come on, jane! bloody hell.en she arrives and starts her bleeding heart routine, don't get involved. just give her her kid back and boot her out the door. i feel sorry for her. she's having such a difficult time. well, i'll do it. i'll deal with her. right. you won't be rude, will you? i won't be rude. i'll be truthful. i'll say, "jane, i can't talk, it's getting late, and i'm on a promise." jake: what promise? don't be nosy. are you all right? have you got tummy trouble? no, i'm fine. how's school? it's school. it was cool? it was school. school is school. jesus. is that your letter of apology? statement of regret. i have no need to apologize. the head made that completely clear. "i sincerely regret any offence i may inadvertently "have caused kemal by implying he is fat, brackets, (which he is.)" not very conciliatory. well, he is fat. you see, there's no getting away from it, but no one's admitting it. it's the elephant in the room. he-- he is the elephant in the room. you're going to have to back down eventu

we'll talk to jane goodall. after that, a ceremony >> this week, a look at the american and british forms of government from our recent interviews in london. this program compares and contrasts the parliamentary form of government with our own. >> it is there any way to describe the differences between americans govern and the wave -- way the british people govern? >> it is a lot of different things and it is also something to do with the political culture. it may soon treacherous to our media colleagues over here. i think the discussion of the critical issues is somewhat more dominated by policy rather than treating the minutia of washington life. here, we are bound up with westminster stories. nobody else was interested in them. in terms of the politicians, the politicians in the uk do talk about the issues, probably more than the politicians in the u.s.i was struck by that. the politicians are caught by a superficial level issue of discourse because they're worried about the money-raising. it does not happen

jane, as i have told you before, do not be scared. there are a lot of people would like to support you. do not worry. we are going to be behind you. we're going to establish anything a district's six needs. don't look to me as a different one. we are all here s family. thank you very much. god bless you. president chiu: 82, it next speaker. >> thank you, supervisors. stop what is happening with the library. i want to working in to welcome the new supervisors, to offer them a caution, and to express the hope that they will take democracy series. a few years ago, during a briefing consideration, a supervisor support they should never of gotten a letter. if you've never gotten a letter from the library, the staff is working too hard. they take care of me and my friends. there is no such thing as corruption, and they can do anything they want. well, the problem with anything they want, there is no limit. you are not in control of the corrupt and has become. even your friends think that you represent that because you're looking out for the

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

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

vonnegut and jane had three children, mark, d. and many. and in many years later his sister, alice, died just a day or two after her husband had died in a freak train accident. alice had four children, and three of them came to live with a vonnegut family. so they had quite a large household, seven children, and vonnegut at that time was writing books that at that time were less familiar, but he has published several books and articles for magazines, as well as working a job as a car salesman for sob. the expense of writing about dresden and what happened to him was tremendously difficult for vonnegut. it took him about 20 years to be able to publish the book, slaughterhouse-five. jane, his wife had encouraged him to write it. she worked as his editor on the book. she asked questions and get clarity on issues that helped him to retrieve a lot of the memories that he had repressed. because of the family situation with the addition of more children, and the success that was coming with the publishing of "slaughterhouse-five," his marriage wit

are you, jane, are you a techie? >> host: no, no, no.i mean, i understand the four basic principles of atanasoff's idea, but i got a guy named john pissed off as a computer scientist, and who actually, he used to work at iowa state and he got a bunch of guys together in the '90s and they rebuilt the abc. and it's now in the computer museum in san jose. he knew a lot about, he knew everything as far as i'm concerned about not only the abc but how the abc fits in with other computers. it was interesting to talk about putting it together because he said only old guys can put this together because they had to have that building skills and the technical skills that people would have had in the '40s. and even that has gone by the wayside. >> host: what do you mean by that? >> guest: handling those kinds of materials, and you know, making riveting things together, you know, just putting angle iron together. and also understanding of vacuum tubes work and how capacitors work because those are all outmoded things. he said he always made them laug

