we said jane wanted to be on the board of examiners, so we put her there. next, we looked back henry, who applied for the access of appeals commission for the contractor seat, and henry is the contractor and has been a contractor since the 1970's. we put henry to the access appeal commission, and everybody else that was an incumbent to the other seeds, we decided to leave them there. i think there was only one other open seat, and he was president of the commission at that time. finally, we went down to the code advisory committee and learned that there was now an opening for the residential builders seek and residential contract seat and a major contractor seat, so we look at the two applicants, and they were chained o'reilly and -- shane o'reilly and tony lau, and they seemed to fit into those seeds really well. so that is how we arrived here. we try not to duplicate, meaning we did not want to put the same person in a table we will committees. we thought we should keep everybody having one duty, so we did not find any duplications for every person that w

joining me now are jane hampshire founder of firedoglake.com. adam green, co-founder of the progressive change committee. ezra klein, columnist for "the washington post" and karen finish ne, former commune kalgss director for the democratic national committee. let's all listen to what robert gibbs will to say today. >> the framework that the president introduced a little more than a week ago has, as you heard others say, has been changed to add the energy tax credits that were important to the president and a number of democrats. so i think the senate's going to pass that and that's going to be the basis of which the house takes up that legislation. obviously, we think it's also the basis for what will become the agreement that the president will sign. >> ezra, is this going to be easy, as robert gibbs is trying to make it sound? >> nothing's ever easy. what the house wants to do, actually, is vote on the tax. they want to take that out and bring it back to '09 levels instead of where it is now in the compromise, which is 5 million exemption, 35

i would whip out my dick and jane. see jane run. run, he endured that. he allowed me to read to him. i had no idea in other families the adults read to children. in my house, children read to the adults. imagine the confidence they gave me in my readings. i loved to read out loud. enjoyed it immensely. so i would read dick and jane all the way up to julius caesar. when i came to a word difficult, he would say work with it little sister. he wouldn't jump in and tell me. he would let me work it out so i did. i learned to jump into words. that built my confidence, grandmother and ggrandfather were from the old school. i can remember

i would whip out my dick and jane. see jane run. run, he endured that. he allowed me to read to him. i had no idea in other families the adults read to children. in my house, children read to the adults. imagine the confidence they gave me in my readings. i loved to read out loud. enjoyed it immensely. so i would read dick and jane all the way up to julius caesar. when i came to a word difficult, he would say work with it little sister. he wouldn't jump in and tell me. he would let me work it out so i did. i learned to jump into words. that built my confidence, grandmother and ggrandfather were from the old school. i can remember borrowing $25 from my grandmother. i was taking out my checkbook to pay her. she said no, darling, don't give me a little piece of paper. what did i give you. i said a 20 and a 5. so bring me that. they went to the light company and paid their light bills. they went to the department store and paid whatever. they went there once or twice a week to take care of business. the process of going through things, my grandmother would t

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jane. >> hello, eric, theresa. job number out this morning surprising and disapointing. 39,000 jobs created in the u.s. last month. we were expecting 150,000.150,0 that was the average estimate. some people maybe 200,000 jobs created last month. falling way short of that. the unemployment rate inched up to 9.8%. that's the highest we've seen since april. we found government, manufacturing losing jobs during the month of november. here's how the markets are cree acting to this. the dow down about 9 or 10 points. s & p and nasdaq modestly lower. the silicon valley index trading a little higher. gaining is a safe play. this jobs report coming in very, very weak. so that's gonna pump more money into the economy. gold features trading 1400 dollars an ounce for the first time ever. >> j. p. morgan chase facing a lawsuit claiming the bank aided and embedded the imprisoned madoff fraud. the madoff funds from investors, speaking of fees more than 5.5 billion in damages from chase. anything recovered from chase will return t

