i'm matty.r elementment doing something she loves. meeting fans. >> for me, everybody is like a new friend. i get really excited. it's so awesome to meet such supportive people. >> i give hugs. >> reporter: upbeat, and outgoing, she won the hearts of those who came to meet their favorite idol. >> she's so nice. i was freaking out, and she was refriendly. >> i love matty, since i saw her audition, i've been a big fan of hers. >> reporter: behind matty's smile, she developed after having difficult times in school. she said she didn't fit in. >> i was bullied to the extreme. you know, everything from death threats to hate phone calls, to awful messages. >> reporter: the angst that came with coping for troubles with tears perhaps worked to her advantage. she turned to music. >> it's my support system. it's how i express myself music gives me love and i couldn't live without it. >> reporter: she says it was always a dream to audition for the show. ♪ [ music ] ♪ >> reporter: that opportunity came last

there's mattie. people there watching last night's show.gged, talked to young fan who is watched her since the beginning of the season. next week, mattie plans to go to pleasanton middle school to talk to kids about bullying, something she's very familiar with. >> i was bullied to the ex. everything from death threats to messages. >> mattie said she turned to music, that helped her cope with the problems. so far "the american idol" judges have been impressed with her singing. jennifer lopez said she gave her goose bumps during her audition. we posted a link to mattie hudson's audition on our channel 2 web site. go to ktvu.com. check it out. look for the web links section. >> so great to have somebody to root for. >> we met her. she was right here in our studio. >>> check in with tori for a look at what's coming up. >> hi, pam and dave. coming up in our next hour, how smart can smartphones get? we're going to tell you how you can use one to test for infectious diseases, including heavy and syphilis. takes 15 minutes. it can save a lot of mon

we posted a link to mattie hudson's audition in san francisco on our channel two web site.com. look for the web links section. >>> time now is 5:48. is that right? . >> yes. let's check in with sal. i'm still having a hard time finding the clock. >> we're going to find it. our viewers will find it. >> for the viewers, too. it's there. >>> as the time gets later, you're going to see more for our commutes. going to be busy, for example, at the bay bridge toll plaza. those metering lights have been switched on. traffic is going to be busy as you drive-through. as a matter of fact, the traffic continues to look pretty good in many areas. go out and take a look at the east shore freeway. you can see from the carcinas bridge to the main taking about 18 minutes. getting to the bay bridge toll plaza, you can see the traffic is filling in. you can -- it's backed up all the way out to the maze, about a 15 to 20-minute delay before you make it on to the span itself. driving to san jose -- it is 5:40. go to steve in the weather cent >> terry: thank you, sal. >>> we have cloudy skies, b

it's c the 1984 don russ, don matti mattingly.dn't have the hall of fame some predicted but mattingly's cards remain popular. >> while the grandchildren of karl and jen ny hench are cleaning out the century family home of northwest ohio they find a dust covered box containing vintage baseball cards. >> i had went to some of the auction sites. i am seeing ty cobb for 40,000 dollars. i am looking at the ty cobb going, oh, mine is better. >> the box karl found in the attic not only contains ty cobb but all of the grates of the era. it's not just one of each player it's dozens. in all there are 800 cards most in friens condition. >> it takes it out of the scope and realm you are not quite sure how to handle it. >> step one find out if the cards are real. karl reaches out to vintage sports cards experts peter call calderon in dallas. >> i received a phone call this was script tick. on a daily basis we find cards it is always reprints. >> peter tells karl to take photos of the cards he will take a look when he gets the chance. >> when i

idol judge says matty gave her goose bumps. she met with excited fans of all ages who have been keeping an eye on her, and they feel inspired. she will visit pleasantville middle school to talk about students being bullied and she's been bullied and received hate phone calls and death threats and music gets her through it. it's my support system. it's how i express myself. music gives me love. i couldn't live without it. >> not only does she love music and singing, but american idol is giving her a platform to share her story and help other teenagers. >>> hollywood week continues tonight on ktvu at 8:00. be watching her and her progress as well. >>> thank you, pam. the latest trend is coming to your local starbucks, coconut milk. starbucks asked their customers for ideas and they requested alternatives to dairy and soy creamers. the company tested coconut milk in some stores last fall, and the chains will offer coconut milk for an additional 60 cents. and starbucks says it's certified vie began. >> do you approve? >> i do. >> t

