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yet, a year ago he had a decided advantage when people you think iso do better able to handle the biggest problems of the country. on that.big advantage today he is even with the republicans. gwen: where has he lost ground? policy matters? is it personal? likability? what is it? combination ofs things. he has lost ground on the question of competence because happened on the affordable care act. he has lost ground on again because of the affordable care act and some other things. at thehink that overall same time while people still like him more than dislike him, he has lost ground there, too. people don't think he -- fewer people think he is honest. fewer people think he is a strong leader. so i mean there has been a effect particularly through the fall and into this last month. no, the good news is he is worse today than he was in november. i mean he stabilized but at a point. >> i don't know what the opposite of a honeymoon is. to what mostompare two-term presidents are year in? almost, he is lower than every other president at this point in their presidency post ii except for richard n

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he iso said that receiving treatment for schizophrenia and that he had an attack while on stage.ictoria's secret fashion show was on cbs. while tv ratings were up last night, it was not the only screen you could watch. the first time, cbs offered a second screen experience. they synced audio to your ios devices. joining me now is the president of cbs interactive. it is a tough job. what kind of things were you able to see in the app? viewersund that 80% of have some other device with them while they're watching. we have been building tons of apps. you can see them on the grammys. you could do things when you sync up, like getting clips or taking quizzes. getting information or seeing sketches of clothing. you could see live cams with taylor swift and models. a lot of things that go along for super fans. >> how much work does it take? >> a lot. the first screen cannot fit all of the content. the second screen gives you that opportunity to repent these people who want to get more stuff around the show to see that. >> can you give us an idea of how much traffic there was on the app?

>> what wed iso. police will patrol the streets and look for people that may need help, and maybe not making their way into a homeless shelter. what we are heard is there is capacity for people, but sometimes they just don't find their way. there is a no camping rule here, as there is in many cities. when the weather is this cold, the city is active trying to get people into shelters because it is way too cold, too dangerous. >> yeah, what you often hear is people in this particular situation say it's safer on the streets than in the shelters. paul, appreciate it. let's be more on the weather in the west, now here is dave. >> yeah, the big issue here is this cold air that is pushed down from the north, and it is close to the surface, once you get further south. at first these temperatures -- these are the current readings, gusty winds but right about zero in north dakota, denver there the official reading at 7:00, further south, we get to 25 in oklahoma city, but just above freezing there in dallas. n

as they're expected to pick up that is a sign that the economy isoing well.ional numbers from the ml us have the country is not on . but november from october is down but you will see housing numbers are better them and this year. lou: the affordability index with mortgage interest rates appear to be headed higher moving up smartly with much higher numbers f that slowdown the market or will that be digested? >> if you looked at averages fed is still low 5% is still low we got in trouble cause we let everybody anybody could buy a home. lou: they are doing that again. some deals are still zo. lou: but it is still done. >> them right now fannie and freddie are too strict so the good news is you cann buy as much as you would. lou: is there a deaf inventory? >> there is not. lou: we have too little problems. >> also the pent-up demand and the scare of the interest rates goingp before spring but honestly as people of the decade equity they can move up and move out. lou: we hope sooner rather than later. stay with us the often frosty relationship between obama and v

way as been a buckle your seat belt and whiplashed day between unchanged and higher or lower but the iso number was the only weak number, it was not that week. 0 little weaker than expected and we rallied off of it so again i have been talking about a glass half full and this is the first day of trading that i have seen positive news translated to negative profits and that is -- liz: people looking at the equity land and today was a day where good news and bad news yet to margot doesn't stop. we at the huge flow of news. what are traders expecting? >> good news from dean street, bad news from wall street. the news has been good. good auto sales, so everyone is waiting for friday. gdp, friday is a big day, the jobs number, we will get that. we are watching that like the previous guest mentioned, ten year, is that 282 right now all so it is picking up. remember when we got three last summer, that was enough to stop any kicking. liz: you have been dying to talk, $91 a barrel suddenly proved it is gone. a week or two and now more like 97, the opec meeting, we know what that is as well as wha

right now isoing hour long conversations c-span doesd on long span conversations any more.u and charlie rose are the books the way i read books to talk to the authors seriously. don't get many people who have actually read books and no are talking about what page notes. i get a great deal of of an authorout who says, in fact the best compliment is that is the best comment i had on this book tour. latest by charles krauthammer. i like radio. abundance ofs an time and i can do a bunch of things. sunday night on c-span's q&a. >> tonight on c-span -- >> a year in review looks at the agencyl security surveillance programs followed by the series on first ladies with a look at the life and of bess truman. then a discussion on the healthcare law as coverage for some on january 1. watching c-span's 2013 review. some of the most significant revealations about u.s. national methods,surveillance leaked documents by former edward snowdenor unveiled a widea

