cornel west. >> on thelove train. >> dr. cornel west is with us and tavis smiley.y have a radio show called "smiley & west" every week. you were just having a debate on the issue of third-party candidates and what we needed this country. do you think movements are shaping up? and what do you think the movements that brought president obama into office the first time, what do you think they are doing now after the second time? >> when i draw the distinction between campaigns and movements, movements are highly sophisticated forms of bringin power and pressure to bear on the status quo. campaigns are attempts to mobilize in order to support candidates inside of a system. they played a role and so forth, but there was not a social movement we have not really had a movement since the gay brothers and sisters tried to integrate black freedom movement, the civil-rights movement read those are very rare. usually the leaders are or deleted.essed right now the left, we are feeble the occupy movement was a tremendous expression of voices, but it was not a movement that was c

it's really sad. >> let me bring cornel into this conversation. cornel, republicans are saying that the savings the president is proposing here would be entirely wiped out by his extension of some expensive policies, emergency unemployment benefits, for example, payroll tax holiday that's now set to expire at the end of the year. are these savings just a bluff from the president as republicans are suggesting? >> look, this makes me scratch my head. i'm like senate majority leader reid on this. this is sort of mind-boggling. i know republicans and their pollsters have had a hard time sort of capturing the real american electorate here but poll after poll, cnn's own poll had 67% of americans sort of wanting these tax cuts, sort of balanced with tax rates to go up on wealthy people. exit polling, 67% of americans say they want the tax rate to go up on higher income americans. they want a fair and balanced sort of way out of this process. so it boggles my mind politically, who are republicans fighting for? why are republicans fighting so hard to sort

we are live at daly city city hall, cornell bernard, abc7 news. >> thanks, cornell. >>> water officials must now determine if they will fix the broken pipe orie place it. the pipe runs from a 78-year-old reservoir that sits atop hillside park. they say a section of the pipe sheared off likely due to age. sky 7hd got this close up look at the pipe. the waterish ifs planned to strength -- water officials planned to strengthen the inside of the pipes. they moved the isolation valve closer to the reservoir after seismic upgrading. it allowed a cutoff of water just 10 minutes after learning about it. most victims of the pipe break should be able to be reimbursed for damage to their vehicles. seven on your side's michael finney looked into it, and he said car owners can file a claim with the city of daly city or their own auto insurance. consumer advocates advise people to check with the city first. victims of the disaster should go to the daly city clerk's office to get a claim form. >> the man accused of kidnapping and murdering sierra lamar is facing new charges tonight in unrelated cases.

cornell, i want to ask you approximate this. we don't know a lot about re-electing a black executive. we have massachusetts, and a bunch of black mayors, there's political research saying that black mayors get a higher percentage of the vote from whites than when they run for reelection. the data looks like president obama has lost support among white voters. >> let's understand this. you know this well. the number, that's not that different from what any democrat has been getting. >> it's better than the white democrats who run before him. so democrats ever since lbj signed, he said there goes the south. he could have really said, there goes a lart swge swath of the w vote. when i look at ohio and wisconsin and new hampshire and iowa, you know, you look at some of the white working class voters, president is ahead in those states. not because he's doing poorly among whites but because of the message about economics and about progressive economics, reaching those white voters, we're making a lot of pro dpres. on the -- was a cli

we are live at daly city city hall, cornell bernard, abc7 news. >> thanks, cornell. >>> water officials must now determine if they will fix the broken pipe orie place it. the pipe runs from a 78-year-old reservoir that sits atop hillside park. they say a section of the pipe sheared off likely due to age. sky 7hd got this close up look at the pipe. the waterish ifs planned to strength -- water officials planned to strengthen the inside of the pipes. they moved the isolation valve closer to the reservoir after seismic upgrading. it allowed a cutoff of water just 10 minutes after learning about it. most victims of the pipe break should be able to be reimbursed for damage to their vehicles. seven on your side's michael finney looked into it, and he said car owners can file a claim with the city of daly city or their own auto insurance. consumer advocates advise people to check with the city first. victims of the disaster should go to the daly city clerk's office to get a claim form. >> the man accused of kidnapping and murdering sierra lamar is facing new charges tonight in unrelated cases.

