last week, the city renamed the park speedway to helman hollow. he was 77 years old. >>> a fund-raiser is scheduled for the family of a fallen officer. vallejo police officer jim kapoot was shot and killed last month while chasing a bank robbery suspect. 37-year-old henry albert smith remains by hind bars without bail accused of killing the officer. the contra costa county peace officers aliiance will hold a fund-raiser for the family at 5:00 at skipalena's pizza. we'll be there and will have a report on ur6 -- on our 6:00 p.m. newsroom. >>> hanging in the balance, the payroll tax, which will go up on january 1st without congressional option. laying -- raising taxes for an estimated 160 million americans. jennifer davis is in washington to explain why the bill won't pass the house. >> the house will be in order. >> reporter: the u.s. house is back in session this week to consider the senate passed payroll tax compromise bill. and john boehner is making it clear, that version is dead on arrival in the house. the house speaker said both chambers nee

wonderful staff and friends of warren helman, thank you very much.is the first commission i have appeared before committees that sure for me to come before you at the invitation of the special resolution. i want to count myself as a friend of warren hellman, but to also know officially that i come before you in support of this resolution to change the name of speedway meadow and to consider it to be renamed in his honor as warren hollow, and i know that warren would greatly appreciate this. but i, as a citizen of this city, in my capacity as mayor, want to do what i could to at least present a token of our appreciation for what warren has done for our city. as presented already, maybe not in the best musical voice -- [laughter] but certainly with the great spirit that i feel and our citizens feel -- gino, warren has done such wonderful things. he has been a great citizen. we know him, of course, most recently, as the one that has been a big creator of the partly stricken bluegrass, that wonderful concert, not only with the best of music, but it is up

helman. >>> 7:37. some bay area drivers did not get the message to refrain from drinking an driving during the holidays. a crackdown netted 49 peel. more than half were arrested at a checkpoint or during roving patrols. 18 other people were arrested yesterday in a countywide dui sweep. >>> a rohnert park man is behind bars after he tried to run over an officer after being stopped on suspicion of drink and driving. police say plain clothes officers were conducting an investigation at a bowling alley saturday night when they saw omar perez leaving the building and getting into his car. officers say he appeared intoxicated. an officer called for a car car to stop -- for a car to stop per red. he backed up and tried to hit the officer with his vehicle. the officer was not hurt. he ordered perez out of the car and took him into custody. >>> two people accused of collecting money in a holiday bell ringer scam are now facing felony charges. the two were arrested outside of a walmart in modesto. they used a sa

is about 14 years ago, my wife and i were walking on west marin bijan we ran into warren and chris helman, and we set down on the sand dune and talked about how lucky we were to be in part of this country -- in this part of the country. warren lived at his watch and said i have to go, and i asked why, how could he leave paradise on a saturday afternoon, and he said i am giving a talk to a community group about san francisco, and i have to be there by 6:00. and i thought, who else on a saturday would volunteer to take his time to speak about his passions for the city to the group who was a nonprofit and lead -- just spread the joy and word of how he viewed the city and how much he saw the future of its blossoming and what could be done? i say that before i make some other comments that are more for the record. he has helped many causes, philanthropic, arts, cultural, education. he has shown a particular interest in golden gate park. for 11 years, he has funded and performed at hartley's strictly bluegrass festival. the festival brings 750,000 people from around the bay area, the country, a

. >>> a medicallial service this afternoon for warren helman. the billionaire philanthropist died sunday at the age of 77 after a battle with leukemia. today's public service will be held beginning at 1:00. >>> today is the 8th spare the air day. so far this season. it's temperaturing to burn wood this time of year, noel. >> reporter: it is. i can see my breath. a warm fire sounds so great until you think of the fine associated with it. eight spare the air days since december 1st. we had four spare the air days in all of last year. the timing is a bit of a bummer, because i know a lot of people want to gather around the fire during the holidays, but those wood burning fireplaces are the worst contributors for the unhealthy air, that combined with the dry weather that we've had. there are 1.7 million fireplaces in the bay area, and you can imagine that the people who sell firewood are doing a brisk business with this cold weather. the problem is that they cannot use that firewood but once every three days, about, with these spare the air days tha

