obama's america, white kids beating up on school buses now. mean, but your kids in a kids in a school bus and expect safety. in obama's america the way to get beat up in the black history and yeah, yeah, right on. the black on white schoolbus assault must've seemed like a godsend dilemma timed as it was music article called tbb demonstrate about a study that had a biological predisposition for racism which was a broadside against white people. he continued, of course there was this a way kid deserved it. he was born racist. you swipe. westminster is the billing. all over america, white congressmen destroying stability in the house of representatives. at that point, linda had become so excited that his own oratory he surrendered any remaining shred of coherent and attempted to connect upon the social economic policies to segregated buses. we can redistribute students will redistribute parents well. i mean, we can redistribute everything. the term white students to their rightful place, the robust as the windows and armed guards. they are racist

the obama white house put on a lavish display for their guests. the administration laid out a series of challenges to china. for ordinary americans their destiny is uncertain. they can no longer be sure the country's best days are ahead. ♪ >> this suburban elementary school in north carolina -- these kids are not just dabbling in mandarin, this is full immersion. the u.s.-china relationship is one of our rivals. china's latest leap forward is in education. students scored stunning results on international tests topping the world in math and reading. america was languishing more than 20 places below in each category. the education secretary said it was a wake-up call. do you like learning chinese? >> >> what do you work at the -- what do you speak at home? >> english and chinese. ♪ >> the path to excellence starts very early. they began their immersion at the age of five. his father is chinese but mother is american. >> the way their economy is going we think it is important her chinese is well and full academic chinese. >> you are preparing her fo

obama's america, white kids getting beat up on school buses now. mean, you put your kids on a school bus, you expect safety. but in obama's america, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, yeah, yeah, right on, right on. the school bus assault must have seemed like a godsend to limbaugh timeed just right. he continued, and, of course, everybody says, oh, the white kid deserved it. he was born a racist, he's white. "newsweek" magazine told us this. we know that white students are destroying civility on buses, destroying civility in classrooms all over america, white congressmen destroying civility in the house of representatives. by that part limbaugh had become so excited that he surrendered any remaining shred of coherence and attempted to connect obama's socialist economic policies to segregated buses. we can redistribute students while we redistribute their parents' wealth. i mean, we can just redistribute everything. just return the white students to their rightful place, their own bus with bars on the windows and armed gua

he meant the obama administration discriminates against whites the way races states government used to discriminate against blacks say they can distribute their parents' wealth meeting obama was to take money from middle-class white people and give it to poor black people and finally when they say they are resisting it what they deserve he meant obama hates whites and the message means he will call you names and take your money and persecutor children will persecute you everything that you stand for as he hurled his baton into the air and unfortunately unfortunately, reality interferes with less waiting someone's misfortune to make a political point*. the captain of the school bus assault called it racially motivated but then retracted to say it was premature it appears to be more than a couple of police on the bus dictating where people said. rush limbaugh and fox news and "the drudge report" dropped the story then it showed up the following weekend caring bullhorns and nazi flags they demanded the salience be prosecuted for hate crimes shouting double standard and white power. yes, t

obama goes to capitol hill to deliver his state of the union address. he'll have a lot to say about jobs. more from washington. >> reporter: good morning. that's right. the president and the white house have been giving hints about what will be included in that state of the union address and you can expect that america's greatest concern will be addressed, the economy. tonight president obama is expected to lay out his plan for getting americans back to work. >> i think you'll hear the president talk about a whole host of economic things including getting our fiscal house in order. >> reporter: the president will highlight the need to make u.s. companies more competitive and ready to hire. he'll call for new incentives and investments on everything from education to green energy to roads and bridges. but funding those programs may be difficult. and online preview of his speech over the weekend immediately raised red flags among republicans. >> the president has looked for every opportunity to spend more money. >> reporter: hours before the state of the union, house republicans will take up a vote that would reduce government spending. the gop has already vowed to cut $100 billi