general mattis spoke about it yesterday. we are balancing a spending problem we have in the government wofrle overall with really a lack of funds in the defense department, which you talked about today. general odierno, you said in your 40 years sor so of service, this is the most uncertain time you have had as a professional military person. admiral greenert, this is the fewest number of ships you have had since world war 1. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> again, as an air force veteran myself, i am astonished to hear this is the smallest air force ever? you did say that? >> since we were formed in 1947 yes. >> in talking about sequestration, you say it is the funding levels and also it's the rules of sequestration. so i thought i would start with you and we would go back up the panel here. if we were able a little more quickly and easily to give you more in the funding levels and some relief from the rules, to what extent would that help you in the short run or the long run. >> just the funding gaps alone would redu

matty, matyou have to get the knees bent. >> reporter: you can see the same opponents for the stats, and the monl monarchs when they made and missed shots so they know what they have to work on. >> i know the mistake, and what to grow upon, and whether it is game to game. >> and you have to see it with the players, and when you click on the shot, hit will provide a five to seven-second clip of how the shot was made or missed. >> reporter: coach philip said it is easier to provide recruiting film for the college coaches who want to recruit her players. it is $1,200 per team per season and the coach says it sis paying off. they are the 7th team ranked team in the country, and without crossover, they could be any other team. ian kole bay area news. >> that is fascinating how they can use that information, and so quick quickly. >> that is exactly what the pros use. >> and now, geraud moncure will take you down to the spring training. >> and the redesign bay area news for iphone has it all. top story, and individualvideo, and the ground-breaking investigation, and ground-breaking news bre

>> senator i do have the at respect for general mattis. i do not believe the moral of the men and women on the combat forces field have my impact whether it's the same person the first, second time. i do not believe it is impacting the moral as far as those engaging in combat operations. >> okay, but if we captured someone in battle, do you think our men and women in uniform should ever have to confront them again? yes or no. we had them. we had them captured incarcerated. we released them. do you believe they should ever have to confront them again? >> i do not believe anyone should have to confront them. however, as you have seen through history, that's not always the case and people have re-entered the battlefield through the history of time. >> well, they're going to re-enter the battlefield when they're being transferred to third-party countries where they're not even being incarcerated again and where there are few conditions on their confinement if any. i think this is something that is atrocious that in of our allies or anyone work

which, if al-matty wins it would host the world's media. . >> translation: these games will not be financiallyfitable and will destroy attempts. >> it is insisted they'll be green. >> there's no need to destroy nature. we need to add olympic requirements to fulfil it and to build housing. for us it's a showcase of the county and for the city. >> reporter: that's a view shared by diane, and the survey suggests kazakhstanies. winning the bid will give her country a big lift. >> slefennia's peter set a record in norway. the 22-year-old who led after the first round was the first man to break the 250 meter barrier. the previous record was set four years ago at 246.5 meters. now they lead the world cup. >> reporter: that's outline your sport for now. >> that is amazing. thank you very much. >> in latin america it's a season for partying. first to the samba capital. brazil the second biggest of the year, the rio carnival. people are dancing and costumes. they chose to get sticky in mud. it's part of a festival. >> now to the sound of drums in argentina's capital. it is a season of celebrations every

. >> reporter: mattie lord and michelle watt lined up early on presidents' day to reach the top of the epic monument dedicated to the country's first president. >> i like to go to the top and see the view you don't get to see from the bottom. >> reporter: but today the tower is not as tall as it was yesterday. surveyors recently measured the washington monument when it was draped in scaffolding for earthquake repairs and recorded a new height. the monument from its inception checked in at 555 feet and 5 inches but now officially comes in at 554 feet and 7 inches a 10-inch difference. so what happened? did the washington monument sink? not exactly. the guidelines for building measurements now use a different base point. the last time the monument was measured the visitors' entrance was used as one extreme. but every time before that it was the base of the monument about 9 inches in the ground. that's where you get 9 of the 10-inch difference. the extra inch is up top. the peak has been struck by lightning so many times the highest point is now rounded off. but nose that came to see the

in syria, the challenge is different a government that has violated all norms and lost its legit mattis to govern and instituted violence against its own people. that's not a partner for the united states or any other member of our coalition, and yet, at the same imperative remains, not only the opportunity to degrade and defeat isil from the air joined with our efforts to cut off the foreign fighter flow and the financial flows and provide humanitarian support, and counter the eyology. we need partners on the ground and there, we are building from a lower base. no question. we have committed and we are working and have been to bolster the moderate syrian opposition. but obviously, that opposition is weakened and under strain. so, the process of working with our coalition partners to build that capacity will be longer and more challenging even than it is in iraq. >> thank you. let's go to the audience. i would ask you three things, please: number 1, identify yourself. no. 2, ask a question. and number 3, please let's focus on the national security strategy that's the subject of this mee