helman voiced concern in the political arena criticizing other financiers for their greed and pushing issues in the last election. he died tonight over complications of leukemia at the age of 57. >>> all american combat troops are out of iraq bringing an end to the u.s. led war there. claudine wong reports. >> reporter: as the gates along the border of iraq and kuwait soldiers shook hands and closed a final chapter on a war that lasted almost nine years. >> the stealing of a nation, it really does. to see what we've accomplished in the 9-1/2 years and to be a part of the movement out of iraq is hard to put wards to it right now. >> reporter: there were approximately 100 mostly u.s. military armoured vehicles and 500 u.s. troops in this final tactical road march. the convoy trundeled along the border which housed 100,000 american troops. for iraqis there were many emotions. >> this is a jubilant moment. we feel like we own the country now. >> iraq's future is primarily up to iraq. just as it has been for several years and as we've seen in other countries that we've left, sometimes frie

if you are building a school where it is relatively secure and building a school in helman in where it is less secure. both have stabilizing activities like the development -- i think usaid is very proud of the work it has done together with the military in trying to work in communities that have been so affected by conflict. and the goal is not just to support the military per se. it is to support those communities in being able to come out of conflict and be able to consolidate the gains and security because i do believe there's a critical relationship between insecurity and a lack of development. in answer to the broader question, it really goes back to this question of building resilience. i believe that afghanistan because of its history over the last 30 years. reconciliation in afghanistan is not just talking with one group or another group. it hinges upon a broader social process. and that requires having a more inclusive political process. it requires sharing of the development around the country. includes providing people with a sufficient provision of a better future that the

we reached out to another expert on hiv/aids, nicholas helman.told us that there's essentially no risk to the rest of the student population, which is why there's no reason to exclude this individual from school. tonight the milton hershey school is standing by its decision. they told us that we understand that the risks presented by an hiv-positive individual who is on medication are low. taking into account these factors including the fact that we would be prohibited by law from forming the community of the young man's hiv status, we concluded that the risk was significant and rose to the level of safety of others. our first obligation is to protect the students already in our care. if that student ultimately had sexual relations o another student we believe we would have failed in meeting our obligation. a lawsuit filed against the milton hershey school claimed that it violated the americans with disabilities act by turning this boy away. joining me is a disability rights attorney and children's advocate. >> thank you for having me. >> based o

. >> there can't be more remote piece of property on god's plant than helman pro sflins afghanistan butelp or hurt? >> i think it helps tremendously. to have daily contact. in most cases, everybody has that ability and great way to keep up your motivation and spirit. >> after all these casualties, so many of these tough engagements, so many kids now. one-year-old and his wife is pregnant. getting paid what most people consider substandard wages, how do you keep up morale? >> when we take up to be marines we know what comes with the job. we're happy to do it. we're proud to do it. we're part of something that is worthwhile. that brotherhood and being faithful to our brothers and sisters. it's really important. that is what keeps us fighting strong. >>> christmas music, a tradition for many holes, now the number one selling christmas group of all time with more than 30 million albums sold. has a new homeland manhe im. here is founder and composes all the music and built something elvis presley was the highest selling christmas person of all time. how did you do it, the side door of the mu

>>pam: he was a giant in bay area finance and philanthropy, loren -- warren helman died at 77 years old funded so many events, he founded the san francisco free health clinic ran by his daughter. he supported much more. he was a remarkable and kind man that was committed to his family and his community. he died with complications tied to kenya.--he died from complications with leukemia. >>jacqueline: temperatures are starting to cool down into the 40 that half moon bay, 50 in navato, 52 in oakland, 57 down in san jose and is expected to get a lot cooler overnight. and we haven't area of drive pressure and we have a little bit of cloud coverage out there tonight into tomorrow morning. mainly high clouds, that is that a big deal. we have holiday travel plans to go to the mountains, you will not have a problem getting up there at least driving. now taken a decision forecast of the next few days. we have mostly sunny conditions through the next few days. the temperatures are seasonally warmer and we will talk more about travel forecast at a look your extended forecast coming up. >>pam: heav

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joining me from washington is james helman of politico.morning, james. >> good morning, alec. >> let's talk newt gingrich. is it good or bad for the gingrich campaign? does he have more direct control over his message, or is he stretched to thin? >> it's really bad. in the long term. this is going to be a drawn out nomination battle. he's up against a juger nut in mitt romney's campaign. he has a massive staff. he has a huge organization. he has lots of strategists. in some ways he's running this guerrilla campaign. but when it comes to a long-haul campaign it doesn't work. you can see it in missouri. this week mitt romney's campaign rolled out 39 new endorsements from missouri politicians, meanwhile, newt gingrich didn't get on the ballot because they forgot to file the paperwork. so ultimately it's nice to run a guerrilla campaign. but mitt romney has a huge advantage strategically? >> do you think he'll have more money to work with, get more donations? is it inevitable he's going to grow his campaign staff? >> it is inevitable. he's bri