here is another one from long beach. this is the long beach boardwalk covered in white there. up to two feet of snow across parts of the east coast. there is another cold storm going their way. they are looking at sphrap and the visibility is good. oakland is at 50. temperatures in the 40s though redwood city and los gatos and half moon bay and the numbers will continue to fall and getting cold by morning inland. kgo roof camera, a nice view of the buildings. santa rosa 40 degrees. it is in the upper 30s in napa and novato. 46 in concord. livermore in the 40s as well and we are looking out toward the ferry building. a mild weekend and possible records again and spare the air tomorrow. we are looking at cooler weather next week and there is even the possibility of rain. it is not a whole lot, but we may see something. so the high-pressure system here, both of these will keep us dry and mild this weekend. and then we are watching for a cold front to approach. tuesday morning it is far northern california and tuesday afternoon there is a slight chance of rain here in the bay area

here is another one from long beach. this is the long beach boardwalk covered in white there. up to two feet of snow across parts of the east coast. there is another cold storm going their way. they are looking at sphrap and the visibility is good. oakland is at 50. temperatures in the 40s though redwood city and los gatos and half moon bay and the numbers will continue to fall and getting cold by morning inland. kgo roof camera, a nice view of the buildings. santa rosa 40 degrees. it is in the upper 30s in napa and novato. 46 in concord. livermore in the 40s as well and we are looking out toward the ferry building. a mild weekend and possible records again and spare the air tomorrow. we are looking at cooler weather next week and there is even the possibility of rain. it is not a whole lot, but we may see something. so the high-pressure system here, both of these will keep us dry and mild this weekend. and then we are watching for a cold front to approach. tuesday morning it is far northern california and tuesday afternoon there is a slight chance of rain here in the bay area

. >> she says their home in long beach, long island is now blanketed in snow. >> it's so hot in this area, we can't see. it's going to -- it's below 0 now in long beach. >> they're prepared for weather, they'll be wearing some of the ski wear they didn't get to wear while in x%k at san francisco international airport, abc7 news. >>> 49ers heading into teeth of the bitter cold weather after practition today, right now the accu-weather forecast calls for temperatures below 0. workers spent the day shovelling snow out of the sand the nfl does not have a temperature limit. it's icy steps and dangerous. no talk of moving the game to earlier sunday or perhaps tomorrow, when the temperatures will be like a balmy 25 degrees. monday, not an option, either the forecast is for colder temperatures but they're going to hand out free coffee and hot chocolate. >> oh, goody. >> coldest was the ice bowl. temperatures at 13 degrees below 0. so called freezer bowl in 1982. minus 59 with wind chill. it's bad news for niners heading into this. >> surveyoors found mostly bare ground today. snow pack is at

here is another one from long beach. this is the long beach boardwalk covered in white there.is another cold storm going their way. they are looking at sphrap and the visibility is good. oakland is at 50. temperatures in the 40s though redwood city and los gatos and half moon bay and the numbers will continue to fall and getting cold by morning inland. kgo roof camera, a nice view of the buildings. santa rosa 40 degrees. it is in the upper 30s in napa and novato. 46 in concord. livermore in the 40s as well and we are looking out toward the ferry building. a mild weekend and possible records again and spare the air tomorrow. we are looking at cooler weather next week and there is even the possibility of rain. it is not a whole lot, but we may see something. so the high-pressure system here, both of these will keep us dry and mild this weekend. and then we are watching for a cold front to approach. tuesday morning it is far northern california and tuesday afternoon there is a slight chance of rain here in the bay area and going into tuesday night. the front falls apart, but we w

according to the port of san francisco, google hired a triuhant, a multiwhole ferry boat based in long beach. triumphant is making two morning runs from san francisco to redwood city. then two return trips from redwood city to san francisco in the evening all using those familiar gates at the san francisco ferry building. >> one of the prerequisites is it cannot delay or in any way impact operations. that is a prerequisite. >> also, google has to have the proper inspection. the u.s. coast guard tells kpix 5 if google is not charging employees, under law, the triumphant would be treat the same as a recreational vessel and would not require an inspection. as for the port of san francisco, it receives a basic fee each time the triumphant docks at gates b and e. >> i think it is right now it is around $50 per landing. >> the city sees something more here. >> the bay is under utilized. there is much more capacity to use for transportation. >> reporter: now, we did contact good morning asking for a comment. we got no response -- google asking for a comment w. got no response. i also made a contact

