now you are mann ip ute lating us, sometimes you are with us, sometimes against us. >> this caused fearor the impoverished people. the interim government appears to be doing nothing to cool down the anti-french sentiment. >> according to the united nations about 20% of the population in the central african republic has fled their homes. 56 people, including children are dead after an army air strike in syria. human rights groups say military helicopters drop barrel bombs in aleppo. the government has been bombing rebel held areas. government officials say they are targetting terrorist insurgents in aleppo. >> a bomb exploded on a bus in israel moments after it was evacuated. the driver told everyone to get off the bus. no one was hurt. israeli police are blaming palestine groups. spacewalk delayed while repairs are made on the international space station. >> creating jobs for american veterans. how an enpre prenure is doing it one beer at a time. >> welcome back. there are problems out in space. monday's scheduled spacewalk for repairs on the international space station has been postpon

under clear skies so no blankets toinse late us. the arctic air continues to slide in from canada and alaska. it is not the coldest night tonight. the coldest night will be for tomorrow. here are the numbers tonight. 25 in napa. 28 in concord. san jose very chilly air, 32. for monday morning it gets colder. we are talking about temperatures in the 20s. so with this and even the rain we saw this morning, the potential for black ice is going to be out there on the roads because temperatures will be below freezing. you definitely want to use caution on the roadways. here is just a little black ice advice. once you get on the roads and see some pavement that looks glazed over that could be black ice. you definitely want to use caution because you can't tell other than that. you definitely want to go slow around the curves and pay attention to the other drivers if you are out there. we always say it is never our fault. with the cold weather it will continue to stay across the bay area. the worst cold tomorrow night. remember to keep plan

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carriers to comply with china's demand informed of any flights passing through the defence of the late us vice president joe biden set to begin a week long trip to asia on monday. the issue appears far from settled. we have this report these uninhabited islands in the east china sea of the focus of the escalating dispute that decade spent to hire current china plate came to that era treaty which is thought to contain oil and gas has doubts. united states has been flexing its muscles too. on the state sent the uss george washington and cropped area on a training mission of the eyelid if if not why. it is not a vested interest in the region since the end of world war two. but china is selling increasing determination to display it in a tree might be the speed of the islands in the east china sea has become a power play between the united states the traditional wild superpower. i know about and curly one. x but a warning of the potential ramifications of this piece the americans in the digestion in a statement. it's beyond cody was the components of the moment you all the other the only visi

thanks for staying up late with us.ght and that can mean up to 3 inches of rain overnight across the region. let's go straight to the weather center. >> i'm tracking this old front, it's all the way from canada down to the gulf of mexico and it's tapping into some of that moisture. we benefited from the southwesterly winds that have kept us mild all weekend long with record breaking highs. right now the steadiest rain is to our south, but this is regenerate being ing -- regenerating the next several hours. that flood watch is going until monday afternoon. it does look like many of us could pick up as much as 2 inches of rain. so your morning planner will be on the soggy side. be prepared for a very wet and messy commute. we'll start out with rain showers light at first and temperatures will really be highest around midnight, close to that 60-degree mark. then we'll start to see a little slide after sunrise. headed out for the morning commute we're mild in the upper 50s to near 60 degrees, but temperatures take a tumble

we see a lot in the way of rain late tomorrow night into tomorrow evening. some of us pick up a tenth to quarter inch of rain. still some snow to the north. 40 degrees on wednesday. 49 on thursday. here comes the pattern shift. 59 degrees on saturday. look at 60 degrees on sundays. finally, getting mild air in here. it comes at a price in the form of showers. maybe not just showers. we could see one of those days, sunday night with heavy rainmaking its way in. >> all right. >>> well, you bought the gifts, when do you need to ship them off? >> from fedex to the postal service, liz crenshaw breaks down the all important shipping deadlines you need to know. >> the u.s. postal service expects to process 15 billion pieces of mail between thanksgiving and new year's eve. here is when to ship to ensure they receive their gifts on time for christmas. it's already too late for standard mail shipping but you can do first class mail by this friday, december 20th so it gets there in time for christmas. if you want to use fedex, you have to get your package to fedex by tomorrow, de

