america is leaving in the various lee g. is leaving after nine very long years, and there is debate? >> president obama is doing what he said he would do. at a certain point, we need to set our priorities straight and globally. we will remain engaged in iraq. this is part of the overall strategy to rebalance the global priorities. i think he is doing the right sort of thing here. >> america is having an effect of victory to iran. opinion polls -- americans are fed up with this war, we don't see this as a great day of celebration. there are people out in the streets -- iraq has been the rear view of most americans. >> and i think with good reason. we need to put this behind us. i think it is oversimplified to say that iran is going to dominate iraq. they are very nationalistic, strong, and proud. i think it is a little simplistic to say that we are receiving this territory because iraq will have a saying for that. >> you are a national security expert. there is so much pressure to pull these troops out of iran and focus back

america is leaving in the various lee g. is leaving after nine very long years, and there is debate? >> president obama is doing what he said he would do. at a certain point, we need to set our priorities straight and globally. we will remain engaged in iraq. this is part of the overall strategy to rebalance the global priorities. i think he is doing the right sort of thing here. >> america is having an effect of victory to iran. opinion polls -- americans are fed up with this war, we don't see this as a great day of celebration. there are people out in the streets -- iraq has been the rear view of most americans. >> and i think with good reason. we need to put this behind us. i think it is oversimplified to say that iran is going to dominate iraq. they are very nationalistic, strong, and proud. i think it is a little simplistic to say that we are receiving this territory because iraq will have a saying for that. >> you are a national security expert. there is so much pressure to pull these troops out of iran and focus back

sears grace lee. p g and e is investi >>> good morning. 7:25. m grace lee with your cbs 5 headlines. >>> pg&e is still investigating why the lights went out twice at candlestick park before and during last night's 49ers game. the nfl security chief says that he saw a transformer blow up outside the stadium. but the utility says a downed power line may have been a factor in the first outage. >>> the utility has just announced an opt out program on smartmeters. if regulators approve it, customers who still have an analog meter can keep it and those who have the digital meters can have the old devices reinstalled for a monthly fee as well as a reinstallation charge. >>> tonight the oakland city council will discuss the idea of giving id cards to the poor and undocumented. this is a concept that has taken hold in a lot of cities including san francisco. oakland would become the first to create in effect an alternative banking system because the id card would double as a debit card. >>> we'll have your traffic and weather coming right up. [ man ] it's

>g our mayor, ed lee. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. i am very happy to join all of you here today. it is an exciting day to join our high school kids, our high school, here at john o'connor. principal gomez, our deputy superintendent, our school board president, and our building trade, thank you for being here. the director of the joint power trended authority. we have the sfpuc, the school alliance, school district personnel. we are all here because we are excited about this wonderful announcement. we are here in a very green, multipurpose use building that has just been opened. this is going to be representing something that i am quite familiar with. i know mike and others closer to my age, we had a wood shop. we had metal shop in middle school. we had exposure to how to deal with graphs. more importantly, you are talking to somebody who used to spend five years at the department of public works, as the director. we're having to pay attention to our infrastructure, one of the most important things any city can do. when we are trying

lee. jon: i'm jon scott. welcome to a brand new hour of "happening now." the iowa caucuses exactly three weeks from today, and the gop hopefuls are fighting for every vote they can gote counts, doesn't it? in a race like this. we're going to take a look at two polls, newt gingrich leading the pack at nearly 30% and ron paul in third. about ten percentage points behind romney. another more recent poll has those same three candidates nearly in a statistical dead heat. l gingrich still ahead, but paul and romney close at 17 apiece. a.b. stoddard, before we dig into these numbers, just give us kind of a big picture here. why does winning in iowa matter? >> winning in iowa is, it's the first contest, and it creates momentum, it creates money if you're the victor, and it is just days before new hampshire. new hampshire tends to sometimes take another victor, but it's really the first contest, it's a conservative swing state, it really is a very tough for any republican to explain away a bad loss. i think that this year the result could be muddled, we might not have a clear victor in iowa, but everyone wants to make a splash in iowa in order to build momentum for the con

g stratus. >> anthony swathe. war of the donald margaret swire. mark alex pager. andrew alexander jurong. arafat anthony tomas. jonathan ryan thomas. mark lawrence tobin. .. bonny leewilliams. brittany lee williams. eric john williams. george williams. stephanie lee williams. miriam luby wolf. chelsea marie woods. deborah lynn woods. joe nathan woods. joe nathan woods jr.. mark james's einberg, we remember. no go. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we are going to go a little bit out of order. we were going to have bob mueller but instead we are moving up the attorney general partly because he has to leave and he can't stay for the entire -- stay as long as he can. the attorney general, the position, if there's a job in government that gets more criticism than the transportation security administrator it's the attorney general. i just want them both to know that is not true here. you are both among friends here. we are very grateful for what both of you have done to keep this country safe. the attorney general, a number of people called and said, how did you get the attorney general to come speak? we didn't invite him and we did not invite bob mueller. th