elana giplable has been house hunting for more than a year. she's noticed something new, competition. >> you feel like there's definitely a high demand and if you want something you have to jump on it, otherwise you might lose it. >> reporter: in southern california, the median home price jumped more than 16% in the last year. sales up more than 25%. the biggest increase in six years. l.a. realtor ben lee says the rebound is real. >> the increase in buyer confidence is putting people back in the market. >> reporter: so literally seeing people bidding prices up? >> absolutely. all the time. >> reporter: with housing prices near record lows and interest rates near record lows the contractors and realtors we spoke to today, scott, say they expect to see the housing market here in los angeles back at pre- recession levels within a year. >> reporter: bill whitaker in the l.a. bureau. bill, thank you very much. the flu season usually doesn't kick into high gear until after christmas. but almost every state is reporting cases already, with the five s

elana i mean so many mistakes we made putting guns in classrooms of kindergartners i mean where it's just a never ending cycle and i'm mad as i wanted to go over there quickly though into anti psychotic drugs mental health i mean we just learned today that the killer at noon was on a drug called the nap an antipsychotic drug that pretty much has the opposite effect to some people that creates aggressive behavior i mean it comes up almost all these killers are on some sort of psychotropic medication do you think that we need to be talking about treating mental health the pharmaceutical lobby in this country as one of the only countries in the world that has direct to consumer advertising. like i said i think that we can talk about all of these things at once of course we should be talking about mental health but i do has a team to point to mental illness as the reason for this shooting because we've yet to see whether this particular individual was ever diagnosed with a mental illness he did have asperger's but there's no link between asperger's and being more violent especially in th

she's particularly enamored of her new colleague, elana kagan and her choices to be senior liberal thesupreme court is is the price up at the watergate. what would you do? so i think she's going to stay. if obama is reelect to, and it's looking that way, i was not hinder him. just making another one of my ex thought predictions. i don't think any of the conservatives will leave voluntarily. but it's starting to be a pretty old quarter. justice kennedy and scalia are both 70 sixer sold. do the math. you don't always get a choice when you leave. i think if romney wins, ginsburg will try to hold off for the next four years. i think if obama wins, kennedy and scully will try to hold on, but you never know what will help them. >> is in or close of she's justice robert, can you explain when he replied the job of the justice pushes to call and strikes is supposed to change the rules. >> well, he is one to say that that is the most quoted saying he is ever so. 80% of the time critically about him, issues thrown back at him. we all come to, supreme court justices included, perceive ourselves in

you heard elana. she doesn't even accept the report. she says the state department can't review itself because of its failures noted by the panel and she's looking for secretary of state clinton to testify in january. i also think that the state department officials, bill burns really contrite, what else can you do, wolf, with such a scathing report other than to say we know we can do better and we will. >> senator john kerry uttered some nice words and then recused himself, didn't ask any questions because everybody knows the president is going to nominate him to be the next secretary of state. >> that's right. and he was already talking like a secretary of state. he said that the department really -- this is a step forward in term of dealing with security and thinks it is going to be very helpful. and then listen to what he said about where he thinks the blame should also lie. >> congress also bears some responsibility here. congress has the power of the purse. we use it for any number of things. but it's our responsibility. and for y

she's particularly enamored of her new colleague, elana kagan and her choices to be senior liberal thesupreme court is is the price up at the watergate. what would you do? so i think she's going to stay. if obama is reelect to, and it's looking that way, i was not hinder him. just making another one of my ex thought predictions. i don't think any of the conservatives will leave voluntarily. but it's starting to be a pretty old quarter. justice kennedy and scalia are both 70 sixer sold. do the math. you don't always get a choice when you leave. i think if romney wins, ginsburg will try to hold off for the next four years. i think if obama wins, kennedy and scully will try to hold on, but you never know what will help them. >> is in or close of she's justice robert, can you explain when he replied the job of the justice pushes to call and strikes is supposed to change the rules. >> well, he is one to say that that is the most quoted saying he is ever so. 80% of the time critically about him, issues thrown back at him. we all come to, supreme court justices included, perceive ourselves in