going to see that this building and the fundamental division between the early adopters and the late and us very interesting thank you for breaking that down we're going to see have our eyes apathy obviously how nations respond to this no nation is currently backed up a crypto currency as an alternative to ffion money but might happen in the future who knows yana sadhaka fits the author of the global minnow tar. meanwhile a federal judge in michigan ruled this week that detroit can in fact file for chapter nine bankruptcy judge steven rhodes wondered aloud in court why such a move hadn't already been permitted given the city's dire financial situation proponents of such a ruling called this detroit's chance at a fresh start and expressed optimism for the city's future however not all are happy about this decision as a result of this bankruptcy ruling public employee pensions are now on the chopping block or as judge rhodes puts it pension benefits are a contractual right and are not entitled to any heightened protection in a municipal bankruptcy her critics warn that this unprecedented deci

notice this has pulled away from us. late evening, overnight events. tomorrow we are okay midday.watch in the afternoon. we are expecting more showers to develop. snow north of the turnpike in pennsylvania and in the high country out in the mountains with rainshowers coming in through the afternoon as we warm into the 40s. as far as the amount of snow, we are not talking a lot, half an inch perhaps in gaithersburg, and frederick. a dusting, too, perhaps a half inch the way it looks now. our forecast today, upper 30s is going to do it for us. light snow, snow showers tonight. tomorrow the shower possible in the afternoon. 45 a shower or two. 38 wednesday, we'll get colder again. and then look at the warm up. friday 68 with an increase in clouds. shower possible saturday, showers more likely if not just rain sunday. still mild with a high of 52. >>> we are going to the kitchen. a neat thing to zçzçtó >>> have you ever taken the time to plan ahead for leftovers? you have big holiday dinners coming up, right? brent the executive regional chest from rosenberg mcdonell would love to do

there will be a system clipping us late friday and saturday. with that cold air in place we could get very low snow levels on here. we will get rain. 20s in the north bay. sunny and cool later on today. maybe a little breeze here and there. 50s today or 40s. it will be a cool day. east 50s won't be there very long. it will be a very chilly day for many. extended outlook has sunshine. friday morning is okay. friday afternoon evening cloud it up. again low snow levels late friday into saturday. another cold one on saturday. >>> ground breaking traffic. driver pulled over using google glass heads to court. >>> pocketing loose change. who's been collecting almost $400,000 from security check points. i love watching tv outside. and why can you move the tv out here? the wireless receiver. i got that when i switched to u-verse. but why? because it's so much better than cable. it's got more hd channels, more dvr space. yeah, but i mean, how did you know? i researched. no, i-i told you. no. yeah! no. the important part is that you're happy now. and i go

late. >> let us know how you do.o know the financial returns from john zimmer driving around the bay area. >> sounds good. most of the rides up going to do tonight will be free. >> the cofounder of lift come a joining us. we will send it back to you. >> i'm going to call john when i jon a ride tonight. erlichman, thank you very much. you might also need some tonight. delivered ♪ >> at google, amazon and even ebay have launched local same- day delivery and in some cases, even hourly livery of goods. commercefrancisco e- startup is delivering wine and cheese for free. we have champagne and cheese and a bit of bread -- this is a business? delivering wine and cheese question were >> right to your doorstep. >> i'm really interested in this because there's a big question in the world of technology whether it's going to be big, amazon, walmart or whatever or if it's going to be vertically focused. uber, opentable -- tell me why wine and cheese? >> we wanted to focus in a way we could compete with other players and work with

us live in san francisco. chase? >> reporter: jessica, we talked to target late today and they told us that if you believe you may be a victim, you can call that customer hotline and find out if your card specifically was among those card numbers stolen. but the frustration was widespread on social media today, where one person tweeted, "it's the most wonderful time of year where shoppers have become the bull's-eye for thieves." carts fullff( and the parking packed. target shoppers in daly city did not seem deterred by the news 40 million of them could now be the victim of credit card thieves. >> i know things like this will happen, but it's not much i can do, but i'm not going to pay cash for everything. >> i don't think it's safe anywhere anymore, to be honest. this happened to be twice already in gas station. it seems to be a sign of the times, you know? people can hack into anything. >> reporter: and this hack was substantial. potentially grabbing any card number swiped at]. every u.s. store between november 27th and december 15th. >> they obviously should have better security for those types of things. >> repo

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. >> reporter: people tell us they noticed something was wrong late tuesday afternoon. they went on line to check the progress of their packages and noticed nothing was happening. jessica jackson spent tuesday waiting and waiting and waiting for a package she'd ordered online from amazon.com to arrive at her montgomery county home. >> the tracking never changed on the website. it just said from 10:00 a.m. yesterday it said on the are truck for delivery. and i'm like, this is just down in rockville. can't i pick it up myself? >> reporter: the package never arrived. jackson was not alone. what retailers call an unexpected surge of online orders appears to have strained the limits of delivery companies. late tuesday united parcel service which delivers around 45% of u.s. packages issued a statement saying it wouldn't be able to get some goods to customers by christmas. the volume of air packages in the u.p.s. system did exceed capacity as demand was much

