paris london and england has great transportation systems but look at san francisco. achieving a world class transportation system is a journey forward not a december nation but let's approach our transportation challenges the san francisco way once again through consensus and common and let's us take up the hard work and take the first part of the journey now. an equal exchange is the availability of housing yes. in spite of all we're doing for every of every income especially low income families. i know smob about this topic i'll fought to get this under control from my long hair days. we cannot defy the cost of living in our town. we haven't built enough new housing. last year, we began to make some progress in november the 0 voters passed the housing trust fund for the next thirty years for affordable housing for first time home buyers and thank you to this gentleman for our first responders. today, there are more than 20 times the new housing built in 2011. that's just a beginning with 23 thousand new units? the next several years never have we seen this since 19

this amount of money for, you know, more than $500,000 in paris and about that in london.conceded there are a ton of factors that drive of the cost, empty rooms for security. hotel may require a compensation for displacing guests and we were -- i do have to tell you the vice president's office referred us to the state department here and they say these costs are nothing out of the ordinary. and they sort of spelled out all of these folks that need to go along with the vice president. they said the contract costs cover the entire range of support including accommodations for military, communications, secret service staff, et cetera. erin? >> all right, brianna, thank you very much. >>> i -- this astounds me. i'm sorry. my guests join me now and let me start with you, hill rich. it seems to me, sure, you need to have security. you need to have these things done right. no one is going to deny. that but 136 people, 800 room nights. a lot of those people probably, i would bet, this is kind of a you have a really tough job and don't get paid a lot of money so you're going to get

for that matter, for one night, that really adds up. >> $500 in paris or london. happening, especially at a nice hotel like this. we spoke with several people who handled these kinds of trips for previous administrations. some said, hey, this is just what it costs. but one person that i spoke with from the bush 43 administration thought this price tag was high. also he conceded there are a lot of factors that drive up the cost. like empty rooms for security, and the hotel, of course, may require a compensation for displacing guests. e vice president's office referred us to the state department on this. the state department is saying, these costs are nothing out of the ordinary. they say the contract costs cover the entire range of support, including accommodations for military communications, secret service staff, and other support. security experts are also required to travel in advance of the president or vice president, safety and security are not negotiable. i will tell you, one government watchdog group we spoke with said they had never seen documents detaili

high speed rail service between paris and london have been suspended and flights delayed outside the airport. alerts have been made for even heavier snow in some areas. our meteorologist joins us now with more in weather conditions in europe and elsewhere. >> i'm afraid the extreme cold is not going anywhere. and in western europe starting friday and areas like the northern part of portugal could see some rain changing over to snow today. heavy snow could linger for central and western europe into wednesday afternoon. temperatures are not too bad across the eastern half of the mediterranean but thunderstorms and hail and damaging wind, all the threats will likely linger the next few days here. here's your highs still very chilly toward the north, minus 2 degrees in berlin and madrid 8 degrees, 8 degrees colder than seasonal and the extreme cold will likely linger to friday here. now at asia, we can see a long cloud mass from china to northern japan. underneath rain showers to the north and thunder showers to the south. ahead of the system unseasonably warm air and behind it frigid ai

where some young girl -- among the young, i find more creativity, more interesting fashion in paris than in london. the sense of humor makes them to play more with the clothes and everything. in paris, i could see what was chic in what was not. one time i was working and was arriving at an industry job, and i was wearing boots. they looked at me and said, [unintelligible] as a reproach. i thought, ha ha, very funny. [laughter] but it was beautiful, which can be true but it can be awful, too, a beige. it is not because it is beige, but it could be the absolute beauty, no. it depends how it is done, how it is made, how it looks like. so i was like, let's say, killing the french fashion. i should say france in general. so absolute. it has to be like that. things that i did not feel like. i think it's time i was going, i felt really in love with london. i felt more freedom. when i was going there, it gave me -- [unintelligible] sending like, yes, go on to do the things you feel are good. because it is very conservative in paris. >> only you had come to san francisco. >> yes. >> i can only imagine what

