mark sanford made sure jenny was not going to be in the race. is expensive and stay out of the spotlight until you're ready to return. >> mark sanford, do you think he'll be able to rebound from the scandal? >> first, the thing he did right was apologize, admit it. the problem is we build our politicians up to be mortal and we find out they're mortal and the ones that lie, they lie over and over again and we get madder and madder. governor sanford tried to get it all in the open when he could and he has had some time since this has happened and is there enough time? who knows? i think he's trying to move on and it's a good opportunity. >> what's the key? not discounting the national journal's advice and what is the key to overcoming the scandal? >> as you and i talked about earlier, i have family from south carolina. people in the south in states like south carolina don't like to be embarrassed by their public officials and i don't think he's home free yet. there's a wide republican field and if any of these opponents can put money together, i t

mark sanford can expect all of those kinds of questions and a whole lot more. d norah. >> jan you're right, a whole lot of questions as jenny sanford ran mark sanford's campaigns for many years. in the beginning was his political soulmate if you will in many regards. now what does it mean for this new relationship that mark sanford has. >> when you think about jenny sanford, remember when she didn't show up with him at the press conference a lot of women said finally, because we've seen so many political scandals where the wife stood there looking sad while the husband confessed to all of his sins. she got a lot of praise wrote a book. a lot of people thought she was going to run for congress. she was a very strong powerful woman in her own right before she got married and became the first lady of the state of south carolina. she had that key role in his campaign. we don't know what his girlfriend soon-to-be wife will played. like you said, a lot of questions as he steps out onto the campaign trail. >> thank you. >>> and walmart is making a big promise to vetera

former south carolina governor mark sanford is hoping to make a come back. first run for office since he made scandalous headlines when he disappeared for days with his mistress saying he was hiking in the appalachian trails and he was in argentina. in charleston, south carolina. what kind of support is he getting and what is jenny sanford saying about all of this? >> all of that will be in this report. we have all of that for you. he is getting a lot of support he said for people urging him to run. he told our affiliate that he is both fearful and excited about running for office again, reentering politics and running for congress. he said there is a lot he wants to do in public live and he will become a human pi nata, beaten up about the scandal in 2009 where he lied to family and staffers about hiking when in reality he was down in argentina seeing his mistress to whom he is now engaged. he is saying they will judge him and the works he did as a congressman and governor. he is running to bring fiscal responsibility to washington and to represent the taxpa

. >>> what do mark sanford, chris christie and ed markey all have in common?ey're among the candidates in races to watch for 2013. good morning. 12k3w good morning. >> mark sanford has been gone since 2009, but he put out a statement yesterday saying i am running because our country's future is at stake. how good are his chances? >> they're actually not that bad. mark sanford represented a lot of this terrorist when he was in the house for six years in the 19 # 0s. he has a national fundraising network and from eight years as governor, his name id is through the roof. he actually has an upper hand in this primary. the question will be whether voters are willing to forget some of his previous transgressions, whether hiking in the an des or not. >>> democrats have lined up behind ed markey, so is scott brown going to throw his hat in the ring. >> it's possible. scott brown is faced with a choice, he can either run for the senate seat or try running for the governor again. it's really a tough decision for him because if he loses another state wide race, it's goin

former governor mark sanford is back and he's here. we begin with lance armstrong. i'm going to start with you. this breaks your heart. i remember when you wrote this. it was at a time when many people were turning on lance armstrong. i admired your loyalty, frankly, as someone who clearly wanted to believe in him, because he had said to you himself, repeatedly, i never doped. i'm told you exchanged e-mails with him in the last week. tell me about that. >> i wrote a column at the daily beast on monday, and i probably should have done it sooner, repudiating the cover story, which i sort of flawed it hook, line, and sinker. lance e-mailed me yesterday and said, look, i f'd up, i want to apologize. i'm really, really sorry for sending you down this road. >> i think it was heartfelt. i didn't respond. i don't think there's anything to respond to. i still wonder, is he playing me? i think he did the same with rick reilly of espn. is this part of -- >> we have breaking news. lance armstrong has just confessed for the first time in public to oprah winfrey, i took banned su

i do believe that there is still a support base there in many quarters for mark sanford. i doubt, though, that he will be as successful as he was in the past. there are a lot of republicans who will be in that race. now, the question is how many get in and how much of the vote gets diluted in order to determine whether or not his base will get him into the top two people which i think is what's going to be required to get a nominee. i think that the democrats will have a very strong candidate. i understand that there are two women who are strongly considering this race. it will make for some interesting dynamics if we get a good strong democratic woman to run if mark sanford were to get the nomination on the other side. it will be worth watching. >> it will definitely be worth watching. congressman james clyburn, thank you for your time. i appreciate it. >> thank you so much for having me. >>> want to bring in today's political power panel. executive editor and reporter for the national journal, chris kofinas and republican strategist, alice stewart. let's talk about what

