than running on a party ticket sure he signed up as a republican and i think that although you can garner much of the republican base it's going to be the independents and the young people who may not have really decided whether they want to belong to the republican party the democrat party but they hear this this one guy who's talking about the things that really ring true with them the fact that there's tons of unemployment in our friends and our family they see that there's tons of kids who they graduate or don't even finish graduating college with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars of tuition debt we're going into this job market that just doesn't have a place for us and i think what we see is both a broken economy as well as many of our friends myself included who have who have witnessed very close friends of vendors who has passed away or or been killed at the hands of. our government by sending them off to war so you have this one candidate who he may not be young you may not be the most charismatic he may not look like barack obama but he says what we want to he

thirty years that former journalist movie abu jamal has been behind bars and this is a case that has garnered worldwide recognition and has made himself a hero of sorts and i want to walk you through a timeline to highlight some of the things that have happened in this case over the last thirty years started to summer night one thousand nine hundred one officer daniel faulkner was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop and lumia abu jamal was charged with first degree murder and the following year movie i was found guilty and sentenced to death in one thousand nine hundred one it moved me i was denied his petition for rehearing twice april sixth two thousand and nine the u.s. supreme court refuses to hear of appeal and just two days ago the philadelphia district attorney seth williams announced that his office would no longer pursue the death penalty in this case well there are multiple questions surrounding the original case and hundreds have called for a new trial to be given to abu jamal many others from archbishop desmond tutu to dr cornel west have called for his release all toget

and then we have case has garnered international recognition again he himself has gotten support from thousands of people around the world as i showed you and in london today dozens of people gathered outside the u.s. embassy in a rally for mumia a tradition that's gone on for years demonstrators say his case is one of worldwide importance and it's also got the attention not just journalists and activists but actors as well earlier i spoke to a man many of you may recognize as army captain b.j. honey cut from the t.v. series mash mike farrell he is now the president of death penalty focus and i asked him about the decision on wednesday by the philadelphia district attorney to drop the death penalty aspect of the mumia case take a listen it's not a question of how we perceive the case the case has always been perceived by those of us who oppose the execution of me. in this particular situation as a as a travesty of justice the trial was wrong and my argument is the same i think is amnesty international's which is that he needs and deserves a new trial but from for those of us such as m

then we were introduced to 47-year-old joseph garner. >> i've been down 9 1/2 years, got 22 1/2 moreime is murder, and i cannibalized during the process. >> garner killed his father on christmas eve 1995. at the time, he believed his dad was preventing the second coming of christ. again, we'll warn you, his account of the murder is extremely graphic. >> i eventually told him to sit in the chair and not to move. and i started singing "the battle hymn of the republic," glory, glory, hallelujah. i told him they're coming. do you hear them? i was wigged out completely at that time. he must have got scared. and he jumped up and tried to push me aside and i thought he was attacking me. so i stabbed him in the back. he took about three steps. i tackled him from behind, somehow got behind him and slit his throat. and i remember him saying please don't kill me. that's when i realized, oh, my god, what am i doing? >> our producer later described her interview with garner as exhausting as he often took the conversation on bizarre tangents. >> each and every nanosecond, moment, whatever the late

thirty years that former journalist movie abu jamal has been behind bars this is a case that has garnered worldwide recognition and it's made movie of himself a hero of sorts just today in london dozens of people gathered outside the u.s. embassy in a rally for me a tradition that has gone on for years demonstrators say his case is one of worldwide importance laura smith takes a look at the case and the international appeal of movie abu jamal. three decades behind bars for a crime he says he didn't commit it's a dubious anniversary for. a black man who's always maintained he didn't kill the white police officer he's supposed to have shot and what's more hundreds of thousands of people around the world believe him and strongly believe that he said this and that the charges that were laid against it that he suffered an unfair trial was. a campaign really. gets over time because of the person not to execute him because of his political views or for press people who stood up in particular for the african community you know as a member back home. and he was a man who was against oppression and

joe garner has no chance of being on this show. >> jon: no. as a matter of fact, if i am being-- we'll probably edit his name out. but this is to his advantage because will get lots of money if you buy this book. >> jon: good. 100 yards of glory. >> that's our show, join us next week at 1:00, here is your moment of zen.

joe garner has no chance of being on this show. >> jon: no. as a matter of fact, if i am being-- we'll probably edit his name out. but this is to his advantage because will get lots of money if you buy this book. >> jon: good. 100 yards of glory. ♪ ♪ look around you can't deny ♪ ♪ all this here is paradise ♪ ♪ i got the sun at my back got the world at my feet ♪ ♪ announcer: for a refreshingly real ginger taste, grab a canada dry ginger ale. real ginger. real taste.

