troops in iraq and the life changing decisions they have to take soldiers of conscience is on the n. stay with us for that. yes i join in. the. reason why i joined army. i mean easy for my recruiter i say as why should a machine go and jump out of a plane he said side right here i was raised on american pie i was a cradle conservative i was voted most likely to succeed most conservative my nickname among a lot of my friends was g.i. josh and i wanted to defend my country i tried to listen the marines right out of high school that hurt playing football so join the national guard and then end up going to west point and the commission. put it bluntly i'm a patriotic son of a gun i love this country it's done some great things for me about some great opportunities both my grandfathers fought in world war one my father far to war to head off of korea because i was there for vietnam so there's been a family member in the military since there'd been a country. at some point every soldier has to face the question while i be able to kill another human being. conduct. this film is about killing in

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will be here in just three minutes, stay with us. @Ñsic] >> darya: 1 good morning, it is the cold out there we have a double live look at the bay bridge and the golden gate bridge. >> mark: will begin this hour about watching the weekend weather. >>erica: good morning mark i want to get straight to the numbers. take a look at santa rosa currently at 31 degrees and earlier this morning we were actually contending with some freezing fog there. we want to that brought the morning and take it that navato right at the freezing mark at 32 degrees. for most of the bay area we are in the upper '30's. as we turn our attention to the afternoon, we have very similar conditions to what we saw yesterday. everyone is hovering over the 60 degree mark give or take a few degrees. oakland to get up to about 61 degrees. up into the north bay for the most part we will sit in the low 60s contending with some fog right now. we will see a lot of sunshine in from santa rosa, 63 degrees they're a pair of 64 navato and san raphael and a touch cooler than that th

. >> and we'll bring you up to date on efforts to make sure the lights n at candlestick park stay onn the upcoming n.f.l. playoff game. ososos [ female announcer ] help i need a holiday party idea. mmm... pillsbury crescent wrapped brie just unroll, wrap the brie and bake. it's so easy. now this might even impress aunt martha. pillsbury crescent wrapped brie. holiday ideas made easy. in 15 minutes, [ female announcer ] you call that bread? you can serve some warmth with your bread. and some flavor with your bread. and some layers with your bread. if you're serving bread honey, then serve it. grands! dinner ideas made easy. >> dan: welcome back. you are looking live at a picture 6 bethlehem where jesus was born, the church of the nativity right there. a lot of lights an on and off lighting scheme going on right now. it's the busiest time of the year because of the rush of tourists to that area. >>> how do you prepare a christmas dinner for thousands of people? you better get started soon and that is exactly what will happen at glide memorial in san francisco. kitchen will be busy as t

currency risk gets a medal you're for it to morrow oh that's right economics is the new rock n roll get off stage. stay here max i'll tell you who was heads with the special purpose entities vehicle and that was hank paulson you know in episode two eighteen you said seven circles of hell from dantes inferno there actually nine we receive so many comments saying that max there are nine and the two you missed of course max were number eight which is fraud and number nine treachery the two things that define hank paulson and i thought perhaps he wrapped it up in a special purpose entities vehicle and put it off balance sheet and that's why you were confused no that's right hank paulson took the two lowest circles and he wrapped him up richard characterized them and now they're trading off balance sheet dantes inferno in the post and for now somewhere in the infernal afterlife that's why i call paulson satan time satan he actually took two circles of hell and distributed as an off balance sheet special person end of the account and it's collateral for goldman sachs super hell collateralized mortgage obliga

stay with us. >ñ?x?x?x?ç/ç/ç/ç/6 >>> every year, we forget about cards, and $3 kbrinl worth of gift cards, it's money retailers wind up pocketing sometimes. >> they do. and david louie is live with some tips so that money does not go waste and get lost. >> dan, cheryl, you realize $3 billion a year is wasted in gift cards that aren't resumed and would be higher if lawmakers hadn't eliminated expieration dates. the best tip to make sure they aren't wasted is to be sure to have them with you when shopping. displays are sold out, it's estimated $100 billion in gift cards were purchased this year, consumer advocates say that 2% to 5% are never redeemed. shoppers acknowledge they're among that group. >> they forget about them. >> they're great to receive, you can get whatever you want with it. you luts lose them and just forget. >> california law specifies they never expire. and they're value is enhanced after christmas when seasonal merchandise is marked down by 50%. >> sometimes i feel foolish when i use money

