and i had heard of something called the mit blackjack team, but i thought it was like a class at mit where you kind of learned to play blackjack or something, but this had been going on for about 25 years. and each group of students after they were finished would train the next group of students. so this had been going on for, you know, two case at mit, since the early '70s. and i was blown away. and so that, you know, for me that was it, you know? i'd been writing all this, you know, pop fiction, and this was a true story that was better than the stuff i'd been coming up with on my own. >> host: well, ben mezrich, what was illegal about this? because -- >> guest: it's not illegal. there's nothing illegal about card counting, but casinos frown upon it. when you're playing blackjack, it's different than, say, roulette or any of the other games because blackjack has a memory. and what that means is that every card that comes out of the blackjack deck is no longer in the deck. so the odds change as you play. roulette is different. you know, you could spin red 25 times in a row, it doesn

he's an mit graduate and he would be a great asset to the entertainment commission. i look forward to seeing him in that role. as an entertainer, he would be there to support the needs of the community. thank you. >> hello, my name is asha metta, i am from the beacon initiative. at my office is right across the hall from bryant's. i have been the director of the initiative and i have been able to watch bryant grow. it was just an idea into a very robust use leadership program. it in fuses high levels of youth leadership within -- i would imagine of all the departments, it has the greatest amount of that type of leadership. taken a small body of young people helping make decisions into multiple bodies and citywide change. it is incredibly exciting and robust youth empowerment initiatives that he has led. i can't imagine someone more strategic, more connected to the community back at a very different perspective. what i appreciate about bryant is that he is very rigorous and intelligent and thoughtful, and not a real knee-jerk response -- and never has a knee-jerk resp

mit was given the chance to boil it down.lesmed at first but then rattled off a few policy differences and zeroed in on what he sees at the key issue for voters. >> the real difference i believe is background. i spent my life in the private sector. i understand how the economy works. >> but going rich was prepared with a zinger. >> you lost to teddy kennedy in 1994. you would have been a 17-year career politician by now if you would have won. >> that was probably the best thing i could have done for the job i'm seeking. here's michele bachmann who would love to steal the conservative vote. >> if you look at newt romney they were for the $700 billion bailout. >> it's important that you be accurate when you say those things. >> romney found himself once again under fire for his health care law. >> i read your first book and you said that your mandate in massachusetts, which should be the model for the country i know it came out of the reprint of the book. >> romney was so confident that perry was wrong, hi challenged him to a w

mit then, mit now. mit then, mit now.rybody. >> i think that's a good point, too. who gets the nomination, newt or romney? >> i think romney. >> newt. >> a romney-bachman ticket. it has to be. >> romney is going to lose new hampshire. >> you have been on the ground a lot. i think it would be very tough to beat him in new hampshire. why? >> he can't get above low 40s, high 30s there. and everybody is just -- i'm telling you, i've seen this movie before. everybody is waiting to find out who the other guy is. and the second they find that person, and right now it's looking like it's going to be newt. >> can newt survive the onslaught that the establishment and the democrats are all dumping on him at once? >> he is going through exactly what my guy howard dean went through. there you go. we went to the lead right about now, a month out, and from that point on everybody else in the democratic party -- >> he killed himself. >> well, we made mistakes >> you didn't make mistakes, he made a mistakes. >> they came after us with eve

. >> if you have m mit romney como credility. if i talk about wage subsidies and talk about pro marriage values and a lot of lerals will attack you and you e jerry falwell. where is the benefit for me. this is symptomatic about the general problem. we don't have politics where we can take something from menu a and menu b. b and put them tother. >> what has to la happen to cha? >> i'm in arim mood these daysa. right now when we speake are having an incredible stupid fight in washington over the payroll tax. this is kindergarten. if we can do that how do we do retirement form and growth strat brinstrategy. my view is i is if the republics take a snd on princple i don't know what they are fighting about. they are internally disorganized what is the princple here? do we think it will work, by the way? it's weird maneuvering. >> it's politics. >> it's hard to wrap wrap your . the democrats are saying let's exnd a tax cut. and the republicans are baching at a tax cuts. i want to say to the kids, guess what we are going to disney world.

