and also join g ing us is the founder of the organization uniting and organizing latina entreprene entrepreneurs. good to see you both. >> you, too. >> and i recently hosted a panel of venture capitalists, and we spent as much time to talk to people why not to take investors and getting people to invest in the company, and we were writing notes at the same time so i'm interested in what you think. >> well with, this is a myth, because i have been around the venture capital industry and angel capital for 30 years and i have never met a single one of the people who is have put up the money who wants control of the company. nobody does. they want you to hit the business plan. when you don't, somebody tries to come in to make business of the whole thing and that is when you can lose control. >> well, she is not really ready for the money yet. i related to her and she is going to be successful. when you come from a minority background as i have, and you do work around the pain. her mother said to her, don't sell this. and she has a little shame about it growing up, just like i did of the kid of immig

there's good equivalence between the traditional hand wash ing and use of the sanitizer. part of the cdc's take three flu prevepgs as well. hand wash e -- flu prevention as well. hand washing takes different approach. get times to get vak db vaccination. take prescription antiviral medications if your doctor prescribes it. >> we've we have about a minute and 15 seconds left and i want to get another quick question in here. my daughter goes, don't touch that rail on that escalator, it's the filthiest thing known to mankind. there are all sorts of things that you can say are the single filthiest. i know people who will wipe their hands off and that towel they will use to open the door with. at what point do we take this to an insane level? >> that's why it becomes important to wash your hands frequently. after the routine things you do -- keeping your hands away from your face, your eyes nose, mouth because transmitting from your hands to other places is the way diseases can spread. hand washing is very vital. we have to assume that everything we touch could transmit germs.

. >> thank as lot for joining us. ing on ga over to you. >> thank -- olga, over to you. >> thank you. >> great gifts. maybe if you're going out shopping, you'll want to take the coat because you'll need it. >> absolutely. we're already getting that rain moving in in portions of warrenton, frederick and also toward hagerstown. the rest of us we're about to get some as well. it's creeping up toward the beltway. temperatures are on the cool side. 30s and 40s for this morning. that's going to be the case for the next couple of hours but things will improve as the rain tapers off in the afternoon. on satellite and radar, you can see where the moisture is coming from. our winds so far this morning are predominantly south. that's going to turn a little bit toward the southwest as we head toward the afternoon. but still the cloud cover sticks around as well as that moisture. overall, though, the day planner does start off with the overcast skies. those who have dry pavement now will see a little bit of wet pavement later. that's

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they're not going to let their shelves go empty or they're ing to say look, we won't use cargo ships, we'll bring it over by air freight. for cryg out loud they're going to adapt. the unions missed the b boat on this one, so to speak. >> brenda: but there's a price to that contingcy plan, last word? >> yeah, there is. for the president to add anher 80 days on to this, but let's miss the pot, striking because automation is taking their jobs. they should talk to the gas lamp lighting union. >> brenda: that's got to be the last word. okay, tnk you guys. and thanks to steve and jim for joining us today. we appreciate it. up next, the gang is on the hot seat their best and yes, worst calls in 2012 and see how you can still profit from the good, bad and ugly. put down the noise makers and pick up moneymakers, it's a new years party, bulls and bears style. the one stock that could doubleour money in 2013. [beep] [indistinct chatter] [kids talking at once] [speaking foreign language] [heart beating] [hartbeat continues] [faint singing] [heartbeat, musiclaying louder] ♪ i'm feeling better sinc