live at the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king, bloomberg news. >> jane, thank you very much. great day. >> thanks. >> we're going to talk about some weather because things are changing once again. >> you'll notice it this morning. no profit to be found and a beautiful sunrise. >> where's the choir, man! >> let there be light. >> i'll let you two do that. >> oh, no you won't! >> not today. maybe later after some lessons possibly. 6:49 this morning. that's a gorgeous picture and the clouds are dropping rain but nowhere near our neighborhoods. live doppler 7 hd zoomed out to give you an idea where this system is. let's draw the stationary front. because it is a stationary front it's not moving. expect the bulk of the rain to stay with the front to our north. possibly during the afternoon hours it will start to move a little to the south and could bring us some light rain in the north bay. until then enjoy the mild conditions this morning. we still have san francisco and oakland and los gatos in the upper 40s. medical records, near 40. gilroy 44 but warmer, 46 in salinas. afterno

i'm jane king, bloomberg news. >> jane, thank you so much. tomorrow. >> okay. >> more news at 6:50. a deal in the works on capitol hill this morning to extend the bush era tax cuts and restore benefits to those out of work a long time. but his compromised plan to add trillions to the national debt. it's not a matter of the bush air -- or if the bush era tax cuts are extended but how long they'll be in place. democrats don't like it. they tried and failed in the senate this weekend to exempt high earners from the tax breaks. >> they're demanding that the wealthiest americans get a tax cut that is 1,000 times the size of the average american. >> i think it's pretty clear now taxes are not going up on anybody in the middle of this recession. >> if tax cuts are extended to the richest americans, unemployment benefits should be extended to millions out of work. >> let's get a check of our forecast with meteorologist mike nicco. good morning. >> good morning. looking better and better if you don't like the rain or like to puddle jump in your car. >

he gets a mortified look, and he says on the picture, to jane, sorry i farted.s a great saprano and had gaven up a scholarship to be mrs. mickey mantle. she called him my beloved. and her friends said she never gave up the hope they would live together under the same roof. it was a tormented marriage, and

it's a segue. >> jane, see you later. have a great weekend. rain falls here in the bay area, the snow is already coming down in the sierra. live from blue canyon with more. >> good morning, eric. pretty cold out here, about 27 degrees. the snow coming down gently but this is the calm before the storm, the problem being with all the snow that's to come, several feet weighing down trees like this one that's been wet throughout the years, coming down on lines and poles. so power outages expected tomorrow when winds are expected to gust up to 100 mph. right now since about 4:00 this morning that's what you get right in front of you there. about an inch of snow and that is it. that's the conditions out here. traveling is just fine. no major accidents to speak of. back to you, eric. >> all right, natalie. thank you very much. stay dry up there and stay warm. >> it's hard. doesn't that look pretty wet. looked like heavy, wet snow. >> half dollar size flakes. a lot of water in that. that's that heart attack snow because shovelling that can kill ya lit

jane, could you stand up, please? jane chaired this meeting. this meeting adopted a resolution unanimously, which said that we here assembled call upon the recreation and park commission to allow hanc to continue to operate. >> next speaker, richard. there is another one. ok. michelle? dennis, kelvin. >> commissioners, my name is dennis. i am a native san franciscan. if the recycling center is closed, before you establish a location in the same zone, you are out of compliance with state law. since the rpd has no park land recycling program, we urge you to partner youhanc -- urge you to partner with hanc. rpd does not have the funds to operate its facilities. it wants to shut down a recycling operation that helps recycled refuse -- recycle refuse. there are complaints about homeless people, not about a need for community gardens. we urge you to delay any eviction. [tone] don't end it. amend it. >>