. >>> and across town at the white house, preparations are under way for a new kind of part two of the obama administration, with new people coming in, and we learned today at least one well-known name departing. white house correspondent savannah guthrie on duty with more from there tonight. savannah, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. as we've been reporting all week, there are a lot of comings and goings here. first of all, bill daley, who is being seriously considered to be the new white house chief of staff. the former clinton commerce secretary was here today, meeting with the president and senior staff, a decision on that could be imminent. and press secretary robert gibbs, as expected, said today he will leave likely in early february. he will still be an outside paid consultant to the white house but he said today some changes at the top will bring some fresh perspective. >> i think having new voices and having fresh voices, some of those voices that are coming back from having taken a couple of years off, are an important part of this process. i would not trade the wor

meanwhile, at the white house president obama and his aides are still working on the state of the union address he'll deliver to congress and the nation tomorrow night. chip reid is at the white house tonight. chip, what can we expect? >> reporter: well, katie, the president is going to emphasize bipartisanship. even so, some republicans are already crying foul. >> my number-one focus is going to be making sure that we are competitive, that we are growing and we are creating jobs not just now but well into the future. >> reporter: the president will continue his move toward the political middle with a speech focused on a bipartisan effort to create jobs. >> we're up to it as long as we come together as a people-- republicans, democrats, independents. >> reporter: he'll also highlight the need to reduce the deficit, sure to please republicans. but he'll anger republicans with a call for new spending. he'll call it investments on everything from education to green energy to roads and bridges. >> well, the president's looked for every opportunity to spend more money. >> reporter: it's the

makes comments that win him next time for war after return and it's yet another power grab by the obama white house and they go ok i'll tell you why they want internet service providers to hold on to customer data just in case they need it later for investigative purposes but behind that we're going to turn.

journal" talking about what this new republican house will mean, specifically for president obama, for the whiteouse. what will it mean? >> confrontation across the board. confrontation on health care. i predict before the president delivers the state of the union address, house republican also move through the floor and on to the senate a direct repeal bill of the universal health care bill passed under his watch and challenge him also on whatever the epa intends to do starting this week to limit greenhouse gas emission and try to repeal what major provisions of the financial regulatory reform act, they will try to cut spending much beneath the levels the president is comfortable with. even on the fcc's most recent announcement on net neutrality they will try to block those regulations, whether it's legislation or regulatory action by this administration that will be pitch battle between the house republicans and obama white house. >> george? >> well, darrell issa, someone you've never heard of but people will hear a lot of this year has the chief investigating subcommittee. he has seven subcom

in 2004 when obama ran for the senate bobby rush supported one of his white rivals, blair all who was a millionaire who had enough money to give bobby rush's half-brother a job on his payroll. obviously was out of spite towards obama and he has since admitted that. it was out of his smallness that he didn't support obama. as soon as obama won, he has been a big supporter to this day. >> one of the best plans in your book was you said in terms of the obama presidential campaign jesse jackson cannot decide if he wanted to be the madonna of the campaign or the media. we are talking the greek tragic heroine. let's get that out of the way. can you explain what you meant by that? i will ask my follow-up. >> does he want to be the madonna who gives birth to the miraculous creation of the media who killed her own offspring? that was going through jesse jackson's head. it was hard to get a real understanding of where he was coming from throughout 2008 or 2007, one of the things when he made the unconscionable statement he made on fox news, first-time he ever had the jenna tally of a future pre

they being the republicans or white americans or whoever but this is seen as obama who was to get the guy to get something done and aligned with said darth trader forces with the republican party who will not let him medicis that. also the question being, it is attributable to race, part of this is but also another part is not. if you look at those wounded six right the far extreme but the glenn beck people and so on and check the wane in some ways the john birch society's and those of 1930's and to tell everyone that franklin roosevelt was a communist and also goldwater republican but i think all those things combined then the active ingredient the idea this person was not really american with the racial background and the upbringing. >> i want to say one more thing about white voters. especially the blue-collar far the biggest swing voters to have in the country especially in the midwest. having problems utter deeper than any politician can solve but we continually fire the politicians who cannot solve them. they lost four seats in illinois, four seats in ohio, five seats pennsylvan