strengthening the atf is part president obama's new gun regulation plan. >>> mark sanford is running old seat. his extramarital affair became public in 2009. sanford says he deserves a second chance. >> u.s. senators retire every 1,000 years or something. he retires, the governor happens to pick the guy who was in the seat that i used to hold and so there's been these strange opening of doors and i don't know exactly what it means but we'll find out in nine weeks. >> you can hear more from mark sanford tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. pier piers morgan will have him on as a guest. >>> the olympic committee is stripping lance armstrong of his medal of the 2000 games in sydney, more fallout from his reported confession to doping which we will learn more about when armstrong's interview with oprah airs. remember he's been stripped of his tour de france titles, let's take you to france to hear people there are reacting on the phone with us is cnn's zain verjee. she's in a town just outside of paris, so i'm ready, hit me. i'm sure it's not going to be good. >> reporter: bon jour. it's 3:00 a.

. >> form are south carolina governor mark sanford is expected to announce he'll return to politics. he resigned four years following revelations of an extramarital affair. >> robert gleason is expected to go the electric chair. the supreme court is being asked by gleason's lawyer to block the execution saying he's not competent to waive his appeals. >>> the white house is changing the signature threshold from 25,000 to 100,000 for official responses to petition on its website. the other day a petition suggesting the construction of a star warriors death star got enough signatures for an official white house response. >>> the s&p got a five year high. we'll see if that trend continues. goldman sachs and jpmorgan chase defend the best of their proceed titles with fourth quarter earnings reports. bonuses for several morgan stanley workers will arrive in the form of an iou. they will pay out for high earning employees in installments over the next three years. the nation's credit ratings is heading downward. treasury secretary geithner warned the u.s. will reach its credit limit between

there's a lot on the line for mark sanford. >> no way. >> wait and see. saying if he wins the congressional race, it will draw a line in the sand on the most embarrassing political in south carolina history in 20 years. >> it sounds like you think he can win this thing. it sounds like you think he has more advantages than disadvantages. >> yeah, craig, you know, he -- if you look at his record of a conservative governor and in congress, one of the big questions will be, first, mark, what have you done since you left office, second, what did you do while you were a congressman and third, he has got to answer, one of after another the affair, the hypocritical way that he handled it and at the end of the day, he has a tremendous chance, name i.d., and south carolinans, they are forgiving people, but he has ten competitors and they will not like him during the race. he is the known commodity here that he demands a national presence and you know, mark's rhetoric has not changed since i have known him. and it will not change now. the voters will look past the a

candidates include former governor mark sanford seeking a return to politics after resigning over anrital affair four years ago the >>> of course we escaped the know yesterday but it was a far different store to our south. look at this. university of alabama, the students celebrating practice being cancelled with, what else, a massive snowball fight. they chucked snowballs for haffer an hour. then the snow started to melt. but it was fun while it lasted. >> it's always fun when you don't have to shovel! >> exactly. >> birmingham had two inches but chicago has had all year less than an inch and in d.c. going on two years of not even one inch in a snow storm the >> odd year. >> did someone turn the map upside down? >> hey, it's cold this evening but temperatures are not going to fall a whole lot more through the overnight hours. an indication that the winds are turning south southwest. the wind-chill factor in the middle 20's and if you head outside right now, this is what it is going to feel like monday for the inauguration. look at the record -- 69 set back in 1990. our weather bug n

. >>> plus former governor mark sanford's bid to return to politics. >>> and fortune's magazine list work for. >>> for now that is the news on this wednesday morning. as always, i appreciate you watching. i'm terrell brown in new york. take care, everybody. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald >>> hi, everyone. good morning. it's wednesday. i think we're all ready. february 16. i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm michelle griego. time now is just about 4:30. of course, we're ready! we have our coffee this morning. >> and coffee is a wonderful thing. >> one of the first things we check on, is the coffeemaker working today! you need it today and, of course, some hot chocolate, too. very chilly temperatures. looks like much warmer temperatures are on the way. >> that is it? >> that is it! >> time to talk about traffic! out the door we have a lot of overnight roadwork out there including stretches of 880 southbound between 980 and 16th avenue. we also have a full freeway closure in the east bay. we'll talk much more about that

