just logon to norad santa.org.ll ahead on "today in the bay," we will head back out to san francisco's lefty o'doole aechlt for a check on the toy drive. >>> i'm mike inouye. i also consider parking. consider this an early christmas present as oakland continues with its free parking saturday today. now, this is the last of them for the season. even though it is free for all, it is not a free for all. meters are free for the stated time period and some restrictions are still enforced. you will fine details at oakland.com. >>> today is christmas eve in particular but in the bay area we say happy holidays in general. in palo alto, they continue to celebrate the holiday season at the museum of american heritage. folks from the bay area lay go have decked the halls with bricks of plastic and for $2. you can check out this year's display. get it. go to moh.org for details. >>> one holiday that will not be represented is festivals for the rest of us with great strength as a key part of this, made famous and made up on the

. >> and people can logon to your website to find out the categories and who the judges are.ho sent them in. >> you can go to bestdarntamale.com. we'll have a list of all the locations that participated. after the show we will list the win,of each category as well. if you go to the website, you can see a whole list of all the tamale locations. >> we're halfway through this one. up next, live here on our stage. royalty. stay with us. >>> welcome back. to the seventh annual tamale contest. our christmas show with our judges. what are they eating? it seems like they're on their tenth one maybe? >> we're going through chicken category now. traditional home style. we might be sneaking up on the pork category now. >> we're coming to you from the san pedro market. we want to thank them for loaning us their venue. your annual ornaments, this is something that everyone ought to have. >> of course, yes. these are my ornaments. i design them. i have a company called casa q. you can go to my website and they are being carried in museum and specialty stores as well as macy's and macy's.co

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more than a half million people logon every month. >>> trading slowed around the world as investors near the end of 2011. for a look at that and the rest of your news before the bill, we turn to julia boorstin live from cnbc headquarters. good morning, julia. we apparently have julia with cnbc world headquarters. perhaps we will in our next hour. let's check the forecast though. do we have meteorologist christina loren? >> i bet we do. >> well, it is christmas, i'm giving you a belated christmas gift. you do have christina loren this morning. we have rain in the forecast. as we head through the next couple hours, we'll see more cloud cover push into the north bay. it's the cloud cover keeping you so nice and mild this morning, whereas we had the 20sality this time last week for several days. it's the 40s now. i don't think you'll dip into the 20s with all the clouds right now. watch the nature of these showers as they move in. they've vab rate right before they get to the sonoma county line. we'll see maybe a few stray showers sneak into places like santa rosa. as we head throughout your

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supporters can logon to contribute and to learn about cain's policy ideas and the latest on the tax plan. >>> vice president joe biden is on a mideast tour this week. and today he brought up the controversial topic of sanctions against iran. biden spoke with the prime minister of turkey and also gave a speech to the leaders of that country. he reportedly called on turkey to join new sanctions against iran. and in the process, he tested the u.s. alliance with turkey. turkey is a crucial u.s. ally in an unstable region. and both countries are also concerned now about syria where the u.n. says the government has killed 3,500 demonstrators in recent months. >> brutal repression in syria where turkey -- where we stand with turkey and a growing course of nations in calling for president assad to step aside. and i welcome the human rights council's condemnation yesterday of the regime's violence. >> the arab league, european union and the united states are piling on increasingly tough sanctions to pressure syria to stop its deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. >>> this was a deadly

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and you can logon to our website r.t. dot com for more stories comment and analysis and here's what's there for you right now or should you log on there's much western media hype over this footage filmed during russia's weekend election protests which claims that the strange aircraft used for aerial photography was a u.f.o. or a government surveillance drone. plus a bridge ablaze dramatic pictures of fire raging on this vital piece of infrastructure in russia's far east with hundreds brought in to help fight the flames. russian trucks with humanitarian aid bound for serbs in kosovo have been blocked on the checkpoint by e.u. forces and eagle has the details from their. this humanitarian convoy has become a little bit of a political hot potato and the crisis only seems to be growing it set off of from russia a week ago it doesn't carry anything controversial just basic necessities which i needed full. and said i had thought of course we've been struggling through the past few months with blockades and everything else and i