and then so then i have to say well, it's like the long beach. no response. which is next to gulf port and someone say. okay. by the time i get to bilo x i hopefully they have some idea where i'm talking about. but i know far lot of people that, you know, default is new orleans. when i say the way i can get anyone to release where it ised at. i say i'm about 50 miles away from new orleans. and the people will, you know, know. but i think that, you know, i ran that was problematic for me particularly, i guess, after -- came out. because, you know, i think it's part of the reason that i wrote "salvage the bone." because, you know, at lough -- the conversation that was happening that the time after katrina was, you know, basically about new orleans; right. and no one, i mean, not many were payings attention to the fact that, you know, the coast had been cease -- decimated. i wanted to tell that story. i wanted to see that, you know, represented in the book. i'm hoping it does a pretty good job of doing that; right. again of making -- making delisle a real place

iam, which is the head of the union, called for the members to reject the move if the long beach, california, was tipped as a possible site. well, after the ballot, workers clearly felt mixed about the deal. take a listen, paris? >> i think it is worth the gamble, all right here in the puget sound. >> i think the main thing is to try to keep boeing in this local area and keep jobs going and benefits, a larger community. >> at a time when boeing is doing very well financially, they're asking our members to make serious financial concessions. >> well, machinists officials are saying that no member had liked to vote, nor did they enjoy the position they were put in by boeing, some did not like the pension packages, but some will likely see the base salaries rise above the $100,000 mark. they will be responsible for 10,000 jobs and as part of this deal, paris, workers may not be able to strike until 2024, no doubt, boeing satisfied by that news, considered all the problems are being caused by this wage discussion. >> right, it is interesting to see the countries doing business with the huge unio

in addition, mayor foster from long beach, we talked to him about his port, the long beach and los angeles port. and as we traveled around the country getting input from mayors, it was absolutely critical to helping us develop this bill. and we were fortunate to be able to talk to enough stakeholders and be able to get the stakeholders to talk the their members of congress. so it passed out of the house with a 417 vote, only 3 opposed. i guess i'm happy to say it was bipartisan approval, but i was not happy with the bipartisan three against us, two republicans, one democrat. but i think we were able to get to the core of the issue, making sure it was fiscally responsible, everybody said we've got to get the corps of engineers moving. taking 15 years is far too long. and finally, it was important to me to make sure that the congress didn't give up its authority to the executive branch. we've done this for far too long, and i'm a republican, i don't care if it's a republican president or a democrat president, the congress needs to maintain its authority to be able to do things. we were able

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a member of a police department on long beach island, new jersey, took this picture showing a frozenarnegat bay along with an ice covered bench. >> take a look at this picture. an area photo of chicago taken from a plane and posted to twitter showing the windy city encased in ice. >> wow. >> yeah, well, say it ain't so. a shortage of a super bowl party staple may result in fewer dips. >>> and busted. the fraud connected to the 9/11 attacks is nothing new but wait till you see who is accused in this latest case. >>> plus a high-profile homicide. a beauty queen's murder is bringing a big problem in her country to light. >>> welcome back. those frigid temperatures we told you about have had a harsh effect on some industry. one example, jetblue, which lost nearly $1.5 billion because of all those canceled flights, and the cold has hurt oil production, which could ultimately hit you right in the wallet. analysts say decreased production may lead to higher gas prices down the road. >>> the nation's largest bank will have to pay a heavy price for its role in bernie madoff's ponzi scheme. jp

company called multinational logistics, which provided the try yum fant a multiferry boat based in long beachant making two morning runs from san francisco to redwood city then two return trips from redwood city to san francisco in the evening. >> one of the prerequisites is that it cannot impact public ferry operations. >> other concerns stem from whether google has the proper permits and inspections. the u.s. coast guard tells kpix 5 if google is not charging employees under admiralty law, the try yum fant would be treated the same as a recreational vessel and would not require an inspection. as for the port of san francisco, it receives a basic fee each time the try yufrp fant docks at gates b and e. >> we were geven a number for the multinational logistics corporation. it was a cell phone back in maine. again, no one has called us back. in san francisco, allen martin kpix 5. >>> well, just days before sunday's big playoff game, a packed house tonight for fans weight to meet san francisco 49ers. >> not just any 49er. the line was out the door at lefty's sports collectibles and fans were th

