. >> let?s turn now to n the uncle was kind of put in there as regent in order to watch over him. there was also a military contingent that was part of that. i think that we don't know what the affect of it is and they have a tendency to do something to distract. on the other hand, it could be seen because some of these people were known to be hardliners, that he wants to move in a different direction. >> you were one of the few diplomats to ever spend time there. he was not the leader then. do we know anything more about him now, the way he is different from his grandfather or father? >> we don't. people are supposing because he went to school in switzerland that he might have a different idea about things, that he might have more western ideas. very few people have met with him. we do not have a lot of information on him. the weird thing is that we did not know that much about his father. i know when i was going over there one of the hard parts was trying to get information on him. ultimately, i spoke with the president of south korea who was able to tell me that kim jong-il was

let's s have jonathan hoenig explain are you buying into that and would you be buying that now?uggesting that. not just the data that we have the last couple of days, but also a lot of the actual stock actions within the market itself. reaching the llmited partnerships, all of the dividend oriented stocks and investments that people made because of government intervention. which you alluded to. you need low interest rates that cause people to make an vestment based on assumptions and this could get out of line very quickly this continues. neil: the recovery could be picking up, believe it or not. you by economically sensitive issues or the indexes themselves? >> yes, i think you would with some of these issues, but i think that we are getting a little bit aheadof ourselves and i don't think quite yet that the fed is going to show signs of tapering. mitch mcconnl was more reticent than mitch mcconnell. we have seen an incredible run-up in the market because of what john has just said. neil: you are keeping rates very low right through 2017. so have we got behind the curve? >> no

s. let's start at the almanac page. 44 was the morning low. very little sunshine. we normally drop a lot. not so much tonight. southwesterly winds and the are keeping temperatures very warm. still in the upper 50's. now we are talking record territory possibly this weekend. here's the record highs that exist. i think it is a cinch to break tomorrow at bwi. maybe reagan national. we will at least tie the record on sunday. 63, 50 three at reagan national. 57 in gaithersburg. rhetoric is reporting 57. -- frederick is reporting 57. a new weather center coming, just maybe. we will see the temperatures hold steady in the 50's overnight. cold air, a ton of it. look at the difference in temperatures between little rock and oklahoma city. a 36 degree difference. that is the cold front. it will cap a lot of moisture from the gulf combined with the pacific moisture and high-level winds will bring this northward. this is setting up for a very nasty stretch for the next 48 hours. already the weather in bad shape across oklahoma. a lot of ice storm warnings in effect. a signific

upper 50 and let 60's tomorrow and low-to-mid 60's on saturday and sunday and monday and tuesday and low 60's wednesday, so it is the sunday, monday, tuesday, timeframe where a few areas may get near 70 degrees and throat records. have a great day. in the westbound direction, at north gasoline road, we have this big rig that is stalled in middle lanes. it is causing slowing right new and we have a slowing at grant at 28 miles per hour and then slow and go over the pass and to vasco road. when we go back to the drive through albany, we still have this big rig westbound at gilman street and we have delays and in the eastbound direction it is not a problem up to rich monday with an early sig-alert further to the north and that is cleared but go have residual delay and the activity is showing we have slowing there. so, be prepared for that. the drive time traffic 680 from walnut creek to dublin southbound 14 miles per hours and 101 southbound from santa rosa through marin to san francisco is 51 minutes and through the santa cruz mountains highway 17 to los gatos is 23 minutes into san jo

planner next 12 hours, 45 degrees around the bay with high clouds and it will be mild with upper 50's to let's and silent this evening with temperatures in the upper 40's to mid-50's. inland, no frost i have seen just yet but there could be some developing around novato with temperatures in the mid-to-upper 30's and low-to-mid 60's and piled 63 during the evening hours, and out at the coast we are looking at temperatures in the mid-to-upper 40's this morning, and possibly topping out in the mid-60 by noon with a breeze dropping us back into the mid-to-upper 50's as we head from 4:00 to 7:00 with no burning of wood because of the pair spare. leyla gulen? >> it is 6:31 and in traffic we have this accident in cupertino if you are traveling along 280 northbound at highway 85 a single vehicle crash and c.h.p. is coming out and creating a breakthrough to move the car out of the lanes and open to the shoulders so much with out for that. we had an early stall, southbound 101 as you head through sausalito to spencer avenue that is cleared and you can see a little bit of volume head out of bound to th