. >> the issues and election with president obama, that only white men had ever occupied the white housetely weren't the most competent and best we ever had and the most qualified, history was so strong with me for barack obama. my vote for barack obama had nothing to do with economics, had nothing to do with the best it interest of the country. i voted for him because he az was a brother. race played a role. there is no way at that point in my history -- >> you put issues aside. >> i had no choice. >> you are somebody who doesn't identify as black, voted for somebody because they were black? >> history pulled me where i had no choice but to pull the lever for him. i could not do it any other way. i wanted to tell my kids and everybody else one day, when that moment was upon us, no matter whether i would vote for him again or not, at that time i had to. >> is the republican party ready to nominate a black person? >> they wanted to put up colin powell. he said no and that was ten years before barack obama. i think so. >> the good news -- >> the way to nominate one. not have one run. >> th

and does it signal any kind of genuine shift on the part of the obama white house? >> gene sperling is the energizer bunny. he was here during the clinton administration in the same job. you will hear from him a lot. he will be working all the time. and i think that the congress knows him well. he has, of course, also ties with business. and so, i think that you're seeing a lot more of the white house looking to show that the president is friendly with the business community and not hostile to it. the irony there is that a lot of people in the democratic base, think he's been too friendly to business. whereas republicans and people in the business community think he hasn't been friendly enough. and republicans have a role to play here, too. the real question, dan, is what role will it be? do they really want to see jobs increase? or are they looking at those same figures used by this earlier and saying, well, if we keep the unemployment rate up, that means we won't see the president re-elected. and that's something they're eager to see him defeated. >> right. in man

building and serve your country and work for a president that i admire as much as president barack obama. >> whiteouse press secretary robert gibbs is quitting his job to become an outside political advisor. he will leave the white house by early february. >>> well, the 112th congress officially convened today with republican john boehner assuming leadership of the house of representatives. democrat the nancy pelosi handed him the speaker gavel. he becomes th 61st speaker of the house and just the third republican to hold that position since 1965. >>> what they want is a government that is honest accountable and responsive to their needs and a government that respects individual liberty, honors our heritage and bows before the public that it serves. >> as for pelosi, she praised bed oehner's leadership and promised to seek common ground whenever possible and thanked fellow democrats. >> i'm grateful to my colleagues for their commitment to equality which is both our heritage and our hope giving me the historic honor of being the first woman speaker of the house of representatives. >> however, not

yesterday president obama the white house pulled out all the stops for president hu.or ed lee and oakland mayor jean quan, you saw there, jackie khan, actor and steiner vera wang and barbra streisand you see her and olympic skater michelle quan in attendance and vera wang and her husband. for those of you wondering, first lady was not wearing vera wang. she wore a red gown. >> a plan to repeal president obama's healthcare reform law. today the bill -- the house passed a bill directing committees to replace sections. the vote comes a day after republicans pushed through their bill to repeal the law entirely. yesterday's debate shows that pledges of new stability in washington have disappeared. >> we will not stop until we repeal a president and put a president in the position of the white house who will repeal this bill until we repeal the current senate, put in a senate that will listen to the american people and repeal this bill. >> they say it's a government takeover of healthcare, a big lie. just like you say it enough, you repeat the lie, repeat the lie and eventu

yesterday president obama the white house pulled out all the stops for president hu.ayor ed lee and oakland mayor jean quan, you saw there, jackie khan, actor and steiner vera wang and barbra streisand you see her and olympic skater michelle quan in attendance and vera wang and her husband. for those of you wondering, first lady was not wearing vera wang. she wore a red gown. >> a plan to repeal president obama's healthcare reform law. today the bill -- the house passed a bill directing committees to replace sections. the vote comes a day after republicans pushed through their bill to repeal the law entirely. yesterday's debate shows that pledges of new stability in washington have disappeared. >> we will not stop until we repeal a president and put a president in the position of the white house who will repeal this bill until we repeal the current senate, put in a senate that will listen to the american people and repeal this bill. >> they say it's a government takeover of healthcare, a big lie. just like you say it enough, you repeat the lie, repeat the lie and even

white house. it looks like president obama just got outside now. there's been a lot of pomp and circumstance for this meeting. oakland mayor jean quan and san francisco mayor ed lee are at the event. the presidents are expected to discuss several issues including trade, national security and human rights. mr. obama is also expected to encourage china to do more to stop north korea and iran's nuclear program. ♪ [ music ] >> later there will be a lavish welcome for hu including an official state dinner. ♪ [ music ] >>> house republicans say today's planned vote to repeal the president's healthcare law is more than just symbolic. democrats still control the senate and are expected to reject any repeal that comes from the house. house republicans say they can still use parliamentary maneuvers to deny funding for the healthcare law. >>> the husband of congresswoman gabrielle giffords is speaking out now about the terrifying moments after the tucson shooting rampage. mark kelly says that for about 20 minutes, he thought his wife was dead after viewing a