. >>> mark sanford launches his political comeback today.sanford disappeared and later admitted to having an affair with a woman in argentina. today, he's announcing his bid to win back his old seat in congress. >>> well, the president's limo undergoing a subtle but significant change this inauguration weekend. mr. obama's official vehicles will carry the d.c. license plate that reads, taxation without repation. the city protested the voting member in congress. >>> chelsea clinton taking a high-profile role in the inauguration. she is getting americans across the country engaged in their communities. clinton will be headlining this event at the national mall on saturday. >>> there are important, new clues this morning in the search for an autism cure. new research confirms some children who get an early diagnose know sis can outgrow the disease by the time they were adults. researchers are trying to determine what made the difference in those children's lives. >>> as the flu sweeps across the country, precautions are being taken to keep the

. >>> mark sanford is expected to announce today that he'll return to politics.ill run for his old congressional seat. he resigned four years ago following revelations of an extramarital affair. >>> robert gleesing is scheduled to die today in virginia's electric chair for killing a cell mate. the supreme court is being asked by his lawyers to block the execution saying he's not competent to waive his appeals. >>> over to wall street. the dow opens at 13,534 after gaining 27 points yesterday. the s&p 500 and nasdaq were mixed. overseas markets were down today. nikkei shot down 278 points while the hang seng fell 24. >>> a late day boost pushed the s&p 500 to a five year high. we'll see if that trend conditions when goldman sachs and j.p. morgan chase defend the best of the breed titles with the fourth quarter earnings reports due out before the bell. jp morgan is expected to release the findings of an internal review on the whale trade debacle that led to $6 billion in losses last year. >>> bonuses for several thousand morgan stanley workers railroad reportedly a

now the standard is reporting that mark sanford will run for the house seat that was held by tim scott. ""the weekly standard"" said he'll make this run official in the next few days. you'll remember that then governor sanford was reported missing and later admitted he had an affair with a woman in argentina. i bumped into him at the republican convention. he told me he missed being in the arena. sounded very much like a man way back in august who wanted to get back in the middle. >> i wonder thou is going to play out. will people forget? will people forgive? >> they certainly won't forget. you don't forget something like that. >> and he's engaged to that woman now. >> he? >> yes. all right. 21 minutes past the hour. will he or won't he? only lance armstrong knows for sure. when armstrong sits down for an interview with oprah winfrey today, he'll finally admit using performance enhancing drugs while winning seven tour de france titles. the confession after years of vehement denials is part of armstrong's plan to rehabilitate his public image. armstrong stepped down from livestrong and

> jenny sanford says she will not run for congress from south carolina against her ex-husband, mark sanford. she says, quote, i think my job as mom right now is much more important. >>> ann romney, wife of the republican presidential candidate, said during the 2012 campaign that she was a big fan of "dancing with the stars," but it's reported that romney said no to an invitation for her to appear as a contestant on that show. >>> former president bill clinton was a big hit at "the golden globes" and also popular backstage after his appearance on the broadcast. actress clare danes says she was invited to meet clinton in a private room. actress jessica alba was already in the room and so was actress rosario dawson. and that's your morning dish of "scrambled politics." >>> and now for a look at the weather, here's nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer. good morning. >> good morning to you. it has been really nice across the east coast. above average. it hasn't been exceptionally warm. we've been missing the sunshine, that's for sure. we are going to see most of our rain today just south of new york c

now, if she wins the democratic primary, she can face mark sanford, the disgraced exgovernor. >> up nextfaa officials weighing in on the battery problem that grounded all boeing 767s. >> and lance armstrong's doping confession, we talked to a author who wrote the book on doping and weighs in on this disgraced cyclist. >> disturbing video of a vicious attack on a subway platform. he then pushes and pulls this woman on to the track autos and the move from the tsa today on the controversial airport scanners. that is coming >> i view this situation as one big lie. i repeated a lot of times. >> part two of the interview with disgraced cyclist lance armstrong airs tonight. admitting that he lied for years is not satisfying many critics. >> armstrong's confession set a record for her network with 4.3 million viewers. the union says it's an important step towards repairing. abc 7 news has local and national reaction to the admission. >> all of the faults and blame here falls on me. >> lance armstrong made his apology. lance williams, the journalist who helped uncover balco scandal says it's less