and where did you go besides cornell? >> guest: well, i did my graduate work at claremont graduate school in california. i'd say the majority of my professors were standard, run-of-the-mill plain vanilla liberals of the sort that dominate the academy. i did have a number of professors who didn't fit that mold and by whom i was probably more influenced. c-span: like? >> guest: well, people like berns and allan bloom at cornell, and then leo strauss, harry jaffa, martin diamond at claremont, harry neumann. these are people that didn't go with the conventional flow. they questioned a lot of the contemporary orthodoxies, made a point of returning to the original sources in the tradition. and i respected that and, i think, got my own turn of thought decisively from that approach. c-span: was there a point where you were starting to figure out that professors had a point of view? >> guest: that's pretty obvious i think. you walk into a classroom, unless it's on something like calculus or physics, if it has anything to do with h

professor rose, i know that you're a little bit more sympathetic to the critique that cornell west andy had but was the language too harsh? >> part of the problem is we're busy personalizing what has been a profound social shift. the right wing has successfully moved the right to the center so the old right is the new center and consequently what would have prettily been the center is now considered the left and so a really full progressive position is almost off the table. so it's not i think the analysis is all that wrong, it is that it is part of a much broader context of the shift. unfortunately, as you just pointed out in your previous segment, the media is very interested in the sort of, you know, the personal back and forth, rather than the serious realities that frame it, so that's the case in the petraeus story and also the case here. the content of what professor west and tavis smiley are saying is entirely true. what happens is those ideas are really literally pushed to the margins so when they come up, they look extreme joe biden insane and over the top. they're not at all.

. >> cornell bernard is covering that story. he is live in san francisco. cornell? and carolyn, prop supporters thought it would be a victory party, but it appears the party is over. the measure is trailing in the polls. these people say they want the right to know what is in the food they buy. they hoped voters across california would agree and want the same thing. prop 37 asks voters to decide if manufacturers should be required to label foods that have been made with geneticall engineered ingredients. opponents say it would make groceries more expensive and red tape for farmers. supporters say it is about a basic right to know. >> really it was an education process, but we -- the campaign was boiled down to you have a right to know what is in your food. it is a basic democratic question. already 61 other countries in the world label their food product. >>- q. i it is about families -- >> it is about the families paying more at the grocery store and the state paying more to regulate. voters need to look into the details of proposition 37. >> ♪ because we all have

we are live at daly city city hall, cornell bernard, abc7 news. >> thanks, cornell. >>> water officialsy will fix the broken pipe orie place it. the pipe runs from a 78-year-old reservoir that sits atop hillside park. they say a section of the pipe sheared off likely due to age. sky 7hd got this close up look at the pipe. the waterish ifs planned to strength -- water officials planned to strengthen the inside of the pipes. they moved the isolation valve closer to the reservoir after seismic upgrading. it allowed a cutoff of water just 10 minutes after learning about it. most victims of the pipe break should be able to be reimbursed for damage to their vehicles. seven on your side's michael finney looked into it, and he said car owners can file a claim with the city of daly city or their own auto insurance. consumer advocates advise people to check with the city first. victims of the disaster should go to the daly city clerk's office to get a claim form. >> the man accused of kidnapping and murdering sierra lamar is facing new charges tonight in unrelated cases. torres will be charged wi

i think cornell touches on something very important.an-american community has been very patient and very quiet, as a lot of pain and suffering has begun to accumulate in the black community, this community has lost almost 60% of its wealth in the housing debacle, job crisis, kids in prison, urban poverty, not discussed yet. this community still came out nonetheless, 93% for the president and one ohio form. i think there is an option for him to turn back to this space that's been there for him and find some path forward. some jobs for youth program, could be his legacy. >> cornell, last night, was there ever a moment in the final couple of days, where you thought the president was not going to win? >> here is the thing, anderson. it happened the way i laid it out. it would be tight, but from an electoral map standpoint, we would be solid. and in the end we would win florida. you know, we expanded the electorate there and we ran really good programs there in key battleground states. a lot changed, but you look at the coalition nationally,

