katty: congressman mike thompson, thank you for joining us. killed.oldier has been and others have been injured in afghanistan near the town of of marginin the town of marjah inwn helmand province. the former u.s. special representative to afghanistan and pakistan. this u.s. soldier was killed today during an operation supporting afghan forces. what is your assessment of how the afghan troops are holding up against the renewed taliban assault? payirst, we should condolences to the person who died and those wounded. we have to step back. the question you have is the right one. how are the afghan security forces doing? they fight. when we see the taliban attack a town they take it. theysf fights back and recapture some of the territory. the challenge for us, our allies, and friends is are we prepared to continue to support the nsf? they need more training and equipment. laura: did they need more from the u.s. special forces? madethink president obama an important and courageous decision leaving the u.s. forces for a longer time than he originally envisi

mike thompson, chairman of s&p investment advisory vfss and joins us to talk more about the numbers.ou say the big drag on earnings as we all know is going to energy. we expect that to be way down. materials we expect way down. but my notes indicate that you also think materials, information technology, staples, utilities, financials, industrials, will also be down. that doesn't leave much to be up. >> no, well, that's right. three out of tin is the best you're going to get this time, tyler. what you have is health care. you have telecommunications and our stalwart consumer discret n discretionary sector, the gift that keeps on giving. those are the only ones having green next to them in terms of earnings growthing. >> everybody is talking about or using the phrase "profit recession 0i6789 but you don't seem to agree with that. >> well, i think people love the drama behind it. i think it started several years ago. you have two consecutive quarters of negative growth in something and immediately people want to go and make a story out of it. this could be very well the last of the nega

mike thompson of california, have come to obama's defense. rep. thompson: the critics of president obama's executive action say that he's overstepping his boundaries, he thinks he's the king, and then the same folks say it's okay to take arms and overrun a government building. scott: this isn't the firsrst time the president has taken heat for overstepping congress. prof. wayne: institutional and political rivalries will generate debate over executive orders. pres. obama: the truth is, even with all the actions i've taken this year, i'm issuing executive orders at the lowest rate in more than 100 years. so, it's not clear how it is that republicans didn't seem to mind when president bush took more ecutive actions than i did. scott: he has a point -- maybe -- president george w. bush issued nearly 300 executive orders during his two terms in office. but obama isn't too far behind -- he's at nearly 230 so far -- and vowi president obama has warned he will not sit idly by on the sidelines during his final year and it's a safe bet he will outline even

but east bay congressman mike thompson, who chairs the house/gun prevention task force says inaction by republicans forced the president to ask. >> we don't have any problems select committees to try and tarnish the record of secretary of state clinton and on gun violence they won't touch it and congress won't act. i think the president needs to. >>> coming up, why is that baby crying? there's an app for that. but does the new technology really work? you know they could just be wet, hungry, tired. we'll check it out, coming up. that sound. like nails on a chalkboard. but listen to this: (family talking) that's a different kind of sound. the sound of the weekend. unleash the power of dough. give it a pop. it's always worth remembering... that icing the cinnamon rolls is a privilege not a right. unleash the power of dough. give it a pop. >>> the rain certainly coming down this morning. >> is it raining? >> yeah. the windshield wipers are going. >> and i could hear that hitting the windows this morning, so, if you're still at home, you may be hearing that, too. yes, it is pouring and th

congressman mike thompson was crucial in getting the needed federal funds. >> as the old saying goes,says you can't fix a problem by throwing money at it is talking about somebody else's problem. this was a problem and it needed to have money thrown at it. >> reporter: this was not just some little old bridge on a country road. this is smack dab in the center of one of the most important tourist areas on the planet. >> experiencing the natural beauty of this place. one of the ways you do that is you ride bikes, take tours, and you do that by crossing our bridges. >> reporter: silver oak winery was among those businesses that lost money. >> we're excited about the timing because we have our next major release saturday before the super bowl. a lot of people coming from different directions. >> reporter: this is actually the fourth oakville cross road bridge. the first one proposed by pioneer john riley garner in the early 1870s. his great and great grand sorns here for the opening. >> he came out here to farm and get away from the crowds. >> there got to be too many people again, and he