and several republicans, including the state's former governor, mark sanford, are after it. the colberts are natives of charleston, south carolina. ahead at eight-30. the flu 3. been o'brya >> brighton brian: is cool it is cool, with upper 20s. with a cold start for tomorrow. warm temperatures and once again mid-60s sunday it shaping up to be very similar. a warm afternoon, plenty of sunshine. and the same on martin luther king day. we will see lots of sunshine impose afternoon temperatures will see mid- 60s. for tomorrow, just mid- 60s. 64 in san jose, milpitas. a little bit closer for the central valley. but 60s for the bay, hayward, union city. and san francisco will seeing the north bay valleys could also see some fog. that could limit visibility. oakland, 64 degrees. and a look at your holiday weekend and next week with lots of sunshine and warm afternoon temperatures in the 60s. remember, the mornings are going to be cold. temperatures will be cold. stormy weather patterns. right now, just some threats of storms. >> is that time of year reckon, sk that year-again, with

before cameras more than three years ago, and confessed the extramarital affair and this morning mark sanford is plotting the political come back. >> first we are continuing to follow breaking news from london a helicopter crashes into a crane and slammed into the ground. the latest on the flames, the wreckage and the victims. >> if san jose police are investigating an attempted kidnapping. a mom has a tug of war with a stranger in order to live from the kgo broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> good wednesday morning at 6:29. starting our day the sun is about to rise. come on. come on. come on. almost up! it will be warmer. we promise. thanks for joining us, i am kristen sze. >> i am eric thomas. i join mike predicting the sun will rise. in the east. >> and then all will be happy but for the possibility of poor air quality in between. first, a look at live doppler 7 hd showing it is dry. no clouds. no rain drops. we have frost with temperatures in low to upper 30's. by noon, low-to-mid 50's. poor quality inland. we start frosty at 26 to 36 hanging out in the mid-to-upper 50's in the afterno

and several republicans, including the mark sanford, are in the running.he colbert's are natives of charleston, south carolina. >> president obama is just days away from being sworn in to his second term in office. so we're taking a look back at some of the funniest moments from his first four years. take a look. the more we cannot sustain (goodness) >> all of you know who i am. >> maybe you have noticed i am very well rested after the first debate. the next several days the bipartisan out reach will be so successful even john boehner will consider becoming a do democrat. he is a person of color. [laughter] although not one that appears in the natural world music) >> and nobody is happier to put his birth certificate issue to rest than droid dna augmentation initiated. vision expanding to a 5-inch 1080p hd display and camera. touch acquiring nfc. hearing evolving with beats audio. wireless charging activated. introducing droid dna by htc. it's not an upgrade to your phone. it's an upgrade to yourself. >> good morning. thanks for watching kron 4 news weeken

. >>> jenny sanford announced monday she is not running for coress in the state, governor mark sanfordnning. jenny sanford said congress is dysfunctional and she can be more productive being a mom. >> the idea of killing myself to run for the seat for the privilege of serving under a dysfunctional body under john boehner, just being a mom is fine for me. >>> mark sanford resigned as governor of south carolina after admitting an affair with a woman from argentina. he's expected to announce his campaign in congress in the next few days. >>> the mystery surrounding the death of natalie wood made deeper again. it changes the official cause of death from accidental drowning to drowning and other undetermined factors, sights the presence of bruises on her body. she was found floating in the pacific island. lady gaga is taking heat for performing "alejandro" in vancouver, she was wearing a machine gun bra, she first wore that in the video single in 2010 but many are questioning wearing it again since she did so a month after the shooting in newtown. >> the point is as an artist she's edging a

donnie you're mark sanford said he would be announceing pom that he would run for congress for his old win? >> there is nothing that people like more than the redemption story. he'll walk out and say he found jesus. he regrets what he did he's still republican but everything is okay, so vote for me. >> jennifer: i'm sure that jenny sanford, his former wife. >> the smart one. >> jennifer: she's smart and she's not going to run against him, which i was looking forward to. but my guess is she will be a little bit leary about running in a primary or general election when all of the stuff comes out and is made public again. how can this guy do this to his family? >> exactly. particularly to his children. you know, donnie is right. people love redemption, resurrection. but he has not told enough people sorry and not enough time has gone by. i don't understand how he can do to his children. and if you ignore all of that, who is selling him that he'll get the women's vote. it is the year of the woman. >> all of the comedy writers jon stewart they're all paying him. that's his biggest donor ban

