cbs 5 reporter juliette gooh rmore.. juliette. >>> is holiday show unlike anything you have ever seen. >> unless you are 2000 years old. cbs 5 juliette goodrich is in livermore. >> reporter: they are calling this living bethlehem now. some of the characters behind me. one of the main characters slept through the performance, didn't show up but the show must go on. >> action. >> reporter: living bethlehem comes to livermore. the city as it was 2,000 years ago. [ music playing ] >> reporter: more than 250 volunteers and actors reenacting the story. soldiers ordering the crowds to move. >> everything is kept orderly fashion because we will throw people in the dungeon. >> they have no place to stay. >> my wife is great with child. >> reporter: they enter a stable where their baby is born. >> baby jesus was running late. >> reporter: luckily the parents in the crowd volunteered their son. >> someone said does your -- did you want your baby to be baby jesus. we said sure. >> reporter: many residents got off guard. >> he is a c

it's a great story coming up next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, cbs 5 reporter juliette gooh explains how it all startedh a >>> well, for the cost of a postage stamp, a group of bay area women received a priceless gift. cbs 5 reporter juliette goodrich explains how it all started with a discovery at a thrift shop. >> these five cards must have somehow gotten mixed in. >> reporter: pam rousseau was at a thrift store in hayward when she found five cards sealed shut with handwritten addresses but no stamps tucked away on a lower back shelf. >> the handwriting was scribbly and i wasn't sure if it was an elderly person. >> reporter: so she put stamps on them with a little note attached explaining who she was and where she had found the letters. so as it turns out, this card that pam put a stamp on made its way to this home in alameda. only as we find out, this card was supposed to have been sent five years ago to marianne. >> and open it up and i saw sue bunker's name. and right away, i thought, a card from an angel! >> reporter: you see, sue bunker passed away two years ago from pancreatic cancer. a

. >> juliette goodrich, thank you so much. the supreme court has also agreed to review the a challenge to the national defensive marriage act. >> they have to solve this on a national level because there is just too much administrative confusion right now. who can visit who in the hospital, who gets health benefits. which marriage count, all of these questions. >> as for what happens now as juliette said, lawyers on both sides argue their case before the justices in march. that decisionfected by june. >>> the battle over same-sex marriage has a unique story here in california. we are the only state that has ever allowed it and then band it. in 2004, over a period of month san francisco issued some 4,000 marriage licenses under the direction of the then mayor. the marriage were outlawed in 2008 with the passage of prop 8. that ban was later ruled unconstitutional. same sex marriages will remain on hold until this case is finally settled by the supreme court. >>> ken, folks there i'm sure cautiously optimistic. >> reporter: yeah

juliette goodrich with the man and woman that pick shoppers at random and paid for their purchases. >>> reporter: megan and her little sister mahdi were christmas shopping with their parents at walmart when mattie spotted a toy sewing machine she always wanted. >> they got it tore me! and she had the bag in her hand. what are you talking about? >> reporter: the girls' parents were randomly handed a bag by a man and woman. and inside -- >> we both looked in the bag and we just said, wow. how did they know that she wanted that toy? >> it's the sewing machine that she wanted. >> reporter: the couple didn't give their names, but employees spotted them hugging one another after their generous deeds. joyce short was working the cash register that day. seem never forget. >> he handed me the money, goes merry christmas to her. and she started crying immediately. and then i started crying. >> reporter: mattie's dad recalls another charming characteristic. >> their job of giving to her just never forget their laugh of joy. >> reporter: the couple spent thousands of dollars that day on merchandi

. >>> i'm juliette goodrich. an unidentified couple walks into walmart and randomly pays for customers' items in their carts. who are these secret santas? the story coming up. >>> and later this week, it will be no ordinary tide. what makes a king tide and how it can show us the bay area's future. >> not one, not two, and not even three, but a series of storms heading this way. we'll track them together as eyewitness news continues right here on cbs 5. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and couple of very generouss paid a visit to a bay area walmart. juliette goodrich is in livermore, where the man and woman picked shoppers at ra, and... well juliette.. you l it.... >>> 'tis the season for secret santas. a couple of generous ones paid a visit to an area walmart. juliette goodrich reports. >> reporter: this is one of the holiday stories we love to report on. imagine walking into walmart buying your holiday goodies and someone saying, i'll pick up the tab. they doesn't want to be identified. we don't know who they are but people here

