it looks like it is going to pour down tomorrow as the ticket live look outside from our roof cameraur staff francisco. stay with us. ♪ secondhand smoke affects everyone's health. it's not just irritating. it can cause heart disease and even death. speak up about secondhand smoke. your health and the health of your family depend on it. >>justine: here is a live look at candlestick park. you may want to think about taking some rain gear if you plan on getting a ticket to the game today. as charles clifford found out, getting a raincoat in the 49ers colors may not be so easy. >>reporter: if you are going to the playoff game between the 49ers and the giants, you may want to get something like this to slip on over your clothing. red or gold is probably the appropriate color for a 49ers fan. this is an old one that i take camping is sort of pink. but someone in our newsrooms said he cannot find a red poncho. so i said that is odd, so i went off on a mission. my first thought was at walgreen's, who headed a bit of everything but today no red ponchos. and next i went to the store on cold st

>>james: yes, take a look.activity to our north and then straight in our direction it is going to be cold. we expect to begin by thursday but wednesday night the north bay could very well see some sprinkles. we will be watching at this developed over the next couple of days. we are looking at temperatures again on the cold side especially in fairfield. napa and livermore are coming in with 29 degrees. we are home and in concord. we only have slightly warmer conditions in san jose. all in all his another cold start and look for things to get even colder tonight into tomorrow morning. we are looking for generally low 50s which is a big difference over last week when we were talking about mid-60s. a big cool down today. 52 for oakland, 52 for san jose and 50 in livermore and across the north bay. >>james: here is your seven day around the bay before we head over to georgia with traffic. we are looking for the weather to get awfully wet beginning wednesday evening for the north bay and then everyone will enjoy some

it looks like that place. it looks like that landscape. i look into this and i see the sharp edges of the land. i see the way the earth is shaped out there. i see the routes in their vessels. i mean, to understand these, this one came out of a 13th century site in southwest colorado and i would sit with these bowls for hours and hours, drawing them into my sketch book because that was the only way i could really understand the complexity of how they got their symmetries to match up because i could never get them to match up in my drawings. i could never do a 100 percent accurate rendition of these because every line was meaningful, every line meant something about how you paint the next line, which is what it's like walking out there, looking for those shapes, looking for water, looking for springs, looking for places where the rain has fallen. it's all the same story out there. there is a 13th century or a 14th century polychrome vessel from below the mugion rim in central arizona. and this is 100 years after the anastazi supposedly disap

this is "1st look."d, a special edition of "way too early with willie geist" starts right now. >>> why would anybody in the establishment think that a massachusetts moderate, which is a liberal by republican standards, pro abortion, pro gun control, pro tax increase, pro gay rights, why would they think that he's going to be able to debate barack obama some. >> i know the speaker is not real happy. he's knowledge feeling very excited these days. i know are i it's sad. he's been going after me for one thing or the other and you watch it and you shake your head. it's been kind of pain any full revealing. >> we're about to find out if mitt romney's overwhelm

here is a live look at the approach to the bay bridge. here's a look at current temperatures. it is a cold morning but not as cold as yesterday. another big storm moving in tomorrow. >>darya: new this morning, we are a few hours away playoff tickets: on sale. 10:00 a.m. is a win is season-ticket holders get to purchase the tickets. the leftover tickets go on sale at 1:00 p.m.. here is a look at candlestick on the left, all right wryness--on the right, they'll look at the sunny conditions for monday. >>kimberlee: if you are looking to buy is going to cost a pretty penny. >>kimberlee: north and south ends on tickets are going for $20,000 each. >>mark: cloudy and cold weather. a 60 percent chance of rain on game day. the temperature will be at 55 and cooling off by 630 or so. it could be better to watch from your living room, but if you do get out there, dress appropriately. >>mark: we will be right back as the kron4 news continues. here is a live look outside on this wednesday morning. >>justine: a lot of snow in seattle. this is one of the worst storms to hit the area since the

look at this. brad jones tackled the teenager when he ran on to the field toward the end of yesterday's game against the detroit lions. the green bay press is reporting the young man was cited for unlawful conduct. >>> one of the members of the 49ers is showing off his artistic side today. talented tight end vernon davis will paint part of this 49ers mural and sign it this afternoon. mural is above a walgreens store in the mission district. it shows several players including vernon davis himself. local artist tim han created the mural. he knew vernon davis was an artist and invited vernon to come over and add his special touch to the art work. >>> time 5:57. let's check in with sal and see what is happening on the roads. >> good morning. right now traffic is doing pretty well around the bay. let's take a look at what we have now. this is a look at 280 at the 880 traffic is moving along pretty well. if you reason another sunol grade that is a very nice drive. let's go back to dave and maureen. >> th