live at the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king, bloomberg news. >> where do you think jane is on list? we'll talk about that later. (laughter) >> i'm still workin'! >> thank you very much. only for the love of it. >> uh-huh. well, we've certainly had a wealth of precipitation. later in the week, too? >> five out of seven days rain in the bay area. the embarcadero, 6:51, about a tenth of an inch has fallen in san francisco. right now a little lull on live doppler 7 hd across the north bay where we had over a quarter inch. there's your latest radar returns and you can see another wave creeping through the marin county coast only to spread over your neighborhood in the next hour or so. let's head farther to the south and east. you can see the east bay looking pretty quiet other than a few radar returns there around black hawk and then down in the south bay. that's where we have the best radar returns. some light rain on all of your major arteries. watch out for that. going to be slick everywhere this morning. temperatures mild in the mid to upper 50s. around the monterey bay, low to

live from the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king. jenelle, back to you. >> thanks, jane.py new year. see you next year. >> thanks. >> there's a video making the rounds on youtube.com that film critic roger ebert says should win an oscar. ♪ >> it's a three and a half minute clip of one man's view of the blizzard in new york city this week. jamie stuart shot it, edited it and e-mailed it to ebert. he was so impressed he shared it with readers on his chicago sun times blog claiming this film deserves to win the academy award for best live action short subject. it is the last day of 2010. let's take a look at our forecast with lisa. >> starting out really cold. that's nothing new but the rain in time for the new year. gorgeous out there. sunshine, a clear shot out there from our roof camera. and, boy, we need a lot of that sunshine to warm us up. really not gonna happen. a cold air mass has settled in the past couple days and that has allowed for the numbers to stay cool. the winds are light. 30 napa, 31 santa rosa. good morning, novato. 32 for you. 40 mountain view. a few mo

i'm jane king. >> jane, thank you so much. have a great thursday.you tomorrow. >> more news for you right now. roseville a 17-year-old boy has turned himself in for a restaurant prank that went terribly wrong. david was working at a drive-through window when the teen ordered a hot spinach dish and then threw it back at him. it left him with second degree burns and possible permanent scars. it was apparently one of those fire in the hole pranks in which people record themselves throwing today or drinks at drive-through clerks and post the video online. in this case police say the teen could face felony charges. >> time now 6:57. a lot going on in the weather today. showers, what else? >> eric wants the kitchen sink, too. >> throw that in there, too. >> i don't want much, you know. typhoon -- i'm kidding! i'm kidding! how about some dry weather. >> when's that coming? >> for the weekend. we have to get this to get there. here's sfo. eric, what kind of plane is that? (laughter) >> very nice. >> a 737-800. >> there you go. >> keeping him on hi toes. he'

i'm jane king. >> my god!pe you don't have the rudolph red nose on your plate, too. >> i was hoping you wouldn't go there. >> didn't want to go there! >> thanks, jane, for the picture of reindeer nose. appreciate it. 6:48 our time now. kaiser permanente is hoping to revamp its medical center. it wants to add parking spaces and build a new emergency room. hearings about the project will be held early next year. >> santa claus fired by macy's has a new gig today at an old san francisco restaurant. toomey had been chris crinkle for 20 years and was dumped last week after a couple complained about a risque joke he used for grown up ins for years. >> they came and sat on my knee. i said have you been good this year. oh, yes, santa. i said, well, that's too bad. >> yesterday lucky o'dual's owner offered a job and a raise. >> exciting. straight through to christmas from 3:00 to 8 p.m. >> i was quite touched that nick would want to offer an old broken down santa a job. >> macy's says it cannot comment because it's a p

thank you, jane. >> we have certain stories we could tell. it is 19 degrees on tv hill. we will check your morning commute with traffic and weather together. >> don't forget to e-mail us your response to our water cooler question of the day. who do you think "time" magazine should name its 2010 person of the year? you can share your response at wbaltv.com, and on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> the ravens go for my monday night game on the road too late sunday afternoon game at home. it is going to be cold weather. vince go from facing a team with a losing record to the defending super bowl champions, the new orleans saints. joe flacco and the offense will have their hands full. if the ravens -- things should improve across the board. the defense had such a second- half collapse. they just ran at of gas. they were exhausted. texas told full advantage. the ravens came away with the overtime win. they also can what with a clear idea that they need more big lson like the joed wils wi game winner to put away the game. >> when we get up l