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but congressman mike thompson who chairs the house gun prevention task force says inaction by those republicansin his words, forced the president to act. >> don't have any problems select committees to try to tarnish the record of secretary of state clinton or harass planned parenthood. but on gun violence, they won't touch it and congress won't act. i think the president needs to. >> president obama's executive action limiting gun rights will restrict our law-abiding citizens. not the criminals or the terrorists who target them. >> now, much like the president's unilateral move on immigration. there is question to whether this is constitutional. the president wants to widen background checks, can expand them to every gun sale without action by congress and he'll need congressional approval for the addition of 200 new atf agents in the plan and a $500,000 for mental health care. >>> takes aim at gun control tonight. council members are expected to debate proposals aimed at preventing weapons and amu from falling into the wrong hands. making it illegal to leave a gun in a car or truck without it

joining us now with their latest earnings scorecard mike thompson and cnbc senior market commentator. through very quickly mike what do we mean when we say negative earnings. >> down same -- >> it's decline. >> yeah. >> how big. >> basically right now we're down 6%. so last year 6% in terms of growth. >> mike what does that tell us? are people panic. >> it doesn't tell us anything we didn't know coming into the year. mo mostly concentrated -- the last two weeks has been the meat of the earnings season. i'm not everybody is celebrating earnings results but you had them mostly priced in and some interesting stuff going on, for example, industrial earnings where they were so beaten down, expectations and the stocks you actually had a little bit of relief when the numbers have come out. >> part of what we're waiting to hear is the outlook for these. it's much more difficult for a company to say we feel confident about this. not that you ever have clarity but after turmoil like we've seen it makes these ceos more reluctant to say what's coming. >> their global business is saying it's massi

we want a vote in congress on the bipartisan peter king-mike thompson legislation to close loopholes. 20 years ago when we first passed the brady bill, how many of you were shopping on the internet? well, many of you weren't even shopping. how many of you were shopping on the internet? now 20 years later, many people are shopping on the internet and some people are buying guns there in and that loophole needs to be -- there and that loophole needs to be closed. republican congress even refuses to keep guns out of the hands of suspects on the f.b.i.'s terrorist watch list. today republicans will vote for the 10th time to block action to close the loophole that allows suspected terrorists to buy guns in the u.s. you can be on the terrorist -- f.b.i. terrorist watch list, go into a store and 90% of the time leave with the gun of your choice. that's a loophole that should be closed. the republicans refuse to do so. we must build on what the president did and pass the king-thompson bipartisan legislation. i truly believe that it would pass the house if the speaker gave us the opportunity t

brett thompson to take over for mike houston. he was introduced today. he came to the citadel with houston two years ago. not planning on making drastic changes in charleston any time soon. >> when coach houston and i came here about two years two weeks ago, we had a plan in place. i'm going to continue that plan like it is year three. >> the fourth year seniors going to play for us next year, this will be the third head football coach in four years. i don't know why you want to look outside when you have quality people inside who are ready to take the reins. >> makes sense to me. see how that works out. >>> gamecock basketball ready to tennessee. frank martin & company giving the gamecocks a second time in getting a big spark from jamal. played 18 minutes, pulled down five rebounds, helped with critical assists copping um in clutch for south carolina, her rara & company give a 77- 74 win coming back from 11 points in the final few minutes. upping their record to 17-11. they only won 17 games of all of last season. that's three more wins that martin had

thompson has your forecast. kolo 8 news now photojournalist mike folks out enjoying these frigid scating at aces ballpark. "ace skating!" jeff talks about the weather conditions if people were outside tonight. under a cold low pressure system, temperatures are going to stay very cold through the weekend. expect morning lows in the teens and single digits. clouds will increase by late saturday, ahead of a splitting system along the coast. a series of pacific storms will start to move into the region early next week, bringing clouds and valley showers. stay warm out there, and happy new year! - jeff saturday: mostly sunny, with a high near 31. southeast wind around 5 mph. saturday night: mostly cloudy, with a low around 24. southeast wind around 5 mph. sunday: mostly cloudy, with a high near 36. southeast wind around 5 mph. sunday night: mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. monday: a slight chance of rain and snow showers. mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. chance of precipitation is 20%. monday night: a slight chance of rain and snow showers. mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. tuesday: a chance of rain

