and the animals taken away. >> it was not only damaging for the joneses, it was humiliating.ng they were inclined to take lying down. >> allegedly there were threats made from the joneses to the rattes. >> the jones family matriarch sent a scathing letter to the "prince george citizen," bad-mouthing wendy and her family. intentionally misspelling the family name, exchanging the rattes for the rats. >> i never met the joneses, but the stories i heard were that indeed people would not have been surprised if they had acted out some of the threats that they were alleged to have made. >> oh, and there was no question, said gabriel, his mom did feel threatened by the joneses. they did not make their anger secret. >> they would hoot and holler as they were passing. that's one of the examples of her community activism. having a bad neighbor and -- >> and doing something about that. fearlessly it appeared because she must have known they would not like this, obviously. >> yeah. and they might have -- she made about a enemy for sure. >> that was just four months before she vanished lea

do like addressing income inequality, it's known to be a powerful driver, the keeping up with the jonesesect is real. it was less when the gap is less wide. we can start to build the cost, costs that are considered externalities from a price of products, we can build that into the price of products as we are now with carbon taxes for example. that is the kind of step we can take that makes it more costly to produce new goods, less costly to produce goods through recycled products, to make them more durable, to put them into sharing cycles and sharing type business cycles. there are things we can do to gradually transform society so it's not put upon the individual shoulders to reduce consumption alone, but rather we create a society where we are all consuming less. host: how are you processing the fact that you are promoting these ideas through the sale of a book, a medium which has environmental impacts all along its lifecycle? j.b.: this is the that everyone who is promoting any kind of environmental change finds themselves in, where we are advocating change within a system that we all

if you're jonesing for a holiday with some snow. hard to find some, especially if you go up to diablo er. hamilton's as you head into the next couple of days, certainly by by by monday, so there are the forecast highs for you lots of mid fifties and then the five day forecast so we can handle the rain as it comes. we're going to get a nice break tomorrow. i'll see you back here with updates at 11. all right. we'll see in a bit, bill. thank you will be area rapper mr fabs charitable organization was back at it today, providing families in need with toys, food and good cheer this holiday season, his 17th annual toys for joy event happened today on 45th avenue in north oakland. dozens of people came out to enjoy a hot meal and pick up gifts such as scooters, bikes, games, sporting equipment and books coming up in sports tonight the warriors without two of their top three scorers against memphis sports director mark cabanas, will have the dynamic duo that stepped up to beat the grizzlies. then on the 11 o'clock news. it's been one year

but those the pressure and here you guys are talking that really are back keep up with the joneses orng to be looking at some good weather, too. >> maybe venture outside and get those lights up asap. everybody just getting do it whenever you want to. but we are going to be looking at nice weather. all in all for whatever you want to be doing. maybe it's that walk around the city or up into the east bay hills, north bay, mountains, whatever you want to buy sunshine overhead and temperatures that are unseasonably warm climbing well into the upper 70's for parts of the south bay, rain and snow continues to be said well, to the north, up into western canada in the pacific northwest our high pressure ridge has made things easy at times. it's also helping to bring us the stretch of dry weather. that's the negative rate here. obviously we need the moisture, the positive is that didn't really good travel weather and of course, all those preps for the holidays are really easy to get done when it's in the 60's and 70's outside. it's exactly where will be today. mission financial districts as we

spent a winter in valley forge as we know but he's outside new york jonesing to attack new york.ut he never did. he never tried the amphibious result because he realized how disastrous it it would have been. so he would make plans and always cancel them and we as americans can be glad he did. had he done the assault it would have really hurt the american cause. so i start off by the section by saying that washington started off the war as a bad general. he became a great general because he learned sometimes that most effective thing for a general to do is nothing. and his big contribution was his self restraint. >> now, and i think that this is so compelling, to think about a lot of times too, i think that the american revolution is portrayed, you know, as -- as this revolution that people are surprised that the americans win. but you make it seem like in your book that this is -- that it's nearly unwinnable for the british. in that, you know, all the americans had to do basically is get out of their own way. and the revolution would be won. >> yes, and that was so hard to learn.

