let me bring in news nation's senior political reporter lois romano and cnn contributor and strategist keith boykin. we touched on comments on morning joe. he released a little more detail. it says in part republicans aren't against tax rate hikes because of one man or a pledge. we're against hiking rates because they're bad for the economy and hurt jobs. our first team points out it seems like the parties are ready to agree to a large point for taxes on the wealthy. the down side is the two sides can not agree on how to raise the taxes on the wealthiest lois. >> i think you've hit the nail on the head. first of all, i don't think they care about throwing groesher norquist under the bus. i don't think the pledge is great de. they can't be on the side of raising taxes for the wealthy. the obama cam paper and now the obama white house has framed this in such a way that all these politicians who had been dug in before are saying, hmm. you know, we've got to do something here because how can you come out and say, no, no, no, let's not tax the rich. the question is as you say how do they ge

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lois goodman was arrested back in august, dressed in the u.s. open uniform. case against her may have been turned upside down. abc's mark greenblatt is here with that story. good morning, mark. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. she is alleged to have badly beaten her husband, leaving him to die while going to get a manicure. but this morning, lawyers from this tennis referee are hoping that science will set their client free. lawyers for lois goodman hope that new dna evidence will exonerate their 70-year-old client. the long-time tennis umpire stands accused of bludgeoning to death her husband with a coffee cup. charges goodman's daughter has refuted for months. >> my mother would never do something like this. never in a million years. she's completely innocent. >> reporter: the tennis line judge has sparred with john mcenroe and some of the sport's biggest stars on the court. and was still in uniform when police arrested her just days before the u.s. open in august, charging her with the murder of alan goodman. >> we did an autopsy. and it was determined t

lawyers for lois goodman hope that new dna evidence will exonerate their client. stands accused of bludgeoning to death her husband with a coffee cup. >> my mother would never do something like this. she's completely innocent. >> reporter: the tennis line judge has sparred with john mcenroe and some of the sport's biggest stars on the court. and was still in uniform when police arrested her just days before the u.s. open in august, charging her with the murder of alan goodn. >> we did an autopsy. and it was determined that he died at the hands of another. >> reporter: but now, her lawyers say forensic evidence recently turned over by prosecutors, shows lois goodman's dna was nowhere to be found on the murder weapon, bolstering their claim alan goodman fell down the stories and hit his own head on the coffee cup. >> i asked, did you kill alan goodman? and at your residence, did you kill your husband? there was no physiological reaction attached to those answers that she gave, which were no. >> reporter: his conclusion -- >> innocent woman. >> reporter: as for the l

special note of one of our employees who has been diligent for serving communities in san francisco and lois figueroa and thank you for the work that you do on behalf of the communities and of course you recognize the american aids project. [applause] to borrow from the president's words and our san francisco and our bay area community moves forward because of you. we move forward because of you, and the honorees and your work that rerecognize tonight and recognizes the triumph that left from depression to the greatest heights of hope. the belief that each of us will pursue our dreams we are a san francisco, a bay area family and we rise or fall together as one nation and one people, and so i would like to invite up to the stage to receive what we present in recognition of this important event lynn hunt, the ceo -- [applause] -- of the indian health center of santa clara county. on behalf of mayor lee and recognizing and honor of the committee we would like to say on resolve on behalf of the mayor and city and county of san francisco we recognize this as national indian month here in san fra

aumentar impuestos, por primera vez el partido en el poder tienen la mayoría de un tercio, necesitaban lois en juego , la proposición buscaba aprobar la tercera es la vencida y así lo fue . >> un analista nos explica el significado de esta aprobacion . >> si una personas roba algo pequeño en un restaurante y era sentenciado a 25 años de cárcel . >> mientras tanto la proposición 35 recibió un enorme apoyo, de modo que se endurecerán los castigos contra personas que trafican humanos . >> deben ser sometidos al esctrutinio público, las sentencias aumentan . >> por otra parte la proposición 34 buscsaba abolir la pena de muerte y fue derrotada (información en pantalla) . >> los votantes demostraron que realmente considera que la pena que se debe aplicar debe ser la condena a muerte en aquellos casos que sea realmente vio0lento . >> más adelante continuamos con esta cobertuyra y veremos qué tan decisivo es el voto hispano . (♪). >> guatemala está en alerta roja, a raiz de un terremoto de 7,3 grados . >> guatemaltecos del área de la bahía están preocupados . >> muchas gracias, la mayor parte de lo