>> thanks jane. >> whatever. >> thanks, jane. it's a wednesday. 6:46.of a bay area bird kill has been solved at least according to state wildlife officials. saturday more than hi hundred dead birds south of gieszerville. game officials began investigating and could only determine the birds had not been shot. now wildlife officials say it's a case of massive road kill. all the birds were hit by an 18 wheeler. the case drew a lot of attention because the mass bird death discovered recently. new year's eve 5,000 red winged blackbirds fell out of the skies. the u.s. says wildlife dieoffs are relatively common and those found in arkansas flew into homes and trees after they were startled by fireworks. >> the winter storm that shut down parts of the south has moved into the northeast. heavy snow has been falling in new england and new york. snowplows worked through the night. the latest. >> the winter storm started pounding the northeast overnight. plows and sanders hit the treats and some areas braced themselves for up to 2 feet of snow. parts of massachuset

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mary jane deeb, steven cook, samer shehata, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> lehrer: now, an inside look behind the wikileaks documents and stories. and to jeffrey brown. >> brown: july 26, 2010-- "the new york times" carries a series of articles under the title "the war logs," based on the unauthorized release of thousands of classified government documents from the afghan war effort. the "times," collaborating with "the guardian" of london and the german "der spiegal," received the documents from an organization called wikileaks, founded in 2006 to publish sensitive material anonymously and headed by an australian named julian assange. in october, "the war logs" articles continued, this time gleaned from 400,000 leaked documents related to the iraq war. and on november 29, the paper began what it called a "raw look inside u.s. diplomacy"-- stories based on 250,000 leaked u.s. embassy cables. the cables have led to further reports revealing private, sometimes embarrassing details of u.s. relations with countries around the world, including, just

live at the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king. >> jane, thank you very much. great and hopefully dug out day. (laughter) >> thanks. >> a chinese woman has become the first to reach the finals of a grand slam tennis tournament for her country what's being called a major upset yesterday. lee nah in the austrian open in three sets. lee will play saturday for the championship. >> this morning the northeast is suffering through a snowy, icy storm that slammed the region overnight. the biggest impact that extends all the way over here is airport closures. jenelle wang is live in the news room with the latest. >> 20 flights coming into sfo from the east coast have already been cancelled this morning. most of their east coast flights arrive this afternoon. according to the faa, both jfk and newark are still closed at this hour but hopefully will reopen later this morning. hundreds of thousands of customers in the washington d.c. are without power this morning. yesterday air cancelled 1500 flights new york, new jersey and philadelphia airplanes. amtrak cancelled many t

live at the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king. >> jane, thank you very much.>> mike, it's nice to have relatives in key places. >> uh-huh. especially when the weather's happening, unusual weather at that. show you some of the photos that we're dealing with. if you have photos and you have whether and video you'd like to share with us, make sure you upload them or e-mail them. here's those photos i was talking about. we were gonna talk about the southern storm and here's what it dumped in the northern suburb of march yet at that, georgia. >> let's talk about the photographer. >> probably my dad who actually took the picture. (laughter) >> a viewing of the midday show. she can watch that online. she watches every day. another look at the fountain. i'm just showing you these because i helped build all this stuff. really why i'm showing this. that's the fish pond that's frozen over. hopefully the fish are deep enough down that they're living this morning. had 4 inches of snow in atlanta and they're doing nothing. that's what's kind of charming about the south, the

. >> supervisor jane kim is now speaking out about the controversy that she stirred up last week whenhe refuseded to say the pledge of allegiance at the board of supervisors meeting. the supervisors begin every meeting with the pledge and although kim stands up with fellow members, she does not recite the words or even place her right hand over her heart. she says it's the words with liberty and justice for all saying what she disagrees with. today we talked to kim and asked her what her constituents think about her decision. >> i think my constituents care more about my position on how to make muni more effective and keep our streets cleaner and safer than my reason for not reciting the pledge. >> kim's predecessor chris daily also objected to the pledge. he refused to say the words under god. >> 6:05. we want to turn things over to mike. talking about a very interesting weekend. >> weekend and a dry weekend coming up. more dry. >> mike? >> start finding out what's going on now. it was an interesting weekend. we had much-needed rain to end january. in fact, most areas doubled their t