northbound 280 up to highway 17 looks good and the rest of the areas look good as well.anks, we have had so much rain and we will take a look at the stats compared to where we hw(oquz-kqw"6jec 16th if you want to mark it on your calendar, i do see a few limits on the overall global pattern but the rest has been a short story because there is not much going on. we should have santa rosa, that is 31% of normal and that's not good. santa rosa to san francisco, everybody is around 30 to 31 and 36%. we started off great, san jose should have 5, they have only had just a little bit there and that is not much to talk about. we still have some time here. the system is moving through to the north, we will have a cool down which is falling apart and it has increased the northwest swell and that means the waves are up and the big waves will like high pressure will build after this weekend. 34 and 30s all around, san jose 32 not far away 30s there. the system çkwill slide across and topple over and they completely loose all their energy. a little more fog as the Ñ-syst inches closer

things are looking great. make use of it because i think this afternoon is going to be a little bit different with the weather coming in. otherwise the beltway is looking great. we're going to go first live actually to the 14th street bridge. if you're headed north on 395 to the 14th street bridge to the freeway, it's very heavy and slow there because of an accident. it's been there for about 25 minutes in the left lane and crews are on the scene trying to work to get it out of the roadway. but the 14th street bridge itself heading across the potomac river you're going to be okay here. let's go back over to the maps. this time to the south side of town. we're looking fine on the beltway across the wilson bridge between springfield and oxon hill. let's take a live look. no problems to report. if you're planning to head northbound on 295 to the 11th street bridge, you'll be just fine. a quick last look at 66 inbound at crane bridge road. no problems to the beltway. in my next report an update on the 11 rght -- 1

she looks like her wax figurine. >> she looks like a movie star. we want to see movie stars. >> do you like the tight bun? >> great chignon. appropriate. >> she has the bone structure for it. >> her body is beautiful. everything. >> i agree on that one. >> another beauty on the red carpet, kate beckinsale. >> she stuns me. >> i love that dress. >> she was gorgeous. >> best hair of the night. >> look at her. >> i love the carriage, the top of the dress. >> corset. >> this is the color of the night, the nude blush. they did it beautifully. look at the detail on the dress. the earrings, bracelets, one of my favorites. >> the detail in her hair. it wasn't a tight back ch h ignon. it was chunky, piecy, there was separation. >> look at it. >> as hot as it getgets. >> another is elle macpherson, "the body". >> you don't get better than that. >> that dress was great. only she could pull it off, i think. >> my 6-year-old son and my 4-year-old daughter and my ex-wife, about to be wife again all thought she was as good as it gets. they all said, mommy, look a

those guys are looking over a cliff. we took a look there just a little while ago. it's about a 50-foot drop. >> a chunk of wild current way is gone, collapsing this more than when the ground gave away and crumbled on to the street below. crews figure it's because of the heavy rains on friday. it's a stretch one neighbor didn't notice much before the pavement collapsed later in the day. >> i drove over that this morning without even realizing it happened. >> wow. >> because from the top you don't know much happened until you look down and notice there's no trees. >> he and his family are one of more than 100 households in the area who were without power for a few hours. he says the lights are now back on but he doesn't have any water. >> the neighbor up the road, his house has water. so we have been going up there and gathering water, collecting water all day long. >> when the street and earth below collapsed it knocked out one of the mud water lines. >> we haven't been able to actually get to the pipe yet. we have been able to shut it off and we're ask saiding to g

look to your left.see nicholas waller firing. >> oh. >> whoa. >> whoa. >> my gosh. >> oh, my gosh. >> officer down. >> nicholas waller was in a gun battle with another independence, missouri police officer. you saw the officer on the right side of your screen in a kneeling stance shooting back. that officer, again, uninjured. waller was then run over by the cops. he survived. last year alone, 174 police officers were killed nationwide, that's a 13% increase overall. the third deadliest year. 68 officers killed by gunfire. that's why they're releasing these videos now, to say look at what we deal with every day. >> we have to be grateful to our officers. this is what they're doing on a daily basis. this is what they're up against. >> i think you're absolutely going to love this video. this guy happened to catch little baby olive originally sea turtles emerging from their nest and making their way to the ocean. >> no way. >> look how many of them there are. look at this. >> oh. this is cool. i've always w

looking good on 270.ll take a live look at the beltway in college park on the east side of town between here and the wilson bridge. you're doing fine as well. coming up in my next report, another look around the area in a few minutes. mike and andrea. >> thanks, monika. >>> the man be accused of firing at several military facilities in our region is scheduled to be in court today. >> yonathan malaku is expected to enter a guilty plea later this morning in alexandria. delia gonsalves joins us live from the satellite with more on what we can expect today. >> good morning, mike. we don't have details of the plea deal just yet. i can tell you if convicted on all of the charges against him, the former marine faces 35 years to life behind bars. the 24-year-old fairfax county man was arrested last june after he was spotted in arlington cemetery overnight. when police arrested him, they found a backpack full of explosives in his home, they later found more bomb-making material, al-qaeda literature and videos take