. >> thank you for including us in "culturewire." ♪ ing please call the role. >> director bridget. >>rinkman? >> present. >> director heinicke is anticipated. director lee? >> present. >> director nolan? present. rib key present. mr. chairman, directors, you have a quorum. announcement of produce sound producing devices during the meeting please be advised the ringing of cell phones, pagers and other similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. any person responsible for one going off in the meeting may be asked to leave the room. and please know that cell phones that are put on the vibrate position do cause microphone interference so the board respectfully request they be placed in the off tion position. full approval of the minutes of november 20, 2012 regular meeting. >> motion. >> second. >> all in favor say aye? >> aye. >> so ordered. >> item 5, communications. >> okay. ms. boomer, on this one, members of the board, because there are two issues today there are not going to be a whole lot of people. what i'd like to do is to begin with asking a questio

opposition advances, in particular on hemascus, that the regime might very well consider the use of chemical weapons. ing eporter: monitoring of syrian basis like this one has picked up evidence engineers have loaded the chemicals which combine to form the deadly nerve agent sarin, into bombs that could be dropped airplanes. satellites have seen trucks moving among want bunkers where the weapons and agents are believed to be stored. u.s. officials say the evidence is strong but circumstantial, not definitive. but that, combined with fighting in the suburbs of damascus, has led to fears of what the assad regime might do. if it feels cornered. we asked jeffrey white, a former analyst for the defense intelligence agency, what would happen if the rebels cut off damascus? >> it's the end of the regime. the regime can hang on for a while because it has troops in the city. it has ammunition and supplies and so on but it means the city will fall. it cannot stand alone. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence does not believe damascus is likely to fall right away, but ikete had an estimate. b you can feel it. you can sens

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ing cliff. fine. let's just go. just leave the negotiating table and send us over the cliff. because you know why? at least for a few seconds it will feel like we're flying. (laughter and applause) we'll be right back. úáé!é!é!é!&íki÷z÷z-a >> jon: hey, welcome back! i hope you know the 2012 election was in large part a fight over demographics. the republicans taking pains even if at their convention to highlight the gender and ethnic diversity their party has traditionally done so well disguising. (laughter) and yet they lost. for some reason-- self-deportation-- president obama won a clear majority. -- the country half moochers-- (laughter) of over non-white group. even amongst women. vaginas repel rape sperm. (laughter) romney somehow lost by 11 points. it's a fact republicans can't ignore if they want to win back the white house in two thousand and ever. (laughter) no band-aid solutions. g.o.p. can't just throw in a free pedicure every mandatory ultrasound and call it a day. we're talking about making a real place for minorities and women in a modern republican party and i think the republican

i didn't know if he was go ing to turn around and shoot at us, you know. i didn't know what he was going to do. he came in to clackamas mall with a big rifle. he could have done anything. >> do you have any sense of how many shots you heard ? >> oh, yeah, i sat there and as i was running i stopped. i heard at least five, at least five at that moment of time before pi made it out the door. >> were you able to get out quickly? >> oh, yeah. i was gone. i was running like adrien peterson from the vikings. >> austin, i appreciate you talking to us. i urge you to call the clackamas county sheriffs department because they would very much want to talk to you. appreciate you taking the time and glad you were able to get out of there okay. thank you, austin. >> thank you so much. >> joining us is a former police officer and security consultant lou palumbo. again, in a case like this, often times eyewitness testimony can be wrong, it can be mistaken. we are trying to talk to as many people and piece this together. but it is interesting the number of people we have he

and we thank you for the world's support, calling, e-mail ing, texting their love and their commitment to be one with usthem, lord, take the passion that each one has and transform it totally, completely into your spirit of compassion. and we ask this all, amen, amen. >> newtown is a place that loved children, above all. families moved to newtown because we are a caring and loving community. we are also a place that has great pride in our schools, pid that propels the students in those schools with their outstanding teachers and administrators to high achievement and great personal worth. the horror that was visited upon our sandy hook school was not deserved. it is the angry and desperate act of a confused young man. there is no blame to be laid on us but there is a great burden and a great challenge that we emerge whole, that these families devastated by unspeakable harm know and trust that we love them and will do everything we can to help them heal. i know that newtown will prevail, that we will not fall to acts of violence. it is a defining moment for our town but it does not define us. we are newt