central command general james mattis said we need to come out from our reactive crouch and take a firmrategic stance in defense of our values and you addressed that in our opening, general jack keane, do we have a strategy? >> anybody looking at that map looking at that conclusion we do not. al qaeda has grown five fold, and isis when we pulled out from iraq, grew from an organization from less than 3000 to over 30,000 in three years. radical islam spread through the middle east to the sub indian continent. what is the strategy to stop it. we have not stopped it and we don't have a strategy to defeat it. it is compelling. what is our strategy? we use drones to kill al qaeda leadership in pakistan and in yemen. that is a vital tactic but it is not a strategy. we partner with selective countries in africa to help them do some training. that is fragmenting at best. until we bring the countries that have interest together and put together an alliance and establish a strategy we can't push effectively against this. >> ambassador ross let me pick up with you. we talk about four presidents yo

to commit to this committee that you will take with the utmost seriousness because we had general mattis before the committee the other day and he expressed deep concerns over the notion that one of our men and women in uniform could confront a terrorist that we had previously captured and the implications to them that you will commit to this committee and to all of us, that you will not allow the release of someone that you think could re-engage in terrorism so that our men and women in uniform will be confronted with them again. >> i do, senator. i understand my responsibilities under that statute. and as in everything else i do i'll play it absolutely straight. >> we appreciate that. that's very important because we have seen an accelerated release of detainees and as you know there has been public reports about one of the taliban five re-engaging in terrorist activities. so this is something that i think is of utmost importance. the last thing that one of our men and women in uniform should confront is a terrorist we have previously captured and i know you agree with me on that. >> y

what concerns me if we are at 10,000 now and we had general mattis told this committee that we should be looking at approximately a recommendation at 20,000 and you are readjusting from 10,000, is that implying that somehow we are going to make an adjustment from the 5000 500 that is not going to be up anywhere close to what general mattis said we needed? >> none of the option recommended increase like that. most of the options i and discussing with my senior leadership includes allowing more flexibility. >> does it bother you that we are talking publicly about what we are going to be doing, when we will withdraw, when we will downsize? obviously, they know everything we know. does that concern you? >> i think the general blood at best. he said -- put it best. he said he helped there would be more ambiguity. we are where we are. >> but do we have to continue being where we are? when it we go and start making our own plans exclusively looking after our own defense? the last thing i want to mention , when he talked about having to do something on the size of the force, right now, we hav

on one of her biggest joyce watch watching her daughter caylee play softball with her friends like mattyhe won't have much to miss. maddie's mom heard about her failing health and got herself tested and she's a perfect match for a transplant g he's an angel angel. i love her so much. >> my mom was seven year dialysis patient and then she received a kidney transplant five years ago. so i knew what that life was like and it wasn't, you know, something that would be easy for her. >> torres had no idea her friend got tested. some was surprised with the news the day after christmas given a card that read we're a match. along with a big -- bag of kidney beans and the game operation the real operation happened today. no word yet on if they're out of surgery. >> teen with pot in school right out in the open. officials take it away. the teens parents are live individual but not at their kids. why they say the school made a big mistake. >> heart warming picture that went viral. target employees going above and beyond getting a 10 ready for his very first job interview. next we're there as he gets

. >> jimmy: this is sia and mattie who dances on the video -- >> i love this look so much. >> jimmy: that's a whole lot of wig. ? and maybe the best outfit of the night. well, i don't know. you be the judge. there's madonna in her spanish bullfighters outfit. what you really see -- >> madonna from the back, my favorite. i would call that jock strap realness. black matador. >> jimmy: there's a name for this sort of thing? >> no i totally made that up, i don't know. >> jimmy: are you having fun doing that? >> it's such a fun thing to do. because the reaction that we get from what we say. because we're really talking about people's clothes. the people that we talk about love it. but their fans don't. >> jimmy: kathy griffin, has she upped the ante as far as insulting people or whatever? because she literally does not care. she will say anything about anyone. >> she really will say anything, trust me. and i think that's exactly why she was the perfect person to bring on the show. it's been so much fun getting to grow as a cast together. and see -- because at first, i never knew if she wa

