and if you're into mlb, there would be -- >> major league baseball for nonsports fans out there. >> -jor league baseball. proposed by a yankees fan, jose serrano, a congressman here in new york, that says it's going to make the limitations less to bring in mlb players from cuba. so right now, if you're a good baseball player in cuba, you have to defect and move to another country before the mlb will consider you. and the department of treasury, back to the department of treasury has to approve of you coming to the mlb, even if you're a cuban. >> and finally, there's this bill being proposed that would stop the treasury from actually making a trillion-dollar platinum coin to pay its bills. and it would be something that, even economist paul krugman and other people have signed. there's a petition with more than 6,000 signatures. i want to play for you some reaction to this idea. >> this whole coin business doesn't deal with the debt and deficit issue and it does not make it go away. >> basically, you would need a solid platinum 747 aircraft to have $1 trillion worth of platinum. >> so

he was on the cover of mlb 2013. we caught up with the young talked about his and excitingr opportunities ahead. i'm excited about this year and get going. you have to look at the competition you have had this past year. through your mind when you think of all of your accomplishments? i'm definitely blessed. i had a lot of guys around me who really helped me out. >> what is the number one thing personally andd professionally on the field? that you need to grind every single day. try to get better every day. and you need a good haircut, too. golf now. tiger holds a lead in the open. they are expected to finish the tournament and torrey pines tomorrow. >> all right, winter weather advisory for the entire area. it will be in time for the rush- hour commute. it will be around the freezing mark. lows north and west of d.c. will be in that 40's. look at tuesday. upper 50's. gusty winds. tomorrow morning, expect that the weather. >>

. >> i want to thank you for choosing mlb in this process as well. >> thank you very much. thanks ms. fox, appreciate it. obviously cca is something i did not support earlier last year. but outreach is a great thing. what you're doing is terrific. we will go to budget and legislative analyst report. i want to say thank you to the daniel webster school. kids, you guys want to say hi? >> hi. >> thanks for coming by. ms.campbell? >> as you point out on page 4-3 of our report, when the board moving forward with c.c.a. in september 2012, they did amend a resolution requiring undertake extensive outreach of the program. these funds, the $1.4 million is suppose to address that issue. we do provide a budget. the $1.4 million will go to the outreach campaign contract with davis which is competitively selected. >> anymore questions. we'll do this in budget committee. i'll make a motion to -- thank you very much supervisor avalos. >> at this point, i like to open this up for public comment. any members of the public wish to comment on item number four, please step forward. >> [singing

taft was the first president to throw out a first pitch at an mlb game in 1910.is nickname is the big chief. legend has it president taft in vented the 7th inning stretch. >>> trent williams cannot participate in the pro bowl due to stitches he received last night, the victim of an assault at a honolulu nightclub. he'll be suited up on the sidelines. that's a wrap on sports. brian will be back with the news edge. good night. making the big romantic gesture. that's powerful. verizon. get a droid razr m by motorola in pink for $49.99. >>> being on television not as easy as a lot of people think, but when you have an embarrassing moment, it's caught on camera for everyone to see. just ask linda carsten from south florida reporting from the goat exhibit at the county fair. >> reporter: the goats will be here through saturday and they're very friendly. from the manatee county fair, linda carson. abc7. would you not eat my pants. oh! >> sticking up for his friend. one of the goats decided he'd had enough of the local news and her condescending tone and head butted her

mlb and t-mobile are teaming up to give coaches and managers wireless phones to communicate between the dugout and bullpen. the phones will have docking stations in both the home and visiting team dugouts and bullpens, but managers and coaches will be able to carry them as well. the signal will shut off if the phones are taken outside of those areas. the switch could happen as soon as this season. >>> we have an update this morning on injured giants fan brian stowe. his family says he is now recovering from recent hip surgery. and he is in constant pain, which is slowed down his physical therapy. but his family says he is not a quitter and continues to push himself to his limits. despite his skull and brain injuries after that brutal beating almost two years ago, his mother says his health is improving. his family adds they are extremely thankful because they were all able to spend christmas together. of course we wish brian stowe the best. >>> meteorologist christina loren, snow in the bay area? and you're going to be outside to deal with it? >> quite possibly, marla tellez. you know i

