michael has campaign news. first, what's the tate have the race? >> the state of the race right now, you have to look at it in two different ways. there's the state of the florida race next week and then the state of the nomination, the nomination process and those are two wildly different races right now. mitt romney is polling twice at eight and nine points better in florida. here's a poll in florida you see romney 38% gingrich at 39 and paul and santorum 14 and 12. it should be reversed. santorum is last in all the polling right now in florida and national. in florida, it's a big state. >> totally big state. >> i know you live there. you remember how big it is. >> it's gigantic. >> retail politicking is out the window. >> i don't believe in retail politicking at all. i think that's old school, like oh, mr. smith. no these super pack ads are crushing retail politicking. politics is so much more important than shaking bob smith's hand. >> if it's going to work, it's not going to work in florida. if you look at iowa and say this man with the funny

sometimes they create jobs, sometimes they don't but that's not their main purpose and i think michael has seen romney more than i have and i've watched him eight or nine times now and 8 spehes e 80% bane. >> charlie: why is that and why doesn't he run more on the record of massachusetts govern. >> he's rning as a business pers that can turn around the country and his health care is not popular with the republican base to a degree and we looked at his job creation it's hard to say with 100 deals what jobs were create and lost but i want to point out the globe has looked at this in 1994 we looked at the staples deal. the reality is one of the smallest deal mitt romney and bane capital did. they put in $200,000 and cashed in at $300,000. other deals were in the hundreds of millions and one deal in the book that was a $50 million investment and returned a billion dollars. when you compare that to staples it's small and mitt romney said i don't take credit for the jobs at staples and attribute 89,000 jobs staples. >> charlie: many people make th argument, i want you to speak to this, many make

an athlete with a 34-inch waist, to a diabetic. >> my sugar was through the roof. >> reporter: michael hasnother unusual risk factor. this is what he does for a living. that is so decadent. good golly. his signature sweet is a secret recipe for a vessel of thin, an oooey-gooey candy bar. even oprah's a fan. >> i love making people happy through what i create. my concern was not what am i going to prepare or what is going to be thrown at me in the competition. is if my jacket's going to fit me. it's kind of ridiculous. >> reporter: that's when the food network asked if he'd be interested in a different kind of show. the show debuts tomorrow night, following michael and other chefs, as they try to lose weight, while still surrounded by temptation. let's say you're addicted to food. could an alcoholic work in a bar? >> you know what? yes. i say it's all self-control, with doing the show "fat chef," i learned to rethink the way i look at food. >> mm-mmm. >> reporter: of course, the maker of "fat chef," the food network, also made a star out of the butter queen, paula deen, who recently announc

now, michael has passed on the that -- the baton to someone who will definitely carry on that tradition again, i am very proud and happy to be a participant in this. we have an extraordinary program for you this evening. i will not be doing a whole lot of running my mouthth >> thank you so much. that was quite lovely. and continuing in the tradition of exploring a culture, we are going to -- our next performance will be by [unintelligible] a little bit about what she is going to share with us this afternoon. her company specializes in classical and contemporary persian bands. the dance company is directed by her in a group of dances and -- dancers and choreographers dedicated to exploring the boundaries of artistic movement and exploration while trying to stay true to that ethics of asian -- ancient persian esthetics. they perform at various events, including schools, libraries, cultural programs, with production of instructional and performance dvd's. even find out more information at their website. -- you can find out more information at the bedside. she will perform a dance that is a

michael has battled nerve tissue cancer the past two years and the 7-year-old had one request when thee a wish foundation came calling. he wanted to blow up a building. this weekend, michael did just that. he pushed the button to implode an old grain mill and, in the process, lived out one of every little boy's fantasies and big boys, too. >> yeah, i'd want to do it. >> i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today" your first stop of the day on your nbc station. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. it looks like the weather will be all over the place this week. feeling more like spring once again. we do have clear skies out there right now. that storm brought some snow to the area yesterday. we got about a 10th of an inch in essex. pretty incredible change in the pattern. it will warm up. stay tuned to the details. >> 4:57. 34 degrees on tv hill. the punishment for those caught texting behind the wheel. >> it is primary day in new hampshire. the very first of votes cast in the first in the nation contest. >> two women died in a house fire last

michael has battled nerve tissue cancer the past two years and the 7-year-old had one request when theake a wish foundation came calling. he wanted to blow up a building. this weekend, michael did just that. he pushed the button to implode an old grain mill and, in the process, lived out one of every little boy's fantasies and big boys, too. >> yeah, i'd want to do it. >> i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today" your first stop of the day on your nbc station. >>> 4:28 is your time. 33 degrees. foggy out there. hard to see what's out in the nation's capital, but a chilly story. good morning to you, i'm eun yang. >> i'm angie goff in for joe krebs. welcome to "news4 today" on this tuesday, january 10. in the news, it's primary day in new hampshire. while polls open in less than two hours, the first votes have already been cast. the nine residents of the tiny village of dixville notch gathered just after midnight to fill out the first ballots. mitt romney and jon huntsman tied with two votes each, followed by newt gingrich and ron paul receiving a vote apiece. president obama got th