juliette ketehoundje is the leader here. she runs the women's cooperative that operates the plant.d some support, but soon, they'll be able to do it on their own. >> we produce a third more oil than we did before. the machine is more efficient. we earn more money, too. everyone who works here earns money and can feed their family. some we also spend on raw materials and maintaining the machine. >> the french organization geres has installed 35 machines in eight villages and is financing 95 percent of their costs. the operator covers the rest. raymond azokpota is the program's director. he grew up here and knows the residents and their needs. he's already achieved his first aim for the project. now he wants to do something for the environment, too. >> we can use these machines to add value. but the women have trouble with the fuel. diesel for the machines runs low every three or four months or so. so we thought that we'll run them on biodiesel and that will help reduce co2 emissions. >> it's market day in the neighboring village of bohicon. >> most people in benin live from farming.

juliette goodrich talked to stallwell about his plan to fix our fiscal ills. >> let's face it. you're the freshman walking in. >> reporter: 31-year-old newly elected eric swalwell says if the 112th congress can't figure out the fiscal cliff, he's ready to bring some small town solutions to capitol hill. >> so you really think you can take the city of dublin politics to washington and it's gonna work? >> at the end of the day, it's about personal relationships, trust, working together for the people who elected you. >> reporter: swalwell was a dublin city councilman and said he had to work with republicans in other words to pass the city budget. he says it's the same kind of compromise strategy in washington. >> i'm confident there can still be a budget beater here where we can beat the clock and deliver on middle class tax cuts. >> reporter: i asked him to give me one word to describe his feelings enter this fiscal cliff shark tank. >> exciting. >> you're excited? >> i'm confident that congress will see the will of the people. >> reporter: he says he's excited about making sure

in dublin juliette goodrich, cbs5. >> he better listen to mom. good luck. >>> a storm that left record snowfall in arkansas and some 200,000 customers without power is headed into eastern canada. it kept road workers very busy in the northeast after dumping snow across northern pennsylvania, upstate new york and new england overnight. at least 16 deaths are blamed on this storm that started here in california. >>> while it's nothing like that we've got some weather of our own blowing in with a storm arriving as we speak. a high surf advisory has been issued for tomorrow. you're looking at some video from chopper 5 which was checking out the waves around pacifica earlier this morning and with the swell forecasters expect strong rip currents throughout tomorrow night. so we've got some more crazy weather heading our way, right, liz? >> yeah, we do. light rain for the most part. we could see moderate rain at times. it's coming later on tonight after dark. we'll show you what it looks like on our high depth doppler. we're already seeing virga, the ra

>> juliette goodrich reporting by the way. >> yes. >>> all right. shall we check in with lawrence? >> yes. >> you two went for a walk without me. is it night every nice out there? >> we do that every day. >> wonderful. a nice brisk walk outside. definitely the season as the cold air has moved in. high-def doppler radar still showing some scattered light showers around the bay area but the storm is now quickly winding down. still along the peninsula you can see some of those showers being picked up by our high-def doppler radar in toward half moon bay. palo alto just to the north there you have a cell that's moving along the 101 and also in toward the santa cruz mountains but this is quickly winding down toward the afternoon settling down completely, just some partly cloudy skies. tonight it's going to be very cold. i think very few clouds. some chilly temperatures especially in the north and the east bays but more storms are beginningline up on the horizon. this afternoon, more clouds, beautiful cumulus puffs over the bay. and cool temperatures, only 55 degrees in san francisco. th

in alameda, juliette goodrich, cbs 5. >> what a nice story. >> i know.amazing she was able to find them. >>> we have a live shot. you are looking at nashua, new hampshire, i believe, where the snow is coming down. i don't think that's nashua actually. that looks more like boston to me. where are we? is that new hampshire? that is new hampshire. >> regardless, there's snow it looks like -- >> somewhere in the granite state they are getting snow. i had a little cottage back there. i was talking to my tenants and they haven't had much snow yet. >> no? >> no. so they were all excited. they had a bit of a white christmas in the northeast about a half inch if that counts. but as you can see, looks white out there now. they have a nor'easter barreling down on them. >>> it's 4:56 right now. coming up at the top of the hour, talks resume in washington as we near the edge of the "fiscal cliff." >> and a terrifying ordeal for shoppers in sacramento. witnesses fear the worst when a fight breaks out in a very busy mall. >> and we'll take you to one bay area "cool sch

