we brought you this story on "mornings on 2".ing to see if stewart forest possessed child pornography. the u.s. postal inspection service is the lead investigative agency. >>> state officials say children could be at risk because benefit cards were sent to the wrong addresses. more than 2600 cards were mailed to the wrong families. it is cause bid a commuter program error. it was sent to several families in san mateo and santa clara. >>> nurses plan to walk off the job. the one day strike will affect 5,000 nurses at seven hospitals. two san jose hospitals are affiliated with the hospital corporation of america. the nurse's union are at odds over health benefits and sick days. >> back to mike. there we go. >>> row, the waterfront -- redwood city, it served its last meal. dozens of people who live on boats in the harbor will have to leave to make room for a planned parking lot as well as a luxury condo complex. they gathered at the restaurant to say one last good-bye. >> it is sad to this close this place. it is more than a restaur

that is one. key things in the new regulation, we let neighbors know of these projects that fracking or oil drilling is going to occur. the regs don't provide for that. you're supposed to monitor the internet to see if there is notice posted they will frack next door to you. we think people shouldn't come home to fracking without a public notice. melissa: that makes a lot of sense. you mentioned the groundwater. tim kostuc, state oil and gas supervisor of california division of geothermal resources says, there is no evidence of harm from fracking in groundwater in california at this time and it has been going on for many years. what do you think about that? >> well, again we don't know where fracking is occurred. i think we should be thankful there are no big cases. there is cases from groundwater pollution but from disposal operations. the key thing is well casing integrity. melissa: right. >> the our bread and butter is insuring integrity, where well casings fail, the industry say 5% on average

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we could go on and on and on. even susan is an executive there now. are on or have been on the board and their house is near campus. >> bill: it is a great university. >> david axelrod is launching his own institute of politics there formerly opens in january. so it would seem that if there's going to be -- if you're going to put it anywhere, this is the most logical place to put it. but obama also told jonathan alter in his book on the first year that he was even thinking of maybe a virtual library but there's going to be a brick and mortar place someplace. it may not be the scale of the kennedy library or clinton but it is interesting that now we know the timetable. we know the unveiling. this breaks out in the open more. i bet obama will not look forward to the massive fund raising that goes along with these places. >> bill: i want to put in my pitch, together with c-span's brian that we should end this practice of every president having to have his own brick and mortar library. >> really? why is that? >> bill: because you know, it is just an ego t

one happened on druid park lake drive in west baltimore. an adult male was found suffering a gunshot wound to his leg. there was a shooting in west baltimore. investigators found a male with a gunshot wound to his upper body. no word this morning on his condition or a suspect. a double shooting in east baltimore. one of the victims has been identified and was shot multiple times. he later died at the hospital. a second victim had gunshot wounds to her abdomen. >> authorities have recovered the human remains worried that the trap was left for firefighters in new york. officials believed the remains are cheryl spengler and that her brother is responsible for setting the fires and ambushing the first responders. he wanted to burn down the neighborhood and killing people. the rifle used is the same weapon as the one used in the elementary shooting. >> officers from surrounding jurisdictions stepped up to fill and so every newtown police officer could spend christmas with their families. dozens of people are trying to help comfort the community.

one by one, sledders tumbling into an icy lake. but most trying to rescue one another.about. >>> and in "the skinny" this morning, kanye west addresses rumors of a kim kardashian pregnant. we'll talk about that. >> and we're going to have to tell rob she's cheating on him. >> is that sfligt >> right is a huge fan. >> she's a sexy woman. rob is right about that. >> i had to break the news to him that she's pregnant. so pretty much destroys his chances. >>> we're going to talk about secretary of state hillary clinton in a new york hospital this morning after doctors discovered a blood clot. >> her medical problems began weeks ago with a bout with the flu. christian thorn of our abc news atill yat has more. >> reporter: it was three weeks ago that hillary clinton suffered a concussion. she fainted at her home due to dehydration. the 65-year-old secretary of state had been noticeably absent the last few weeks. she was forced to cancel a trip to north africa and was up able to testify at a hearing on capitol hill regarding the attack on the u.s. consulate in libya. she had b