if there is one thing the obama white house most underestimates it is the disprited mood of its troops about the left but more important. >> you look at the election result, it was what it was. when you see organizing in our politics, the organizing during '06, '07, '08 was on the progressive side. last couple of years it's clearly been on the conservative side. they have an initiative in our polit politics. i think there's an enormous opening here. one of the jobs in a democratic country is to hold people in power accountable. for two years, we have held the president accountable. democrats had all the power. now, suddenly, republicans control the house of representatives and they have more power in the senate. and i think you're going to have a kind of accountability on the republican side. what are they actually for? senator-elect of new hampshire responding to the president said we have to stop spending money we don't have on programs that are not working. i have no progressive -- what programs aren't working? i hope progressives and the republicans challenge the president and say

we'll show you the book sellers area of the white house where the guests arrive. first lady michelle obamad the white house chefs to get involved in their communities and find a local american menu. the menu is all american, purchased lobster and ribeye steak and old fashioned apple pie with ice cream. that sounds like a very american dinner. we're waiting to get underway and we'll have coverage here. should be getting underway here momentarily. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> so, again, we're waiting for the state dinner to get underway here shortly. president hu of china and the official state dinner. you're looking at the north lawn of the white house all lit up there. some of the entertainment tonight keep

and two blocks from the white house obama ties hats mugs and t. shirts aren't moving quite as fast as they used to back when there was obama mania expecting something magic and i think that people didn't get the magic so they're kind of like dude i voted for you going on with my magic the magic was certainly here at ben's chili bowl on inauguration day two years ago. the line wrapped around the block in historically black you street neighborhood. remembers the segregated. washington where blacks couldn't eat in restaurants downtown to go from that to an african-american president was very special for us for all of america for you st and the fact that he came here to ben's chili bowl ten days before his inauguration you know just says it all just incredible president obama hunkered down at ben's counter for one of its famous chili half smoke served up by jade hardy he came in here and i'm like the best day of my life and i went all the way home to north carolina but today she's frustrated i thought that we were going to get more jobs like that but

white house shake-up. he's been with barack obama since 2004 and won't cut the ties completely, he'll be an outside adviser to the white house and the president's re-election campaign. candidates to replace gibbs as the spokesman, deputies burton and earnest, the vice president's communications director and karen finney, former democratic national committee spokeswoman. will there be a new chief of staff? pete rouse has been filling in. if he steps aside, the leading candidate to replace him is bill daley, former commerce secretary, now an investment banker. he met with the president and high-level staff on wednesday. former senator tom daschle and agriculture secretary tom vilsack also mentioned as

president hu jintao has been welcomed by president obama at the white house. a controversial pastor, terry jones has been banned from the u.k. on the grounds his presence is not conducive to the public good. profits have taken a slide at goldman sachs. down near 40% revenues from trading bonds, commodities, and currency's plunge. on the back of poor performance, there will be no cutting back on banker bonuses. >> is the alchemist losing its touch? known as a moneymaking machine, their profits were lower than a year ago. their trading division saw revenue fall 48%. a reminder according to sue craig, of how challenging the market is. >> this is the second consecutive quarter we saw troublesome earnings. as much -- it is less than we are used to. part of it is the economy that had products that were making a lot of their revenue. it is a combination of a lot of things. >> while revenues are down, compensation is not. dropping around 5%. at the headquarters and offices around the world, the average banker is now worth $431,000. >> it is the feeling in the u.s. tha

but i definitely think that's part of it. >> i think i can say anecdotally for some white people barack obama is white when they want to support him, and he's black when they don't like him. [laughter] i can tell you things i heard in 2008 hearing from people in bars. they'd come up to me and say, you know? he's really one of of us, you k? his mom was white, he grew up in a white family, so we can trust him. and then just a few months ago, you know, i was in this italian-american barbershop in buffalo, i heard someone usehe

obama is reshuffling his staff. and white secretary robert gibbs has said he will leave his post soon. gibbs made the announcement on wednesday and looked back on his two years in the job. >> i would not trade the worst day i've had here for many of the best days that you might have in another job. >> gibbs has been on obama's staff for almost seven years. he plans to leave his post in early february, after obama's annual address before a joint session of congress later this month. gibbs is expected to play a major role in preparing the ground for obama's re-election campaign. >>> we'll be back with more news in 30 minutes. i'm gene otani.

