it's driven by the local u.s. attorneys. it's the local u.s.orney here in melissa haig and others around the state who are hyper aggressive and they're not collaborating with city and county government who is are regulating medical encourage in marijuana in a responsible way. what obama is doing is he's showing a failure of leadership. 's not leading the aggressive attacks, but he's not pulling back on ways he could be doing on what they are doing. >> legalization versus decriminalization. i hear talks where it's one and the same. we don't say we're liberals but progressives. is there a major distinction? >> there is. basically legalization refers to more or less regulating marijuana like alcohol, which is what colorado and washington are proposing to do, and what this marijuana initiative did in california two years ago. that gets rid of the black market it brings in quality control and ultimately it's the right thing to do. decriminalization is a step in that direction. it's saying that it's still he will legal to produce or grow a large amou

the local u.s. attorney and it will be interesting to see what they say. because we in colorado really need to know that. people wanting to invest in these businesses need to know what the federal government's viewpoint is going to be. >> so you're going to have a rough couple months or maybe even a rough couple years? >> i suspect so. >> we wish you luck. and thank you so much for joining this morning. we really appreciate it. colorado's attorney general john suth suthers, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> talk back question for you today, can president obama romance republicans? facebook.com/carolcnn. >>> now is your chance to talk back on within of the big stories of the day. can president obama romance the republicans? remember the 2012 election? done! next. now it's time to tackle the fiscal cliff, unless president obama and the republicans make some sort of deal. both sides first need to feel the political love. they're already flirting. >> tonight, you voted for action, not politics as usual. you elected us to focus on your jobs, not ours. in the com

letter foreign exchange swaps and forwards are the means by which foreign investors convert local currencies into u.s. dollars so that they can purchase u.s. government debt obligations as such liquidity in those products affects liquidity and u.s. government debt obligations that we believe may reduce liquidity in those products and that in turn may reduce liquidity and u.s. government debt obligations so there is kind of a banking bankers case saying hey better exam these are roles the ability in the liquidity in your debt is going to dry up. yes and it's pretty interesting that it almost recollects the so-called paulson's bazooka when he was threatening that the entire financial system would collapse if we didn't in the tarp of course he ended up using tarp for different reasons than he had stated at the time but if we with respect to the specific treasury decision by geithner to exempt foreign exchange swaps and forwards the proposal was actually put into place just in the air in april or may of two thousand and eleven and back then they gave a totally different reason somewhat specious saying th

u.s. government usually calls it burma. >> i shared with president thein sein our belief that the process of reform that he is taking is one that will move the country forward. >> local people lined the streets waving u.s. flags to welcome the american president. obama then met longtime democracy activist aung san suu kyi at her home. >> i'm proud to be the first american president to visit this spectacular country. we've seen some very encouraging progress. >> we are working to success for our people and for the friendship between our two countries. >> some human rights activists called the visit premature, but obama said they should take the opportunity to encourage what he called the better impulses in the country. >>> israeli leaders are being bombarded with international calls for a ceasefire even as their military forces bombard more targets in gaza. the fighting started nearly a week ago. the israelis are going after the islamist group hamas in retaliation for attacks on their towns and cities. they're considering a ground offensive. israeli military forces are using fighter jets and warships to pound gaza. leaders say they're trying to prevent hamas from firi

u.s. was behind local israel that its support for what was essentially rock solid that it did not in any way condone any kind of rocket fire into israel and that the loss of everyday life was regrettable for washington's almost unflinching support for israel is raising doubts that the mediating missions taken upon itself will bring biased results plus america's track record and selecting word a push for peace and protect civilians isn't helping as i can now explains. the crisis in the middle east probably like no other crisis reveals the double speak of u.s. foreign policy the us basically gave a green light to any of their actions with regards to palestinians and israel has been taking advantage of that quite extensively because as president obama explained there is no country on earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders makes complete sense nobody should but one may ask what about all those countries that the us has bombed irak of ghana's them pakistan yemen and others or is it that when you refer to civilian deaths as collateral damage somehow foo