that is your first look at sports.red roggin. >>> how for another look at the weather, here is bill karins. i guess there is no separation between sports and politics. >> no, but you were supposed to lead that in like here's the guy in my dog house. >> i leave that to you. you're the one with the painful -- >> oh, i knew you'd get your digs in. >> you had yours yesterday. >>> well, good morning, every. it's a mild morning out there from boston all the way down through the mid-atlantic. enjoy it, i guess. 50s in boston. 40s in new york to d.c. and it looks like it will stick around for a a while, too. temperatures for this afternoon will hold where they are. we'll see a lot of clouds in the morning and it should clear out nicely as we go throughout the day. a little colder back bay buffalo, some of the colder air begins to work in. but not a bad week. look at philadelphia. yes, another rain event thursday and friday, but 45 for a high, 47, 54. even saturday, 47. it's not until sunday that the east coast will see the nex

who better to turn to, christina loren. >> we have a good looking first half of the weekend to look forward to. things start to change on sunday. so, you're trying to make outdoor plans, saturday is your day to do so. offshore flow continues until then. and what's happening is that ridge of high pressure not only bumping the storm track to the north pushing it into alaska, it's pushing all of the cloud cover out to sea. so, another day when it's hard to find a cloud in the sky, we're going to see a cold start making way to a warm afternoon. in fact, this looks like the warmest day of the week. let's take through the forecast now. 34 degrees, it's chilly in livermore, 29 in gilroy. running a little warmer than we were at this time yesterday. by noon, temperatures climbing into the upper 60s in some cities. by noon, 67 degrees in gilroy, 65 in san jose. and we're going to see 70s later on today, 73 in gilroy, 70 in santa rosa. and 69 degrees even along the peninsula. so, here's the story. we have our first significant sierra snow in the forecast. i'll tell you when showers arrive at your door

so that's one way to look at it. i'm not into raising taxes on anything. >> mayor reed estimates an election would cost about $1 million. he points out that the tax increase would be a temporary one. the city council is going to consider this issue at a 1:30 meeting here at city hall. >> thanks, marla. >> the state auditors are digging through records in alameda county is not faring too well according to the oakland tribune auditors criticizing the ag agency for not reviewing the case of four children who died between 2008 and 2010 while under its supervision. they say if the agency had reviewed the cases social workers could have learned from the tragic deaths. >> 5:05. way to improve airport safety is in the works at san francisco international. the san francisco board of supervisors is expected to vote on a contract to install emergency safeguards on two of the four runways including putting a spongy material at the end of the runways to slow or stop a plane in an emergency. the project will be primarily fund bid

look at that.osted a picture of herself completely natural, no makeup, and it is leaving a lot of people wondering why she bothers with makeup at all because, frankly, snooki, seriously, seriously, you look so much better. >> she could walk down the hall looking like that and i would have no idea who it was. >> i know. i know. >> pretty girl. >> and get out of the bronzing booth. >> me? >> no, get into the bronzing booth, actually, bill. you and i both need to learn that lesson. >> all right. >> we do. i'm lynn berry. this is "first look" on msnbc. stay tuned. "way too early with willie geist" starts right now. >>> it is two days now until the south carolina primary and the race is tightening quickly. we're live in the great old city of charleston, south carolina. as you can see, even this horse is bitter about being up at this hour. it is "way too early" for this. >>> good morning. i'm willie geist. this is a special edition of "way too early" live at the historic mills house in south carolina. th

look how great she looks now.ntidy and dry. >> yes. >> another good tip is if you have a hair cut like this or any hair cut with gray hair use a blue tinted shampoo once a month. >> blue tinted. >> you don't want to use it every day. >> does it give you blue hair? >> you won't look like marge simpson. once a month. this is clairol shimmer lights. it counteracts any yellow from the gray hair. >> i want to touch it. it looks so soft. >> shiny, beautiful. modern and cool. >> please don't be offended that i am rubbing your hair. really gorgeous. next up maureen. she has longer hair. again, a little bit of the frizziness. how did you improve the look? >> when you have gray hair it is important to style it correctly. and maureen air dried i think in this picture and what you need to know with gray hair is it can look dryer like we said. >> why is that? >> it grows in more coarse and is more porous than pigmented hair. it is important to use shine products and it's important to try and get that smooth, polished finish st

your first look at sports is straight ahead. >>> welcome back to "first look."sports last night, its was all or nothing for the new york giants, as they claim the nfl's last playoff spot. >> good morning. win and you're in. simple enough. and the new york giants made it look easy. the g-men came to play against the cowboys. eli manning hits nelson cruz. and cruz does the rest. outrunning the defense and going 74 yards to the house. giants up 7-0. and never looked back. they beat dallas, 31-14. they play atlanta next sunday. that's because the falcons made the buccaneers walk the plank. atlanta was up 42-0, in the second quarter. yep. 42-0. that's a new franchise record for points in the first half. falcons won. the packers set a record against the lions with aaron rodgers resting for the playoffs. matt flynn threw for a team best 482 yards and 6 touchdowns. packers won 45-41. the lions will post the saints in the nfc wild card game. the broncos needing help from the chargers to make the playoffs. san diego beat oakland, 38-26. richard goodman returns a kickoff 1