. >>> disgraced south carolina governor mark sanford, former governor, has made it official.or the state's open congressional seat. two days after his ex-wife jenny announced she would not run for it. you may remember mark sanford's political career and marriage scrum belled after he admitted to an affair with a tv reporter in argentina in 2009. an old college friend convinced him, congress is where he should go next. >> he called me, mark, you got to do this. talking about debt, deficit, government spending, 15, 20 years ago when no one was much focused on it here is a chance to take what you learned on the way up, what you learned on the way down. what you learned in congress before, the governorship and apply it to the debate of our time. >>> piers morgan will have an exclusive interview at 10:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. >>> quint se conrad bain, the d different strokes, has died. only one surviving member, willis. >> such a great show. you think of all of the drama cast members had over the years. >> i don't remember. i don't think i was born then. >> that show was a long tim

former south carolina governor mark sanford expected to announce today that he's running for congress career really imploded in 2009 after he disappeared and later admitted he was having an affair with a woman in argentina. just this week, his ex-wife decided against challenging sanford for his old house seat. jenny sanford said it would be more productive to focus on raising her child than running for the house. and despite her recents health scare, bill clinton says hillary is doing great. he made a bold prediction about theo outgoing secretary of stat. >> she's always been very, very healthy and she has very low blood pressure. i tell her that she's still got time to have three more husbands after me. so i think she'll live to be 120. >> hillary clinton as you know is recovering from a blood clot in her head. >>> in englewood, california, a woman -- a man, rather, has experienced his own version of reality tv. he was watching a high speed chase on television when all of a sudden the car with the cops in hot pursuit passed right in front of him. police eventually arrested the driver

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>> that was mark sanford, admitting to an affair with a woman from argentina that cost him his marriageled his political career. well, now, sanford, a republican, is announcing he will try to make a political comeback. he's running for the congressional seat he held in the late '90s before becoming a two-term governor. the argentine woman is now his fiancee. >>> breaking news here at the top of the hour on cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. americans taken hostage in what the u.s. here -- u.s. state department is calling a terrorist attack. happening right here, you see the map, we're talking algeria, northern african nation. as far as where specifically this is happening, apparently at a bp facility. algerian state media report the militants who have links with al qaeda are holding at least 40 people hostage, as many as seven americans could be among them. state department spokeswoman victoria newland condemned the attack but is being extremely cautious when it comes to specifics. >> the best information that we have at this time is that u.s. citizens are among the hostages. i hope you will unde

south carolina governor mark sanford has announced he is going to run for congress. scott to take over for jim demint in the senate. a special election primary is set for march 19th. and then the general election will be may 7th. sanford asking voters to weigh his record on fiscal conservatism against some of his personal indiscretions hoping the former will far outweigh the latter. you may remember that sanford publicly confessed in 2010 to having an affair with an average intennian -- argentinian woman and they charged him with 37 violations related to the affair including using taxpayer money and resources for personal travel. sanford agreed to pay a $74,000 fine and he's now divorced from his wife and engaged to his mistress. if you want the white house to pay attention to your petition on its "we the people" web site, you'll have to get 100,000 of your closest friends to sign on. the white house has raised the threshold for responding to people's requests from 25,000 to 100,000 signatures after some arguably ridiculous requests. the officials have had to reply r

the race includes one other democrat and 10 republicans including former south carolina governor mark sanford. >>> alicia keys is reportedly getting ready to perform at the super bowl. ♪ this girl is on fire ♪ >> the associated press reports the grammy winning artist will perform the national anthem at the big game february 3rd in new orleans. the nfl hasn't officially announced the anthem singer, but has announced beyonce will perform at the halftime show. >>> in a move to avoid arbitration the san francisco giants reached one year contracts with four players, foremost among them buster posey who will receive $8 million plus award bonuses. that compares with 6 hub 15,000 last season -- 615,000 last season. hunter pence received a one year $13.8 million contract. >>> gray whales are making a rare appearance along the san francisco coast. a viewer david cruz took this shot near the cliff house at ocean beach this afternoon. bileses say the whales are migrating -- biologists say the whales are migrating to mexico to have their calves and it's rare to see them this close to land. >> you can see

. >>> regresa a la política el exgobernador de carolina del sur, mark sanford que en su oportunidad fuerao aquí en mi teléfono, hay compañeros de trabajo enfermos, ustedes están saludables porque la recomendación número 1 es que uno se quede en casa si tiene flu. >>> mire, estoy cansada, porque quiero dejar esto, pura criticadeera, puras cosas. >>> es que soy la voz del pueblo, y lo que el pueblo pide lo voy a decir, señores este año en despierta américa. >>> no le entendí. >>> otra vez, repita. >>> este año en despierta américa seguimos regalones, repartiendo, eso se reparte por aquí y por allá, buena suerte y billete. >>> pero aquí el que trae el billete es raúl, que se fue a probar las habilidades y conocimientos en al calle, vamos a despierta y gana ♪. >>> despierta américa la mejor manera de comenzar sus mañanas y vine con la mano milloanria, estoy con anelsis, anelice, marian y el colado que se llama bal, de dónde es usted. >>> brasil. >>> brasil >>> otro colado más. >>> de colombia. >>> perfecto, muy bien, entendemos muy bien, novelas o despierta américa. >>> despierta américa. >>>