it would not and will not garner the same kind of support from the american people that the president'sposal has garnered. >> meanwhile, over in the house, also before the vote, speaker john boehner had held out hope that a deal could be reached. >> you know, i'm not an economist, i don't know what impact it's going to have on the economy. it's just that i do believe that there's enough common ground, between where the white house and democrats are and where republicans are, for us to move this legislation and to do so quickly. >> in a sharply-worded statement, president obama reacted to last night's vote. writing in part, senate republicans chose to raise taxes on nearly 160 million hardworking americans because they refused to ask a few hundred thousand millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share. that is unacceptable. it makes absolutely no sense to raise taxes on the middle class at a time when so many are still trying to get back on their feet. that a statement from the president. >>> in addition to the tax fight, congress is dealing with how to extend federal unemploymen

i'm not sure why this particular event suddenly garnered 25,000. people loved it this is per second. not over an hour or a number of retwoo retweets. >> this is the interesting thing about social media. it's a part of our nomenclature now. 25,000 people in this one case who are all talking about the exact same thing at the exact same moment in time. >> this year, social media showed how powerful it was with events like the arab spring. it's not just, you know, rebecca black, it's really powerful things that people had in their hearts and souls that they are shag sharing to all of their friends all at once. >> wilson, appreciate it. >>> coming up next, everything you need ♪ >>> the general motors building here at 59th and fifth. our final half hour here. how about that? >> our final half hour in our building. >> i'm russ mitchell. welcome back to "the early show." >> i'm rebecca jarvis. >>> coming up, sparkling wine to crystal and everything you need before popping the cork to bring in the new year. >> jacques will dish about his special new year's

. >>> another fascinating family garnering attention. they have made the most people list. big bucks by.uy jewelry worn they are made of diamond and jade. there are rare and expensive item is being auctioned off. she idolized the hollywood star in march. >>> the hollywood awards season is kicking off a several rounds of nominations. they will be announced for the globe awards.lden learned the nominees for the screen actors awards. movie opened with the help "the help" leads the pack. >> award season has officially begun. of year. this time it is 45 degrees. >> as the war in iraq down, more of one of the american >>> a renewed effort to find the man known as the potomac river rapist.

. >> reporter: the project garnering the most attention, the new terminal. the port of san francisco says the current one is outdated. >> the most exciting thing that has happened. this is a huge public investment by the city and the port. >> reporter: tomorrow this approval goes in front of the port and then it goes to the board of supervisors. they will vote on this in january. >>> barry bonds expected to be sentenced tomorrow for obstruction of justice. bash parallel bar was found guilty in april. they said he was evasive in his testimony to a grand jury. today the founder of a company linked to steroids talked to us about the case. >> i don't think he should get jail time. i don't think he will. i think he will get home detention. i think it's suspicious of any athlete that has a surge in performance and not just with barry bonds. >> prosecutors want him to serve 15 months in prison. the defense is pushing for two years probation, a $4,000 fine and 250 hours of community service. >>> pg&e is allowed to raise pressure on three of its pipelines. the puc gr

you are just trying to garner votes. look long-term. debt is going to kill us. >>> and the other thing to hear about. extension of the pay roll tax cuts and they are not extended. many coupems making $70,000, are going to lose $2000 out of their pockets. that is to hurt the economy. that is a negative. >> it is a negative. but the pay roll tax cut is a redistribution from the rich. it comes from the government's responsibility to redistribute as they see fit. it is ineffective and short lifes. and destructive because these bankrupt entitlement like social security are lookking to cut them. >> and sally looking at debt issue that we are sitting on rightt now. that hurt europe and could hurt us. >> a lot of things that hurt. it was a struggling economy. w have to get our debt under control. and businesses know they need consumer demand and middle class people to have money in their pockets. why is it okay to raise the debt to give tax cut to millionaires and billionaires and can't justify to give tax breakk to working class people. >> the

it garnered close to half a million dislikes on the youtube channel. the campaign's response, they disabled the like and dislike icons for the newest addition of the lineups. perry stuck to his argument when asked about president obama's war on religion. true to form, it was not without a snafu. let's listen for it. >> do you believe he's waging a war on religion? >> i do. when you see his appointment of two -- from my perspective, inarguably judges whether it s was -- >> sotomayer. >> sotomayer. whether it's about prayer in school, whether it's you can celebrate christmas those are decisions that should be left to the states. >> oh, god. least he knew what the name rhymed with. perry also referenced the fact we have eight supreme court justices. i guess he had a brain freeze. how should a presidential candidate who hasn't been up vited know he's hit rock bottom? ask buddy romer. he looks like a one-man show. a piece from "the washington post" gives a lack of enthusiasm for him. the rally was scheduled to start at 6:00. roemer arrived 15 minutes early