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one was the policy on the community relations policy. this was our rules committee work on the next part of the rules and policy review that we're doing with csba and we'll continue to do that. last item i think is very important and ask the leaders of the board next year to be a little more assertive at asking all of the committees to which we have referred other components of the policy manual to actually begin to review them. the rules committee still has work to do on the 1000 series and one other series. we're not ready, but we're at least doing it whereas other committees to my knowledge has not taken up, et cetera. so i would ask that we do that in the coming year. thank you. >> thank you. next report is the augmented curriculum and program committee of december 3, reporting would be commissioner fewer. >> thank you, president yee and i'm sure you are going to miss these meetings and report outs. [ laughter ] we had a follow-up on the parent involvement policy and actually i was very impressed and think that commissioners were als

no one cares. anyway -- >> i can put another log on the fire. going to bed. >> stephanie: exactly. here she is in the current news center. she's a lot younger than i am. she's pluckier, like an energizer bunny. >> stop that. >> stephanie: here she is. >> good morning, everybody. obama for america is using its campaign e-mail list to put pressure on lawmakers to extend the bush tax cuts for the middle class. the latest from stephanie cutter includes a two-minute video reminding voters that the president campaign and won on that same platform. >> obama: we need to give tax relief to working families trying to raise their kids to keep them healthy send them to college, keep a roof over their heads. that's the choice in this election. >> the administration is still asking you to send in stories about what being able to keep about $2,000 more a year means to you and your family. the president is planning to meet with state governors this week and the business roundtable, a big business lobbying group. this morning fiscal cliff negotiations appear to

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>> this was on wednesday. yahoo! has been on a real run.t was high tore day even though the broad market had a tough day. this week's web extra, we've done a trade extra. if you own a little bit and are willing to take profits but you'd like to buy some at a discount, how do we do that? >> time for total recall where we invoke the title of a classic arnold schwarzenegger film. two weeks back dan made a bearish trade on mikey. shares of the shoemaker have yet to fall. dan hasn't lost any money yet. here is why. on "options action" it's how we t points on the board, risk less to make more. that's what dan tried to do with his bearish bet on nike. dan thought shares were setting up for a miss. >> i think it sets up for a near term bearish play. >> shorting the stock -- >> what are you guys doing? >> you said it lil penny. dan instead bought the december '95 put for $1.90. now dan needs nike to fall below that put strike price by more than the stock of the trade, below 93.10 by december expiration. paying almost two bucks just to get bearish on

follow us on twitter and talk to us on twitter at bpshow. or on facebook.book.com/billpressshow. our team here, entire team, phil backert has the phones. >> go ahead. >> bill: peter ogborn and dan henning. it was a tough lunch yesterday. >> still a little foggy. i've never seen you drink so many martinis. >> bill: well, they're good at the palm. so i just tell them to make a pitcher. [ laughter ] >> bill: i was well-behaved compared to cyprian. cyprian is our videographer here. he slept from noon yesterday until what? i think 4:00 this morning. >> he just woke up. he looks terrible this morning. >> bill: poor guy. he can't even speak to defend himself. >> i've never seen anybody mix cocktails the way he did. he put a little bit of everything behind the bar. rum, tequila vodka tomato juice and pineapple juice. >> bill: it beats having to make a decision. >> exactly. >> why decide when you can have everything. >> bill: you just mix them altogether. big concert last night in new york for those who are still sober. the 12-12-12 to help the victims of hurricane

the president supports the assault weapons ban and reinstatement. >> one measure, one act, one to remove the weapons of war that he talks about? >> again he supports legislation that is designed to ban some weapons but as you know --. megyn: guy benson, radio talk show host and political editor at townhall.com. welcome back to the program. >> thank you, megyn. megyn: the reporter from abc news jake tapper asking for one, name one thing. this is a democratic president, and you know, you could hear jay carney other than sort of speaking about some theoretical support for a renewed assault weapons ban could not point to one. this is something he has taken considerable flak from the left on because they like this assault weapons ban that was in place from '94 to 2004. the president has given a lot of rhetoric about this ban. now the questions are increasing about what action, if any he is willing to take. are the media, are they asking the right questions and what are we to make of answers we got from mr. carney? >> they're interesting questions, that's for sure, megyn and in terms of the re

i think that policy based on fact is better policy based on revenge. on the interview president obama did with david gregory he taped it yesterday afternoon at the very same honor that mcconnell was actually trying to get a deal done. so to me, the president actually wants an argument more than a deal. he could have been helpful and instrumental in getting things done every six months to go through a budget crisis with president obama, he could figure out a way to lead and bring people together earlier. they can't call in mitch mcdonnell until the 26th and complain he was there at the last minute. i think there's a lot to be done to improve legislative affairs at the white house and would ultimately help president obama. >> and said about that, but mcconnell is still is late, he could have imposed himself, and not the way he does it. here is the fundamental problem. leaving aside the policy issue which i know is important to you all. if i get down to politics on bumper stickers, you're holding all of this up, including people's tax cuts it defend milli