that is what is being used to buy back the guns. >> i'm going in ing to have to the whole foods now. want to support them. because there is a very clear sense of corporate responsibility. compare that with the gun manufacturers and this is the kind of action that we want to support. >> dick's sporting goods took these weapons off their shelves. the gun industry has sat back and watched video games be blamed. they market product placement to sell more guns. >> karen, you are still doing martin this week right? >> you are are filling in? karen, is she still miked? >> yes, i am. got one more day. >> you think you are going to have big news to report tomorrow? >> somehow i don't think so. karen let me explain something to you. you want to say yes. there will be huge news. >> i'm going to be watching you for huge news about what happens in the white house tomorrow. >> coming up, there will be my prediction of who will win the senate seat in massachusetts. i am ready to pick a whipper in that race. tweet me your guess s. you ckacan tweet your guess s at who will win the race. the guys in t

and they've begun post ing videos of criminals in action hoping the public can provide new leads. elizabeth cook shows us it is already working. >> reporter: before day, folks at home had to wait to see surveillance videos from crimes on the local new. now sfpd is hoping the public will become crime fighters by using this website. >> reporter: take a look at this. surveillance video of a violent robbery on polk street in the tenderloin. >> he's approaching the victim, and then he begins to stun him with a stun gun. >> reporter: the guy goes on to shock the victim multiple times. he even shoved him against a fence and shocked him one last time before taking his cellphone. >> ever been robbed? >> yes. >> reporter: we showed a picture of the suspect to leon. >> i've seen this guy around the neighborhood. >> reporter: leon lives near the crime scene and says the suspect is a regular around the neighborhood. >> i see him maybe once or twice a week in front of my house. and this is ridiculous. >> we have had a total of over 1,700 cellphone robberies. >> reporter: it's the kind of reaction sfpd is hoping for wi

inging diving. they have send text messages as long as they use a method last hands free. opponents say hands free texting still draws attention away from the law. >>> among other laws that will go into effect carbon monoxide detectives have to be installed in condos and apartments along with smoke detectors. >>> businesses and schools can't demand people share their social media information. >>> school officials and coaches must report is theed child sexual abuse. >>> testing of self-driving cars will be allowed on california roads. >>> a lot of people planning on drinking on news year's eve. you hear it every year, don't drink and drive. for the fire works in san francisco cal train has free rides beginning at 11:00 p.m. with later service only for southbound trains. uni will offer free rides. for -- all light rail is free. there will be extended hours. the bart will not offer free rides but extend service to 3:00 a.m. to people can stay out. >>> coming up, one last look at this morning's top stories. intlsz the con -- >> the confetti is already falling in nu falling --

ing what is presented to congress as a hole. for usw a conclusion this close to the cliff is inappropriate at least from my perspective. >>neil: congressman, why have to draw conclusions, there will be this vote on the separate measure and harry reid said it is dead on arrival. if that is not kabuki theater c, know what is. >>guest: there will be a series of votes between now and the end of the year. >>neil: will they get a deal by the end of the year? ing i help so. i hope we find a deal that starts talking first with the spending reform and control that is necessary. i would love to continue the conversation of controlling spending, a conversation that could have legs under from my perspective but we will wait to see what the president and the speaker presents the next few days. >>neil: post election a lot of people have criticized how republicans grabs defeat from what looks like the views of victory and the rap against the party it is as i mentioned earlier, the old white man party and minorities are not invited or the party is not

ask your doctor about cialis for daily use and a 30-tablet free trial. >>> public policy pole ing whicost accurate organizations is back in the spotlight tonight. showing 51% of illinois voters say they would support michelle obama for a run in the seat formerly held by her husband in the senate. 60% of illinois voters say they have a favorable view of the first lady just 33%. democratic congressman said he would love her to run. she is exactly what we need around here. the president and first lady were asked about running for office on the view before the election. >> she should run for office but says she doesn't want to. >> i -- [ applause ] >> look, michelle would be terrific. but temper mentally, i don't think that -- >> it is true. it takes a lot of patience to be the president of the united states. and i'm not that patient. you know, i am not. >> joining me now is anna marie cox. 51% where michelle obama is polling now is higher than where hillary clinton is polling the first time where they ran polls on her in new york. and then she went down to 42. it is michelle's if she want