. >> they bombarded us late in the games and got us the brakes. it's a disappointment to the legend now. >> brazilian authorities gave the go ahead for work to resume at the world cup stadium, five days after a construction worker fell to his death from the roof of the stadium. the court is satisfied that the builders have complied with safety requirements. it was already expected that the venue would miss the end of year f.i.f.a. deadline for completion. >> in the n.b.a. miami heat got their own back over the indiana pacers. the top two were in conference on wednesday. lebron james played through a twisted ankle. he showed no effects. pacers led, with paul george scoring 25. the fourth quarter was miami led bay dwayne wade, finishing with 32 points. miami raised a 15-point deficit ending 97 to 94. >> nhl - nersie jersry -- new jersey senators hosted. 3-0 to the devils. 5-2 new jersey is how it finished. >> to new york where the rangers hosted the pittsburg penn gins. the penn gins with a 3-1 lead, one that didn't last as late in the third the ran

this model actually takes us late saturday night.uld see 5, 6, 7 inches in the mountains and maybe as much as 3 inches or so up toward hagerstown. next seven days monday we are back in business, mid-40s, pretty close to average and tuesday back near 50 and then we're cold again, arctic express pumps in arctic air back in the 30s next wednesday and thursday, but we are dry next wednesday and thursday. >> all right. >>> redskins, redskins, redskins. >> and all the drama, drama, drama. >> i've got somebody that's been even tougher if you think we've been tough. you thought some of the local media have been tough on mike shanahan, wait until you hear a former player, donovan mcnabb going off on >>> now game on with dave owens live from the wusa9 cadillac sports desk. >> trust me, we'll get to the redskins saga in a minute. maryland basketball hasn't necessarily been a smooth ride. when you lose a crosstown rival george washington as they did sunday, people start to question the direction of the program. gw is okay, but maryland is not su

i always try to teach my late friends with using sounds. try to teach them things. they can't get enough of it. yeah. >> there's a lot of push and pull. the other day i was going to yoga class, and my wife said wait for me. and i'm not ready yet. and i said no, i'm not going to do that because you're a late person and i'm an on time person, and i don't want that entering into our marriage because it's going pretty well so far. and she said fine. passive aggressive for late people. and she said but save a mat next to your mat in class for me. and i said cloe -- her name's jen. and i said i'm not going to do that because -- because i don't -- i have more allegiance to my fellow on time people than i do to my own wife. and i get to class, and i feel bad, right? and so i put down a mat and then i put down a mat next to my mat for my wife. and all these people are coming into class, and this woman is like do you mind if i put it right here? i'm so polite i don't even finish sentences. and this woman says do you mind and i was like -- class fills

lawson has admitted using cocaine in a london court but denies he and headaches or new music that fifty three year old said she had taken cocaine on several occasions with her late first husband john died that you use it as a form of escape from throat cancer that went on to kill him in twenty oh one now years later the celebrity chef clincher ex husband charles said she drove her into using the drug again claiming he had subjected her to consume a . and then she turned to cocaine out of fear lawson's confession is the latest twist in the dramatic case against two personal assistants francesca and elizabeth the grill the sisters are accused of cheating a couple of more than a million dollars for upper limits spending exorbitant amounts of blood tree items and travel but they denied the charges claiming that the popular tv personality was so distracted by legal substances that she permitted the overspending to take place. while austin is having smoked marijuana occasionally during her final year of marriage the art dealer she shot down allegations after being in the same. i don't have the drug problem i had the life problem but she also says she's happy to answer

affiliate thank you so much thank you i guess that jelly he used in a story lately told is available now and what could be will be published next year and then you can find me on twitter with kings things i'll see you next time. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. that was a new alert animation scripts scare me a little. believe me. there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow the breaking news. alexander's family cry tears of joy at it great things out there that just had a theatrical regard at a court of law found alive there's a story made sort of movies playing out in real life. in the new world the moment like the. policies i consider you know. the lead. pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i roll researcher. to. the. how do you folks i'm out in martin this is breaking the sat well to activists in oklahoma are facing serious charges after staging a sparkly demonstration against oil company divine energy for its use of fracking as part of a demonstration the two men unveiled a pair of glittery banners and apparen