on the yachts on the water in florida. guest: i think it is useful to step back. what happens if we go over the fiscal cliffs or even we get the type of deal that the president is looking for? what we are talking about is the top individual income-tax rate rising from 35% to 39.6%. that was the same texture that we had before 2001. -- that is the same tax rate that we had before 2001. we do not need to be up at the 75% level. i would not advocate that we go to the 75% level. that is not really where we are. that is not where we need to be. host: we hae a tweet. guest: the payroll tax is basically a fixed percent, at 2% of income. it is capped, so social security tax only accounts for the first 100 dozen dollars of earnings. the benefits are larger or more an important probably for low and middle income working families than they are for higher income families. you have to remember that the payroll tax was a temporary provision. it actually was enacted at the end of 2010 to replace another provision which was even more targ

what is day one? as what i am looking at, what is day one? when civilization first expands, how money was created? host: the republican address came from marco rubio who has had a higher profile the last couple of months including his acceptance of the camp award in washington. here is more from the florida senator in the republican response. [video clip] >> americans of struggling to keep middle-class jobs for two reasons. we're not creating enough of these jobs and too many people did not have the skills for the jobs that are being created. a limited government can and help solve these challenges. we must get the national debt under control. tax increases will not solve the $16 trillion debt. only reform of the entitlement programs will help control the debt. we must reform the tax code by getting rid of unjustified loopholes. the goal should be to justify new tax payers, not new taxes. regulations are needed, but they cost money to follow. the more expensive regulation is, the less money a business has to give raises or hire new people. we

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many who are proceeding southbound on masonic turn left on oak. so the masonic project will have environmental impact on the same neighborhood which will be compounded by this particular project. because of that there's no categorical exemption. >> supervisor wiener: do you think that if the masonic project didn't exist, would this project be categorically exempt? >> the answer is no, it would not. it would still not be categorically exempt because the two exemptions they rely on really don't apply. one is existing facilities, which is minor alteration of existing facilities involving negative liberal or no -- use. and one of the examples is cited of an existing facility can be a bicycle trail. well there is no bike lane existing on oak so the exemption doesn't even arguably apply to oak. there are no buffer strips on either street nor are there raised plantares. so it wouldn't apply to that piece of it. and i guess getting out to the idea of raised plantares this is also a unique circumstance which is one of the other item -- one of the other cat

that is one thing that one group does.hey provide grants and scholarships to put on site clinicians to help these youngsters, educate the teachers and work with the families to get to the bottom of what eails a child. guest: we need to rethink this issue. i'm hoping that a discussion will take place with regard to the automatic sequester. we could go line by line. there are areas of funding in the mental-health field that come through several departments. that is what we can work to find how to get that money. host: victor writes in on twitter. up next, jason is from florida on the independent line. you are on. caller: yes, sir. thank you very much. there are plenty of people in this county -- disabled veterans that are homeless in the street while mental-health people with wounds and theyd are getting funded every month to turn around and get more drugs every month. there is a homeless veterans in this place. the government is paying these people to stay mentally ill. they are not getting help. guest: a couple of things.

number one, one of the most closely followed companies. i also think that facebook's demise of its ipo absolutely had a negative impact on the retail investor. >> yes. >> and i think as that stock has made a comeback, as you look here, entered the latter part of the year, the stock has rallied a bit, that if it continues to do well, it can only help overall sentiment on wall street. a lot of people use facebook, a lot of people follow the stock. if it does well i think it sort of pulls a lot of boats along with it. >> i think it's a great analysis. one of the issues is the retail investor doesn't trust anybody. andrew cuomo has said something, too, which i've said a number of times on this program which rings so true. people go back in the water when they know the shark is dead. >> that's right. >> that's the issue here. the retail investors keeps getting right hook, left hook all the time, whether it's the flash crash objection you know, one of these companies that's so widely held by them plummeting. so they just don't think the shark is