. >>> i'm juliette goodrich. >> i'm allen martin.nia's unemployment rate has not been this good since the recession began four years ago. but are the numbers truly indicative of a rebounded? there are a lot of factors that go into the single-digit jobless rate. cbs 5 reporter grace lee with why it may be too quick to say we have finally turned the corner. >> reporter: juliette, our state still has the third worst unemployment rate in the nation. we're well above the national rate. so we spoke with a former director of the state's labor department who says that the unemployment rate is really just one piece of the overall economic picture and it may look better than it actually is. >> i think the rate it's important but it means less and less of indicating what's going on out there in terms of jobs. >> reporter: michael would know since he used to run the state's employment development agency. california's unemployment rate dropped to 9.8% in november from 10.1% in october. the numbers haven't been this good since 2007. he says those

in alameda, juliette goodrich, cbs 5. >>> a random act of kindness means so much. brian hackney, it means so much you're here! >> i'm absolutely, yes, well, it's good to be here, believe me. [ laughter ] >> especially because we have more weather to talk about believe it or not. we don't like to hear this four- letter word i think at this point but there is rain on the way for parts of the bay area. it won't begin until probably after sunset tomorrow. we'll set it all out first the numbers around the bay area. 47 in concord as we look at the slow traffic on the golden gate bridge heading into the city. 47 at livermore at sfo 51 and santa rosa 45. santa rosa will get down to about freezing tonight. we have high surf advisories posted through 10:00 saturday night for the entire central coast. the surf on top of a 10 to 14- foot swell could be as high as 20 feet. 20-foot breakers along the show so be careful at the coast. high pressure in command of the pacific and as long as that's there, we'll stave off the lane but the clouds will increase in that low that's out he

this is a question for juliette. so the kaiser study estimates, they estimate spending based on full medicaid coverage, everybody who is eligible for medicaid, it's assumed that 100% would get coverage. so there are questions both about coverage and costs. now that the study is done and we know it's going on in the real world, what are the more likely effects on coverage, and what are the more likely effects on medicaid costs? >> okay o. so i'm going to broaden this question a little bit to talk about the effects for all coverage sources. so we assumed, as i said, that everybody who lost eligibility from medicare would take up another source of coverage depending on their access to other sources such as employer coverage or their incomes which might qualify them for subsidies or for medicaid coverage. so, um, first let's take this question of the individual mandate and premium subsidies in the exchanges. there have been questions raised about, um, what happens if people 65 and 66 don't have medicare, can they qualify

thanks, ed, and as ed said, i'm juliette cubanski.m associate writer the program on medicare policy of the kaiser family foundation. tricia gave you a pretty nice concise overview of the option to raise the age of eligibility for medicare. some going to dive right into the results of a study that we at the kaiser family foundation conducted with colleagues at actuarial research corporation alice effects of r

juliette gordon lowe, founder of the girl securities. >> and when was he president. >> she was not president, not hall of presidents. >> all right, this is it, tiger woods (applause) >> i'll take your word for it. finally we were ready for my unveiling and the whole world was watching. >> i want to thank everyone at madame tussauds for the honor of becoming the latest waxican american because become cast in wax is true immortality as long as the earth is not in any way getting warmer. at least it was time to give the people what they wanted. another me. but had madame tussauds captured my waxy essence. >> ladies and gentlemen, one, two, me! (cheers and applause) they did it. they made my dream a reality. and there was only one thing left to do. (cheers and applause) i am delicious. (cheers and applause) we'll be right back. í:1y/&-48çj >> welcome back, everybody, my guest tonight is the director of the hobbit. which takes place in a beautiful imaginary world called new zealand. please welcome peter jackson. (cheers and applause) good to see you again. >> how are you. >> stephen: sit down