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hit the comfort zone because that is where we want to be because if i could share the story of long beach and assume that we did not talk about what was, and what was the availability going to be? and that was kind of just not really out there and so when it came and they saw the 60 million and they are like, what? it was not transparent enough and so i think that it is important to us as we report to you to be as transparent on those aspects as possible. >> thank you, director? >> yeah, i too want to thank, this is very timely discussion about the approach to how to deliver this portion of the project and a good presentation. i would say something that having respond to the questions that were raised and that would be a proposal that would come out. and i told you that the second part was under the availability payment is the gaurantor of that availability and on the drive example that was mentioned this is the california is the gaurantor and i think that we need to find one out for this and without that there will not be any developer that would be putting coming forward for a proposal.

joining me is cal state long beach history professor hugh wilford, "america's great game."ve you with us. if this was your choice of picture or editors for the cover, it is magnificent. we recommend the book highly to everyone. it's up on the website. it's a fascinating tudy. that you the eyes of roosevelt, grand somes of teddy roosevelt and miles copeland, a cia agent, most americans, i would hazard a guess don't recognize in its early expression in the middle east. how could things have been so rational and sensible and clever in those days and be what it is today? >> that's right. the men you just mentioned were some of the cia's main officers in the middle east in this period when really, the u.s. had very little official presence in the region before and the cia itself had only just been created. and they came to the region wanting to do something very different from what the previous western powers in the middle east, especially. british and french, had done. which was to form an alliance with the region's progressive national leaders. and create an ally, a set of all

>> long beach, florida. >> are you cold now? >> yeah. >> how are you staying warm?our hands are balled up in your gloves. whatever you can go to stay warm in new york city. it's a cold warm. going to stay fairly chilly because of clipper systems. this next one is producing more snow. it's clearing out of chicago where we have two to three inches on the ground. it's movering eastward where we'll end up with one to three inches. near eerie, pennsylvania through buffalo no, clippers reinforce cold air. it's going to get colder with blizzard conditions because of blowing snow in parts of north dakota tomorrow. not as much snow. it is going to be brutally cold with temperatures dropping below 0 in the northern plains and midwest. that's a look at the weather across the country. now here's a peek out your window. >> a few flurries this afternoon mainly northern maryland. otherwise, sunshine gives way to afternoon clouds. another cold day. 21 the temperature now in washington. many other areas still only in the teens. a high today of 32. cloudy skies tomorrow, winds increa

. >>> it didn't dak beach blanket babylon long to pick up on this. we'll have the interpretation of today's events. >>> checking other bay headlines tonight, a bay area teen is facing battery charges after she said she stood up to bullies. this video caught the fight a couple of months ago at hercules high school. jewlyes gutierrez admits she slapped a girl who threw gum at her. she identifies herself as transgender. >>> new billboards going up in oakland exposing the problem of human trafficking and sexual exploitation of children. the campaign includes message urging people not to ignore the crime. >>> and the parents of one of the victims in the assiana plane crash is filing that claim against the city of san fransisco. ye meng yuan died when she was struck by two san fransisco trucks while on the tarmac at sfo. the city has 45 days to respond. if it rejects the claim, the family can then file a lawsuit. >>> after a slow start flu season has arrived in the bay area and it has turned deadly quickly. this map shows all the deaths it's blamed for in

now, as for the boat the triumphant coming from long beach, the union said that we just don't have spare boats up here so it's not unusual to find a boat in southern california and bring it up. it happened during the loma prieta earthquake. >> very impressive. all right, allen, thanks. >>> the u.s. customs intercepted a creature at sfo that they consider a significant agricultural threat. take a look at this. officials say they found five of these insects in a shipment of basil from mexico on new year's eve. it's a type of stink bug and it's only been found once before in the united states. it can do major damage to crops. the entire shipment had to be refused entry into the u.s. and ordered back to mexico. >>> san francisco police busted a muni passenger who tried to impersonate a law enforcement officer to avoid paying a fare. police were doing fare inspections on a bus tuesday near the silver and san bruno avenues. they asked the guy to show his receipt. instead, he showed them a department of corrections badge but no other identification. police detained him. he later admitted to buy

and that beijing has made it clear on one of one occasion that the view of the two skies and the long beach ca cup of economics bill political issues would have to come up one time one of. the and also the fact is that that there are some obstacles feel that being healed in place between costs are fallacious their own lessons obstacles tight dress bb not necessarily result when not likely to see major progress in other areas this will kill for example the issue of taiwan's participation that the regional and national levels. that continues to be a very ill frustrating point for many of us to come on and do you think you know given the fact that the province's for being in such a depression. ill of other people in taiwan will agree with you is never static you know the oh things are changing constantly. and the home can you let me predict. no level one to predict how costs are fallacious we fall in the next meal three to five years. well it's you know it's very hard to make such predictions but i think that what we do know is the vast majority of the one people prefer the status quo. it taps