he runs not on the pad but on the whole thing right here, everybody. this is what he runs on. the whole back thing it's like a snow shoe. >> amazing. >> and runs flat on that? >> exactly. really, it was invented thousands of years ago for this animal. but this animal was hunted for their coats. but now there are so few they can't locate each other. you can feel the coat here. >> beautiful, yeah. now we have the -- he can jump on you if you want him. >> consider the answer to every one of your questions to be no. this is the ring-tailed lemur. >> this animal is pre-monkey and pre-ape. just like your hand. isn't it amazing. >> that is amazing. look at that. >> the animal is only from madagascar. >> they are human hands. >> exactly. >> he's got my notes. >> i'm sorry. are those your notes? i'm sorry. he is marking them. he marks his territory. and he can't hang by his tail but weighs less than -- >> don't worry. >> we call him larry the lemur. >> coming up, the number one of his top five close encounters. >> i stepped in for a closer look when suddenly -- oh, geez! >>> back with

bottom line on that one. >> yeah. >>> well, she clearly won't be on this list.she's on the comeback, man. she raked in $58 million over the past year. she had her latest album. then had the big tour. also endorsements. i didn't know she had a perfume line with elizabeth arden. >> she does. >> rounding out the list, number two, taylor swift, $57 million. rihanna came in third, $53 million. lady gaga, $52 million, and katy perry with $45 million. congratulations, ladies. >>> anne hathaway devastated. she was here for the premier of "les mis." when she got out of the car, a photographer snapped her and she showed her world to them unwillingly and it's everywhere now. >> here's my question. >> didn't wear underwear. >> why no underwear, anne? to kill 99.9% of germs. and removes stains better than clorox toilet bowl cleaner with bleach. so if you want to do the whole job, lysol's got you covered. lysol. mission for health. and for an incredibly clean and fresh bowl with every flush, try the no mess automatic toilet bowl cleaner. we were going through so much of the b

story on one post-it note. then you're going to rip off another. you're just going to write two character traits. >> reporter: but now this school is on the cutting edge of the biggest change in american education in years. it is one of a small group of chicago schools that is testing the new common course state standards. so far 46 states have adopted the standards which describe what every student needs to know from kindergarten through 12th grade. fifth grade teacher leslie roach says her classroom methods have changed dramatically since the school became a pilot school for using the common core standards three years ago. >> what's difference is the common core allows the kids to kind of dive deep into what they're reading or what they're learning. >> reporter: america's dismal educational ranks led to the push for moore rigorous standards. nationwide only 35% of 8th graders met expectations in reading. and only 25% of high school graduates who took the a.c.t. college entrance exam testedded ready for colleg

on time. the meters will have a four-hour limit and there's a capability to be prepaid city-wide on all the meters. the new as well as the older models. and you can prepay as early as 4:30 in the morning of that particular day. so, for example, if you want to attend service at noon and you arrive at 11:00, you could park and then feed the meter and have it go into effect starting at noon. so, the new meters will have capability to accept credit cards, parking cards, cash, as well as pay by phone. and the older meters will be able to do three of the four. it won't be able to accept credit cards yet. so, the good news is we are in the process of issuing a new request for proposal for new meters to be used city-wide for the rest of the 75% of the meters. and we expect to receive the bids from the vendors in i think the third week of january. and we expect to start changing them out by the beginning of summer of next year. so, within a year or so, all the meters will have the full capability to ac

come on. late, come on, come on. >> it's really annoying. >> reporter: it's not just in the air, on the roads holiday travel is up 1.6% this year, some 84.4 million americans getting behind the wheel. another 5.6 million traveling by plane. >> it's the most people traveling for the holiday in six years. that means any bad weather we might be seeing could result in serious disruptions. >> reporter: expect to see those disruptions wednesday, the day after christmas, one of the busiest travel days of the season. alex perez, abc news, chicago. >> that is a mess. concerns about the weather do not end with snow and rain. >> conditions are right for tornadoes, as well. and our meteorologist has the latest now from accuweather. good morning, andrew. >> thank you, and good morning, rob and brandi. unsettled christmas across much of the south. severe weather threat. the main focus between interstate 10 and 20. a threat for damaging wind gusts, large hail and tornadoes. this will impact baton rouge, new

see them on and on and on. and on the line i mean. welcome back to part two of this war show now the twenty thirteen dakar rally starts on january the fifth and seven time truck winner bloody me a child and has moved on from being the driver to head up the camels master team aiming to lead the russian group to further glory cousin but out of reports. i am. the doctor really has always been one of year's first major sporting events and despite many changes come as morris to remain the host favorites in the truck category the russian team has taken ports in twenty two out of the thirty four rallies so far and can boast a world of trough is having won ten times the legendary vladimir charge include driving into an eleven shortly after clinching his record breaking seventy dakar victory and it's hard to imagine the blue truck without showing behind the wheel but this year will still be special for the forty two year old as you know leads one of the most successful teams in the sport and i mean you know. i was surprised to be appointed as