well, you know, to the delight of arnold, to the delight of us, and of course all of arnie's army. the manager of ingether matches and exhibitions all over the world. we traveled together, laughed together, play together and remained close friends. whether it was oakmont or many other times we competed, arnold always treated me as a competitor, but more importantly as a friend. i am honored to still call him a dear friend 50 years later. we have competed in numerous events. everything from majors to endorsements, a golf course design, you name it. we have competed. but i promise you, if there was ever a problem, i knew arnold had my back and i knew i had his. that is an arnold palmer i will never forget. arnold palmer was the every day man's hero. from a modest upbringing, arnold embodied the hard- working strength of america. arnold is one of the game's all-time greatest competitors, and he came along when golf needed him most. he played a game we could all appreciate. people love when he played from the rough, not like they did come up but they could only dream they could recover like he did. when

gusting 20 to 25 and in the mountains to the west, gusting to 35 or 40 ing to be b clearing skies, breezy and cold there setting usp for a descent day tomorrow o. chilly side, 39 the daytime high tomorrow with winds here in the northwest, gusting to 25 and going to the redskins game. the temperatures falling back into the low 30s at game time and that will be chilly there. there is the accuweather seven- day forecast, and some highlights here, first night activities, monday night and tuesday look quiet and there will be some clouds and some snow or rain showers during the day on tuesday and that is not a big deal and much of the week, the temperatures at 2013 and we're quiet. maybe a storm there at the end of the week. >> all right, thank you. >> uh-huh. >>> and lawmakers in washington work to avoid the fiscal cliff, some are having fun with the looming deadline. check out the electric road sign in portland, oregon. someone hacked it and changed it to read fiscal cliff ahead, january and february. >>> we'll hear from robert griffin on the eve of the biggest nfl game. that is robert griffin 3, thank you very much,

prop up asset prices to avoid a deflationary to leverage ing that is so painful so that's another commonly given reason now with first said to us sort of you are new to just how the thought when the fed makes future announcements someone from capital account should be in the press gallery to ask questions well with first another dear viewers have i got news for you take a look at this let me roll some video see that redhead in the background looking very astute as our own segment producer just steen underhill she wasn't called on this time to ask her question but just you wait we will keep sending her until she gets a question in. and in response to our discussion with eric sprott earlier this week for britain stallion's said why so nice to eric sprott and so incredibly rude and disrespectful to peter schiff who was a guest we had on last week. i do not know what people think would be disrespectful or rude about my interview with peter schiff it was a very fair interview yes we asked peter about his calls for hyperinflation because they have not materialized the way that it seemed to us that he had indicated in the past and we

and republicans look like -- i'm worried are in the position offiof ing -- looking as fe the don't care about middle class. >> joining us is the sage of capitol hill, boat shoe enthusiast and celebrity doppelganger, nbc's luke russert. >> good day. happy monday. >> thank you, luke. it's an exciting time on capitol hill my friend. i want to focus first on the gop. is the party coming together, coalescing around something, anything, relating to the fiscal cliff? >> well, i think they're coalescing around anything it's for speaker boehner to continue the negotiations and not give a single inch. the gop has done very well over the last few years is in the negotiations with president obama. they've held a hard line to the very end including during the debt limit where john boehner is allowed to say he got 98% of what he wanted. what you have to look for is the splinter that tom cole started last week, heard mr. chris toll say about how the president has an effective bully pulpit he can go around the country and say 98% of americans with a tax cut under my plan, trying to save it for the rich. republicans are coalescing aroun

ing there. during this trip panetta mentioned the threat of syria using chemical weapons against their own peopleave diminished. >>> we're learning more about why nelson mandela is in the hospital. he is suffering from a recurring lung infection but is responding to treatment. mandela, 4 years old, has been in the hospital since saturday. >>> the australian radio station that aired a prank on the london nurse says it will make a major donation to her family. the station says it will give all of its advertising revenue for the rest of the year to a fund for the lady found dead just days after taking the call. she was tricked into thinking she was speaking to the queen who wanted information on kate, duchess of cambridge. >>> the second wib winner of the whopping powerball jackpot has been identified. he's 37 years old, matthew good lives in a phoenix suburb. sorry, ladies, he's married. the associated press says good took the one-time payout, $192 million last week. he apparently told lottery officials he was afraid to claim it next year because of the fiscal cliff and there might be higher taxes.