or some populations in asia, what they found in spain was this den iso van d.n.a. >> it is literally just the end bone of a pinky, and we would know nothing at all about what that bone was like, it's not like we used a pinky bone as our indicator of evolution, but out of that bone, we now have 3 billion base pairs of d.n.a., the whole atory of this individual's ancestry from this tiny bone. in the spanish specimen, 400,000 years ago, so far, we only have a little part of the d.n.a., but the technology has evolved to the point where we're going to have more of that very soon. >> we're going to be seeing more and more old d.n.a. because of the new methods? >> yeah, basically as you die and your body degrades, so does your d.n.a., broken down into tiny bits over time. today's sequencing technology which was not developed for us, for medicine and for understanding jeanettes is basically built on the idea of sequencing little tiny bits of the genome. we are able to use those techniques and added vans them to a certain degree, doing a tremendous job developing new library prep techniques t

so we're preparing the helipad by getting the team to stomp down on the snow and iso the chinese helicopter from snow dragon can reach us when the weather improves. >> the weather conditions are not expected to get better till at least one more day. in the meantime, it the crew has marked the spot in the ice where the chopper can land. once it does, it will transport 12 people at a time to a chinese ice breaker. then a barge will ferry them from the ice breaker to another ship from australia. it the stranded research ship, the academic shah cal ski had set out to study climate change in antarctica and anretrace the steps of douglas mawson who studied life on the continent a century ago but they got stucking in ice. >> really thick. lots of years. lots of years worth of growth. you think we're in trouble here. >> since christmas, three separate ice breaker ships have tried and failed to cut a path to the research vessel. once the rescue does happen, a skeleton crew will be left behind, but for most of the 74 people marooned, this is antarctic ordeal may soon be coming to an end. >> we're kee

have had this area of low pressure and an area of high pressure circumlitting clockwise here so the iso bars which shows the pressure difference creates the winds. we have high fire danger. the high pressure will stick around the pick and that will give us above normal temps all week. highs today will minutely be in the 60s. 69. you can tie this record in san jose. your high there. and san francisco 63. oakland 65 today. so very comfortable with lots of sunshine. here is a look at the percent of normal in terms of rainfall. as of yesterday, the lowest rainfall percent of normal is santa rosa and ukiah 15%, san jose at 33%. and a look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. plenty of sunshine. no rain in sight. here's a look at temperatures mainly in the 60s. just a slight dip on tuesday. but still very comfortable for new year's eve into the new year's day. more clouds into next weekend, but still looking pretty dry. abc7 news has another grit weather resource for you. follow@livedoppler7hd on twitter for the latest conditions rain or shine. get video forecasts, spare the air alerts, pow

person who helped rid the country of apartheid and led the nation in the first democratic government iso more. >> just a few feet away from where mandela passed away thursday night in a johannesburg ighborhood, a huge mountain of flows is being laid by his friends, the people of this coun country, as they come here to pray, to mourn, to celebrate, to express their feelings. >> as you can see, the nation is is mourning. we've lost a big hero. >> did a lot. >> meant a lot. >> for everyone. >> when mandela was -- still a baby and now, i'm here with my baby and we're experiencinging this time for us. >> now comes a long week of memorials. it is billed the biggest funeral of the century. on tuesday, there will be a massive event at the soccer stadium. in attendance, president obama and former president george bush. also, presidents clinton and carter. mandela's body will lie in state for three days and then he will be buried next sunday in his home village. bu buried, but certainlily not forgotten. >> greg, thanks for that. and later in the program, our exclusive interview with pik botha, a t

but iso do think people are huny because there is so much of the other. there is so much smut out there. there is so much crass material. when people see a message of o hope and they startth to see the biblical stories which are truly amazing, it makes them feel good. they're hungry for it and they're not getting it in the schools. they're not getting it in elementary schools up to university. so they're searching foror so something bigger. in my one more thing, i talkg about the keys to happiness. one of the keys is values. that's lacking in society. when people see it in front of them, they're very encouraged and flock to it. also they'll be doing a sequel of "the bible" announced just last week because it broke records, 100 million viewers.o that's coming out in 2015.bibl i find it interesting that in this country, we have to go to australia or other countries toi find real manly men actors like russell crowe and mel gibson, "the passion of the christ," whe are we going to cast now?oin jonah hill? >> they're not here. >> there is a lot of the other and