. >>> former south carolina governor mark sanford makes it official today, that he's running for congresssanford made national headlines, of course, when he disappeared for several days, supposedly on the appalachian trail. later admitted it was because he was having an affair in argentina. he's seeking the the seat vacated by tom scott. sanford's ex-wife, jenny, who governor haley also had on her short list of possible employees, told reporters she would not run for the house seat. here's why. >> the idea of killing myself to run for a seat for the privilege of serving in a dysfunctional body under john boehner whiff an eighth grader at home just really doesn't make sense to me. >> so there you have it. doesn't want to be hanging out with john boehner, okay. >>> next, the president and putin. how significant of a road block will russia be during the president's second term? we're going to do a little deep dive as we've been doing all week on the challenges ahead for the president's second term. today, the focus on foreign policy. and speaking of foreign policy, one of the first american

. >>> to politics now, where former south carolina governor mark sanford officially announced he's running congressional seat. he sent out the press release a short time ago. he will be running in a special election to replace tim scott, who was just appointed to the senate seat previously held by jim demint. >>> the white house is quadrupling the number of signatures needed for a response on its we the people site. now petitions have to have 100,000 signatures in 30 days. the administration has recently given responses to petitions ranging from those asking to secede from the union to urging the construction of a death star. >>> a new business in utah is making news. george burnett's i love drilling juice and smoothie bar charges liberals a dollar more than conservatives. >> i'm very open about it, very public about it. i'm going to charge them a little bit more and i have liberals come in, and pay the extra dollar surcharge. >>> finally, "saturday night live" star seth myers is nominating hillary clinton as one of gq's 100 hottest women of the 21st century, saying she gets sexier every y

traditionally right- leaning seat and several republicans, including the state's former governor, mark sanforderts are natives of charleston. >> this beautiful day today. shaping up. this live view of san francisco, the embarcadero, the red, the gold and most of the bay area is working for the 49ers. temperatures in the morning but warming for the afternoon. 60s, similar for sunday. sunshine and temperatures in the 60s and for martin luther king another beautiful day. dry weather and sunshine. here is the satellite with clear skies and high clouds. this storm is over the pacific is way out to the west. and this pattern will stay in place for another three-four days. eventually, by wednesday a storm will break through. just a little bit of light rain in the forecast, right now. look for sunshine. 60s. almaden valley and 64 and santa clara, sunnyvale. the coolest will be in the north sections with their field. fairfield and also, the nice weather will hang on for sunday. again, we are going to be cold in the morning with the 20's in the north bay valleys. 30's and 40's in the bay. highs in the m

mark sanford, running for congress. close to them confirmed that he will try to win election to the seat formerly held by tim scott. host: apparently not so much these days, with him planning to run again. also want to point out this story from "the washington post." "u.s. military fighter jets provided back up to a failed french hostage rescue mission, the white house's knowledge sunday in a rare public acknowledgement of american combat operations in the horn of africa." host: we have a few minutes left on this subject of entertainment and video game violence, their role and responsibility in this ongoing national debate. mike, louisiana, on the independent line, good morning. caller: good morning. i just wanted to say that i play these types of games. i know a lot of people who do. none of us are violent people at all. pretty much all of the people who are doing this stuff, like the guy in newtown, they'll have mental problems, you know? before there were these types of games or any kind of entertainment, really, the

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. >> former south carolina governor mark sanford speaking out.ning for the congressional seat he held in the late 1990s. his career thought to be over in 2009 when he admitted to an extramarital affair while he was governor and last night on piers morgan, sanford said he is asking south carolina voters for forgiveness. >> there is an amazing reservoir of human grace out there. a reservoir of god's grace that each of us have to access. >> the pictures are you looking at are the woman from argentina that he had an affair. i believe they are now engaged. >>> a moment serena williams would probably like to forget, coming up. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso. your soups are so awesomely delicious my husband and i can't stop eating 'em! what's...that... on your head? can curlers! tomato basil, potato with bacon... we've got a lot of empty cans. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. >>> 49 minutes past the hour. let's get you up to date. >> top story, following lance armstrong. confirming charges against him that he has for years denie