. >>> heartbreaki ing images heren newtown, connecticut, as we continue our special coverage. soledad o'brien is with us this hour and she'll be with us next hour, as well. we're watching what is going on awaiting the president of the united states. he'll be coming here in a few hours for an interfaith vigil that will be taking place. >>> meanwhile, a somber candlelight vigil because held last night to begin the healing, if that is at all possible. i sat down with the reverend matthew crevin. >> both of you, rabbi and reverend, you have been spending time with family members. >> it is the worst tragedy that i've seen in my life and very hard to console a parent that just discovered that their children were amongst the victims. >> reverend, you met with parents who lost kids. >> yes. well, we were both there yesterday in the firehouse with the families during that whole process. and it was just indescribable in terms of the grief and the waiting and trying to be present to them and also to many of the folks that emergency services and police officers sxu s and o who were just feeling the loss and the sor

she is being treated with anti-co-ing a lantz to resolve the clot which was found in her head. with us to discuss the case, nbc news chief science and health correspondent bob bazell. good to see you, bob. when we talked last night, what you said was we were missing a critical piece of information, which is where is the clot, and it's in the vein situated in the space between the brain and the skull behind the right ear. what can you tell us? >> this is a vein that drains blood from the brain into the central circulation system. the danger with it, because it's so close to the brain, is that if the clot were to grow, it could go inside the brain and become a stroke. that didn't happen according to the doctors. it's appropriate to treat this kind of clot with anti-coagulant therapy. one of the things everybody was talking about before was usually when somebody has a concussion, they get a blood clot called a subdural hematoma and that cannot be treated with that therapy because it presents certain dangers. because this is in a vein outside the brain it can be treated. it's a fairly rare

joining us now, consumer reports managing editoror autos. i love the year here and we're inguse man, oh, man, they tout these cars as gre is green can be. >> we are seeing them all over the weekend. football games, 47, 47, 47. it's an impressive number. the cars did very good mileage and on tests, but they are not hitting that. tracy: will lead the hitting? >> so we're seeg is about 37 and 38 mpg overall. almost ten less than represented for the fusion. again, these are still stellar numbers. the for fusion hybrid is the top sedan in the testing for fuel economy, bested the tenth tee but toyota camry hybrid. but in our real-world test or we drive the cars on the road and leader of the fuel that we use, we are seeing mileage that is much less than those 47-mile per gallon overall numbers. tracy:till great, but it's not what their advertising. i think that's really important that people understand. you're seeing you see this and other cars a well. toyota, honda, but that were just off the mark. >> we have done, 80 percent of the cars we test we hit the same tool number that the

that's partly what strikes us as such a heinous act is that what children are safer ing to schl than they are out of school or before school. schools have been and continue to be a safe haven. they do it by, just as we heard, by providing routines. morning meeting time. and giving people the... and giving children the opportunity to talk about what they're worried about. so i would imagine... i know that many teachers, probably more likely starting in the thrd grade, but have a moment to take the lead of their students and to ask them, have you heard anything about what happened at sandy hook this weekend? and what was it like for you? and sometimes hopefully many teachers have the support of other people, like school counselors, school psychologis psychologists, social workers, the p.e. teacher, so that they had the support so they weren't by themselves while they were havg wt metimes can be a painful discussion with students because students sometimes are going to ask us the questions that we as a nation don't know the answer to. why? why did this happen? what will we do as adults

