you gotta taste this soup. of green giant vegetables it's easy to eat like a giant... ♪ and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho horeen giant >>> welcome back on this friday. taking a live look at the u.s. capitol dome this morning. you can't really tell from this picture but i can tell you because i've been outside already, it is pretty chilly to start your day. that is what we get when we have our annual stuff a truck food drive for the most part. fox 5 has teamed one with the capital area food bank. you can drop off donations at the following giant food stores on your screen right now. twelve other giant stores will also be accepting donations. beginning in our 6:00 hour, wisdom martin and holly morris will be live from two of those locations as well. gwen, what are they going to expect? we've seen it in the teens. >> i've been out there. i always go where is the warm tent. cold but a good cause. we hope people will come out and support it. weather conditions if you are coming out, you might want to dress warm. it won't be quite as cold as it was yesterday but not quite as warm as the day before. a little bit o

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you gotta taste this soup. of green giant vegetables it's easy to eat like a giant... ♪ and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho horeen giant . >>> the wizards tried to end a six-game skid and history was made last night during the falcons-lions game. dave ross, i saw it! >> you saw history? >> i saw history. >> we'll get to the history, because it involves one of your guys from the great state of mississippi. but it's the holidays. we try to be positive. but with the wizards, they have been rather scrooge-like this season, missing the fans and even their head coach who is at a loss for words to try to explain their play. after losing friday night in detroit by 32 points, the pistons came calling again last night. but this time in dc. would the result be different? the wizards only scored 13 points in the first quarter. second quarter, down by 17. crawford from behind the back. wizards down 19 at the break. crawford had a game-high 21. third quarter, wizards trying to rally. nene, you like him? fourth quarter, this sums up the season. bradley beal loses the ball, hits the deck. wizards -- no love here. they lose a

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and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho ho ♪ green giant >>> good morning, everybody. thomas roberts. topping the agenda today president obama mays malalo to hawaii and aloha to washington, d.c. heading back and we're now six days and counting until the country sees the business end of the economic brink and taxes going up for all americans. so far, there's been no call for the house to get back to the hill. senators return to the capitol tomorrow. the question remains krks the president join congress and surf the rough political waters to get a deal in time? >> i think he's doing all he can and calving hell at the same time and there's give, give. i think it's very, very difficult, particularly after boehner's plan "b" failed. >> the key issue i think and the american people are catching on is that the problem that we have is we have a right wing political figure in the house way, way, way out of touch of what the american people are thinking. >>> there's early economic sinls that the uncertainty over the cliff may have clayed the role of scrooge this holiday season. e

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your money needs an ally. of green giant vegetables it's easy to eat like a giant... ♪ and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho ho ♪ lou: 31 days until the fiscal clef, the threat of sequestration largely being ignored. automatic spending cuts to the tune of 1 trillion over ten years, half coming from our defense budget. joining me now to discuss the impact on our military, nestle security, we are joined by hammer and -- admiral james lyons. they to have you back with us. your thoughts on the impact of sequestration is, indeed, it goes into affect year. >> in the words of the secretary of defense, leon panetta, this will be a disaster. what the obama administration is doing is unilaterally reducing the military capability of our forces. this is at a time when we have china with its massive force expansion, building a world capable force projection capability. we have the russians modernizing the russian forces. we still have the iranian problem totally unresolved, north korea always a flashpoint. look at the middle east. anything far from being settled there. and let me take that navy as an example, which will be

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you gotta taste this soup. of green giant vegetables it's easy to eat like a giant... ♪ and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho hoant >>> here are five things to know before you go: number one, two chp officers recovering after flipping their patrol car during a high speed chase on i-580 near livermore. they were chasing a speeding driver at north flynn when they flipped they suffered minor injuries. >> number two, work resumes in lafayette to fix a gaping sinkhole near mount diablo boulevard, gas, water and suer service have been cut off. -- >>> number three, moments ago the u.s. supreme court posted -- saying no act has been taken the justices were expected to announce whether they will review the legality of prop 8. this means the high court will consider the issue at a future conference in the coming weeks. >>> number four, white hill middle schooljmxz in fairfax closed due to storm damage. >> number five, one of mysteries of be unlobbed in san francisco this morning when nasa reveal -- reveals what mars rover discovered in soil sample. scientists call the discovery historic and will announce it at 9:00 in sa

you gotta taste this soup. of green giant vegetables it's easy to eat like a giant... ♪ and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho ho new at 10:00, tonight we're seeing a whole new side of 49ers tight end vernon davis. matt keller is in san jose where davis is showing off his new art work at his new gallery. >> reporter: right now inside gallery 35 is by invitation only. he brought friends. 49ers teammates goldson and alex smith showed up for the grand opening of the new charity venture gallery 85. >> have you ever been to any other football player art gallery openings before? >> this is definitely a first. we're here to support him. >> he goes a long way not just on the field, off the field as well. of course i had to be here to support him. >> reporter: some of his acrylic on canvas paintings on display. >> basically vernon used paint to express his inner feelings and if you look around you, these are all vernon's paintings. >> reporter: gallery 35 is the culmination of vernon's love for art and his charity. >> i was afraid to be an artist so to reach out to these kids and let them know it's okay, it's safe to be

you gotta taste this soup. of green giant vegetables it's easy to eat like a giant... ♪ and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho hovening, i'm ama daetz. in tonight's headlines it's already been a violent weekend in oakland. a man was shot to death in broad daylight. the city's third homicide in two days. san francisco police are looking for five men suspected in a home invasion. 6:00 30 this evening the men broke into the home, stole a number of items. they were gone by the time police arrived. >> in concord, strong chemical smell forced the closure of a food max story on monument boulevard. people were treated for burning eyes and breathing problems. no word on what caused the smell. >>> south korean rap sensation psi, famous for his viral video gun national style but is now facing anger over a 2004 performance of a song against the iraq war. here's the story. reporter: all this controversial gangnam style. long before his youtube hit sparked a nationwide dance craze, he performed as a politically charged concert in 2004 with antiamerican sentiment running high after a korean missionary was killed in iraq. psi j