u.s. military and the local population are extremely tense and have been for many years. so this just adds another incident on top of what is already a very bad situation. >> china's ruling communist party is about told a once in a decade congress or the next generation of leaders will be unveiled. our correspondent is reporting from all parts of the country looking at the challenges china will face over the next 10 years. at the three gorges, we're looking at how construction has affected people. >> it is one of the biggest dams ever built, over two kilometers and costing over $40 billion. it was designed to tame the yangtze river. with a project on this scale, nobody was allowed to get in the way. when it was completed, these fishermen were told to leave. but they say it is the only job they know. >> we cannot make a living if we cannot fish. we have appealed, but no one is listening. >> this stands as a symbol of china's and development over the last decade. the scale and pace of change has been unprecedented. the wave of millions of people pushed aside by the communis

u.s. attorney announces a 31-county indictment against local youth boxing director keely thompson junior and his wife bye annika. prosecutors say the couple spent hundreds of thous sards of grant money on car, cruises, gambling, even renting a ferris wheel for a house party. >>> on to superstorm sandy where new york city has now canceled the marathon. that's one of the biggest sporting events of the year but at least 41 new yorkers died in the super symptoms, and nearly half of them on statten island. hundreds need food and water, and they say help just isn't coming fast enough. >> reporter: the new york city marathon is the latest victim of superstorm sandy. the city canceled after public backlash. some complained the marathon would take police away from areas still recovering from the storm. the mayor issued a statement saying we cannot allow controversy over an athletic event to distract attention away from the critically important work that is being done to recover from the storm. many of those affect agreed. >> life changes. you can't -- sometimes you've got to cancel things. there was

home of a woman in colorado springs. 63-year old sahara donahue had enlisted the help local occupy activists after u.s. bank ordered her to vacate her home. when activists set up a barricade to delay the eviction last week, at least 10 truckloads of police reportedly arrived at the scene carrying heavy weaponry. the police forced the activists onto the ground at gunpoint before barging into the home and carrying out the eviction. those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. i am glad to be home. with temperatures dropping into the 30's at night, concern is growing for the nearly 2 million people still without power after superstorm sandy. while power had been restored to most of manhattan, many of the hardest-hit areas of the city@ remain in the dark, including s.i., rockaways, and red hook. in new jersey, more than a million people without power. new york mayor michael bloomberg said 40,000 displaced residents are now in need of shelter. we begin today in the rockaways, a peninsula located in the southeast section of the city. o

. >> the fbi, the local police, and the u.s. attorney's office simply want this case to be closed. but is it? tonight, you decide. did the fbi catch all the suspects? did the fbi let one of them walk? and did the fbi make a mistake putting blame on a pizza delivery man whose secrets blew up in a parking lot? it was a hot thursday afternoon. jane hyde was expecting to see her brother at a party that night, but she had one errand to run. a quick shopping trip on erie's peach street. but there was trouble. police had blocked the road. cops and cars everywhere. she turned around and went home. it was only later that night, watching the 10:00 news, she learned what that traffic was all about. >> my kids are sitting on the couch and then the story airs of a bank robbery and a man came in to the bank with a bomb on him. >> you are recognizing your brother? >> my brother sitting there with this bomb on him. i'm thinking, okay, the police have him. they'll find out who did this to him. then as it goes on, it's like -- brian exploded. you know, the bomb went off. brian's dead. i'm like, i ca

u.s. going into these areas, trying to get locals to establish ties with the afghan government establish ties forces and win them more so they do not want to align themselves with the enemy. and the book is basically an entire history of counter insurgency in this entire area. the americans do win over to a degree a lot of the locals. so it is not a failure, there are successes, but there is a catastrophic event that changes the entire dynamic in the valley, so there is a chasm. and then everything goes to hell. so it's kind of just an anecdote told in very human terms. >> jennifer: well, i appreciate the fact that you wrote it. since you are here and know the ins and outs of things i want to turn to current affairs, it was say that susan rice mislead the country on the attack in libya. >> what is interesting about that is obviously house members have no say whatsoever in nominations to be secretary of state or any other cabinet position and it would seem if people have concerns about what ambassador rice said, and i was one of the people she said it to she talked about how it was a protest o