but i really do think that cornell touched on something very important. the african-american community has been very patient and very quiet, as a lot of pain and suffering has begun to accumulate in the black community, this community has lost almost 60%, 70% of its wealth in the housing debacle, job crisis, kids in prison, urban poverty, has not been discussed yet. this community still came out nonetheless, 93% for the president and won ohio for him. i think there is an option for him to turn back to this base that's been there for him and find some path forward. some jobs for youth program, something like that, could be a part of his legacy. >> cornell, very briefly, i haven't asked you about last night. was there ever a moment in the final couple of days where you thought the president was not going to win? >> here's the thing, anderson. it happened the way i laid it out. i said it would be tight in a lot of states, but from an electoral map standpoint we would be solid. we were going to be solid in ohio. we were going to be solid in virginia. and i th

>>is in the polls, cornel. that's the issue. all the polls show the democrats are turning out six, seven, eight points over republicans. >> first of all, enthusiasm does matter. it really does. but arithmetic matters more. if you have fewer voters but they're really, really, really fired up, you still lose. i think that's what's going on here. when you've had -- they're narrow leads but they have been so stable for so long, they all can't be wrong. it's close but it's not too close to call. when democracy course stan greenberg released a poll today, a national poll, showed the president ahead by four. it's hard to measure enthusiasm but the thing i looked for in that poll was young voters. that's where enthusiasm matters the most to me. i've seen no data or anecdotes that suggest african americans are going to drop off in enthusiasm or that latinos will but young people, that's my worry on enthusiasm. in greenberg's poll, he only had young people as 15% of the electorate, 17% in 2008 and still has the president up by four. so yo

on the left, obama 2012 pollster cornel belcher. paul, let's start with u everybody is focused on ohio. do you see a road map for mitt romney if he does not win ohio? >> no. no. romney has -- i'm not a big fan of the electoral college but the founding fathers gave it to us. romney has a much, much tougher map. if you begin as you should presuming he will carry every state john mccain did, then he still needs indiana, which he'll almost -- he's very strong in, very likely to win. north carolina which is easier than many of the other swing states but not in the bag. then it gets hard. he's got to have ohio. even if he gets ohio, get this, he's got to still win virginia or florida -- and florida, colorado. it's so hard for him to get to 270. without ohio, it's almost impossible. >> cornel, do you see this boiling down to the electoral college versus the popular vote? >> i think it is going to be electoral college. one of the interesting things, i think you'll see a tighter race state by state. on average, we won the battleground states

kirtsaeng in 1997 moved from his native thailand to attend cornell university. textbooks are sold in thailand for just a fraction of the cost. so he gets his family and friends to buy those textbooks in thailand and guess what, ship them to him in cornell university. he sells them on ebay and makes, get this, $1.2 million in profits. >> what? >> stephen: 1.2 million dollars, it that textbook price, that has to be like eight books. but academic publisher wiley and son sued sit kaening-- kirtsaeng saying they own the copyright of that resold material despite a 1908 court decision which established the first sale doctrine which says that after a buyer first purchases a copyrighted work he or she has the right to resell it. i'm sorry, i don't buy this first sale argument. and if i did buy it i would not resell it. (laughter) because i don't have the right. yeah. damn straight. and i don't even know what never's clapping for. (laughter) but god help us, if the u.s. supreme court does overturn the right of first sale. >> you are hearing a case that if they rule one wa