. >>> coming up next, a new report accuses several mlb players of purchasing performance enhancing drugs gonzalez. >> a story of soldier who wouldn't give up. he lost both his arms and legs in a roadside bombing in iraq. he is sharing his story of his double arm transplant and the road to recovery. we'll be back. ♪ ♪ i'm halfway to your heart ♪ you have to let me know ♪ so i don't make my worst mistake ♪ ♪ turn around and let you go [ female announcer ] when sweet and salty come together, the taste is irresistible. made with sweet, smooth peanut butter and salted, roasted peanuts. sweet and salty nut bars by nature valley. nature at its most delicious. >>> we continue to follow breaking news on the beltway this morning. this is the inner loop at route 50. earlier this morning, about quarter to three, there was a truck, a fire truck that collided with a tractor- trailer. we know the fire truck was responding to an earlier accident there at the scene when they were trying to leave and were hit but a tractor- trailer. several people injured, four firefighters and none of the injuries life-t

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this will get dicey with the yankees and mlb. alex rodriguez, five years remaining on a contract that will pay him $114 million. he had hip surgery, declining skill sets. so this could lead to a battle for the yankees to try and get out from under that contract. >> walk me through those options. they wanted to do it anyway what are the options there? >> the options, a big whoa with the baseball players association. they would protect the player as they always do. but yankees probably want out from under the contract anyway. they might have something to hang that on. >> may be able to force him to try to retire or something, leave voluntarily and take some kind of settlement. ammunition for yankees to use. >> if anything, dan, we're -- we're proven down the road, whoever paid out some kind of settlement, i would assume would have legal grounds to get that back if down the road it were proven to be true, these allegations, right? >> absolutely. try and get your money and this guy has 647 home runs in the big league. he would hit .8

the story itself is not enough to bring down sanctions from mlb. if they can verify what has been in the notebooks, then they could take some action. that still has to run it's course. is the paper reliable. if they have the goods, they are going to get into the investigator's hands. they have verified this story. they say they did get their hands on hand-written notebooks from the director of the clinic. transactions and money accounta. the miami new times were comfortable with the veracity in this piece. the question is does major league baseball if the same threshold. a-rod failed his doping test in 2003. this year major league baseball has a tougher testing program. if you impressed by that or is major league baseball going to be ameshed in this scandal for a long time? >> this story puts a clinic name and faces to a problem that has been happening for a number of years. since the testing, the players have tried to find a way around testing. hth, and synthetic testtosterone. there are newer protocols, there will be in-season testing and they ha

the mlb throwing a curveball by announcing in addition to off-season and spring training, players willon as well. arguing that the tests are so strenuous it could actually hurt their performance. could this be the home run the league needs to restore the old ballgame? joining me is rob dibble, former cincinnati reds pitcher and world series champion. great to have you on. >> melissa, thank you for having me. melissa: what were the requirements before? >> up until 2003, none. there was no drug testing. there was no testing for steroids, amphetamines or any kind of even social drugs, whether they were legal or not. and a lot of it wasn't done because really the business was booming. our strike, and i was a player representative in '94. back then the business was great. $2 billion a year. now it is 7 1/2 billion a year. so really a lot of the drug testing, it is to keep up appearances for the fans. melissa: so, now of course the players are crying foul saying this is really strenuous. what is involved in having a drug test? does it take that big of a to on your body? don't they just take

starting this season mlb made the announcement today.vious rules only allowed random testing for performance enhancing drugs during the off season and spring training. some critics have questioned whether the hgh test is actually effective pointing out that the hormone can leave the bloodstream pretty quickly. today the executive director for the players association says i believe these changes firmly support the players' desires while protecting their legal rights. the announcement comes a day baseball writers decided not to announce a single player for the hall of fame including mark mcgwire and sammy sosa. the former penn state football coach whom a jury convicted of molesting little boys showed up in court today to try to appeal his sentence. jerry sandusky making his first public appearance since october. there were no cameras in the courtroom but observers report sandusky sat quietly as his lawyers complained about not having enough time to prepare for a trial, among other things. sandusky is serving a 30 to 60 year prison sentence