. >> reporter: and lois' house near the hayward fault is a perfect example. >> these washers are undersizedre the wrong type of nails. the plywood needs to extend down to the foundation. >> reporter: his verdict? >> there is no value in this current retrofitting. >> reporter: a shock to silverstein who paid about $4,000 to earthquake-proof her home a decade ago and didn't cut corners. >> we got somebody reliable. we had a reference. you know, several references. >> reporter: well, it turns out many bay area homeowners are living with a similar false sense of security. it's estimated one to two- thirds of retrofits in the bay area are inadequate and won't prevent structural damage in a major earthquake. this structural engineer is often hired to fix subpar retrofits poor work done by contractors he says are simply in the dark. >> mostly i think it's a lack of training that's been available and realistic details for contractors to follow. >> reporter: two years ago, california adopted a seismic retrofit code known as plan set a. a detailed set of instructions on how to properly retrofit a hom

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it will use chrome al loi to replace the pipes. it hopes to get all repairs done early next year and have the refinery working back at 100%. >>> some 3,000 intats in jail under the three strikes law could be resentenced or released altogether. proposition 36 passed in tuesday's election. we talked to one co-author of the new law and to a man who fought against it. >> we were sending people away for life for stealing a loaf of bread, petty theft, simple drug possession. >> if they can see the train coming down the tracks yet the guy only stole a loaf of bread or he -- he -- he managed to get the purse away from the girl without putting a bullet in her head, then they're not going to be able to charge for three strikes. >> for the record the amendment could end up saving up to $100 million a year once the law takes effect. >>> people are camping outside an east bay restaurant hoping to be fed for a year. there's a line at chick-fil-a in walnut creek. they are vying to be the first 100 customers to win a free meal every week for an en

an initial test shows lois goodman's dna was not on the shattered cup in the home where her husband diedher attorney says it bolstered the claim that alan goodman fell down the stairs while holding that cup. >>> and chris stephens the late ambassador to libya was honored last night at an awards ceremony. secretary of state hillary clinton called stevens the best of what america embodied. she held hands with his sister, ann, as she accepted the humanitarian award she accepted on her brother's behalf. >>> we could see the new face of the bush political dynasty. george p. bush has filed papers in texas to run for office there. he is the son of former florida governor, jeb bush, the nephew of george w. bush. the younger bush has not said, though, exactly which office he will seek. >> a lot of georges. >>> it is time, now, for sports and some thursday night action in the nfl. we get the highlights from espn news. >> doug kezirian here with your "sportscenter" update. the colts had a bad season. andrew luck leading the colts. 5-3, entering last night's game in jacksonville. first quarter, regg

choose they is a vote to save the world as we know it's a choice between a bully feeding else loys under group trying to keep our way of life on tuesday californians start the fight back against genetically modified organisms if proposition thirty seven to force g m o's in this state to be labeled on food we show my plant organics on the white house lawn but frankenfood rules the world two in three u.s. foods already genetically engineered and g.m. seeds now grow in almost every country around the globe saying this if da memo shows most of its own scientists will cheer most. dangerous still mutations in animals fit much those of people with autism this still hasn't been a single g.m.o. safety trial on humans so it's yeah it's called just a thirty seven a no brainer and opponents of genetically modified crops have even set up a spoof. hello and thank you for calling on their method. if they would develop corner brain cancer or become sterile from eating our g.m.o. products please press three. yes on thirty seven's to kickstart a global food revolution well some says no shoveling tens of m

point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lois fully beinghappy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries a band in many countries and even the will out there pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states financial considerations for one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in auditors in america advertised as one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight in so one eight centimeters would have brought me right to average users wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal like your guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite endearing yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she took told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're pe

e spent the whole car ride basically loying down. and he wasn't until we got in santa anna he said you can get up now. and so that, you know, just just seeing the things outside the window was amazing. like, i remember, all the palm trees. in my hometown we didn't have palm trees and just the streets that never seem to end and the buildings that seem to reach the sky, and it was just amazing. it was just really amazing. >> where did you live in l.a. when you first got here? >> when i first got l.a., i lived in high land park in northeast los angeles. it was predominantly latino community. >> mostly illegal? >> i think it was a combination, yeah. there were a lot of immigrant families, but, you know, that were also the legal and illegal families. >> how did the legals view the illegals? >> i'm not too sure about that because as a child, i don't think i was too aware of that kind of response from the adults, but what i do remember the most is being shot when i got to school that most of the kids in my classroom were dark skin and they

librarians aren't happy though saying such blatant censorship is akin to george orwell's ministry of truth lois kay leader of the u.k. pirate party sees little good in the bat. mission of the library of congress is trying to preserve a collective body of knowledge the job of any line reached shortly should be to share that knowledge but it's frankly not surprising that such organizations that are under pressure to actually conform to these kind of classification nor but essentially this is still a censorship and censorship nor is it actually stepping on freedom of speech and we've often see that united states is very quick to criticize and states a broader stepping on pins being. able to say to uphold the same standards at home we can see how vital a certain principle of whistle blowing to both the man for democracy. security forces in kuwait detained dozens of pro-democracy demonstrators in another crackdown on arrest in the gulf nation protesters defied kuwaiti ban on public gatherings that was imposed last month with reports that thousands demonstrated against new voting rules it was a peace