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and "spare the air" day but the temperatures are warmer today and close to average in the mid-50's on lets smooth but this crash is in the clearing stages and all lanes now are re-opened. the damage is done. we have a 20-minute drive from dublin down here. if you are coming away from concord from highway 4 to walnut creek, that, also, is a 20-hadn't drive. >> the senate has been in session all night and here is a look from capitol hill with republicans fuming over democrats' if you limits on filibusters so they refusing to give up debate time on presidential nominations. democratic majority leader harry reid is threatening to keep the senate in continuous session throughout the weekend. >> six, a new breast cancer study released this morning fines high risk women could be able to reduce chance for getting cancer by getting treatment ahead of time. researchers studied more than 3,800 high risk women include those who took estrogen-reducing drug were 52 percent less likely to get breast cancer. >> map who is accused of making up hand gestures for the deaf says it was ascites it was a schizo

today we are getting closer with let 50's in the east bay valleys and concord and antioch and livermore52 and same with san rafael and everyone else in the mid-50's to 58 in oakland and santa cruz is near 60 for the warm spot. lows tonight are most of us in the mid-to-upper 30's around bay shore and san francisco is 44 and near freezing in the east bay valley but freezing in the north bay develop with 20 so the freeze warning is in effect for this area from 10:00 tonight until 9:00 tomorrow morning. one more night of protecting the pets, the laboratories and the pipes and yourself. high pressure is double barrel, strong ridge pushing the system to the north and it will grab a lot of cold air. it will dump it east of us. we are going to get an offshore wind so we will continue to see milder and milder afternoons and after tomorrow we are going to get a little bit of a cold front and a wind shift so hopefully by friday the "spare the air" days are over and temperatures will warm in the low-to-mid sit this weekend through tuesday and it still looks dry all seven days. >> we are finding out

a $29 value free. ♪ ♪ s david: let's go "off the desk."lly be pedaling in the clouds much the project is scald sky cycle. 135-mile network paths built above existing rail lines there. the three-story high cycle highway would have 10 routes throughout london. this doesn't come cheap. one, four-mile stretch would cost 300 million bucks. ain't cheap. cheryl: also off the desk, former dominic's employee create ad sci-fi themed video criticizing safeway the company that owns the grocery chain for closing2 stores with the loss of 6,000 jobs. video went viral reaching almost 100,000 views. prompted the worker's suspension on the company's final day of operations. may cause minimum to lose three weeks of severance pay. david: looks professional. we asked if you thought the auto bailout was success or failure. taxpayers or stockholders were burned. government should not be involved in business period. cheryl: guy on facebook told us, gm should take the hit, not taxpayers. government should not have be about involved to start with. that is what capi

member s of the public, let's hear from the member s of the public. >> good afternoon, miss brown. >> hi, thank you commissioners and director ruskin, i'm sally brown, administrative assistant for supervisor breed. supervisor breed is very much aware of the safety and transit impacts on these large corporate busses. the transit impact, these large tour busses through the alamo square neighborhood, it's been a constant struggle for the community. it's not a safe virpb environment for the pedestrians because of the wide turns the busses need to make. also noting the safety of the idle wild students, traffic has to go around the buses in ood lane and what we also have been seen and told idle wild students are actually stepping off the streets into the crosswalks and the traffic does not have a few of the students going into the streets and they can't see the traffic coming on, on-coming traffic. so it's also, one of our biggest complaints in the office, in the district 5 office, is of course muni and time of muni running. and for the hayes 21, we've been getting several complaints that t

s. let's not let this issue upset a budget deal or a debt ceiling deal, which we need to keep the economy moving more broadly. in that is there room for compromise? of course. when it was 99 weeks, it's different from now, say 47 weeks, so now the super turbocharged level, but need mentioned earlier some states didn't extend the benefits. those states were probably mostly red states, frankly, with probably better economies to begin with, perhaps like texas, for example, or kansas, south dakota, north dakota, with other things going on, so it's hard to separate correlation and causation, but if you have somebody in the job market two years, and they say i've been unemployed for two years, newt has been unembroiled for three months, which one will you be looking at more seriously? irmgts i still don't understand. if you don't have 1.3 lazy americans. i do know people in the situation, actively trying to find the jobs. what's the moral case for further punishing them? what's the economic case for cutting out the jobs they're supporting? >> i've been a supporter in minnesota for some extensio