dollars to spend on palestinian foreign aid and there's crazy uncle joe racking up hotel bills in paris and london let not your heart be troubled, the administration responded to these astronomical bills and admitted those numbers are nothing out of the ordinary. that's what we usually spend. isn't that just comforting. joining us now with reaction from the government accountability institute peter schweitzer and fox news contributor pat caddell. i get a kick out of biden and his extravagance, peter, and we can't -- by the way, there's one other thing, i noticed that the obamas take a lot of vacations and live this extravagant life and now, the girls just took a trip to the bahamas, which by the way we have to pay for the security which is the right thing to do, but this is after aspen, after the tiger trip, this is after the christmas vacation in hawaii. i haven't vacationed this much in ten years what they do in half a year. it's unbelievable. >> yeah, you know, you're right, sean. the fact of the matter is we all expect, you know, that the president's going to take vacations, but particularly a

the bidens have perfected that craft and the hotel tabs in paris and london over a million taxpayerslars and we learned that was the beginning of long list of expenses. according to a federal website, the limousine service used by uncle joe in france a staggering $321,000. and the days of slumming it on amtrak with the commoners. joining me with reaction, the former chair of the economic counsel. professor at university of chicago business school, austan goolsbee helped get us into this mess. how are you? >> thank you for that introduction, i really appreciate it. >> you're very welcome. how many vacations, austan, have you taken in the last couple of years? >> i take about one vacation a year. >> yeah, one vacation a year. >> all right, so we've got hawaii for the first family and then michelle and the kids go skiing and he goes to play golf with tiger and girls are on spring break and you add it up. we pay for this. $180,000, excuse me. for the vacation. >> i feel bad. >> sean: combined. >> i feel bad for giving you credit. you tell me this the last time i was on and i said, man, m

joe biden made news because he went over to paris and london for one night in paris, one night in london, and reportedly ran up a tab of more than 1 million dollars for that two-night trip. 1 million dollars. hundreds of hotel rooms and so on. i'm asking you whether the american people have had it with all of this? >> yes, and the president made it so by lowering the threshold for what's worth discussing. the white house tour thing looks worse every day and looking worse until the president can find out a way, and if he wants a deal, that's why. >> megyn: and we'll see. chris stirewalt, thank you. >> you bet. >> megyn: a mom from texas getting attention for flagging a test question that seems to ask if america brought the 9/11 attacks on ourselves. she's here live. busy in here. yeah. progressive mobile is... [ "everybody have fun tonight" plays ] really catching on! people can do it all! get a quote, buy and manage your policy! -[ music stops ] -it's great! well, what's with the... -[ music resumes ] -music? ♪ have fun tonight dude. getting a car insurance quote. i'll let it go to voice

banks themselves are very mobile so they can go anywhere in the world they don't need to be in london or paris or frankfurt or even zurich for that matter they can go anywhere and do their business because most business is done online or on a telephone or can be done abroad city of london is a hugely important center for us in terms of our expertise it contributes a huge amount to the extract and if we damage that by trying to penalize those who actually you know do do a good job within their banking institutions we're going to drive that business away i do not want to see the business driven away and a lot of this decision making is being done by those countries that do not have as large a financial center as we've got. deep delve into the finances of the e.u. and elsewhere across the world that's in the latest edition of artie's cause report is a preview of the program coming up later this hour. why are stock brokers on drugs why did stockbrokers start so much cocaine why do the brokers and bankers at j.p. morgan and government saxon barclays royal bank of scotland why are they sniff their w

single digits in london and in paris. and high pressure covers much of northern europe. so that is going to be making the frigid air bring down the temperatures. moscow and stockholm both minus 3 degrees. a winter storm is traveling across the u.s. canada border. it will be battering south dakota, iowa and minnesota with some blizzard conditions that could create some whiteout conditions. so we advise you not to even go outdoors. do watch out if you must travel. and here across the east we have this stretching associated with this low pressure system traveling across the area. this will be bringing heavy rain and some freezing rain across northeast. due to the ample moisture sur jing from the gulf this would see some severe thunderstorms and hail and wind gusts as well as some tornadic activity not be being ruled out. this is where critical fire weather is in effect. and houston, a 30 degrees temperature wise but a very different story in winnipeg at minus 10 degrees. over toward the asia we have snow covering the northeast china. thin towards north korea. but the south