it's just about peter and lois singing about how much they love pie.ally, it was just fantastic to see our characters animated in a disney style. i just thought that was so well done. and it was a lot of fun. uh, and we sort of improvised some of the lyrics in the room. seth just came out with... (as peter) ♪ it's a wonderful day for pie and one of us goes... (aeveland) ♪ and it smells so much better than i ♪ it was cleveland as a skunk and it just came together. and, uh, that was a great piece. one of my favorites. ♪ i know you just can't wait to stare ♪ at all that luscious orange hair ♪ but, boy, before you touch a single curl ♪ you must impress that ultra-bloomin' ♪ all-consumin', poorly groomin' ♪ down's syndrome girl the down's syndrome girl song was fun for me because it was the first time i had written lyrics and a tune. which i basically went in and sang for walter murphy who then arranged it and actualade it sound good. it's a lot of fun for us to... you know, to write a song lyric and have a great composer like walter murphy or ron jones set

it's in place for prohibiting loi entering -- loitering. >> proposition 30 is the one that is too close to call. it could be decided by tomorrow. any big surprises? maybe your final thought? >> i think it's a big surprise. the polls indicated it was dipping below 30%. i think we're seeing the heightened turn yet by -- turn-out of the presidential election may have had an effect on this proposition. tonight it looks like a good night in california for democrats. they may not have done as well in some of the congressional races as they had hoped but prop 30 is a significant measure in california and it appears most of the issues democrats favored have done well, as well as president obama winning. >> with it being so close, how long do you think it could take before we know the out-come of the prop? >> days. the counties will stop counting tonight and waiting to get the absentee ballots that were dropped off and it could be a few days. it's interpreting in the right direction for those who want it to pass but there's still a lot of ballots to be counted. >> it looks like it could be the e

candidate to put forward to try to court a lot of the new voters in this country that we have so egregious loygnored the last couple years. >> hogan, you worked with mike huckabee, and mike huckabee and i don't great on much, but he's proven to get, so it's not even just whether one is conservative or not, but about reaching out, relating and dealing. because i wouldn't in the middle of the night call him a progressive, but he got double-digit black votes in arkansas. >> right, double digits. he got 50% of the black votes -- >> i was trying note to tell everybody that, but go ahead. >> he said, look, i've never caught a fish sitting on my couch talking about fishing. you have to get out and talked to the people. >> and one of the problems we have i think in the party obviously on display now, we have so few good messengers that can deliver the message of conservative. can iflgts and he's right. what conservatism means has been diluted. we lost the single-woman vote. i mean, you're not telling me that all this discussion about if rape is really rape orb not that happened in the last 6 to 9 mont

>> i need my mother in law low which is to co-- lois to help. >>> speaking of traveling this thanksgiving more than 3 million of us are expect to do fly this holiday. melanie from wtpz joins us at reagan international airport. things looking pretty good so far. >> oh, yes, so far so gad. if you were planning on coming to the airport or flying into the dc area this would be the time to come right now. peak travel time hasn't hit yet. between 5:30 and 8 this morning things will start to heat up. we will have the late afternoon rush 3:30 in the afternoon an 5:30 in the evening. once again they are telling people i know nobody likes to do this but to arrive two hours ahead of time before your domestic flight. a couple new security screenings late. fr preapproved travelers in that program aren't going to have to do irritating things like remove shoes, belts and laptops and baggies with liquids in them. they don't have to take them out of the luggage if they are part of the preapproved program. here at reagan national they have added one more security screening lane to all of the checkpoints. t

lois franklin in florida gets it. tammy duckworth in illinois. i mean, these candidates understood it and they are explicitly talking about the impact on women, of the policies that they're going to be asked to vote on, as elected officials. and the more they talk about it, the more women understood, yes, this is a candidate that i can trust. this is a candidate that i can work with. and it's interesting to me, i think the more we talk about what is the impact on women, of these various types of policies, the better the policies will be, for sure, and the more we will begin to put elected officials in who really care about the welfare of all americans, not just one-half or a little less than one-half. >> and we now have a record number of women serving in the united states senate. that number goes to 20. a big victory last night in north dakota. unexpected, heidi hitekamp defeating rick berg. big winners, no doubt. there's a lot more coming up in the next half hour of "the ed show." stay with us. >> it doesn't matter whether you're black or white