we are going to stay dry. wgÑ-one of the d we have seen in san francisco. going back to 1849.ty and snow activity as we head toward the christmas period here. just after christmas. that jet stream is well to the north. one of the things that's working for us with this dry pattern is enough wind and wind last night in the hills little bit of wind tonight and -- northeast wind but it's helping the fog not be a problem. this is the time of year you get a dry pattern, the valley fog is nasty. that's not the problem right now. the real problem is just real cold and frosty conditions. you know about that. what you had is what you have tomorrow morning in terms of temperatures. tomorrow looks just like today which looks a lot like -- thursday. sunny and mild. daytime highs like san jose, low 60's. cold start in the valley, san jose getting up to 62 degrees. that probably happens about 3:00, maybe 2:30, 3:00. forecast high 61 fairfield, 62napa, 60 concord, these are nice looking numbers, mild weather. if you have relatives visiting in the neighborhood or are town, showing off the bay

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stay tuned. fmf]n] >>> welcome back to "the ed show."l campaign has landed the endorsement of a reverend whose beliefs are absolutely jaw dropping. the reverend phillip g. kaiser thinks homosexuals should be executed. but the paul campaign was thrilled to get reverend kaiser's endorsement.ç puttinging on their website, saying in a press release on paul's website, "we welcome reverend kayser's endorsement and the enlightening statements he makes on how ron paul's approach to government is consistent with christian beliefs." but later paul's camp scrubbed the news of kayser's endorsement from its website. no explanation was given. it turns out reverend kayser is in favor of what he calls biblical law, including the execution of homosexuals. he has written about it. "as we have seen," he says, "while many homosexuals would be executed, the threat of capital punishment can be restorative." kayser confirmed all of this when contacted and interviewed by talkingpointsmemo. he said he didn't see much hope for it happening anytime soon. but he d

stay tuned. m@n@=@sñññ >>> i'm going to be the nominee.ean, it's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high, i'm going to be the nominee. >> that was newt gingrich speaking with abc news earlier. and the way things are going, he ju[t might be right. the latest polling out in florida shows that beginning rbi building on his massive lead over mitt romney, 50% to 19%. and for herman cain, who won the states straw poll earlier this year just a couple of months ago, his support has dwindled to just 10% of gop primary voters in florida. meanwhile, the fallout continues over mitt romney's contentious interview with fox news. >> you're wrong, brett. >> no, no, i'm -- >> brett. i don't know how many hundred times i've said this too. this is an unusual interview. >> now brett baer is spilling the beans to bill o'reilly. here it is. >> he thought it was overly aggressive. >> he did. he said that to you? he said it was overly aggressive? >> he did. >> wow. >> and as we were walking in the walk and talk and then aft

stay with us. p@?ñm Ñoy÷h! kermit the frog here with doctors dregenberg and honeydew.we're here at the ul labs to demonstrate the do's... and don'ts... of holiday safety. ma ma ma me me. do water your tree every day. don't let your tree get too dry. oh! do make sure your lights have the ul mark. ooh ooh ooh! and don't use worn or damaged lights. oh! oh! ohh. are you okay, beaker? c>> mike: welcome back to huckabee and our special republican presidential forumment we'll continue with former house speaker newt gingrich. the question comes from scott pruitt. >> mr. speaker, goodening. president obama seemed to think that washington has all of the answer to the national problem. as you know they don't require national solutions can you name problems that congress and president should not solve? >> absolutely. education should be trurned to the state and states should be encouraged to adopt themselves. medicaid back to the state. it is clear that the federal government has fail to manage that. i want develop an environmental solution to replace the epa. it has to look for e