for the first time in 13 years the white house is hosting a state dinner for a chinese leader. president obama hosted president hu jintao at a private dinner last night. hu is on a four-day visit. the two leaders will meet this morning in the oval office. the agenda includes china's human rights violations, its manipulation of currency that makes chinese goods cheaper, china's refusal to open its market to u.s. goods, and the theft of u.s. intellectual property. as chip reid reports, the talks will be complicated. china is america's chief economic rival and an important potential partner. >> reporter: the white house insists president obama will have tough words for president hu. but with little leverage to force china to do anything, expectations for this summit are low. >> there's not much additional pressure that either side is going to put on the other. >> reporter: president obama will also urge china to do more to stop north korea's and iran's nuclear weapons programs. and the white house promises firm talk on human rights. but with so many strong disagreements, some critics ask why chin

white house yesterday. they will meet with american businessmen and tonight president obama will host a white house state dinner. >>> today the republican house representatives will decide whether or not to repeal the health care legislation. if expected the repeal in the house is successful, democrats that is still the majority say they will block it. >>> later today workers at napa state hospital will stage a rally outside of the gates of the psychiatric hospital. they will gauge two safety rules. >>> a san rafael pizza parlor could find out today if they estimate big changes to the restaurant before it opens. tara moriarty joins us now from san rafael with the big controversy and what it is. >> reporter: you can see what the controversy is if you take a look behind me. this is the pizza parlor that is in controversy because of the paint. it's a bright yellow. some say it's an eyesore. that looks like a day glow worm. it doesn't quite fit in with the rest of the downtown area that has a historic feel. the honor of this pizza parlor wanted the paint to match the color of his brazilian soccer jersey. he got wha

. >> president obama speaking a little earlier in a televised address at the white house. the bbc's reporter is in washington. he gave me more details about the white house's view of the ongoing events. >> remember, the egyptian government gets around about $1.5 billion every year from the u.s. government in aid, predominantly military aid. we heard that there'd been a review of that aid in a press briefing this afternoon. it's interesting how quickly things changed from then on. later on we had that address from president mubarak on egyptian television and shortly after that address by president obama, and really changing the language from the white house today. earlier in the week i think the white house was calling for reform. today i think they were more demanding reform. >> the u.s., of course, has a close relationship with egypt. it's the, if you like, the crucial arabally in the region. it won't want to jep daze -- jeopardize that, will it? >> no, the question is what's next? for the united states, they have had a key alley over the last 30 years -- ally over the ye

that children weren't learning in the classroom, lessons that is still relevant with president obama in the white house. carolyn tyler salutes jeff feinberg and his unique program. >> they are celebrating the 10th anniversary of what he called sojurn to the past. he'll visit dozens of schools encouraging students to follow him along the civil rights trail. >> i don't call eight black studies program. this is shared history of americans. >> this is lesson learned outside the classroom. in his one of a kind program, high school students board buses and head to the epicenter for social justice and equality. they take a ten-day trip to the south, tracing the places and meeting some of the people who propelled the civil rights movement. we went along ten years ago. >> it's been overwhelming being here in birmingham. >> in the past decade more than 6,000 bay area students have taken journey and for some, touching the living history of the civil rights movement has been life changing. >> we met gomez on the inaugural trip. >> is this going to go away from me after i leave or it going to stick with me? >

jintao of china arrived yesterday, for one of what could be the most important state visit of the obama white house. everybody knows china is an economic power house. in many ways it's become america's banker. we have a new poll that shows most see china as an economic threat. president obama expected to press the chinese on that. and we have secretary clinton weighing in on that. and also, the latest on the grandma watch. >> you had to go there with her. >> had to go there. >> we'll hear what she has to say. >>> also, we're learning more, how the tucson shootings unfolded. new signs from security cameras at the site showing the shooting was likely premeditated. also the first glimpse of jared loughner's parents. >> the congresswoman had a premonition she might get shot, too. >> we'll have more with mark kelly, too. >>> we begin with a backpack bomb, in spokane, washington. it was found along the route of monday's martin luther king parade. the fbi is investigating. neal karlinsky is in spokane and has the details for us. good morning, neal. >> reporter: robin, good morning. this could have b