. >> it is also at cranbrook that mitt romney meets ann lois davies. his future wife. >> mrs.y went to kingswood, which was the accompanying girls school for cranbrook. it was a fairly tight community. fairly hermetically sealed. so you, you know, there would be dances with the kingswood girls and interactions and things of that nature. >> like his father, ann would become a lode star in romney's emotional universe. >> she is an emotional center for his life. she's a lynchpin for him. and emotionally and i think an important part of everything that he does. >> my appreciation to her for what an extraordinary friend, sweetheart, and counselor she is. ann? >> when he goes away to college at stanford, mitt flies home many weekends to court ann who was still in high school. after his freshman year when it is time to go on his mormon mission, it is ann who urges him to go. >> mitt expressed some reservations about going, partly it seems that he was concerned he might lose ann being gone for a couple of years, and ann said to him that if you don't do this, you'll always regret it. y

. >> narrator: so phoenix homicide detectives lois weiss and her partner jennifer mellinger drove out to meet with frank langsner. >> narrator: they recorded the meeting. >> narrator: at first, langsner denied being involved in jana's death, but then the detectives told him about the phone call with his caller id. >> once we started talking to mr. langsner, he just started providing us more information as far as what his involvement was. he mentioned wye hale-rowe being involved as the senior exit guide, who basically was, for lack of a better word, his mentor. >> narrator: langsner also described to the detectives all the reasons jana wanted to die. >> i think i was the first person that met jana personally. as i recall, i think she had gotten the tanks right away, within a week. and so that was an indication to me that she's ready to do it. she was a little anxious. she was concerned, will she gag or will she choke? wye assured her that she had a lot of experience and was going to help her through this, and it would be an easy kind of a thing for her. >> she was a lady who was tired

in fact, we're borrowing at loi levels. >> that's very dangerous fareed.ething paul said is really important. what's happening in europe would be a lesson to us. we still have time to phase this in. if you look in europe the lesson ought to be if you don't deal with the problems the holes get deeper and at some point you have to take much sharper measures. that means -- that can mean that you have to go through a difficult period to deal with what would otherwise be a deeply dangerous long-term situation. the lesson of europe is act now. >> but the reality -- >> all said, phase it in. and i would at least defer the implementation for the limited period with an enforcement behind that. >> will any of this improve america's employment picture? >> yes. for the very reasons paul said. if you have a sound fiscal program that dealt with our long-term imperative, then i believe, just as paul said, that it would increase business confidence significantly both because right now there's great uncertainty about future policy and economic conditions and because there'

but lois, i want to play another clip from congressman paul ryan and his first public reaction on camera to the loss for he and governor romney. let me play it. >> mitt didn't pick me for wisconsin or a certain state. e he picked me for issues, for taking on the debt crisis. we had hoped to win wisconsin. he fought very hard for wisconsin. we cut president obama's lead in half, but nevertheless, it wasn't enough. what it became clear to us as things went on, when virginia and ohio weren't coming together, it looked to me some time early in the evening that it just wasn't going to happen. >> that's his reflection. but moving ahead, speaker boehner was asked whether paul ryan would be the leader of the party. he referred to him as the wonky guy. what are we to make of paul ryan? >> he is the wonky guy. that was a dismissive comment that the speaker made. what he was trying to say is that he's coming back here, the same guy, as when he left. he's going to be a voice on certain issues, but he's not going to be a leader in the party. >> thank you very much. a pleasure having both of you on to

. >> joining me now is politico's senior political reporter lois romano. there was doubt he was going to run for re-election, but look at his latest poll ratings since the storm since sandy he's up to 77% approval. >> well -- not only that -- >> extraordinary in the latest polls. >> killing cory booker who is looking at, you know, before the storm was looking at maybe running for governor and now leading cory booker by 30 points. he's riding the wave. and he's trying to position himself as an outlier after the republicans' terrible loss. he's bipartisan. he's leader. he's out there. so he's trying to take advantage. he's also using some of president obama's lines, which i have a job to finish. you know, i have to finish this job. i can't go anywhere. >> and also in the 2016 talk right now, jeb bush, in washington, meeting with the pollster for highly regarded pollster for mitt romney, and not dousing speculation that he would consider a presidential run. >> no. he's encouraging speculation saying -- he's also having an education conference here. he's made

connecticut's governor, daniel ma loi, praised russell as a firefighter doing what he loved most.he would do anything for anybody. in new jersey, the slashing winds caused death. this couple was in their pickup truck when a large tree fell across their vehicle. their kids, aging 8 and 14 were in the truck as well but survived. on the facebook page, the tributes flowed in. i know of no other people so generous and loving as the everetts were. and out on the ocean, many of you have heard by now the replica of the sailing ship and how it reportedly sank in huge winds and waves caused by sandy. the coast guard rescued 14 members of it is crew. the ship's captain, however, remains missing. one crew member is known dead. her name was clawed dean christian. that's her alongside the replica. 42 years old, she often told reporters she was related to fletcher christian, the sailor blamed for leading the on ship. she won a job as a deckhand just last spring. on her facebook page and on twitter, she was clearly thrilled with her new job. she said, i am in love with my ship, bounty. russell, r