most are in the 70's today but a five us are in the upper 60's and well let you know. mid-to-upper 30's inland neighborhoods and low-to-mid 40's an the bay shore and palo alto is 48, and 40 is the warm spot in san francisco. we have two areas of high pressure keeping the jet stream away from us and an upper level to the south is bring the high clouds to us and bringing more moisture in the upper atmosphere and why we have the filtered sunshine, the low pressure will crash the party and bring us the change in the air mass as we head to wednesday so tomorrow about two to four degrees cooler and another two to four degrees on wednesday and thursday and friday, there is an outside chance of showers and i think the showers on thursday will be in the sierra and out over the ocean, it will miss us and be breezy and school with mid-50's on friday and it will feel different than today with low-to-mid 60's close to average through the weekend. have a great day. leyla gulen? >> a big construction project this will begin today and this is long the presidio if you are traveling betw

t a good volume down the east shore freeway, but let eets s's show you the map.ill the of drama ouch rich mond. an earlier crash that kind of mixed things up. 880 moving nicely. off the east shore freeway, a smooth drive as well. >> moving smooth ly. overnight wind advisory, calling that out. we'll give you a live look at oakland. a smooth drive north past 98. there's still activity at the intersection, but it sounds like traffic flow is okay an if you're trying to get to the art, that's on the other side to have freeway. back to you. >> thanks. >>> happening now, fire crews still on the scene after a massive strip mall fire in southern california. this is what it looked like just a few hours ago. firefighter s have the fire knocked down now. just south of l.a., fire officials think it started at a discount store, then spread to the ceilings and attic space at an asian restaurant. >>> redwood officials are talking with sims metal management after the second fire in two months. they want to come up with quote immediate actionable items to prevent future fires that

examine it s let's instead of just doing it. onald reagan wanted to cut marginal rates. maybe he was from the rich, i don't know. it from 70 when he was president. >> we're talking about 17%. gains in red capital 1997 and we got to a balanced budget because we provided incentives. all of this money sitting on the sidelines, you know what they're doing? twitter ipo.e i'm not telling you that -- you know what i think we ought to have a flatter tax with fewer provisions for these to, you know, loopholes or provisions. get the taxes flatter and get taxes down.e that will help us, that will help businesses to be more competitive. frankly a lower flatter tax for americans is good. believe in appen to an earned income tax credit. that could accompany it. it's one way. we had the largest tax cut in the united states in the last budget. we -- we have earned income tax credits. refundable. it helps people. that's a reagan philosophy. help them both ways. so with carried interest. i haven't spent enough time it.nking about it should be on the table. at the end of the day, let's not

let's look at the numbers. the s 500 went down fractionally pulls out the dow jones industrial average was up 16 points. up twodaq composite was point two just under 4000. let's get you the stories high and the numbers. su keenan is standing by with those details. >> despite that loss for stocks, there were some big gainers. adobe sword as it attracted more subscribers than forecast for its online software pulls out texas industries jumped. and t-mobile is moving on reports that sprint might be mulling an offer. nimble, thewas flash storage company, that raised more than expected in its ipo. the former chief operating officer of qualcomm was just bumped up to ceo and president. there were reports that microsoft was eyeing him in their ceo search. he takes the reins of all, in march. big capital changes at at&t. honeywell announced a stock buyback program of almost 5 billion. electronic arts rallied as videogame sales jumped up to the eight percent year-over-year. 4 and playstation microsoft's xbox one played a big ro

s. let's make the commitment every neighborhood in san francisco has a lafayette park in their own neighborhood. (applause) >> and, so, for a few thank yous, i mentioned phil ginsberg. i want to thank all our other elected officials, leno, wiener, cisneros, we have so many commissioners here as well. but i want to thank you in particular and i think we need a big round of applause. you realize the people here past 10 o'clock last night cleaning up. our recreation park department staff that made this happen today. (applause) >> these are the unsung heroes that don't get recognized very often, but they are what make our parks work and look the way they do and we are so lucky we have one of the most beautiful parks now right in the middle of pacific heights. but there are two people -- i want to thank a few folks. stefan franz as well, and our friends from prozac that represent our parks department and represent all that we believe in in our neighborhood. thank you for all that you do. and i really in particular today want to single out two folks. phil mentioned the friends of lafayette park and w