cbs 5 reporter juliette gooh shows >>> an anonymous couple of played the role of santa at a bay area. >> how christmas came early for many kids. >> reporter: megan aeroher little sister were christmas shopping with their parents when maddie spotted a toy sewing machine. they got it for me. the girls parents were randomly handed a bag and inside -- >> we both looked in the bag and we just went wow. how did they know that she wanted that toy? >> it's the sewing machine she wanted. >> reporter: the couple didn't give their names but employees spotted them hugging one another after their generous deed. joyce was working the cash register that day. >> he handed me the money and goes merry christmas to her. she started crying immediately. and then i started crying. >> reporter: maddie's dad recalls another charming characteristic. >> their joy of giving to her. i'll just never forget their laugh of joy. >> reporter: the couple spent thousands of dollars that day on merchandise. >> not wanting to be known, seen, they made the comment there's no cameras, we're not here to get recognition. >>

juliette goodrich explains why one group calls them a health hazard. >> reporter: they are calling them chemical ticking time bombs. this warning label only warns about the plastic bag. it's not warning them about what's inside. i'll show you. it's this foam product. and according to this environmental group, it's the foam that has the cancer- causing agent in it. >> today she took her first long crawl across the floor and then grabbed her favorite toy and immediately stuck it in her mouth. >> reporter: the baby is being protected from toxic exposure. her mom california policy director with the center of environmental health and other members announcing today legal action against major retailers forcing them to stop selling foam products that contain high levels of chlorinated tris a cancer-causing flame retardant that exceeds california law. >> when my kids were young, they slept in one of these and it had the same foam. >> reporter: one of six cancer- causing products with the retardant. also used in nap mats in nurseries nationwide. >> instead of actually either using a different mat

in san francisco, juliette goodrich cbs 5. >>> middle of winter and we're talking baseball. >> the giants their left- handed set up man last week. the right-handed man tonight. a's busy too. and prohoc,,,,,,,, it's time to change the way we clean. it's time to free ourselves from the smell and harshness of bleach. and free ourselves from worrying about the ones we love. new lysol power & free has more cleaning power than bleach. how? the secret is the hydrogen peroxide formula. it attacks tough stains and kills 99.9% of germs. new lysol power & free. powerful cleaning that's family friendly. another step forward in our mission for health. hiring of new football coacn caragher... .. . >>> san jose state backers are not the only ones fire department up by the hiring of new football coach ron. jim harbaugh's reaction. >> ron, fantastic. >> prep guy. the new guy for the spartans comes to san diego. 44 and 22 in six seasons. looking to continue the success built by mike mackentire. >> i know there's been ups and downs over the years. the last 25 years or so. but maybe i can come in and bring s

>> this is a question for juliette cubanski. the kaiser study estimates spending of full medicaid coverage to everybody eligible for medicaid presume that 100% would get coverage. questions both about coverage and cost. the study is done and we know what is going on in the real world, what are the more likely to affect on coverage and more likely effects on medicaid costs? >> i am going to broaden the question little bit and talk about the effects for all coverage sources. we assumed as i said that everybody who lost eligibility for medicare would take another source of coverage depending on their access to other sources such as employer coverage or their incomes which might qualify them for subsidies for medicaid coverage. first, let's take the question of the individual mandate and premium subsidies in the exchanges. there have been questions raised about what happens if people 65 and 66 don't have medicare can they qualify for these? there is no mention of a specific age for qualification for subsidies or exchange coverage so

they had the danville theatre which is a nice theatre and they were doing roamioand juliette and there was me in the middle of a balcony. it was a nice audience when i walked in my brain was exat that timic, look at the people here. it's almost as good as last years. i said who did you choose last year. and the year before. and told me. i said do you realize they are dead already? >> i'm alive and shouldn't i pull in a little more? [laughter] to go off, thank you for coming. >> my pleasure. i just this month read your book dreaming water. and i was -- i'm very glad to have read it. i'm wondering 2 things. there seems to be more of an advocacy voice in terms of the discrimination of being you know an asian american. and secondly, warner's disease. i'm wondering how you got into writing about that? and the characters were wonderful. >> okay. your first question, first. you know to be totally honest, when i sat down to write dreaming water i thought this is the book that -- i had finished language of threads and written 4 books that took place in asia. because language of threads was a ha