banks themselves are very mobile so they can go anywhere in the world they don't need to be in london or paris or frankfurt or even zurich for that matter they can go anywhere and do their business because most business is done online so or on a telephone or can be done abroad so i think the reality is something practical to impose is very difficult but surely you can understand that happen ok or just tell me the second point i want to come back to you on the people's outrage of tom well it well is that this is then it's the point the charts are made which is that then people pay themselves huge salaries up front so there isn't a bonus system and so you'll find people will game the system they will pay themselves options or capital instead of cash bonuses which will have the sort of same impact as a bonus i think what we need to deal with which is the real problem which was the risk element in people understanding risk within the banks in dealing with that rather than dealing with the rewards if people you know make a lot of money for their business so if they're going to start you want to act

. $1 million for two nights in london and paris hotel for him and his security and staff. the state department secured the hotel contract and they said it's pretty much on par with what they pay for a high-level international trip. i'm guessing the holiday inn wasn't an option. >> reena, thank you. >>> tomorrow morning, on abc's "this week" george's guests include gop karl rove squaring off against former obama adviser jim messina on guns, gay marriage, and developments in the budget you just heard. >>> just hours from now, the giant power ball drawing. perhaps later this evening, an american family with no budget problems at all. tonight, hear a man who's already won the lottery seven times, as we ask him is the quick pick really the worst option? here's abc's rob nelson. >> reporter: most of us have battled our inner procrastinator at one time or another. tonight, time is running out. and $320 million is on the line. >> i need a lot of reminders. then i feel like the pressure of the deadline. i need to get the ticket. >> reporter: lottery officials say 60% of the power b

well as bringing another dose of windy and wet weather to the iberian peninsula. 10 degrees in london. 14 in paris rising up to 18 degrees in lisbon and 15 in vienna. check out what's happening in warsaw. double figures. moscow around the freezing point but that's a big improvement and just in the space of 24 hours. should be feeling the benefits of that. i'll leave you now with your extended forecast. >> north korean military leaders are raising the stakes in their ongoing show of defiance against south korea and the u.s. they are vowing to scrap the >>> british police have gotten some help from a comic super hero. a man dressed as batman handed over a criminal suspect then vanished without revealing his identity. police say the man showed up in the wee hours of the morning last week at a police station in the central city of bradford. he brought in a man suspected of theft and fraud. the super hero is a bit chubbier than the batman of legend. police say the caped crusader told them i've caught this one for you and then disappeared into the darkness. >>> we're back in 30 minutes with more of the

the eurostar high-speed train between london and paris has also been suspended.ris, more than a quarter of the flights have been canceled. they are dealing with their second day of snow and freezing temperatures and southern england. >> a strike at the port of oakland is over after isjean quan persuaded port commissioners to approve a four year contract. that contract included an 8 percent raise and a two and a half percent cost-of- living adjustment for two years and a $3,500 signing bonus. the agreement comes ahead of a planned million dollar expansion of the port. >> police have arrested a second man in connection with a theft from a storage and along to a charity in tun unincorporated martinez last month. frank mireles is now in custody along with the first suspect was arrested. there are accused of burglarizing the warehouse belonging to the charity " christmas for everyone. " about $60,000 or the property was taken. investigators say that they found about half the stolen property, but they butthey say that some of it has probably been sold at flea markets.