[laughter] >> my question coming out of the strategicprogram is two pronged mlb on this i have your bookt, so i hope you have a nerdy answer this. but the very well-publicized job done in afghanistan appeared to asia, what gives you hope when it comes to future generalship and what makes you despair? >> second part is easier to answer. a lot of things make me despair. what gives me hope that it's going to some perverse, but it's not. the defense budget is going to be cut and let us cut as the british famously said we have no money anymore, so now we must need. we have a military that is at a fire hose of money turned on the last 10 years and intelligence community community as well. they were basically given money and told her to spend it through the we have a generation of officers who don't know if the weirdest hairdo looks like. i'm getting e-mails about three caceres six gets there. fellas, this would be 10%, 20% cuts down the road here and it's not a bad thing. another book i've been reading a lot lately as paul kennedy's rise and fall of british naval mastery, which is a wonderful

. >> i plan on speaking with mlb is police this morning but they have been covering a lot of these casesther. they're turning it the mosbest possible sketch. >> san jose police have released a sketch of a man to the state tried to pry a young child out of her mother's arms earlier this week. investigators say this is a sketch of the suspect tried to snatch a 2 year-old girl tuesday evening as she and her mother were outside their long on day zero court in east san jose. police went door to door in the neighborhood looking for anyone who might know sun in about the suspect. it is not clear the suspect was talk targeting that that particular child or if it was a random act. oakland police and released a sketch of a suspect involved in an attempted kidnapping of a 25 year-old woman. the victim was walking near the fruit bill bart station when police say a stranger grabbed her and tried to force her into a near died car. the victim managed to escape. she reported seeing at least two to three african-american males inside the waiting car and a suspect is described to be in the early 2757. >>

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. >>> and this year mlb will conduct tests on players for hgh. >> the in-season hgh drug test is a huge concession from the players a serious advance in drug testing in baseball. it's interesting to see if the other sports follow suit. >> i think it's great. >> agree. eight minutes after the hour. and jack lew, what an interesting signature this man has. if jack lew, president obama's nominee for treasury secretary gets the gig this scribble may be on all of your money. lew may have the most illegible signature of all time. look at it. it's nothing but a doodle. like nine loops in a row. >> that is something my 2-year-old would do. >> on treasury secretary. yesterday president obama assured the world that the american dollar is, in fact, safe. >> i had never noticed jack's signature. and when this was highlighted yesterday in the press, i considered rescinding my offer to appoint him. jack assures me that he is going to work to make at least one lett lett letter legible, should he be confirmed as secretary of treasury. >> this is what his signature would actually look like on the dollar

could have lance implicating the head of his sport, i don't know a baseball player trying to implicate mlbcover-ups. so for a guy who has been willing to sue to kind of be a enforcer in his sport i think you will see him bring the same kind of aggressiveness throwing his long-time aides under the bus. jenna: some of those names we're not familiar with. we compiled clips over the years which heard time and time again him suggest certain things about his performance. take a listen to this sound, if you will. >> we're sick and tired of these allegations and we're going to do everything we can to fight them. they are absolutely untrue. to the critics and skeptics i'm sorry for you. i'm sorry you can't dream big and don't believe in miracles. i was on my deathbed, you think i come back in the sport, and say give me everything you got, i want to go fast? no way i would ever do that. jenna: how could someone lie over and over again in public for years and years and think he could get away with it? we'll talk to dr. ablow about that. more from our panel after a quick break. jenna: more on the big

