we will go to a caller from greensboro, mississippi. -- greens go, mississippi. -- greensville, mississippi. caller: i want to say congratulations to the president. host: this part of the white house is closed to vehicular traffic but open to tourists. the blue room is in the center of the white house. that is where the president took his official oath of office as dictated under the constitution. a few blocks away along massachusetts avenue, the vice president took the oath of office at 8:20 this morning. administered by the justice sonia sotomayer. >> i, joseph r. biden jr., do solemnly swear -- [repeats] >> that i will support and defend the constitution of united states -- [repeats] >> against all enemies, foreign and domestic -- [repeats] >> that i bear true faith and allegiance to the same -- [repeats] >> that i take this freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion -- [repeats] >> and that i will well and faithfully discharge -- [repeats] >> the duties of the office on which i am about to enter. [repeats] >> so help me god. [repeats] >> congratulations. [applause] host

and the 8th graders in illinois for making a donation to the wounded warriors and ralph stout of greensboro, north carolina and the willinghams for doing the same thing. so we're so heavy into charity here, that's why we do bill o'reilly.com stuff and that's it for us tonight, please check out the fox news factor website which is different from bill o'reilly.com. the interview we did with mr. hammar, the father of the marine, compelling interview if you missed it, check it out on the fox news factor website, it's worth seeing and like to you spout out from the factor, anywhere in the world and name and town if you wish to opine. word the day nefarious, when writing to the factor and when you write to us, please, if you want your letter to be read because competing with thousands of letters, your first sentence is vital. give me the headline in the first sentence, that catches people's eye and passed along to me. can't read all the mail, my eyes would be like this. if i were reading all the mail i'd wear green shorts and an orange shirt. remember the spin stops here and we'll be definitely l

we'll poke into the low to mid- 60s with 70 up to greensboro.ven new york will be in the 50s along with detroit by saturday and there's the core of your arctic air into north dakota. cold. denver 17 on saturday. the cold is headed out west. that will force the warmth toward us. watching a storm system, rain and snow here out west. but it's the rain, the heavy rains that you see in louisiana, this is the storm that's bringing us the warm weekend. and next weekend, that's when we may be dealing with much colder temperatures finally returning. 50 degrees afternoon with more cloudiness this afternoon than this morning. tonight we're going to dip into the 30s. upper 30s to near 40 actually for d.c. with mid-30s north and west. 51 tomorrow. yellow alert tomorrow because your afternoon and evening commute is going to be impacted by the rain and showers. by saturday, though, good looking day, 64. sunday 68. locally 70 on sunday. dulles might even get toward a record. monday some showers and 60. monika, it's 5:18. >>> not really any incidents. it's more

. >>> 2012 will be remembered as greensboro >>> 2012 will be reme the year of the gun. role of guns is truly shocking from aurora, colorado, to the sikh temple in wisconsin, sandy hook elementary school where 26 people killed, 20 of them first graders. er breaking news. live at a community in mourning and shock after one of the worst mass shootings in american history. gunman walked into newtown, connecticut, opened fire. >> it came late in my life. jesse was my son but he was my best friend and buddy, too. my little boy said something the night before to me and he said, dad, this is going to be the best christmas ever, and he was going on about it and i said, jesse, you know, we'll make it the best we can. and i -- i don't have much family. it's kind of a quiet time for me and he makes -- made christmas happy for me and joyful, and he made it what it was. i said to him, we'll make it best we can. and the next day this tragedy happened, it occurred, and i thought to myself, boy, was he wrong about that. >> ar-15, as we've now seen from the last three mass shootings in a

elizabeth woodard, 104 from greensboro, north carolina. she was a pediatric nurse for years.a leuthold. love that name. 100 years old today, portland, great state of oregon. beautiful. beautiful ocean. longevity, she says, peaceful spir spirit, calm, relaxed. we love you. ted stern, charleston, south carolina, 100 years old today. and he was president of the college in charleston and he also is a very philanthropic gentleman. thank you, sir. ann satton, 103 years old today. a great bowler and is in san ho jose, california, in case you know the way. and here is albert taten, pine buff, arkansas, 100 years old today. handsome fellow. carpent carpenter, built his own house, he did. how about that? grace kilber from bismarck, north dakota. she is 101 years old today. longevity she says take nice of long walks and always have dessert. i agree with that. finally, here is the lovely zein maleki maleki-rai from columbus, ohio. 100 years old today. speaks seven languages. how about that? he loves gardening. that's all. back to ice skating here in washington. new york, you have a beaut