david carr is survived by his wife joe rooney carr and his twin daughters matt ti -- matty and megan.e ride around norfolk! and i just wanted to say geico is proud to have served the military for over 75 years! roger that. captain's waiting to give you a tour of the wisconsin now. could've parked a little bit closer... it's gonna be dark by the time i get there. geico. proudly serving the military for over 75 years. sometimes the present looked bright. sometimes romantic. there were tears in my eyes. and tears in my eyes. and so many little things that we learned were really the biggest things. through it all, we saved and had a retirement plan. and someone who listened and helped us along the way. because we always knew that someday the future would be the present. every someday needs a plan. talk with us about your retirement today. >>> good ooef ngevening, john berman here sitting in for anderson. a new brian williams story emerges and comes under fire. we have exclusive reporting to get to the truth of the matter or the lack thereof, and breaking news. cnn's brian stelter and tom

admiral, do you share general mattis' concerns? is we captured someone on the battlefield, then our men and women in uniform encounter them again after having seen their brothers and sisters in arms killed by this enemy, don't you think that's real concern and our men and women in uniform should never been forced to confront someone we had previously captured? >> i do not believe the currently policy -- the morale of the men and women on the combat forces field have any impact whether it's the same person the first, second time. i do not believe it is impacting the morale as far as those engaging in combat operations. >> ok, but if we captured someone in battle, do you think our men and women in uniform should ever have to confront them again, yes or no. we had them. we had them captured impact whether it's the same person the first, second time. i do not believe it is impacting the morale as far as those we had them incarcerated. we released them. do you believe they should ever have to confront them again? >> i do not believe any

what concerns me if we are at 10,000 now and we had general mattis told this committee that we should be looking at approximately a recommendation at 20,000 and you are readjusting from 10,000, is that implying that somehow we are going to make an adjustment from the 5500 that is not going to be up anywhere close to what general mattis said we needed? >> none of the option recommended increase like that. most of the options i and discussing with my senior leadership includes allowing more flexibility. >> does it bother you that we are talking publicly about what we are going to be doing, when we will withdraw, when we will downsize? obviously, they know everything we know. does that concern you? >> i think the general put it best. he said he helped there would be more ambiguity. we are where we are. >> but do we have to continue being where we are? when it we go and start making our own plans exclusively looking after our own defense? the last thing i want to mention , when he talked about having to do something on the size of the force, right now we have iraq, afghanistan, syria, afr

. >> this one is from mattie young in middletown, delaware. look at that.. >> this is ocean city, new jersey. a lot of snow looks like. maybe just no one is out there playing in it? >> down the shore will get hit pretty hard. >> keep sending the pictures, use the has >> the road seems a lot longer in disney, then get off the ride your kids are still singing it over and over, ya. >> opened in 1966 that ride by the way. so what do you think? do you think love and disney go together here? >> i feel like at first oh, i love this song, then it keeps going over and over in high head. >> this california couple celebrating three disney parks in 24 hours here they are they do look a bit tired. don't they in the couple spent every anniversary at a disney park, but they wanted to mark their 17th special by visiting the park's in tokyo, los angeles, and florida on the same day. how many miles is that? so it is what, roughly 3,000 miles from los angeles to orlando but then tokyo? after tokyo they jetted off to la 5:00 p.m. valentine day due to the 16 hour time differenc

general james mattis former head of u.s. central command which had responsibility for the middle east said we need to come out from our reactive crouch and take a firm strategic stance in defense of our values. which raises the question, and you addressed it in the little clip we had in the opening general keane do we have a winning strategic at this point against islamic extremism? >> anybody looking at that map would come to the conclusion, which the obvious we do not. al qaeda has grown four-fold in five years. isis, which began when we pulled out politically and military from iraq grew from an organization less than 3,000 to an organization over 30,000 in 3 years. radical islamist spread from south asia to sub indian continent. what is the strategy to stop it? we have not stopped it and we certainly don't have a strategy to defeat it. it is absolutely compelling. what is our strategy? we use drones to kill al qaeda leadership in pakistan and also in yemen. that's a vital tactic we should use it but it's not a strategy. w