>>reporter: and stopping in and i was still play, mit romney was beaming with a new fence of momentumd the outsiders message. >> what concerns me is that we have in washington and class of people who spent their whole time in washington and they don't understand what you do. >>reporter: also was the latest deportee favorite to endorse mit romney she was a top conservative in a crucial voting stake. the attack appeared to be aimed at the plant at the top of the field, and gingrich coup was under siege at the last gop debate before the iowa caucuses. >> michelle bar and took aim at the big money that he made with the mortgage jar and freddie mac. >> people should have facts before they make what allegations. >> you do not need to be within the technical definition of being a lobbyist to still be influence-peddling. >>reporter: in response his supporters eagerly tweeted out this video michelle bachman praising the former speaker in 2008. >> this men can do all he is truly a renaissance man. >>reporter: but michelle laughlin also unloaded on ron paul. it with the libertarians then that ma

at the president's first campaign ad this election season, and how democrats are already attacking mit romney. >>> and late details as billy graham is in the hospital >>> a quick look at what vern glen looked like ten years ago at lambeau field. it ties with the 49ers ready to make the playoffs for the first time since vern froze in lambeau field. ok, you guys wanted a space for entertaining your friends, so, open your eyes and check out your new living room! [ gasps ] honey, the tv's over there! yep, we got you the new at&t u-verse wireless receiver so you can put your tv pretty much anywhere you want. and that stand... anywhere? like, we can put it over there? and that coffee... or we could t it on the patio for watching the game with the guys. or in the kitchen? but, these curtains are... i can't believe you moved the tv. it's like a whole new living room. it actually is a whole new living room. [ male announcer ] the new wireless receiver, only from at&t. now get u-verse with dvr at the lowest price ever. at&t. a big thank you this friday & saturday with the simplest way to save ex

>> mit versus newt the two front runners square off in iowa. abc 7 news at 11:00 starts now. >> there have been many republican presidential debates prior to the one you just saw here on abc 7, but perhaps few were as important as this evening. >> we are just a few weeks out from the all-important iowa caucuses as knut gingrich is surging in the polls. >> good evening. the sparks were flying tonight. you could feel that this race reached a critical point as candidates are running out of time to make their case. >> knut gingrich came into tonight's debate with a bull's eye on his back. mitt romney was given a chance to boil it down where do they disagree? he seemed perplexed at first but then romney rattled off a few policy differences and zeroed in as what he sees as the key issue for voters. >> the real difference i believe is our background. i spent my life in the private sector. i understand how the economy works. >> but going rich was prepared with a zinger. >> you lost to teddy kennedy in 1994. you would be a 17-year career politician. >>

. >> if you have m mit romney como credility. if i talk about wage subsidies and talk about pro marriage values and a lot of lerals will attack you and you e jerry falwell. where is the benefit for me. this is symptomatic about the general problem. we don't have politics where we can take something from menu a and menu b. b and put them tother. >> what has to la happen to cha? >> i'm in arim mood these daysa. right now when we speake are having an incredible stupid fight in washington over the payroll tax. this is kindergarten. if we can do that how do we do retirement form and growth strat brinstrategy. my view is i is if the republics take a snd on princple i don't know what they are fighting about. they are internally disorganized what is the princple here? do we think it will work, by the way? it's weird maneuvering. >> it's politics. >> it's hard to wrap wrap your . the democrats are saying let's exnd a tax cut. and the republicans are baching at a tax cuts. i want to say to the kids, guess what we are going to disney world.

. >> if you have m mit romney como credility. if i talk about wage subsidies and talk about pro marriage values and a lot of lerals will attack you and you e jerry falwell. where is the benefit for me. this is symptomatic about the general problem. we don't have politics where we can take something from menu a and menu b. b and put them tother. >> what has to la happen to cha? >> i'm in arim mood these daysa. right now when we speake are having an incredible stupid fight in washington over the payroll tax. this is kindergarten. if we can do that how do we do retirement form and growth strat brinstrategy. my view is i is if the republics take a snd on princple i don't know what they are fighting about. they are internally disorganized what is the princple here? do we think it will work, by the way? it's weird maneuvering. >> it's politics. >> it's hard to wrap wrap your . the democrats are saying let's exnd a tax cut. and the republicans are baching at a tax cuts. i want to say to the kids, guess what we are going to disney world.

