. >>> hi my name is dan jordan and i'm with the city sr o collaborative and mere couselor for people. and since this legislation has been introduced and i have learned about it, one of the things that i ask all my clients that come in "does your hotel have grab bars in the bathrooms and phone jacks this the rooms," their normal reply is "no, we don't have that,." many elderly people, and disabled people, excuse me -- are prone to falls. with grab bars, it would be easier for them to hold onto, have something to hold onto, prevent falls, prevent injuries or death and yes, save a lot of tack pair dollars because people living in sr o's don't have lots of money or insurance to cover hospital bills and it's taxpayers that wind you have paying those bills. i know the owner of my hotel said they are not installing any kind of grab bars and until the legislation makes them and then and only then, they will put them in so let's make it mandatory and save lives while we do it. >> thank you ms. jordan next speaker? >>> i would like to thank the sponsors for this incredible situation that needs

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. >>> let's bring in legal analyst, dan abrams. jordan johnson, did he hurt or help himself?e survived. that's all he needed to do. in inconsistencies in his account. no differences from his police interview. the prosecutors are focusing in regards to how much did he drink that night? where were his hands? how long did the incident occur? they say there's some inconsistencies there. as a result, i think it was a net positive for him to have taken the stand. >> it is a classic he said/she said. it has us here in the studio buzzing. and to be able to prove something like that, is that what they're really up against right now? >> the problem is, they have to prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt. as a result, i will be stunned if there's a conviction here. i don't say that lightly. that does not mean she's lying. that does not mean prosecutors should not have brought this case. it means to prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt, to get 12 jurors to agree that there is enough evidence to send him away, i think is going to be incredibly difficult for prosecutors, based on t

are you making anything of the dan loeb news there, jordan? >> not really. if he thought the prospects for yahoo! or investment was different, he wouldn't have is you sold just 11 million shares, would he have sold the whole thing. that's not what is happening here. what is happening is yahoo! is finally getting recognition for the asset value it has to 24% owned yi yahoo! and yahoo! japan from itself has been on a tear. in addition, the company bought back nearly 1.5 billion worth of shares in the fourth quarter. and that's more than double the -- or about double the 750 million hours looking for and i was aggressive with my assumptions. they continue this, then from a sum of parts basis, valuation will almost be forced to go upward. both because the company taking any shares from weak-handed shareholders and retiring them. and because the denominator, if you will, the value of the assets goes up or stays flat to up only a little bit, but the number of shares goes down to say 8 or 900 million. stock is almost forced to go up. >> you say in your report, quot

jordan. >>> overseas, iranian president mahmoud am dan ghmadinejad is i. mohamed morsi rolled out the red carpet for his guest marking the first visit to cairo by an iranian leader since 1979. that is the year egypt signed a peace treaty with israel. they focused on the civil war in syria. iran remains syria's closest ally in the region and egypt called on president assad to step down. now despite the warm welcome, there were tense moments. ahmadinejad's visit to a mosque was cut short after a protester threw a shoe at him, a common sign of disrespect in the arab world. turkish media says the man was immediately detained. >>> new jersey governor chris christie says there is a plan to deal with his on going weight struggle. the governor poked fun of his size on david letterman's show. he even took a bite of a donut. when asked about his health at a local news conference, he acknowledged the issue saying just because his efforts to lose weight aren't always successful, it doesn't mean he's not trying. >> i know that some of you who are incredibly concerned a

jordan. >> i'm jackie bange. dan ponce joins us with tonight's top story: >> it was a very high-profile visit from first lady michelle obama, who attended the funeral along with the state's top leaders and other dignitaries. but none of them spoke during the service. the family wanted the focus to be on hadiya pendleton, who is the current face of gun violence in chicago. and choreography during the nearly three hour funeral service for hadiya pendleton. her casket at front of the greater harvest baptist church on the south side as mourners paid their respects. before the service, first lady michele obama spent about 30 minutes with pendleton's closest friends and relatives. mrs. obama then greeted the other dignitaries and leaders who attended the funeral. >>the most moving part of the service was the five minutes hadiya pendleton's mother spoke to the congregation: >>...you don't know everything, you don't know how hard this really is. and those of you that do no hard this is, i'm sorry. i'm sorry. >> cleopatra pen

jordan similar -- zimmerman. reporting day for position players. after practice today davey johnson with some high praise for his pitching staff. more specifically newcomer dan haren. the nats ow new starter threw a bullpen and he looked great today. the early arriving position players also got some voluntary workouts in as well. adam laroche and span the new center fielder they were out there. third baseman ryan zimmerman didn't take part in today's workout but i caught up with him and asked him about the memories of last year and that division title run. >> we look back on it quite a bit. a bunch of us would text each over and keep in much -- other and keep in stuff and we could talk about things and how it ended and how much that kind of still stung in the off-season. you know obviously being that close to kind of going to that next level and then you know, once you play you know get past that first round and you play them. i thought we played the giants you know you never know. you get hot in there and once you get to the world series anything can happen. we learned a lot from the success last year and also we learned a lot from how all of us failed. >>

dan those are some great visuals. let's see, i got a couple of more names so, to acknowledge for being here oakland city attorney barbara jordan oakland city counsel. pat concern ham. oakland port commissioner instead of butt inner and bryan parker and deputymary sandra sum sum. so, that was wrong sorry. mayor khan, you are going to have do me better on that. so, now, for a look at the economy and financial markets broadly and also, drilling down into the region we are delighted to have tim quinn lynn an economist with wells fargo securities to she had light on what the future hold tim quinn lynn provides analysis on financial markets macro economic developments in the mainly economies in the world he writes for wells fargo monthly economic reports these are great report if you get them by-the-way, and provides regular updates on industrial production, business spendings and manufacturings and tim has flown across the country to be be us and so we are so delighted and so please welcome from wells far go tim quinn lynn economist: . >> thank you very much for having me here today. i have got about ten minutes to spend with you a

jordan of wrestling. one gold in 72. ncaa titles and as a coach he went into championships. danour sport if there is no olympics as a goal? >> well, in our sport, that's the highest you can go. lot of sports, they just have -- the olympics are great and entertaining, but they have events like that all the time. even though the olympics are the highest in sport, we just -- that is it for wrestling. >> brian: since the 1800s, at the time a modern olympics. it's going back to 300s. it's always been part of it. what happened? why does the ioc say your sport is expendable? >> i think miscommunication. not being educated enough and it's just a matter of maybe it's a committee against another committee and it's not looking at the big sport. with that in mind, there has been some wrongs here. and because there is some wrongs, we got to make that a right. so the wrestling community has been stepping up here. but it's only ban week. we're trying to find out really what went wrong and we want to make those wrongs right. >> brian: so you're talking about nations. over 200 countries compete

dan shapiro spoke to israeli media today, the day after the white house announced the president will visit israel, the west bank, and jordann the spring. the visit will be president obama's first as president to the u.s. ally. an associated press report today says that john brennan, president obama's nominee to be c.i.a. director, sat quietly around a conference table during briefings about the capture and waterboarding of key al qaeda operative abu. former and current u.s. intelligence officials who were part of those briefings say mr. brennan, then deputy executive director of the c.i.a.'s administrative arm, did not raise objections to the interrogation practices. john been unanimous' silence back then may have cost him his first chance to lead the spy agency. the issue is likely to come up again as mr. brennan faces his confirmation hearing to be director of the c.i.a. you can hear live coverage of the senate intelligence committee hearing tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. eastern time. that's february 7. listen to it hear on c-span radio. and this just in from the associated press, president obama is planning to nominate business