i think what we will see going ahead is similar deals like that, where the white house, president obama is so concerned about appealing to independence and appearing to be in the center, that doing deals with mcconnell is the way to do it. biden is heavily engaged in doing that. host: senator jon kyl may retire. and "the new york times" looking at the tea party and potential challenges. richard lugar, who already announced he is seeking another term -- olympia snowe, who has the support of the governor. and the question whether or unhatched will face a challenge -- orrin hatch will face a challenge in utah. guest: that also gives back to if mitch mcconnell can give the appearance to those tea party types that the republicans heard them and are delivering them -- like tax cuts. i think we will see spending cuts, maybe even tough immigration control, things like that that might diminish the market among tea party conservatives to challenge the official party. they would have won two or three more seats had they not lost that argument in nominating candidates last time. host: we are talkin

guest: i do not normally cover the obama white house the president is always extremely involved in the development of big speeches. the big speeches he edits by hand and sends back numerous drafts, works through them, not up until the last minute but closer to the last minute and some are comfortable with. he feels only -- he feels calm about the ability to say the words and say the words the way he wants to. what he focuses on is the exact wording. he is an accomplished writer. he knows how to turn a phrase. he takes the part of the speech development process very seriously. host: our coverage begins today. we will have live coverage tonight at 8:00 eastern time. we will begin with the pre- speech coverage taking your comments and calls. at 9:00 eastern time on c-span and c-span to we will cover the president's address. also we will cover the republican response by paul ryan, republican of wisconsin. we will talk more about that as well. on c-span2 we will have live reaction from members of congress. the look on the republican line, the first phone call. go ahead. caller: i do not thi

. >>> the president, first lady michelle obama, and his staff gather on the white house south lawn on monday to take part in the vigil. [ bell tolling ] arizona residents also observed a moment of silence. they gathered with investigators at the site of the shooting. the incident on saturday left six dead and 14 injured, including congresswoman gabrielle giffords. she remains in critical condition from a gunshot to the head. among the dead are a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl. at the elementary school where christina taylor green attended, students and teachers put up messages of sympathy. she was born on the day of the september 11th terrorist attacks. the fbi is investigating the suspect, jared loughner, who opened fire at a gathering for giffords. the 22-year-old has been charged of murder and attempted murder. investigators are trying to determine the motive. they say loughner is barely responding to their questions. a note found in loughner's home suggests that he may have planned to assassinate the lawmaker. >>> french president sarkozy has pledged to work with the united s

. >>> president obama and chinese president hu gin -- hu jintao are meeting at the white house. craig boswell reports from washington. among the serious issues, there's also a lot of pomp and circumstance. >> reporter: president obama welcomed chinese president hu gin to you to the white house with the full hon -- hu jintao to the white house with the full honors. the two countries have a huge stake in the economic state. >> nations including our own would be more prosperous and secure when we wok together. >> reporter: but cooperation means finding common ground on a range of issues. huh has been pressured to -- hu has been pressured to back north korea. >> nations are more successful and the world is more just when the rights and responsibilities of all nations and all people are upheld. >> reporter: china is also america's biggest lender and the chinese government has been criticized for manipulating the currency to give it a trade advantage. >> china will have influence in terms of how major global issues are resolved. the economy being significant, the climate being another.