if the occupy movement stays in the headlines or fades away n. san francisco, ktvu rob roth, back to you. >>> andrew luck received one of comledge football top -- college football honors. player of the year determined by top coaches and sports information directors. jim funkit is the only stan ford player to win the award. >>> oakland a fans hope to see one of the feared hitters. mvp albert puljols signed a major deal with the -- angels. it is worth $254 million over 10 years. the second richest contract in major league history. >> thousands of passengers got a holiday gift from the agency this morning and some could hardly believe it. >> happy holidays, thank you very much. >> thanks. thank you. >> they handed out passes to 65,000 passes to customers. each one is valid for 2 one-way ride coming this weekend. b.a.r.t wants to encourage people to use mass transit while doing holiday shopping. >> it is not just creations causing a stir how a successful businesswoman is helping bay area cancer patients. >>> we will see chilly temperatures overnight.

stay with us. m@n@=@sñññ >>> best new thing in the world today is the end of the iraq war. secretary leon panetta saying iraq is fully responsible for directing its own path. the war ending as it should. iraq now becoming its own sovereign country without our flag flying over it anywhere, without our troops in it. that's easily the best new thing in the world, maybe this decade. another iraq ending as it should. this fall a chicago-based argist got together with a new york based restaurant and put together a big thinking art project. they found on ebay dinner plates believed to have been lewded from saddam hussein's palace. they served on saddam hussein's flatware and plates venison. he wanted diners to think about how they got to the table. this is about symbols of power in that regime that have come into the ownership of the pop list we're living urn hussein, he told the new york times last month, but you can't just buy saddam's dinner plates on ebay. not legally. when the art group was notified the plates belonged to the iraqi people and they needed to be returned. so ea

. >> i gash see you the people who made the decision that they were going to stay open on christmas are at home with their n christmas. it is the poorer people that end up saying and working. i would like them to have a day off too. >> they rltz -- realize someplaces have to stay open, fire, police, hospitals. in the end it is about sharing the spirit of the holidays and remembering what is important. >> it is a great way to show our kids what christmas is about. give a little. instead of just being excited to get presents, go out and give jie. they are getting e-mails from people across the country who launched cookie projects of their own. 2k3w0* to cookie project .org. >>> it is not quite up there with opening gifts and singing carols, but ordering chinese takeout is proving to be a big part of the christmas tradition by a lot of families. they find chinese food is the most popular takeout ordered on december 25th. there is an on-line delivery service. pizza is also popular. i think we all ate a little too much. we are having trouble. >> that's right. >>> good day today. did you have a good christmas? >>

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n before the repairs were finished. >> more clouds rolling in today but will brain stay away? adam caskey has a look at our first forecast. >>> we are looking at a chance of showers west of the metro right now. that is in the highlands of west virginia and our chances are late tomorrow especially into the evening hours after the evening commute in the extended forecast, it is not the greatest chance for rain overall. on the left inside of your screen you can see areas of green in west virginia which is the light rain eased to petersburg. it is falling apart as it moves to the southeast. the temperatures are rather warm, 48 in the district and 52 will be the high temperature was mostly skat -- with mostly cloudy skies. it will not be as cold as the last couple of nights, near 40 by early tomorrow morning. i will have another forecast coming up in a few minutes. >>> local first responders are preparing for the worst-case scenario. a massive disaster response still is happening right now in the district. jummy olabanji joins us live from nationals park. >>> good afternoon this ex