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in blue canyon, california, i'm nick janes. >> the skiers and snowboarders, too. >>> tracy, the wind may have died down in the mountains but not down here. >> no. you're right. it is still gusty out there. let's take a look at those winds. oakland, winds gusting as high as 38 miles an hour. also looking at some decent wind gusts at sfo. that was at the top of the hour. 43. inverness at 38 and foster city near the san mateo bridge, 63. that is since midnight. that's not been within the past 2 to 3 hours. look at sustained winds. 47 miles per hour? yeah. that's going to be an issue today. gusty winds, chilly temperatures, cold! here's a look at the hi-def doppler. and we do still have some light scattered showers out there especially out in the east bay. and just along the coastline. are we going to keep those light scattered showers in the forecast for the afternoon, yes. here's the satellite and radar showing the cold front as it came through and boy it meant business. heavy rainfall at times, gusty winds moving through. and back behind that we will continue to be windy through the d

one of the 94 signers was jane fonda, of course, we know what happened in vietnam. mark rudd who was with sds in colombia was one of the 94 signers. i mean, a lot of these people they weren't just student radicals, anti-war in the '60s, they were communists, right? they were followers of che or fidel. michael rudd wasn't a stalinist. but it's amazing how many of these people are now in academia, for one thing. but that they're now out calling themselves progressives for obama. and so what do they really believe? the are they now just lifting the progressive label? have they changed their views? it's hard to say. i quote in the book a fascinating assessment from mark rudd of the 2008 election where rudd says, you know obama, he did it. he did it. he didn't blow it. he said just the right things and took the right policy positions to be able to attract just enough moderates and independents and cross-over voters. he didn't blow it. he did it, he says, and i agree with his strategy. any other strategy in this political environment invites sure defeat. obama did it. and

there, jane.em to any library in the system they'll wave all your overdue fines up to $100. all the flood collected will go to the second harvest food bank which serves hundreds of agencies including pantries, kitchens shelterers and aftercool programs. a big bin there and had some fines gone. >> me, too. 6:55 now. our top story thousands of bart riders could find themselves looking for another way to pay for the commute this morning because the easy rider card they've been using won't work. >> jenelle wang joins us from a hayward bart station to explain. kristen, bart phasing out the easy rider card. but by december 22nd that card will be blocked at all bart stations around the bay area. that means an unpleasant surprise. riders had not made the transition to the clipper card despite letters and e-mails from bart. at the height of about 50,000 people use the easy rider card as a temporary way to pay for bart fares until the long delayed clipper card was ready for use. it's been in use so it's tim

play a public-service announcement that jane helped put together. >> hi, jane lynch. today i'm a model citizen but i used to be a model jerk. initially my bad habits caught up with me. the good folks put me to their text rehab >> it means turn that toward mom. talk dirty to me, lies on your own papers. too dumb to mumble. pencils down. [applause] >> so as you can see, jane lynch brings her wonderful trademark humor to the issue of responsible mobile usage through her involvement in the lg text ed program. as a role in the council's recycling issues like sexting and textile while driving and bullying what we will cover today. while the video was great, they're real thing is even better, and i am not delighted to welcome via skype -- [cheering] award winning actress and recovering text offender and the actress jane lynch. [applause] >> good morning, chairman genachowski tickets the toussuire and mckinley tech, how is everybody doing today? [cheering] >> everyone can hear you. we are glad you participated. i know it's early in l.a.. we appreciate your ruling out of bed h