. >>> the former south carolina governor, mark sanford made it official on wednesday that he will runhat state's open congressional seat, this after his ex-wife jenni announced she would not. sanford said a state senator and old college friend convinced him he would be the perfect guy for that job. >> he called me and said mark, you know, you have to do this he said you were talking about deficit, government spending 1520 years ago when nobody was that much focused on it. they are now. here's a chance for you to take what you learned on the way up, what you learned on the way down, what you learned in congress before, what you learned in the governorship and apply it to what is really the debate of our time. >> you will remember his governorship, which was riddled with that story where he admitted an affair with a woman from argentina back in 2009. >>> look at this, unless you're a little claustrophobic. this oregon woman spent nearly four hours trapped in an eight-inch space between an apartment building and a 20-foot wall. this happened early wednesday morning in downtown portland.

new this morning, former south carolina governor mark sanford is runner for his old seat in congressm politics. sanford, a republican said this morning he wants to go back to washington because he believes that spending is threatening the country's future. he was considered a possible presidential contender until he revealed back in 2009 that he had an affair with a woman from argentina who is now his fiancee. he finished out his term in 2011 and did not run for another office. >>> in new york city, parents had to send their kids to school by subway or make other arrangements after school bus drivers went on strike. drivers walked off the job early this morning. the union is upset that the city put its bus contracts up for bid with no job guarantees for drivers. the strike affects more than 150,000 students and about a third of them are disabled. school officials handed out metro cards so students could take the subway and city buses. >>> san francisco could soon require more than just construction companies to give preference to city residents when they hire new workers. now supervi

mark sanford is running for congress, trying to reclaim the seat he held two decades ago. his fall from grace in 2009 came after he admitted his story about hiking in the appalachians was a lie to cover up his affair. >>> and finally, the power of the internet and the most social of media on display here. five siblings, led by their two big sisters, wanted a dog really bad. the parents say, you put a picture up, you ask facebook for 1 million likes. and if you get 1 million likes, we'll get you a dog. they figured, no way. they didn't figure it would take about 13 hours. >> what? >> to get 1 million likes. >> are you serious? >> i am serious, elizabeth vargas. holland wants a dog. portland, oregon, wants a dog. i do believe in the lara spencer household, the auto voting was fast and true. >> can i tell the truth? i actually knew about this page. i liked. they're up to 1.7. two dogs. >> wow. >>> let's turn to the major announcement from the president this morning on gun violence. he's expected to call for a mix of legislative and executive action, including bans on military

. >> an interesting day because mark sanford announced he's running for congress. >> and his wife is not. >> left office in 2009 because of an affair. it strikes me as interesting on this day when we talk about lance armstrong whether he can be rehabilitated. >> apples and oranges. >> this guy is running for congress and he was chased from office and now he's back and running for office. >> he sued people that called him out. >> we'll see. that's a very interesting question. he has a good chance. >>> in just a few hours at 11:55 eastern a.m., of course, president obama will announce his new gun control agenda. we know how that some family members from the newtown, connecticut, will be joining the president. you want to stay with cnn for special coverage of that announcement. it begins with wolf blitzer at 11:55 a.m. eastern time right here on cnn. tomorrow we'll be talking with texas congressman rahim castro, new york congressman peter king, and actor gabriel mock, the star of the hit show "suits." >> i love that show. >> "cnn newsroom" begins with carol costello. good morning. >> go

. >>> mark sanford's ben at a political comeback begins today.he'll run for congress. you may recall his political career imploded in 2009 after he disappeared and later admitted it was because he was having an affair with a woman in argentina. sanford's ex-wife announced she'll not run against him in the primary. >> that would be so interesting. >> so, security is in place ahead of president obama's inauguration next week and's you can imagine, it is beyond tight. the head of washington's fbi field office says 42 agencies will work together from the multiagency communication center in washington. the fbi says there are no credible corroborated threats to the event. >>> and the reverend luis layione of st. john's episcopal church steps away from the white house has been invited to deliver the closing prayer and, of course, we'll be in washington to bring you all of the history here. president obama's inauguration, we'll have soledad, zoraida, and i'm the one in the middle that will begin at 5:00 a.m. eastern time monday. >> i wasn't sure. >>> a f