late. others of us the pump then that the glitch we think the thing should cover the entire border between bulgaria and turkey are hurt he wants to seal the border is ninety nine percent of the refugees are illegal immigrants. we insist border protection the wooden planks and everyone who is illegally entered the area be expelled. the small village of goalie on to vent sits close to where the fence is being constructed the villages here see no need for it. mike and i came on the end andhat god began to go to these people i need eat and trying to save themselves the afternoon trouble and we defeated them i keep them watered and a slice of rats. some have the fortitude to see that it's built into the system isn't too thin. absolute nonsense absolute sense to me is the greek people to come here was coming up. they have no cause any problems at all he in tow. unhcr is also opposed to the fence the procedures of people applying. and the supreme court to decide whether the person that buys qualifies for the students are not. but people cannot access and therefore we don't pay for anything to pre

a leader of the doctors without borders team in syria spoke with us late today. >> it's literally impossible to take care of everything. this is clearly targeting concentrations of civilians. >> reporter: aleppo, once considered one of the most beautiful cities in the middle east is in ruins and those left here after more than two years of grinding war are trapped. on one side, the ruthless government forces of president bashar al assad, determined to smash all oppositions to his rule. on the other, rebel forces now dominated by extreme jihadists. secretary of state kerry said today he still believes peace talks can be held next month in geneva, part of the long -- and so far failed effort by the u.s. to do something, anything, to stop this carnage. terry moran, abc news. >>> and back in washington, this was the scene at the white house today. president obama huddled with tech giants, executives from google, apple, yahoo! facebook, 15 in all, there to discuss the nsa surveillance program under fire. we learned that the white house has tapped recently retired microsoft executive kurt delbene

after being put into commercial use. late last year. the system has improved is positioning accuracy to five to seven meters of the countries and parts of china and ten meters elsewhere in asia pacific region. industry around baker navigation is taking shape the technologies being applied to find a student of these transports fishing with the full cost of the softer eighties and one. they the result of the first ascent of the world. note that all frequencies within the teams units. the vomiting was to create eighteen frequencies promise made to the station in positioning and dedication to the system could be used in a book on to the cricket action to generate small benefits. in the meantime he also released performance tended to fund its bid to accuracy and reliability of the system and they don't set the size navigation system is already extensive he seems that's what it's about eighty percent of passenger and car bounces heavy duty trucks and trailers use the system the system also offers mitigation from the ring fisheries council fis

steven douglas used it in the late 1850 when running against lincoln and came up in the presidential campaign as well. >> during his presidency, what is an issue he worked on or had secretary of state worked on. that wasn't necessarily tied to the civil war? >> well, it was all tied to the civil war. the primary thing was keeping the european powers from recognizing the confederacy, which could have been changing the course of the war or american history if they recognized the confederacy. it was the biggest thing. lincoln also had to deal with a series of crises, with britain, france, spain. russians were friend at the time. it showed up in the middle of the war on the pacific coast. it was an issue. he used the russian ships to kind of play off the french a little bit. so it was a lot going on that i think people don't realize on the global stage. one of the things that interested me about this period there are similarities to our own times. it was not the parallels aren't perfect. britain was the world's kind of economic superpower at that time. lincoln was living in his age of gl

it's rapidly it's rapidly unraveling as we see this conflict persist thank you so much for joining us late of associate at the middle east policy at the f c n l and that's going to do it for now i'm maggie lopez. a. pledge it was a compliment very hard to take a pledge against a long career as a plumber that never had sex with the perfect there's no let's play. lists the i'm. led play. live. st augustine. speaking to. try to. cover a team of journalists trying to release wiki leaks documents. united states is trying to. make. more pro-american they encounter fear ignorance and pressure. country blocks the way to information freedom. media stuff on our to. their i marinated this is boom bust and here are some of the stories we're tracking for you today. chat room ours will be closed from nine to five at least if you're employed by a big bank that's right banks that may start to see.

affordable care act, and let's see if president obama still calls it obama-care, we haven't heard him use it lately, but this is crunch time. going back on offense and trying to turn the page over the last two months. we will also make an impact on how it is making a difference. the benefits of these protections will only accumulate in the weeks and months ahead. some of them i just mentioned. people gather near the white house today to call on president obama to do more to help treat allen gross. the american contractor has been held in a cuban prison for four years. he was there to set up internet service. but cuba says it was part of a blot to undermine its government. he was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in jail. libby casey joins us now, libby, what happened at the vigil that was held today. >> allen gross lives outside of d.c., and he was very involved in the jewish community, and what he had gone down to do was set up internet hubs. he was a sun con track for the u.s. government, the agency for international development. so judy gross, just says that her husband was doing his job and t