. >> let's check in with ken thompson standing by at reagan national this morning. how are things going? >> reporter: mike, what we are seeing here today is what tens of thousands of people have been waiting days to see. once again, people walking along the concourse of terminals b and c here at reagan. that is because out on the tarmac, once again, planes are taking off and landing. both here and over at dulles. however, things are not operating at full strength. each airport only working with one runway right now. and as a result, still a lot of cancellations. today over a quarter of ze parting flights have been -- departing flights have been canceled at reagan and 40% at dulles according to flight aware .com. not as many incoming flights are axed and that's a good thing for the weary travelers at the baggage claim, ready to finally get home. >> the first day or two, when it was really coming down, i was sort of happy to be away. but as things continued and i had heard the snow had stopped, i was getting anxious to get back and deal with the aftermath of all of the snow. >> and if you are waiting for so

mike -- this is the first time we are hearing from sam's friend who was with not only was trishay thompson at that party with sammy kemp...the two went to the party together and they left the party together...but somehow, they got separated. 18 year-old trishay thompson says he and his now late best friend sammy kemp were partying hard that night. how hard? 17:08:15 'from a scale to 1 to 10, 10.' 17:08:32--36 'marijuana, good marijuana, and vodka.' when the cops arrived and broke the party up, some 300 kids took off running. 17:08:59 'did you run with sam? 17:09:00 'he was right behind me.' 17:09:07--09 'he was right by me, i told him to stay right by me.' so how did the two separate? 17:09:31--37 'i turned around and he was like running along with me. and then i told him that he needed to hurry up' thompson recalls the first moment he realized kemp wasn't with him anymore. 17:09:43--50 'as soon as we got to the parking lot, i turned around because i had almost got there. i started calling his name.' 17:09:52 'sammy? you then, i started walking back towards where he was, like where i last

thompson this is kolo 8 news now at 4:30." of a dad sneaking in and nae nae-bombing his unsuspecting daughters in fact, mike jones pretty much out-"nae naes" them. the girls eventually catch mike and, of course, freak out. for a kid, there is nothing worse than your parent embarrassing you. but for a parent, is there anything better? i say....nae nae.### you have roughly a better chance of being struck by lightning.... twice then winning the current 500 million dollar powerball jackpot. however that did not stop peaople from lining up outside the gold ranch ... waiting 20 many people said they had a half a billion reasons for waiting in the long lines. the gold ranch are very happy about the big jackpot as well. tom macintosh, gm gold ranch casino & rv resort " but when the jackpot gets this big we have a lot of new friends coming out. we love we do a great job of keeping the lines moving. some of them stop in the main casino and the restaurant which we like too. " powerball sales close at 7 pm tonight. coming up tonight at five kolo 8 news now's paul harris will be live at the gold ranch. he will tell you the latest amount the

mike desumma, wis news 10. sued the town's mayor for defamation two years ago--will get 150 thousand dollars as part of a settlement. newly-released documents show settlement was reached last september...after adrienne thompson filed the lawsuit in may 2014 against mayor skip wilson. thompson was town clerk for 13 years before wilson terminated her. a sled investigation requested by mayor wilson also came back in december with no evidence of wrongdoing within the town administration. richland county's transportation penny program could soon be more closelywatched. at a special meeting next tuesday, the county council is scheduled to consider changes to the program. the program came under fire when a state investigation revealed some penny tax money meant for roads, was spent on other programs one suggestion n r reforming it would give members of an advisory committee authority to along with that would come a new name--the citizens' transportation advisory and oversight committee. just three days out from the national title game--the tigers are ready to roar as they head to arizona. live outside the airport in phoenix where we're expecting the team very soon. greetings from chilly and damp phoenix, arizona. t

channel 13's mike da silva spoke to kemp's best friend who was likely the last to see him alive... 18 year-old trishay thompson says he and his now late best friend sammy kemp were partying hard that night. how hard? 17:08:15 'from a scale to 1 to 10, 10.' 17:08:32--36 'marijuana, good marijuana, and vodka.' when the cops arrived and broke the party up, some 300 kids took off running. 17:08:59 'did you run with sam? 17:09:00 'he was right behind me.' 17:09:07--09 'he was right by me, i told him to stay right by me.' so how did the two separate? 17:09:31--37 'i turned around and he was like running along with me. and then i told him that he needed to hurry up' thompson recalls the first moment he realized kemp wasn't with him anymore. 17:09:43--50 'as soon as we got to the parking lot, i turned around because i had almost got there. i started calling his name.' 17:09:52 'sammy? you know? he wasnt answering. so he was, like where i last seen him like, eye to eye and he wasnt there.' 17:10:05 at a candle light vigil on december 19th, sammy kemp's sister wasn't buying thompson's story and demanded answers. 16:37:0

