. >> we are not the only people with domestic politics that affects what happe. moderate" rouhani won elections and there was so much bite with the sanctions, and he wants to make a deal. if he cannot, if he has nothing to show for it, we will revert to the old situation, which was no deal. the hardliners can continue to do what they were doing. we will be in the same pickle we are in. goes from history when ronald reagan met with gorbachev in 1985 and we were told by the then conservative leader of the congress that it was most dangerous meeting since munich in 1938. overcame the naysayers, the harpers, the critics, frohis own base, to engage and negotiate an end to the cold war and save $20 trillion and countless lives. negotiation rather than isolation. those are the two options. >> if you a are talking about te negotiations in iceland, reagan walked away, unlike this administration. reagan had the backbone to say we will not accept your terms, and walked out. as a result of that, the russians understood there was no profit in continuing the arms race and they

i happ i know it isn't a fair question. >> i was in congress when we vote for the reauthorization and i voted against them. they didn't strike a balance between protecting our privacy and security. there were versions i voted for. it is hard to see how i would vote in 2011. but we have to find the balance and we need to continue our quest to strike it because i am not sure we have there. >> edward snowden, has he done the nation a favor? >> he is a trader. he has dramatically damaged our country and shouldn't be looked out as a patriot. he compromised national security and violated an oath he took and did serious damage in the united states of america. >> one of the terms you use, bipartisanship, in your presentation earlier, you talked about the dinners and things you do, but how do you maintain bipa bipa bipartsenship? >> the easy thing to do is default to our respective corners and dig in. as the chair of the democratic national committee, i support my party's agenda, but i recognize it can't be my way or the highway. we don't have enough people that believe that. so it is my respo

a number of basic thgs had to happ. people did suffer. and now we are recovering. it is not as though nothing was going on. that everything was hunky-dory and on his watch things went down. that is not the case. >> senor elizabebeth warren was talkinabout a $22 an hour minimum wage and expanding social security. >> why stop at $22? $50. if you are going to thk macally,y, think big. preposterous. the idea you can create wealth by legislating it. not going to happen. >> you can create a decent floor. it may not be $22 an hour. if you have people earning more money, they will spend more money. >> yes.. and ifou have industries wherere you raise the wage beyond what they can sustain, you get a loss of employment. it is a law of nature. the real problem is teenagers. 98% of people who work full-time make above the minimum wage. the problem is that those making the minimum wage, five out of six are teenagers. >> untrue. not so. >> disagreement here. >> it will not deter me. 22%, we have a 22% unemployment among teenagers. 36% among african-americican teenagers. we know y

. >>> and if the drone could bring it to me, i'd be happ numbers above average today. 56 goes in the books as the high. 41 is the low. that's the bargain. average is 51 and 36. you might remember, the record high 71. we'll come back and talk about 60s. showers, and a wintery mix. it's all on your first alert seven-day. >>> up next, the investigation into this weekend's deadly derailment in new york city is now focusing on the train's driver. we'll be back. >>> back with new information on sunday's train derailment. federal investigators haven't found any signs of trouble with the brakes. the national transportation safety board is saying it is inspecting the cars and interviewing crew members and they'll review any cell phone use by the engineer. as of tonight, the union official says the engineer caught himself nodding at the controls just before that train flew off the tracks. now the metro north commuter train was going 82 miles an hour and of course jumped the tracks on that sharp curve and four passengers were killed. >> well, no more having to scroll through lists to find out w

not much happ happening on the r there, but this is where all the action is in the mid-atlantic states and new england. the rain falling in new hampshire and maine, it goes from 60 in new york down to 34 in boston. there is that cold air slowly trying to push out. the warm air is here for one more day across philadelphia, washington, d.c. before that cold arctic air moves in. we have the ice storm warnings cruise new england but there is the snow watch across pennsylvania and western new york. you get that when the old care comes over the warmer waters of the great lakes. that's where we'll get the snow. the rain will continue today but it's gone tomorrow. tomorrow it's dry here in new york with a few light flurries, but look at the temperatures. that cold arctic air is here by tuesday and wednesday for the holidays. it will certainly feel like it should this time of year by wednesday, christmas morning there the temperatures are easing in the 20s and even the teens. flooding a problem today. it's not freezing or snow coming down. just a lot of rain. there is that heavy rain continuing

hide the bag >> reporter:notice there are about 5 bags there not inclucing the folded one , what is happeingpeople are getiing in line multiple times to get the free bags of food >> reporter:they carry back packs and suitcases so they can offload their ill gotten gaines and return in line then take out the unwanted items >> reporter:we have a lot of people here in san francisco that are really hungry and they could use that food but it get worse, some of the food will never make to anyones table .instead some will end up in a landfill see these ladies by the garbage can? well they are tossing what they don't need or can't sell here i'll show you multiple cans of food for the needy thrown away and if that not the purest example of people behaving badly i don't know what is >> reporter:in san francisco stanley roberts >> jacqueline: clear skies into tomorrow after the storm sweep through. went advisory for a number of locations. largely the higher terrain after midnight through tomorrow evening. went gust up to 60 mi. per hour. wind gusts >> jacqueline: sustained winds of up to 60 mi. per hour