. >>> a new cnn time poll in iowa shows mit romney in the lead. ron paul is in second and a surprise, santorem has moved up to second place and gingrich has fallen to fourth. there are just six days to go until the caucuses. >> reporter: flattery and friendliness in iowa goes a long way. >> it's a gorgeous, brilliant, sparkling day here in iowa. >> reporter: it's politics, sunny side up. >> people like us. i hear it all the time. >> reporter: less than a week until the caucuses with polls showing three front runners, it's turning dark. >> we ought to have a campaign of positive idea and positive solutions. >> reporter: said this about ron paul. >> i think his views are totally outside the mainstream of every decent american. >> reporter: and this about mit romney. >> he's the guy running the most ads attacking me. >> one of the people running for president thinks it's okay for iran to have a nuclear weapon. i don't. >> serial hypocrites and flip- floppers can't clean up the mess. >> reporter: the criticism plays out through $8 million of tv ads, c

. >> reporter: even if nonbiological or artificial intelligence created in places like mit is not as close to "singularity" or matching human intelligence, as kurzweil believes, it's close enough that scientists and ethicists are now saying we need to take a serious look at its ramifications. professor christian brugger is a bioethicist at st. john vianney theological seminary in denver. brugger disagrees with kurzweil that humans can ever come close to perfection with technology. >> i don't think that the technology is the problem. what i have concerns about is the philosophy that stands behind it, the idea that somehow we are going to be able to overcome human limitation or we're going to overcome death. >> reporter: what troubles brugger the most is the notion that technology will one day replace god. >> if we start to think about technology as a kind of savior, is it going to overcome our misguided ambitions? is it going to overcome those kinds of prejudices that cause us to hate our neighbor? to many of us who follow a religion, we'd say that god would help us to overcome those

, i'm not going to mit.am i going to make anywhere close to that money? >> you don't have to go to an ivy league school as we see from the top salary list, none of which are ivies. the select school is not a dealmaker. we tell students college is what you make of it. you've got to make an impact while you're there. you want to network with your peers and your professors, take advantage of academic and research opportunities, get involved in organizations and local community. ultimately employers are going to be looking for how you've made that impact while you're there. and they're also going to be looking for things, what i call soft factors so your work ethic, your communications skills, how well you collaborate with others, problem-solving and critical thinking skills, and those, you can get at any college so that's, you should really cast your net wide. >> you make the point, too, if you're afraid of taking on a lot of debt to go to school it might pay off in the long run. >> it does. graduates aren't co

i want to tube p the over nil email hags between south request credit and president mit together they have pup u.s. hrm i will remain you of something that they have said. talking about the provkag of north kree he thea saying "the eveg rather together we have suck heed in change the sem not with he so the chase is clear for north yo thea. if they rep they toen igto et h ip for mess yoush be tow in the squext couple ours. ist a. also talking about the need for lee form in north korea cha. but we can't understand how important it will be for that language that the white house will be putting out in the coming dawn. >> thank you. the stait department is comflowing events and alcie is the senior row cuter at cnism n. >> john, in aticion to the president reaching it to the kree na mu out and period wordnizing closely. this bring chainsth and unclersly to maria. even more dangerous south crow thea. as i've been soush tonight and as purchase was tup that actual ed i've i've been looking for wau at the kroeks many because of this unpredictable and upit i was p.m. one minute he was fit and re

we have this very, very frequent cycle of sum mits. we have lots of announcements and statements that come out. but we haven't really seen any kind of silver bullet. >> we're kind of limping towards a solution. this isn't the big ba suzuki can a. it wasn't the big anything. >> the 17 countries that used the euro hope to sign the little bazooka deal by march. trace? >> peter barnes of the fox business network live for us in d.c. peter, thank you. >> fox news is america's election headquarters and today republic presidential candidate mitt romney going after the current g.o.p. frontrunner newt gingrich over comments gingrich once made about the spending plan put forth by wisconsin republic congressman paul ryan. as you know, romney is now playing catch up because former speaker of the house gingrich leads in most national polls. but last may he referred to congressman ryan's plan to reform medicare as, quote, right wing social engineering. today in iowa romney jumped on those comments and even called north newt gingrich's conservative cr

