the bay area discovery museum in salsalito has the largest kwanzaa event. celebrates traditional african american values. >>> los angeles played host to one of the many kwanzaa parades taking place across the country. this one featured drill teams, vans and even mini cars. the theme was lowering obesity, hyper tension and other health concerns. this is the 34th year for that parade. >>> well still a lot of work ahead in the coming weeks before one of the country's most famous parades gets in the way. hundreds of volunteers are constructing elaborate floats for the annual rose parade. it's flower and crate paper. this one will include fruit seeds and bark. they'll be striking up the band next sunday. >>> and we'll be right back. ,, lightning fast. lightning strong. verizon 4g lte. rule the air on the most advanced 4g network i want a robosan 4000. [ mom ] the one no one could get. toy stores are reporting long lines and empty shelves. a robosan 4000. [ mom ] and i mean no one. so i did most of my holiday shopping on citi specials. with the money i saved, i b

medical marijuana and christmas and then kwanzaa.ple, if you're listening today, remember the meaning of tonight as tuesday the 14th at bowser pizza, 371 11th street. don't forget at task force, the third friday for those people that have been coming on wednesday night, to come friday to the meeting at 9:30 for our compassionate youth. and i want to throw out some things, compassionate tom jones , and i have the green pastor rainbows, underground medical marijuana, section 8 cannibus. come on out. this will be my last year. for 10 years i've been giving cannibus -- sharing cannibus with christmas people, 2595 market cross from safeway, 2020. also you need to listen to the radio for the kwanzaa event coming up the day after christmas. and also, this is the -- if you can get a picture, the a.c. emergency dinner will be on the 24th and 25th at the war memorial. come out for cecil williams give away on that day, the prime rib day and just think, you know, martin luther king is coming up in january and we want the kwanzaa people to get in

the name kwanzaa is a swahili word meaning the first fruits of the harvest. holiday is designed to highlight and promote the principles of unity and self-determination. it also recognizes the cultural gifts of all people of african decent. up next on abc 7 news at 5 a.m. the 49ers make a coaching change. they fire mike singletary, find out what he had to say to the fans. >> i'm terry mcsweeney live at san francisco international airport. snow in the northeast causing big problems at sfo. details in a live report. today, we gather to recognize the selfless decision of one of the most influential women of our time. the woman who, after having one too many drinks, chose not to drive home buzzed. here today to honor rachel is the family whose lives she spared. grands! flaky layers biscuits? the warm, light delicate layers are like nothing else. add a layer of excitement to your next meal. ♪ start with cookie dough. ♪ add frosting. [ giggles ] [ female announcer ] then sprinkles. [ both giggle ] [ female announcer ] fun. easy. [ child ] wow. [ female announcer ] a

merry christmas ,happy kwanzaa, we already have a hot cup. -- hannukah. >> i want to say something about the commission packets. if it is really the case that the e-mail system cannot handle what your sending us, if there is some way that we can get a hard copy, and i can't say all the time, but can you put this in the mail on friday and maybe we would all have it by monday or earlier? tenth street -- i would like to find some way to be able to review all of this. if you could maybe e-mail that to us, we shouldn't see this stuff for the first time. >> i apologize if that is what happened this evening. i am not going to necessarily offer by and for mail delivery, but i would use the united states postal service. >> do we have any special precautions we are doing? >> we can assist them in creating a comprehensive list of events that we know about. i believe that they will be out in force on new year's eve. in to be in as many places as possible. as we have been receiving any special permits, that will also be on that list. it will be comprehensive by christmas had we will add anything extr

the name kwanzaa is a swahili word meaning the first fruits of the harvest. holiday's designed to highlight and promote principals of united and self-determination. it's also meant to recognize the cultural roots of people of african decent. the season of giving had a good showing throughout the bay area this weekend. >> merry christmas! happy new year! >> the annual christmas meal at glide memorial church in san francisco was another mouth-watering success. some 5,000 people were served turkey with all the trimmings with the help of over 500 volunteers. elsewhere people in need were fed and clothed. children who otherwise would not have seen a gift were surprised by some very generous firefighters who collected a total of 15,000 toys with help from lefty o'doul's restaurant and luxer taxis. let's go to thomas who reports on the christmas day distribution. ♪ >> tenderloin residents and homeless are being treated to soothing music in san francisco. a hot meal and a gift bag with included. everyone receives a hand-made scarves. >> scarves from australia, japan.

. ♪ [ music ] >>> the celebration of kwanzaa is under way in the bay area.discovery museum sausalito kicked off the areas largest kwanzaa event with live theatre, crafts, music the 7 day holiday celebrates african american culture, heritage it was created in 1965 as a tribute to african harvest festivals and celebrates traditional african american values. >>> all right, the third time may be the charm for play boy magazine founder hugh hefner who said he is engaged again. >> we wish him all the luck. 84-year-old hefner tweeted yesterday he gave a ring to his girlfriend crystal harris she is 24 years old this is going to be the third marriage for hefner. you might remember he divorced kimberly conrad last year. >>> 5:27 a.m. another bomb scare overseas latest on a suspicious package sent to rome embassy. >>> bay bridge construction project, seismic work being done under the radar. >>> blizzard like conditions on the east coast snarling air traffic all over the country. information on cancellations in and out of sfo coming up ,,,,,, [ male announcer ] how do y