michael has battled nerve tissue cancer over e past two years.he 7-year-old had one request when the make-a-wish foundation came calling. he wanted to blow up a building. so this past weekend, michael did just that. he pushed a button to implode an old grain mill. in the process, he lived out one of every little boy's fantasies. that is just great. >>> i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today." just your first stop of the day on today on your nbc station. t >>> right now, parts of china's yellow river lie in suspended animation. that's because it is frozen. five-degree temperatures have turned the largest waterfall on the yellow river into a 66-foot high curtain of ice. formed by icicles hanging by rocks, the seasonal tourist attraction appeared friday, nearly half a month later than last year due to higher temperatures. amazing. >>> new residents are causing quite a splash in russia. a pair of bottle-nosed dolphins and a couple whales have moved into the new dolphinarium. the group performs various tricks in a water show attra attracting se

now, michael has passed on the that -- the baton to someone who will definitely carry on that traditiongain, i am very proud and happy to be a participant in this. we have an extraordinary program for you this evening. i will not be doing a whole lot of running my mouth >> thank you so much. that was quite lovely. and continuing in the tradition of exploring a culture, we are going to -- our next performance will be by [unintelligible]

. >> michael has an adorable son by the name of owen. >> yes. >> and he, the 49ers that's his favoritem. he was very upset and said why did he do that, why did he mess up the game? michael told him if you're feeling bad imagine how kyle williams is feeling right now. >> you're so lib michael. >> when i told him. >> i said if i ever run into kyle williams, i'll punch him in the face for you. >> i wrote poor kid to cenk and he wrote back you're such a lib. >> that is the type of propaganda he teaches his son. >> owen asks to write a letter to kyle williams. the letter is the sweetest thing. >> it's been with me all week long. it was more owen than forget the great father, i just wanted him to stop crying. he said he wanted to write him a note. he wrote dear mr. williams, we just watched the playoff game. i feel really bad for you you had a great season, you should be very proud. i just wanted to say thank you. i'm your number one fan. and he wrote you're awesome! >> we skied we were going to send it to him but still haven't. we are going to send it. now we found out exactly where to send

advice michael has taken to heart. ost 40 pounds, gotten his cholesterol under control and is encouraging his 22-year-old son to do the same. >> hopefully he'll have learned a lesson from my experience. >> michael said it took him' a year to lose all that weight. now, both men and women can benefit from this kind of checklist. and no matter how old you are, doctors encourage everyone to find out exactly what their risk left is. knowledge is power. >> amazing power for all of us to turn things around in middle age. >> absolutely. take a brisk walk every day. that will do some help. >> tanya, thank you very much. good to have you at the desk tonight. >>> when we come back, the dazzling light shows in the sky, tonight we ask what's causing this. ure can spark romance anytime. and when it does, men with erectile dysfunction can be more confident in their ability to be ready with cialis for daily use. cialis for daily use is a clinically proven low-dose tablet you take every day so you can be ready anytime the moment's right

so everything is set up as michael has said that, once you are poor, they have you exactly where they want you. now i don't give them as much credit as you do in that i don't think they are smart enough to know what they did purposely. i don't. [applause] i think they go after money and we don't know what to do because we're not educated on money. so when somebody says to you, sign here, you can have your american dreerges you believe them. -- dream, you believe them. and you believe them because you want more for yourself, and why would they lie to you? well, they did, everybody. there is only one person that can get you out and that is you. and you have got to start taking your own power, giving power to your voice, stop sitting down not saying anything and just settling for less. if you settle for less, you'll always be less. so what changes things is that when people start to voice how unhappy they are. what also starts to change things if you simply stop buying from the corporations that are keeping you down. [applause] tavis: ask the to ask majora about the link to poverty, alle

it's by tom freedman and michael ha handelbaum. for me, one part really stood out. for generation off generation, america knew how to win in the turns, they write. "win in the turns." what does that mean, exactly? in short, it means the winner hits the gas pedal when everyone else is hitting the brakes. visualize yourself on a racetrack, racing on a sunny day. all of a sudden you're in a sharp, high-speed turn. when and if you make it through, you find the world around you has utterly changed. the winner of that race, the one with the determination to thrive in that changed world, is the one who sees that sudden turn as an opportunity. the winner takes the risk to pass everybody in the turn and is now leading the pack. that's winning in the turn. in the great economic turn we're in now, some question if our country or state will win this time. when the recession ends, will we be out ahead of the competition in education, infrastructure, economic development? will we come out of this turn in front of the pack and ready to go, or will we be stuck back where fighting f