ron paul, mit romney in new gingrich are within a couple of points within each other the rest of the field isn't legal digits. and--the rest of the field is in single digits. wrote now this group it represented 12 percent had not made up their mind and even those that have decided are not yet firm. in n.y. times survey earlier this month to out of three of them said that they might change their minds. one candidate with a lot if's who surrounded his campaign is his three marriages are raising some doubt. >> at least in to douse and a 60% of lead artisans in the iowa caucus were evangelical christians. >>reporter: mit romney has been pushing that issue with television ads featuring his wife. >> if you really want to know how a credit operate look at how they run their life. >>reporter: 28 romney's personal wealth is estimated to be at least a quarter million dollars making him by far the wealthiest in canada but he is not letting anyone see his tax returns opinion >> we followed tax laws, and the laws give us an opportunity to save taxes but we do not have any current plans to release

mit romney call the peace in the newspaper a joe biden daft. >> someone wrote an ad in the the morning register attacking me and blaming me for the economy. and i thought, who would have the hootsfa,, the allusion to imagine that i am responsible for the decline of this economy out of the last three years and it was none other than vice- president joe biden. [laughter] >>pam: and other gaft exactly right, and you wonder what fantasy land he lives in. >>reporter: this photo op was the latest opportunity for medtronic to the table for the cameras. but he got even better news from none other than former president george herbert walker bush who told the newspaper in texas that mit romney is the party's best choice. gingrich and president bush apparently had a disagreement in 1990 over a budget deal walking bridge was in the congressional minority among other things this was yet another reminder that some republicans to share power in washington with new gingrich in the '90s are not exactly clamoring to jump on his bandwagon. >>justine: the san francisco fire fighters collected hundreds of

>>justine: in a cnn poll have mit romney on top with ron paul right behind in new blue ridge has dropped to fourth place. he'd promise to run a positive campaign but some are saying that he is critical that promise clearly northern iowa and gingrich were shopping for voters and try to sell it positive message. member what you will see ads from us in the next several days that we talked you see as a car from the super pak that favor me and will be positive. >>reporter: not so fast, yes the campaign is running an ad involving the economy, but he has a lot of attack ads there is tension-meant it distributed cold strong america now it was obtained and it refers to mit romney as the second most dangerous men in america after president obama. but that is no condemnation and the former speaker is all too eager to slam ron paul who just hit a new gingrich with a new attack ad. >> i think that is a direct question to you feel comfortable with someone who believed that they should have an iranian nuclear weapon. it i know this is hard for you want to cover, you can fight in a positive way. >>repor

mit romney has a similar story. campaign has been three- quarters of a million dollars on ads like the one featuring the kennedy's wife. pick but the pro romney super pak car restore our future has kicked in over $1 million to run spots handling new gingrich. their latest ads suggest that president obama would like to run it is the former speaker in the general election because newt gingrich has baggage. >> why is this man smiling? because his plan is working. brutally attacked mit romney and help make new gingrich's opponent. >>reporter: in third place is ron paul and polls show they he is tied for the lead. he has run five ads in iowa. the paul campaign was the first to run a stinging ad. one of the candidates that has not been able to compete is newt gingrich he says his fading in the polls because he is getting hammered on tv. he has tried to claim the high ground but the fact is he is not have the money to play dirty in the ad wars. >> new gingrich was not able to raise money and combine his rise in the polls w

look at what the president says even if mit and others call the president a member of the 1%. look at what the president says about our values and where we ought to be going. >> reverend, i think -- >> we're asking people like me to pay our fair share so middle class families can get a tax cut. and i believe most americans are doing their part, somewhere along the line somebody gave me the chance and i want to do the same thing for the young people coming up now. >> dana, that doesn't sound like the president has hid the fact he makes a large income. what relevance did that have to whether or not you want to see economic equality? in fact, he should be giving more credit since he's fighting against his own income record. >> right, this is america. nobody begrudges anybody for making a lot of money. one, where did their money come from and are they doing something for people in exchange for that money? in the case of gingrich, he said he made a lot of that money by playing on his connections with government. whether it's the money from freddie mac or the fact that he was playin