in san francisco, juliette goodrich cbs 5. >>> middle of winter and we're talking baseball. >> the giants got their left- handed set up man last week. the right-handed man tonight. a's busy too. and prohockey back in hp pavilion. ,, [ female announcer ] here's to a whole world of happier holidays. time to enchant, delight and amaze. safeway will help you gather everyone round. a smoked, shank half ham is only 99 cents a pound. get breyer's ice cream for $2.88 and dessert will surely shine. make it a grand finale with starbucks just $6.99. turns out this season less is really so much more. so make your holiday merrier than ever before. hiring of new football coacn caragher... . >>> san jose state backers are not the only ones fire department up by the hiring of new football coach ron. jim harbaugh's reaction. >> ron, fantastic. >> prep guy. the new guy for the spartans comes to san diego. 44 and 22 in six seasons. looking to continue the success built by mike mackentire. >> i know there's been ups and downs over the years. the last 25 years or so. but maybe i can come in and bring some con

. >> and i'm juliette goodrich. let's get right to it with chief meteorologist paul deanno. paul? >> things are getting much more active. lots of rainfall. lets get right to cbs 5 hi-def doppler which is showing you some pretty steady rainfall moving right toward the san francisco peninsula, there we go. about ten minutes away from invading the city. daly city, you're included in that. vacaville, fairfield, all the way up toward sacramento. look at this wide shot here. thunderstorms, so a couple hours to our north and west. that's the next wave of heavy rainfall that will move through. the rain, how about half a foot of new rain? more than two inches for santa rosa. it trails off when you get into the south bay but there's lots more coming over the weekend. snowfall in which one day, only one, will be mainly dry over the next week. coming up soon. >> paul. thanks for that. >>> the storm made a mess all over the bay area, especially, as paul says, the north bay. cbs 5 reporter elisa is in marin tonight. >> reporter: the rain is really starting to come down and we're starting to fee

juliette goodrich explains how it all started with a discovery in a thrift store. >> these five cardsust have somehow gotten mixed in >> reporter: she found five cards, but no stamps. >> the handwriting was somewhat scribbly. i want sure if it might be an elderly person. >> reporter: so she put stamps on them with a little note attached, explaining who she was and where she found the letters. so as it turns out, this card that pam put a stamp on made its way to a home in alameda. only this card was supposed to have been sent five years ago, to mary ann kate. >> and i hope it up and i saw sue bunkers name, and right away, i thought, a card from an angel! >> reporter: you see, sue bunker passed away years ago from pancreatic cancer. and these were her closest friends, all three receiving her cards five years later. >> may 2007 be full of good health, great travels and an occasional ice cream social. >> it is nice to know we're still in touch. >> reporter: without the other knowing, they each sent a thank you note to pam for taking the time to mail the cards. they also shared glowing tho

in dublin, juliette goodrich. >> walnut creek police are investigating a fatal officer- involved shooting. police got a 911 call from a screaming woman around 3:00 a.m. they say they were confronted by an armed man. they would not say what weapon he had. officers fired. it was walnut creek's first shooting death of the year and the first officer-involved shooting since 2001. >>> an armed robbery of a 7-11 is caught on camera. two men pulled out a handgun sunday when the store clerk opened cash register. no word on how much money they got. this is one of two armed robberies to happen within minutes of each other. >>> and a portion of a cliff collapsed at baker beach in san francisco this morning. one of the trails is now closed. the collapse is likely the result of all the rain we've had the past couple of weeks. >> parents caught in the middle of a political mandate. >> and this is the country that we have set up for our son. >> the sudden announcement that could end hopes of adoption for thousands of families. >> we have more pedestrian crashes than cities like chicago, seattle and bosto

. >> and i'm juliette goodrich.haron is on the scene right now at twin peaks. >> reporter: here with us is lieutenant silverman who is going to fill us in on what happened. >> so we had a group of four pedestrians walking on the roadway and a car came by and struck three of the four of them and they were knocked down the hill a distance of about 30 feet. >> how are they tonight, the three knocked down the hill? >> so all three of them went to the hospital. one has life-threatening injuries and the other two have less serious injuries. >> okay. now, this was a hit-and-run. anything about the suspect? >> right. so the suspect driver and car were found a couple hundred yards away by our officers within minutes of the incident. >> okay. so they before found nearby. what do we know about the suspect? how many people were in the car? is the driver going to be charged here? >> there were four people in the other car, and one of the passengers in that car was also injured. at this point, we have the driver detained and we'r