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they will keep us inside lated. the freeze watch first begins in the authority bay tuesday night into wednesday morning. of course roekt your pets, plants and pipes. and then it extends to the rest of the bay area with the xt essential of san francisco wednesday night into thursday morning. there is increased risk of hypothermia, so be careful. the coast will be down to the mid-30s wednesday, thur. b thursday, but inland mid-20s wednesday morning, widespread freeze thursday morning. we're looking at low 20s showing up. so widespread freezing conditions. it's time to pull out all your winter clothing. i'll be back with a look at what other signs of winter coming early. >>> warming shelters are opening up throughout the bay area in preparation for this week's cold snap. three shelters in the south bay will open in the next hour at 6:00 providing 275 beds for those who don't have a warm place to stay at night. the shelters are run by ehc life builders who which provide help for the homeless along with a place to sleep,

us and i'm not afraid because in most cases well. as far as the technology is concerned there are late years ahead of us and we have learned a lot of things from them a lot of the things that we use today we got from them you know. of led lights and microchips and. kevlar vests and all sorts of things that we got from their technology and we could get a lot more too especially in the fields of medicine and agriculture if we would if we would go about it peacefully but i think maybe some of our people are more interested in getting there their military technology. and i think that's that's wrong i think that's wrong headed and that's one of the things that that we're going to have to change because we're going to have to work together talking about all of us everywhere on the planet you mentioned military technology and swapping to acknowledge is and barters between entertain it between allianz and people an american government i want to ask you as a former minister of defense of canada it's an interstellar more possibility should we be creating a star wars force to defend ourselves from possible invasion or something like that . well i th

. >> margaret, you know, if you did use u.p.s., maybe you september late, you can use that as an excuse at this point i suppose. it wasn't my fault you know? >> that's right. it prolongs the holiday, too. add an extra day. >> i like you're finding the silver lining in this. that's fantastic. you have a very merry christmas. thank you. >> you too. >>> you know it's a holiday ridgeal for many children, getting the photo snapped with santa. at a los angeles mall, a special santa claus is the main attraction. some parents call ahead to make sure that this santa is working before they bring their kids to the mall. kyung lah is tracking the story in los angeles. >> heart of every mall at christmas, elves, cameras, crying babies. >> hohoho. >> all to see the obligatory mall santa but it's a rare sort of santa at the crenshaw plaza in south los angeles. >> we came to see the black santa. >> he draws crowds of preschoolers and their patient parents. >> merry christmas. >> just like every santa in any mall america. >> what you want for christmas? >> iphone. >> the pictures are characteristically

this is a franciscan church, and the franciscans were the passionate preachers of the late medieval world. they usedheir words to tug at the emotions of the faithful. and at the same time, the painters increasingly tried to bring the gospels and the stories of the saints to life before their very eyes. at first, as you can see in this late 13th century saint francis altarpiece, they did it with stiff, iosing figures and with bright, doll-like symbolic scenes and images. and here next door in a much-ruined fresco, i'm afraid, painted probably only 30 or 40 years later, you can see the revolution represented by the art of giotto, the great contemporary of the poet dante. heres a new soft, warm reality, a new humanity and pathos, a new ability to take the faithful back and make them feel that they were actually there and filled with love for this loving saint whose love of christ and love of life and of the beauties of the world wrought a transformation in the spiritual life of europe. [colin eisler] giotto's frescoes gave a new sense of weight to the body, a new sense of urgency to narrative painting.

the storm system dropping down could bring us showers late friday night and saturday. says we don't have weather here? we have a lot happening. >> coming up, vin diesel talks about the death of paul walker. how he paid tribute to his costar tonight. ♪ getting cozy. ♪ shopping for gifts online. ♪ the perfect way to get into the spirit any time. ♪ ♪ hello target.com. ♪ that's my kind of holiday. >>> he considered him a brother, "fast & furious" costar vin diesel surprised fans when he showed up to honor paul walker who died in a fiery crash on saturday. fans gathered 30 miles north of hollywood. with them, vin diesel. >> if my brother saw the love you were bringing here he could see for himself that all of you have shown up to show my brother love, it's going to stay with me forever. i want to say thank you. thank you for coming down here and showing that angel up in heaven how much you appreciated him. thank you. >> police say walker was a passenger in a porche carrera gt when it plowed into a tree and light pole and burst into flames. nbc news learned drag racing was n