, on economic policy, on social mobility. and the heritage foundation is one of those major think tanks is turning to someone who is not particularly inclined to this process. the tea party hero, somebody that's intolerant of dissent when it comes these issues. i think that's a very bad sign for the conservative movement. they need something that they seem to be turning away from in key ways. >> well, one other thing that struck me about it, bob this move signals that one of the political elements will of the heritage foundation may be enlarging its focus. heritage fund for america which is a political arm of a think tank. now, that hasn't been there before. the center for american politics on left has both, a think tank and a political arm. now heritage is beefing up the political side of its think tankery. that seems a structural difference in washington, one that makes conservatism not just about ideas and the conaccept the of thinking about government but putting a political agitating force beside it. it may not be good f

but on the war on terror, he has been -- he is tough. i mean, he is a great friend of israel, but yet he wants to see the peace process continue. and he is going to be the person who is going to have to start getting us out of afghanistan. i think he is right for that. he was tough on libya, calling for no-fly zone before anybody else. he had called for mubarak to step down before anybody else. so john kerry is somebody who is a war hero from vietnam, i mean, a bronze star, silver star, three purple hearts. so he is a warrior, but yet he is somebody who truly believes in negotiation and trying to have a peaceful world. and he also has great friendships on capitol hill. he is bipartisan. so people like lindsey graham and john mccain know him and respect him. so i think he will breeze through the confirmation. >> well, with that, i want to play a sound bite of both those two senators that you just mentioned, their reaction today to the choice. here it is. >> we have known john kerry for many years. we have confidence in john kerry's abilit

in the 50's on saturday and sunday. 60's on monday.n chances will taper off after that. >> i am glad we're not dealing with any thing weather related. we are starting to see a buildup of volume in the usual spots. 95 south of the white marsh area, traffic is building prior to white marsh. starting to tap the brakes. south on the harrisburg expressway, 65 miles per hour at padonia. not tracking any delays on the j.f.x. near northern parkway. 66 coming out of owings mills. checking 70, not a bad start as you travel in towards the beltway. an easy start on all of the major roadways around the airport. southbound traffic building on 295 down towards the capital beltway. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> thank you. people living along the northeastern coast of japan are breathing ill easier. the earthquake struck offshore very close to the same place as last year's devastating earthquake. there have been no reports of serious damage but two people were reportedly occurrhurt. the last time there were this many patients visiting for

that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> a committee meets on capitol hill to hear from experts on the fiscal cliff. >> both sides still digging into their respective positions. there were renewed hopes of pressure on negotiations. >> hallie jackson has the latest. what can we expect this morning? >> we're said to fear from the researcher for moody's who warns a pressing concern may not be the fiscal cliff but what to do about the debt ceiling. >> squabble is not a solution. that >> is the fight from last year. president obama is warning against another battle like last year. >> that is unacceptable. >> explaining republican should not think they will get leverage by giving in to some democratic fiscal cliff demands now. >> that is a bad strategy for america and for businesses and it is not a game i will play. >> house leader say if the president does not agree with their plan, he should come back to the table. >> sit down with us and be serious about spending. >> if the suspect and continues to play politics, that will give you an answer about where we're going. >> they are planni

we have all the details on that one. even when they say it's not it is always about money melissa: all right. first let's take a look at the day's market headlines. a nice start to the work on wall street with financials leading the way. the giants were buoyed by reports that washington may be closer to a deal wel get into just a moment. the dow closed the day up 100 points. >>> the empire state manufacturing index stayed negative for the fifth straight month the index which looks at manufacturing activity in the new york area fell to negative 8.1 in december from negative 5.2 in november november. >>> morgan stanley slapped with $5 million fine for the handling of the facebook ipo a massachusetts regulator says the bank had dishonest and unethical practices. morgan stanley shares are up slightly. >>> we start with the republican counteroffer in the fisca cliff negotiations. john boehner talking about a flurry of anticipation now that he he is willing to raise taxes on people more than million dollars. a huge tep. not a

