about 18 minutes at the top of the hour, and lookie, lookie, what we have here, gloria borger is sittingou have to tell me, you have the senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell coming up today. what is your first question to him this morning? >> you know what it is. do we have a deal? right? he's the man with a plan and he's been talking to both the president and the vice president, and he was optimistic yesterday, and harry reid was not so optimistic yesterday, but it seems overnight things have gelled hopefully, and we may be nearing a deal on raising this debt ceiling. i think mitch mcconnell is the person to have in the hot seat this morning, don't you? >> yes, he seems like he -- i don't know, all these guys are power brokers. he seems to have become more of a power broker when he said i am going over here to the white house and going to talk over here. why was he insisting that the president got back in the mix in a major way? >> because the president is the only one that can give the final signoff on something. don't forget, it was the president that threatened to veto a short-ter

now just seeing some minor looky-loo traffic there approaching the scene.eah, could have been a whole lot worse if they didn't get that cleared as quickly as they did. >> certainly. thanks, elizabeth. >>> coming up, it is 4 minutes before 6:00. in the next half hour, more shocking admissions from pg&e disturbing really. the mistake it made with pipelines around the state. plus, a plane nose dives into a hospital building. how witnesses describe the fiery crash. >>> i'm anser hassan live in san jose where we are waiting the return of two bay area survivors from sunday's fatal boat accident. the problems they face on their long journey home straight ahead. >> and check out these live pictures inside the shuttle atlantis scheduled to blast off in just a few hours. but the big question is the weather going to hold up? we'll have a live report from moffett field on this historic launch. or granted the christmas dreams of twins whose only wish was the shi professionally-cleaned hardwood floor? well, i have seen the glory of steam-cleaned kitchen tile in the early

alex morgan chips it over the keeper, and lookie there, the u.s. to win 3-1 to advance to the world cup final where they will face japan. you can watch that match, the world cup final, on espn. it comes your way sunday. coverage begins at 2:00 p.m. eastern. you can also watch online at espn3.com. >> well, i know where we'll be watching that game. >> yes, definitely watching that game. can't wait. >>> they're the oscars of the sports world. espn's espywards complete with the red carpet fashion. >> if you can call it that. the espys were held in los angeles, and there is one standout this morning. take a look at this getup. this is san francisco giants star brian wilson best known for his beard. he was sporting the beard. he also rocked this spandex tux. during the preshow he talked about his attire. >> it's a onesie, so it's built-in gloves. they're a little dirty because i've been getting awkward on the carpet and my cougar cane, my plus one. >> he brought a cougar. he also said a onesie a man supplied the socks. >> a step up from a tux t-shirt. >>

his operations in the balkans it's still a free agent in response to the recent arrests of twenty looky lous of cyber hacking. people just need to be sympathetic to wiki leaks and its founder julian assange and has already it's have the web sides of major companies and government agencies. forty one people have perished in the central chinese province of six passengers including the driver are being treated to serious injuries the vehicle carrying flammable materials burst into flames while traveling on a local highway reports claim the box was seriously overlay just carrying forty seven passengers the accident follows the death of twenty three people killed after speeding shot rammed into a tourist pass in central china's new paper last month. thousands of people have protested in front of the japanese embassy in south korea denouncing japan's claim of the dr islands demonstrators have been angered by taking his recent panel korean allies and japanese lawmakers plans to visit the island in two weeks time the two countries have been disputing the sovereignty of the islands for many gays

looky, looky who we have in atlanta with us.t our political update. >> always good to see you. mitt romney, running for u.s. president, so why is he in great britain? what's going on with that? well, he was over there today meeting with the british prime minister. how did we find out about that? he told us on twitter. take a look at this, gave us a picture in his tweet meeting with the british prime minister over there. also yesterday had a fund-raiser. listen, this isn't the first television candidate go to britain, john mccain, barack obama and rudy giuliani all did this last time around so it beefs up their foreign policy chops and helps them with fund-raising, a lot of americans who live in britain have a lot of money and want to spend some of it on candidate. new campaign ads, the ad wars in iowa heating up, iowa so important, the first caucus state. michele bachmann up with a new ad. what does she do in that ad, reminds people in iowa guess where i was born, iowa. how is that, t.j. >> a pretty good strategy. one political