we look at the approach to the dumbarton and san mateo bridge, it looks good across the bay. >>> mostly clear, some wind is kicked up and yesterday a system got underway. we went right too far off the coast and by the time higher clouds came over us it just washed itself out. it may flirt with the south bay, just wrapping back around and we are on the edge of all these clouds. i noticed that a little bit, looking for a change may be next week and we will have more coming up in the next weather segment. mostly clear, it is a cold morning out there and the mornings have been cold and dry, hazy sunshine, slightly warmer and there is the wind up in the east bay hill so far. san francisco, a lot of 30s out there, 30s and temperatures will rebound, aiming at central clouds they will come wrapping around that low but not for us we could throw in a few high clouds. 20s and 30s to start and 60s is what we end up with. nights will be cold and mornings, it is tough to get any fog out of us because there is no moisture either. the wind is a big factor. with your weekend always in view, mostly sunny

you look where the people are. counties, 3% of the population, romney winning by five votes. we'll slug this one out. >> what are the most important population centers we're still watching, the area around des moines? >> polk county is the biggest chunk of the electorate. that's where soledad is. >> do we know the percentage of the vote in? >> from polk county 27% of the vote. that's first place to look. davenport, cedar rapids, dubuque and sioux city. we'll watch this fill in. this is critical to romney. that could decide the state right there, the western part of the state. >> fascinating. all about geography. our coverage continues. counting of votes still going on as you just saw in clive. [ male announcer ] what if we told you that cadillac borrowed technology from ferrari to develop its suspension system? or what if we told you that ferrari borrowed technology from cadillac to develop its suspension system? magnetic ride control -- pioneered by cadillac, perfected in the 556-horsepower cts-v. we don't just ma

it looked good, shawn. >> it looked good. what a great way to bring in the first snow of the brand-new year. reporter: that's right. >> wisdom martin, thank you. just a reminder, you can track the latest forecasts and radar images on our website. click weather tab on www.myfoxdc.com. >>> our other big story tonight, the arrest of a maryland soldier accused of trying to join an african-based terrorist group. fox 5's bob barnard has been looking into this tonight. what did you find out? >> one day this guy is serving with the u.s. army in baghdad, the next he's charged with trying to take up arms against the very people he risked his life to defend. his name is craig baxam, 24 years old, a product of prince george's county, accused by federal prosecutors of trying to join a somalian based terrorist organization called al-shabaab. baxam was arrested by police in kenya two weeks ago and brought back to the u.s. friday. he was a member of the largo high school class of 2005. dwayne jones was his principal. >> what i can remember i

or are you just looking at it? >> no, i'm just looking at it. there is a little bit of fog there, guys. right now. guys and gals i should say. let's take a look at that. highway 4 westbound remember last time i showed it to you there was fog coveri point. it's moving on. the fog is somewhere else. and now we can see all the way back to antioch. see back there. way back there is antioch and pittsburgh and bay point. traffic is busy. it's not stop and go yet. it is busy. this mornings commute looks pretty good. there is still fog on the golden gate bridge in parts of southern marin. just be careful out there. remember high beams don't work well in the fog. if you are driving in san jose off to a good start. 1785, 280, and 101. now let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sal. as we probably been mentioning here if you haven't heard by now a pretty good swell. and a pretty good wind as well. generating 35 miles an hour. the combination giving us high surf and that will continue through tonight. the low tide is this morning. 8:49. after that i think by sat

if you don't want to be reminded of what it can look like, look away now. this was the snow-pocalypse that nailed chicago last winter. and this was new york city exactly one year ago. now the big apple blossoms with shorts and bare feet. >> this was almost like a feet wave. it feels kind of like early spring. >> but not so pleasant for those who depend on winter for their livelihood. ski hills from west to east are struggling and steve casper's snow removal business melted away. towns and cities have been saying millions on road salt they haven't had to use. >> only 16% of the nation right now is covered with snow. so without a refrigerator to cool the masses coming down, they modify very quick sxli we wind up with a lot of record highs. >> this snow in an may not hang on long enough for it to freeze, but until it does, harold is driving his hot rod instead of his snowplow. for "today," kevin tibbles, nbc news, chicago. >> i'm going for a run this afternoon. it might be in short sleeves. i'm not complaining. >> it's pretty nice. >> now over to the news desk

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let's take a look. these are the early respondents. stand by. and look at this. based on the early people who arrived, the early voters, a tie between ron paul and mitt romney. at least according to this early entrance poll result. rick santorum is third with 18%, newt gingrich fourth with 13%. let's take a look at the bottom three as well. remember, these are the early voters, people who showed up early, 11% for rick perry, 7% for michele bachmann, 1% for jon huntsman. the big news now, these are not official numbers. this is not the final number. these are the early arrivals right now. but it's obviously a tie, at least among those who responded early in our entrance poll between ron paul and mitt romney. let's go to dane a bash over at ron paul headquarters. i don't know if the folks over there see these reports, but if they do, they must be encouraged the ron paul supporters. >> oh, there's no question they're very encouraged. you pointed this out that these are early entrance polls. and the ron paul supporters are known to be very aggressive and very dedicat