c n n a while it was it was a good day so let's stay stateside but moved to the n.f.l. where the stuttering philadelphia eagles have sunk and even further down this they're rocking seattle's marshawn lynch and what he refers to as the beast modes with the running back during the seahawks to an easy win on thursday evening the twenty five year old showing the philadelphia defense exactly what he meant with his choice of prescription lynch disappearing into the pile only for an instant before finishing off a fifteen yard run to open it's wearing lynch not done visiting the end zone yet running the eagles defenders in the second to make it fourteen zero a season high one hundred forty eight yards and two scores for lynch allowing c.l. to cruise to a thirty one fourteen when he'll smite having plenty of superstar talent on board nothing to a dismal four wins eight rolls. over to call for a remark or royal. holding on to top spot at the halfway stage of the hong kong open while fellow overnight leader david horsey has fallen off the pace sitting out three shots behind them l

stay with us. we're right back. m@n@=@sññ >>> the payroll tax holiday is set to expire for 160 million workingmericans. more than 2 million of the nation so the government should shut down if a deal is not reached. these are the consequences i think of a republican obstruction in congress. today, house democratic leader nancy pelosi didn't tiptoe around the real reason this republican-dominated congress can't get anything done for the middle class. >> we're all haunt the by senator mcconnell saying the single-most important thing we want to achieve is for president obama to be a one-term president. the single-most important thing we want to achieve -- not the single most important thing we want to do is create jobs, to grow our economy to educate or children, to keep our country safe. the most important thing is to make the president a one-term president. >> i am joined tonight by nancy pelosi, leader, thank you for being here tonight. >> a pleasure. welcome to washington, ed. >> i have to ask you, have you ever seen the divide in this government as great as it is now, the atmosphere? >> well,

stay with us. the news continues in one minute. s@s@k!k!k!iñiñlñlñlñxñclosed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> a south bay couple is accused of rent fraud, charged with counts of theft by false pretenses and passing bad checks. police say in san jose they swindled land lords out of tens of thousands in rental income. they rented home was no intention of pay thing stalled eviction processes as long as possible. >> they present well. they look like a nice young couple. they makeup a story of why they need a place. and they will show up with falsified documents such as falsified w 2 forms showing inflated income. >> the couple is expected of carrying out frautd on six occasions. this resulted in a wind fall of 30,000s ndz unpaid rent. >> dui deaths are down and an interesting twist that is the reason state owe fishes are stepping up a push to crack down on people who drive drunk over the holidays. authorities are sefting up a record number of dui check points throughout the state this holiday season. 150 will be put together over the next

where the action will be located, otherwise as we head into the day tomorrow, again, it stays pretty active in the nlot changes. now here's a look at what is happening outside your door. >> and everywhere across the area right now, we're looking at very low temperatures. below freezing, and most all neighborhoods, but it's 33 in d.c. and today's high, 46 degrees, so pushing into the mid-40s today, and then low and mid-50s for your friday, saturday and sunday, with a few clouds around the area. and saturday will be breezy, and we will lose the wind by we've got the iowa state cheerleaders back here. is your weather something to cheer about? go to weather.com to find out. spear figures everyone! matt, do you have spear figures? >> i will get those in a short time. thanks very much. >>> coming up next on a more serious note the medical examiner in the casey anthony murder trial speaks out for the first time since that trial to set the record straight. but first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> the kraes casey anthony case was one of the most searched news items of 2011. the florida mother charged with murd

and stay tuned for the news at 4:00 and have a great monday, bye-bye. ÑÑ/&Ñ&Ñ&Ñ&Ñ&Ñ&Ñffttñq >> governor brown has a question for you tonight. are you willing to pay higher taxes to fund schools, police and fire departments? good evening. frustrated with the legislature governor brown intends to try and end run around sacramento politics and go straight to the voters to raise money. in his tax initiative he's asking voters to aparagraph 2% tax hike on the wealthiest californians and temporary half percent increase in the sales tax. money raised would be used exclusively for education and public safety. reaction to his plan has certainly been quick. allen is here with the story. allen. >> and tonight the republican party chairman went as far as endorsing pro business plan used by democrat contract ins new york. governor brown concede initiative won't solve all the fiscal problems but he says it will stop further cut to education and public safety. in an open letter to california governor jerry brown the plan the plan to tax the rich. >> what is great abou