however, you might have the looky-lou factor. that might slow your northbound commute back in san jose. as far as the road it's in the southbound direction. reporting live, bob redell. >> great update at what's going on. 5:33. this afternoon a decision in the devastating pit bull mauling case that left a toddler dead and his grandfather in jail. today a judge will decide if he sends 53-year-old steven to trial. three of his bit bulls mauled his 2-year-old step-grandson. when the toddler wander out to the garage where the dogs were kept. the district attorney wants to charge with second-degree murder because he knew the dogs were dangerous. we were the first station to interview him after his first night in jail. at the time he told us he knew at least one of the dogs was aggressive. >> san jose investigators are trying to identify the body of a man found next to a golf course. a fisherman discovered the body near capital expressway. special crews trained for water rescue were called in to recover the body. because the scene is lo

and i'm looki ing forward to th results tomorrow. they ought to be working on something big. the president last week six times in his press conference mentioned taxes and corporate jets realistically for every $100 of the president's deficit that's worth two cents out of the $100. it would take 5,000 years at the rate that they're going to make those taxes to just deal with one year of the president's deficit. so the president ought to really talk about things in responsible ways not just as this little two cents' worth and nibbling around the edges. these are big problems and we need a big solution. >> thank you very much. >>> and continuing the wyoming theme here. we go to pete williams the tsa has announced that it has put airlines and airports on notice of new intelligence suggesting terrorist groups may be considering surgically implanting explosive devices into passengers flying into the united states. pete well yams you know this area so well, but this is pretty stunning. >> this is no discussion of an actual plot or operation to do this. rather officials say an increa

speeds okay past the scene but minor slowing there likely some looky-loo traffic because tow crews and chp both on scene now. fog also an issue this morning. lawrence touched on this. so yeah, watch out for foggy conditions on 1 portions of pacifica, daly city pretty foggy as well as the golden gate bridge. check out our camera. this is on the san francisco side of the span right there before you reach the toll plaza. hard to see traffic this morning. instead we have this weird ghostly effect by the street lights out there but yeah, watch out for some low visibility really this morning in north- and southbound 101. i'm waiting to see a headlight or two but we can't see much for this time of the morning and mass transit is on time. bart in fact has 38 trains all on time. ace train off to a great start number one. bart, ace, muni metro and caltrain all on time. remember kcbs, our radio partners, at 740-am and 106.9- fm. that is your traffic and weather. back to you. >> thank you. >>> a bill that would require gay curriculum in california schools is on the way to the governor right now. d

but you will find possibly some slowing just some looky-loo slowing approaching two separate fender-benders heading on the upper deck into the city. more traffic in a bit. in the meantime, back to you. >> all right. elizabeth, yeah, we have some changes in the weather. today we are going to see hot temperatures again even hotter than yesterday in some spots inland maybe some triple digits but some patchy dense fog has moved along the coastline and that's very thick. watch out for that this morning. temperatures in the 50s at the beaches, mild inland plenty of 60s here by the afternoon. moving well into the 90s in the valleys even some triple digits well inland. 98 in livermore, 96 concord, 64 much cooler in pacifica and about 73 degrees in san francisco. cooler temperatures en route toward the bay area, some part his cloudy skies for tomorrow. and then as we head in toward this next weekend, those temperatures really take a hit. as we look toward saturday and sunday, those temperatures probably running well below the average. that's the latest interest here, guys. back to you. >> -- that's

lookie what they found, a nine-football shark. they caught it.in several sharks over the weekend, but this was by far the bickest catch. no worries, they did release every single shark. >>> navy pilots lieutenant brad hoyt wanted to make his homecoming one his 3-year-old son would never forget. >> daddy! >> these never get old. i just love these. there he is, lieutenant hoyt surprising the 3-year-old ho homecoming, and the guy still said appropriately "daddy." we're 11 minutes past the hour. another live look at the white house, where every moment supposed to be within the next four minutes president obama expected to host once against the congressional leaders for another round of negotiations on whether to extend america's credit line. suddenly the white house is now saying the focus may need to shift in these negotiations. we are all over this story. stay with me, next.

so i say to my colleagues, looki one of myd colleagues said to me yesterday senator mikulski what it would it take to get you to the table? i said give me a plan and 30 republican names behind it. i will see if i can support the planning get 30 others.'sp, so madam president i'm no my time is up but i do want the time to be up on america. let's comer. together.ns. let's stop being democrats.t we at stopping republicans. let's say, call us what werica should be called, an american and what americans do? when the times get -- when the times are tough, the tough get going. make let's get going. let's make the tough decisions.t let's putic politics aside and e america number one and get usr back on track. t madam president, i yield the floor. >> madam president? th >> the senator from new york.k. >> first i want to tangle good rand and colleague from maryland for her great words. she comes from the heart of maryland and the heart ofe america. very few people i've met inany politics in my many gears in this endeavor have an a understanding of how average people a feel than the great senat