it looks good over to the dallas toll road. things are looking smith. springfield is also looking good. nothing reported southbound spirit the restriction on the hov will be lifted. >>> a community is remembering to a people who were killed in a crash. friends say the key love victim was pregnant. this happened on new year's day on jones bridge road. but people were inside the s u b when it went off the road and struck a fence. we have more. >> nick clayton senior at one of the last photos was a jokester and begin to skateboarding. he said he is going to miss his best friends personality. >> laid-back. funny. kind of like yea he is cool. >> a trailblazer careened off the jones bridge road, killing him and another female passenger. she was katie who they refer to as kiki/ >> 5 ee processed yet. >> three other men survived the crash. when is listed in serious condition. police are investigating whether alcohol was a factor. >> is this really worth it? it is not. i stopped ringing at 11:00 like a drive all my friends home. i am tired of dealing with this.

how are we looking at those priority areas? are we doing them first and then trying to get funding for some of the bigger picture things? >> it depends on the funding sources that are out there. there is the prop k money. commissioner borden: i was the vice chair of that. >> so you are familiar with that. there was the grant that played for more longer term. that is the purpose of this project. ha we have the initial capital project in the report that says you could do some of these things. just to use an example, we looked at sixth street between market and howard, which has one of the highest incidences of pedestrian fatalities in the city. i think there are faces you could do to do that, from the signs or improvements, or signal changes to something more substantial that includes sidewalk widening. through the executive directive, we have been managing that. they can be used in different conditions. commissioner borden: in conjunction with the bicycle plan, can we look at different ways that bicycle lanes have bumpers from p

this is "first look" on msnbc. >>> we begin this morning with a big endorsement. the boston globe's endorsement of jon huntsman is not only a boost for the former utah november but also a snub for mitt romney. tracie potts joins us now from washington with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. all of the candidates realize that south carolina is going to be a big prize for conservatives, but new hampshire comes first. and the front-runner there is taking heat from opponents for courting both. mitt romney starts the day again in south carolina after picking up endorsement there's from the state's governor and senator john mccain, and slamming president obama for making appointments without senate confirmation. >> instead of free enterprise, choosing the winners and losers, instead the government and the people in power will choose who they want to give special favors to. >> reporter: the boston globe endorsed jon huntsman calling him best prepared. hundredsman sl >> the people of new hampshire don't want a

then things start to look up as we go into time. this will move out, i would say around noon things will be more in the clear. then looking at even some sunshine moving in here and then on the back side of this, maybe snow across the great lakes as we go into saturday, not too bad. but for today that 2e6r789 will be around 50 degrees. a few showers in the morning. we can see more showers trying to push in here as we go into the afternoon but mainly as we go through the overnight time frame, that is when we're looking at more of that action. tonight, temperature around 46 degrees. then we'll be seeing more of the same as we go into tomorrow morning. then check out the temperature, 58 degrees. we'll take it. let's check the traffic now with burt, good morning. >>> good morning. maryland 10 at the beltway, we're seeing delays there. this is a quick shout of i-83 at shawan road, no delays there, traffic moving smoothly but in aberdeen, harford county, route 22 a serious crash reported. delays expected towards i-95. a look at i-95 now at

take a look. we've got this cute off low getting a little bit closer to the coast every time i check. right now showers are coming down to the northern most portion of the state. the clouds are increasing that leading edge now pushing into santa rosa. by about 2:00 p.m., mostly cloudy across the area. you'll be cloudy over the city of san francisco. your temperatures for this tuesday, 34 in livermore now, as we break for lunch lchs in the mid to upper 50s. yesterday we had a few 60s at noon. not as warm with the limited sunshine. 57 degrees, though, not bad at noon in san jose. you round out the day with low 60s. 62 in san jose, 63 gilroy, about 63 in fairfield so you'll probably need to keep your sweater on all day long. the good news is we warm back up as we head to thursday. 62 degrees, friday, maybe a few more showers roll in. we're looking forward a pattern change. first i want to check your drive with mike. >> i hope this changes here. this is highway 24. we've been following this accident w

stop, look, listen and think. any time you pull up to an incident or you see something, you take a breath, assess the situation, use all your senses and think about what you are going to do. those are all components of what we call the size-up. there are many components to size up. what's one of the components to size up? gathering facts. you want to assess the type of damage there is. what kind of situation is it? what is the issue? is it a medical problem? if it's a medical, is it a big hurt or a little hurt? is it a rescue situation and if it's a fire, do you have the resources to control or extinguish that fire? how about your situation, do you have all your people? do you have all the resources that you need? have you collected all the material that you need if you are going to start doing a lifting exercise because someone is trapped? because you never start a rescue, you never start a lifting exercise, never start anything, unless you know you are going to be able to finish it, have enough of the resources