the ride on 880 is much delayed as you head to the fremont mlb this corridor.he extent of it. the san mateo bridge ride is 11 minutes. no problems for the golden gate bridge 1 01 southbound. bart is still delayed this morning even though the delays are much less. 51015 minutes delays systemwide. >> another beautiful start to the morning. temperatures are starting to warm up slowly with temperatures 52 in oakland, 527 cisco, 43 and sam francisco and concord. warmer than yesterday, upper 60s for the south bay. 67 palo alto, 66 cupertino milpitas. plenty of sunshine 65 pleasanton 64 in hayward 63 for alameda downtown san francisco looking for a high of about 54 degrees. in the north bay mid-60s fred fellowman and novato. satellite and radar showing clear and dry conditions in store for us. that is what it will look like as we wrap up your work week. 7 day around the bay shows plenty of sunshine, temperatures in the upper 60s tomorrow as well into the weekend. not to much of a change in terms of temperature it but we will see an increase in cloud cover. mix of suns

. >> what did mlb say? >> major league baseball does not run the hall of fame.hey said they respect the hall of fame's right to do things how they want and they look forward to votes in the future. it's not good for baseball not to have someone elected but it has happened in the past. the next few years some of the really great untainted players come up for election. so you won't see this in the next few minutes. >>> 12 minutes past the hour. we're counting down to this morning's academy award nominations. that is coming up. >>> and call it a wild moose chase. more of this video and the story behind it. that's ahead. many of my patients clean their dentures with toothpaste. i tell them dentures are very different to real teeth. they're about 10 times softer and may have surface pores where bacteria can grow and multiply. polident is specifically designed to clean dentures daily. its unique micro-clean formula kills 99.9% of odor causing bacteria and helps dissolve stains, cleaning in a better way than brushing with toothpaste. that's why i recommend using polide

let's talk to ken rosenthal, mlb network insider and jim gray a sportscaster and fox news contributor both of you. jim, i believe you have said that alex rodriguez is done. do i have that quote right? >> no, i haven't said that. jon: all right. >> i'm the one who said that. >> go ahead. jon: we'll go with you then, ken. >> what i wrote was he is done as far as his reputation. he might not be done as a ball player. he might not even be suspended as far as we know but in terms of public perception people are never going to look at him the same way they did even after his first admission of steroid use in which he said he used only from 2001 to 2003. with this report, his credibility is further strained and that's why i wrote what i did. jon: right. the 2001 to 2003, for people who don't pay attention to the nitty-gritty details, that happened to be a period when there was no ban on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball, right? so presumably -- >> that's correct. jon: presumably such use would have been okay? >> right. when he acknowledged that use in 2009, he definitely used that narr

i talked to mlb last night about this.hey're trying to get a secure line -- basically those lines are single line straight out to the bull pen that are so private. they're almost like the white house bat phone or what have you. they're trying to make sure that they can't be hacked. >> really? >> but what's the point of it all? >> it's a revenue generator. >> money. >> they sell the sponsorship for the phone. >> i don't believe that about sports. >> they wouldn't do that. it's all for fun, right? all right. speaking of fun -- >> oh, he's so fun. >> he's, like, mr. fun. with us now, chief white house correspondent for "politico," mike allen who is here with the "morning playbook." mike, republicans have signaled that it could be a tough confirmation process for chuck hagel. we were talking a lot about this yesterday. also some other nominees as well. but you say the white house is looking forward to these fights. why would that be? >> no, that's exactly right. this is a real window into why the president made this tough choi

. >> i want to thank you for choosing mlb in this process as well. >> thank you very much. thanks ms. fox, appreciate it. obviously cca is something i did not support earlier last year. but outreach is a great thing. what you're doing is terrific. we will go to budget and legislative analyst report. i want to say thank you to the