is not going to be a slap in the face of peace well it's always been the case that certainly london and paris said there must never be a negotiation as did hillary clinton the former secretary of state and of course mr assad has repeatedly said that he wants a political solution and is prepared to talk with the rebels even as the war rages on and of course we have to all i'm sure lots of your viewers will be wanting to give their condolences to those people killed in this chemical attack in aleppo absolutely there is some lack of clarity on what's out tonight we have heard some reports. one of the side saying that it may have been an organic pesticide that was . getting on top of that but assuming it was worst case scenario well these people are dead it is worst case scenario but assuming that chemical weapons were used what does it mean for the conflict now. how ironic that ten years to the day since a war in iraq because of a lie over w m d and we have a w m d attack then the lie from tony blair was w m d would attack british barracks in cyprus it seems like western capitalism was destroyed

more to the point, london out is tremendously diverse. paris is becoming in admitting that it is more a diversity, and there's a little line for me quite hidden away the says i'm very much a parisian or i'm interested in parisian women, but not quite sure that i ever met a parisian woman. what do you mean by that? >> what i mean is that my education, i have been looking at old movies that i love. we speak about the reputation of the parisian, which was supposed to dress very well. i think that, you know, in france, the eccentricity -- for me, eccentricity is very chic and it is what i love. it is so much about the good taste, which paralyzed. it is still a city where everybody meets profession, sure, but it is sad that you did not seek only may be in the young people, but you do not see when people are in the rain, let's say, in society, like having the joy to address. like you have to be like the color of the street of paris. you ought not to be remarkable. it is very demanding of the people. so i said to the people, no, we have to be like eve

london. very successful in paris. very successful in liverpool and manchester. the old world wanted to see the new world. he was the embodiment of that. he was really america's first watercolorist. he invented so many series of levels of media. he just kept mixing up things so that everything was different. he wanted to freeze life. you would see the bird smile, move, and interact. if you look at it frequently, you blink and expect the birds to be gone. whether hee about always drew from life. he did not. to feel that he did, embedded in the swamps and perched in the trees. today, there are devices to euthanize birds. there are various kinds of guns or tracks or whatever. he also frequently referred to things that have been killed by other creatures or animals. the significance of autobahn today is very far reaching. he wrote quite profoundly about how he saw civilization being eroded and the wilderness disappearing. industrialization was taking over and poisoning what he had considered to be a pristine environment. this book reproduces all 474 of our watercolor

london. very successful in paris. very successful in liverpool and manchester. the old world wanted to see the new world. he was the embodiment of that. he was really america's first watercolorist. he invented so many series of levels of media. he just kept mixing up things so that everything was different. he wanted to freeze life. you would see the bird smile, move, and interact. if you look at it frequently, you blink and expect the birds to be gone. whether hee about always drew from life. he did not. to feel that he did, embedded in the swamps and perched in the trees. today, there are devices to euthanize birds. there are various kinds of guns or tracks or whatever. he also frequently referred to things that have been killed by other creatures or animals. the significance of autobahn today is very far reaching. he wrote quite profoundly about how he saw civilization being eroded and the wilderness disappearing. industrialization was taking over and poisoning what he had considered to be a pristine environment. this book reproduces all 474 of our watercolor

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and the eurostar high speed train between london and paris have been suspended. >> in paris, more than of a flight to been cancelled. and they're dealing with their second day of snow and freezing temperatures and southern england. >> we do have interesting things to talk about for our weather. fog for now. also heat on the way. good morning erica. >> a live look current condition of the golden gate bridge plenty of dense fog. it is more widespread than earlier this morning. thanks to the onshore breeze the fog has made a its way to oakland, hayward and out for the out of you. two and one- half miles of visibility in half moon bay and a half mile in navato. we have delays at sfo averaging 55 minutes on writing flights due to low ceilings. keep that in mind it if you are picking someone up from the airport. temperatures are on the warmer side. low '40's in fairfield, santa rosa. 45 in napa. 51 in oakland. tracking the temperatures throughout the day on futurecast 4 12:00 mainly '60s. the warm up is kicking in. low seventies by lunchtime for the livermore valley, napa, and santa rosa. as