cbs 5 reporter juliette gooh takes us to the new bay area bethlehem. > > nats : "action " >> it's a holidayw unlike you've ever seen. >> the new bay area bethlehem. >> reporter: living bethlehem r more, the city as it was 2,000 years ago. >> more than 250 volunteers and actors reenacting the nativity story. joseph and mary entered on donkey. >> everything is kept orderly fashioned because we will throw people in the dungeon. >> reporter: joseph and mary have no place to stay. the table where their baby is born, production crews busy behind the scenes. >> our baby jesus was running late. >> reporter: luckily 4-month-old wesley's parents in the crowd volunteered their son. >> wile we were walking in, someone came in behind us and said do you want your baby to be baby jesus? we said sure. >> reporter: many residents int off guard seeing camels and donkeys running around. this is a camel that's 17 years old. he came from idaho. he'll be here in living bethlehem through monday night. and then he goes back home. thanks, merlin. five shows a ne possible through donation. a three and a half year dr

in san francisco, juliette goodrich, cbs 5. >>> all right, another san francisco giant has been reuped for 2013. the a's were busy too and jim harbaugh's reaction to the hiring of san jose state's new football coach. the minute is next. oh, you have a keurig vue brewer? oh, it's great! now i can brew my coffee just the way i love it. how do you do that? well, inside the brewer, there's this train that's powerful enough to carry more coffee and fresh water to make coffee that's stronger and bigger... and even hotter! actually, i just press this button. brew the coffee you love -- stronger, bigger, or hotter -- with the keurig vue. by the hiring of new footba coach ron >>> san jose state, spartan fans are not the only ones fired up by the new hiring. >> it's fantastic. >> yes, the new man at san jose state coming from the university of san francisco to expect it more. >> yes, that's very profound. he replaced harbaugh when he went to stanford. 24-42 in six seasons as he looks to build off that there. now the a's, they are expected to be introducing their new shortstop. the japanese star.

. >> our founder, juliette gordon low, believed that girls needed to take charge, and she wanted to teach girls how to be secure, how to be confident, how to look after themselves, how to have a career. >> when girl scouting began, women were not even allowed to vote. but thanks to the leadership training girls get in scouting, women have come a long way. today, two out of three women serving in congress were once girl scouts. so were 80% of all the women who now run their own businesses. to prepare the leaders of tomorrow, the girl scouts of america is a partner in the national s.t.e.m. project. s.t.e.m. stands for science, technology, engineering, and math. >> i actually started in fifth grade with the younger robotics team, and i have now moved up to this team. so, it's a great way to get girls into s.t.e.m., and this gets them interested in the field. >> scouting also has a long tradition of service. to help other people is in the first line of the girl scout pledge. >> i taught boys and girls how to pitch a tent, how to build a fire, and how to tie knots, and all the camping skills.

good evening i'm juliette goodrich. >> i'm ken bastida. let's get right to it. rain moving into the bay area as we speak. cbs 5 meteorologist paul is here to fire up the radar, which is firing up. the key is sending the signal out and getting it back, which means we have rain out there, especially at the golden gate area. i'll take you there. santa rosa west of the bay on north and east of st. helena and clear lake and clover dale and lake port. but the majority is still waiting for the first drops of rain. the central and south bay, they are currently just sitting there dry and cloudy. the wind advisory will be windy along for the rainfall at the coast and the city of the north bay with the sustained winds. and some isolated gusts to 50 miles per hour tomorrow morning. here's that much rain. just a couple drifts there. three to six inches of new rainfall for the north bay mountains. you'll see two to five inches of rain and santa clara county. two to three inches of new rainfall by the end of the week. the timing arriving and how long it will stick around and w

. >> i'm juliette goodrich.money talks, and some newly minted lawmakers headed to sacramento may be proof. >> they are getting plum assignments and leadership posts with little experience and no seniority. cbs 5 reporter grace lee explains it may be payback for fundraising. grace. >> reporter: that's right, allen. we're not talking about a few isolated cases. according to california common cause an independent watchdog agency, 91% of the freshmen who raise five or six figures with their party got choice assignments. they say it's a dangerous precedent and bad policy for all of us. >> first it includes members of my cabinet. >> reporter: the president is unbefore the best campaign fundraisers to date breaking records by raising more than $1 billion to get re-elected. california's capital, raising a lot of campaign cash can land you in a plum position even if you don't have a lot of experience. phillip ung with california common cause believes it could be a policy problem. >> this isn't your high school presidency