hello to our roving ambassador, arnold down in greensboro, north carolina. what do you say?y man, good morning. good morning. >> first i want to tell peter that congratulations on the crimson tides. they roll over top of those guys. they got a sad history irish got a sad history of playing good season football but then in the post-season they just like marijuana, they get smoked in bowls. >> bill: oh, arnold! you had to go there. >> just like marijuana they get smoked in bowls. arnold, you made my day buddy. >> caller: listen, so far chuck hagel and the president's backing him. the republicans all president obama has to do, take any subject matter anything they do. if he supports it, they're going to be so far against it, it's unreal. he can take their policies and they will turn it around and not support nothing man. it is because the color of this man's skin that's the reason they're doing it. it is so obvious to all of the american people. even afro-american people. it is so very obvious what they're doing. >> bill: you know, arnold, here's what really pistes me off, you

it's a rare occurrence but lisa mcclintock caught it on cell phone video outside of greensboro and shared it with all of us. >>> ah, sundance, the sundance film festival in full force and thousands of people are in attendance. it's one of the world's largest independent film festival, but its founder robert redford said it's getting too big. nishell turner is in park city, utah. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol, it's definitely one of those be careful what you wish for, you just might get it situations with robert redford. he told he when he started the sundance femme festival in 1981, it was in one theater in park city and he literally had to stand out on the street and beg people to come in and watch a movie. now you have some premieres that the lines are around the block. he says the success has been fantastic, but it's also been frustrating. take a look. you've been doing this festival for almost three decades now. >> yes. >> reporter: it's got been so large, did you ever sit back, though, and just take a moment and think, gosh, look at what this has become? >> i do. how

anthony in greensboro, north carolina, independent. caller: good morning. i have done quite a bit of research on the debt. what i don't hear from anybody, whether from the politicians or people asking questions, is the fact that the united states over the last 10 or 15 years has overwhelmingly started bases all over the world. over 1200 bases. and i cannot get a direct answer to actually how many. each would bring in the amount of money well over $1 trillion in just the maintenance. along with that, on the far side, after deep search, i discovered that the united states in the last eight years, since 1998, i believe, through nasa, they have come to believe in some kind of solar scenario along with an economic scenario and have been spending a lot of money in creating bases or underground cities in preparation, which is understandable, as any other nation, including japan and china have been doing themselves. host: next we will hear from a democratic caller, dan. if the debt ceiling negotiable? caller: it should not be. but if the republicans want to force n

. >> host: reggie green, greensboro, north carolina. is there anything out there that you see to suggest some movement back to placing the patient and health care first ahead of maximizing profits and increasing business? >> guest: that's an easy one. no. [laughter] nor will there be under the existing system. >> host: georgia in pembroke, north carolina. georgia, please go ahead. >> caller: yes. first, i have a comment on the nafta. nafta agreement has almost completely destroyed the state of north carolina. you know, we wound up, they closed most of the factories, and this is why our employment rate is so high here. that's my comment on nafta. that was the worst thing that could have ever possibly happened. i've always disagreed with that. number two, i think that this country should have term limits. the president of this country, we have term limits for our president. and i believe as long as the representatives that sit in our congress are allowed to sit there forever and ever and ever until they're so old that they fall asleep in

. >> we have carol in from gree greensbo greensboro, north carolina. i love the show.'ve been an early riser forever. as long as i'm up, i might as well watch the news and learn something. so here i am watching cnbc. >> rub your eyes and grab the coffee because i am on msnbc. stay tuned because "morning joe" starts right now. >>> there's a lot of tragedy here. there's a lot of sorrow here. but the thing i am most sad of, sad about, is -- sorry -- that the single most trusting human being i've ever met will never be able to trust in the same way again in his life. that's an incredible tragedy. >> oh, dear lord. >> i am completely confused. >> oh, dear lord. >> top of the hour, 6:00 on the east coast. good morning. it's thursday, january 17th. my mom's birthday's coming up. don't let me forget. with us, we have the president on the council on foreign relations, richard haass, very appropriate. what we're about to talk about. msnbc political analyst, richard wolffe, and in washington, nbc news capitol hill correspondent, kelly o'donnell. >> morning. >> kelly -- >> hang in