i want to let you know in terms of train, vre is on an s schedule. penn and brunswick lines also an s schedule and no camden trains. the northbound side of 95 is looking good. 270 southbound looking great as well. shady grove road to the point where the lanes divide. now we'll go over to virginia and see what it looks like on the northbound side of i-95. all green to 395. we'll take a live look in springfield on the northbound side. you can see even the hov lanes are open and volumes are light. >>> nasa is preparing for a space walk this morning to fix a cooling system on the international space station. astronauts removed the faulty pump during a space walk over the weekend. >> susan mcginnis has a preview of the procedure that has only been done once before on christmas eve. >> reporter: nasa astronauts

let me be brief. if your company has a tank, don't get mad. >> 's nights let me be brief.out their 401ks tainting. they say that that company should have known that it should've let people invest during the financial crisis. so do you disagree? why wouldn't you have a strong part of this? >> were dealing with a group of people who unfortunately lost a lot of money in their 401k. they had a big chunk in their own company. >> because they worked at the company? >> exactly. because they worked as a company. what they are saying is that you invest in this and clearly at is not an appropriate investment, but an unfortunate investment, they plunged into a lot of high risk loans. many including citibank and you know, others, that we saw with bank of america, all of them plunged. but tey invested in their own company. >> videos the thing is is that you do have a certain friends. >> it must be pretty good? >> yes, that is the point. they need to believ that their money is being invested responsibly. we know that they can sue if their retirement account is being mismanaged. if there

. >> sure s let's get the latest now from abc7 news sandhya patel.ed and warm here. i felt a cold escaping freeze, clear skies with exception of san francisco which will be the only place staying above freezing here. freeze warning going up for the bay area tonight at 9:00 p.m . north bay under it. it's going to run throughout friday. subfreezing temperatures. protect your pipes. there is risk of hypothermia. clear skies. cold mornings coming tomorrow low 20s inland. low 30s coast and bay. freezing inland again, friday morning. temperatures moderating a little bit into saturday. 27 in napa. san jose, down to 34 degrees. one record in salinas. that is the only record we're talking about.

. >> let's leave it there. tim, thank you s thank you veryr that. >>> let's go to south africa where nelson mandela's coffin is lying in state. it arrived flanked by soldiers dignitaries and members of his family. mandela will lie in state for three days, allowing south africans to pay their respects one last time. mike, in the last two hours or so his two former wives were there. i imagine it was pretty emotional. >> yes indeed. throughout this period of mortgages, graca machel and 1ie mandela, have been gracious. they are again together. so they will be among the first to view the body, as i said accompanied by the state president. other dignitaries will then follow what we will be seeing in the course of the morning and day are speeches from the podium in what has been renamed the nelson mandela amphitheater. that is a huge area of serrated steps in front of the union buildings itself. there will be a series of speeches. we are told by protocol officials that there simply was not enough time for everybody who wanted to speak

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00 in new york city and this is "the five." 2013 is winding down but beforeg we ring in 2014, let's take a s moment to revisit some of the top news storie s of the year. what were some of the hot topics you heard about here on the five, here's a look back. >> if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor.r if you like your health care plan, you keep your health care plan. >> and i am sorry that they are finding themselves in this p situation based on assurances theyre got from me. >> i rise today to begin to filibuster john brennan's nomination for the cia. i will speak until i can no longer speak. >> we the jury find george zimmerman not guilty. >> i intend to speak in support of defunding obamacare until i am no longer able to stand. >> we the jury duly impanelled and sworn do find the defendant as to count one first-degree murder guilty. >> help me. i'm amanda berry. >> do you need police fire or ambulance? >> i need police. >> what's going on there? >> i've been kidnapped and na missing for ten years. a i'm here.no i'm freew. now. >> the fact is we have four dead americans? was it becaus

00 in new york city and this is "the five." 2013 is winding down but beforeg we ring in 2014, let's take a some of the top news storie s of the year. what were some of the hot topics you heard about here on the five, here's a look back. >> if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor.r if you like your health care plan, you keep your health care plan. >> and i am sorry that they are finding themselves in this p situation based on assurances theyre got from me. >> i rise today to begi