in the last ten days since the cipriat issue, even the major markets like paris and frankfurt and londonunderperformed again where we are in europe. deutsche bank saying you should still be positive on european equities, provided you believe that spain and italy's economies will recover just a delayed recovery. if you see the credit markets moving to the negative further on through the year, they say they would change their stance on european equities for one. but i think, scott, today was a very important day on those core european bond markets and really ask the question as to whether the ecb later in the year may have to put its money where its mouth is and intervene. back to you. >> simon, thanks. the euro was clearly reflecting that, below 128 for the first time since november. if you look at the charts that simon showed, the dow has been paralyzed since cyprus happened. it's basically flat. >> if you see spreads continue to widen and you see the contagion into the peripheral countries, slovenia, portugal, i think you've got major issues. and that's what could keep a cap on the mark

frankly i'm more concerned about the million dollars it costs for the bidens to go to london and parishere the children are going. they're allowed to be kids, too. >> you know, i think either way, it's, again, when we're at the point where we're using the children as part of our attack, that is not a good place to be in general. all right. thank you, dana milbank and susan. >>> next, the president calls for compromise. and others? not so much. stay with us. >> if you really believe in border security and are telling people that you don't want to talk about amnesty until the border is secure, why don't you shut up about illegal amnesty and make sure the border is secure? >> and that's the key. ♪ shut your mouth [ male announcer ] this is bob, a regular guy with an irregular heartbeat. the usual, bob? not today. [ male announcer ] bob has afib: atrial fibrillation not caused by a heart valve problem, a condition that puts him at greater risk for a stroke. [ gps ] turn left. i don't think so. [ male announcer ] for years, bob took warfarin, and made a monthly trip to the clinic to get his

paris. that was on top of various reports for a one-night hotel stay in london and paris respectively as well. that is the word from the u.s. department of state. we will debate all this next hour with mary katherine and bob beckel. they're bringing the hammer. jamie: how about detroit? there big changes going on there and protesters are rallying outside city hall. over a new state appointed a emergency financial manager, kevyn orr. he is arguing that taxes away their rights. that is what the people are saying. oar is extending an olive branch to detroit's mayor and city council on his very first day on the job. listen. >> there are a role for city council. they are elected officials. i am not. i'm an appointed official the they have their ear and pulse to the community. that's why they're elected and i anticipate them participating in the process permitted by law. jamie: there is lot making news. detroit is the nation's largest city ever put under state control. more than $14 billion in long-term debt. mike tobin live in detroit to tell us more about that. mike, what can you tell us? >> repo

back in 2010 he released a video urging muslims to attack london, paris and detroit.l-awlaki, the first american citizen to be targeted and killed in a u.s. drone strike. he became involved with al qaeda in yemen advocating for holy war against the united states. and ahmed bim first known american suicide bomber after he blew himself up in somalia. that killed 20 people there. alisyn: let's look at bigger picture of al qaeda and extensive reach worldwide. al qaeda cells and associates have been located in more than 70 countries in the past several years the terror group has expanded its presence in at least 12 countries. at least since 2000 al qaeda and its affiliates carried out more than 600 attacks, killing more than 7250 people. bill: in the meantime there are more headlines this morning because there are fresh threats again from north korea. kim jong-un, the new leader there, saying his missiles are on standby ready to strike targets for the united states. this latest warning now coming a day after our nation flew two stealth fighters over that region in a previo

for a while, while jefferson was in paris and she was in london, they kept accounts for one another. at one point, one of jefferson's daughters came from virginia and stopped in london and abigail took care of for during that time. during the national period it when -- after the election of 1800, the relationship really fell apart. it was over politics. during that time, abigail was very disappointed with jefferson. >> next up is not in wisconsin. >> -- matt in wisconsin. >> i was wondering what some of the intellectual influences on her writing was. >> thank you. did she have influences? >> she was a great leader. -- reader. she read the bible. >> when we do the research on her letters, if she is quoting somebody or citing somebody, we want to identify who is. sometimes, she does not use quotation marks. i would say the things she quoted most often were things that she referenced with shakespeare, the bible, the classics. >> this next call is from quincy, massachusetts. >> hello. congratulations on having this wonderful series on the first ladies. i live in quincy, mass. and we are