michael has done that with johnson as well. >> a couple of month ago you gave testimony saying e-commerce has inflated the risks documents or images will be stolen for monetary gain. are you blaming ebay for peddling the documents? >> no, they've been very cooperative to us window when we pound out certain documents for sale are documents that are part of our sole. they've been very cooperative with us, most of the community of documents, will go document sell weeks ago one of the individuals who did steal from us who was identify by in fact the private citizen who just happened to notice the fact that documents he had used in the archives were being -- this man ways rested. convict and sentenced to two years in jail. >> over how long a period had he been stealing? >> for several years. >> seven? >> several. by are not certain -- >> at least five. >> there are dates out there. >> there are dates out. there for at least five. >> he was not an insider? >> well, he was a continuous researcher. >> you mean a daily hire? >> no, he was an outside researchers working at -- he would come into the

." >> michael has ocd. it's a disorder that affects behavior. >> i think the best way to understand what relate to something that everyone kind of thinks of in their own life. so, "obsessive," in usual day-to-day language means "someone who thinks a lot or someone who's a worrier." when you think about "compulsive," typically when we're saying that in kind of a day-to-day way, we're meaning someone who's very particular. they're very neat. they're very organized. when you use "obsessive" and "compulsive" in "obsessive-compulsive disorder," though, it really refers to an anxiety disorder. and by "anxiety disorder," we mean that your anxiety system is kind of kicking on all the time and for, really, no good reason. >> in other words, when there's real danger, anxiety can be a good thing. it alerts us to the hazard. but people with ocd have anxiety even when theis no danger, and that affects how they relate to the world around them. >> what people do when they have ocd is they find that if they engage in some

michael has done that with johnson as well. >> a couple of month ago you gave testimony saying e-commerce has inflated the risks documents or images will be stolen for monetary gain. are you blaming ebay for peddling the documents? >> no, they've been very cooperative to us window when we pound out certain documents for sale are documents that are part of our sole. they've been very cooperative with us, most of the community of documents, will go document sell weeks ago one of the individuals who did steal from us who was identify by in fact the private citizen who just happened to notice the fact that documents he had used in the archives were being -- this man ways rested. convict and sentenced to two years in jail. >> over how long a period had he been stealing? >> for several years. >> seven? >> several. by are not certain -- >> at least five. >> there are dates out there. >> there are dates out. there for at least five. >> he was not an insider? >> well, he was a continuous researcher. >> you mean a daily hire? >> no, he was an outside researchers working at -- he would come into the

michael has done that with johnson as well. >> a couple of month ago you gave testimony saying e-commerce has inflated the risks documents or images will be stolen for monetary gain. are you blaming ebay for peddling the documents? >> no, they've been very cooperative to us window when we pound out certain documents for sale are documents that are part of our sole. they've been very cooperative with us, most of the community of documents, will go document sell weeks ago one of the individuals who did steal from us who was identify by in fact the private citizen who just happened to notice the fact that documents he had used in the archives were being -- this man ways rested. convict and sentenced to two years in jail. >> over how long a period had he been stealing? >> for several years. >> seven? >> several. by are not certain -- >> at least five. >> there are dates out there. >> there are dates out. there for at least five. >> he was not an insider? >> well, he was a continuous researcher. >> you mean a daily hire? >> no, he was an outside researchers working at -- he would come into the

think often about the sunset dwict and -- district and the needs of youth in our community but michael has always been an advocate to say there are kids in the sunset that do need extra support and so i just want to thank you for being such a strong advocate, for making such a big impact on so many people's lives in the neighborhood. he is going to be joining the after school division at the california department of education so his work with youth will continue on and i know that he'll have a hugely positive impact there. but we will miss you very much. you are leaving behind a very, very capable staff. i know that megan's going to be taking your place and i look forward to working with her. but today i just want to say thank you so much for all of your work. i think that i speak on behalf of the 1,500 kids and the many parents that have come through your program. thank you very much. president chiu: before our awardee speaks, i know supervisor avalos had a few word ezz wanted to say. supervisor avalos: thank you for acknowledging the great work of mr. michael funk. i had the pleasure and

ways that eurozone leaders, also the head of the ecb has been trying to control those yields, michael, haseen the role that the ecb has been playing in buying up specialty bonds on the secondary market. we have another rate meeting coming. what are you expecting the head of the ecb to say? >> i'm expecting him to outline how successful the ltros have been. we've seen in recent data that it's been going on overnight deposit for the ecb. it doesn't help matters in europe. what needs to happen, i think, within europe is the banks need to invest this money in businesses within europe and at the moment it's been part of the ecb. what i think he'll do is probably outline the course of the next rate cut. i think we could see that may be in the next couple of months. >> okay. michael houston there, markets analyst from cnc markets joining us. andrew? >>> nina, the imf chief christine lagarde is a long way from europe. she's on a trip to south africa. europe's troubles were never far from her mind even as she tried to put a positive spin on that. robin kerno sat down with the imf chief. >> reporter