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you have former commander john allen who says come with me and let's design -- let's take on --s projecto what would project. what would be a full proof security project? the most important thing to deal with with the israelis coming have to answer one question. do you know what neighborhood i'm leaving in -- i'm living in? john kerry is starting a conversation there. i know what neighborhood you are living in. in order to say to you, if you go this way, the balance -- i can change the balance between risk and opportunities. and also doing nothing is a big risk. we see mounting israeli- palestinian violence. there's also a movement to legitimize and isolate israel. john kerry is trying to say i will put the straight before you and i think the balance of risk and opportunities are here. and where the opportunities are greater. >> do you believe those are the places like toronto -- like questions arehese finding some residents? -- finding some resonance? >> yeah. i saw an interview the other day with the iranian foreign minister. some issue where we went after some companies that were appe

s. >>> let's start with decriminalization.ama commuting sentences, it appears 2014 will be the year of decriminalization of marijuana and other drugs, and possible a move toward getting rid of mandatory minimum sentencing, on 2014, i think the dominos will begin to fall when it comes to same-sex marriage. when it comes to marijuana, that is a states' rights issues, the states have thumbed their nose at the federal government and caused this sea change. on the other hand, the idea is states should not have that power to legislate, even if it's a democratic process. states should not have the power to prohibit same-sex marriages, and i think that's going to get defined in 2014, if not 2014, then soon after. we very close to that, as it is. >> i agree with that. yeah. but i think there's another trend. in my book "taking the stand" i predict over the years, the supreme court will diminish, and i think we're already seeing that happens. we're see the states taking the lead on abolishes restrictions, on several of the things that w

s&p 500. it is up by almost 4% at this hour. let'sey who joins on the fast lane who covers facebook. buy rating of $60. >> hey, melissa. >> does this pop we're seeing in the after hours account for all of the index fund, incremental buying that will take place because it's being added to the index. >> hard to do that math right off the top of my head. three catalysts we were waiting for. this was one. we may get the second tomorrow which is this instagram event and third the growing monetization of video advertisement on facebook shares. we like the stock because of these kind of catalysts. here's the addition to the s&p 500. it's a positive one? so based on tomorrow's instagram event you could see another jump in the stock. what would you want to see? >> well, look, instagram is an asset that this company acquired for 1 billion at the time, it looked expensive. in hindsight it doesn't. completely unmonetized but almost 20% the usage of facebook. no particular reason why it wouldn't monetize as well as facebook currently. it's going t

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let's check back with news4's derick ward to find out what happened. good morning, derrick. >> reporter: good morning. this is an end of the testing phase, so they expect to have a setback, and had something like that this morning. you can see here, the trolley car, the product of the czech republic, and it's actually moved. it used to be a little farther west of here, up h street, near union station. now, they moved it down earlier this morning, about 6:00, and they found some issues with the overhead lines, and they've actually gotten vehicles up there. we want to show you video of some close-ups of this. and this thing is commanding a lot of attention. it was when it was brought in on friday, and it is this morning. it is a harbinger of change on h street, a whole new mode of transportation, new in the sense there hasn't been a streetcar on these streets for at least half a century. so once this thing does start running, it will be quite a fixture here, and planners hope it will bring folks who h street. once again, now, in the testing phase. and we

let's go back to the 90's, mr. ambassador, it looked like for a while the ukraine had managed the trick of making the transition from a post self yet soviet state that could stand on its own. they worked out deals with the arsenal, soviet navy, territorial pursuits, the ukraine for some time looked like it was ready to become an independent country. >> it was first in line, but unfortunately the politicians in charge tried to play both sides against each other. east and west. and they lost their way. but more significantly the leadership of ukraine initially was soviet. soviet in background and soviet in mentality, and soviet in behavior. and it's only now that we're beginning to see the generation that it was born after independence. it was not brought up in soviet ways, and is definitely on track to become a democratic nation. >> katherine stoner, are we watching ukraine art the precipice trying to figure out if it wants to be more like poland or it's next door next-door neighbor belarus. >> it's broadly reflecti

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s bacon. >> let's talk about this from a view.rs point of once there goes through talk about what itbe meaning for business. will it mean for goods on the high seas? be enacted by two-thirds of the parliaments of he signing countries and it rusts reds tape. -- reduces red tape. reduce, two ways it one reduce levies. that is difficult and one thing taking two decades to resolve. then there is the simpler issue of reducing red tape and on the same systems and that is what they have done. oecd says 10% to 15% of a cost is generated by reds tape. cheaper.will be that is the result of the deal and it should be 10% cheaper. that is significant. one reason you had u.p.s. saying global huge in terms of economy you mentioned this could trillion to global economy. trade is smaller than the global economy something like a third. -- global whreblg economy is $65 trillion. step, an incremental increase by 2% or 3%. >> not insignificant. you talked about the key food security. >> yes if there is anything all about it is food security. it is a big part of every country's industry. that has been hol