sometimes you turn out to be flat out wrong, look at that, traffic looks great and i will be happy if it stays this way. >>> i thought it would be more crowded and so far so good. southbound 80 as you pass the coliseum is moving a long nicely. and 880 southbound, we have a little bit of a backup because of this injury there is also another crash in the backup and unfortunately even though traffic was light, now that there is a crash here it is getting busier. as we move to the other side of the bay, 101 has recovered from other problems. >> sal, how are you this morning. >> yes, we had the fool moon at 11:30 and here we are looking towards alcatraz. clear skies, cold out there for some, 20s 30s and 40s, 48 to 58 by noon. later 68 degrees and santa rosa 28 and 30 degrees near the high school. 30s and 40s, hayward 4 -- high wood 41 degrees and slight components and the system is coming in tomorrow and it will go right near the coast or go over us. if it does along the coast, mild afternoon low-to-mid to upper towards cap tow cap tow a. things get back to sunny mild and dry. >>> and they

if we are going to be looking at a debt service, we look at a percentage of 1.25. for start-ups, we like to see startups near 1.25, generally closer to 1.5. the fifth c is collateral. i will put it to you this way. on a startup, we like to say 25% to 30% in the form of cash or real estate that has fungible equity in it. a purchase of real estate will count as collateral. pretty much, at wells fargo, we have this process streamlined. i am the front end. after i review the alone, i put it together, put it into underwriting. they will review the file and see if there is a loan file. then you have the of loan) who works with you through the end. so the average time for a 7a loan, which is my focus, about 35, 45 days. if there are other things that need to be looked at, 45 days to 60 days. we are preferred lending partner. we are able to approve a loan up front, close the loan, and then we go back to get the guarantee. i do not have the exact numbers. i should. i do not know how many loans we did last year. it was a lot. i know we were the first lender -- i do not know,

if looks good on 95 in virginia. looks good in baltimore. things look beautiful in springfield.ltway road, to and from american legion bridge. reporting normal service. >> good timing for the change in the weather. not interfering with the commute at all. tonight into tomorrow morning. winchester right now, 35 district and in the 30's all did. sleet tonight. rain by tomorrow. thanks. news upd ♪ everybody come to hollywood >> of course they do. everybody wants to look like they are in hollywood. it's not just about red carpet glamour anymore. there's at the stunning looks. can you make it into an affordable outfit suitable for every day of the week? you're going to find out. how did i do? >> i hope they can do it. >>> coming up, granny knows best. this grandmother and her granddaughter aring looing for love. they're each other's personal cou cupid. they're here to help you find that someone special. >> mark cuban now in the wings. it's a cavalcade of stars. >>> speaking of finding love, renew your love of pasta. it's a new carb lovers diet cookbook. nice to know we have all been

i have looked at the apartments from around the country. i have looked at many consent degrees. i have been involved in one in oakland for almost eight years. i have seen all the policies here in san francisco. i have seen policies in most departments. it is more about how you impose those policies, how do you know what the person is supposed to do. it is a comment i have seen from judges many times. it is a question of trust, but verify. there are enough mechanisms in place to audit internally -- not an internal audit department itself, but a way to look to see whether or not the integrity in the process that people are involved in. you can look on the spot check basis to determine whether drugs in the department are supposed to be there. you can look to find out whether or not people are being truthful when they say the police have taken the money. i have seen that. and you can develop policies to look to say. look, does this particular officer have a history of arresting people and there is no underlying offense? or does the person have a history with drug cases were small am

>>isabel: a quick live look at walnut creek. looking quite dark but this is what it looks like.till, a nice day despite the breezes we will be back. @@ [ crickets chirping ] [ traffic passing ] ♪ [ music box: lullaby ] [ man on tv, indistinct ] ♪ [ lullaby continues ] [ baby coos ] [ man announcing ] millions are still exposed to the dangers... of secondhand smoke... and some of them can't do anything about it. ♪ [ continues ] [ gasping ] since time began. not anymore. fiber one is bringing brownies back. at 90 calories, the only thing between you and chocolaty brownies... ♪ ...is a nicely designed package. ♪ you can have brownies again. fiber one 90 calorie brownies. in the granola bar aisle. caramel...pretzel 90 calorie bar. ♪ ♪ >>isabel: 7:10 new information this morning. pg&e is being hit with a $16.8 million fine for failing to perform gas surveys from the deadly san bruno junqueira explosion. it killed eight people, destroying a 38 homes. the state regulators announced the nursing program promoting safety. announce the -- promoting. the cp yo a former utility executive has

there is a live view this, is how it looks right now. this is take a look. we have a blanket of rainfall, if you will covering the bay area now. mainly that area north of the golden gate there is, still. south of the golden gate. we'll give you a view from santa rosa south ward into marin county and into san rafael, into vallejo, we've got pockets of heavy rainfall and there is some down pours so it's bet wet and getting wetter. mixed precipitation and in ta show, -- tahoe, it is snowing, more snow for seera. there is a wind advisory for and next storm arrives on sunday. and this is in time for niners and giants came. there is a cold front approaching now and rainfall ahead of it. and there is a next storm steaming ahead. we'll start at 5:00 in the morning. at which point the rainfall will have tapered off to showers, showers end by mid day. we'll have dry conditions into afternoon and 5:00 in the morning rain beginning to push in and by afternoon we'll see flooding to a wide portion of the bay area to candle stick park through game time and into sunday nigh