stay with us. the news at 4:00 continues. @ññ( >>> oakland police arrested four protestor who's staged a sit n police look them into custody. and one protester spent the night to try to reestablish occupy's presence. public works cruise removed a platform from another tree more than two weeks ago. >> you just, zoom in and on the demonstration. >> same spot, different cause. occupy oakland is holding a rally right now to protest violence against women and girls in egypt. an activist says it's time women from around the world and bay area stand in solidarity with women of egypt, being targeted by egyptian military for speaking out. this week thousands protested against military general who's watched their soldiers lead assaults on female protestors. >> funeral services were held for an organ donor killed last week. the 23-year-old was shot while driving in west oakland. his organs have saved lives of four gravely ill people. abc 7 is in the newsroom with more on this story. >> this memorial was a chance for friends and family to h

n the edge in the cold. the shelter gave us a place to stay. and citizens energy helped the shelter with heat.'m excited to finally have a place of my own. citizens energy is helping us with the oil. citizens energy wa created to help the forgotten ones keep warm. we asked the big oil companies and oil producing nations to help. only citgo and the people of venezuela said yes. and this year, in spite of soaring fuel prices, congress cut home heating assistance nearly in half. while people need help more than ever. for e last seven years, citgo has helped families and homeless shelters in good times and in bad. thanks joe and thanks citgo. so if you need help staying warm this winter give me a call because no one should be left out in the cold. >>> you are watching abc7 news at 5 with leon harris, alison starling doug hill. this is abc 7 news at 5:00 on your side. >>> a report reveals some controversy surrounding a metro paycheck. >> metro paid more than $150,000 to a friend of the metro executive. >> rebecca cooper has the story. >> in the inspector general report released last year, but revea

stay with us. that's coming up. m@n@=@sññ >>> if you are in the eastern part of upper upstate new york and youant to drive to vermont, there's a pretty good chance that you have to drive over a bridge to get there. that's because lake champlain is there. it is very long. and the new york-vermont border slices it right down the middle. the crown point bridge over lake champlain was built in 1929. very exciting. it was a very big deal at the time. and for the people who live and work and commute in that area, vermont and new york, this bridge was still a really big deal in 2009. even with no local metropolis in that area, still thousands of cars use that old bridge every day to travel between those two states. but by then, by 2009, the bridge was anoctogenarian. it was 80 years old and it had deteriorated structurally. its concrete pillars were no longer sound. it was no longer safe to drive on. by the time they realized the bridge was in trouble, it really, really was in trouble and it actually had to be demolished on kind of short notice. the demolition of that bridge increased commuting times

this one would stay close but they meet the mountaineers 77- 74. >>> gary williams took in a n.wo of his former assistants faced each other. they were teammates at catholic. loyola would take a 10-point lead into the break and never relent. loyola defeats george washington 65-55. >>> three local teams advanced to the pop warner national championship game in the junior midget division. in the pee wee division, the marshall heights bison from d.c. beat new haven, connecticut. in the junior pee wee competition, the beacon house falcons from d.c. defeated stay with us tip, california 12-8 to advance to the title game. all three will play for the national tight olympic saturday. >>> we still have plenty ahead. your weather, traffic and all of your top stories. fox 5 morning news continues now. now. >>> as you might imagine, there is some trouble from all the rains we had. this is prince george's countiy, upper marlboro right now. we'll check in with stacy cohan in just a bit to find out what is going on there. glad you're with us this morning. i'm steve chenevey. >> i'm sarah simmons

stay tuned. we'll be right back. m@n@=@s >>> john boehner and the tea partiers in the caucus lost big-time today. this evening boehner was asked about the political consequences of digging in his heels on payroll taxes and whether it was worth it. here's the answer. >> doing the right thing for the right reasons is always the right thing to do. and while everyone asked for a full-year extension of these programs, a lot of people weren't willing to put the effort in as the holidays were approaching to get it done. our members were. >> joining me now is e.j. dion, senior fellow at the brookings institution and columnist for the "washington post" and friend of mine. e.j., good to have you with us tonight. >> thank you. >> happy holidays. how come it was the right thing to do today but not the right thing to do yesterday for john bow sner what happened here? >> because i think he added up all of the things other republicans were saying. you know, we got so accustomed to the newspaper headline "democrats in disarray." it was almost programmed into the computers. i don't think we've ever seen since pr