local mercedes-benz dealer. >> near the first time ever. u.s. companies are paying a global warming fee for carbon emissions.lifornia the state raised 300 million for businesses buying cap and trade permits and more are expect tod come later. get rad for this to sweep over the crountry and sweep away jobbings. >> it means less investment and job cradings and lower standard of living. this is it another government attempt when gang sterse do at this time they don't have nuclear physicists weapons. you hav to pay up. it is it a source of money and putting an artificial expense on business. >> if businesses have to pay more and they would cut back on jobs. >> i am contemplating the fact that california has nuclear weapons it is still far more red states than blue states. i wouldn't be concerned about it when it gets congress. >> it starts in california and spreads. nonly music. i am confident it will not. and troubles me. big business can handle this because of them having the over head but this crushes small business. >> morgan the president said he cares for more maul business. >> i don't buy many companies h

u.s. osprey transport aircraft is another sticking point. defense officials have yet to convince local population to accept training flights over their neighborhoods. in okinawa people are calling for stronger controls on u.s. troops after the recent sexual assault of a woman by u.s. servicemen. on the economy japanese officials will be preparing a response should the u.s. press japan into joining free trade talks for the transpacific partnership. there may be friction if the u.s. insists japan drop its tariffs. but overall, obama's win should be good for japan. there's the chance of stronger u.s. ties. with china relations gone sour over the senkaku islands conflict, that's sure to be reassuring. june oikawa, nhk world, tokyo. >>> chinese leaders have welcomed obama's re-election. nhk world reports from beijing. >> reporter: foreign ministry spokesperson said president hu jintao and premier wen jiabao each sent a congratulatory message to president obama. >> translator: we intend to keep working with the united states to further develop our relationship and cooperation. >> but the new

u.s. chamber of commerce whose local branches are helping community businesses in this effort. and the commissioner of new york city's department of small business services. great to see you both. a very trying time for some people. robert, we were just talk towing. you took a tour of red hook an area here in new york city that was devastated. >> devastated. the sad thing is red hook has come such a long way. many entrepreneurs have set up shop there, i visit ad winery, wonderful man who makes key lime pies, glass cutter, designers, completely wiped out. 300 jobs at fairway, big supermarket there wiped out. and many of them are fighting back and looking to get back on their feet. >> i want to take this in two parts. what can you do if you're hit by a disaster and second what can you do to prepare for this. gerald talk to me very quickly. if you're a small business owner that was affected by this, where can you go? >> well the first thing that i would say is call our help desk. the u.s. chamber of commerce has set up national disaster help desk for small businesses to call if th

u.s. chamber of commerce whose local branches whose community effort. and robert is here as well. great to see you both. a very trying time for so many people. robert we were just talking. you took a tour of red hook an area here in new york city that was devastated. >> the sad thing is red hook has come such a long way. many entrepreneurs set up shop there. i visited a winery, wonderful man who makes key lime pies, a glass cutter, designers, just completely wiped out. 300 jobs at fairway, big supermarket there wiped out. and many of them are fighting back and, you know, looking to get back on their feet. >> i want to take this topic in two parts. first what can you do if you were hit by disaster the other one is what can you do prepare for had ina lot of our viewers aren't in this area. gerald talk to me very quickly if you're a small business own that was affected by this where can you go? >> well the first thing i would say is to call our help desk. the u.s. chamber of commerce has set up a national disaster help desk for business for small businesses to call if they don't know