like from there but let's look at at it a little bit of a different way let's look at the perspective of what this would look like for a household budget we're going to lop off some of those zeros at the end ok so annual faneuil annual family income would then be twenty three thousand dollars money a family spent the would be thirty six thousand new debt on the credit card would be thirteen thousand that outstanding balance would be one hundred fifty one thousand total defense budget cuts over ten years that are supposed to be a big deal would be forty eight hundred dollars so per year it's four hundred eighty nine bucks ok if you're a family that was one hundred fifty one thousand dollars in debt i don't know how excited you be about saving four hundred eighty nine dollars i wouldn't be would you be at work edward wouldn't either and speaking of financial mess the fed is asking congress to use fannie and freddie ok they're owned by taxpayers to help more of those same taxpayers get cheap loans to help housing how that makes sense i don't know but credit write downs found founder edwa

look back at 2011. it started out with lot of promise. we saw it dipped down in the summer, and now things are starting to pick up again, where does that leave us going into 2012? >> i think the second half of the year is more indicative of the growth in the economy. i think a lot of what we saw in the first half of 2011, were a lot of one-time factors, the disaster in japan, big weather issues that impacted food prices in particular. we started to see a lift in the second half of 2011, particularly into the latter part. i think some of that will continue. i think that momentum will continue into this this year. >> what is driving that momentum? retail sales were up, car sales were up as well. home prices, the housing market improved, what's driving that? >> i think it's a little bit of everything. we started to see improvement in job growth, that improves confidence. we saw the drop in the unemployment rate. the stock market started to perform a little bit better. that has a high correlation to retail

take a look. >>erica: taking a look at traffic, is flowing freely with your ride under 23 minutes out a bottle for san francisco. a quick check from the traffic map shows all is well in the south bay in fact north bound 101 is a smooth ride with no accidents to report. all they agree on your screen indicate speeds over 50 mi. per hour. in fact your ride coming from the capitol expressway to the montague expressway is coming in at just 10 minutes this hour. >>justine: the budget battle is taking its toll on the city of oakland want to give the mayor announced more cuts and layoffs are coming. >>reporter: with the february 1st deadline approaching oakland mayor jean quan presented a plan to close a multimillion- dollar budget deficit created by the states: elimination of redevelopment agencies. >> week reorganize of the we could save public services and the staff that support them to the largest extent possible. >>reporter: the plan calls for more than 100 layoffs of city employees and a reorganizat

take a look. the picture is a bit blurry. look closely. you can see firefighters lifting a 3,200-pound car, saving a man trapped beneath. he had been riding his bike and apparently turned into traffic before being dragged under the car, facedown. fire crews knew they didn't have time to set up all the rescue equipment they would normally need. they just relied on brute strength. and it worked. the man is expected to survive. >>> speaking of survival, take a look at this dramatic rescue. two men and their 11-year-old sons, left clinging to a cooler some five miles out to sea, after their fishing boat caught fire and sank off sydney, australia. fortunately, one of the fathers had the presence of mind to activate the boat's emergency beacon, something many people forget to do during a panic. because he did that, the helicopter was able to reach them in about an hour's time. otherwise, it's very unlikely those four would be still alive. >> they were so far out. >> they were. and had the life jackets on. >>> now, to politics. your voice, your v

alike. >> neither one of us says look at you looking like me.i don't know. hope there wasn't a whole lot of money riding on on it. >> you don't have any sisters. but if you did, who would you want to be your sister? >> good question. >> halle berry. >> i would love to meet halle berry. >> you think she looks like halle berry. >> no, no, no, that would be a good sister. >> because wisdom would be meeting halle berry. >> he would enjoy that. >> it does have its benefits. >> i would have to think about my list, tucker. maybe i'll have an answer for you later. >> we have about 3 1/2 hours left in the show. >> thank you for inviting me up here. >> we love having you here. >> as much as we love having tony here -- >> an upgrade. >> thank you very much. >> invite me any time. >> mac, i hope you're on the right side of that bet. tomorrow's question, who is tony related to? >> who has the bigger head? >> i think we need to have a full measurement to see whose is bigger. >> let's check some with julie wright and get the latest on traffic. >> good to see a

we want to take a live look at verizon center in northwest. look at the people there. at the top of the hour, the doors opened for the youth rally as part of this year's march for life, organized by pro-life groups. mass will be celebrated at 10:00 this morning at verizon center. then, there is a march that begins at noon. house speaker john boehner will deliver the opening remarks. the march then heads to the supreme court. constitution avenue will be closed from third to ninth streets northwest and first to third streets northeast. there will also be closures along third street northwest, sixth street northwest and some of the roads crossing the mall. definitely give yourself extra time to follow detours if you're driving in the downtown area today. >>> just about 6:40, the chinese new year celebration is underway. in nine minutes, how you can ring in the year of the dragon. >> despite a chilly start, it is going to warm up into the 40s. don't expect to see the sun though. howard tells us what we can expect for the rest of the week. >> first, what you can expect. wha