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard is live from a sandbag station in san anselmo. folks there have needed the sandbags many times before. >> absolutely, dan. sandbag stations are open across the north bay tonight. and i have to tell you, not much sand left at this one here in san anselmo. people have been here all day getting ready for the rain. >> renee is not taking chances. he is filling sandbags. >> we are at the bought m to of the hill in san rafael. it comes down the hill hard. just taking precautions and got a little flooded last year. >> san anselmo is one of many cities providing the do it yourself sandbag station. joy this is our high water mark and -- >> this is our high water mark and in the store it was four and a half feet high. and it was not just water. it was mud. >> marty is uneasy about the approaching storms. in 2005 she lost everything in her downtown sannen sal mow store. -- sannen sal mow store. the photos from that time are amazing. >> we are very resilient. we hope for the best. >> reporter: tonight the creek is low and the city has been ke

now, this particular airplane here is a pt-26 cornell. "p" stands for "primary" and "t" for "trainer," and they named "cornell" because -- guess what -- it's named after the university. during the second world war, many pilots went through six months of training at various universities across the country. i should point out the reason the wings are painted yellow, the tail, it's for visibility because the air would be filled with student pilots, and they didn't want them to collide. >> we'll continue our tour of hangar "b" when "tkn" continues. all right, rudders -- check, ailerons -- check, electrical systems -- check.  >> we're back at hangar "b," reporting on harp -- the historic aircraft restoration project. the people here volunteer their time to work on planes that helped to make aviation history. and it all started with this one. >> this is a 1903 wright brothers flyer. >> actually, it's a full-scale model of the first successful airplane. it was built and flown by orville and wilbur wright. made of wood and canvas,

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard is live with the story. >> you could say the holidays have come to the rescue of many business owners in downtown san jose trying to survive without a hockey season. >> three, two, one. >> with the flip of a switch, the holidays began in san jose. a longstanding tradition of christmas in the park. >> it is great. we are coming out here and bringing my granddaughter and having a nice time. >> this winter festival is complete with an ice skating rink comes in time for san jose. across town the nhl lockout means no ice, no hockey at the shark tank. >> it is a hockey strike. the downtown needs to be able to bring people in. >> san jose city councilman says the laws of hockey fans has hurt local bars and restaurants. >> you don't know what you have until you have it. that's what is happening. >> gomez misses all of the hungry shark fans, but hopes the festival will be a gift. >> without this, we will be a really sad holiday. >> have i a long-time sharks fan since i was a kid. >> he opened it up weeks after the lockout began. he hopes the holidays will bri

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard is live with the story. >> you could say the holidays have come to the rescue of many business owners in downtown san jose trying to survive without a hockey season. >> three, two, one. >> with the flip of a switch, the holidays began in san jose. a longstanding tradition of christmas in the park. >> it is great. we are coming out here and bringing my granddaughter and having a nice time. >> this winter festival is complete with an ice skating rink comes in time for san jose. across town the nhl lockout means no ice, no hockey at the shark tank. >> it is a hockey strike. the downtown needs to be able to bring people in. >> san jose city councilman says the laws of hockey fans has hurt local bars and restaurants. >> you don't know what you have until you have it. that's what is happening. >> gomez misses all of the hungry shark fans, but hopes the festival will be a gift. >> without this, we will be a really sad holiday. >> have i a long-time sharks fan since i was a kid. >> he opened it up weeks after the lockout began. he hopes the holidays will bri

now, this particular airplane here is a pt-26 cornell. stands for "primary" and "t" for "trainer," and they named "cornell" because -- guess what -- it's named after the university. during the second world war, many pilots went through six months of training at various universities across the country. i should point out the reason the wings are painted yellow, the tail, it's for visibility because the air would be filled with student pilots, and they didn't want them to collide. >> we'll continue our tour of hangar "b" when "tkn" continues. all right, rudders -- check, ailerons -- check, electrical systems -- check. man, chanting, snapping fingers: oh, those boys are much too much! those boys are much too much! we got the spirit, we're hot, we can't be stopped! we got the spirit! we're hot! we can't be stopped! we're gonna beat 'em and bust 'em... announcer: the smallest moments can have the biggest impact on a child's life. both chanting: let's...get... a little bit rowdy. r-o-w--whoo!--d-y. announcer: take time to be a dad today. one mo