. >>> former south carolina governor mark sanford will re-enter politics.ter hanby, who was the first to break this was a done deal. he reported it back in december. he will run for the house seat once held by now senator tim scott. sanford will make his run official in the next few days. remember in 2009 then governor sanford was reported missing and later admitted he was having an affair with a woman in argentina. >>> so four teams left in the march to the super bowl. the new england patriots got a huge performance from running back shane vereen. that's shane ridley. but vereen scored four touchdowns. they beat houston 41-28. tom brady has now won more playoff games than any quarterback in history. and the atlanta falcons came this close to blowing a huge lead. they beat the seahawks 30-28 on a matt bryant field goal in the final seconds. it was astounding they even needed that, but they won. san francisco travels to atlanta for the nfc championship game. then baltimore visits new england for the afc title. after that, it's new orleans for super bo super

. >>> now it's official, mark sanford wants his old seat back in congress.itted to having an extramarital affair in 2009. sanford formally announced today he's going to run for the congressional seat left empty by congressman tim scott appointed last month to fill a senate seat. south carolina's republican primary, that is set for march 1 19th. and he always said he'd be back. he kept his word. form erier california governor. schwarzenegger told cnn at 65 he's a better actor than he's ever been. >> you know, i get older. i get wiser. i've experienced things as governor that helped me with my performance. i think that i'm better today than i was when i left the acting field and so i think the movie turned out really terrific and i was very fortunate to work with the director that is really good at pulling out performances out of actors. >> arnold schwarzenegger, his new movie, first leading role in a decade. it's big on action, of course. it's called "the last stand." premiered this week in los angeles. >>> expect snow, ice, rain. huge winter mess. yes. stret

you might remember former south carolina governor mark sanford.ng an affair with a woman from argentina, who is now his fiance. he announced he's running for his old congressional seat. >>> all right. and you don't hear a story like this often. it comes to us from the suburbs of stockholm, sweden. that's where a cleaning lady stole an empty commuter train and drove it into an apartment building. >> she was at the controls for about a mile. then the train derailed before hitting the building. the woman was seriously injured. she was the only person hurt. i guess she was the only one on the train. >> not good. what were you thinking? >> i wonder why she did that. >> i don't know. >> we need more information on that one. >> yeah, we do. >>> let's talk about our wednesday weather. heavy rain from the gulf coast into the carolinas. d.c. and philly, rain and sleet around new york city. up to 4 inches of snow from pittsburgh to boston. light snow around the dakotas. minneapolis and milwaukee. a milder day in the southwest. >> 40s in the pacific northwest

it says former governor mark sanford is planning a return to politics with a run for congress. that's in south carolina. and this headline in the aiken standard -- then, on the debt ceiling debate, the ways and means chairman has announced there will be hearings on this on january 22. they will be taking a look and that. also in the newspapers this morning, here's the "washington times with this headline -- " he will be our guest coming up, the top democrat on the ways and means committee in the house. later, we will talk to the chairman of the house judiciary committee, representative goodlatte, on the washington journal this morning as well. two members of congress. continuing with the debt ceiling, the financial times this morning reports -- on the nomination of chuck hagel, a former nebraskahe ka senator.m he won the support of two key members. his opposition so far has come almost entirely from fellow republicans. those are some of the headlines this morning in the papers. back to our question, do you support executive action on gun- control measures? now to an independent

mark sanford, running for congress.ources close to them confirmed that he will try to win election to the seat formerly held by tim scott. host: apparently not so much these days, with him planning to run again. also want to point out this story from "the washington post." "u.s. military fighter jets provided back up to a failed french hostage rescue mission, the white house's knowledge sunday in a rare public acknowledgement of american combat operations in the horn of africa." host: we have a few minutes left on this subject of entertainment and video game violence, their role and responsibility in this ongoing national debate. mike, louisiana, on the independent line, good morning. caller: good morning. i just wanted to say that i play these types of games. i know a lot of people who do. none of us are violent people at all. pretty much all of the people who are doing this stuff, like the guy in newtown, they'll have mental problems, you know? before there were these types of games or any kind of entertainment, reall

the psychology of why we cheat and not entirely unrelated to cheating you have former governor mark sanford sitting down with piers morgan tonight. he's just announced he's running for congress. don't miss it tonight. that's it for me. be back here at the same time tomorrow. i'm brooke baldwin. let's go to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >> breaking news the fate of american captives in an engineer yeah clouded in chaos. an operation to free the foreign hostages has reportedly ended amid word that some were forced to wear explosive vests. >>> a star football player says he's the victim of a sick joke but some taken in by the joke say manti te'o has some explaining to do about his dead girlfriend who never existed. >>> and president obama will take the oath of office on the same bible that abraham lincoln used. we'll give you a close look at this extraordinary piece of american history. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> let's begin this hour with the breaking news. algeria's official news agency has just announced the end of a rescue operation aimed at freeing hosta