they also have homes in london, los angeles, new york, and paris.s will never experience, to state the obvious. he spent time in the harem, she saw firsthand how they lived. in december 2011, she came "outfront." >> when i went to this supposed audition or casting, it was supposedly to go and entertain rich businessmen in singapore for what at that time was a tremendous amount of money. for me. $20,000. which was astronomical for two weeks worth of work. and when i got the job, they told me actually you're being invited to be the guest of the prince of brunei and to attend these parties that he has every night. i said where? i had never even heard of brunei. >> a lot of people haven't heard much about brunei. by the way, check out the book. there's also a scene about the guy that was with the president today. based on the per capita of brunei, it's the fifth richest country in the world, one spot above the united states of america, which explains the sultan of the country of 406,000 people would get the face-to-face with president obama. >>> and now

paris. it's going to be somebody in london. we go to london for a lot.rprised, how many people in london have new york residences as well. >> the impact wall street has had on new york real estate. i mean, obviously, this is the financial capital. we still like to think of it as such. that took a hit, though, didn't it? >> it took a hit. but, look, with the dow where it is, right wrve feels wealthier. whether or not they actually are, they feel that way. and when they feel wealthier, that irrational exuberance passes on. >> but i'm talking about the jobs that were lost -- >> no, the jobs were a problem. >> and the impact that had on the real estate problem here. >> employment's a problem, but that's not a problem in the $30, $40, $50 million stratosphere. >> take us to that level. one of the debates we had earlier in the first hour, i think it was the first hour of "closing bell," was the availability of credit and the availability of loans. now, people in other parts of the country are going to find this crazy, but if you have a couple million dollars t

take a look at the major european markets, london, paris, germany, spain, italy.dollar. back below 1.30. some say that's an important level psychologically. euro against the yen, that's a crazy intraday chart as well. 121.13. the pound dipped below 1.50 for the first time since july of 2010 on the uk pmi which was abysmal. disappointing chinese manufacturing data weighing on the miners. >>> let's get to bob pisani who's watching not just europe but our own markets too. >> that was a major problem. we were lower and then things turned around with our own data. take a look at the dow jones industrial average. the magic if you remember, 14,164 would be a new historic closing high. we have to close above that. you see the drop there early on. we are so desperate to get to new highs, you can almost feel it. my concern is we're all going to be so exhausted by the time we get there, there's not going to be much left once we get there. carl mentioned the pluses and minuses here. earlier in the day, the weaknesses put up helping and hurting for the markets here. new money

walking down the streets of paris with a glass of wine. or cosmopolitan londonght get that. or imagine going on safari for a long weekend vacation and sipping wine near table mountain in capetown. patrick gaspard might have drawn that lucky straw. he's executive director of the democratic national committee and he might be the new ambassador to south africa. or even the rise of theland of rising sun, carolyn kennedy is maybe up for tokyo or superhip toronto. is this cronyism at its ugly or smart diplomacy? former chief of staff for george w. bush. is the president crossing a line. these are people who put their entire clears to being good ambassadors and diplomats. these are some of the most important spots in the world. >> you really hit the nail on the head. presidents have been doing this for a long time. president bush did, president clinton did it, it goes back very far. but the foreign service is an organization that depends on talented personnel, and right now the foreign service is losing a lot of those talented personnel, because you're voting from zimb

for a while, while jefferson was in paris and she was in london, they kept accounts for one another.t one point, one of jefferson's daughters came from virginia and stopped in london and abigail took care of her during that time. after the election of 1800, the relationship really fell apart. it was over politics. during that time, abigail was very disappointed with jefferson. >> next up is matt in wisconsin. >> i was wondering what some of the intellectual influences on her writing was. >> thank you. did she have influences? >> she was a great reader. she read the bible. >> when we do the research on her letters, if she is quoting somebody or citing somebody, we want to identify who is. she does not use quotation marks. i would say the things she quoted most often were things that she referenced with shakespeare, the bible, the classics. >> this next call is from quincy, massachusetts. >> hello. congratulations on having this wonderful series on the first ladies. i live in quincy, massachusetts, and we are very lucky see and experience the adams life up close every day. my comment w