the name kwanzaa is a swahili word meaning the first fruits of the harvest.day is designed to highlight and promote the principles of unity and self-determination. it recognizes the cultural roots of all people of african decent. just ahead on abc 7 news at 6:00, the newly discovered documents showing the new year will bring some changes for the i-phone. plus the e-tailor that could soon have a way for you to return those unwanted gifts before they're ever even sent to you. >> i'm terry mcsweeney live at san francisco international airport. the big snowstorm back east impacting flights here at sfo. a couple dozen cancelled. the storylllllllllllllllllllllll

today is the first day of kwanzaa, a weeklong celebration of african american culture and heritage. it differs, celebrated in 1966 as a way for african-american families to connect with their ancestral roots in their community. based on seven principles and promotes the holiday runs through january 1st. we want to show you what of the many homes around the bay area all dressed up for the holiday. this one was in south san francisco looking a lot like a gingerbread house. here's an interesting to stents statistic people off spent over $15 billion and holiday decorations and to make a lot of people smile big and small. we will be right back. mom and dad will love you wishing everyone a very merry christmas. >> i'm stationed in ottawa canada ought to give a big hello to my good friend jennifer, a cabinet baby lucille in concord california. happy holidays skies and love you so much. season. verizon 4glte. download a song in 4 seconds. rule the air on the fastest 4g network in america. world news surprise travelers in spain a message of hope from pope benedict and president barack obama

integrity question by making a christmas song no he made to it's you know make a hanukkah song me a kwanzaa song make some kind of a muslim song to do it all right well i mean i did to him kind of took away from the fact that this was real life you know he was really psyched to story here now for you know well right. here about. what does that other does that i want to do that that will be very high here like one last video plays for you again. ok that was listen listen i'm going to make a comment on here this is this is this is literally like a pedophile olympics that was so scary maybe the most mad about this is that mother defended herself saying you know what the reason that they were so small is because the costumes or most flexible you know you can see her now saying that these costumes are right you know how hard is the popular with the sweaters whites which i tell you about i'm going to go out and. just. dramatize does for every thank everybody have a good night. to tonight's fireside for your host cops. i know today is not friday it's thursday but since we have a day off tomorrow i

celebrations begin today for the seven-day african american holiday kwanzaa.t's a non-religious holiday started 45 years ago by african american leaders. it's swahili, it means the first fruits of the harvest. the holiday's designed to highlight and promote principles of united and self-determination. it's to recognize the cultural roots of all people of african decent. the season of giving had a good showing throughout the bay area this weekend. >> merry christmas! happen new year! >> the annual christmas meal at glide memorial church in san francisco was another mouth-watering success. 5,000 people were served turkey and all the trimmings with the help of over 500 volunteers. elsewhere people in need were fed and clothed. abc 7's thomas roman reports on the christmas day distribution. ♪ >> tenderloin residents and homeless are being treated to soothing music at saint anthony's hall in san francisco. everyone received a hand-made scarf. >> we had scarves coming from australia, japan. we gathered over 70,000. >> they put out a web appeal last summer asking for

. >> bill: merry christmas happy kwanzaa,. >> winter soltis, everything. >> bill: do they not know theres a federal holiday that all the federal offices are closed on christmas day voted upon in the congress? >> right. >> bill: does the aclu not know that. >> of course the people at aclu would know that because they work at the aclu and it's going to be closed on christmas. >> bill: that's right. we're going to demand that every aclu office be open on christmas. >> exactly. >> bill: if you are not open, i will scorn you. >> exactly. send wiehl after them. there was also a rasmussen poll in 2009 that 83% of americans actually believe in these religious holidays. >> bill: they are indoctrinated. they're all brain washed, everybody. >> they don't have constitutional leg to stand on. bill. >> what do like about it is the scary tactic. if you don't do this we're coming after you. >> bill: the aclu nuts. in chicago, the woman was supposed to get married. the fiance backed out and she is suing him, wiehl for $95,000? >> that's what she put out for the wedding costs. she put $30,000 into renting

. >>> and today is the second day of kwanzaa a second day celebration of african american culture 13the bay -- and heritage the bay area's largest event was yesterday at the bay area discovery museum in sausalito. >> traffic and weather in just a minute ,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> gad morning still dealing with pothole problems in santa rosa. they issued a traffic alert for the area. crews are blocking off the right lane trying to get a very large pothole fixed as you can see it is slow going through that stretch. also got problems with fog. three dense fog advisories in effect, carcenas bridge, venetia bridge and bay bridge they have metering lights turned on for a little while but then they turned them off because we never saw a back up despite low visibility not many cars on the road should be an easy ride into san francisco. let's go check your forecast. >>> thanks elizabeth. yes, definitely quite a bit of fog out there, we are having in the forecast this morning. and here is a lookout at sunrise, 7:28 a.m. a look at your seven-day forecast, mix of sun and clouds through the afternoon highs

when looking at algorithmic traders having kwanzaa can help us understand how algorithms operate in different market stress scenarios enormously helpful. so throughout the organization, we really tried to focus on bringing in skill sets that help us keep up with wall street a little bit better. in addition, we created a division of risk, strategy and financial innovation which is a locus for a number of these new skill set that were solving them throughout the agency is well and they are giving us the ability to think about how to connect the dots more effect only in how to take a more interdisciplinary approach to some of the problems we see. so if they work in progress for short, but it's very exciting to see the sec bringing this new talent. lots of dodd-frank questions. will move away. proxy access. the commission's proxy access rules are being reviewed by the court of appeals. will this cause the rules to not go into effective proxy season? if the ruling strikes down some or all the new proxy house rules, which you expect will happen next? well, when the sec was sued by the chamber and o

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