with almost one hundred percent of the votes counted the party has garnered just under fifty percent of the vote the communists came in second but third place by russia with liberal democrats on the fold police the three other parties failed to get the required percent of the votes needed to get seats in the duma now those not yet final but the results indicate that the party which has crushingly dominated the country's politics for years now is on track to lose its two thirds majority in the duma for comparison in the two thousand and seven elections united russia got sixty four percent of the vote and now it failed to get the constitutional majority and also it didn't get that all important fifty percent mark which is of the so-called psychological barrier to say the top of the country is on the side with you that means that the ruling party will come to learn to find compromises with the political forces in the country and maybe pull my polish and with that and not the policy or even qualities that united russia still bra's have already said that they're willing to form polish and

but few matchups garner the -- the cardinals came into the matchup undefeated. they are rented fourth in the nation. -- ranked fourth in the nation. porter came off the bench with 14 points. it is the season for holiday cheer and if you are michael jordan, a wedding engagement. he proposed to his model girlfriend of three years. this'll be his second marriage. do you think he can get her some air jordans? >> we >>> let's get a last look at the weather this thursday. >> temperatures will be all over the place for the next few days. lower 50's on saturday. sunday, new year's day, 57. a strong cold front will come through sunday night. much colder on monday and for the balance of next week. >> thank you so much. >> we will see you back here at 11:00. ny great pioneers before me, guided only by a dream. i'm embarking on a journey of epic proportion. i will travel, from sea to shining sea, through amber waves of grain, and i won't stop until i've helped every driver in america save hundreds on car insurance. well i'm out of the parking lot. that's a good start. geico

i also garnered the support of the department's wage hour administration which had authority for the enforcement of the equal pay act. and i approached the eeoc chairman bill brown, promising the eeoc lead status on any action for a nationwide federal consent decree that would be filed in federal court. if they would join us and work with the department and the department of justice on a comprehensive solution. on january 18, 1973, we announced an historic agreement that included support from the ibew, although not from the communication workers of america and that permitted women to exercise company wide seniority to bid for higher paying craft jobs and provided them the incentive of a payment if they were successful to compensate them for the delay they suffered in being allowed to compete. there were no quotas. and numerical goals were based on the availability of existing qualified women already in the employ of the phone company. a year later, at which time i was solicitor of the department, we replicated the principles of the at&t agreement in the steel industry consent decree.

garner, happy new year. >>guest: nice to see you, trace. >>trace: as if you needed a reason not to go through the drive through, naked. that is coming up. plus a preview of the big new year's party in times square. preparations for the big event are next. >>trace: in 24 hours an estimated one million people pack into times square to ring in the new year. and now a live look at times square and a lot of security ahead of the big night. and in the middle of it all you will find megyn and bill they will host this year's all american new year, and i love sitting out there and watching them freezing, on fox news channel at 11:00 p.m. on new year's eve. it should be great. there are plenty of reasons why you should not pull up to mcdonald's drive through without clothes on. hot coffee comes to mind. and you could be arrested. police in illinois say a 19-year-old and a 21-year-old woman went to the drive through. at a local mcdonald's, completely naked. an employee saw the couple and called the cops. when the comes arrived they say the man was ben

you see in the internet world, you can become a so-called youtube partner, if your videos garner enoughnterest. >> we have a special system that looks at how quickly something is becoming popular and it's an automated system that will in many cases contact the user automatically and offer them an opportunity to run ads. once you do that, that's when you start, you know, recovering money from that. >> reporter: it's a rough calculation, but you can earn about a dollar for each 1,000 youtube hits. small change, unless you are someone like david, with more than 100 million hits or the this family, whose devilishly funny video reportedly earned them more than $150,000 barely trying. there are other perks, as well. these girls, cousin sophia grace and rosie grace first gained attention for a video of them singing nicki minaj's "super bass." suddenly, they were on ellen ge jenless, even min minaj herself. and david, now 10, has seen a lot of the world. you got to do cool things because of the video. >> yeah, i have -- i've gotten to go to, like, los angeles and brazil. >> reporter: are these

