? >> fred, he wasn't thinking anything. these two guys were loaded that evening. avery is right. >> they were allegedly both high on prescription drugs, right? >> yeah. and her husband had recently died from cancer, so they were going there looking for drugs. that i

in response clint eastwood's dirty harry branded his famous smith and wesson 44 magnum. the glock introduced in the 1980s inherited all aspects of the american firearm heritage. was seen as an instrument of law and security also menace, danger and fear. it became the hand gun of choice for cops and favorite of some demented mass killers. black plastic and metal construction set it apart from everything else on the market suggesting modernism, and efficiency. that darker side of the american gun tradition in modern times has resulted in the gun control movement. we have a significant section of american society that is very skeptical of gun ownership. efforts to restrict the sale and ownership of handguns were directed at the glock in particular from the moment it arrived in this country. the fact that it had such a large capacity and was material that had not traditionally been used in making guns made it a target for gun control advocates but time and again beginning in the 1980s and continuing to the present, efforts to restrict the glock have backfired. gun-control in

think, it turns out that back in 1988 james baker actually considered for a nanosecond, putting clint eastwood on the ticket in '88. that went away as well. >>> finally last night, big football game. blowout. tim tebow season ended. here's what he had to say about it. >> it still wasn't a bad day. it still was a good day. before the game, i got to spent time with zach and make him smile. it depends on what lens your looking through. >> george, that smile and that attitude is somewhat appealing, but how do you explain how tim tebow became such a polarizing figure this season? >> that's a good question. because sandy koufax and sean greene of the dodgers, all three jewish, when they missed extremely important late-season games because of observance of yom kippur, no one complained about it. they thought it was exemplary. as far as i could tell, tim tebow is an exemplary individual. it's unattractive the attacks on tim tebow. from whatever source. >> i just want to say that god is not a broncos fan. i think we have to make that clear. his team is the saints. you know, as the archbishop said, when

getting an award that typically goes to figures of international standing, jerry lewis, clint eastwoodmonths. tell include a presidential medal pinning by president sarkozy, will enjoy that moment very much as any man would. congratulations, selma. >> congratulations, shouldn't she be ladied. >> whatever she wants to be, she can be. >> 45, still looking good. can be. >> 45, still looking good. if your neighbor could bring his jaw back up, he'd say, "thank you for making every day halloween." inspired by all you attention grabbers comes gain hawaiian aloha and other scents that are, like you, anything but ordinary. ♪ i'm going to marry the night >>> welcome back, everybody. finally this half-hour, if you are like me, you spent your new year's day on the couch watching football and hydrating. >> why am i not surprised -- hydrating with water clear liquid. those that felt better than this guy, that include brave souls in cedar rapids, iowa, spent the day water skiing and probably freezing their hineys off. >> reporter: eastern iowans met the first day of the new year with blustery wind an

you got clipt eastwood who just -- clint eastwood who was against proposition eight, and people can marrywho they please. he's a republican. >> he's a libertarian as i am, and they think government has no business in the bedroom whatsoever. >> or in owning national parks. >> libertarians are pretty extreme. [laughter] on the other hand, guys like eastwood protect nature, so things are not quite that simple. i agree with you that i, you know, i was a schoolboy leftist of the extreme sort, and when i gave it up, i didn't adopt anything else because i think that ideological ideals are a form of blindness, and i -- ideology blinds us. i mean, i love ideology. i grew up in the generation of 1968 where mar cue sai was god, and i read him now and go yeah, yeah. i mean, it's just limiting to you. to me, i mean, i look around this audience, and i see a lot of faces -- i used to live in echo park, and i was really super left, really super left. i see faces in here who look left. i know the world. [laughter] i'll tell you something -- [laughter] i'll tell you something, i feel better now. i'll tell

. >> or clint eastwood. >> the golden globes are sort of a precursor to the oscars.ers for the golden globe were the "descendants" and "the artist." martin scorsese, michelle williams, george clooney, meryl streep. you'd have to count them among the top candidates. >> what about nancy -- what's the title? >> "extremely loud and incredibly close." are you surprised about them? >> i think that was surprising they were nominated. speaking of whether the golden dwloebs are a precursor, thing they are. they haven't been in years recently though. one out of seven golden globe winners have gone on to win best picture, so they haven't been a great indicator of the past three years, but i do think the golden globe winners is between the decendents and the artist. >> can i just turn to best actress as well because you've got, you know, meryl is clearly there. you've got. >> viola. >> brilliant performance by viola davis in "help." what does that look like? >> rooney mara. >> i think the big competition is between viola and rooney and meryl. i think meryl is going to walk away

. >> reporter: that includes robert de niro, robert redford and clint eastwood, all past recipients,of many celebrity honorees. >> great actress and married to one of the most important men who happens to be friends with the president. >> there are five levels to the legion of honor, with the five being the highest. salma hayek will receive the level one honor. we reached out to salma's representatives for comment but did not hear back. matt and ann. >> all right, to be continued, tamron. thank you very much. >>> just ahead, donald trump is live in our studio. >> we'll get his take on the iowa caucuses and reveal the new cast of "celeb brit apprentice" right after this. [ female announcer ] this is not a prescription. this is mary... who has a million things to pick up each month on top of her prescriptions. so she was thrilled that her walgreens pharmacist recommended a 3-month supply and would always be there to answer questions about her health. now mary gets 3 refills in one and for 3 months, she's done. more or less. ask your pharmacist about a 90 day supply today. walgreens. th

to you, and after watching dave in that vanilla ice clip, i'm reminded from the line the old clint eastwood wow! >> thank you, governor, i appreciate it very much. >> speaking of limb nations, it's been held that no one has gone on to win the nomination who hasn't won the south caroli carolina, but you disagree with that metric. if mitt romney doesn't win there, you think everything is fine, he can continue without harm? >> a few things, first of all the polls in south carolina are neck and neck. last cycle mitt romney fourth place with 15% of the vote and at or near the lead in south carolina is a tremulous achievement for him and america and his campaign. what i said look, history was a guide, but not a guarantee and the thing about mitt romney's campaign, it's built to go the distance. he's able to compete successfully in the early states and also able to compete nationally and to have the candidate who can beat barack obama, that's the kind of capability, capacity, support that we're going to need. newt gingrich couldn't get on the battle in his home state of virginia and he missed the