us. >> late today a news flash on retired fbi agent robert leavenson which is believed to be one of the three americans still held captive in iran. at the time of his disappearance was working for a group of cia analyst that had no authority to conduct the operations. his family received a $2.5 million payout to drop plans for a lawsuit. cia declined our request for comment. >> james, thank you. >>> the you thinking of north korea leader has been executed according to the media. he had been the second most powerful official in the country. he was removed because of allegations of corruption, drug use, womanizing, leading what was called a depraved life. minutes ago the white house said if the execution is confirmed it's another example of extreme brutality of the north korean regi regime. >>> united nations inspectors say chemical weapons were used in syria probably in several locations. the report did not determine whether the government were responsible. the reports of the free syrian army has forced to three. the news suggests the conflict takes another dark turn for the worse. quote

late. frank luntz gives us the latest on obama's unpopularity plus p.r. strategist howard bragman and political commentator tanya acker on what the president means to do now to regain the confidence of the american people it's all next on politicking with larry. welcome to this week's politicking we're talking about the president's declining poll numbers and no one better to break it all down for us the real story with the pollster and republican strategist frank luntz one of my favorite people all right the recent c.n.n. poll of polls and frank by the way is a republican strategist a best selling author and he's been a commentator an analyst on fox news and c.b.s. recent c.n.n. poll of polls shows obama's approval rating at forty one percent fifty five percent disapprove the only people lower of congress who have faith what's going on franco first of congress has got it eight percent nine percent job approval rating khadafi had a fifteen percent job approval rating and that was among the people who killed him hitler had eleven percent yeah bug juice and

the announcement that the price of the first-class stamp will rise from 46 to 49 cents in late january. this got usondering about the future of mail delivery in this country. for more, we're joined by bradley clapper. he covered the story for the associated press. let's talk about how important this price hike in our stamps is to the viability of the postal system today. >> well, certainly, the postal service hopes this is going to help it generate more revenue. they were hard hit by the recession. they've also been hard hit by increased competition from private postal carriers, as well as the internet, which makes a lot of things we used to do by post not necessary any longer, but for consumers, i don't think there will be immediate drastic effects. yes, three cents more a stamp and considering how much less consumers are mailing today, it shouldn't be a dramatic pinch in the pocketbook. >> what about the companies that use bulk mail often, whether it's the magazines or publisher's clearinghouse, are they going to feel the pinch much worse? >> this is where the louder protests are coming from, whe

leader in chief just how far down as you fall and can we improve his image before it's too late frank luntz gives us the latest on obama's unpopularity plus p.r. strategist howard bragman and political commentator tanya acker on what the president means to do now to regain the confidence of the american people it's all next on politicking with larry. welcome to this week's politicking we're talking about the president's declining poll numbers and no one better to break it all down for us the real story with the pollster and republican strategist frank luntz one of my favorite people all right the recent c.n.n. poll of polls and frank by the way is a republic.

officials are keeping a close eye on reservoir levels and tell us late winter rain will be critical to keep supplies robust enough. cal fire issued a burn ban for several parts of the bay area because of the dry conditions and dry brush. rosemary orozco is tracking the dry condition but first oo robert handa -- to robert handa where the ban is affecting farmers there. >> reporter: for farmers right now is the time to plant and prune the waste. but the lack of rain is stop leg of it. -- topping all of it. -- stopping all of it. >> reporter: he hasn't had to deal with such a dry winter in a long time. today he piled up the green waste to let it crew for his winter burning. >> one of the requirements is it be dry when you burn. to not create a problem with the pollution so mine are ready to go and unfortunately they just put a ban on it. >> reporter: the burn ban went into effect today. officials say it is ironic because this is usually the start of what they consider the rainy season. >> our burning conditions and the fuels are as dry today as they have been in september, october. the on

late. it caught us. >> it was a pad damad dash for survival. heat was so intense. didn't know when he was going to stop. >> before the explosion the fire department was aware of the boilover danger but believes that i have it under control. >> we have to stop operations in about ten minutes. >> firefighters can prevent a boilover from happening by making sure the water sprayed on the tank drains out the bottom. this time, they miscalculate. >> as the water tank boiled over. >> despite the chaos, david a instincts kick in. he keeps taping as he runs away. >> i thought this is it. how i had the presence of behind to point the camera backwards and run, but i thought this is it. i better catch it on tape. >> more than 30 people are burned including david who radios for help. >> i had blisters the size of oranges on my arm. it was pretty painful. i was out of work for like three months until i recovered. >> firefighters who thought the fire was under control suffered the worst jurisdiction. >> it would take off the gear. they sat there and starred running and that's how