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard is live from a sandbag station in san anselmo. folks there have needed the sandbags many times before. >> absolutely, dan. sandbag stations are open across the north bay tonight. and i have to tell you, not much sand left at this one here in san anselmo. people have been here all day getting ready for the rain. >> renee is not taking chances. he is filling sandbags. >> we are at the bought m to of the hill in san rafael. it comes down the hill hard. just taking precautions and got a little flooded last year. >> san anselmo is one of many cities providing the do it yourself sandbag station. joy this is our high water mark and -- >> this is our high water mark and in the store it was four and a half feet high. and it was not just water. it was mud. >> marty is uneasy about the approaching storms. in 2005 she lost everything in her downtown sannen sal mow store. -- sannen sal mow store. the photos from that time are amazing. >> we are very resilient. we hope for the best. >> reporter: tonight the creek is low and the city has been ke

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard is live with the story. >> you could say the holidays have come tosan jose trying to survive without a hockey season. >> three, two, one. >> with the flip of a switch, the holidays began in san jose. a longstanding tradition of christmas in the park. >> it is great. we are coming out here and bringing my granddaughter and having a nice time. >> this winter festival is complete with an ice skating rink comes in time for san jose. across town the nhl lockout means no ice, no hockey at the shark tank. >> it is a hockey strike. the downtown needs to be able to bring people in. >> san jose city councilman says the laws of hockey fans has hurt local bars and restaurants. >> you don't know what you have until you have it. that's what is happening. >> gomez misses all of the hungry shark fans, but hopes the festival will be a gift. >> without this, we will be a really sad holiday. >> have i a long-time sharks fan since i was a kid. >> he opened it up weeks after the lockout began. he hopes the holidays will bring new customers. the olympic skating champion w

more on what the coach insists is not a quarterback controversy, cornell? >> yes. not at all. sunday's day is a mistry. fans taking sides in a quarterback debate. one hall of famer says it's boobl. >> i hope everybody is doing well, very a lot to be thankful for. >> the niners won't say which quarterback will start sunday's game against the saints. >> no decision has been made. we're hopeful alex gets cleared tomorrow, and you know, we're confident in both quarterbacks to be on the field. >> sports illustrated is reporting, cleared or not, recovering quarterback alex smith will not start the game. second string quarterbackin cappernick will reportedly be the star after stepping up in an impressive show against the bears. in san francisco fans were in a frenzy. and have stronger opinions about niners. >> this is a team, you go with quarterback who is going to get you there. >> back up quarterbacks, he's young.'e and he's g he'll get a chance again, too. >> people don't know what they're talking about. >> the 49er tells:wtd it like it is. he says the starter as within decided by

now, crews in the north bay are also getting ready for the storms.abc7 news abc7 news reporter cornellthere have needed the sandbags many times before. >> absolutely, dan. sandbag stations are open across the north bay tonight. and i have to tell you, not much sand left at this one here in san anselmo. people have been here all day getting ready for the rain. >> renee is not taking chances. he is filling sandbags. >> we are at the bought m to of the hill in san rafael. it comes down the hill hard. just taking precautions and got a little flooded last year. >> san anselmo is one of many cities providing the do it yourself sandbag station. joy this is our high water mark and -- >> this is our high water mark and in the store it was four and a half feet high. and it was not just water. it was mud. >> marty is uneasy about the approaching storms. in 2005 she lost everything in her downtown sannen sal mow store. -- sannen sal mow store. the photos from that time are amazing. >> we are very resilient. we hope for the best. >> reporter: tonight the creek is low and the city has been keeping i