hours' time, there is going to be a private dinner between the chinese president and barack obama at the white house with their wives, we are told, all behind closed doors. very quiet. clearly some of that work on the atmospherics' between the two presidents will take place. that is in sharp contrast to the dazzling state dinner which will take place on wednesday night in washington, which is, of course, the hottest ticket in the city at the moment. the place where anybody who is anybody in washington's power circles wants to be, sitting at that amazing black-tie dinner on wednesday night in the white house. >> we will leave that there for now. we will take it as word that the president is here, even if we have not actually seen him to send the red carpet. many thanks. the state of victoria is the latest region of australia to be hit by large-scale flooding. more than 50 counts are now threatened by the waters. phil mercer has this report. >> it is hard to believe that this part of southern australia was only recently in the grip of its worst drought in history. in a land of violent extremists

with democrats still in charge in the senate and of course president obama in the white house, republicans know that the chances of repealing health care reform are slim, if not impossible. however, they're moving ahead with it in the house because that's what they promised their base. they're drawing a line in the sand to say this is what we stand on and this is what we intend to do, to challenge our president's agenda. >> all right, cbs's randall pinkston in washington, randall, thank you. >>> as the president begins the final two years of his term and gears up for re-election run, he is shaking up his staff. among the probable changes, press secretary robert gibbs. "the washington post" reports gibbs could leave within a few weeks. it's unclear if gibbs will remain in the administration. >>> to the investigation into the lewd videos shown on board the aircraft carrier "uss enterprise," the ship's commander and producer of the tapes, captain owen honors lost his job but the investigation is far from over. the navy still hasn't explained why it's taken more than three years to take action

. >> reporter: president obama has some white house staffing decisions to make when he returns to washington. here is one of them. abc news has learned he is consider considering appointing former clinton secretary of congress, william daley, as new chief of staff. rob and vinita? >> and the first vote of a possible repeal is set for friday, two days after the session begins. if it has no chance to pass the senate, why even do it? >> reporter: looking at the bill, it's only two pages. but the title says it all. it's called "repealing the job-killing health care law act." this is clearly a symbolic vote in many ways. the new republicans want to prove to their constituents back home they're following up on their campaign promises, taking this on is their first major act of this new congress. rob and vinita? >> doing it fast with an overnight bill to say the least. >>> the navy captain that made the raunchy videos aboard the "uss enterprise," is being temporary relieved of his command. owen honors is expected this morning. martha raddatz has the latest developments. >> reporter: pete captain ow

although robert gibbs is leaving the white house he's going to be providing advice to president obama, and the president wouldn'tment that to change. >> and gibbs said there's a bubble in the white house, and the president needs fresh voices. >> no doubted. he will need fresh voices on the inside. the president has acknowledged that inside. but the voices on the outside, david axelrod and other close adviser is leaving to get started olt re-elect campaign in chicago. rob emanuel has left, we've seen advisers leave, and still provide advice. >> one of the names is bill daly, former commerce secretary. he was seen at the white house today for a meeting. what would he bring if he were to come in as chief of staff? >> he may be the rob emanuel replacement. you have bill daly. pete row, the interim chief of staff right now who may also be asked to stay on if bill daly doesn't get the job offer. but he was at the white house today all signs pointed to a bill daly chief of staff. and this is saying to the president, these next two years are drnts than the first two years. the first two years

obama is in some ways a mystery man. he was perhaps the most unknown guy to come into the white house, of any president. a set of very unusual circumstances, including of course and economic nosedive put him in there. and two years later a lot of people, not only obama's critics, even some of his supporters, are asking the question who is barack obama. richard cohen, columnist for the "washington post," and in general a supporter of obama, had a column in the "washington post" a few weeks ago entitled who is barack obama. and what richard cohen and others is getting at is it is very close that obama has a set of policies. we know about those. but what is missing is a description of what is underneath that, what is behind that, what is the ideology, if there is one, that is driving those policies. what motivates obama? now, interestingly, in the last couple of years we've had a whole bunch of theories about what motivates obama. these theories are in response to the fact that obama does think people don't know what he does them, and so they say he must be this or he must be that. and yet in my view, when

. >>> china's president meeting with president obama today at the white house.hu jintao arriving in washington, d.c. yesterday. they are expected to discuss several issues including trade, national security and human rights. the u.s. is frustrated that chinese government keeps its currency weak. that way, chinese companies can sell products for about 25% less than american companies. >> obviously, with inflation, there are some impacts on the real value of the currency. >> mr. obama is also expected to encourage china to do more to stop north korea and iran's nuclear programs. >>> oakland mayor jean quan will get a chance to dine with the two presidents as will san francisco's interim mayor ed lee. both are newly inaugurated and chinese. quan and lee are also the first asian-american mayors in their cities. >>> the husband of congresswoman gabrielle giffords is speaking out about the terrifying moments after the tucson shooting rampage. mark kelly says that for about 20 minutes, he thought his wife was dead after viewing a mistaken tv news report. he later learn