five mit graduates discovered this version of the flying car. right now it's priced at $104,000. the transition is not the first flying car. in the 1960s owned a narrow car. >> reporter: since the early days of the 20s wright brothers. people had been trying to put the two technologies together and develop a flying car. one of the first efforts came as early as 1917 when glen curtis built his auto plane. there's no record it ever proved. 27 years later it would come the aero beal. >>> this is per happen it is most successful auto airport high braids the air flight. mot taylor started developing it. the aero car has a detempable wind. >> when being use ed as an airplane it drives the propeller on the tail. taylor's idea is to have a plane that you could drive when you're not flying. >> the wings fold and became a trailer. you drive towing the trailer when you get to the airport you can attack the wings and ply away. >> reporter: comings bought an aero car. only 262 orders came in, the era die. >>> some think the idea of flying without the benefit of an airplane even further. they

--how did or i will be glad to debate him anywhere. >> mark: mit romney then taunted gingrich.newt gingrich has had a few left in kidder's links to say about me over the campaign, and it gave away and that is the big thing of the campaign moved to 06 at one another. regardless to the heat associated with the ads, he cannot stand a wait until obama tells a kitten shows elegant obama is fit together as $1 million will be attacking us day and night. he has already begun >> mark: new gingrich says he'll stick positive even though mit romney has on a willingness to stand up and tell the truth. >>justine: this is berkeley where the police moved in over 90 in the out of the last remaining occupy encampment. but as you can see the tents are still there will find out why when we come right back. >> mark: in just an hour and half from now thousands of nurses are set to make it one day strike we will show you what hospitals are expected to be affected. these are just the four largest. let us get more on this story and will tran is a live with one of the largest hospitals affected. >>repor

and mit romney is trying to find an alternative and he likes what he sees. he is looking with optimism to i was a state that rejected him a few years ago. ms. romney's rivals were working in overdrive to emerge as his prime contender ahead of tuesday's contests. none of them went directly after mitt romney instead they kept their focus on each other and hoped that a strong showing in iowa could yield some momentum. the latest gallup poll shows that mit romney has pulled ahead of the fading new gingrich and well ahead of any other republican candidates. he is leading the pack it with 27 percent support up from 25 and new gingrich has been on a december slide. beginning with 34 percent support and now down to 23%. new this morning, president obama is taking a break from his hawaiian vacation today. he is expected to send a request to congress asking them to increase the u.s. debt ceiling again by 1.2 trillion dollars as the nation approaches the debt limits. under the terms of this deal that was worked out last august, to have 15 days to pass a resolution of d

they became sick and were rushed to the hospital after some areel mitting. -- vomiting. methadone was found in their system and methadone is used to treat heroin addiction. >> i hoping in like this ever happens to anybody else in our neighborhood. >> both pets were in good health according to the owners. the pets were deliberately poisoned and the person responsible could face felony charges. >>> the cuts were due to expire in june but they were supposed to help layoffs. the pay cuts are expected to prevent police layoffs next year. >>> today a review board will plan on inn stalling cell phone antennas. at&t is trying to boost coverage in the city but some people are concerned the large antennas will be an eyesore. they reviewed the company's plans in august and today at&t is expected to reveal alternative designs it has developed since that summer meeting. >>> the white house will very veal -- reveal a new strategy for fighting home grown terrorism. a live update from our newsroom, showing a new way to deal with violent extremism right here in the u.s. >>> out here in n