and congressman thompson can work together to strengthen the background checks and strengthen the procedures that people with mental health issues don't have access to guns. >> and mike mentioned some of the expanded work that we could do, and the house two years ago, wolf, they passed something that would have inkrecreased the fung for improving the background check system, and specifically allowing the states to work together better, and sharing information from one state to another, and then died in the senate-controlled senate by the democrats. >> what is your thought of that, congressman thompson? >> that is my amendment, and i have appropriated $20 million to make sure that the states got the background information to the next system. and it is a good start, and we had 70 republicans who voted with us on that, and i would guess that if we brought the background check bill, the king-thompson bill to the floor, we would have somewhere over 218 members vote for it, and good part of it, and that 70 number of republicans who support it as we well. >> all righty. it sounds as if the two of you might get together and have lunch, and work out some bipartisan legislatio

thompson will bring us numbers from american express, jane wells is covering starbucks and morgan brennan for schlumberger. >>> first joining today's panel to talk about these crazy markets we have our own mikentoli along with cnbc contributor self knee link from tiaa cref, did he have grass so he will also join us off the floor momentarily. >> you heard bob saying, this is it, you throw mario draghi say i will do more, a big rebound in oil, a gain but not a convincing one. >> no, not convincing. i don't think really going to change anybody's opinion about what happened yesterday. in other words, there are people long, look, that was plenty enough evidence of a washout low, we got at least some refusal to go below certain levels and if you look at two years of the s&p 500 we've hung around a level we are at right now, only twice before, and it held. so i do think there is nervousness, but about a third of today's upside was energy, small cap energy, by the way, up 6% today. really it was not a lot of fundamental let me find great stocks to own. these things do start with short coverings, with the most beaten up stuff going up the most. bank stocks weak i think to me is the most glaring negat

mike huckabee. if you remember, steve, it was huckabee against mccain in 2008. huckabee lost by three percentage points to mccain. why? because fred thompsonin the race, took that vital support away from huckabee and cost him the nomination in 2008. the same thing could happen to ted cruz. we have to see about a winnowing of the field and we'll go from there. >> i get the sense mike huckabee has thought about that once or twice since then. dave brody, thanks for your time. >>> the sanders campaign has been rallying volunteers in iowa pushing for a stronger turnout. turnout obviously very key to bernie sanders tomorrow and msnbc's jacob sob revolve has spent the weekend going door to door following a canvasser. >> what's happening right no you is these people are all signing up to go canvass for bernie sanders and that's going door to door to try to get every last vote before the iowa caucus on monday. we're going to go out with them. what do you do? >> i retired last year. now i'm -- i work -- i'm back working part time at the iowa department of public health. i do some -- this kind of volunteer stuff. >> reporter: why did you decide to su

mike thompson of california, have come to obama's defense. rep. thompson: the critics of president obama's executive action say that he's overstepping his boundaries, he thinks he's the king, and then the same folks say it's okay to take arms and overrun a government building.

channel 13's mike da silva has the story. 18 year-old trishay thompson says he and his now late best friend sammy kemp were partying hard that night. how hard? 17:08:15 'from a scale to 1 to 10, 10.' 17:08:32--36 'marijuana, good marijuana, and vodka.' when the cops arrived and broke the party up, some 300 kids took off runnin. 17:08:59 'did you run with sam? 17:09:00 'he was right behind me.' 17:09:07--09 'he was right by me, i told him to stay right by me.' so how did the two separate? 17:09:31--37 'i turned around and he was like running along with me. and then i told him that he needed thompson recalls the first moment he realized kemp wasn't with him anymore. 17:09:43--50 'as soon as we got to the parking lot, i turned around because i had almost got there. i started calling his name.' 17:09:52 'sammy? you know? he wasnt answering. so then, i started walking back towards where he was, like where i last seen him like, eye to eye and he wasnt there.' 17:10:05 at a candle light vigil on december 19th, sammy kemp's sister wasn't buying thompson's story and demanded answers. 16:37:08