you gotta taste this soup. of green giant vegetables it's easy to eat like a giant... ♪ and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho hoen giant >>> an american man is heading back home to his family after he was held hostage for months in mexico. dominick dinatali is home. >> johnny is chained as a dog to his bunk bed. that's one of the arresting images. the mexicans surprised everyone and released him on friday. his father is driving him across the country to their home in florida. they are expected to arrive christmas eve. he spent the night in brownsville, texas, just across the board from where he has been health. during his detention, he received threats by drug cartel members and endure the inhumane living conditions including being chained to his bet. his mother says that he suffers from a cough. he suffers from ptsd. >> he is innocent. we've always said it. and the mexican system proved that. however, down in the next stage, you will see that there should be modifications to some laws and some things because this should not have happened. >> reporter: the release did not come about because of the pressure from

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you gotta taste this soup. of green giant vegetables it's easy to eat like a giant... ♪ and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho horeen giant . >>> welcome back, time now 5:11, a production team has been released after being held captive for five days. this is foreign correspondent richard engel. they were freed after a gun battle at a checkpoint. richard speaks flaunt arabic and thinks they were loyal to the government. >> their teenage daughter was forced into prostitution. prosecutors say they murdered calvin snead in june after learning their daughter may have been working as a prostitute for him. they found his car in the bay view neighborhood. two other people are also charged in the case. >>> a preliminary hearing is being held for a man who performed cosmetic surgery without a license. they received treatment from carlos guzman at the mission district and those procedures included face lifts and hyposuction and he has also been charged with sexual assault. >>> there are signs of a breakthrough in the fiscal cliff negotiations. from the washington d.c. newsroom, it seems like both sides are moving towards c

you gotta taste this soup. of green giant vegetables it's easy to eat like a giant... ♪ and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho hoen giant >>> nearly 2400 americans were killed and almost 1200 injured in the japanese attack that pulled the united states into world war ii. more than 2,000 people are expected to attend a ceremony at pearl harbor today actually moment of silence is planned for 7:55:00 a.m. local time marking the moment the bombing began. >>> the united states is sending ships to the korean peninsula to monitor any rocket launch by north korea. but they will have to extra time. new satellite images show snow may have slowed the launch preparations. north korea has promised to test ate rocket sometime in the next company of weeks. >>> the details of this next story are disturbing. in massachusetts, a horrific case of child sexual abuse at a day care. the day care owner's husband is accused of sexually assaulting dozens of children at that day care center. 49-year-old john burbine is accused of abusing the children, ages eight days old to three years old. police say they found hours of video of him com

you gotta taste this soup. of green giant vegetables it's easy to eat like a giant... ♪ and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho horeen giant >>> connecticuting coverage now of last friday's school massacre in connecticut. today family and friends said good-bye to four more children and two brave adults. the victims who were laid to rest today and tells us what one high school in the area is doing and why the media has been asked to stay away. >> reporter: processions of sorrow for victims of the sandy hook school shooting continuing. >> we haven't had to look too far to find sadness. we're finding it again today. >> reporter: mourners saying a final farewell to victoria soto. the 27-year-old is believed to have died trying to protect her students by hiding them in a closet. >> she was a beautiful person and she made the ultimate sacrifice. something that i don't think a lot of people could have done. >> reporter: hundreds of mourners also paying respects to school principal dawn hochsprung. the first person to be killed by gunman adam lanza. four more children remembered today. charlotte bacon, caroline pre carol

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you gotta taste this soup. of green giant vegetables it's easy to eat like a giant... ♪ and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho hoeen giant >>> there's a happy ending tonight to a dog napping case. a man from sacramento has been reunited with his yorkie. the dog napping brought an entire neighborhood together. >> welcome back. >> reporter: she may be tiny but her absence left a big home in this potrero neighborhood. >> the worse feeling imaginable. it was like this isn't true. >> reporter: robert runkel recalls his dispair when he realized his miniature yorkie lola was stolen when thieves smashed his car window. >> the days she was gone, i just layed in best most of the day. >> reporter: if news also rattled neighbors many of whom own dogs themselves. >> all i thought immediately is what would i have done if somebody stole my dog trouser. you would want everybody you every met to jump in and help. >> reporter: tracy moon printed these oversized fliers. she everyone threw in her own money $3,000 for a reward. moon says runkel who goes to dialysis three times a week and recently learned she had lymphoma could not h

click or call. of green giant vegetables it's easy to eat like a giant... ♪ and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho ho giant >>> welcome back to "hardball." the president has made clear he wants a deal. but just how will a deal get done? joining me from the hill is nbc's kelly o'donnell. kelly, i've heard a lot about the house bill going from one to senate and getting amended. is this a smoke screen? or is there some legislative need to use the vehicle that's been passed. >> well, being this the eyes glazed over for a moment, you're dealing with something that is about essentially taxes. and the constitutions and the laws make it so that it's a requirement that originate in the house of representatives. one of the challenges beyond the political arguments and the handshakes dial deal making that we hope will happen over the next few days, there are the mechanics of getting it done and getting it done in time. now, i'm always surprised by procedure that there is a way to pull a rabbit out of a hat when they have an agreement. but there are steps that need to be taken. will they allow for debate? the bi

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