. >> reporter: it's called mit through the ages.f he continues to struggle, what will he morph into next. >> we are in this mess because there are enough people who make a career out of telling people what they want to hear. >> reporter: not so much of a surprise that jon huntsman is going after the front-runner. newt gingrich in the latest poll is ahead of mitt romney. but if you look at mitt romney and newt gingrich versus oh, mitt romney is still winning. >> so i imagine he's not taking this without a fight. he's a politician. >> reporter: he said earlier this week he was not going to be quiet anymore. he is going on the offensive. >> i've been in the same church my entire life. >> reporter: gingrich is on his third marriage and is a catholic after years of worshiping as a baptist. yesterday gingrich refused to take the bait. >> i will not pick a fight with mitt romney. we like mitt and ann. >> reporter: campaign strategy boils down to numbers. these are the first four states to vote. romney has a narrow lead. >> all right. thank

mit romney and rep ron hall have both qualified to. the first family is spending the christmas weekend in hawaii this is a video of president obama who arrived kron air force one last night to start his vacation. every year the family spent the current vacation on the island where the present rule up.--with the president look. the have vacationed on kyloe beach for the past three years. >>reporter: 11 upper that sounds pretty good team that is freezing here in the bay area gary bettman is a view of the bay bridge from this evening at sunset. this is a beautiful postcard shot of the clear skies over the day to day. this is a live tin can looking over san francisco and it is cold. it is not too bad in this city but want to get outside look it is pretty chilling. reports. and we will see the coolest temperatures going to the 20 for tonight. here is the satellite view. >>reporter: this entire month we have seen little in the way of rain, but we do have a storm system offshore. there is another west--weather center that is coming in. in the

. >>> let's gather around the water cooler to listen to newt gingrich sound litalk about mit. >> mitt romney is comparing you to lucille ball of "i love lucy." >> i think we're fighting a losing game. [ laughter ] >> you remember that scene. >> i have a simple message for mitt romney. i'll meet him anywhere in iowa for 90 minutes, just the two of us in a debate with a time keeper and no moderator. i would love to have him say that to my face. >> i like that, challenging the manhood. newt gingrich wants you to know he has a softer side. he is coming up, pets with newt, a website for the campaign to showcase the fact that he loves animals. mr. gingrich himself has said as speaker i made it possible for people in public housing to keep their pets. that was in 1988. i love pets, so we'll have an entire project. look at how cuddly they are, and look at the way he has with animals. there is newt gingrich with an elephant. hanging out with an elephant. he has a softer side. not a softer side to this animal. have you seen this video from australia? a zookeeper was mowing the grounds around a

. >> mitted. >> dave: oh, this is great. this is better than the-- >> it that's see the red light. >> dave: yeah, right. i understand that. so... >> dave: where did the son of a bitch go? hold it. >> there you go, there you go. ( laughter ) so-- >> dave: look at that. that's fantastic. >> very cool. and we have the cyclone stunt set over here so you can actually run it up the ramp. >> dave: what i found out with all the radio-control stuff is that it's way too sensitive. it-- you know, you can't really control it too well. >> this is really actually-- well, yeah. ( laughter ). >> dave: okay. and it's following the light. so wherever you lead it-- >> dave: i know, shannon. i-- ( laughter ) ♪ ♪ where did it go! >> it's over there. >> dave: oh, come back over here. and it's supposed to go in-- >> they can go in there. let me show you what happens once you put it in there. ( applause ) >> dave: oh, it will go around? just hold the light. ( applause ) >> dave: that's good. very nice. >> so next we have one of the biggest toys to

told me that he believed that the first computer crime was a drug deal done on the arpa net between mit students and stanford sales students and i would love that to be true. >> so that's as much as i lay out. >> thank you, john. >> yeah. well, thank you for coming. i'm particularly delighted to be on a stage with two guys who actually know what they're talking about. i'm an old newspaper reporter as john mentioned. and about 30 years ago, a fellow named jim naughton who was the managing editor of the "philadelphia enquirer" overnight named me the science writer. and this was a terrific thing for me because i was working in a suburban pure and it meant i got to come down and work in the main office and particularly during the 1970s, the enquirer was really one of the preeminent newspapers in america. so overnight i was one of the preimminent science writers in america all of which is completely unmerited. it turned out that jim in looking for a new science writer for the newspaper was going through the resumes of everyone on the staff and he noticed that i subscribed to the scientific a