cbs 5's juliette goodrich speaks to the couple at the head of this issue. >> she texted me omg grantedthen she called me and we just started crying. we were on the phone for a few minutes. we couldn't talk. >> chris perry and sandy steer are cautiously optimistic they will get the legal recognition, benefits and protection of marriage. they say it's been a long time waiting. >> in real life it doesn't feel fast at all. we've been really patient and waited a long time to hear when the final leg of this race would be and now we know. >> just as hetero sexual marriages were taking place at city hall, city attorney dennis herrera and activist held a news conference nearby on a case that's now in the hands of the supreme court. >> so, we are gratified and look forward to making our argument before the united states supreme court about why proposition 8 needs to be struck down. >> but the protect marriage coalition is confident the supreme court will uphold the right of the people of californ

i want to bring in juliette shore, professor of social yol at boston college.e, your book revisits ultimately this question of growth as the basic goal for an economy and i think in line with as much of the thinking that we talked about earlier calls it into question. >> absolutely. i think in addition to the problems with measuring gdp, which are very real and we've already talked about -- right now there's the question of whether we can reconcile what we need to do on the climate front, which, as you rightly point out, is to reduce carbon emissions quite significantly. with we've got to decarbonize the economy and the way we do that is expand the economy. there's really only one country that we can point to that has been able to continue to expand its economy, its gdp, and have any reduction in carbon emissions at all in the last 20 years and that's germany. other countries, which have reduced carbon emissions have done so because their economies have collapsed, places like russia, eastern europe. and for the rest of the world growth has basically meant incre

thanks, ed, and as ed said, i'm juliette cubanski.m associate director of the program for medicare policy of the kaiser foundation. tricia gave you a pretty nice concise overview of the option to raise the age of eligibility for medicare. so i'm going to dive right into the results of a study that we at the kaiser family foundation conducted with colleagues at actual research corporation to analyze the effects of raising the age of eligibility for medicare from 65 to 67. if the proposal was fully implement it in 2014. sorry, can i go back? so we a simple application in 2014 of his proposal in order to calculate the full year, fully implement effects in the current budget window. although most of the proposals to raise the age of eligibility would actually face in overtime. our study is the first to look at the effects of increasing medicare's eligibility age in the post a ca era. and that's important because it, to some extent, alleviates the concern that tricia mentioned that people who lost their eligibility for medicare would lose

. >> juliette, we are going to begin with you. >> okay. >> let me know what you think -- deal or no deal by the deadline? >> no deal like lindsay graham says. the meeting was political theater. >> andrea. >> no deal. he doesn't want one. [laughter] >> unfortunately, there probably will be something in early january -- >> with the parachute or not? >> it will be, whatever it is, it will be a bad deal for everybody. >> squishy republicans i. you are mad at republicans, you are mad at democrats. >> i am mad at lawmakers in d.c. -- >> i think you are going to say deal. >> i don't think there will be a deal before december 31. but i think they will put a place in deal to vote before january 7 and the markets would panic. >> the market's going to panic on monday. >> juan, aren't you excited -- we are going back to the tax rates? >> i think they're appropriate. but i am not excited about it. >> democrats go to pass further cuts, isn't that an acknowledgement that the clinton tax rates were too high. >> it's an acknowledgement that what has been said at the table is true. >> come on. you don't w

juliette goodrich, cbs 5. >>> not only will the supreme court hear the prop 8 case but also a challenge to the national defense of marriage act. >> they've got to solve this as a national level because it's just too much administrative confusion right now. who gets health benefits. who can visit who in the hospital. all of these, which marriage counts. all of these questions. >> lori little calls it an historic time for the supreme court, a decision that is as big as brown versus the board of education which said separate schools for black and white students was unconstitutional. >> this is equivalent to the supreme court take on one of the most devicive sort of exciting constitutional questions of this generation and deciding that they have to issue an opinion on this. >> so, for now gay marriages in california remain on hold. >> that stays in place and will stay in place until they issue their decision which probably won't be until june. >>> gay couples in san francisco's castro district are cautiously optimistic the nation's high court will rule in their favor. cbs 5 spoke with a num