agree on yet more sanctions that follows a mob attack on the british embassy in tehran the continent logon to order all iranian envoys out of the country within forty eight hours. i must go says it can't grant a cause of on service russian passports but will provide any aid necessary but this comes after thousands filed a plea for citizenship to escape discrimination and hostility from ethnic albanians . for my our colleague bill dodds here in half an hour's time but for now in the kaiser report world governments and media networks telling you truthfully about the global financial crisis or are they just smoke screening their illicit activities max keiser now unveils the painful truth here arts. i am max kaiser this is because a reporter you know it's a financial war and coded messages are being transmitted in the financial pages let's get into this stacy herbert yes max we're talking about financial war all the time here in kaiser report and it made me think back to world war two under nazi occupied france b.b.c. london broadcast coded messages to the french resistance here are some of th

dot com we've got full analysis of all the post-election events for you logon for exclusive videos photo gallery galleries and much much more. to eight fifteen pm moscow time world news in brief for you flash floods triggered by the expected tropical storm of killed over four hundred people in the southern philippines with scores more missing twelve hours of pounding rain caused rivers to burst their banks but were sleep when the floodwaters swept through towns overnight tens of thousands of now have sought refuge in evacuation centers across several provinces . israeli soldiers have killed one palestinian civilian and injured two others on the border with gaza a military patrol reportedly opened fire after hearing a large explosion aiming for what they thought was an area known for terrorist activity has retaliated by launching rockets into israel though no casualties have been reported. united nations has released the assets of two libyan banks in an effort to ease the country's financial troubles that will then allow the libyan government access to billions of dollars of funds from ab

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now with google earth you can make it easier and logon on christmas eve and see where he is when he hitso go to bed. if you don't go to bed, santa can't stop in. something else for kids. some kids are kind of scared to maybe go and sit on santa's lap. you can actually skype with santa now? >> yes. santa is on skype. if you don't know what skype is, it's when you have two web cams and a live conversation online. he has a little help from companies because he is very busy right now. so sometimes different sponsorships will help him set up those appointments. for example, one in san dustin resort in florida has santa talking to kids from wednesday and friday 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. and you can just set up an appointment. although it's getting close to christmas so it might be hard to get an appointment at this time. >> it is his busy season but he is tweeting. i've heard the elves help with the twitter too? >> exactly. he has a twitter account. he is micro blogging as it gets closer to christmas. >> i got santa on twitter here. i'm off christmas shopping for my wife. that is nice of him. what sho

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with 5.8 million shoppers expected to logon to the ebay this sunday, ebay forecasts that every minute20 gifts will be bought using a smart phone and qr code. >> the line between shopping in a shop and shopping on the internet is getting very, very blurred. that's what this ebay christmas boutique is all about. the way we buy things have changed in the last three, four years. >> reporter: the ebay pop-up store is open for five days until december 5th, one of the busiest christmas shopping periods. >> it's nice to come in and have a look to see what you want to buy. >> it's nice not to have to worry about lugging bags around and actually not having to deal with cueing up and going through the retail process. that's quite nice. i could see myself shopping like this more frequently. >> reporter: whether it's just a little something or too big to carry home, ebay's qr coded shop could be just the thing for some. but it's only open for a limbed time, then it's back to shopping on the web or dodging the crowds. cnn, london. >>> let's take a quick recap of our top story, a plan to solve the e

the number is 1-88-to-adopt-me or logon to our home page at nbcwashington.com. >> great story. >> yesust in time for christmas. he will enjoy his new stuff. >> an ipad. his eyes lit up with that. well, talking weather, we're only getting into the 40s again, right? >> yes. another cold day. 47 is an average high temperature. [ woman ] my boyfriend and i were going on vacation, so i used my citi thank you card to pick up some accessories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? we talked about getting a diamond. but with all the thank you points i've been earning... ♪ ...i flew us to the rock i really had in mind. ♪ [ male announcer ] the citi thank you card. earn points you can use for travel on any airline, with no blackout dates. >>> good morning, everybody. sunshine and cold start to your sunday. as long as the sun is out, it's going to be all right. temperatures are struggling to get back above the freezing mark in a few lonesome spots to the north and west. by 10:00 this morning, temperatures should be generally speaking into the low and mid-30s. 36 in down