action based on the second. we thought the first one was already rescinded and that is why we didn't pursue that. >> so for clarification, mr. bushman, so there was no rescission -- she didn't rescind her initial november 7th resignation? >> she did not and, in fact her actions were that of someone who was planning to leave, told the school through written email, which i have, that she was going to leave. and she indicated at that point it would be the 30th, but there was no action taken either written or otherwise, that we can determine. but the bottom line is the requirement is within three working days that it be submitted in writing. >> so basically what happened is she put in a resignation on november 7th. she put in another resignation november 14th, but did not rescind the original one on november 7th, is that correct? >> she submitted a second resignation requesting to change the date. >> okay. thank you. >> from the 17th to the 30th. whether you can do that or can't do that, i will have to ask my lawyer

much these days one of the few things they do agree on is that egypt's economy needs to get back on the right track and as soon as possible. russia and turkey will try to shield growing economic and trade ties from a widening rift over the syrian conflict as president putin visits bowl to which leads coals for international action on the conflict and strong backs the opposition has asked night to deploy patriot missiles at its border with syria moscow says the move would only provoke more tension. reports. russian president loves it would seem to spread the extensive agenda of his visit in this town full of course a lot of documents are expected to be signed concerning the cultural and economic cooperation between russia and turkey but it's not so much the issues which the two countries are briefing on this the issues on which i was going for i have sort of disagreements about which will be the focus of the meetings of course these are mostly dealing with gaza and the us about that its recent conflict with israel and of course the issue with syria now you have to remember that uncle

three good things. >> bob: number one. >> greg: number one. speaking of number one, me -- no. catch me on greta tonight. i'm on her first block of the show. "red eye" we have ann coulter and gavin mckinnon on. >> bob: can you do something that is not self-promoting? >> greg: no. storm the first day of hanukkah. celebrate a happy holiday. that is it for us. have a great weekend, everyone. >> john: another weekend no, deal on the fiscal cliff. how close one is depends on whom you believe. this is "special report." ♪ ♪ >> john: good evening. i'm john roberts in for bret baier this evening. deadlock, gridlock, stalemate, whatever you call it. most people in washington seem to think we are there. we have just four more weekends to go before america goes over the most talked about piece ovate i of real estn the world, the fiscal cliff. ed henry tells us not everyone is pessimistic. >> reporter: literally snapping his fingers, vice president joe biden today suggested it will be easy to finish a deal with congress to avoid the fiscal cliff. >> it would take 15 minutes from the time th

they executed one of them on the spot. they took us to a series of safe houses and interrogation places and kept us blindfolded, abound. we were not physically beaten or tortured. a lot of psychological torture. threats of being killed. they made us choose which one of us would be shot first. when we refused, there were mock shootings. >> there are least seven other journalists missing in syria. those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. five days after the shooting in newtown, connecticut, that took the lives of 20 children and six staff members, funerals for the victims continue. on tuesday, two more students killed in the attack were laid to rest -- jessica rekos and james mattioli. both were just six years old. president obama is expected to announce today that vice president joe biden will head a new interagency task force to come up

the first one is the total amount on the contract and the second one is the lbe's, specifically the payments to them. >> okay. so the -- let's say the brandon street ward and the total contract is 13.5 million total spending for first quarter is 3.one. >> i'm sorry. i was looking at the presentation which exhibit again? >> two from the staff report. i'm sorry. >> so the first one is there's the total -- we have the total contract dollar amount. the total amount spent to date. the total lbe's spent to date, and then on the far three on the far right i'm sorry side of the table you've got the total spent for that quarter, for this quarter, so that is total i spent on the contract for the quarter -- >> right. so the first category is the contract is over time, but it could be two years, three years -- >> correct. depending on the life of the contract to date. >> okay. >> so if you want to see what we totally spent on that contract for this quarter the total amount we spent within the quarter it's the third column from the right. >> okay. >> and then the next one over there is how much we spent

they pretty much got the one-to- one.ost: why is assigning blame more important than getting a resolution? that from rick on the twitter page. guest: 4 politicians, assigning blame is part of what they do, that is part of their job description. the need to explain to their constituents why they are supporting some things and not others. if you read most of the people that write about these spending programs and where we're headed in the federal budget, we did not assign blame. we're looking at the long term. over the long term, the only thing to blame would be our correct citizenry and politicians, if we can get our act together to do something about it. host: david is on the democrat's line. pennsylvania. good morning. caller: this is 1981 all over again when ronald reagan took office. the national debt was $800 billion. they gave us tax cuts, tax reform. reagan tripled in defense and the national debt. in 1994, he owed russia. the 1982 tax cuts, the bank reforms, that minimized our deductions for health care and let the