thank you so much for bringing us this late hour here there. and here's food at that allegedly shows another attack on a christian a monastery in syria this is an orthodox monastery north of damascus the opposition justified the attack saying as the troops were using it as are tillery position and you can see here rebel fighters targeting the buildings which then catch fire my colleague kevin no one spoke to us are an anglican priest in syria about the fate of christians in a war torn country. thousands and thousands hundreds of thousands of christians where this place from their homes and a lot of christians were killed we still have two bishops missing from from a little we don't know anything about them and now another attack on the of the christian community in syria and the world is watching robert is it because the christians in syria big specifically targeted just getting caught up in the wider conflict what's the picture i think they are being used by both sides. as a political card because the regime wants also to feel to to show that

use the word terrorists. the guys he came as a major blow to the credibility of obama and his potential successors then secretary of state hillary clinton. in an interview aired in late november obama says he thinks the us will have a female president in the near future. there's much speculation that hillary clinton who unsuccessfully ran against obama in twenty oh eight might be looking into another run. the former first lady new york senator top the polls on who is set to become her party chores twenty six in rates in god see one of the biggest u s national security and intelligence failures in many years under her supervision as secretary of state's comment on your bed where she compare that with the murders of americans two guys out for a walk one nights has been widely criticized i. deputy prime minister in the lake and staunchest comedian billy connolly have joined mourners at the start where a police helicopter crash in costs that killed nine people last week. the helicopter crashed onto the reef was the packs of failing the dust and debris the street dancing tree died in the accidents aerial pictures showed the damage the wreckage of the helicopter was relate

late. and in the us freedom of the contest for a german woman. after two decades on death row the eye. norse korea appears to be in the midst of a perch following the execution of the second most powerful man in the country. jones will attack was hanged to death on the orders of the stuff you can michelle on who is now consolidating ska punk how will the skin is successful he couldn't show is still control the country for years to come. the execution of the leading member of his family's old dawn is raising questions about the stability of this unpredictable and newquay of state. like his father and grandfather before him. kim jong un is constructing his own personality cult making link you will not tolerate any threat to his authority. im killing and opinion on just a look and sixty feet in a current state media. using the new day. he was going to destroy a hold on to unity execution is too lenient only to be torn up and thrown into the rubbish bin of history. will the lasagna digital cinema. in two years since kim jones who became supreme leader. his uncle john's aunt it was consider

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. >> good morning, we will have clouds entering the picture tomorrow but too late to insulate us so thatxtended until friday morning: 19 in napa, shattering records from napa to santa rosa and close in oakland and san jose at 30 degrees and mid-20's in the san ramon valley and on the coast in the upper 30's. it is freezeing. give yourself some extra time from san francisco and the east bay and san jose, the forecast culls for the freezing temperatures through 7:00 and around 50 at coast and around the bay we are looking at numbers from the 30'ss finally in the 40's by noon, and fairly uniform here, too, as well, and leyla gulen has been looking at the roadways and black ice. >> that is right. it sound like the first accident because of the weather as we take you to san bruno traveling along 280, a solo peck spinout at crystal springs and we are in the upper 30's to watch out for that with c.h.p. advising folk on the roads to watch out for the possibility of frost on the friends or the bridges. in hayward, the crash is blocking two lanes and bringing the speed down to 28 miles per hour. w

picture in the us but actually even more delayed in terms of his rehabilitation if you like mandela was on the terror list and he and his associates were removed from the database until as late as two thousand and eight nine years after his presidency of south africa was already over now my colleague paul us there has been looking at this in more detail mandela's life over in south africa he's the man who pulled a troubled and divided land back from the brink of civil war the man who after twenty seven tough years behind bars walks free from prison in his heart was not revenge well i think his greatest legacy to this country is reconciliation. in the last three decades the world timelessly polished the image of nelson mandela and image recognized around the world only coca-cola is better known better men who struggle for racial equality again south africa's ruling white minority had a dark side the world has conveniently forgotten about nelson mandela of and leader of the struggle. a radical. someone. embraced violence as a necessary political instrument at a particular juncture in history and this house was the secret hip quarters of the african national congress it was her