just coming into our newsroom, these are pictures of president obama's motorcade leaving the white houseand heading to the house chambers. let's switch the picture here and take you live inside. we see lawmakers assembling for the address. the president expected to focus on the fragile economy and expected to urge lawmakers to rally behind his plan for job creation. we've been receiving exerts of his speech late this afternoon. we're expected to hear the president say we will move forward together or not at all. now another this point the president is for the first time leading a divided government but we do know from recent polls that some 40% of americans say they believe the country is headed in the right direction. the president's address just minutes away right here on ktvu channel 2. >>> good evening everyone i'm frank somerville. >> i'm gasia mikaelian. >> president obama is just minutes away from delivering the second state of the union address of his presidency. we want to put up a live picture here at the capital where lawmakers are waiting for his entrance and we are going to

. >> live pictures out of washington the white house where president barack obama, vice president by the end, are welcoming chinese president to the white house. the walkout moments ago. here we expect president to step out here a minute. he arrived yesterday. but in the world to powers looking for common ground on economic and security. for the first time in 12 years, the u.s. president will hold a state dinner for the chinese leader of the white house. analysts say both the obama and who will pack down mistrust. lawmakers are pushing legislation against beijing's currency policy. the two leaders will be discussing security concerns including north korea. here i believe is the arrival of the chinese president. let's listen in. (inaudible(no audio) we see the two presidents making their way down the reception line. we saw a president who been welcomed by joe biden, secretary state hillary clinton, robert gates, as they make their way up to the podium we will follow progress of there. maybe listen to opening remarks by president obama. we will take a quick break and be back with more c

some local business leaders and two bay area mayors will be at the white house today as president obama hosts the president of china. ktvu's alison burns is live in our washington, d.c. bureau where president hu gin to you has just arrived -- hu jintao has just arrived at the white house. >> reporter: good morning. some analysts are calling this one of the most important state visits in decades as the united states and china try to s trengthen their often strained relationship. president obama, vice president biden and cue members of president obama's cabinet -- key members of president obama's cabinet are rolling out the red carpet for hu jintao. this will an full day of talks and a lot of ceremony, including a state dinner this evening. president obama has also invited american ceos, including executives from bay area companies, motorola, intel and c y-base as they try to promote american exports. here's what president obama had to say about 45 minutes ago. >> at a time when some doubt the benefits of the cooperation between the united states and china, this visit is also i ntended to

white house. president obama and white house officials spent the day wednesday speaking with former commerce secretary becoming chief of staff. daley is an executive at jpmorgan chase and would bring strong business ties to the job. >>> a high school vice principal has died after a school shooting in nebraska. police say 17-year-old robert butler also wounded the principal before taking his own life wednesday. there are reports that butler, the son of a police detective, had been suspended for driving on to the school football field. >>> police in baltimore say they're still at square one after searching for a missing girl for more than a week. the 16-year-old from north carolina vanished without a trace during her christmas break. here's david kerley. >> reporter: this morning, two cities are desperate to find a star student. phylicia barnes, who went missing nine days ago. >> i was going to turn this city upside down, to find my child. >> reporter: russell barnes drove from the south of baltimore, scouring the streets for his daughter, who came from the charlotte area to visit with her sisters for t

>> guest: i no longer cover the obama white house but when did john favreau was instrumental in every significant speech the president gave. and i know from talking to john favreau when i covered the white house and understanding as i learned to during the campaign -- i covered the obama campaign for 14 months the president is extremely involved in big set speeches, not every speech but he edits by hand. because the president, as someone who presents speeches, never really frets about his presentation, he's calm and about the ability to say the words and say them the way he wants to. what he works on and focuses on and what he works on in the last minute is working on it. he knows how to turn a phrase and he takes that part of the speech development process very carefully. >> host: our coverage is today on the state of the union's we'll have live coverage tonight. 8:00 pm eastern time we'll begin with your prespeech coverage taking your comments and your calls and then at 9:00 pm eastern time on c-span and c-span2, we'll be covering the president's address. and then also on c-span, we