. >> reporter: we're just about five miles off the coast of long beach right now, and you can see wespotted a gray whale, there's its tail, it's in the middle of a 7,000-mile journey from alaska down to the waters of mexico. >> we're seeing all different types of whales now. we are seeing gray whales, we saw some spin whales, minke whales, even a rare sperm whale. >> it's too early to tell what the reasons are and what exactly is going on. >> reporter: experts like elise says they could be just traveling closer to the shore this season or migrating early and the weather also plays a role. >> we have had outstanding visibility and sea conditions this december. we had a lot of clear days. a lot of low wind days. and not many foggy days. >> reporter: whatever the reason, no one here is complaining especially this captain. >> there she blows! >> reporter: looking for whales off the coast of l.a., bobby kapel, kpix 5. >>> coming up in the next half hour, how bay area craigslist customers can hire someone to protect them from online predators. >> how the feds are encouraging schools to cha

he was born calvin in long beach california.amed snoop because he looked like snoopy from the cartoon. truth is he doesn't know where he got the name from. but his hard low a peanuts upbringing. we first burst on the scene snoop dogg's music spoke of the rim-rid den upbringing. critics argued glorified the gangster lifestyle. >> if you could get girls you could have a name, money, it was perks that went with it. >> he joined a gang, sold crack, went to jail. was even charged with murder at one point. but was later acquitted. >> this is my office. i have my throne back here i conduct my meeting from back here. >> although his fan base only grew. >> no one steps on the lion. >> rolling stone dubbed him america's most loveable pimp. >> i don't have no regrets what i did because i did it to the fullest. as you get older you get wiser, now that i'm wiser i want to give some light to the situation to give them another avenue or another door to walk through. ♪ his single "no guns allowed" is a musical about faith. >> so sick and tired

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in fact, long beach here in california was moving to this possible site., others were mixed about the deal. >> i think it is worth the gamble. we have the best mechanics and tooling. it is all right here in the puget sound. >> i think the main thing is to keep boeing in this local area and keep jobs and benefits going. a larger community. >> at a time when boeing is doing very, very well financially they're asking our members to make serious financial concessions. >> well, an official said no member liked the vote nor the position they were put in with boeing. nor was it an easy vote for anybody to cast, really. the pension freeze and moving people to a defined pension savings plan, some will see the benefits rise to $100,000 a year under the new deal. the triple 7 x will be responsible for 10,000 jobs, boeing has some 10,000 orders that it got at launch, to see the delivery coming in around 2020. and under this deal, gregg, workers won't be able to vote until 2024, back to you. >>> thank you, dominic di-natale, live in los angeles going to see you. >>> ok

but what a shot by him--a 6-7 senior headed to the play ball in long beach state next year. >> coming trees and an air- conditioner. see what else i found in my next edition of people behaving badly. th mwholwheatoas♪ wita da of lt, one loveou mt ♪ lime >> (male annoucer): now here is stanley roberts who found some people behaving badly. >> the back roads of contra costa county are rarely available but wait, did i just say american express and apparently you can get capital one cards. why are you laughing, this is not funny. if you drive around you will find christmas trees and everything. >> you can find a chair and a mattress. the sad part is that all of this is around the up-that's the water flows around. >> to those people who tend to think that illegal dumping is a city problem you should have a drive. >> one thing that i notice in the big city and the back road is that it is a side effect of america mayor one of. people are dumping their garbage. >> there is and dumping of trash. normally, people will say if it wasn't so high, it will be less of this. i disagree because there is

. >> after the intervention, she was taken to long beach hospital.t shouldn't be sentimentalized or romand sized, it was a very gritty, very demanding, somewhat risky period. she didn't want to be there she made it very clear, for example, that she didn't want to share a room with three other patients. reads the age, she statement that she was there because she was overmedicated, which was true but not the whole truth. they had to push her and push her to in effect reveal the full truth that she had an alcohol problem. she was defox fi -- detoxified there and that was not pleasant. t within a week, she was toasting the future in fruit juice. and, well, it was the beginning f a whole new life in a lot of ways. her neighbor in ranchomy raj was a man named leonard firestone. a successful businessman, had been ambassador to belgium, he was an alcoholic as well. about a year after her successful intervention, the fords and their friends staged one with the firestones. to make a long story short, leonard firestone and betty ford decided together to go to t