oakland police need help in determining the identity of a homicide victim we're calling jane doe. the woman's body was discovered yesterday afternoon by a bird watcher at a shoreline park near the oakland airport. amber lee is live on the scene tonight with details, amber? >> reporter: frank, the unidentified woman was discovered here at martin luther king regional shoreline park. who she was and who killed her are among the many questions police are trying to answer. on a clear winter night, it is peaceful here at the pond, a mood that belies the violent way jane doe was killed. she was found yesterday afternoon. a source told us her throat was slit, she suffered gun shot wounds and defensive knife wounds on one arm. the killer left her in an undignified state. chest exposed, blouse pulled down to her waist and pants also pulled down. an unopened condom of found at the scene. investigators say a crucial step in finding her killer is finding out her identity. >> find out who she was living with, why she was here. what her last movements were. that helps the investigation. >> repor

oakland police need help in determining the identity of a homicide victim we're calling jane doe. the woman's body was discovered yesterday afternoon by a bird watcher at a shoreline park near the oakland airport. amber lee is live on thscene tonight with details, amber? >> reporter: frank, the unidentified woman was discovered here at martin luther king regional shoreline park. who she was and who killed her are among the many questions police are trying to answer. on a clear winter night, it is peaceful here at the pond, a mood that belies the violent way jane doe was killed. she was found yesterday afternoon. a source told us her throat was slit, she suffered gun shot wounds and defensive knife wounds on one arm. the killer left her in an undignified state. chest exposed, blouse pulled down to her waist and pants also pulled down. an unopened condom of found at the scene. investigators say a crucial step in finding her killer is finding out her identity. >> find out who she was living with, why she was here. what her last movements were. that helps the investigation. >> reporte

and that is how it came to be that lieutenant jane hartley happened to be at the port of well mington, north carolina, the jumping-off spot for the majority of troops and supplies and equipment that were deploying to the middle east for operation desert shield and desert storm in 1990. the united states' government had planned a naval blockade to inspect vessels that were in the iraqi or kuwaiti waters. the u.s. navy had asked the coast guard to provide cutters and crews to aid the naval blockade. lieutenant hartley was very aware of the major decisions that were being made regarding port safety and the coast guard mission in operation desert shield. she said, the navy asked for coast guard ships and crews and was not happy when they looked at the crew rosters. they wanted the coast guard to take the coast guard -- to replace the coast guard women who were in positions of leadership on all those vessels. hartley explained that the coast guard was a small service compared to the navy, the army and the air force and could not afford to squander their people and their talents because the

as nick janes tells us, we're just learning now that a man has been detained. nick? >> reporter: sydnie, they found him not in the garage but a few miles way in a vehicle that rifle turns out to be a pellet gun. he was believed to have been holed up in that parking structure behind us here in that tan building, single story nondescript building with a couple of offices and some parking spaces, as well. there was a report that came in about 6:40 this morning from a security guard who said he had been threatened by a man who said he had a gun. police didn't know for sure. they had never seen this weapon but, of course, this is downtown sacramento right around 7th and q, heavily populated, a lot of people walking around on friday morning so they cleared the whole area out, evacuated a state building as well as there was a lot of question as to if this guy was in there in the first place, if he was armed with a rifle until the s.w.a.t. team eventually was out here slowly moved in, they had to kind of get a look first. they methodically went from area to area inside that

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jane: yea. most people will get free cancer screenings. and 50 percent off of brand name prescription drugs if you're in the donut hole. stella: you read my paper. jane: i went to medicare.gov. it's open enrollment, you know. so i checked out all the options and found a better plan to fit my budget. stella: well, you know what they say...knowledge... jane: knowledge is power. >>shepard: and you heard of a big heist in las vegas yesterday? officials are on the look for anyone trying to cash the stolen chips. the armed robber walked up to the craps table, grabbed $1.5 million in chips, and ran out the good and sped away on the motorcycle. we are told that the chip grab is the 10th casino robbery this year, and the cops say it could be related to a stick up at another casino. and now, adam, do cops have any leads? >>reporter: we are told they actually have a couple of good leads. you saw the video, and the distinctive helmet has helped them so far with a few leads and they hope others in the las vegas area may veto seen that guy with that hel