world government taking over local and u.s. spt by getting involved in the -- sovereignty by getting involved in the issues of war, welfare, banking, taxes, property, ownership and private -- private ownership of guns must be addressed. happily, there's an answer for these very dangerous trends. what a wonderful world it would be if we accepted the moral premise of act of aression. a suggestion is always too simplistic, utopian, dangerous and unrealistic to stre for such an ideal. the answer to that is after thousands of years, the acceptance of government force to rule over the people at the sacrifice of liberty was considered moral only option for achieving peace and prosperity. what can be more utopian than that? considering the results, especially lookg at the state sponsored killing of nearly every government during the 20th century, estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of people. it's time to reconsider this grant of authority to the state. no good has ever come from granting monopoly power for the state to mold hu

local walmart. >>> last month the u.s.ational soccer team advanced in the world cup qualifying, and for some of the players representing the united states is a source of pride rooted in their racial identity. george howell explains. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> reporter: this year marks the 25th anniversary of that famous phrase. but the impact of the u.s. military buildup in germany during the cold war is still being felt today. in an unlikely place. the soccer field. a half dozen sons of american soldiers stationed in germany, born to german mothers have elected to play for the u.s. national soccer team, rather than germany's in the last few years. for some, this decision relates to their racial identity. danny williams and the other five players all have african-american fathers. >> what does it mean to be biracial in germany? versus being biracial here in the united states? >> people look at me in germany, they know i'm not 100% german. i told my parents i feel more american than german. >> jermaine jones

according to the reuters news agency and several local reports former u.s. president george h.w. bush is in methodist hospital in houston right now. in fact, ktrk television in houston is reporting that he has actually been there for six days to be treated for bronchitis. we're told the bronchitis has been handled but he has a lingering cough. george h.w. bush was born june 1924. if i am doing my math correctly it means he is 88 years old now. there of course his wife, former first lady bash a bush. he is always very vigorous. remember him parachuting i believe it was his 80th birthday. he was the youngest aviator in the u.s. navy back during world war ii. george h.w. bush, being treated for bronchitis at a houston hospital now. we certainly wish him a speedy recovery. jenna: more on all that breaking news as we get it. in the meantime some new information on, well, an out of this world discovery. rick is live in our new york city newsroom discovery. >> reporter: out of that world is a little bit of an understatement, jenna. scientists are excited about a new finding because it i

local wars in an information age. >> last year, president obama authorized a major redeployment by the u.s. military to asia.involves moving 9000 u.s. marines from japan to guam, austria, and why. putting four high-tech combat ships into the vital trade line of singapore. moving a fifth of navy ships from the atlantic to the pacific. also, there is talk of moving some of the troops in afghanistan to the philippines. >> this was the most important thing that the obama administration did and it was utterly amazing that in of the debates was there any discussion about its appropriateness or what its future ought to be. since the financial crisis of four years ago, the chinese have been much more assertive in foreign policy, particularly in these territorial disputes in the south china sea. they have been saying some pretty outrageous things about for example the fact that none of the states in that area can talk to each other how to deal with a rising tide of. they all have to deal with china bilaterally. >> a party theorist ones that the real threat to china lies in the american encouragement of rights lawyers

and a local school lost its national ranking. u.s. news and world report removed george washington university off its coveted list. it mistakenly inflated the high school standings of its incoming students by 20% over the past decade. gw had been ranked 51st. u.s. news said the school will remain unranked until the 2014 best colleges publication is released. gw's president said he regrets the error and is taking measures to make sure it does not happen again. >>> can the so-called love hormone keep men from stray something well, a new study says maybe. german researchers gave a group of men oxctocin in the form of a nasal spray and another a practice see bow. those who received a placebo kept greater distance when approached by women. how do we know it's the hormone and not just the men in relationships knowing better to then -- >> not even paying attention. >> that's a good question. love potion number 9. >> maybe he or she is being faithful because just the right thing to do. >> 5:51. meteorologist tom kierein with the forecast. >>