. >> i don't think that's going to happ, lou. i don't. >> we'll take that as assurance and it's welcome. >> congressman, thank you. >> thank you so much. >>> up next, the tea party, well, they say that john bey ne declared war on them. we'll be talking with former republican national committee chairman mike duncan about john boehn boehner's job security and by the way, how is the war on coal going? not as well as the president might like. >>> the internet is having a lot of fun with the president after the president holding this card, encouraging young people to get covered with obamacare, because quote, nobody should go broke just because they get sick, end quote. it has been photo shopped dozen of times. it's a ubiquitous across the web. obamacare canceled the plan that you had and liked. and the national republican congressional committee, also, participating, creating a version with the president holding a card, reading hashtag don't worry. because i got a trillion coin to fix all this. the tea party isin an all-out war with

maybe jane could sell her treats from home, not going to happe john: they are worried about food safetye would do is eat pab lem that ister esterste steve fishe. >> they aw allowler to sell at farmer's market but not other places. >> if you want to sell your food, and people want to buy it, it should not matter whether it is a farmer's market or amazon.com. john: and at farmer's market she cannot make more than $5,000 a year in sales. >> that is $10 a week, you can have a job but you can't make more than $ 10 a week at it. john: he has interest from stores, job sites, special orde, catering jobs. >> can't do it legally this is what sma business entrepreneurs, not just food area, run into. this is why the institute for justice is fighting back. john: department of reaction i minnesota said we cannot comment because of the lawsuit. when you take these cases do you tell people like her, go ahead and sell it, or say, stoppuntil we win our case? >> usually we tell them you better stop until we win the case, if they are going to get in serious trouble. >> thank you, jeff rose. coming up, sant

how did that happ?e highly paid when you see a very distinct employees that oftentimes the comny is is a device to contribute more on behalf of ththose employees becse th do not want lose them. in this case. gerri: and uned airl pilots are southwest pilots that are well paid have good compensation of packages what was the savings plan and udi arabia of oil? thatwas another pan that was incredibly generous. they just love the company because they say it does a lot including putting a ton ofoney in that has been on the list i think every year since we started five years ago. then they decided to be so generous. %-those other plants.ut was there any surprises of companies that you expected to have good plans but were not sogerous? >> i have been watching apple for several years it a great company if you just held the stock for yourself you made money but the benefit will come in the form of other things outside of the tirement plan relative to google's ori am it is just n that generous gerri: that is fasci

i happ i know it isn't a fair question. >> i was in congress when we vote for the reauthorization and i voted against them. they didn't strike a balance between protecting our privacy and security. there were versions i voted for. it is hard to see how i would vote in 2011. but we have to find the balance and we need to continue our quest to strike it because i am not sure we have there. >> edward snowden, has he done the nation a favor? >> he is a trader. he has dramatically damaged our country and shouldn't be looked out as a patriot. he compromised national security and violated an oath he took and did serious damage in the united states of america. >> one of the terms you use, bipartisanship, in your presentation earlier, you talked about the dinners and things you do, but how do you maintain bipa bipa bipartsenship? >> the easy thing to do is default to our respective corners and dig in. as the chair of the democratic national committee, i support my party's agenda, but i recognize it can't be my way or the highway. we don't have enough people that believe that. so it is my respo

but just near the deadline, another sanction, assuressers not happ insuressers nothappy about that. >> shuj amount of fodder. the primary reason poll ratings have gone down. but at the same time he notes website problems are lessened. more and more people are signing up. i think critical constituency to look at are the insurance companies. they are in it for the money. they know particularly, they got to get a lot of young people to sign up or they're going to have to jack up folks' premium something fierce. there's a firm bedrock belief on his part guide what he acknowledged, he used the word screw up, is that in the long term to pull this off, ultimately it is better than the alternative which is an awful status quo that all of us know ultimately is simply too costly. >> we're going to take a closer look at obamacare, jim, michael glad to have you join us. >> thank you antonio. >>> sarah, she is in washington, d.c. tonight sarah great to have you with us. i loved your last article about all this. is it fair to say that the underlying message there was that it still is just total con