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every day around 30,000 people logon to mywardrobe.com.erage, each customer spends around $400. well, it's been five years since sarah curran sold her house to get the venture off the ground. now, her idea, a fashion website that was more up market than the high-street stores and less pricey than the high-end boutiq boutiques. the gamble paid off and has doubled since 2006. >> sarah now has her sights on international expansion. some would view that as an opportunity, but for sarah curran, it's a problem because she doesn't think that she's the right person to take the company forward. here's her first interview since she bowed out of "the boss." >> this is your first time here, isn't it? >> yeah. >> welcome. >> reporter: from the day our cameras started rolling back in september of 2010, sarah curran was a boss on a mission. >> we're looking to relaunch, reposition the brand, mywardrobe, for women's wear in february 2011. and then at that point we'll start the process again for menswear. ♪ >> reporter: from the get-go, the ceo and founder

for a full list of new laws logon to nbcbayarea.com and give yourself plenty of time to read them. >> smuks couples are paying a lot more in taxes. a new study shows that same-sex spouses are paying up to $6,000 more in taxes each year compared to heterosexual couples. that's because the federal government doesn't recognize gay marriage. even in states where gay marriage is legal, same-sex couples have to file a single when turning in their federal returns. the result, they lose out on thousands of dollars of tax benefits that heterosexual couples qualify for. >> fremont police are still looking for the drivers of not one but two cars after a hit and run killed a 56-year-old homeless man. this all happened monday night on ardenwood boulevard just south of highway 48 in fremont. police say the man was crossing the busy street when he was hit by a mid-sized sufficient. now a second car right behind the suv also ran over the man and also kept going. anyone with information is urged to call fremont police. >> more violence at a popular mexican restaurant in oakland. police are searching f

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they help you locate the phone with gps, but the pro tip is that if your phone is stolen, you can logona is probably more valuable to an i.d. thief than the actual phone. >> becky worley, such a pleasure to have you and once again, merry christmas. thanks for wearing the hat. we appreciate it. and, by the way, you can get more of becky's great tips on our website, goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! and coming up here a special treat for all of you, bianna going behind the scenes at radio city music hall complete with toy soldiers and santa, and i believe she'll be doing some sort of fancy kicking. keep it here. >> prepare yourself. ♪ yuletide carols being sung by a choir as folks dress up like eskimos ♪ ♪ everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe help to make the season bright ♪ ♪ tiny tots ♪ tiny tots not night after night, i sat up. sprayed up. took a shower... or took a pill. then i tried drug-free breathe right advanced. and instantly, i breathed better! i slept better. it felt...better. thank you, breathe right! [ male announcer ] breathe better, sleep better, feel better. try brea

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. >>> millions of people logon to social media like twitter at work every day. what happens when they leave their job. you take your followers with you? one company says no and it is suing a former employee. last night on this program we showed you a video of a little girl ranting about big business and gender roles. 4-year-old riley joins us out front tonight and with the iowa caucus just a week away no candidate has broken out from the pack and it looks like it will come down to the weir. will come down to the weir. let's go "out front." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good evening upon. i'm ali velshi sitting in for erin burnett tonight. out in front, campaign is kicking into high gear. candidates are criss-crossing the state, trying to pick up last-minute support for the first con tefrt in the race for the gop nomination. let's go straight to the political correspondent. jim acosta is on the ground in iowa. good to see you. lots of campaign events and everybody is back in the game. a recent poll shows 12% of voters in iowa, still undecided. you spo