widespread closures and the government will close on monday that most state and local offices will also be closed. and the u.s. postal service, the department of motor vehicles, banks, schools, libraries and also the public transportation schedules will be scheduled to mass transit holiday schedule. schools are not required to check with your child's school if they have the day off. and brian, what should we be planning for tomorrow? >> wishar cold start for the morning. >> it has been cold. with below freezing in some areas and it looks like it could be a good warmer. temperatures not as cold as this time last night with temperatures in the 50s. but, we are in the 30's in fairfield, novato. 37 degrees in fairfield. this live look showing clear skies over the bay area with high clouds for this even inf. temperatures above one, two degrees warmer than what we had last night. we have another cold start and some possible patchy dense fog along highway 1 0 1 as we go towards the afternoon sunshine and high clouds. to start off the morning, the purple heart in the readings in the 30's. and also, mid 40's san franc

[ male announcer ] lease a 2013 ml350 for $599 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. david: the u.sment's affair with the blackberry could be over. the national transportation and safety board, the latest agency to dump the blackberry in favor of the iphone. the customs department and the penalty gone, and the ntsb didn't mings words saying blackberries have, quote, "been failing at inopportune times and at at unacceptable rate." the kettle calling the pot black here? >> by the way, at&t doesn't drop calls at inopportune times? sometimes you feel you're on the planet, pluto, which doesn't exist anymore, but the thing is the tption security administration, you know, immigration is now using iphones, and the blackberry is known for its security. you can't break into it. for parts of homeland security to move to iphones, i have to say, wait a second. it's a sweet iphone, that's nice. i like the blackberries. david: government calling a private company inefficient has to be a first. thanksgiving is a time to be thankful, but one professor says thanksgiving should be a day of atonement,

local women. some of the award recipients include women from ibm, the u.s. army and and many government agencies as well. dinner music, dancing and auctions. and all of the proceeds will go to support the march of dimes. wonderful event. we'll be right back. and a f >> we've all earned a nice weekend. >> mild with temperatures in the 60's. a good weekend. tomorrow the christmas bazaar. st. elizabeth's church. it is so good. >> meanwhile, sunday and on into the holiday that we celebrate for our veterans and certainly thank everybody for their service to this country into monday with temperatures in the 70's. a new blog on sandy and the amount of rain that sandy produced and the amount and the power. it would be enough power to light 100 wat light bulb for several billion years. so read about it. and i've got some other interesting things in there. and check my math. have a good one. >> the equivalent of one of my christmas trees. >> good

. >> it's so bad that some local officials want the military and u.s. department of energy to step in and temporarily take over lipa management. lipa just can't hack it. a new york state investigation says that they neglected vital maintenance and did not budget enough for disaster response. paper maps like this one were pretty much state of the art, according to the report. paper maps they're using. lipa has lagged behind other utilities, not using smartphones tablets or even printers and fax machines. paper memos were preferred and slow dial up internet access the rule. even worse, lipa's power outage management system runs on a 25-year-old main grain computer. it was blamed in part for lipa's slow response last year to irene, and it cast doubt on how seriously lipa and national grid took its lessons from irene. a consultant who helped prepare the report "all these things were identified, meaning the short comings, but they all cost money." that includes simple preventative measures like trimming trees around power lines and inspecting utility poles.

u.s. geological survey say the magnitude 7.4 quake struck on wednesday at around 10:35 a.m. local time. they say the focus was 41 kilometers beneath the pacific ocean, about 160 kilometers from guatemala city. authorities say several houses in the town of san marcos near the mexican border collapsed. they say residents are trapped in the rubble. a fire department officl tweeted that a school about 120 kilometers from the epicenter has also collapsed. he said eight people have been taken to the hospital. reuters says landslides have cut off roads in several places. >>> a meeting of the association of southeast asian nations later this month in cambodia will seek to promote regional integration. three of the main players of the summit wouldn't be talking to each other, at least directly. japan is locked in territorial disputes with china and south korea. the country's foreign minister says it's unlikely prime minister yoshihiko noda will meet with south korean or chinese counterparts. gemba says arranging talks with china on the sidelines of the asean summit will be difficult. >> translat