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ing assad not to engage in chemical warfare. turkish officials have said they believe syria has 700 missiles, some of them long range. syria has not confirmed it has chemical weapons insisting it would never use anything like that against its own people. in the latest fighting rebels are said to be battling government troops near assad's headquarters in damascus. seran is the same gas used in the 1995 terrorist attacks in the tokyo metro system. the united states has warned syria using chemical weapons would trigger greater western intervention in this civil war there. >>> also making news this evening witnesses are explaining why no one pulled a man to safety after he was thrown in front of an oncoming train in new york monday. aen is in that subway murder is now -- a suspect in that subway murder is now in custody. >> police managed to catch the suspect after reviewing surveillance video from businesses near the subway station and saw him speaking with street vendors right after that subway push of investigators originally put out information to us the suspect had dreadlocks, but police think he may have shaved his head to avoid arrest. you'll see that. we're also learning what may have spa

yes, the leading ing of this -- leading edge of this latest storm already beginning to bring us scattered showers. with the strongest wind coming this afternoon. temperatures upper 30s to low 40s right now. low 50s for the second half of our day. it will be cool, it will be cloudy, wet, windy. scattered showers tapering off tomorrow and then we will be dry thursday, friday, increasing clouds and a slight chance for perhaps a few sprinkles on saturday. >> it's christmas. >> play with the inside toys. >> the bikes a little later. >> okay. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> that's our report for this morning. thank you for trusting ktvu news. we'll see you the next time the news breaks. >> thanks for watching.

ing. that is how i feel. [laughter] he can even get up. we love joe flacco. >> my goodness. i think joe has a sense of humor. oh, my goodness. 5:25. 50 degrees at the airport. >> usingconcern to take control. reigniting gun debate in d.c. >> what howard county schools are doing in response to the sandy hook shooting. >> we will let you know what to expect for the rest of the day. >> we have more information onc1 >> you're watching wbal-tv 11. live, local, late-breaking. this is 11 news today at 5:00 a.m. >> good morning. i'm stan stovall. >> and i'm mindy basara. [laughter] >> i'm thinking that joe probably watches us in the morning. [laughter] >> like crashing through. >> that would be go. >> thanks for joining us for 11 news today. >> i feel like that sometimes when i blow a forecast. >> he is going to bounce back. >> let's talk about the weather. d start.other mile sta there will be a friend going through. -- there will be a front going through. it would change big time by the time we get into the weekend. winter will be back . >> we have an accident eastbound at 100 at arundel mills boulevard. two right lanes are blocked and that is causing a bit of a delay. oth

have any leverage with regard to what we're ing right now with the fiscal cliff but he has a lot of leverage with the debt ceiling. i hope he doesn't choose to use it by leveraging the futh, faith and credit of the united states to gain political points but if he chooses to use the debt ceiling as a way to do entitlement reform and long-term spending cuts, that's a way, probably in february he can get that done. that might bring people along. >> congressman, i want to point out to the people watching you were one of the members of congress during your tenure, you returned one million dollars unspent office funds back to the treasury. i don't know many members of congress to do that i forget you being a florida state grad. most of my friends are gators. >> sorry to hear about that. adam: all seriousness, congress right now, as you depart has a reputation that is at the bottom. i could use all kinds of negative adjectives to describe it. i don't need to tell you. how does congress get the respect it needs to govern back after this craziness which is still not played out, and who gets the blame for this? >> well, understand, that congress is made u

ing back in britain, the iraq war buildup. and we had almost exactly the same pattern. bad guy has chemical weapons about to use them on his people. we have to do something. turned out to be a lot of twadle. how do we know this intelligence is true? >> i suppose we don't know. there's a lot of reporting, true or false. i don't know as much as nick does on this tropic. there's a lot of reporting, these chemical, weapons of mass destruction, came in the early 2000s. 2003, 2004, with the assistance of the russians. i can't verify that. that's being reported. i talked to jim miklaszewski from nbc tonight at the top of our show on cnbc. i asked him specifically because of the president's red-line doctrine. is there any movement of these weapons? i agree with what nick said. they've been there. and they've been attached. was there any movement? movement would be a very dangerous thing. >> what did he say? >> he said no, not yet. movement implies we're going to send in an aircraft in to help them. >> the red line has been specifically drawn. if assad tries to use chemical weapons on his people, america will answer. tw