but i do not think we have garnered that feedback yet. one thing i have heard, for example, is -- is their capacity in the city to do language out reach on education, the waiver process, and the enforcement as well? also, why small businesses to not go through a similar process, as did our supermarkets and retail pharmacies, where they first got rid of the plastic bags before they had a fee added on? they're kind of getting hit all at once in this legislation. i think more time is needed for the feedback. i support this overall. but for me, it is respecting the communities that will be impacted by this legislation. president chiu: because the motion to continue will take precedence, let me ask if we could consider the motion to amend, because i think that would be unanimous. the motion was made by supervisor mirkarimi. a second by supervisor wiener. colleagues, can we take in motion to amend without objection? that will be the case. now on the motion to continue. is there a second? second by supervisor chu. let's go to supervisor mirkarim

garner nominated by the outgoing mayor who wrapped up his term yesterday. one of the first ush use issuesa list to help ownersp improve their property. >> new high tech headquarters in the south bay. >> second guessing plan b, the unprecendented move involving the morning after pill. >> a fire destroys a building in berkeley. leaves dozens of people homeless. why the investigation noise focusing on the elevator. >> all tests have been suspended at the bomb range because of an expeerment cerment conducted by cannonball intero the a cannon m'hborhoig. od tracy grant. we'll tell you what the hosts of the show had to say. coming up. ♪ [ female announcer ] during the holidays, there's a lot to get done. and safeway select appetizers help you rise to every occasion. ♪ from delectable to amazing. there are over 20 affordable safeway select appetizers ♪ to make all of your gatherings just as merry as can be. ♪ only at safeway. ingredients for life. >>> not what they expected, the host of myth busters have been busted for making a bizarre dangerous mistake in the ea

i would like to invite ronald, who garner's several proclamations from various officials, and we would like to present them to ms. claudia -- to ms. claudette colvin. we want to thank him for his efforts in securing these proclamations. if ms. colvin would come up as well. >> it is an honor to be asked to make these presentations. the elected officials represented here are trailblazers themselves. many of them have been the first in their community to hold office. for example, ed lee, the first chinese-american to be appointed mayor in san francisco, is represented in this group. so is our congresswoman, nancy pelosi, the first woman ever to become speaker of the house in the history of the united states. [applause] tom amiano, who has been a historic figure and trailblazer, coming from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered community. [applause] also, our newest elected official, supervisor cohen, with her election last november at age 32, is the youngest african-american ever to be elected to the board of supervisors. [applause] she is now san francisco's highest-ranking elected o

you can't tell them that it will garner votes. the second issue is, you say the stimulus wasn't big enough. other economists come to mind. . if the president were here, he would say that we got everything we could even though they controlled both houses of congress at the time. they argued that they could not get any more. we say it should of been larger home, they said they couldn't get any more. what do you say? >> i say that they did not come by and stimulus with some credible package of stability over a 10 or so your time. the worry was that this was a stimulus today followed by still is tomorrow at the day after that. we have had deficits three years running now. people understandably worry about where this leads. if you look at the congressional budget office numbers, the alternative fiscal scenario has absolutely terrifying implications. it means that if we don't change our path, all federal tax revenues will be absorbed by interest payments on the federal that. even if interest rates stay relatively low. the problem is in

we expect it will garner much media and coverage for san francisco. this will be great news for our hotels and other cultural institutions, restaurants, and the tax base. thank you for supporting the expansion. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker? >> ♪ moma, how i love yo, my dear old moma ♪ ♪ captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- ♪ iw ould give the world to see you again ♪ ♪ moma, how i love you ♪ ♪ the districts north, east, west, and south will see you some more is decline ♪ when you relocate ♪ ♪ you are the moma i always dreamed of musicaf ♪ ♪ you moved and that's the last i've seen aof my art heart ♪ ♪ it is the way you look like he smite are located there. ♪ you are the art work right brand of musical and -- artwork i have dreamed of ♪ supervisor mar: thank you. is there anyone else from the public who would like to speak? please come for. >> thank you. on behalf of the w and sf moma. her concerns are about private use. the design does include alternative pedestrian access and a substitute for the excess weight. t

its certainly been garnering tremendous claim. and i think it should be defended on how it treats its subject. >> does winning a pulitzer help sales? >> absolutely it does. i would venture to say that pulitzer prize won any other prize in america boost sales. it certainly did on the fiction side when jennifer egan won. "a visit from the goon squad" had attracted some attention when it was released in june 2010, certainly among very independent bookseller communities online. everybody i pretty much talked to loved this book and was recommending it left and right. so there was this tremendous momentum has built up near the end of the year. she also won the national book critics circle prize as well but it was the pulitzer that really catapulted "a visit from the goon squad" from a sales standpoint. the paperback has just come out or was about to come out, and that also helps pictures and affordable addition of this award-winning book that people can pick up. i do believe it's sales tax increase over time. but the previous year when