world government taking over local and u.s. sompt by getting involved in the -- sovereignty by getting involved in the issues of war, welfare, banking, taxes, property, ownership and private -- private ownership of guns must be addressed. happily, there's an answer for these very dangerous trends. what a wonderful world it would be if we accepted the moral premise of act of aggression. a suggestion is always too simplistic, utopian, dangerous and unrealistic to strive for such an ideal. the answer to that is after thousands of years, the acceptance of government force to rule over the people at the sacrifice of liberty was considered moral only option for achieving peace and prosperity. what can be more utopian than that? considering the results, especially looking at the state sponsored killing of nearly every government during the 20th century, estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of people. it's time to reconsider this grant of authority to the state. no good has ever come from granting monopoly power for the state to

>>> still ahead, a local university loses its ranking with "u.s. news & world report."e will tell you why coming up. >> plus, we get a sneak peek of an exhibit on the civil war opening here in just a few days. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back. 5:39 this thursday morning. another cold one out there but the winds are real light which is good. temperatures in most areas are in the 30s. here's a look at -- oh, our day planner. let me show you the day planner. it's cloudy outside this morning. good visibility. by noon 48. going to have a mix of sun and clouds today. light north to northeast winds with a high approaching the 50- degree mark. i'm see you in a few minutes with the weekend outlook and seven d.e.a. forecast. here's monika with -- seven-day forecast. here's monika with the timesaver traffic. >>> northbound i-95 just north of dale city, two left lanes are blocked already causing delay. if you look to the right side of your screen, northbound on i- 95. i'll have details once more in my next report at 5:47. >> thanks, monika. >>> one of the most expensive univer

u.s. army withdrawing and handing control to local security forces. thousands of greeks have descended on a syntax most square go to what they predict will be more painful measures forced upon them by the government the protest coincides with a two day general strike which is ground the country tour holds the parliament is set to vote on a new austerity package of pension cuts and tax hikes on wednesday but the measures are demanded by the country's creditors in exchange for another cash injection which greece needs to avoid bankruptcy. and of course want to peter oliver is in athens we'll bring you the latest from him next hour but for now or you can follow his twitter feed for updates and still to come here after a short break breaking the set with abby martin. trimmings in this tree even for specialists of voice can produce several sounds it warms the to do the means the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from the unions believe not

u.s. where there are thirty five well if you live in york there are thirty five there fifty percent because then you have state and local and everything else all right so i mean whatever the reason is your opinion wants to hang on your want to go to the u.s. are plenty of other things that could drop there but if you want to talk about like those serious specific gasper the taxes. it's a perfect example because guys like this are getting taxed because they're going to tax on income but if you're a hedge fund manager and you're going to tax the carried interest or if you're warren buffett or whoever else the other guys are mitt romney out or right how mitt romney to pay in the teens that's what we should be worried about not taxing the crap out of jar that argues that he leaves france or goes to belgium well and buys a castle yeah really funny sentence from from the article and see if you see the report on this it was that he moved from france to belgium where income tax is only fifty per cent which is a quite which is a sentence that you never hear it's just a weird sentence because if it's only fifty percent doesn't so

u.s. plans. there is the plan to relocate futenma air station. the deployment of the as sproe aircraft is another sticking point. defense officials have yet to convince local populations to accept training flights over their neighborhoods. in okinawa people are calling for stronger controls on u.s. troops after the recent sexual assault of a woman by u.s. servicemen. on the economy japanese officials will be preparing a response should the u.s. press japan into joining free trade talks for the transpacific partnership. there may be friction if the u.s. insists japan drop its tariffs. but overall, obama's win should be good for japan. there's the chance of stronger u.s. ties. with china relation is gone sour over the senkaku islands conflict, that's sure to be reassures. june ohka wa, nhk world, tokyo. >>> leaders around the world wasted little time congratulating president's re-election. he said he's sure the u.s. and south korea will continue to develop their alliance. he added ties have gotten stronger and more dynamic than ever over the past four years especially because of a free trade agreement. a spokesperson for the presidential office said wednesda