i'm jane king, bloomberg news. >> jane, thank you very much. >> more things to make us hungry this morninghow come all the stories are talking about food this morning? we've got a little fog that developed. a little bit, not much. not like yesterday for sure. >> trying to pull in from the central valley. fairfield three-quarters of of a mile. i wanted to take you somewhere else to show you -- >> whoa! >> look at that, that's a full 3, 67, 20! >> oh! if you've ever been in that situation. >> look at that car accelerate. >> it's going downhill. if you've ever been on that much ice, not just a little patch but where the whole road is icy, it is the worst feeling in the world. there's nothing you can do to stop. >> by the way, this is in pittsburgh. 45 crashes. at least 70 people treated for slips and falls because of the snow. >> in pennsylvania. >> with the rain that they've had. >> pittsburg, pennsylvania, not the east bay. >> oh, not the east bay. if that was here, that would lead to -- >> i would think so. let's move on. let's talk about temperatures outside under this beautiful sky. look

a psa, a public service announcement that jane helped put together. >> hi, i'm jane lynch.ram, and i'm showing other parents how to guide their parents through the pitfalls of mobile phone use. i'm jane lirchl, and i'm here to teach text-ed. >> question 15, td, pm means a, turn dad towards mon. b, talk dirty to me. c, too dumb -- [inaudible] pencils down. how do you think y'all did? yeah? well all the answers were b. >> really? >> what? >> come on, people, if you want to stay in your kid's stuff, you have to know the abbreviations. they speak in a language that would baffle the kgb. >> how do we break the code? how? >> don't you worry. there's an easy tool to decipher any text ac cro anymore. the lg detector helps you figure them out. the best way to commit them to memory is get into the game yourself. text with your kids. believe me, they'll dig it. since you're helpful, read the next little bit. >> 8 #% of teens prefer getting a text message from a parent rather than a phone call. >> sure, that makes sense. with a text you're not dropping in on what you're doing, just tap

the yellow one is for ross, and whoever else -- jane

our supervisor campos, and my supervisor, my district, supervisor jane kim. the two minutes you give us. but wake up. give us your hearing. give us your eyes. we left our jobs to come here to say something. we need to tell you something. and we need to learn from you something. finally, as you know, 180 people get an injury. 35 people have been killed in moscow. for the last 24 days, 28 young men have been killed in san jose in san francisco and oakland. now, i would like to ask each one of you, what kind of security we have now? what kind what our mayor -- the new mayor like to have with us? we are different than you. each one of these people -- you are here to represent us. you have rights to protect us. everyone of you. i do not care if you are new or old or whatever you are. we are all here, you 90. it does not matter if you are a jews -- we are all here, united. it does not matter if you are a jew. [bell] president chiu: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. stop the destruction of the public library. this has been one of the great civic, gains of t

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. >> i remember of the neighborhood council board and i am chair of an advisory committee. i was stunned to hear the testimony of your staff. i have been a

. >> woodruff: but mary jane deeb he is saying he wants reforms. he wasn't specific. he talked about dealing with poverty, economic reform but he kept stressing skuringt. >> well w that's the way he is protesting him self-. he's claiming that all the things that he's doing, the clamping down on people is for security and law and order. but the egyptians know that this is a way of preventing them from getting what they want. so they're not giving in. >> woodruff: samer shehata, when you listened to president mubarak, did you hear anything different, anything out of character for him? >> there was a little bit of out of character statements. i mean it was interesting that he began immediately by expressing some sadness about the death of the protestors. and he also said and confirmed, supposedly, but of course no one believes this, his commitment to peaceful protest and the right to do so. so i think that was an interesting out of character remark. but with regards to credibility-- . >> woodruff: let me stop you there, why dow say no one believes this? >> well, the muba

at first authorities thought they might be headed to the bay area but as nick janes tells us this desperate hunt has gone statewide. >> reporter: take a good look at this surveillance video. the deputies say this is abduction suspect jose rodriguez, just minutes before he kidnapped a 4-year-old boy. at 3:40 yesterday, rodriguez pulled into the paterson chevron station off sperry avenue driving his light silver toyota corolla wearing the same checkered shirt as in the suspects description. the 27-year-old goes into the gas station heading for the refrigerator, grabbing a bottle of beer, checks out at the register and walks out his beer concealed that paper bag. chevron employees said he appeared calm just another ordinary customer. but authorities say 20 minutes later around 4:00, rodriguez would violently kidnap his ex- girlfriend's 4-year-old son, juliani cardenas, snatching the child from the boy's grandmother's arms outside her paterson home. >> pushed me down on the ground. >> reporter: and took your grandson? >> and i -- [ indiscernible ] turn around and he had time to get my baby and

