eet but ite likesl may be happening in the morning commute. beautiful conditions right now with plenty of sunshine, 31 degrees. the snow is off to our west and bringing heavier amounts into chicago and minneapolis. if you're trying to get to chicago, you will have big problems. this will bring us a fresh coating from midnight-6 a.m. justest of today looks fine, mostly cloudy, 33 degrees and are high today about 36. i will have mauled -- more details and a huge warm up in- store coming up. >> thank you, a water main break is left part of wind yard road closed. this was in clinton, maryland. wssc is trying to find the exact location of the break. the road is closed between old branch and pineview court. main breaks are not the only consequence of this winter. thousands of kids are in school today on what was supposed to be a presidents' day holiday. rhiannon carter explains why. >> an unusual scene in fairfax on presidents' day. working lots at schools across the county are packed. >> [inaudible] the students are back in class to make up one of

. >> huss kerrs who volunteer to be a part of ramp undergo an eet while doing a memory test.s one - i have to identify which letters in a sequence match one two shots earlier. >> when it matches use button number one, when it doesn't, press four. >> they are going fast. >> we think the cap is a critical way of assessing whether a concussion occurred. >> you are also using brain scans and other technologies. >> we can collect mri data, other data, mri gives us information about structure of the brain and we can look at way. >> the images are from a football player without a concussion, and show changes in brainwave activity as a player distinguishes between a match and non-match. look at the player who had a concussion. there's no change. >> they are virtually identifiable. >> why is that? >> the brain hasn't figured out that this number is identical to that. at a minimum it's delayed. these are people experiencing a head injury previously. they may have had this for a year. after a year... >> you have a lingering effect. >> the brain is not processing it when it should have.

%eeting >> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors land use and economic development committee. i'm scott wiener, the chairman of the committee. to my right is supervisor jane kim, the committee vice-chair, and to my left is supervisor malia cohen. our clerk is ahn drape aausberry, and i want to thank sfgov-tv for broadcasting today's hearing, specifically jesse larsen and jonathan gomak. are there any announcements? >> yes, there are. please silence all cell phones and electronic device he. completed

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he reportedly told a eeting with the senate democratic meeting conference wednesday that he wouldn'toffended if he's not inviteed to visit vulnerable democrat campaign stop this year. some are already shunning him. the republican need a net gain of six seats to take back the senate. here is what they can do that and the latest polls on each race show. alaska, and incumbent mark leading by just four points. which is truly remarkable at this stage. in rkansas demcratic incum be end mark prior is running behind his republican challenger by five points. democratic incumbent mark you deal in colorado leads one by just three points. these are all tight races. in louisianademocratic incumbent mary landrieu trails her republican rival by 4 points. and jeanne shaheen is in a tie with her likely republican challenger. and that is not where she wants to be, obviously, in north carolina. democratic incumbent trailing her republican challenger by seven points. as you can tell, this is a very serious moment for the democrats. in montana, the open seat, the republican there is ahead by 14-points. 1

%eeting >> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors land use and economic development committee. i'm scott wiener, the chairman of the committee. to my right is supervisor jane kim, the committee vice-chair, and to my left is supervisor malia cohen. our clerk is ahn drape aausberry, and i want to thank sfgov-tv for broadcasting today's hearing, specifically jesse larsen and jonathan gomak. are there any announcements? >> yes, there are. please silence all cell phones and electronic device he. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the february 25th, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much. and, madam clerk, would you please call item number 1? >> item number 1 is an ordinance amending ordinance no. 16-10 to authorize the levy and collection of special taxes within city and county of san francisco special tax district no. 2009-1 (san francisco sustainable financing) for seismic safety retrofits to ce

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america withdraw and be confident that the vietcong were not going to follow americans down to l str eetn washington, d.c. there were people who i counter who i encountered who said that america could pivot away from the middle east. it may prove illusory, because the middle east is not like vietnam and the middle east can follow america to here, and i do not believe disengagement and hurley is's -- entirely is possible. pax americana. fred? >> thank you. [applause] >> wonderful introductory remarks. dig into and to follow up on. i will, back to post-pax americana and post-middle east america. before i do that, however, as much as you have gone into history in your remarks, some people in the audience i do not know that you have gone even further back than history of the united states in the middle east, going back to 1776. ministryde in your recent book a few of the u.s. involvement in the middle middle east. i wonder if you can go into that in sort of a cliff notes version here -- that is why i asked for the cliff notes version. this comparative analysis between middle east and the fou

. >> as we wrap up, i know you are eeting with a number of aboard people for the rest of the day, and you're going to the white house tomorrow. as you go around the horn, and come up with one important solution or change the mower impact that you would like to come from the white house and congress this year, or the next two years, what would that be? we like to hear from all of you, hopefully you have an answer to hat. i will begin with you, sir. >> we have to raise the minimum wage. there is a principle the bible, if you work hard, and you're raising children, you should not have to be in poverty. pope francis talked about an economy of inclusion not exclusion. if we want consumer purchasing power, 77% of our economy, raise the minimum wage. >> it is a terrible mistake to follow the pentagon's recommendation and cutting the ational guard. the guard has been really instrumental in fighting these wars in both iraq and afghanistan, and now that we are seeing dramatic cut backs in the military, the regular army has increased her medically. the size of the guard has stayed about the same

havethough start redemption is possible and here and here is it.ence of at our banquets i want to you eet two young ladies who were homeless in a homeless center and now they're in college. them graduated high valedictorian and they were studying by their -- by the light on their mother's phone. hey ought to be conservative champions. every banquet, every conference. at least 7 or 8 young eople born under some great trying and difficult triumphed overut these hard conditions. we ought to be writing about them. >> bob participated in a project called "seek social justice" and did as well and others. did exactly what he was talking about, correctly and how to overcome them. about churches, communities and businesses so the bad guy, d as but with really important serve give to a community in terms of work and training. one of the reasons that bob's ork is so important and important for many reasons, but he helps us diagnosis the things in go beyond the material this conversation. we have had too much of the aterialistic conversation for the last half century. we need to go deeper and the cha

later, vice president joe biden speaks with the party m eeting. in 45 minutes, we will look at the economic impact of the keystone pipeline with brigham mccown. then the co-host of "they cycle" on what to expect in president obama second term. and john milhouse will discuss the disc it -- the security of the u.s. electric grid. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. ♪ morning, everyone on thursday, february 13, 2014. stosty wintet continues to batterrm. congress has left town. before the senate yesterday approved an extension of the government borrowing authority on a partyline vote. after the vote to proceed on the debt extension. finally the top two republican leaders came forward to vote yes and allowed final passage. on the front page of "usa today," comcast has agreed to buy time warner for

a swiss airport official says it was the copilot of an eet yoachian airlines jet that forced it to land. he was arrested. he's seeking asylum. no one else was on the flight originally bound from rome was injured. >>> the teenager and her husband accused of killing a man in pennsylvania who they met on craigslist say that he was just their latest victim. in a jailhouse interview, 19- year-old miranda barber claims she killed dozens of people in alaska, texas, california, eleanor holmes norton. she said she stopped counting at 22 victims. >>> at this point even the winter hearty folks in new england are ready for the arrival of spring. it's now 31 days away. after getting our storm late thursday and friday, new england got another thumping over the weekend. and they'll have to endure another round of snow with the storm that's moving in tonight and again tomorrow. >> we, though, are going to see a big melt and it is coming this week thankfully. >> thank you. >> and howard joins us next with much more on how much of the seven-day forecast has temperatures 50s and maybe even climbing into t