. >> brown: mzamo man gal iso let me ask you the same question, a kind of mythical question but also a man, a fighter, a politician. >> yes, in fact growing up in south africa i'm a product of miners and grew up in the townships of south africa, in a time when things were really dire, mandela was a symbol of hope for us. even though we hardly ever saw him. because his images were banned from the country. and when people spoke about him, they spoke in whispers when we grew up. but you know, through all the dark period that we're going through, we knew that there is a whole, because of this man will stand for equity, justice. we'll speak for south africa as belonging to all who live in it. and so that gave us the inspiration to keep, you know, toiling along knowing that at the end we might be rewarded. >> brown: charles villa-vicencio the politician, the leader, as we sit here now, where did he succeed? where he did not achieve all the people hoped for? >> so many tributes are being paid to mr. mandla as a great leader, and that he was. he is a great leader. in: -- what is a great lead

but muniz i was have the right to prove that the costs are low and showed the iso a big installed apply because they can get more cheaply. >> thank you. mr. norris, your tesla described any changes are sometimes occurring throughout the country. the power production use and delivery landscape. i'm particularly interested in the challenge that our successes with energy efficiency, demanding management and renewables are presenting to the traditional economic models for utilities. the success of demand management is a good story but companies do not increase profits by turning out less of the major product. so how are we going to provide a continued and sent to seek more efficiency and data management of demand if these goals further erode utilities ability to earn profits? >> well, congressman, a lot of those determinations are made at the state level with retail regulation. what we've been doing at ferc is i make sure there's access to the markets for different new technologies that enable the responsive energy efficiency. you see it in the pjm market and a huge increase in demand respo

iso believe personally china to in the old imperial methodology that made the country adopted back inwhich does not work right now. it is not only hindering our relationship but with other countries stop that are realizing the negative consequences. japanese corporations have declined considerably knowing the risks in china. that would have a profound negative long-term relationship for china. for that reason, gradually, they are backing off and waiting for mitigation like the united states. >> thank you so much for all of that analysis. turning to technology. technology countries have called on president obama and congress -- onose greater surveillance. >> they want to governments not just the u.s. government to change the way they carry out their electronic surveillance programs. of theiggest -- eight biggest companies have signed a letter to president obama and congress that will go in the papers today. they have done this before. the difference is they are more angry. it is a populist tone. that are more specific. one thing they want is to limit the government authority to collect

good news for investors that can differentiate, and this is what it is absolutely key as you look iso these sorts of technical dislocation also create value. names higher up in the capital structure that are really well anchored and yet are trading at ratios to taxable bonds that are very attractive. they are mostly geos in strong states. >> peter? >> i just want to get mohammed's take on one other thing. does the fact that they cut this eel and assuming it passes the u.s. senate, does that mean it takes a little bit more pressure off the fed? do they have more reason to taper? >> yes. they pointed to two things when they surprised everybody in september. one were the fiscal uncertainties, which were high, he,two was a still selfish -- sluggish economy. things have improved on both .ronts we put the probability of them tapering tomorrow somewhere between 50-50 and 60-40. by march, it is almost a done deal that they would have started tapering by then. the question is, what else do they do? that is what the market has not priced in fully. what else can a company taper decision. >> some

that isoes look like happening.eally believe that even if you were to cut interest rates to negative, that would have a big impact. -- again,ably will be the market doesn't view him as having a strong hand. theink they're waiting for dollar to strengthen. really what draghi needs more than anything is that. >> in 2014, you will have a huge ecb andy between the the bank of japan doing everything to keep monetary policy loose. >> the fed have been so dovish. where the bank of japan stepping up qed, the fed doing less but still doing it and perhaps the most dovish bank of england is a central bank of new zealand. get to the end of 2014 it becomes easy to see which of the central banks can hike next. orl it be sweden, norway even canada? canada has become much more dovish. much of the data has not been that bad. perhaps the market has got to variations of the canadian dollar. by the end of next year could be turning. >> what about the bank of england? that we have had unemployment come down to 7.4%. we know forward guid

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according to "wall street journal," this could mean china's largest telco could start to offer isos on its network to 700 million subscribers. it could potentially draw a larger custoday. it's competitor gained 0.25% in china telecom. back to you, ross. >> thanks very much for that, sixuan. carl icahn announcing a tweet that he would submit a proon posal to apple shareholders for a 50 billion buyback program. that's lan than the 150 become buyback program he was previously pushing for. >>> well, we have heard from the japanese economic minister, amari, it was he's been with early stage tongue cancer. he's offered to resign, but the prime minister has refused his request. he remains in the post while getting treatment. that came out at the same time that the government has laid out the latest details of its 5.5 trillion yen stimulus package. >> apple has reached a deal with the world's most used mobile carrier to report cell phones. it comes a day after china mobile offered a 4g license. neither company is confirming the news and china mobile is telling cnbc a deal is still in progress.