general themes here you're saying is that people are applauding the success but we had a general mattis in your last week talking about how it's clear that the successes that we have seen in a whole host of areas that you listed could be reversed, that their fragile in many ways. and the broader issue that i think most of us are concerned about is a replay of what's happened or what happened in iraq. as a military leader senator kaine spoke publicly about this a couple of minutes ago. do think it's important to have condition based withdrawal dates or transition dates based on success that you've been talking about versus a calendar based withdrawal? >> sir thanks for the question. i think it's important that minute to commend on the ground be able to revive his best military advice to senior leadership as he takes a look at whole bunch of different variables on the ground. the enemy, the situation of afghan security forces, those types of things. and i've continued to do that for the last six months and again i have provided options in this winter due process to my leadership that i be

they through med drew -- they threw them at drew mattis, coffee cups, paper clips, pieces of chalk.: coming up, we all know jon stewart's exits will affect comedy -- how will it affect politics the echo that is our single best chart. this is "bloomberg surveillance." ♪ tom: good morning, everyone. "bloomberg surveillance." i am tom keene, olivia sterns with us, brendan greeley. olivia is wearing a valentines red. it is saturday. how can valentine's day be on saturday? olivia: well, i am off tomorrow. brendan: jon stewart's announcement that he will retire as host of "the daily show" will leave a void also in democratic politics. this explains why his exit will be so painful for the left. e are is what we are looking at. on the left side, we have turn up come on the bottom we have preference so those are all cable shows that skew toward the republican party and on the right import a democratic audience on the west, so for example that cluster in the upper right-hand corner is all fox news channel. that one teeny blip in the upper left-hand corner, that is john king on cnn, so "the da

ncua board chairman debbie mattis announced plans to consider streamlining the lending role finalized regulatory relief on holding fixed assets and simplify the process for adding some types of associational groups to credit unions. ncua is revising examination process to provide relief through our small credit union examination program we spend less time on average in small well-managed credit unions. ncua has further working to reduce the time spent on site conducting exams and improve consistency in this process. concerning legislation, ncua has appreciates the efforts for lawyer trust accounts and enable federally insured financial institutions to offer link savings account. ncua would advise congress in to provide regulators with flexibility in writing rules to implement new laws such flexibility would allow us to scale rules based on size and complexity to effectively limit additional regulatory burdens on smaller institutions. ncua supports several targeted regulatory relief bills for credit unions. these bills include legislation to allow healthy and well-managed creditings to

i would also like to echo what general james mattis told this committee yesterday, quote no foe in thefield can wreak such havoc on our security that mindless sequestration is achieving. america's national defense can no longer be held hostage to domestic political disputes totally separate from the rally of the threats we face. more than three years after the passage of the budget control act, it's time to put an end to the senseless policy away with budget driven strategy, and return to a strategy driven budget. our troops and the nation they defend deserve no less. senator reed. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. they give up on this very important hearing and for your very timely and insightful remarks. i would also like to welcome our witnesses and think these accountable for their extraordinary service to the nation and to the soldiers sailors, airmen and marines that the everyday represent and lead. thank you. this setting takes place as the administration and congress continue to wrestle with two intersecting policy problems and our debate on how to solve them. because of se

david sum mattie.rning. >> you say it could be misleading. >> it's a very dangerous study and a lot of holes in this. people have to be very careful about not getting the wrong message from this political study. they are using a lethal dose as comparison. for example, putting pot or weed against cocaine or alcohol or smoky. so we know that you need less amount of alcohol to die. they are using death as a measure to see what's dangerous and what's not. so, the effect of this toxicity. toxicology dose is different for a lot of these. they are extrap late a lot extrapolating animal studies and coming with this whole thing that pot is safer. absolutely not. it's a huge fraud. >> how is it dangerous? forgetting death. >> they are not defining what's acute toxicity short-term vs. long-term. for example, if you really start drinking a lot of alcohol. of course you can die from this or cocaine or other things. with this, the long term effect of pot is not very clear. now, a lot of this has to do with what we c

america's finest generals and former commander of the united states central command marine general james mattis, testified before the senate armed services committee that -- quote -- "the united states needs to come out from our reactive crouch and take a firm strategic stance in defense of our values." close quote. i couldn't agree more. the world is safer and more stable when america leads leads from the front not from the rear and when we say what we mean and we mean what we say and we back it up with action. if the president can't do that, then over the last two years of his administration, it will be incumbent on republicans and democrats in congress to lead the way in the absence of presidential leadership and to do what we can do within our authority to prevent further erosion of american credibility on the world stage. mr. president, i yield the floor and i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: mr. barrasso: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. barrasso: thank you mr. presi