this happens in long beach, california. >> hospitalized for 23 weeks. -- 22 days. >> he nearly died.e is very strong for the family. >> was he also suffering from depression during that period? it is thing about it, very hard to know about the medical condition of presidential families unless they let you know. in the end, the eisenhowers opened up medical records about president eisenhower, general eisenhower. we do not know if he was suffering from depression. there is no doubt that there were people around him who feared he was suicidal. accounts of the people around him who thought he was suicidal. what is important here though is that she found the resources within herself despite the sort of national tragedy to pull herself and the family together during this health crisis. and the real tragedy is she has her own health height -- crisis. >> this is tied for her smoking. stress, high blood pressure. you can imagine the effect. her health records are not open. not move her left side. her speech was slurred. she worked hard to regain her strength and to be able to move her left ar

oh, baby, three is not a crowd for a family at long beach.oolyy celebrating the birth of naturally born triplets. the couple has a 5-year-old daughter and can't wait to bring the babies home. however there is one problem. they can't tell the babies apart. the odds of having identical triplets are one in half a million. in northern california the couple welcomed a set of naturally conceived identical triplets last november! >> we were talking about that. i can't imagine it. >> yes. >>> coming up next in our 8:00 hour, new allegations of a caltrans cover up during the construction of the eastern span of the bay bridge. now they handle # workers who pointed -- handled workers who pointed out problems. >>> good morning. san francisco northbound 101, the traffic here is looking pretty good. southbound 101 is okay but the traffic time getting into the city from they bay is ramping up. >> and lots of sunshine, but there is also a rather strong wind kicking up its heels in higher elevations and picking up at the surface, as well. breezy, but what abo

modest homes, some of them even called bungalows where people live full time, long beach, an example of that. average folks, firefighters and teachers and cops and clerks and secretaries. small business people. who struggle, double or triple or quadruple their insurance rates, their flood insurance rates and they just can't get by. and one other point i'd make. some of you say this doesn't affect me. it's going to. because fema is remapping across the country. they've done a lot of the remapping in new york, i've talked about how irresponsible what they've done is. once they come to your state and map, you will see that the mapping is almost nonsensical. mapping people into flood zones who have never had a flood, charging shall, charging rates that average folks cannot afford. and from what i'm told, pennsylvania is the state with the highest percentage of new mapping activity. 14% of all new mapping activity, 1,400 maps. so i think even in my good friend -- i know he's a true believer in these things and i respect his integrity but it's sure going to affect the people of pennsylvani

in talking to the mayor of long beach, we talked about the port there. itwe get input from mayors, is critical to helping us develop this bill. we were fortunate to be able to talk to enough stakeholders and get them to talk to their members of congress, so it passed out of the house with 417 votes. i think we were able to get to the core issues, making sure it responsible, because everywhere we travel, republicans and democrats alike think we have to get this project moving. it is important to me to make sure that congress did not give up its authority to the executive branch. we have done this for far too long, and i am a republican, and i don't care if it is a democratic or republican, the congress needs authority to do things. we are working to the conference right now with senator boxer and senator vitter, and my friend from west virginia, and ranking member, we have been hand in hand working on this together. it has been a good part of this year. getting tok of out and from our ports, it is a competitive issue, jobs issue, not just about the jobs c

now my parents have had a shore home on long beach island since the '80s. the i've been going there since the '70s. i was delight ed that the state is providing money to residents up to $30,000 to raze their homes. what i would have liked too much seen was that funding to be crafted so if you would live in an urban municipality like hoboken and decimated by the flooding which we were, ground level apartments, basement level apartments, they can't put themselves up on stilts. they can't bring in the contractors and put their building up on jacks. they often own a very expensive condominium which has condominiums above it which weren't affected by the storm in the same way. we would have liked to have seen the utilities, things like that raised. that would have given our residents the ability to apply for the grant. >> it strikes me this argument about the funding level is central to this and completely beside the point. sev central to it because you can make the argument you just made that the way the entire program was structured at the statewide level that