follows the battalion of the 16th industry -- 16th infantry sunday night on c-span's "q&a." , this isothe v.a. now the last panel. this is about 45 minutes. >> this'll be our final count today. we welcome mr. tom murphy, director compensation service the veterans benefit administration, all so this sub one of the regional office. we also welcome sondra mccauley, deputy assistant general for audit evaluations of the office of inspector general department of veterans affairs. ms. mccauley is accompanied that mr. brent arronte, director of san diego benefit inspections division. we appreciate your attendance today. complete amid statements will be in the hearing record. mr. murphy, you're now recognized for five minutes. >> chairman runyan, ranking member tightness, thank you for providing me the opportunity to discuss va policies and procedures for adjudicating complex disability claims. the company today by ms. edna macdonald of the regional office. the vba continues to express an increasing number complexity number complexity of regional issues you between 2011 and 2013, the average nu

but they always have the right to prove that the costs are lower and they show the iso they can do it more cheaply. >> you describe the man describy changes that are simultaneously occurring throughout the country as a power production use and to deliver the landscape. particularly interested in the challenge that our success with energy efficiency, demand management and renewables are presenting to the traditional economic models for utilities. the demand management is a good story for the companies to increase profits by selling less of their major product. so how are we going to provide a continued incentive to seek more efficiencies and better management of demand if the goals further erode the utilities ability to earn profits? >> well, congressman a lot of those determinations are made at the retail regulation. what we have been doing it ferc is make sure there is access to the markets for different technologies that enable the response and energy efficiency. you see it in the market in the demand response capability for that in the marketplace. the different regions in the coun

the midwest iso volunteer market is considerably newer than we thought it might be difficult to do them all in one day. there is no reason we watch in the future look at other places as well as the need arises. >> okay. a foot electric generating assets have a lifespan of 42 back 60 years. before a capacity markets organize the spam market typically operate the years ahead. lafleur and mr. norris, do you agree there's a fundamental mismatch between the investment recovery profile of electric generating assets in the way merchant markets are structured? and deeply ferc has a role to play in addressing this problem? mr. north first. in vacuuming capacity market? >> yap. >> yeah, there is a disconnect. they are designed to make shooters adequate resources to be that for the long-term future. some current capacity constructs were largely put in place to provide a revenue stream for generators are not being restructuring areas. there's been a cushion of time for that play out. we reach into the cushion now. we've got to look at capacity markets and play a role in structuring them so long-ter

to me it isoe -- unconstitutional. is a series of protocols we had to go through to get that information. the information they are talking about was used for targets. there was a -- you to throw out a big net doesn't make sense to me. host: jesse is from michigan. caller: good morning. pleased to get in on this topic. it is mind-boggling to me. and sayan call up you've got nothing to hide. host: you have to keep talking to me. go ahead. caller: yeah. we are already in a police state. the police can pull you over for anything. host: cassidy is up next. please turn down your televisions. that lets the conversation go on smoothly. cassidy from kentucky. caller: to the individual who said let them snoop, i like my privacy rights and i like the constitution. i think it is ignorant that he said that. host: what do you think about the decision? caller: i think it is a good decision. i wish more people would be involved and get educated. host: the president meeting today with several tech leaders in washington to a dress issue

. >> good morning. 8:56 iso.+u$e time.r plans. want to show you san francisco. 45ing d degrees right now. beautiful, clear start to the day. that wind has provided much better air quality for the bay area. as a result, we are not sparing the air for today. temperatures are going to end up in the upper 60s. have a great day. >>> from nbc news, this is "today's" take with al roker, natalie morales and willie geist live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> there it is. check it off the list. welcome to "today" on monday morning, december the 30th, 2013. the second-to-lastay of the year. i'm willie geist. natalie is off, but look who's back. >> just keeping your seat warm, natalie. >> in the house, the great brooke shields. al, by the way, is in pasadena gearing up for the tournament of roses parade. we'll check in with him in just a few minutes. how are you? >> good. >> you look festive. >> i'm still trying to keep in the spirit. >> it's all working. speaking of the festive spirit. >> okay, here it comes. >> do you care if

>> oh, iso. i mean, the two have nothing to do with each other.ald regan for six years who used to take a lot of time and go to santa barbara. the white house and problems travel with you. they need to get something done to fix obama care, no question about that. where the president is when they do that, i don't think that matters. >> chris, when the president gave his news conference, all of us were watching. what kept coming out to me is that he has plans for doing something in january, making changes when he comes back. what kind of changes do you think he was alluding to? would it be a change in some of his cab by net members like kathleen sebelius who has drawn a lot of fire because of the rollout of healthcare.gov and are there other people that you're thinking he might be looking at? >> well, i've got to say, kelly, it struck me the way it struck you. he was talking about health care and he said, look, we need to make some adjustments. i think that was the word he used. you know, after we get through the deadlines and the surge and people s