what is going on? >> it's pretty slow going on the bay bridge. metering lights are on.ll head down to the south bay take a live look at 280. you can see the headlights are folks heading northbound as you make your way toward santa clara. 680 at the sunol grade no problem. 6:26 let's head over to steve. >>> thank you. well we have colder readings here this morning with 30s and 40s. but today won't be too bad. we'll have partly sunny and partly cloudy skies. one more rain system coming in. >>> in three minutes from now the supreme court will release a very important list. what is on that list could determine thely gal status of same sex marriage in california. >>> storm has passed but some of the damage won't be fixed for months. >>> chp patrol car flips over in the middle of the freeway. we'll tell you how the two officers inside are doing following a high speed chase. >>> and the opening bell is about to ring. tell you why k-mart is there along with other retailers doing some very good work. >>> welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 morning news. just getting ready to ring

there are two different systems, one on saturday, one on sunday, and we will take a look with complete coverage, coming up. live team coverage. dan kerman is in the north bay. charles clifford is in the east bay. and alecia reid is in san francisco. but first. weather center with jaquelyn our storm team coverage bay... where a man is dead. he was pulled from a rain- swollen creek in santa cruz county. kron four's rob fladeboe has the story now... from capitola. the coroner and santa cruz county search and rescue team pulled the body of an uniddentified male from soquel creek along bay avenue shortly before 11 a.m. >> at this point it does not look like there is anything suspicious. simply that it is a person that that is a submerged in water, deceased. >> friday. police at the time could not say if the man drowned or whether his death is storm-related. police were also checking to see whether the grim discovery is related to the search for a missing man named christian deward, whose picture is posted on a nearby bridge over the creek. police urged others to steer clear of this and othe

the heart of 10,000 advisors working with you one-to-one. together for your future. ♪ >>> welcome back. we're waiting for a press conference on the shooting out in oregon. eyewitness accounts are emerging. some of them contradictory. one of them is holli bautista. what did you hear? when did you realize something was going wrong? >> originally i had heard a couple things that i thought sounded like firecrackers. as soon as i realized what was going on there with people running and screaming, "someb y "somebody's shooting," i was in the food court area, the insistent was to run to an exit. but you could still hear gunshots multiple in a pretty chaotic scene. >> how close were you to the food court? my understanding according to one other eyewitness who was in the macy's, she actually say or says she saw the alleged shooter running through or jogging through the macy's with his weapon visible and it was only after he left the macy's into i guess the food court area that he actually opened fire. so how far away from the food court were you? >>

unfortunately, it's not one that you can just solve with one quick program or one quick government solutionery interesting and i think it's admirable that mayor booker is putting a spotlight on poverty in america. it's one of the things i think my own party doesn't necessarily do as good a job focusing on. i really think that the solution, though, is how do we create more economic mobility so that folks who find themselves in poverty have real clear pathways not to stay dependent but to be able to build themselves up, to begin to gain the skills to get the employment that they need so that they can have a good life for themselves and provide a better life for their children. >> quickly, i'll come to you in a moment, joel, but do you feel comfortable that the republicans are prepared to slash investment in something like food stamps in an effort to try and protect as it seems to many people, the wealthiest 2% from paying more tax? >> so i would disagree with the premise a little bit. the idea here is that republicans think the way you can get more revenue is by growing the economy and they'r

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on upstate new york on christmas eve.ding back tears at the funeral for wes webster, a volunteer firefighter, mike, he and a firefighter were shot and killed while responding to a house fire. two other firefighters wounded in that. before the shooting, william spankler, jr. was spot and killed by police, i should say after. and he was a convicted murderer and set a trap for the first responders and then shot them as they were trying to put out the fire. holiday travelers running into an electorate of problems this weekend after two powerful winter storms swept across the nation. people across the country still dealing with that and now we're looking ahead to new year's eve. your holiday forecast is coming up. first, we go back to washington, capitol hill and talk with a republican lawmaker where negotiations stand right now. he's in all of this. he can give us firsthand information on this fiscal cliff. stay close. years ago, my doctor told me to take a centrum silver multivitamin every day. i told him, sure. can't hurt,