but he's outside new york jonesing to attack new york, but he never did. he never tried this amphibious assault, because he realized how disastrous it would have been had he had his chance to do an amphibious assault. he'd always find a reason to cancel them at the last minute, and we as americans were glad he did. had he done this assault that's the sort of thing that would have really hurt the american cause. so i start off this section by saying that washington started off the war as a bad general. he became a great general because he learned sometimes the most effective thing for a general to do was nothing. and a big contribution was his self-restraint. >> and i think this is so compelling to think about a lot of times, too, i think that the american revolution is portrayed, you know, as this revolution people are surprised. and all the americans have to do is get out of their own way and the revolution would be won. >> that's so hard to learn. i'm sympathetic with washington. he had what we call chimney corner heroes. everyone saying oh, come on, you

some people that you all have, that the committee has subpoenaed, the entertainers like the alex joneses them the theatricality of defending trump is part of what they want. they're willing to fight you in court. they're willing to stall and delay. they're not willing to give information that could actually help the american people get to the bottom of this. at some point, doesn't the department of justice need to be the primary actor in getting to the bottom of what happened? it's great that you all are doing what you're doing, but what is the delay for the department of justice for merrick garland to get involved? >> yep. well, first of all, we'll see if steve bannon is willing to go to jail in order to put on, as you say, some kind of a performance art show for donald trump or his enablers. in terms of the justice department, though, joy, i completely agree with you. i think the justice department needs to consider not just those who attacked the capitol, but those who organized attack, those who funded the attack, if they were involved in any kind of criminal activity, provable crimi

and a holiday tradition returned in full swing as we lit the chr >>> good morning, thank you for jonesing i am kira klapper, the omicron variant has spread across the bay area. five people in the bay area tested positive for it. 12 people who all went to a wedding in wisconsin last week, one of them returned from international travel. all 12 people vaccinated and most had a booster shot. >>> a traffic alert for drivers this morning. weekend closures that could impact your commute. today in the bay mike inouye will tell you how to get around them. >> road work they often do but they are taking out an entire bridge, that'll be an issue. 680 and mission boulevard, until monday morning until it reopens before 5:00 a.m. in the north bay, we have a short section but a big impact. this is i-80. both directions are closed between red top road and 680. the reason for this long reroute between 780 and 680, caltran wants you to stay to the freeway, that's the easest route. that goes on saturday, 11:00 p.m. until sunday at 9:00 a.m. back over to you. >>> let's check in with vianey for a look at our f

they are living their lives like the joneses. we did not want to live like that.chose not to live like that. my husband died 20 years ago suddenly. financially i am set for life. we never made $100,000 a year. we were just very specific about our debt and staying out of debt and saving money. host: what's your biggest financial concern on a month-to-month business? caller: are you talking about food, housing? host: what is your biggest bill, yeah. caller: my biggest bill would be my property taxes on my house. my house is paid for. host: have those gone up in allen, texas? caller: they have gone up, but it doesn't matter, because i have over a million dollars in savings right now. i can live of of my husbands social security and draw a small amount, and i am living. -- living the dream i guess you could say. i worked hard and saved money. we were very frugal with our money. now i get to do what i want to do. host: this is kevin and elkridge, on the line for those who make between $60,000 and $100,000 last year. caller: good morning. how are you? host: what is your

they are living their lives like the joneses. we did not want to live like that.chose not to live like that. my husband died 20 years ago suddenly. financially i am set for life. we never made $100,000 a year. we were just very specific about our debt and staying out of debt and saving money. host: what's your biggest financial concern on a month-to-month business? caller: are you talking about food, housing? host: what is your biggest bill, yeah. caller: my biggest bill would be my property taxes on my house. my house is paid for. host: have those gone up in allen, texas? caller: they have gone up, but it doesn't matter, because i have over a million dollars in savings right now. i can live of of my husbands social security and draw a small amount, and i am living. -- living the dream i guess you could say. i worked hard and saved money. we were very frugal with our money. now i get to do what i want to do. host: this is kevin and elkridge, on the line for those who make between $60,000 and $100,000 last year. caller: good morning. how are you? host: what is your

begin your journey to simplicity and the joy you deserve without the angst of keeping up with the joneses, she is a two-time >>> now, she is a two-time academy award winner who's taking on the role of a mysterious psychologist with a dark side in guillermo del toro's latest film, "nightmare alley," which by the way just racked up eight critic's choice nominations. it's cate blanchett. thank you for being with us, and good morning to you, cate. >> good morning. i'm sorry i can't be in the same room. >> i know. we wish we could have you in person, but we'll take you on zoom. we know you're playing a female psychologist in the 1940s. that couldn't have been a common sight back then, but tell us about your character. tell us about her. >> actually, you know, there were a lot of women involved in psychoanalysis at that point. they just weren't recognized, but i play -- i get to work with bradley cooper, which is fantastic, and guillermo del toro, but i play a psychiatrist who is obviously very interested in the life of the mind who gets involved with a powerfully hollow man played by bradley w