more of the forecast coming up. >> ama: let's get to cornell bernard, live in millbrae. reporter: we have seen a lot of wet, wild weather all across the bay area tonight, and as leigh mentioned, not over yet. but it is creating a bit of stress for the folks from the north bay to daily city. >> the rain began falling in the north bay about 6:00. getting the attention of these neighbors who live in marin mobile home park, a place which has flooded in years past. >> neighbors have lost cars in flooding in the post, and homes have been damaged. and i lost a bunch of christmas decorations. >> with the high tides and the rain, it could flood. >> there's nothing you can do yeah. it's kind of a helpless feeling. reporter: park residents are ready for rain and high water. lots of sandbags are on standby just in case. >>> this is what happens when high tide meets rain runoff. 101 and 1 was flooded on saturday. business owners were loaded with sandbags to keep the water away and it worked. by nightfall, a new downpour sent folks running for their cars or anyplace dry. in san franci

more of the forecast coming up. >> ama: let's get to cornell bernard, live in millbrae. reporter: we have seen a lot of wet, wild weather all across the bay area tonight, and as leigh mentioned, not over yet. but it is creating a bit of stress for the folks from the north bay to daily city. >> the rain began falling in the north bay about 6:00. getting the attention of these neighbors who live in marin mobile home park, a place which has flooded in years past. >> neighbors have lost cars in flooding in the post, and homes have been damaged. and i lost a bunch of christmas decorations. >> with the high tides and the rain, it could flood. >> there's nothing you can do yeah. it's kind of a helpless feeling. reporter: park residents are ready for rain and high water. lots of sandbags are on standby just in case. >>> this is what happens when high tide meets rain runoff. 101 and 1 was flooded on saturday. business owners were loaded with sandbags to keep the water away and it worked. by nightfall, a new downpour sent folks running for their cars or anyplace dry. in san franci

. >> joining us now r, cornell, first of all, i would have expected you to take today off. the president doesn't have to worry about running again. he you heard him in that clip. do you think it does with president obama? >> yes, free at last. it does bt have to answer to voters he has flexibility now and you know it happens to politicians and athletes. once they have won a big one. they are the presidenture uruu pressure is off and they are better athletes. barack obama has an opportunity now to deal with, debt and economic dproegrowth. he can focus on that and the politics are going to get smaller and the presidency can get bigger. >> i think that is well said. look, this time, the presidents may start thinking about legacy. one of the things that they can get accomplished, clearly the debt and economic growth there, also, i got to think, i have know information on this poverty the issue on the left, let's understand poverty is a place where this president started. he started organizing for churches and people in poverty. i have to think this is my dark horse issue here.

. >> ron from cornell university, economics is supposed to be the dismal science, not journalism. i want to try to tie the discussion to what we talked about yesterday. i think one of the major problems that public universities face in the years ahead is this system of government with political appointed trustees. when don randall was the provost at cornell talked to me a lot about managing not just the people below you but the people below you. one of the problems we face is managing the people above them and trying to convey to the trustees way is of academic value and what is important. the trustees, private universities, who are all garage watts of the universities who love the university will buy in veryings very quickly to the arguments that the presidents make about the importance of the arts and sciences. now we add to the responsibility of the presidents of the publics, they have to try to do the same thing with a board that's politically appointed and constantly changing. it's a major problem, but i think that president sullivan had it exactly right as to what they shoul

it does feel to me like his critics like cornell west who are very complex thinkers in a ton of waysthe complexity of that moment. >> even the complexity of the support. one of the things i found to be most disrespectful in the cornell west critique of president obama is cornell and that vis smiley and others, this idea that people have only been able to support barack obama out of a sense of emotional fulfillment, not that people could make a rational calculation to say i see this person flaws but i think there's more on the side of what i think is beneficial than not. that's where we wind up in the same problems with lincoln or obama or any figure we're going to deny complexity. >> i was thinking about this, i was remembering that mcclelland had run against lincoln. mclelland is lincoln's own general and promised the soldiers of the union, i'm going to end the war. so in a very transactional way to vote for mcclellan is to vote for yourself going home from the bloudiest war in american history, and yet the troops overwhelmingly supported lincoln and did so because they had come to