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the plane ta that happ is in. >> when it hit us, it was nothing. i felt a little bump.e when you run into a telephone pole backing up out of a parking place. but then we did 360-degree rolls in less than a second and a half. so that got my attention. >> hep and the pilot are the only two people in the plane as they spin wildly around and around, their plane becomes engulfed in flames. hep doesn't know the plane is on fire and critically damaged. >> i thought, oh, we lost control because he it tried to evade the weapon. i did not realize it had taken off the wing. i thought that we just needed to recover the airplane, and lost control a little bit. i thought, okay, we're good. we're going to fly it and land. >> as they continue their fiery spiral towards earth, his vision gets blurry. >> i could not see anything. all i could see was black and gray. i didn't realize at the time that our canopy had glazed over. it all crystallized and i didn't realize that we were on fire at that particular time. >> the plane slams into the ground. then a camera scans the sky and finds hep

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. >> yesterday was the last day of happ hanukkah. you have so many jobs at fox news. >> my one more thing, this is a huge ncaa college weekend championship week. check out these games. number one florida state versus duke, number 20. this one, number two, osu against michigan state. look for osu. and the big one, i think this is going to be the best game of the weekend, auburn against ohio tigers. both tigers. >> you need my predictions on that? >> shep is on the news deck. greg? >> a not cool cousy. buy my book. a couple days ago, i banned close proximity and replace it with nearby. turns out nearby is close proximity. instead of using nearby, use near or by, or close. >> you've become that guy that's selling cousies on your website? you should ban yourself. bob? you know how much wound up going to the victims? 10% and she made a profit on it. you're worth $40 million, why not give it all to them? thank you. >> she's got enough money, right. so this is celebrity revenge, justice. gwyneth paltrow went on a campaign e-mailing all her

. >>> this abc 7 sport report has been brought to you by orchard will happ -- >> right.. thank you. >>> join me at 9:00 on "coffee tv 20," cable channel 13. to the rescue. the man lifted to safety. the coast guard has a warning for anyone who steps foot in a kayak. >>> at 11:00, a treatment once reserved for sports superstars now using to treat hair loss. is it a fat or real fix? we'll have that at 11:00. >>> that's this edition of abc 7 news. this is "jeopardy!" introducing today's contestants -- a client-relations director from shelby township, michigan... a tax attorney from sacramento, california... and our returning champion, a writer and stay-at-home dad from asheville, north carolina... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! hey.s, johnny. hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to what we hope will be another great week here on "jeopardy!" good champion in steven. scott and maura -- two very good contestants. let's see how it works out. here we go. the jeopardy! round comes first, as always. and today, we have these categories. we're a little ea

. >> jim samison, what will happe? you see him staying there how long?if in fact he comes to new port academy, what is prescribed by the courts and psychologist is at least a year in treatment, and i really appreciate the comment about the fact two years in rehab, everyone can agree is better than two years in prison, right? >> i'm not saying it's better -- >> one could argue -- >> rather than punishment. if punishment, if you believe punishment should be part of this, as a lot of people do, they would argue it is not better. >> for any kid coming to us on probation, i mean, first of all, we have strict guidelines and rules. peep can people can't do what they want to when they want to. people have to follow the schedule and abide by guidelines. ethan, if he were to come to us, will have significant conditions placed upon him, not only by the court but new port academy. if he doesn't appreciate the opportunity he has and abide by those conditions, he'll lose that opportunity and we'll be responsible to report that to the court -- >> excellent. >> somebody

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did that were really quite terrible, but we did spend a good deal of time together, would not have happ i wish we could do another interview but i think he's beyond that stage. >> number four, were you ever embarrassed in an interview? do you have a moment you look back and go, oh, no? >> yeah, i do should have, could have, would have. why didn't sky that? why did i ask that? i know sometimes it boarders on going too far, but i try not to hurt. i'm not a cruel person, and there are ways of getting answers without just going boom. you can say what's the biggest misconception about you? you can start a question by saying, you know, there are those who say and you can get away with asking certain things. i'm not cruel. i feel differently, by the way, piers, about politicians. i am much more daring with a politician than i am with a celebrity. they are doing me a favor, the celebrity. >> number five, who would you most like to interview, you've never been able to get to? >> the pope has never done an interview, queen elizabeth has never done an interview and whoever is on the news at that m