stay with us as we continue to stay on top of this developing story. @Ñof american workers will not see their payrolltaxes rise. >> has this place becomes so dysfunctional that even when people agree to things we cannot do it. >>reporter: house republicans may not care what the president says the voter opinion is another matter. >> the government has got away from the fact that they're supposed to be public servants. >>reporter: the payroll tax cuts will be extended through february. court who they will review continued jobless benefit and scared doctors revealed additional payment. grisham >> and record i think i members' wages and if i carried >>reporter: the only way to pass the compromise is by unanimous consent the few representatives said no objections and the measure is passed back to happen as soon as tomorrow. that will give the president barely enough time to hop on air force one and make that trip to hawaii to spend christmas with his family the rest of them have been waiting for him there for several days. meanwhile, experts say the economy in

the forecast you are talking out tonight, in the 30s n the cool spots and the extended forecast is dry. the satellite loop shows high pressure and staysr the top of it, that keeps us driful the forecast highs tomorrow, you will go 60 in fairfield, 5 and 6 is hayward. forecast highs through the next days, not much different. cold overnight lows and mild daytime highs and dry. that's this five day forecast. and that's probably the next five day forecast as we go into next week. as you look at the five day forecast showing you temperatures on the lower tier there represent the overnight lows, the coolest spots tomorrow, 32, 35 on thursday, and then friday around 38. so plenty of sunshine. we are not sweating the fog, not thinking about black ice or anything like that. we are getting the kids to school with a low overnight low. dry and cool overnight lows. that's the weather story until we get rain which looks like it may not happen until late part of december as we go through the next few week. >> that far. okay. see you at 10:00. thank you, bill. >> lady gaga had an engagement at the white house today but it was not a performance. she m

. >> chris: stay tuned the panel will be right back. ñúÑ; c>> woo need to get this done. that it is going to get done before congress leaves or congress may not be leaf we'll spend christmas here together. >> chris: president obama holding the christmas break over the heads of congressional republicans as he pushes them to pass the plan for the tax cut. we have seen an interesting role reversal with democrats pushing for a tax cut for the middle class and republicans demanding that it be paid for and is the pay roll tax cut the politicall winner the democrats think it is. >> i don't thinkk it is. most republicans support extending the tax cut even though there is a impact in the job market. we haven't seen boost from it. and we ought to pay for it and we have the deficits and interesting to see michele bachmann make a comment about the social security. i thought you said obama. >> no michele bachmann. republicans are not feeling pain in the pay roll tax cut. >> chris: you agree with that? >> it is interesting that you say they support them. they support it now. leaddershi

stay with wgn for complete coverage. >>between his son-in-law's sentencing and "n" word re- mapping fight alderman dick mell has a lot on his plate right now the process has descended into a finger-pointing and accusations of racism >>robert jordan has a live report >>alderman dick mell did not want to discuss his daughter or son and law by we discussed her chicago was a city of neighborhoods and isolated along racial and socio-economic lines ... the city has lost 200,000 citizens and the ward maps have had to have been redrawn and that's not an easy session for these legislators >>it's like putting a giant jigsaw puzzle together ... add to that power grabs and racial conflicts ... >>it's basically a fight for incumbency. >>alderman terry austin and richard mell have had angry outbursts during these negotiations their wards of but each otherabutt eachother every 10 years the city goes through these ward adjustments as the city changes hispanic wards will increase black cords will decrease. >>having experienced this 10 years ago if you're a good aldermen below is whenyou will always win. >>i did speak to the aldermen who

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