let's check the boards. the s&p up 0.5% at 1818. the dow rising 0.25%. e nasdaq rose over one percent at 4104. a check of the indexes for the week shows them all higher, about 2.5%. let's check some the top stories. the u.s. economy expanded in the third quarter at the fastest clip in almost two years. 4.1%limbed at a revised annualized rate. up spending oned health care services and companies invested more in software. after spending 10 years in russian jails for what many believe were trumped up charges, man.ail is a free charges were a payback for financing political parties opposing vladimir putin. safety checks are being performed at theaters in london's wes and after the partial theater collapse at the apollo theater. many were injured when chunks of debris rained down on the audience during a plate. investigators are trying to determine the cause of the collapse. that is a look at some of the top stories in the news. after passing the first budget in two years, senators left washington to return to their hometowns today. senator rob portman flew ba

s. >> let's turn to comets made by the former president of the n ra explaining his member ship. >> somehere was a dinner honoring general mikhail kalashnikov. he is the man who during the course of world war ii in his spare time invented the ak-47 and one of the few heroes of russia because of their flawed past. so on the occasion of his 85th birthday, there was a dinner honoring him in moscow. the toast was given by president putin. when he finished, he stood up and held his glass in putin's face said, my dream is like the united states, governed by men and women not afraid. we made general mikhail kalashnikov and honorary life member of the nra after that. >> that is david keene. the significance, bill hartung? >> it is stunning. basically they are bracing the they are embracing the maker of this weapon. probably the biggest killing machine of the 20th century. i think it just shows you how skewed the nra view of the world is. they try to block the arms trade treaty which is trying to deal with things like this, keep these weapons out of the hands of terrorists and tyrants. the nra ha

s&p 500. well, it's, let's see what it's doing right now, down 3.6% following the quarterly report. there's a look at a year to date. you can see it has run up, but today pulling back some. we've had a lot of mergers today, liz. we see a rally on our hands at least for today after two weeks of selling for these major averages. back to you. liz: doesn't it amaze you, nicole, the nasdaq up 32%. i find it fascinating to see that technology overall is such a winner. >> reporter: it really, it outpaced both the dow and the s&p, and that is damage 5,000 doesn't sound so crazy -- nasdaq 5,000 doesn't sound so crazy anymore, right? liz: not by much. calm down, killer. thanks a lot, nicole. appreciate it. well, you cannot ignore that industrial production number for november that came in today at the best levels in a year. but that was sort of counterbalanced by a miss for the new york regional manufacturing index, called the empire index. either way, guys, let's bring in the traders. the markets decided to focus on the good versus the bad or the ugly. jon corps peen that, what a rally today

this is definitely barack obama's read my lip s moment. >> let me get emily in here to defend whether or not you think it is that serious of a moment. whether we still remember that. >> look, i think today is a rebrand. today is a hit restart button on it. since the health care law started to go into effect. the website was not good but it is not the law. there are other pieces that have gone into effect like being able to get new coverage. young people being able to stay on their parent's coverage. >> yeah, but today republicans agreed on. those are not the things that we are hearing about that are problems with the law itself. but now the president is going to come forward during the month of december. 15 minutes from now we will see what that is about. have a great day. >> thank you. >> the white house seems to be running out of excused for the problems with the website. >> where is the accountability? will somebody get fired over this? >> it is impossible to do something in this administration that gets you fired. it is impaossiblimpossible. you can lie to people and misrepresent

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has been engaged in the region of let's remember since the one nine hundred seventy s. when all journal chevron discovered oil their first washington was also one of the biggest champions of south sudan's independence in twenty eleven let's discuss this and the background what's happening now with the author historian gerald horne he was indeed mediating the sudanese civil war in the 1980's and a better person to talk about it with either gerald folks or taking the time to be with us this christmas day very happy christmas to you as well of course. that's why the clock back in fact let's talk about twenty eleven first what led to the events of twenty eleven then one the clock back maybe more interesting really we talk about the role and we put off and talk about on this program the role america played in the secession and the split in twenty eleven but how involved were they in practical terms. united states was basically the midwife for south sudanese independence if you go back and look at the press coverage in united states in the run up to two thousand and eleven you