. >> mit romney tries to play catch-up in iowa.ooar, nbc news. >> 6:05 and 26 degrees on tv hill. >> you can end up with an out-dated damage et, but how -- do not end up with an out-of date gadget. how to shop for a gadget next. >> and the cast and crew of "diner." >> and ava has your complete pl the droid razr by motorola. the newest droid armed with motocast. granting you wireless access to files on your home computer from almost anywhere. 4g lte equipped to pull pictures, music, and movies. all at mind-melting speeds. powered by verizon, this droid is too powerful to fall into the wrong hands. >> good morning. i'm going to start you off with some very neat video we have. a total lunar eclipse happened yesterday morning. unfortunately it was not visible in the east. it was visible in the western u.s. and hawaii. a beautiful sight. rare to see a complete total lunar eclipse. looks like the next one will be happening april 15, 2014. we have a little time so we have a chance to see one. i thought i would show you the video right now

it said i did you $10,000 mit romney is out of touch, this is to a controversial debt that he was tryingo make with rick perry during the debate. he tried to make a $10,000 debt with perry that he was correct on a particular point, perry did not take the bait, but the controversy stemming from the amount of the bed which critics are using to call attention to mit romney as well. and the fight over the extension of the payroll tax cut, democrats might drop their demands for higher taxes on millionaires as part of legislation to extend the cuts for most americans. republican lawmakers have floated the possibility of a back a measure that would keep the government in operation for several days after the money runs out friday night. house >> john speaker boehner says that it is time to settle this issue. >> it is pretty clear to all of us that president obama against senator reid want to threaten the government shut down so that they can get leverage on a jobs bill because the united states senate cannot pass one. so we have an agreement between the house and the senate, between democrats an

mit romney is in iowa today. g.o.p. front-runner newt here in ill be right washington signing books at union station. >> we invite you to tune in to abc news on saturday night. that's when the next g.o.p. be held.ill abc's diane sawyer will moderate the debate. 9:00. bate begins at >> looking at the day ahead this morning, it is sentencing day for former prince george's council woman leslie johnson. guilty to lead conspiracy and evidence tampering charges in july. earlier this week her husband, , was sentenced to more than seven years in prison on corruption charges. >> ok. track work will make it tough to use metro this weekend. en van ness and friendship heights. blueline trains will single track. orange line between foggy bottom. between u ains street. closing on sunday. >> your time now, 5:37. 36 degrees on this friday. >> still to come, we'll take you to the holiday celebration first nt obama and the lady held last night at the white house. out which airline just turned convicted governor rod blagojevich's prison f

but i think what you're seeing now, mit is saying a strong stance.t. the grats roots is looking at this and going anybody but bit. they cycled through bachmann and cain and perry. the last man standing it looks like is newt gingrich. it really does boil down to anybody but mitt. i think tsz very interesting to see. mitt has much better infrastructure. neutral admitted the find by the seat of their pants. so i'm going to be very interested to see what happens in iowa. is neutral going to pull a howard dean? what happens here in three, three-four weeks? >> i just want to mention this appeasement rhetoric. they used that record of appeasement. this is the 70 rnlg anniversary of pearl harbor. there is something beyond the pea of spazing the specters and have policy differences. you can have substandive differences pt but raising that particular inspector on this plate date, that seems to me in bad taste at least. >> if i koshgs erin, too. i think the interesting thing with newt and i've pointed this out to many people, many leaders and he's agreed with m

. >> she would like to attend stanford, harvey, mit, oracle tech. her. >> to improve our bottom line doctors say need to stand. even if we exercise and have fairly active lifestyle try to for listeninging listening time may have a down side to our back side. researchers found that we know we sit down the force that we put on body tissue causes the cells which will become fat cells to produce even more fat. all of us have the urge now to stand up. >> yes. check my back side. is that i won't do that. . i'll leave it in for you. >> jim harbaugh 49ers next up today and an drew luck thinking heismann. what do you know warriors get ready for training camp. kick off friday and looking forward to it according to curry whether chats with us looking forward to it according to curry whether chats with us next in sports cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccx >> take a little bit of 49er business hear. patrick willis had an mri on injured right hamstring and status for sunday game unclear. now there's 2 guys on the team that deserve a shot at the play offs is smith an