tell us about the late latest of the skirmishes. >>> before dawn they moved into the square behind me here, independence square which they've occupied for more than two weeks and of course it's been their symbolic protest against the president, viktor yanukovych, who has produced all this reaction from the authorities. city hall was another area, another location, where they'd occupied and were holding out in protest against his last-minute failure to sign a deal with the european union, and take ukraine closer to moscow. there was hope of negotiation, only 24 hours ago. but suddenly at night, the riot police swamped this area, and moved in, taking down the barricades and pushing the protestors back to the central part of the square. my colleague, robin forester walker has the story of the night's events. >> everyone had been expecting it, confrontation. revolutionary center of kiev, government unable to save face. government militants stormed the blockades. it seemed like a battle to reclaim the square held by the opposition for more than a fortnight. progress was slow. it took them

i'm surrounded the late developments in the star is said to stay with us he'll announce keen to show. a son doctrine and all is that if they get hounded by the us congress to the defence of commons since nineteen ninety six and its remains unaccounted for at the city has to find the overnight nation having some of the modern sophisticated ministry conway in the wild. the seminar is on antiquated and data for an accounting compete assistance is even lead to a two g to pass now under war veterans being and it paid off season and that chicken investigates the pentagon is almost certainly the biggest source of waste in the us government to avoid this investigation says since nineteen ninety six the pentagon has spent eight point five billion dollars in taxpayer money that has never been accounted for. nobody can say for the coming new feelings about an hour where waste it on goods and services that would never do it but it got over payments to contractors and many other things. what does congress do about it. nothing and that secured actress eve myles he is here with me to this country. t

please tell us who is danny cox >> in the late nineties in the first boom he was a mathematical genius and computer scientist at mit and the company that he created as a master's thesis changed the way the internet work. at that time the internet was suffering from a lot of the road blocks and traffic congestion. >> and why don't we know more about him? >> we don't know more about him to the and the story was largely on hold to the he was the very first victim of that day and his story went on hold for over a decade until somebody read about that and felt like a was a group that had to be told and it wasn't about the way that he died but that is the way that he lived and the incredible technology that he created. how was he a victim of 9/11? >> he was on a flight and on the morning he boarded the flight for a business meeting in los angeles and the flight was hijacked 45 minutes into the flight. we know from the flight manifest from the commission report that she was unfortunately engaged in a struggle with one of the terrorist to stop them and was stabbed from behind and died before a

use. when i was successful. an intense and heavy vehicle for discussion lately. to the where i was so great that i can bill to die alone. hopefully through stereotypes. and for us and also back in miracles and says well so i try very east to west. aren't i. so that's really what i try. by tonight you knew when will the wing will. the us. welcome to the world islam and you know tony and tokyo shares a look at some other stories we're following this hour. i am the prime minister of japan is praising the government's first national security strategy and new defense guidelines saying don't become historic documents nelson mandela inspired millions at home and around

steven douglas used it in the late 18 50's when he was running against lincoln and it came up in the presidential campaign as well. >> during his presidency, what is an issue that he worked on or had secretary of state seward work on that wasn't necessarily tied to his presidency? the civil war? >> was all tied to the civil war. the primary thing was keep in the european powers from recognizing the confederacy which could have changed the course of the war and could have changed the course of american history. that was the biggest thing that lincoln had to deal with a series of crises with britain, with france, with. the russians were friends of the time, friendly power but russian ships showed up in the middle of the atlantic and pacific coasts of that was an issue. he used the russian ships to kind of play off the french a little bit so there was a lot going on that i think people don't realize on the global stage. one of the things that really insures did me about this period was there are some similarities to our own times. the parallels aren't perfect. britain was the world's ec

remember when the late -- used to say i was wearing stp, i was a branding operation?t's the way things are here now if you're down here. i'm not saying for or against but you have to understand this is a show piece, too. >> the branding is an important part of the going public process. >> something you want to talk about. that's what it is in a lot of ways. >> that's in part why you do it. >> that's why there are various packages you can get. you can go ala carte. >> people should understand there's a price to be paid. >> absolutely. bring some of those over to us. they look pretty good. some food. let's talk a little macy's. last night the company in an upbeat mood this holiday season. on "mad money," terry lundgren they expect to continue taking share from the competition and department store chains feeling better this season. take a listen. >> in many cases, you know, this time of year customers are coming in to buy gifts for themselves. while they're here they're buying for themselves, the beauty category is part of the whole business and that's indicative of how