s on. >> let's turn to one of the judge's favorite topics. >> senator, there are 9 million cell phones inhe state of virginia. >> it's a pleasure to meet with you and honor to chat with you. 380 million of these in the united states. the federal government headed by the president of your party says his spying apparatus should have coverage without a search warrant. a judge said that's unconstitutional and doesn't work. this week the president's own review board said there are better ways to find out who the bad guys are. where do you stand? >> i think there are a lot of bad guys throughout. policies that we're saying is this president were actually started by president bush have been supported across the board from the intelligence community. on our recent intel bill, i added additional amendments would allow other independent intervention into to make sure. >> harry reid wouldn't let them vote. >> let me say this, i've looked at other alternatives. this data is held more secure for an extended period of time. tell co does not want to hold this information as long as we would need. it's n

i am not in a position to ask an athlete to do that. >> let's talk about the sponsorship. gamble,'sr & they are looking to promote their brands. they did not think they would be in the middle of a political human rights protest. billions of dollars at stake. what is it that your group would like to see these sponsors do? sponsorsd like to see be explicit about their commitment to human rights. i understand the business side. i understand that being a top sponsor of the olympics is not only something that affects these games, but future games. it is not just about sochi. it is about all of the games to come. ofcannot ignore the fact what is happening to the lgbt community in russia. i think a corporate sponsor have a platform and an ability to let lgbt views in russia know that it is ok to be gay. they will not be discriminated against, and there are people in this world that care for them and said to them. it would be really easy on behalf of these corporations to at least make a statement about that or help support the lgbt community in their outrage. >> you've talked about future

back into the 50's on thursday and after morning clouds we will have the winds chase them away and we will have sunshine in the afternoon, possibly frost friday morning weapon the winds let up and low-to-mid 60's, saturdays sunday and monday so the winter solstice is saturday but it will not feel like it. >> we have 30 bart trains on time, ace train number one is on time from stockton and we are in day two of the construction project so if you are leashing san francisco headed across the golden gate bridge and into north bay, be aware until 2:00 this afternoon northbound and southbound highway one and 101 through park presidio are affected while they remove the trees to enlarge the northbound lanes. this is because of a long-term project lasting all week. the project starts at 9:00 and runs through the in day until 2:00, and that is the case for the rest of the week. drive time traffic 680 walnut creek to dublin is 15 minutes and we we southbound from santa rosa to san francisco is 50 minute commute and through the santa cruz mountains along highway one, to los gatos, that is 24-minute drive. outside we go to san jose, 280 away from highway 17, you can see we the two car

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>>tep on t, let's s how u look there, sweetie. >> oh, my d. >> isn't that unbelievable?at thanksgiving this was his meal, right, 1,600 calories. this year at thanksgiving, he still enjoyed everything, ashed it in half. >>ll right, congratulations. go for u. >> okay. sabrina's our second. >> this gorgeous lad her name sabrina, she's 39 yea old, she's from grayn, georgia. she was a super athlete. she came fro a sthern traditional familyith lots o fattening food when she was growing up, she was eating a gillion calories. she was burning a gazillion calories. she's in her 20s. she had a desk job. she didn't have time to exercise. she gained an ex-orb tentunt of weight. today, she's down 141 pounds and she's a personal trner. she plays full-on women's tackle football. and she's getting married next year. >> comon, sabrina. ohmy go that is crazy! >> oh, my god. >> youook amazing. >> thank you. >>seriously, standing there -- what? how long did it take you to lose all that weight? >> it took about a year and a half to lose the weight. so about ten pounds a month. took itff slowl

lou: i really do indicate out of watching the dow jones industrials and the s&p. lete this week. we will have to have a good day tomorrow to make it a straight weeks to record heights. but this president talking about income redistribution and the income gap. he does not mention the fact that under his administration, i mean, this market has soared and continues to do so, almost 30% year to date alone. there is -- i find that amusing. i do not find it amusing that this president has not found a way to create jobs. i want to say thank you very much. goodo ve you with us. >> thank you. lou: a pleasure. michael goodn, thank you. >> my pleasure. lou: up next, the top four campaign staffers not interested helping the former first lady make another run at the white house. what in the world is going them? to they know who they're talking about? the new york times best selling author. it knows all and tells all right here next. ♪ ♪ lou: a lot going on. the obama administration moving closer to finalizing a controversial rule that would gi green energy company's 30- year permi