jane kim choices not to.s to the final words telling the san francisco examiner i don't believe we are a nation with liberty and justice for all yet. kim's long-time friend board president david chew defends her perspective. he recites the pledge but doesn't see a controversy in her refusal. >> i think she is expressing her love for our country by letting folks know she hopes that again some day we will be in a place that truly reflects the values embodied in that pledge. >> we all learned the pledge as children so jane kim stands particularly as an elected supervisor has become a hot topic on blogs and talk shows. >> she has an image to put out there that she is supporting the country. >> don't turn your back on it and say i'm not pledging anything to this country. >> kim said i've expressed my patriotism through my years of doing organizing work, being a civil rights lawyer and being a public servant now. her district from the tenderloin to the high rises by the ballpark. constituents are supportive. >> as

and newly elected supervisor jane kim chooses not to. she objects to the final words, telling the san francisco ext examiner" i don't believe we have a nation with liberty and justice for all, yet. kim's long-time friend, the board president david chu defends her perspective. he recites the pledge, but doesn't see a controversy in her refusal. >> i think supervisor kim is expressing her patriotism, her love for our country by letting folks know she hopes that, again, some day we will be in a place that truly reflects the values that are embodied in that pledge. >> we all learned the pledge as children, so jane kim's stance particularly as an elected supervisor has become a hot topic on blogs and talk shows like kgo radio's ron owens. >> i think her being a public official she has an image to put out there that she supports the country. >> strive to make it better, but don't say, i am not pledging anything to this country. >> she says i did years of organizing work and being a civil rights lawyer and being a public servant now. her distri

nick janes shows us searching that canal was no easy task. >> reporter: searching through this canal is difficult for several reasons. first of all, it's so large. it's about 80 feet wide and in some spots 20 to 25 feet deep. the fresh tire tracks are found several hundred feet away from where we are standing on the other side of that fence. there are some underground tubes that route the water to this other side of the canal large enough for a car to fit through. another thing to pay attention to is how swiftly the current is moving. it's moving deceptively quickly fast enough we are told to carry a car hundreds of feet from where those tracks were to this side of the canal. originally we told perhaps they would try to use sonar technology to map what's under water. but because of the current, it's difficult to use the sonar apparatus. the person would have to hold it would have trouble keeping it steady because of the water moving so quickly and so that would obscure what's underground. so what they have been doing is just using a rope on the either side and just drag the canal and

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good morning, jane. >> good morning. believe it or not americans now say china not the u.s.s top economic power. that's according to a poll from the washington-based center. the rising influence of china's economy has expanded 90 fold in the last 30 years. here on wall street this morning, the unemployment picture taking center stage weekly jobless claims rising more than expected. we're watching merck shares. they're down more than 6% here after an anti-clotting drug was inappropriate for patients who had a stroke. merck under some pressure because of that as well. here's how we are shaping up so far this morning. seeing modest losses, the dow, s & p and nasdaq all trading slightly to the down side and the silicon valley trading a little lower as well. shares of santa clara based intel, they are down this morning. ahead of the quarterly results it will put out this afternoon. williams sonoma doing post-holiday celebrating. reporting a 10% jump in holiday sales boosting its earnings forecast as a result this year. you may be able to do some of your banking at k-mart. it's te

how could that be, those thin mints are so popular, jane. >> i know.y i know loves girl scout cookies but they're restructuring. let's start with the economy here. we'll say the cookies at the end. u.s. economy growing at a nice clip last quarter. interesting to see the consumer spending. we knew we were out there and niece numbers. it was the best holiday shopping season we had in more than four years. the headline, not really helping stocks out here this morning. not really hurting either. amazon shares, they're under some heavy pressure here today. down about 7.5%. the online retailer surprising invests for the forecast for the quarter mainly because they're spending money on warehouses and data centers, not because the lack of sales. and ford down lower. came in weaker than expected in spite of the best annual profit in 11 years. seems like they may weigh on things a bit. investors watching egypt. revising its outlook on the arab republic because of the violent protest and political instability. they're protesting among other things higher food pri