when she we want on book tire for "state of wonder" which did very well and garnered reviews, she talked about the next project, opening an independent bookstore in tennessee, which had lost a whole number of different stores both big box chains as well as independents. for example, they had a davis kid store whose parent company filed for bankruptcy, and he was doing well because the parent company was not, they went out of business, so just a few weeks ago, in conjunction with randomhouse sales representative, karen hays opened a store, and people in nashville really wanted an independent bookstore, and also they are starting small. it's just about 4,000 square feet. there is a sense that even though people might call her crazy to open an independent book sphoar when things are changes rapidly and things are moving so fast on the digital front, but as long as she and hayes and the staff are savvy about what they stock and authors for signings and how they approach the selling of book, i think they stand a very good chance. they stand as good a chance as any business that opens. there's

peter faulk started doing a series, and jimmy garner did the same thing. i was a movie star. i was working in great films with great people, and i went and did a series. with no reason in the world to do it. i have done things like that all my life. so far, so good. the guy that jumps out of the empire state building, i don't know why i did "beretta." i had other movies to do and i had other movies i was cooking. electra glide in the blue was a very successful picture. michael eisner was a big deal. he said, i want that guy in a cop show. a universal call me and i said, ok. we don't have time for a pilot. abc was like, the bottom of the barrel. michael eisner was buying whatever the hell he could find on the streets. if he is sukkur enough to do a series, i am going to buy him. if i am on my game, if i am really small and, as god as my judge, you can give me the telephone book and i can make the whole world cry. if i am cooking, and nobody ever taught me how the act or make a movie. i was writing on the weekend and shooting them on monday. i directed half of them. why don't y

which movies and actors garnered nominations for the golden globes. >> plus, this guy has become an internet sensation. the friendly bear who is likely to win you over. >>> it was nice to see a few raindrops in the bay area. those are moving out. what about this weekend? coming up we'll talk about that in a minute. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, aves >>> it's only 11 seconds long but it has become an internet sensation. see that? a woman waves from a car and then the bear rears up on its back legs and waves back. nearly 3 million people have viewed this youtube video. animals at the fire are retired show animals who worked in tv, film and theme parks so kind of makes sense that the bear is probably used to waving at people. >> we're sure that's real? >> pretty sure, yeah. >> looks good enough. it's on youtube. >> are you real? >> i don't feel so real right now. but folks, hey, we have some showers that were in the forecast this morning. those have started to wind down. rain turning to snow in the high country. you need chains there for a bit across to the high country but just a light dusting of fresh

newt gingrich garnered the new hampshire leader.he leader has only picked a winner in three of the last primaries. iowa's des moines register has been worse. the nation's political climate is anti-washington and anti-establishment. leaving many to belief there isn't a big endorsement that could stake up this race. karen travers, abc7 news. >>> coming up, 96 words that shook us up. top 10 tweets that tell the story of 2011. >>> annual holiday tradition comes to an end. we'll tell you what changed >>> here's a look at the high temperatures today. still very chilly from seattle in portland in the low to upper 40s through denver 35 no snow today there if you are connecting. 47 st. louis, low to mid 50s boston, new york 57 seattle, atlanta 62. east coast everything quiet through the midwest even to the west coast smallest airports on time too. check out flight tracker abc7news.com. >>> 4:49. the labor department is set to release the latest jobs report in 40 minutes from now. economists predicting modest gains not enough to change the un

>>vicki: a new is in francisco restaurant garnering a reputation for cocktails and a seasonal cuisine. we also show you how alec baldwin responded live on television after being kicked off of a slight. a >>vicki: republican presidential candidates and battled it out in iowa. some of the most notable sobel moments commended gingrich responded to his comments about palestinians and mitt romney turned into a betting man. >> it was a pivotal gop debate in iowa. nude gingrich address comments about palestinians been an invented people. this >> is what i said factly correct? yes. historically true? yes. the only reason mitt romney did not become a career politician is he lost to ted kennedy in 1994. >>reporter: @ mitt romney fired back everett carey over health care. >> you are for individual mandates, my friend. >> if you cheat on your wife, he will cheat on your business partners. >> i have had made mistakes at times, i have had to go to god for forgiveness. >> if we took that oath of office seriously in washington, we would get rid of 80 percent of government. >> we need this race to be

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