on the green line buses will run between the archives and waterfront stations and on the yellow line there will be no service between the archive and ft. totten stations. >>> fight for all d.c.! >> redskins fans no doubt could sing at least part of that song are but most of them probably don't know -- song, but most of them probably don't know the song that could have been lost to history. we'll explain. >> up next a traumatizing ordeal for a hotel clerk who was lured to a vacant room. >>> this is a 9 news fiscal cliff note. >> fact, unemployment checks will stop. 5million americans are receiving unemployment checks right now. if the nation heads over that fiscal cliff, four out of 10 unemployed americans will have a tougher time getting by. at the height of the jobs crisis congress passed federally backed emergency unemployment programs so states wouldn't run out of money for jobless benefits. now why is this happening? these programs have passed on a temporary basis because lawmakers hoped the economy would be in better shape by now. it's all part of an effort to slash $503 billion

then one more system on saturday. that is more of a broad brush but looks unsettled once we get to friday and saturday. sunday looks okay. chilly, breezy, patchy fog but partly cloudy, sun, cloud showers, i told people that yesterday. sun, cloud showers, 49 clear lake. 52 concord, walnut creek. danville, pleasanton. warmer by the bay. not a lot but a couple degrees. wood side i went 51, 54daley city and 54 mountain view. temperatures very cool below average. rain friday, very unsettled on saturday. >> thank you steve. it's 7:09. the governor's office said the governor will continue a full work schedule while he receives treatment for cancer. the governor's office announced yesterday that the 74-year-old has early stage prostate cancer. he is being treated at ucsf. the governor did not reveal anything about his cancer when he met with silicon valley ceo's yesterday. >> one would have never known for a moment that there are health issues going on in that 74-year-old body. he was focused, interesting, on message and we e

we're getting pretty busy traffic on this nurse -- on this -- on this thursday. let's take a look at the maps. pleasant hill, the freeway traffic is okay. we're getting reports that treat boulevard is a mess in pleasant hill. the chp is not reporting anything on the freeway. 24 is better. highway 4 is a little bit better than normal but not much. 80 is just a little bit better than it normally would be through richmond. you will go to a crowded bay bridge toll plaza and then we're looking at -- we're looking at the toll plaza there. the traffic is backed up for about a 20-minute delay. also, the morning commute on highway 1, there's one way traffic control near the construction site for the new tunnel that's causing a really big traffic jam out of the hoof man bay and pacific area. avoid that. and traffic looks good getting up to highway 17. >>> let's go to mark. >> good morning. you can see some higher clouds. this is the golden gate and some higher clouds already increasing from the west and from the north and west and by this time tomorrow, in fact, by tonight

on the planet. from a deep dive also into the kennedy legacy and the man who laid the foundation for a whole bunch of folks in public life. good morning from washington. it's wednesday, december 12th, 12-12-12. my kids have never been so excited about a date. let's get right to my first read of the morning. one step forward, two steps back. that's probably the best way to describe the fiscal talks between president obama and house speaker john boehner. with christmas less than two weeks away, the white house is faced with the same key question. can boehner deliver the votes for whatever deal they agree on? >> i remain optimistic and i'm pretty confident that republicans would not hold middle class taxes hostage to try to protect tax cuts for high income individuals. >> but with time running out, neither side seems to have budged very far from the original proposal. the only good news about what happened in the past 24 hours, they are not publicly trashing each other's proposals. on monday the white

they'd like a one for one ratio on the spending cuts in order to extend the debt ceiling.t how that compares to where barack obama has stood so far. he's saying he wants to raise tax rates at above 250,000 in income and he's looking for $1.4 trillion in new tax revenue. that's about 0.4 trillion higher than the speaker as of right now. and he's looking for a near permanent extension of the debt ceiling. he'd like to get rid of that problem altogether. so, right there, carl, you can get a sense that they're not all that far apart. there is still some distance to be bridged here. if you talk to people in washington today, as i've been doing, they don't get a sense that a deal is imminent, you know, in the next 24 to 48 hours but we are definitely inching that way in this new offer from speaker boehner is encouraging to those who would like to see a deal here, carl. >> eamon just mechanically say they came out arm in arm so to speak in the next few days. could the wheels get something on paper in time for us to get this done before year end? >> they might be able to get it do