. >> of course, great buzz around an happ like this often flames out. what she plans to do to stay in business and actually generate revenue. >> we're all about creating a platform for allowing women to capture classified and make searches of personal information. we started with relationships. so right now this is kind of our starting point. the goal is to move into multiple verticals. right now in relationships. we'll move into health, to beauty. pretty much all the topic that is women care about. >> now, liz and dave, chong wouldn't divulge financials but interest in advertise something hot. big brand and companies have already reached out to get advertising space but they don't offer any yet. so companies like burger king created product profiles so women can rate burgers like they do men. david: i'm not a piece of meat. liz: if men did this type of website they would be decried and people would have a fit. i mean, look i can fine. david: that's true. liz: no different than hot or not. david: men and piece of meat at burger king, that would create u

we happ we know the back end isn't build or isn't work.ing the plane works except the back 30-40%. it is possible they have to delay all of this. but prior to october 1, anyone who called for delay was called an racist and extremist and those same people are being blamed for sabotaging a website they have nothing to do with. when you say president obama is going to stop the bleeding, but i don't think it is going to work. >> gallop did polling numbers and what did they find among people that signed up or tried to? >> they are finding the people that are more informed about the law are far more likely to disapprove of the law. people that don't know about the law are split. there is reason to believe that the mer they learn about it, the less they like it. i don't think another 30 speeches from the president is going to change that. >> the event is at 2:30 this afternoon. >>> big part of the administration's obamacare fix focuses on the healthy 25-35-year-olds and the success is hanging on if we can get these people to sign up for that. we

i'm hopeful that something will happ happen.m not wrong. .> i think i would agree thank you very much. up the ever political turn to snap chat. > bono and peter gabriel are spotify. with ♪ >> in washington we talk about he white house p.r. push but what group is trying to get its chat.e across using snap we have more. this is interesting because it coke brothers who are involved. it calls themselves generation opportunity a conservative eaning organization and has received funding from the coke brothers. seen some of bly these creepy uncle sam videos rollout ng since the and demonizing big government but encouraging young people insurance to refuse to the up, to opt out of using healthcare is exchanges. tkpwpbgotten over five million views and they are chat. into snap this is the first one and disappeared after the first received it but it was posted on twitter. promoting ed a video the move mimic being the promo net he next season of the flick series "house of cards." events at anning colleges including the recent gegattailgate

another hour of "varney and company" happ we start by checking the big board, dow 27 points, tradinghat you have news from the fed. we will get to that later, big interview with the fed, david asman is here but we talk about the tech rally, stocks have been on an absolute tear. some wonder if this parabolic move is a yellow flag. what do you think? >> i was ready to go. you are a pro so you could reload. liz: that was charles's christmas present to you. >> what is happening with tech stocks is symbolic of most tech stocks. we talked about this and you have been on top of the rally from the get go. nobody in this building has been on top of this rally like you have but i am wondering if it is topping out. i don't know what you think of the we have a strange situation. the vix is down -- has a 12 handle, 12.78 as interest rates are up three basis points. when you have interest rates going up and the vix going down that is a situation that can't whacks and what is happening with tech -- charles: vix is -- they call it the fear engage. you are saying is too complacent. >> when interest r

when people talk, great things can happ. fully invested in you. wells fargo advisors. together we'll go far. stuart: elizabeth chan was with us to talk about how she quit her very good job to record a christmas album. you had a chance to listen to it. so here is your take on is this or is this not a christmas classic. and he said it was a fun video, the song was great. that is as far as he goes. very catchy, could be added to the list of songs but more of a holiday song rather than a holy day song. and carol says fun, not a classic. charles, time for you to pass judgment. charles: not a classic, but i'm a big fan of hers, hope she hits her goal. i really admired what she did. stuart: i said you would never recommend hewlett-packard. turns out i was wrong, you did like it. charles: i did it january 14, i was the first person on it. in january this company was supposed to go out of business. we took profits on march 15, made 29%, sold $22 i felt great. stuart: where were you on microsoft? charles: i missed it. stuart: he has a

. >> can you blame them given what happ happened? george howell for us in illinois. thank you. >>> now to this, we have this today. president obama has signed up for obamacare. apparently, all the way from hawaii. he's of course on vacation there. athena jones also there, not on vaxz, covering the president and first family. the president signed up for the bronze plan. what else are they telling us? >> hi, brooke. the president signed up for a plan via the washington d.c.'s health care exchange. he used the d.c.-run marketplace. he selected a bronze plan, an individual plan, so not a plan for the whole family. just a plan for himself. he has not yet paid for his premium, the white house says, but of course, they say he will. this is symbolic because the president already gets health insurance through the military. this is as part of his job. but the white house says he wanted to sign on as a show of support to these exchanges, to really set an example for all of these folks who really do need to sign on this week. certainly by tomorrow, in some states, a little longe

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