she would like something from the driver who hit her. >> in san mateo, cornell bernard, abc7 news. >> this weather is what i would like to call rollercoaster weather. it starts off one way and then -- >> that's true. we have a lot to talk about. it is beautiful out with temperatures in the 60s downtown. we are talking mountain view, hayward, sfo and oakland all in the lower 60s. calm winds are going offshore, and yes, we have warm and then hot and then cool all in the next seven days. your forecast is next. >> thank you, lisa. also next it was the third game of the season, but it had the intensity of a playoff game. the warriors leading from the opening tip in l.a., but could they hold off the clippers? we have the answer coming up in spo good morning! wow. want to start the day with something heart healthy and delicious? you're a talking bee... honey nut cheerios has whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol. and it tastes good? sure does! right... ♪ wow. delicious, right? yeah. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... ♪ well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be h

then as they approach the cone tell hear these very unusual sounds that were obtained from the cornell orinthology lab. >> we have the largest recording of birds, mammals, frogs and insects and a huge library of videos. so this is an absolutely perfect opportunity for us to team up with a world renown, very creative inspirational artist and put the sounds and sights of the animals that we study into a brand-new context, a context that really allows people to appreciate an esthetic way of the idea that we might live in the world without these sounds or sites. >> in the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. we get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. >> when i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. so, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally there 200 years ago, 150 years ago. you see the object and say what is that. you come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. and then you step closer

a point martin luther king made, a point to have wes cornell -- cornell wes and tavis smiley have made. >> smily being the love child. >> barack/christie. >> but they've said that. a lot of poverty advocates talked about that missing from the trail and it's resonate with the clip you made someone in a poor neighborhood hit the hardest that have the least infrastructure to withstand a storm, and then are also often the areas that feel left out from all kinds of government assistance, right? mitt romney is right to raise poverty this week. what's the problem? >> what's the problem? the problem is, that he's got a lot of plans that would balance the budget and do other bad things on the backs of poor people, right? so the problem isn't at this point, is he saying anything that is broadly appealing or moderate, it's whether people believe it. >> amman, we talk about the numbers here and the economy. it is amazing to me how in so far as there's been a perfect storm in terms of political optics for the president, this week began with him taking on the concerns of those who had been made vict

cornell bernard, abc7 news. >>> as if picking up the pieces from sandy isn't enough residents in newrk are dealing with another issue. the state attorney general is investigating 400 possible case of price gouging. new york law bans spikes in prices for food, water, gas, generators, batteries and flashlights. among items seeing a huge increase in price, bag of potatoes $3 before the storm to $7. box of matches, more than tripled to $10. loaf of bread, now costs $7. >>> let's look at the more positive sides of that story. abc's day of giving, huge success at least 15 million dollars has been pledged so far. we are expecting a new update. if you donated, a big thank you. if you haven't, you can still give text abc to 90999 to give $10 automatically to the relief efforts. you can call 1-800-help-now or go online to redcross.org/abc7. >>> let's see what the weather is going to be like. >>> we are looking at san jose, 87 heading northbound towards hp pavillion, clear, we still have fog in the north bay, live doppler showing fog is not causing issues as far as wet weather. it is dry right

cornell? >>reporter: the it sounds like a movie but tonight police in belize searching for mcphee who says he's innocent of murder. wired magazine says it talked to john mcphee who says he's in the but hiding from police in belize buried somewhere in the sand. cardboard box over his head to breathe. he claims police will kill him if he's found if. >> i am a 66-year-old man who would never expect 42 armed soldiers and police to storm into his property in riot fwishtion this is him talking about his arrest last spring in pe leases on charges of drug making and possession of unlicensed guns. >> i have never had the an incounter with a police on any negative level. >>reporter: the charges would late be dropped. he threatened to sue l them. now the 67-year-old anti-virus software pioneer wanted for the murder of his neighbor gregory fall found shot and killed saturday nature at his island hole. both men had ongoing dispute. fall told authorities about his bizarre behavior and gun fires. jeff has in