jane, his wife, had, you know, encouraged him to write it. she worked as his editor on the book, she asked questions and got clarity on issues, and helped him to retrieve a lot of those memories that he had repressed because of the family situation with the edition of more children and the success that was coming with the publishing of "slaughter house five" his marriage with jane was rocky just just -- his daughtery had mentioned about a month ago that experience and the publishing of the book and all that brought to vonnegut contributed to their marriage dissolving. and at that time, vonnegut had met the photographer jill c cremins. eventually married her. she was his second wife, and was the only other person that he was married to during his lifetime. i'll move you over here to the -- what we call the political activity exhibit. and vonnegut continued to talk about his interest in finding peaceful solutions to conflicts. i think that's another thing that made him very popular during the vietnam, and after. this photo which was given to us

barred from the case because the firm represented quan during her campaign and includes councilwoman janerunner. >> a sketch of a man expected of a recent assault on campus. take a look. he's described as a man in his fortes with brown hair, facial hair and a thin build. a woman was walking on campus monday night, a student, when a suspect grabbed her from behind and tried to cover her mouth. she bit him and ran off. said this is the first assault like this on campus in 20 years. >> a family grief-stricken after someone killed their pet dog for no apparent reason. they found max shot to death near the bart station. they found a gun under a nearby car. police took one man into custody and held bart service at the station for about a half hour while they took another man into custody who had gotten on the train. max was not aggressive and had run out the front door when he was about to be walked. >> could it have possibly been anything to them? >> police have no motive for the shooting. >> the white house will be holding its breath on new economic numbers due out in a half hour from now as

i'm jane king with the bloomberg business report. >> 5:54 now.y an environmental group have revealed possibly unsafe levels of mercury in local supermarkets and restaurants in california. gotmercury.org did the research by purchasing tuna, swordfish and sushi last year. those tests revealed that 81% of swordfish examined showed high levels of mercury. >> consumers should be warned about high mercury seafood, especially women and children. we know that women still prodominantly do most of the shopping for their families. >> gotmercury.org wants california to require grocers and restaurants to post warnings. but a group accuses gotmercury.org by exsag racing the risk. >> you can pay for a latte with a cellphone instead of a credit card. starbucks stores in the u.s. will begin accepting mobile payments. owners of blackberries, i-phones and i-pad touches can wave the phone in front of a scanner and money is automatically taken from your starbucks county. >> you have kids in college in you may not want to hear this but a new report says the first two

. >> jane king joins us live with more. we're all ears, jane. >> hello.returning to silicon valley more than a third of tech workers got a bonus last year, compared that to 26% in 2009. after a slip in salaries in silicon valley, last year up this year about 3%. for the average worker now getting $99,000. a career site for tech and engineering professionals. e-bay and google, e-bay on the comeback trail and getting profit forecast passing estimates. google reporting its results at the close tonight. we've got a lot of red actually today. stocks and commodities all trading lower and the bloomberg silicon valley index down three-quarters of a percent. if you want to head to sunny can con, you can go on virgin america. kicking off non-stop flights today. the third international destination. if you want to keep your kids from texting or talking on cellphones while driving, t-mobile has an app for that. live at the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king, bloomberg news. >> it's 6:49. >> more news. a new restaurant in san rafael will have to repaint its exterio

i'm jane king. >> jane, thank you very much.tened by a buildup of sand which tends to change the course of the creek steering it right into those bluffs. working with the state and county to get sand removed before there's more erosion and endanger the habitat of the stealhead trout. >> pay to have protection, pay to have the creek opened up. we just want to work out a system so there is an ongoing permit so we don't have to go through this every couple years. >> the recent break from rainy weather has helped somewhat but they still fear the next winter storm will cause even more erosion. >> that's the way they think next storm. >> probably maybe next month. that's how far off it is. definitely in that dry pattern now. you notice the east coast is getting everything hammered again. kind of a quiet weather pattern. coming up on 6:49. looking down at some of the fog still hanging around. not nearly as thick as yesterday nor as widespread. look for a quick fading today that leads to warmer weather this afternoon. take a look at tem