look at lincoln, nebraska, 69.ll day with the wonderful temperatures down here and we don't get the brunt of the warning tomorrow. it's going to be very, very nice tomorrow. we'll be there for the day. twentys for the suburbs. we're talking about the numbers into the middle 30s or so. that is on the cool side. loads of sunshine. through the day tomorrow, we're expecting mostly sunny skies and look at this. this is not even the high tomorrow, 60 degrees at 5:00. i was thinking that tomorrow's numbers should be up into the lower 60s for just about everybody. sunny can and mild. we're under a high pressure and as we get into wednesday, a few more clouds and it will be warm on wednesday as we're talking temperatures, mid- to upper 60s, wednesday's temperature really depends on how much in the way of sunshine we do get. we think we'll have a few clouds and enough sun to get our temperatures into the mid- 60s to upper 60s. that is why we were streaming into february. >> 66? i'm loving it. >> february 1st is going to feel

take a look at this video.itnesses say the woman got on the bus with a controller full of pillows and was very polite. she describe her as special needs. the sheriff's office is investigating this one. >>> the prime suspect in the disappearance of natalee holloway has pleaded guilty to murdering a young peruvian woman. he said he beat and strangled the woman. he asays he taxed her when he found her looking at his computer reading files about natalee holloway. >>> a bombshell revelation about casey anthony and her daughter. according to newly released depositions, anthony said she got pregnant with kayleigh after she was raped. this happened after she passed out at a party when she was 18. she doesn't know who the father is. doctors couldn't find any evidence that anthony has a mental illness. >>> a mississippi jump is temporarily blocking the release of 21 inmates. -- a mississippi judge is temporarily blocking the release of 21 inmates that were pardoned by haley barbour. >>> we'll show you more as we monitor

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look at this is in 2012. what republicans will release final vote totals from the january 3rd caucuses and the do more and register is saying that rick santorum actually finished ahead of mitt romney by 34 votes. the paper says results from several precincts were missing and there are too many holes in the certified totals to another victory for certain. romney was thought to have won the contest by eight votes. they are calling it a virtual tie. the five republicans still in the race for the party's nomination are preparing for the last televised debate before this weekend's primary. it is a two hour debate that will begin at 5:00 p.m. tonight. the candidates are busy with events scheduled throughout the state. mitt romney is still the front runner. newt gingrich is closing in. that 30 percent of republican primary voters orlando. this comes as republican presidential canids are preparing to blanket florida with anti obama messages. this trip gives the president the opportunity to lay the groundwork for a ge

we'll first take a look at route 50 from annapolis. it is looking all right. let's take a look at sandy point off the bay bridge. as you come through this area and over to the beltway, you will be ok. then it is mainly the fog you're dealing with to the west and north of town and we'll take a look at the southbound side of i-270 as well and give you an example of the fog. in clarksburg, pretty much looks like this all the way down through rockville and the point where the lanes divide. it is dense fog and reduced visibility we're concerned with this morning. we'll take a look at the northbound side of 395, much better here. look at the difference in the camera. the fog really is not too much of a factor leaving the beltway to the 14th street bridge. same story on 95 from the occoquan river. we'll talk about more area roadways coming up at 5:24. >> the ravens fans your office may be a little grumbly this morning. >> we'll have highlights from both the conference championship games coming up in sports. >> now, let's take another look at the question of the day s

the big debate weekend coming up with everyone looking down -- looking to take down romney. "meet the press" anchor and debate host david gregory looks ahead to what could be a make-or-break battle this sunday. >>> and speaking of republican debates, there was one today, a phony funny or die debate on yahoo!. in fact, sometimes satire is better than the real thing. we'll check it out later in the show. >>> finally, let me finish tonight with the fight to fight obama and where it's headed now. we start with chasing mitt romney. howard fineman, msnbc political analyst, and "the huffington post" media group editorial director, and the great joe klein. he's a columnist for "time" magazine. because he is the great, as you are, howard. let's take a look at these poll numbers. basically, the poll numbers out, let's take a look at the latest poll numbers out of both south carolina -- well, south carolina, let's start with that. mitt romney has jumped into a first down there with a dominant lead at 37%. that's up 17 points from early december. rick santorum also got a huge boost. he'

take a look at temps right now. that bad, considering it was about 34 yesterday this time. 43 now. no wind at all. the barometer holding steady. 30.00 inches. come back and take a look at the risk of rain, yes, by this time tomorrow. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> here's a live look outside right now. it's been a clear and beautiful afternoon. compared to what we had yesterday. >> let's take a look at generally clear skies. temperatures around the baltimore region. probably looking generally in the midto upper 40s. 39, in pax river. and 44 down there in ocean city. as you can see, locally. temperatures ranging from the low 40s to near 50 over in washington. but look at this afternoon. 53, 32 today. 41, 24 is the average. the record, 70 in 1950. and 2 below in 1875. currently winds, very, very light. no winds at all right here on tv hill. southwest winds over oakland. and a bit of a west wind over ocean city. tomorrow, the winds come back over the east. that will bring moisture with it from the atlantic and the gulf of mexico