heard from one brave survivor, angela, who was trafficked from the philippines into forced labor in long beach, california. i've heard many other stories from the members of the human trafficking congressional advisory committee that i established last year in my los angeles county district office. e forum for communicating on trafficking between law enforcement, advocates, service organizations and survivors has contributed profoundly to my own knowledge, my own understanding of this issue, and i encourage my colleagues to get to know those on the front lines of the fight against human trafficking, get to know them in their districts and know of their work and you're going to be informed, challenged and inspired by what you learn. this january, designated as national slavery and human trafficking prevention month, is a perfect time to shine a spotlight on the dark issue of trafficking, but awareness is only a first step. more needs to be done, and to that end, i would urge my colleagues to join me in co-sponsoring h.r. 3344, the fraudulent overseas recruitment and trafficking elimination act,

he has a bachelor's degree in finance from cal state long beach and has worked as an accountant in the private sector. in his 47 years on earth, he has never once been unemployed until now. and he's been trying everything he can to find work but hasn't found anything yet. he told me that every morning he gets up and goes to a work senttory search the online listing. and that the 20 computers at this particular work center are always full and every single person at one of those computers is actively looking for work. mr. speaker, unemployment insurance benefits are a lifeline to families who are struggling. please don't cut off this critical lifeline. give unemployment insurance the vote that it deserves. i thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the chair will now recognize the gentleman from ohio, mr. stivers, for five minutes. mr. stivers: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to raise awareness of an ongoing humanitarian crisis in southern russia and call on the state department to respond to that crisis. in 2003, the united states state depa

host: mary is a republican: from long beach, california. am a transgender woman and i would like to express something my parents went through. hadrents -- my mother a miscarriage. they agreed she should take birth control. xcessiveaway any e bleeding during her menstrual cycle. it has nothing to do with sexuality. that is the way my mother felt about it. it was mike huckabee who said that the republicans have a war for women. he is the one responsible. host: from "the new york times" this morning -- "usa today" also previews obama's speech. rosie on our democrat line, what is your view on what mike huckabee had to say? caller: i have been divorced for five years. i don't understand what he is trying to say because it takes two to tango, not one. snip?n't men get a i don't understand this. he has no right. for how he uncalled even directed things to women. i have been on my own for five years, taking care of my children. i feel like i am stronger than a lot of men out here. that was an insult. i am really feeling horrible. that was an insult

mark in long beach, california. caller: are there any republicans who agree? the idiot, scumbag republican leadership -- [indiscernible] obama and the democrats are laying out the to be rolled and the republican party wants to give amnesty to the illegal aliens invading border criminals. how insane is that? they're going to get pounded in the next election if they do this. nothing will save that. the republicans are overwhelmingly opposed to this despite all of the phone calls by the lying media. this does not make any sense. host: hang on one second. let me read you a paragraph about the political angle and see what you have to say. 2012 was a critical moment in the debate. president obama won reelection partly because of strong support from hispanics. there you go again. illegal him -- aliens are not immigrants. illegal aliens [indiscernible] government of the united states is going to tell its citizens that tens of millions of criminals are going to be rewarded with one of the best things you can get -- status in the united states -- then america has become

right, he does end up on the sand of the beach. >> there he is. >> never fell off. >> do we know how longt walk back was? >> probably has that moment when he gets to the beach and looks, like, okay, how am i going to do this part? >> have to grab a taxi. >>> two dudes try to pull off a double backflim high-five. great idea in concept. real tough. see how they slap everything but hands >>> when sidney's little sister was born she decided she wanted to take daily photographs just to document and tell the story of her little sister so for 19 months she took a ton of photos to document. but then she decided to put it all in this video. kind of cool to see this cute little precious little girl change from being a newborn to now a walking toddler. >> what's great about that is because when people have that second and third baby, they're not as many pictures, so a sibling documenting that kind of solidifies that little bond right there. >> yeah. >> this is a lot of pictures of this little peanut and so this is something they'll be able to look back and remember, this is her first, what, 19 month

host: here is grace from long beach, new york. independent mind. caller: hello. my thing is i have a thyroid condition. once a month, i have to be tested. $200.ts if you do it for all of these people, let's say half of them are not on anything. that is money wasted. you still have a congressman who was on drugs. nothing was done. he is still there. not everybody on welfare is on drugs. people need to realize that. if you do not want to help your brother, do not help them. do not make up excuses. host: abortion is the topic on the new york times. taking a look at access on the state level. eric is writing that on monday, there will be a clash that will reach the supreme court. new orleans will hear an argument on a texas requirement that abortion doctors have admitting privileges at local hospitals. that cost one third of the abortion clinic in the state to close. the director of the center for gender law at columbia says we are at a turning point. abortion will be dramatically restricted or pushback will begin. appeal forwide antiabortion groups. twila of kentuck